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Transformation vs. Sanctification

Feb 14th, 12 / 0 Comments

What is the Dif­fer­ence between Trans­for­ma­tion vs. Sanctification

What is the big deal with Trans­for­ma­tion? Are words chang­ing their mean­ing slightly?

The Greek word for “sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion” used in the New Tes­ta­ment also means “holiness.”(1) The verb “to sanc­tify” means “to make holy.”(2) When God sanc­ti­fies believ­ers, He does not only set them apart for a holy use, He makes them holy. Obvi­ously believ­ers can­not be set apart for holy uses unless they are first made holy peo­ple. Jesus was “sanc­ti­fied and sent into the world” (John 10:36John 10:36
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36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanc­ti­fied, and sent into the world, Thou blas­phemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?  

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17 Sanc­tify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.  

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The Bib­li­cal Mean­ing of Transformation

The true mean­ing of Trans­for­ma­tion is The Greek word for bib­li­cal “trans­for­ma­tion” is meta­mor­phoo, from which we get the Eng­lish word meta­mor­pho­sis: i.e., a com­plete change, such as a cater­pil­lar turn­ing into a but­ter­fly. Bib­li­cal trans­for­ma­tion, then, applies to an indi­vid­ual believer’s progress in sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion. In Romans 12:2Romans 12:2
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2 And be not con­formed to this world: but be ye trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and accept­able, and per­fect, will of God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin we are being trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind. How, through his word! His word is alive and wash­ing our mind.

What’s the big deal? When we renew our minds, we are trans­form­ing our minds to the mind of Christ ( 1 Cor. 2:161 Cor. 2:16
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16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. may: Gr. shall  

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The new mean­ings for the word “trans­for­ma­tion” entered the mod­ern lex­i­con in the early 1980s. New Age author Mar­i­lyn Fer­gu­son, who is cred­ited with launch­ing the “com­ing out party” for Lucifer­ian Theosophists, exten­sively used the term. She defined it as “trans­for­ma­tion of con­scious­ness,” “a new see­ing,” “con­scious evo­lu­tion,” and a “par­a­digm change.” Trans­for­ma­tion was an essen­tial part of the Teil­hardian leap from “indi­vid­ual evo­lu­tion” to “col­lec­tive evolution.“3 Chris­t­ian dis­cern­ment author Con­stance Cum­bey bluntly remarked that Ferguson’s type of “trans­for­ma­tion” was “a euphemism for pro­gres­sively deeper lev­els of demonic influ­ence and has now infil­trate the church using the word transformation.”

Has the Bib­li­cal Mean­ing “Trans­for­ma­tion” Be Dif­fer­ent in Some Aspects in The Church Today?

The church mean today is “Trans­for­ma­tion” is the end-goal of a process that moves from TRADITION through TRANSITION to TRANSFORMATION. This is some­times called a “Par­a­digm Shift,” which means that Trans­for­ma­tion shifts one’s world­view (par­a­digm) from the old to a new. This is a dialec­ti­cally unfold­ing PROCESS in which the THESIS is con­tin­u­ally chal­lenged by ANTITHESIS, evolv­ing into ever-unfolding SYNTHESES. Trans­for­ma­tion is engi­neered, orches­trated and/or manip­u­lated. Trans­for­ma­tion involves chang­ing over a person’s val­ues, opin­ions, beliefs, atti­tudes, and even their behav­iors to that of the new paradigm/worldview.

There is cur­rently a bait and switch going on in neo-evangelical cir­cles. When evan­gel­i­cals hear the word “trans­for­ma­tion” bandied about, they assume it is a bib­li­cal word from Romans 12:2Romans 12:2
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2 And be not con­formed to this world: but be ye trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and accept­able, and per­fect, will of God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin: “And be not con­formed to this world: but be ye trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and accept­able, and per­fect, will of God.” In fact, the tra­di­tional mean­ing of the word can be found in Matthew Poole’s Com­men­tary from the 1600s, which exhorts: “Be you regen­er­ated, and changed in your whole man; begin­ning at the mind, by which the Spirit of God wor­keth upon the infe­rior fac­ul­ties of the soul….”5 Matthew Henry’s Com­men­tary fur­ther expounds, “The progress of sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion, dying to sin more and more, and liv­ing to right­eous­ness more and more.”
When evan­gel­i­cals hear the phrase “church trans­for­ma­tion” they may think of the par­a­digm shift in liturgy, wor­ship styles, music, mega-churches, etc. In real­ity, “trans­for­ma­tion” is sub­stan­tial and deep, intent on re-forging the very foun­da­tions of Protes­tantism, west­ern civ­i­liza­tion, and ulti­mately the gov­er­nance of the entire earth. While lip ser­vice is being paid to the tra­di­tional def­i­n­i­tions you read about above, in real­ity the word “trans­for­ma­tion” now indi­cates a soci­etal, cul­tural and global rev­o­lu­tion. Here is one new def­i­n­i­tion which hints at the larger scale:
“Transformation–the mea­sur­able super­nat­ural impact of the pres­ence and power of God on human soci­ety, sacred and sec­u­lar. In the church, this is char­ac­ter­ized by increased holi­ness of life, accel­er­ated con­ver­sion growth, rec­on­cil­i­a­tion in rela­tion­ships, mobi­liza­tion of gifts and call­ings, and an increased rel­e­vance to and par­tic­i­pa­tion in greater soci­ety. In the cul­ture, this may be char­ac­ter­ized by per­va­sive aware­ness of the real­ity of God, a rad­i­cal cor­rec­tion of social ills, a com­men­su­rate decrease in crime rates (evi­dence of authen­tic bib­li­cal jus­tice, as described in Isa­iah 58), super­nat­ural bless­ing on local com­merce, heal­ing of the bro­ken­hearted (the alien­ated and dis­en­fran­chised), and an export­ing of king­dom right­eous­ness. To this end, a cat­alytic core of saints typ­i­cally embrace a lifestyle of per­sis­tent repen­tance, humil­ity, prayer and sac­ri­fi­cial ser­vant­hood that attracts the favor and pres­ence of God, and breaks the pre­dom­i­nat­ing influ­ences of the rul­ing power struc­tures of human flesh and the devil.”

If this new def­i­n­i­tion of “trans­for­ma­tion” sounds com­plex and obscure, it is. Unless you have been steeped in neo-evangelical doc­trines, this will sound like mish-mash. To aid the reader, below is a nut­shell syn­op­sis of the new doc­trines of “trans­for­ma­tion.”
1. The term “trans­for­ma­tion” is used to describe a planned, inten­tional “Sec­ond Ref­or­ma­tion” (also called “New Apos­tolic Ref­or­ma­tion”). An early pro­posal for a “sec­ond Protes­tant ref­or­ma­tion” appeared in The Emerg­ing Order (1979) by New Ager Jeremy Rifkin, who called for a re-definition of Gen­e­sis 1 to cre­ate a stew­ard­ship man­date for a domin­ion over the earth.8 Rick War­ren, of purpose-driven fame, pos­i­tively ref­er­enced Rifkin’s pro­posal for this new Reformation.9 Just this year was launched what he calls the “Sec­ond Reformation.”10 Other evan­gel­i­cal lead­ers call­ing for this new ref­or­ma­tion…. (Names left out pur­posely).
2) This “trans­for­ma­tion” is not per­sonal but is applied cor­po­rately to groups and enti­ties. One exam­ple is: “Social trans­for­ma­tion was defined as seek­ing pos­i­tive change in the whole of human life mate­ri­ally, socially and spir­i­tu­ally, by recov­er­ing our true iden­tity as human beings cre­ated in the image of God and dis­cov­er­ing our true voca­tion as pro­duc­tive stew­ards, faith­fully car­ing for our world and its people.”

3) This “trans­for­ma­tion” is to be accom­plished by a “mis­sion” strat­egy of doing “what­ever it takes” to launch polit­i­cal, social, and cul­tural reforms on a global scale. A phi­los­o­phy of “the end jus­ti­fies the means” has been embraced to accom­plish these colos­sal goals.
4) Extremely sophis­ti­cated psycho-social mar­ket­ing tech­niques are employed to facil­i­tate this “trans­for­ma­tion.”
5) State-of-the-art sta­tis­ti­cal mea­sure­ment and assess­ment meth­ods eval­u­ate this “trans­for­ma­tion,” judg­ing “effec­tive­ness” by pre-set, man-made cri­te­ria.
6) A plethora of intri­cate spir­i­tual activ­i­ties with new names, new tech­niques, new method­olo­gies, and new doc­trines pur­port­edly cause “trans­for­ma­tion” to take place in the heav­en­lies and then on earth.16 These include strategic-level spir­i­tual war­fare, iden­ti­fi­ca­tional repen­tance, prayer evan­ge­lism, on-site pray­ing, spir­i­tual map­ping, prayer walks, labyrinths, spir­i­tual for­ma­tion, and a host of other newly-concocted doc­trines with cor­re­spond­ing activ­i­ties. (The reader is chal­lenged to find any of these in the Bible.)
7) A re-alignment of church hier­ar­chi­cal struc­tures, not unlike net­work mar­ket­ing, is said to be essen­tial for “trans­for­ma­tion” to take place.
8) These new author­ity and account­abil­ity struc­tures must be super­im­posed between believ­ers and God. The model is touted as a return to the early New Tes­ta­ment model, in which churches met in homes. In real­ity it is a data-driven model with a top-down hier­ar­chy of author­ity and con­trol. It is var­i­ously called cell church, G12, shep­herd­ing, House2House, etc.
9) This “trans­for­ma­tion” dialec­ti­cally thrives on a diet of con­stant change which is accel­er­at­ing rapidly.19 Con­tin­u­ous change in the church is pointed to as “revival,” despite the fact that it uti­lizes busi­ness mar­ket­ing meth­ods such as Total Qual­ity Man­age­ment.
10) The claim is made that sub­mit­ting to and par­tic­i­pat­ing in this rad­i­cal and com­pre­hen­sive “trans­for­ma­tion” is nec­es­sary to ful­fill the Great Com­mis­sion. Thus “trans­for­ma­tion” has been inex­tri­ca­bly linked to the mod­ern mis­sions move­ment.
11) This “trans­for­ma­tion” is said to be incom­plete until the Bride of Christ is per­fected on earth and “God’s king­dom is seen on earth as it is in heaven.”
12) There­fore, believ­ers are told they are co-creators and co-redeemers, renew­ing the earth through their var­i­ous “trans­for­ma­tive” activ­i­ties.
Neo-evangelical “trans­for­ma­tion” doc­trines inte­grate Theos­o­phy with Chris­tian­ity for a hybrid new ortho­doxy, some­times termed the “emer­gent” church. There­fore, this “trans­for­ma­tion” is fer­tile ground for all new forms of ecu­menism, eas­ily find­ing com­mon ground with both cults and the occult. Pop­u­lar neo-evangelical leader Leonard Sweet laid out this broader con­cept of trans­for­ma­tional ecu­menism in his 1991 book Quan­tum Spirituality

Key­words: trans­for­ma­tion, sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion, holi­ness, right­eous­ness, sanc­ti­fied, san­ti­fy­ing grace, jus­ti­fi­ca­tion, repen­tance, jus­ti­fi­ca­tion by faith, reformed, god’s grace, saved by grace

Sanctification, Transformation vs. Sanctification

Why Some Loose Their Healing

Dec 4th, 11 / 0 Comments

The Bible says, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seek­ing rest, and find­eth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he find­eth it empty.….” Matthew 12:43–44Matthew 12:43–44
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43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seek­ing rest, and find­eth none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he find­eth it empty, swept, and gar­nished.  

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Don’t let the enemy gain reen­try into your life. We he comes seek­ing rest, Put out your “NO VACANCY” sign! Keep your house filled! Here are some prac­ti­cal steps to take to be sure, you are filled when he comes.

How do you keep your house filled and/or pro­tected (you are the tem­ple of the Holy Spirit)?:

1. Pay atten­tion to your thought life espe­cially thoughts of the past. The past should stay in the past.

What does that mean?  Con­tinue to look at the promises of God — He Came to Heal All Dis­eases Ps. 102:2Ps. 102:2
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2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trou­ble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speed­ily.  

WP-Bible plu­gin.  Some peo­ple reverse this.  Their faith waxes weak while they look at their symp­toms and for­get the promises of God.  God’s Word is the only solid basis for our faith.  But the enemy, after you get healed, will throw symp­toms and you can­not look at the symp­toms and allow doubt to come back in that God healed you.  The enemy throws symp­toms to get your eyes off of Christ so that you will loose faith and look at the symp­toms instead of the Lord.  You stand on the Word that Jesus is the Healer and that you’re healed.

We will miss or loose our heal­ing if we allow our symp­toms to hin­der us from expect­ing what His Word promise is.

Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:1
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11 1 Now faith is the sub­stance of things hoped for, the evi­dence of things not seen. sub­stance: or, ground, or, con­fi­dence  

WP-Bible plu­gin faith is the things not seen.  Symp­toms are not eter­nal but God’s Word is eter­nal and alive to do what it says to do.  Spir­i­tual War­fare is not believ­ing those symp­toms but believ­ing God’s Word that Christ died on the cross for our sal­va­tion and sick­ness and dis­ease.  So stand and believe with­out wavering.

2. Make sure you are right with God.  Our redemp­tive bless­ings are con­di­tional after we hear the Gospel.  Jesus said repent ye and believe the gospel.  Jesus great com­mand­ment has to do with rela­tion­ships with God, oth­ers and self.  Check to see if you have any bit­ter­ness towards any­one, are you in fear and out of faith, etc.  Dis­ease comes from sep­a­ra­tion and sep­a­ra­tion opens the door for the enemy to inflict.  James says to con­fess your faults to one another.… that ye might be healed.  If I regard iniq­uity in my heart the Lod will not hear me.

3. Areas you are weak, mem­o­rize spe­cific scrip­tures to fight the fiery darts! Exam­ple: I used to project fear for tomor­row. I learned to cast my cares to the Lord accord­ing to 1 Peter 5:71 Peter 5:7
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7 Cast­ing all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  

WP-Bible plu­gin. Where do fiery darts come from? Jesus with­stood Satan’s temp­ta­tion by using scrip­ture. The word is a mir­ror to the soul (James 1:22–25James 1:22–25
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22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hear­ers only, deceiv­ing your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man behold­ing his nat­ural face in a glass: 24 For he behold­eth him­self, and goeth his way, and straight­way for­get­teth what man­ner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the per­fect law of lib­erty, and con­tin­ueth therein, he being not a for­get­ful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. deed: or, doing  

WP-Bible plu­gin); it is a lamp unto the feet for guid­ance( Psalm 119:105Psalm 119:105
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NUN. 105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. lamp: or, can­dle  

WP-Bible plu­gin); it is two-edge sword lay­ing bare the heart (Heb 4:12Heb 4:12
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12 For the word of God is quick, and pow­er­ful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, pierc­ing even to the divid­ing asun­der of soul and spirit, and of the joints and mar­row, and is a dis­cerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  

WP-Bible plu­gin); it is food for the spirit (1 Pet 2:21 Pet 2:2
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2 As new­born babes, desire the sin­cere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:  

WP-Bible plu­gin; Matt 4:4Matt 4:4
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4 But he answered and said, It is writ­ten, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro­ceedeth out of the mouth of God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) No per­son can keep up deliv­er­ance apart from the Word of God as a pri­mary cause in his life!

4. Put on the Whole Armour of God The Christian’s spir­i­tual armour is set forth in Eph­esians 6:10–18Eph­esians 6:10–18
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10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wres­tle not against flesh and blood, but against prin­ci­pal­i­ties, against pow­ers, against the rulers of the dark­ness of this world, against spir­i­tual wicked­ness in high places. flesh…: Gr. blood and flesh spir­i­tual…: or, wicked spir­its high: or, heav­enly 13 Where­fore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to with­stand in the evil day, and hav­ing done all, to stand. hav­ing…: or, hav­ing over­come all 14 Stand there­fore, hav­ing your loins girt about with truth, and hav­ing on the breast­plate of right­eous­ness; 15 And your feet shod with the prepa­ra­tion of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, tak­ing the shield of faith, where­with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the hel­met of sal­va­tion, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Pray­ing always with all prayer and sup­pli­ca­tion in the Spirit, and watch­ing there­unto with all per­se­ver­ance and sup­pli­ca­tion for all saints;  

WP-Bible plu­gin. There are seven pieces: (1) Loins girt about with truth (2) The breast­plate of right­eous­ness (3) Feet shod with the prepa­ra­tion of the gospel of peace (4) The shield of faith (5) The hel­met of sal­va­tion, (6) The sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, and (7) Pray­ing in the spirit! Pay spe­cial atten­tion to the hel­met for guard­ing your thought life. Most demons seek­ing to re-enter assail the thoughts. Become watch­ful of any thought that could be con­sid­ered neg­a­tive; they are from the enemy. Sep­a­rate their thoughts from your own. Refuse the thoughts they give you and replace them with pos­i­tive thoughts. (See Phil 4:8Phil 4:8
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8 Finally, brethren, what­so­ever things are true, what­so­ever things are hon­est, what­so­ever things are just, what­so­ever things are pure, what­so­ever things are lovely, what­so­ever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. hon­est: or, ven­er­a­ble  

WP-Bible plu­gin) Resist the devil at the first sign of attack.

5. Make Pos­i­tive Con­fes­sions - Power in the Tongue brings life or death to oth­ers or to self. You can self curse or curse oth­ers with your words. Are you a neg­a­tive per­son? Do you see the world half empty instead of half full? Neg­a­tive con­fes­sions are lack of faith but doubt and unbe­lief which char­ac­ter­ize demonic influ­ence. Pos­i­tive con­fes­sions are faith expressed. Any other con­fes­sion will open the door for the enemy. (See Mark 11:23Mark 11:23
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23 For ver­ily I say unto you, That whoso­ever shall say unto this moun­tain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have what­so­ever he saith.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). Do you speak neg­a­tive words over your spouse, your chil­dren and so on?  It is more than pos­i­tive con­fes­sion but it is trust­ing and believ­ing in God’s Word and then con­fess­ing it.  It has to be true  in your heart — a real­ity of truth.

6. Know Who You Are In the King­dom of God! Why Did God Cre­ate You? Who are you in the King­dom of God? What is your Pur­pose? What is your call­ing? What is your des­tiny? What is the Body of Christ’s pur­pose? What is the Lord want­ing to restore? Com­ing Soon!

7. Cru­cify the Flesh Take up your cross daily and fol­low Jesus. (Luke 9:23Luke 9:23
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23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny him­self, and take up his cross daily, and fol­low me.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) Break old habit pat­terns. If fleshy appetites, desires and lusts are not brought to the cross a way for demons to return will be left open (Gal 5: 19–24Gal 5: 19–24
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19 Now the works of the flesh are man­i­fest, which are these; Adul­tery, for­ni­ca­tion, unclean­ness, las­civ­i­ous­ness, 20 Idol­a­try, witch­craft, hatred, vari­ance, emu­la­tions, wrath, strife, sedi­tions, here­sies, 21 Envy­ings, mur­ders, drunk­en­ness, rev­el­lings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the king­dom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long­suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith, 23 Meek­ness, tem­per­ance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have cru­ci­fied the flesh with the affec­tions and lusts. affec­tions: or, pas­sions  

WP-Bible plu­gin). From Romans to Jude is all about San­tifi­ca­tion. What is Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion? Def­i­n­i­tion of Santification:

Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion is that con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion of the Holy Spirit, by which the holy dis­po­si­tion imparted in regen­er­a­tion is main­tained and strengthened.

8. Be Will­ing To Go Into The Fire!

What are areas you are not able to still walk through? Make a list to dis­cuss. See notes!

9. Develop a Life of con­tin­u­ous Praise and Prayer Praise silences the enemy. Praise is not an atti­tude of heart; praise is the expres­sion unto God of thank­ful­ness, ado­ra­tion and joy by speak­ing, singing, shout­ing, danc­ing, leap­ing, play­ing musi­cal entrust­ments, clap­ping the hands, etc. Pray in the sprit (in tongues) and also in the under­stand­ing. (1 Cor 14:141 Cor 14:14
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14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my under­stand­ing is unfruit­ful.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). “Pray with­out ceas­ing” (1 Thess 5:171 Thess 5:17
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17 Pray with­out ceas­ing.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). Get a jour­nal and write down your vic­to­ries, bless­ings, etc. This is help­ful when times are tough. Com­ing Soon!

10. Main­tain a Life of Fel­low­ship and Spir­i­tual Min­istry!  It is the sheep that wan­ders from the flock that is most endan­gered. Find and ful­fill your func­tion within the body. (See 1 Cor 12:7–141 Cor 12:7–14
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7 But the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wis­dom; to another the word of knowl­edge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of heal­ing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the work­ing of mir­a­cles; to another prophecy; to another dis­cern­ing of spir­its; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the inter­pre­ta­tion of tongues: 11 But all these wor­keth that one and the self­same Spirit, divid­ing to every man sev­er­ally as he will. 12 For as the body is one, and hath many mem­bers, and all the mem­bers of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all bap­tized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gen­tiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Gen­tiles: Gr. Greeks 14 For the body is not one mem­ber, but many.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) Keep your­self under author­ity. Com­ing Soon!

11. Com­mit Your­self Totally to Christ Deter­mine that every thought, word and action will reflect the very nature of Christ. Abide in Christ that the fruit of the Spirit might come forth in abun­dance. Demon spir­its are ene­mies of the fruit of the spirit. Faith and trust in God is the great­est weapon against the devil and his lies. (See Eph. 6:16Eph. 6:16
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16 Above all, tak­ing the shield of faith, where­with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  

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12. Choos­ing friends who are like minded. Think of times you were influ­enced neg­a­tively from oth­ers who are not like minded.

Look what the Bible says about choos­ing friends…

“Do not be bound together with unbe­liev­ers; for what part­ner­ship have right­eous­ness and law­less­ness, or what fel­low­ship has light with dark­ness? Or what har­mony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in com­mon with an unbe­liever? Or what agree­ment has the tem­ple of God with idols? For we are the tem­ple of the liv­ing God; just as God said, I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. There­fore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE, says the Lord. AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will wel­come you. And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daugh­ters to Me, Says the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthi­ans 6:14–182 Corinthi­ans 6:14–18
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14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbe­liev­ers: for what fel­low­ship hath right­eous­ness with unright­eous­ness? and what com­mu­nion hath light with dark­ness? 15 And what con­cord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infi­del? 16 And what agree­ment hath the tem­ple of God with idols? for ye are the tem­ple of the liv­ing God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my peo­ple. 17 Where­fore come out from among them, and be ye sep­a­rate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, 18 And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daugh­ters, saith the Lord Almighty.  

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“Do not be deceived: ‘Evil com­pany cor­rupts good habits.’ Awake to right­eous­ness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowl­edge of God. I speak this to your shame.” 1 Corinthi­ans 15:33–341 Corinthi­ans 15:33–34
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33 Be not deceived: evil com­mu­ni­ca­tions cor­rupt good man­ners. 34 Awake to right­eous­ness, and sin not; for some have not the knowl­edge of God: I speak this to your shame.  

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“And do not be con­formed to this world, but be trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and accept­able and per­fect” (Romans 12:2Romans 12:2
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2 And be not con­formed to this world: but be ye trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and accept­able, and per­fect, will of God.  

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“Keep your behav­ior excel­lent among the Gen­tiles, so that in the thing in which they slan­der you as evil­do­ers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glo­rify God in the day of vis­i­ta­tion” (1 Peter 2:121 Peter 2:12
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12 Hav­ing your con­ver­sa­tion hon­est among the Gen­tiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evil­do­ers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glo­rify God in the day of vis­i­ta­tion. whereas: or, wherein  

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“He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the com­pan­ion of fools will suf­fer harm” (Proverbs 13:20Proverbs 13:20
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20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a com­pan­ion of fools shall be destroyed. destroyed: Heb. bro­ken  

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John said in 3 John 2 “Beloved, I wish above all tings that thou mayest pros­per and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

That means sub­mit our­selves to God before He says “resist the devil,” because no one can suc­cess­fully resist the devil until he sub­mits him­self to God.

The con­di­tion of heart that was respon­si­ble for the com­ing of those dis­eases as men­tioned in Deut. 28 is not the right con­di­tion for their removal.  In other words, the con­di­tion of the heart that was respon­si­ble for the curse in that day is not the con­di­tion of heart in which to come to Him for the removal of the curse in our day.

“Set­ting Cap­tives Free Mind Body Spirit”

 by: Traci Morin, The Min­istry of Deliv­er­ance Heal­ing
Ser­vant and Ordained Min­is­ter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Heal­ing Touch of God — Set Free Bible Study Sat­ur­day After­noons in Dallas/Fort Worth area –Free and reg­is­tra­tion required. We meet on Sat­ur­day after­noons Bib­li­cal insight into the med­ical as well as the spir­i­tual aspects of dis­ease includ­ing Group and Per­sonal Ministry.

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Sanctification Process

Nov 14th, 11 / 0 Comments

Sanctification Process

Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion Process

Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion Process

“If ye endure chas­ten­ing, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chas­teneth not?… God chas­teneth us for our profit, that we may be par­tak­ers of His holi­ness” (Hebrews 12:7, 10Hebrews 12:7, 10
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7 If ye endure chas­ten­ing, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chas­teneth not? 10 For they ver­ily for a few days chas­tened us after their own plea­sure; but he for our profit, that we might be par­tak­ers of his holi­ness. after…: or, as seemed good, or, meet to them  

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“If a man… purge him­self… he shall be a ves­sel unto honor, sanc­ti­fied and meet for the Master’s use, pre­pared unto every good work” (II Tim­o­thy 2:21)

To Sanc­tify is to set apart from the World and to con­se­crate, to God and to His service.

The tem­ple at Jerusalem was holy, that is to say, it was con­se­crated, ded­i­cated to God that it might serve Him as a dwelling place.  Our bod­ies are tem­ples for the Holy Spirit — the Spirit of the Most High God resides in us.

Again in this day, God is form­ing for Him­self a holy peo­ple, and it is that we may torn part of them that Jesus sets us free. He “gave Him­self for us that He might redeem us from all iniq­uity, and purify unto Him­self a peo­ple for His own pos­ses­sion, zeal­ous of good works” (Titus 2:14Titus 2:14
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14 Who gave him­self for us, that he might redeem us from all iniq­uity, and purify unto him­self a pecu­liar peo­ple, zeal­ous of good works.  

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 It is the Lord who breaks the chains by which Satan would hold us in bondage.

God chas­tens us “for our profit, that we may be par­tak­ers of His holi­ness,”(Hebrews 12:10Hebrews 12:10
Eng­lish: King James Ver­sion (1611) — KJV
10 For they ver­ily for a few days chas­tened us after their own plea­sure; but he for our profit, that we might be par­tak­ers of his holi­ness. after…: or, as seemed good, or, meet to them  

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Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion is not some­thing which you can accom­plish your­self; it can­not even be pro­duced by God in you as some­thing which you can pos­sess and con­tem­plate in your­self. No, it is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of holi­ness alone who can com­mu­ni­cate His holi­ness to you and renew it con­tin­u­ally. There­fore it is by faith you can become par­tak­ers of his holi­ness. Hav­ing under­stood that Jesus has been made unto you of God sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion (I Corinthi­ans 1:30).

But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wis­dom, and right­eous­ness, and sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion, and redemption:

“Set­ting Cap­tives Free Mind Body Spirit”

by: Traci Morin, The Min­istry of Deliv­er­ance Heal­ing
Ser­vant and Ordained Min­is­ter of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Heal­ing Touch of God — Set Free Deliv­er­ance Bible Study Classes, Sat­ur­day, Dallas/Fort Worth area –Free and reg­is­tra­tion required. We meet on Sat­ur­day after­noons Bib­li­cal insight into the med­ical as well as the spir­i­tual aspects of dis­ease includ­ing Group and Per­sonal Ministry.

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  • Need prayer – fill out the free online prayer request “Con­tact Us” spir­i­tual war­fare prayer form.
  • Pray for Amer­ica — Sun­day Evenings 9 p.m. (CST)!
  • Free online teach­ings. Watch us twice a week free online stream­ing chan­nel peri­od­i­cally on Tues­day and Thurs­day night, 9:30 — 10 p.m. (CST). If you noti­fi­ca­tion 15 min­utes before a show, please sign up with Twit­ter.

If you are not saved or con­fused about God’s love for you, check out the Sal­va­tion / Father’s Love Videos

Read Traci Morin’s Heal­ing Tes­ti­mony — healed of 13 dis­eases. My heart is to teach and see oth­ers recover them­selves from the snares of the enemy.

Rec­om­mended Heal­ing and Deliv­er­ance Books and other books includ­ing free PDF downloads

 

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