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E) Confess your sinsIt is imperative that we stay current with confession of our sins. If we are not taking the ground back from the devil and keeping it from his control when we sin, we cannot live in victory. Every sin gives up ground (giving satan control over a area of our life). The more ground satan controls in our lives the less free we are. See How demons gain access for further information. For some you may never have gotten down to business with your current and past sins. A good exercise for new and desperate Christians is to take time and begin to confess systematically. What you do is pick your most troubling area, say sexual perversion or fornication and begin to recall the first time you did something that was not proper and repent from it. Continue until you have covered all that you can recall, don=t worry about sins you miss, you can repent from them as God brings them to your memory. This should not be rushed and don=t feel over whelmed by the shear volume of years and sins. This does not have to be finished in any set amount of time. Being diligent to get through is important. Don't allow satan to get you side tracked so that you abandon the process. You may say that all your sin has been forgiven and there is no need to
repent from them individually. You would be partially right. It is true that
Jesus forgave all your sin when you came to Him. He The beginning point for deliverance is a true and sincere repentance. So please take the time and repent from whatever area is giving you trouble. Be systematic and do as complete a job as possible, then go onto the prayer for deliverance and pray it out loud. Besides your salvation, freedom and deliverance is the highest priority God has for you. |
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removed the ultimate
penalty for them which is hell and death. This, however, does not
mean that we are automatically released from the temporary penalty for our past
and current sin. We can sin and still go to heaven, but unless we respond with
repentance we may not live a life free from satan=s
influence. Remember the more we sin, the more ground he takes control over. The
more control satan has over our lives the less we and God will have .If satan
gets enough control we can be in jeopardy of being an apostate and having our
names erased from the book of life (Revelation 3:5). Most of us are not battling
for our eternal destiny (heaven or hell) but for our current spiritual welfare
as well as the welfare of people around us. There will be some who have let sin
so control them that they are once again close to being totally removed from the
body of Christ. These are fighting for their ultimate as well as temporal
destiny.