When the Spirit prompts you to move, to act, he is really prompting us to trust, and believe. These are opportunities to die to self. The instinctive nature of man is self-preservation and it will hinder you from dieing to self.
For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin — because anyone who has died has been freed from sin. In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. –Romans 6:6,7,11
We accepted this death because we believed that God could resurrect new life within us. You had a Cross-moment. The cross is not a one-time moment.
Then he said to them all: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. –Luke 9:23
God wants us to have cross moments everyday. We need to die to self; daily.
The key to experiencing spiritual power is dieing to self. If we desire to become like Christ in His life we must become like Him in His death. The reason we do not want to die to self is because we do not believe that God raises the dead. The key to victory and defeat is in yielding. Romans 6:11-13
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Monday, August 25, 2008
The Amazing Cross is even woven into our DNA structure!
Watch this. It's kind of long but wait for the "hook" it will be worth it.
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