BE AWARE, UNDERSTAND, TAKE ACTION

BE AWARE, UNDERSTAND, TAKE ACTION

By Dwight Cunkle

When a person decides to know; love God and do his will they experience both resistance and help. Discerning the enemy’s tactics help us resist him and go further on with Jesus.

Examples of enemy resistance from the world, flesh and devil include the following:

-Unsettling anxieties, diminishing peace
- Diminishing energy and strength to do the good
-Sadness and discouragement without knowing why
-Dullness, hardness or lack of motivation to pray, lack of interest in spiritual life, losing heart
-Obstacles and difficulties in daily life and temptations which add up to come against us with negative self-talk; “How can I continue to do good?” or, “Look what you are giving up or won’t be able to do.”
-False reasonings bring confusion, hopelessness, failure: “It’s my fault that I am not better because I should be”
-Feelings of division, unresolved hurts, critical spirit, judgments, negative interpretations of what others think, loneliness or feelings of being misunderstood.
-Fears: of failure, of rejection, of the devil or more resistance, or even fear of success and the responsibility



Examples of how God’s grace and good spirits help us overcome: 

-Experience God’s love uplifting us in faith, hope, joy, peace (even if only briefly)
-Courage to face the enemy’s resistance and continue God’s will
-Strength of God’s love lifting the heart
-Consolations of God’s love giving a new ease and increase in love for others which also uplifts us
-Tears of comfort from the movement of God’s love and closeness or overwhelming gratitude for his love in Jesus
-Inspirations, illuminations and spiritual clarity to see and overcome confusion
-Quiet Strength and peace of heart even in activity
-Grace removes obstacles, inspires an gives hope
-Faith and joy uprising in the midst of the enemy’s taunts

Go further on with the resurrected Christ and resist

the desolations of our enemy whom he has defeated.

I believe in the Holy Ghost. 

(Words to Declare over us)

God makes us stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. (2 Cor 1:21-22)

As one of God's elect, I am a stranger to the world, chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: grace and peace be ours in abundance (1Peter 1:1-3).

I believe in Holy Spirit, the Counselor, who when He comes, convicts the world (and me) of guilt, sin, righteousness and judgment (John 6:18-11)

I believe in Holy Spirit who dwells in me as a temple (1Cor 3:16) and who lives in me and is jealous over me. (James 4:5)

I believe in the Comforter, Counselor, Spirit of Truth, who guides us into all truth, who brings glory to Jesus by taking what is His and making it known to us. (John 16:15) He brings all things to remembrance that Jesus said, and gives me what to say when I testify (Matt 10:19-20).

I believe in the Holy Spirit who is the Anointing and abides in me and teaches me (1 John 2:20, 26), in whom we are baptized into Christ (1 Cor 12:) and are all made to drink of one Spirit (Eph 4:4).

I believe in the one Spirit of God who anoints me with power to do good and to heal in the name of Jesus (Acts 10:38).

I believe in Him who gives me life, leads me and because I have my mind set on the things of the Spirit I have life and peace (Rom 8:6-7)  and am renewed in my mind (Eph 4:24). I am filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:19) and power (Acts 1:8).

He quenches my thirst (Jn 7:37-39), prays in me for the saints according to the will of God (Rom 8:27-28), prophecies through me (1 Cor 14:1-3), gives me strength as I wait on the Lord, quickens my body, enlightens the eyes of my heart (Eph 1:17), gives me revelation from the Father, uses the Word of God as a Sword in my mouth (Eph 6:17) and gives me a NOW word that has proceeding application and power (Mt 4:4).

I am born of the Spirit (Gal 4:28), born from above (Jn 3:7).

I have received the Spirit by faith not by works (Gal 3:2) from Him who supplies the Spirit (Gal 3:5) and since I began in the Spirit (Gal 3:3) I can continue to live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit (Gal 5:25) for God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts; so, I am no longer a slave but a Son (Gal 4:6-7) and His Spirit bears witness with my spirit that we are children of God. (Rom 8:15-17).

I believe in the Holy Spirit who bears in me spiritual fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (Gal 5:22-23).

The Holy Spirit helps me walk in the spirit so I will not gratify the desires of the flesh (Gal 5:16) but I will be led by the Spirit (Gal 5:18).

I believe in the Holy Spirit who gives manifestations of grace through me as He wills, and I earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially that I may prophesy to the building up of the body in love (1 Cor 14). I also ask Him and He gives through me by the same Spirit words of wisdom and knowledge, supernatural faith, healing and working of miracles, discerning of spirits, tongues and interpretation of tongues (1 Cor 12)

  

I Believe in Holy Spirit