Christ already defeated sin, sadness, sickness, death, our flesh and every demonic power on the cross.

Christ already defeated our flesh and every demonic power on the cross. Listen to Him as He leads you, and receive His faith. Then, walk in victory in Jesus. Christ has already set you free. Sin, sickness, death, and hell have no power over you. Christ already bought this for you when He died on the cross. He’s waiting for you to allow Him to complete the work in you. The world (or culture), which consists of the collective fleshly natures of humanity, uses every means to stop the holy Seed from reaching good ground. Good ground is the heart of someone who hears God speaking and understands His words.

“Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him” (1 John 2:15-16 KJV).

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We don’t wage war according to the flesh.

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You don’t wage war according to the flesh.
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You don’t wage war according to the flesh. You don’t try to sweep out the darkness. You have spiritual weapons with divine power to demolish the strongholds in your mind.

You built strongholds in your mind without consciously thinking about what you were doing. You don’t know what most of those strongholds are yet. They seem like reality to you. You know about some of your strongholds. You know about thoughts that creep in, thoughts the Holy Spirit brings to your attention. You don’t want to entertain those thoughts, but you can’t sweep them out. You know your thoughts. I know mine. The more you try to NOT think about them the more you think about them. They keep popping up.

Turn on the Light. The Light is Jesus Christ. He has equipped you, and He will equip you more. He gave you spiritual weapons. One weapon is seeking God. Another is prayer. When the arguments and presumptions of the world creep in, look toward Jesus. Ask Him to help you. He will tear the strongholds down. He’ll answer the lies. He’ll give you power to destroy those evil strongholds and thoughts that come from them. Stand in Christ’s presence. His Light will surround you. The more you seek Christ, the closer you stand to Him. The closer you stand to Christ, the more His Light shines in you. The more Christ’s Light shines in you, the less darkness can survive in His presence. Turn on the Light.

I’ve already told you that the enemy will try to reclaim you. The enemy will try to deceive you into thinking you are stuck. The enemy will bring a suggestion to your mind and then condemn you for the suggestion the enemy brought. He was a liar from the beginning. He’s lying to you. He’s trying to trick you. When this happens, the Holy Spirit will also bring God’s promise to you. You have been delivered. Christ has set you free. The enemy is lying. The enemy doesn’t control you. Your fleshly nature does not control you. You are not a slave. Christ delivered you.

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You work hard fighting your flesh, but all you need to do is yield to Jesus.

Our flesh shouts: “I CAN HELP YOU OVERCOME MY SHORTCOMINGS.” “WITHOUT ME, YOU CAN’T FUNCTION.” “GOD GAVE YOU A RATIONAL MIND.” “I CAN FIGURE THINGS OUT.” The flesh wants us to keep the fleshly nature as a necessary part of our lives, but it must go. God hates a mixture of the fleshly with the spiritual. Christ defeats independence, comparisons to others, self-importance, egotism, cowardice, the desire for acceptance, attention, or control, and much more. The fleshly nature wants to preserve itself, so our fallen natures try to short-circuit the work of grace because we destroy the flesh when we yield to the Spirit. Our flesh will attempt to convert God’s grace and righteousness into a set of rules, principles, or concepts. The flesh tries to divert the work of the Spirit into self-glorification and pride. You can’t reform the flesh or improve it. You can’t sweep the darkness out of a room, but you can turn on the Light by turning to Jesus and yielding to His Spirit.

“You put so much effort into fighting your flesh. And all you need to do is yield to Me.” (A recent prophecy)

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WE LIVE IN THE FLESH, BUT WE DO NOT WAGE WAR ACCORDING TO THE FLESH

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… more about this spiritual warfare and turning on the Light. For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

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You will frustrate yourself trying to sweep darkness out of a room. You must turn on the Light. The two verses before verse 5 tell you more about this spiritual warfare and turning on the Light.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

You don’t wage war according to the flesh. You don’t try to sweep out the darkness. You have spiritual weapons with divine power to demolish the strongholds in your mind.

You built strongholds in your mind without consciously thinking about what you were doing. You don’t know what most of those strongholds are yet. They seem like reality to you. You know about some of your strongholds. You know about thoughts that creep in, thoughts the Holy Spirit brings to your attention. You don’t want to entertain those thoughts, but you can’t sweep them out. You know your thoughts. I know mine. The more you try to NOT think about them the more you think about them. They keep popping up.

Turn on the Light. The Light is Jesus Christ. He has equipped you, and He will equip you more. He gave you spiritual weapons. One weapon is seeking God. Another is prayer. When the arguments and presumptions of the world creep in, look toward Jesus. Ask Him to help you. He will tear the strongholds down. He’ll answer the lies. He’ll give you power to destroy those evil strongholds and thoughts that come from them. Stand in Christ’s presence. His Light will surround you. The more you seek Christ, the closer you stand to Him. The closer you stand to Christ, the more His Light shines in you. The more Christ’s Light shines in you, the less darkness can survive in His presence. Turn on the Light.

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OUR FLESH OFFERS TO HELP US OVERCOME OUR FLESH

Christians have thought up many ways to overcome the flesh or improve the flesh. Self-improvement is a huge Christian enterprise. And yet, every time someone comes up with a new method, the flesh is at war with the flesh. It’s a scam from our deceptive enemy, and he uses the fleshly human nature to execute his scam. When we’re led by the Spirit, the Holy Spirit opposes our fleshly natures. Then the battle starts between our flesh and the Holy Spirit.
“For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other” (Galatians 5:17a KJV). (How to Walk in God’s Glory Petros Scientia)

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You frustrate yourself if you to sweep darkness out of a room. You must turn on the Light.

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You frustrate yourself if you to sweep darkness out of a room. You must turn on the Light.
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

You frustrate yourself if you to sweep darkness out of a room. You must turn on the Light. The two verses before verse 5 tell you more about this spiritual warfare and turning on the Light.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

You don’t wage war according to the flesh. You don’t try to sweep out the darkness. You have spiritual weapons with divine power to demolish the strongholds in your mind.

You built strongholds in your mind without consciously thinking about what you were doing. You don’t know what most of those strongholds are yet. They seem like reality to you. You know about some of your strongholds. You know about thoughts that creep in, thoughts the Holy Spirit brings to your attention. You don’t want to entertain those thoughts, but you can’t sweep them out. You know your thoughts. I know mine. The more you try to NOT think about them the more you think about them. They keep popping up.

Turn on the Light. The Light is Jesus Christ. He has equipped you, and He will equip you more. He gave you spiritual weapons. One weapon is seeking God. Another is prayer. When the arguments and presumptions of the world creep in, look toward Jesus. Ask Him to help you. He will tear the strongholds down. He’ll answer the lies. He’ll give you power to destroy those evil strongholds and thoughts that come from them. Stand in Christ’s presence. His Light will surround you. The more you seek Christ, the closer you stand to Him. The closer you stand to Christ, the more His Light shines in you. The more Christ’s Light shines in you, the less darkness can survive in His presence. Turn on the Light.

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We must make listening to the voice of Christ, seeing His vision, and yielding to His Spirit our top priority.

When you respect, glorify, and acknowledge God, you walk in Light and humility. Then you begin to depend on God for every thought, word, and deed, and you reject every other influence. You even reject the rambling thoughts of your fallen mind. Your ability to discern increasingly becomes more acute as the Holy Spirit transforms you. In the same way, those who fail to listen to God’s leading and don’t yield to His Spirit go into a downward spiral, and God’s leading becomes increasingly unclear.

The narrow way is very narrow and constricted since whatever God didn’t lead you to do, give you faith for, and do through you by the power of His grace is sin. Sin is stepping off the Pathway to Life. The Pathway to Life is Jesus Christ.
“whatsoever is not of faith is sin” (Romans 14:23).

Listening to the voice of Christ, seeing His vision, and yielding to His Spirit must be our top priority.

“He went on to say, ‘Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you. For whoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.’” (Mark 4:24) (How to Walk in God’s Glory Petros Scientia)

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How can we take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ without getting into frustrating self-effort?

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and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:5

How do you take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ? If you try to do this with human effort, you’ll make yourself crazy. It’s like trying to NOT think about elephants. The more you try to NOT think about elephants, the more they jump around in your mind. If you don’t like elephants, try NOT thinking about the sin that easily tempts you. You know your sin. I know mine.
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Sweeping Out the Darkness

Some people have said you can make yourself pure by hunting down every stray thought and locking it down. They say you should react to every thought that isn’t from God, capture it, and bind it. Perhaps you grab them and put them into a box in your mind. Where do these theologians get that idea? It may come from this verse:

and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:5

How do you take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ? If you try to do this with human effort, you’ll make yourself crazy. It’s like trying to NOT think about elephants. The more you try to NOT think about elephants, the more they jump around in your mind. If you don’t like elephants, try NOT thinking about the sin that easily tempts you. You know your sin. I know mine.

You will frustrate yourself trying to sweep darkness out of a room. You must turn on the Light. The two verses before verse 5 tell you more about this spiritual warfare and turning on the Light.

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We tear down arguments and every presumption set up against the knowledge of God; and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

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WALKING IN THE SPIRIT IS AN UPWARD SPIRAL

Our walk is an upward spiral. I’ll give a quick overview now, but I’ll explain later. God speaks to every person. He speaks His Living Word to you. You acknowledge Him, pay attention to the authority of His voice, and lean heavily on Him. The Living Word of God authors God’s faith in you. (Hebrews 12:2) Faith comes by hearing. (Romans 10:17) As you let His Spirit flow into you, God reveals that your flesh can offer nothing. You access grace through faith. (Ephesians 2:8) As you yield to the power of God’s grace, God’s grace does God’s works through you. (Romans 5:17) God plants the Seed of Christ in your heart. (Matthew 13:3-23) He builds up Christ in you this way from one instant to the next. This upward spiral repeats moment by moment and each cycle begins when God speaks His Word to you. You grow in Christ with each upward cycle, but your progress may seem imperceptible, so you need to exercise patience. This is walking in the Spirit. And it will bring you to spiritual maturity step-by-step. As you grow in maturity you develop spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear.

“But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil” (Hebrews 5:14 KJV). (How to Walk in God’s Glory Petros Scientia)

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Don’t try to sweep out darkness. Turn on the Light.

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Sweeping Out the Darkness

Some people have said you can make yourself pure by hunting down every stray thought and locking it down. They say you should react to every thought that isn’t from God, capture it, and bind it. Perhaps you grab them and put them into a box in your mind. Where do these theologians get that idea?
(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

Sweeping Out the Darkness

Some people have said you can make yourself pure by hunting down every stray thought and locking it down. They say you should react to every thought that isn’t from God, capture it, and bind it. Perhaps you grab them and put them into a box in your mind. Where do these theologians get that idea? It may come from this verse:

and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. ~ 2 Corinthians 10:5

How do you take every thought captive and make it obedient to Christ? If you try to do this with human effort, you’ll make yourself crazy. It’s like trying to NOT think about elephants. The more you try to NOT think about elephants, the more they jump around in your mind. If you don’t like elephants, try NOT thinking about the sin that easily tempts you. You know your sin. I know mine.

You will frustrate yourself trying to sweep darkness out of a room. You must turn on the Light. The two verses before verse 5 tell you more about this spiritual warfare and turning on the Light.

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