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.
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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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GOD TRANSFIGURES US! HERE’S HOW: Listen to God’s voice. Yield to God’s Spirit.

HOW GOD TRANSFIGURES US:

As you are led by the Spirit, Christ will bring you to a state of holiness in Christ little by little. He does this by doing His righteousness through you, and your part is to yield the members of your body to His righteousness. God shows us the Pathway from glory to glory, and we know the way. The Way is simple: Listen to God’s voice and yield to God’s Spirit.

Listen to God’s voice.

“While it is said, To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation” (Hebrews 3:15 KJV).
“Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God” (Matthew 4:4b KJV).

Yield to God’s Spirit.

“Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God” (Romans 6:13 KJV).
We call that “being led by the Holy Spirit,” and God made it a priority for us. Yet we haven’t fully taken hold of it. Why? When the Spirit leads us, we hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. He speaks a vision, and we see it. God tells us to ask Him for spiritual eyes to see and ears to hear. We can only recognize the gifts of the Spirit, the ministries in Christ’s body, and God’s leading as the Holy Spirit reveals them to us. We must also realize that everything good comes from God and we can’t self-generate anything good.

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths (Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV).
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17 KJV).
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing” (John 6:63a KJV). (How to Walk in God’s Glory Petros Scientia)

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God asks you to listen and yield to Him willingly

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What’s the difference between God creating the heavens and the earth in the beginning and God creating a clean heart in you? In the beginning, the creation couldn’t say, “No.” You can say, “No.” Now, God is looking for those who will listen to Him and yield to Him willingly. God is looking for you to listen to Him and yield to Him willingly.

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What’s the difference between God creating the heavens and the earth in the beginning and God creating a clean heart in you? In the beginning, the creation couldn’t say, “No.” You can say, “No.” Now, God is looking for those who will listen to Him and yield to Him willingly. God is looking for you to listen to Him and yield to Him willingly.

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

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.

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A man-child company of mature children of God is being born out of the church.

A man-child company of mature children of God is being born from the church. They will rule over the nations with authority and power, and they will bear the fruit of the Spirit. They will execute justice, love mercy, and walk in humility as no one has ever done.

“And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to His throne” (Revelation 12:1-5).

Two things must happen to prepare us to qualify for this responsibility, and these are the two things the Holy Spirit has been doing in us as we listen to His leading and yield ourselves to His righteousness so He can work through us. First, the Holy Spirit forms Christ in us. He becomes our identity. Second, the Light of Christ demolishes the old fleshly nature we inherited from Adam. God has shown us His Way to form Christ in us and remove the fleshly veil. (How to Walk in God’s Glory Petros Scientia)

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Nothing was created without the Logos of God. Jesus Christ is the Logos, the Rhema, the utterance of God.

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Nothing was created without the Logos of God. Jesus Christ is the Logos, the Rhema, the utterance of God. God speaks, and it is.

(Quote from https://realreality.org/downloads/how-god-will-transform-you/)

How did God create the heavens and the earth? He spoke and it was. Nothing was created without the Logos of God. Jesus Christ is the Logos, the Rhema, the utterance of God. God speaks, and it is.

What’s the difference between God creating the heavens and the earth in the beginning and God creating a clean heart in you? In the beginning, the creation couldn’t say, “No.” You can say, “No.” Now, God is looking for those who will listen to Him and yield to Him willingly. God is looking for you to listen to Him and yield to Him willingly.

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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No one has seen anything like what’s coming. ‘Eye has not seen nor ear heard.’

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father” (John 14:12 KJV).

No one has seen anything like what’s coming. Don’t try to imagine it. You can’t.

“But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9 KJV).

What are the limits of God’s power in His people? Those who overcome their fleshly natures and have Christ formed within must follow Christ. They are limited to the leading of the Holy Spirit. However, if the Holy Spirit asks them to move a mountain, the mountain will move. If the Holy Spirit asks them to raise someone from the dead, that dead person will come back to life. God isn’t limited, and Christ unveiled in His people isn’t limited. Those who doubt create their limits. Unbelief stops godly progress. God is calling mature sons and daughters to rule and reign in His kingdom.

“Then the kingdom and dominion, And the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, And all dominions shall serve and obey Him” (Daniel 7:27 KJV). (How to Walk in God’s Glory Petros Scientia)

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