Maintaining Your Deliverance: Renewing of the Mind

Releasing Hurts Today’s Focus: Maintaining Your Deliverance: Renewing of the Mind Scripture: Romans 12:1,2; 1 Corinthians 15:31; Hebrews 4:12; James 4:7 Greetings Sons of God: The renewing of the mind is the most crucial step in maintaining deliverance because it allows us to do the three major principles to keep our deliverance which are: Standing on the Word, Resisting the Devil and Walking in Fellowship with the Lord. Romans 12:1,2: I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God 1 Corinthians 15:31: I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. Now the common theme we see between these two scriptures is sacrifice and death. We sacrifice the rule of ourselves and we die to our own soulish desires. Jesus said it best, you must first deny yourself. We are laying down our own will, desires (life) for the will of God to rule in our lives and others. For this to happen one must learn how to sacrifice and suppress the rule of the soul and bring it under submission to the rule of the Spirit. So when faced with a situation that you have just been delivered from, it is crucial for you to know the voice of the Spirit and obey. To know the voice of the Spirit and obey is to: Stand on the Word And when you stand on the Word you: Resist the Devil And in resisting the devil you are able to: Walk in fellowship with the Lord Do we see how renewing our mind sets everything else into motion? Let me show you this other scripture: James 4:7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you Could it really be that simple just to say no and the devil will flee from you? Yes! When we stand on the Word (Sword in the Armour of God) the enemy has no power over us because we are standing on truth. It is when we subit and succumb to the trap that he gains legal access and control over us. This is why it is critical to renew your mind daily because the devil is clearly more cunning that us and has a distinct advantage of invisibility over us. This is why we must abide in the word of God because Hebrews 4:12 tells us the five-fold ministry of the Word: 1. Quick – life-giving 2. Powerful – ability to overcome 3. Piercing – offends 4. Divides the soul from the spirit (This is the big one) 5. Discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart The Word of God does all of that for us so that we can fellowship and walk with the Lord daily and resist the devil (discernment). Renewing your mind is a everyday requirement to continue to grow in Christ. This allows you to fellowship more with God and mature as a son. Maintenance of your deliverance is all on you. It is a choice you make to either walk with God and live or go back into bondage and oppression under Satan and be destroyed. It sounds like an easy answer but when we examine the lives of believers it looks a lot harder than we think. But, the great thing is God is raising up sons that will be a light and show the ways of Christ to those struggling and their testimony will be used to help their brothers and sisters transfer from living by the soul to living in the Spirit. When we make that transition we maintain our deliverance and freely walk and serve the Father as His sons and representatives or ambassadors in the Earth. Peace, Love and Grace from the Father, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.