Maintaining Your Deliverance

Releasing Hurts Today’s Focus: Maintaining Your Deliverance Scripture: Romans Isaiah 55:11 8:5,6 Greetings Sons of God: Now that we understand that forgiveness is a major key to releasing hurt and true deliverance, the next question should obviously be how do we maintain our deliverance? How do we stay free from the sin and hurt that we just been delivered from? For many people this is where it gets cloudy and many do not every walk in true freedom because they backslide and believe that they never were delivered when in fact they were. It is the enemy’s job to cause doubt and fear this is why in Ephesians 6 the Lord tells you to carry the shield of faith to block the fiery darts of the enemy which consists of lies and doubts. Of course, he also tells you to wear the helmet of salvation to protect your mind. Now both of these pieces of armor are crucial in maintaining your deliverance. You must understand that the old adage says: “Whoever controls the mind, controls the body” and the enemy knows that and you must protect your head and your mind from the attack of the enemy and this leads me to our discussion today. In the previous message we said in order to get delivered you must: Repent, renounce and forgive but to maintain that deliverance we need to do some other things and here are three things the sons of God must do to maintain their deliverance: 1. Stand on the Word 2. Resist the Devil 3. Walk in fellowship with the Lord Starting this process is the hard part because you must first get control of the internal war between the soul and the spirit. When God has spoken something and/or done anything we know for a fact that it is truth and will or has happened. Isaiah 55:11: So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. When the Lord declares your deliverance and freedom from any situation, you can take that to the bank and know that it has happened. But what the devil tries to do, He tries to make you believe that it has not happened and what he does is try to put you put into the same situation you came from and this is the break point. Now when this situation happens you now hear two distinct voices: One telling you to “leave” and the other saying “I thought I was delivered from this, why is this happening again?” Now who you believe determines whether you stay free or go back into bondage. This internal war is between your soul and spirit and Paul speaks clearly to the consequence of listening to both: Romans 8:5,6: For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. So we can either listen to our soul where the enemy loves to attack us and try to get us to be carnally minded which leads to death or we can listen to the spirit man because it is with our spirit that the Holy Spirit speaks and testifies truth and revelation and if we listen to the Spirit then we will have life and peace. Now we know from previous studies that the soul and spirit have a mind and will but we also know that we need to be sensitive and obedient to the Spirit because in obedience to the Spirit there is life and peace. So when we come out of that darkness or stronghold of the enemy there must be a shift and a change and this is the most crucial step in maintaining your deliverance and that is one must renew their mind daily. In the next message we will talk about the importance of renewing the mind daily in maintaining deliverance. Peace, Love and Grace from the Father, Calvin Calhoun, Jr.