Feeding your mind with so much hate, Your life becomes lost without no taste, Your mind wanders into dark places, You ask yourselves why are you in pieces?
Rivers of thoughts flood your mind, Your spirit is in despair Wounds and scars are the reflections of your day, You suck up your eyes and cheeks in tears and dismay,
Fix it out, dear!
Even though you’re in darkness presently, There is a light at the end of the tunnel. Give the devil no chance in your bowels Give him no shot to explore! Embrace Jesus today and allege your gem.
One of the greatest weapons Satan uses against believers today, is condemnation.
It is a strategy the devil uses to keep Christians in the dark. He uses it to weigh them under depression.
When a believer is listening to the condemnation of the devil, he feels he is the greatest sinner in the world.
Such believer falls into the depressive mind-set that he has committed the unforgivable sin.
Romans 8:1: ‘There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.’
In Christ, we are free from condemnation. No matter what we did in the past, we are guiltless before God.
If we are still under the condemnation from our sins, then the coning of Jesus was in vain.
But praise God it wasn’t! Jesus came to free us from the condemnation and judgment that awaited us because of our sinfulness.
Whenever the memory of your sins come, push them aside with the memory, that it was for those sins that Jesus died on the cross.
Here’s what God is saying about your sins;
Hebrews 8:12: “And I will forgive their wrongdoings, and I will never again remember their sins”
Psalms 103:12: “As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He {God} removed our transgressions from us.”
If God does not remember your sins, why do you allow the memory of your sins to weigh you down?
We still struggle with guilt because we have failed to look into God’s Word and believe what it says concerning us.
We have failed to realize that Jesus bore both our sins and guilt on the cross, so we wouldn’t have to bear them again.
The devil keeps hitting us hard with feelings of guilt, condemnation and rejection so that we will never have enough confidence to fulfil our God ordained destines.
He knows if he can keep us under the bondage of condemnation, we will never be a threat to his kingdom.
But now is the time for us to know that we are, ‘the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus’.
We are no longer sinners. You are not a sinner. Stop calling yourself a sinner. That is not who you are.
This is who you are;
1 Peter 2:9: “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light”
Whatever it is you are going through now, believe and trust God about it and He will surely help you out of it.
But never you judge yourself by your mistakes and shortcomings.
Believe and receive the Love of God into your heart.
Guilt wears one out but God’s Love strengthens and renews one.
Child of God, God loves you eternally!
About the AuthorTolu Taiwo Victor is a student, writer and Christian enthusiast. He’s among the youngest of prolific Christian authors in Nigeria.
I laid down in a glommy silence, inside a dark room, that moonless night with tears streaming down my cheeks.
I was speechless and really in a state of melancholy.
My pillow was soaked with tears that dropped from my eyes.
“Am I sure that am really born again? Am I really sure that I was forgiven by God of all my Sins?” These and many other questions flooded my mind that glommy moonless night as I had some flashbacks of my past lifestyle.
I remembered the marriages I destroyed, the numbers of men, married and single that I had slept with, as well as the number of abortions I committed.
An intimidating voice which seemed to be around me said, “Do you think you could eat your cake and have it back? Do you think that after ruining people’s homes; there would be mercy for you? Do you think that after all the abortions you committed; there will be mercy for you? No! Never! For the soul that sinneth shall die!”
I cried bitterly. The tears poured out like a mighty rushing river, unstoppable.
Then, I remembered that on the 18th September, 2018, I laid down everything at the foot of the cross.
I remembered the Joy I felt on the night that I gave my life to Christ, and how transformed my life had been since then.
“Why then am I feeling this way” I said within myself.
“But, I gave my life to Christ and he forgave me of all my Sins…” I said in a bid to silence the domineering questioning and accusing voice.
But the accuser shot back relentlessly “Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots?”
I gasped at the question, as it came with so much audacity and condemning power.
But it only stirred up the faith in my spirit. With boldness, I rebuked the voice, and responded,
‘I know that I can’t change my skin, neither can I change my spot, but I know He who can make everything new. That was why I laid everything down including my past habits, at the cros, for He who brings light out of darkness to do the cleansing,’
‘The Lord didn’t say that he would not receive women [Ladies] who have had abortions and have made terrible mistakes. He didn’t make a list of the kind of people who and not deserving of his mercy,’
‘I refuse to be intimidated by your accusing and condemning voice, for I know your mission here is to cripple my Faith and trust in the finished works of Christ.
In the name of Jesus, I silence you! Get behind me, Satan!”
Then, there was a surge of divine tranquility into my spirit. There was a reassurance in my spirit, of my righteousness and holiness in Christ
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When the devil confronts you with the memory of your past, confront him with the reality of God’s word,
Romans 8:1: “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus”
Shall we continue to watch as our flesh shuts the mouths of our spirits, and lead our souls to Hell?
Because we are his son, He sent the Spirit of His Son into our Hearts; the Spirit that cries out “Abba Father”
How long will we allow our ears to be filled with lies; lies clocked with the guise of sensible questions produced by human nature?
Our nature itself has been corrupted. It has been corrupted with the trait of ever trying to analyze divine realities using sense knowledge.
Shut the voice of the accusing spirit, all it is after is to get us confused.
It is a questioning spirit. It is the spirit that stirs up doubts in your heart about the existence of God, a life after death and Heaven and Hell.
That Spirit is from the devil.
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We inherited sin, we inherited death, That should have been our end, but Mercy said ‘No’.
From Adam came death, and through Jesus came life. He died our death to shut condemning voices up! So call on him when weighed down with the burdens of the world.
He wants you to stand still and know just one thing; that He is your God.
“But whoever is united with the Lord is One with him in Spirit” 1 Corinthians 6:17.
This means the Holy Spirit has merged and bonded with your spirit.
Every man born of a woman, has in his mortal body, the foremost enemy of God, the nature of the Flesh.
Lust dwells in every man, both Christian and Unbelievers. It is called the fleshly nature. Being Born Again does not automatically remove the flesh from you.
However, regeneration, subdues the power of the flesh in you. It subdues it and renders it powerless, such that it is unable to take control of you without your permission.
Romans 6:14: “For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.” (KJV)
You can only willfully yield to it, but it can no longer exert control over you.
If this is true, then why are several believers still enslaved to lustful desires?
Colossians 3:5: “Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry”(KJV)
Colossians 3:5: “So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).” (AMP)
Apostle Paul first tells us in Romans 6, that our flesh was crucified with Christ. But now, in Colossians 3, we discover that he is admonishing the Church to mortify and put to death, the flesh and its desires in us. This is to tell us that mortification is a continuous and repeated process.
The flesh is not supposed to be subdued and left unattended to. The carnal desires are not supposed to be defeated initially, and then left unattended to. These desires are like weeds that sprout up whenever they want, in the most unwanted areas. A lot of believers are still enslaved to lust and its desires because they failed to understand how to mortify such desires whenever they sprang up.
James 1:15 ‘Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is full-grown’, bringeth forth death.’
The word ‘conceived’ in James 1:15 also means for something to be tolerated or allowed to expand and grow.
I have had quite a lot of experience dealing with teenagers and youths struggling with problems related to lust; and from my experience with them, I have observed that their enslavement to sin, began with their tolerance of the inner fleshly desire.
A PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THIS FACT
Let’s assume you discover that you’re beginning to have ‘funny’ dreams, and that whenever you see beautiful girls presently, all you think of is handling the sensitive parts of their body.
At first, you shake it off. But the thoughts and imaginations keep coming. After a while, you begin to tolerate it, you call it a ‘weakness’, and you say it’s just a mere thought.
What you just permitted is the first stage to Enslavement. It’s called Conception. Now that you’ve allowed the fleshly nature within you to inspire carnal thoughts into your mind, you will find those thoughts increasing.
That single tolerance you gave to the flesh was like an open door, that allowed the torrents of carnality, flow unhinged, into your mind.
They grow from strength to strength and even begin to choke up the word of God within you.
One day, you had a flood of carnal thoughts rushing into you. Your body was on fire with lust, you felt like an animal on heat. This is the Birthing stage. Lust has been conceived and it’s about to birth sin.
Satan comes and whispers to your ears that once you watch porn once, the desires will calm down and won’t torment you again.
‘Just meet its demands so that it’ll let you rest’, he says to you. But you’ll never discern that it’s his voice because his voice is aligned with what you’re experiencing.
You open your phone and begin to open the porn website. As you’re opening it, you ask God to speak to you if what you’re doing is wrong.
Lol.
You won’t hear any voice because the thorns of the flesh have choked up your pure conscience which was supposed to be the Voice of truth within you.
The website opens and once you watch pornography, boom… Lust has given birth to sin.
You love what you see, you even masturbate while watching. But afterwards, you feel downcast and guilty, this is because the fleshly desires have been temporarily satisfied, so they’ve become calm again.
Despite your feeling of guilt, that little sin will cost you severely. Sin from the outside looks as tiny and fragile as a little spider’s web, but when you fall into it, its cords are as thick as a cart rope.
It holds you tightly and influences your mind to believe that a spirit of lust has possessed you and that you are in need of deliverance from it.
That single act you called a little sin, will lead to several recurrences. This is what it means to allow sin to grow into its fullness. It is the GROWTH stage.
From watching porn weekly, it becomes a daily thing, it becomes an hourly thing.
By satisfying your fleshly desires, you are feeding the power of sin and you’re strengthening its grips over you.
If you don’t find solution fast, it can lead to the last destination, spiritual DEATH!
But God never left us hopeless and helpless. No matter how deep you’ve fallen into this kind of enslavement, there is always a way out.
OBTAINING FREEDOM FROM LUST AND ITS DESIRES
Genuinely Repent: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” – 1 John 1:9 (NIV)
If you want to be truly free from enslavement to lustful desire, then you must open up to God. Do not try to hide from God; do not try to conceal your sin, neither should you excuse it. When you open up to God, He will purge you and cleanse you totally. Repentance is the first key to freedom.
Get in touch with a Mentor: Proverbs 15:22: “Without counsel plans fail…”
In every stage and sphere of our lives, we need mentors. We need people who we can be accountable to. Mentors are symbols of authority, discipline and instruction in our lives. Don’t be so proud that you feel you can break out on your own, without anybody’s help. You need the prayer of a higher spiritual figure; you need the experience of an elder to learn from. Get in touch with your pastor, or Christian leader who you can relate with in person. Narrate your ordeal, and submit to their instruction.
Get rid of the Flesh-feed:
Stay clear of the company of friends whose conversation only incite your flesh. Get rid of those videos, pictures and literature that feed your flesh and make it gain influence over your mind. The more you starve your flesh of these things, the more it dies.
Create an Atmosphere of Spirituality:
2 Cor. 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
Create an atmosphere around you filled with God’s presence. Pray in tongues, in your spirit, and out loud as much as you can. Declare God’s word daily. Let your heart be full of singing to God daily. Get in fellowship with believers around you. Love God, and watch how your life will transform for the better.
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