(Excerpted from Cheryl Gnagey's Spiritual Healing: The Surrender That Brings Victory, Chapter 8)
"Take a moment and think about what sin you want to overcome on purpose, by fully focusing on its dispossession from your heart for good. It is time that the gods that want to keep you trapped in bondage to sin be removed! Begin with appropriating the armor of God every day, working on just one idol or sin. Do this for one week. God wants your full compliance to His command to be holy because He is. He has given you the perfect armor with which to protect yourself from that sin, and to stand strong in Him. And remember, your sin will always find you out. Take it on today! Defeat it with the transforming of your mind by renewing it in the truth of the Word! Your sword, the very Word of God, is a dangerous weapon intended to be used on the father of lies! Use it to push them out of your heart and mind.
Thomas a Kempis once declared that 'Instant obedience is the only kind of obedience there is; delayed obedience is disobedience. Whoever strives to withdraw from obedience, withdraws from grace.'
Walk in obedience to His commands by doing what you are supposed to do, for this is God's plan for you!
INTROSPECTION
1. What have the results of your willful disobedience been?
2. What is the difference between telling God you are sorry for your sin and confessing your sin to Him or another person? Which on is more sincere? Why?
3. How did the response of the Israelites and ten of the spies (when they learned about the giants in the land) differ from Joshua and Caleb's response?
4. Why does your full compliance with God's commands make a difference to Him?
5. How can you better use the full armor of God to dispossess the gods in your heart? Will you?"
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