SPIRITUAL DECISIONS
After you receive God's anointing for your life, your mission will be
to set the captives free!
Please think with me for a few minutes. Imagine if you will, what it would
be like to have people you know being held as prisoners of war. One of the most
frustrating things would be for there to be nothing but talk concerning their
release. Especially if this went on year after year.
DELIVERANCE FROM BONDAGE
Imagine your excitement if you would be one of the ones selected to rescue them when action was finally decided on. How would you go about it?
You couldn't just buy an airline ticket and go to a hostile country
to force their release.
NEED FOR PREPARATION
There would have to be preparation.
First,you would have to undergo rigorous mental and physical training.
Also, the procedure of action would have to be determined. Will you
make a swift frontal attack, or will you use stealth in securing their release?
Then, there would have to be a confirmation of the authority under which
the rescue attempt would be launched.
THE ANOINTING IS NOT ENOUGH
Can you see the correlation? As a believer, you have been selected for
the mission of setting the captives free. However, your job assignment is
not the same as my assignment. We have each been cast for seperate roles.
We each must get our individual assignments and then, be sensitive
to the leading of The Holy Spirit. It is His responsibility to direct us in our
job assignments. It is our responsibilities to "pray and obey".
Without our obedience, the anointing will be for naught!
DECISIONS TO BE MADE
As we move out in obedience, we will need to be willing to instantly
respond to the leading of Holy Spirit. Jesus, our pattern, said that He did
nothing except what He saw The Father do.
He further said, That we would have the same relationship with Him that He had with The Father.
He futher said that the Holy Spirit would, "Guide us into all truth."
The guidance of the Spirit might be on one occasion to heal a sick person.
On another occasion, we may be directed to forgive someone's sins.
Check the scriptures. Are we not to "heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
and raise the dead"? Did He not say that we have the authority to forgive
sins?
However, the important proviso is that we are to do only what Holy Spirit
tells us to do. Then, it is not us doing it but Him doing it through us.
Please feel free to use this material to advance the Kingdom.
John Lounsberry
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