--- In pipertalk@yahoogroups.com, "Shirley Bickley" <sbickley@...> wrote:
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> HAVE YOU TRULY REPENTED?
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> HAVE YOU PRESENTED YOUR MEMBERS TO GOD??
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> READ ROMANS 6&7.
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> RENEW YOUR MIND, SEE ROMANS 12:1,2.
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> From: Joe S
> To: Pipertalk
> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:07 AM
> Subject: [pipertalk] Spiritual Warfare
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> I have been a Christian for 22 years. I have been struggling with a
> number of things spiritually for some time. I have studied a lot from
> the bible and books about sanctification, but I can't find strength. I
> think this is more than the flesh.
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> I would like some advice on Spiritual Warfare: I would like to hear of
> some balanced approaches; how does a Christian approach this subject?
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> Thanks.
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>i find the most helpful insight is to realize the struggling with things
spiritually must be evidence of idols of the heart and a lack of faith in the
nature, accomplishments and promises of God. you have other functional saviors
that still control and who will not forgive you when you let them down. Study
the Cross. there you will see God in his most stunning beauty. There you can
have your heart peirced and purged of all subsitute gods. If any one of us were
to fully see and know and believe the reality and the promises of the biblical
god we would be so stunned, melted in heart, pierced and crushed that acts of
obedience would then flow from within. It is self-contradictory to talk of
behavior flowing from the surface. See God. Look at the cost, the price he
paid for your salvation. A worshipping, obedient life is not the creation of
exhortation, but of standing in the presence of overwhelming beauty. Your main
task is to see Jesus and what he did, not start some program of moral
reconstruction.