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8 Rs

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Henry W. Wright

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Disclaimer

This ministry does not seek to be in conflict with any medical

or psychiatric practices nor do we seek to be in conflict with any church and its religious doctrines, beliefs or practices. We are not a part of medicine or psychology, yet we work to make them more effective, rather than working against them. We believe many human problems are fundamentally spiritual with associated physiological and psychological manifestations. This information is intended for your general knowledge only. Information is presented only to give insight into disease, its problems and its possible solutions in the area of disease eradication and/or prevention. It is not a substitute for medical advice or treatment for specific medical conditions or disorders. You should seek prompt medical care for any specific health issues. Treatment modalities around your specific health issues are between you and your physician.

As pastors, ministers and individuals of this ministry, we are

not responsible for a person�’s disease, nor are we responsible for his or her healing. All we can do is share what we see about a problem. We are not professionals; we are not healers. We are only ministers ministering the Scriptures, and what they say about this subject, along with what the medical and scientific communities have also observed in line with this insight. There is no guarantee that any person will be healed or any disease be prevented. The fruit of this teaching will come forth out of the relationship between the person and God based on these insights, given and applied. This ministry is patterned after the following scriptures: 2 Corinthians 5:18-20; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4; Mark 16:15-20.

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Preface

This booklet was developed from a teaching to a live audience and has been kept in a conversational format. It is designed to reach a personal level with the reader rather than present a structured, theological presentation. Many times the reader will feel that Pastor Henry is talking directly to him/her. The frequent use of the pronoun you is meant to penetrate the human heart for conviction, not for accusation. Pastor Henry has been called to the office of pastor, and as such, he takes care of God�’s flock (whereas one called to the office of teacher does not take care of the sheep). The purpose of this booklet is to open your heart to a daily Walk Out to wholeness using the 8 Rs to Freedom.

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CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ....................................................1

Testimony of Healing from Uterine Cancer...2

Definition of Walk Out......................................3

No Knowledge....................................................4

Testimony of Healing from Colic ....................6

Lack of Knowledge / Rejected Knowledge ...8

1. RECOGNIZE.....................................................15 2. RESPONSIBILITY ............................................21

Example of David.............................................23

3. REPENT.............................................................27

Exemplary Prayer of Repentance ..................29

If, Then and But................................................34

The Captivity of Disease .................................37

4. RENOUNCE .....................................................43

Testimony of Healing from Sleep Apnea .....44

5. REMOVE ...........................................................53 6. RESIST ...............................................................59

Submission to God...........................................60

Satan Not Omnipresent...................................65

7. REJOICE ............................................................73

Isaiah 35 .............................................................73

8. RESTORE...........................................................77

Closing Prayer ..................................................80

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And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly;

and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body

be preserved blameless unto the coming

of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23

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INTRODUCTION

hen there is disease in our lives we need to examine ourselves to determine if there is

sin within us. Eighty percent of our diseases are the fruit of our participating with the sin that is within! We need to identify the root, the spiritual root, of our disease and come to a place of repentance. This teaching on the 8 Rs to Freedom will give you steps to walk out of your disease. These steps are Recognize, Responsibility, Repent, Renounce, Remove, Resist, Rejoice, and Restore.

This booklet will teach you how to take a journey down a highway to health with the 8 Rs to Freedom as signposts along the way. The 8 Rs are scripturally based concepts designed to be tools. Each R brings you from thought and understanding into freedom. They are progressive because you can start at the beginning of the list and work through it, gaining freedom as you apply these principles.

We have received a number of letters and emails from people all over the world who have applied these

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principles. They have written down the steps to the 8 Rs and referred to them every day in their Christian walk. They have pasted them in the front of their Bible and posted them on their refrigerator. No one talked to them or prayed for them. As they applied the 8 Rs to their life, God met them.

These people are well today because they had the right tools to work with. They are standing strong and growing up in their own faith.

Below is the testimony of J.B. She did not come to Georgia and no one prayed for her. She read about these principles, applied them to her life and was healed.

TESTIMONY OF HEALING FROM UTERINE CANCER

I was diagnosed with Stage III uterine cancer in April of 2003. My doctor advised chemo-therapy treatments so I agreed to the first two. I lost my hair and almost 25 pounds. I felt awful. I was scared to continue with more treatments and didn�’t know how I could keep on working as a real estate broker. A friend gave me the booklet New Insights into Cancer and I read it twice in one evening.

I began to realize the importance of forgiving others and that I had to get rid of bitterness toward my ex-son-in-law. It was like a light bulb going off in my head. I had to forgive him and I did. It happened in the

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driveway of my home just before he left my 11-year-old grandson for a visit with me. They were both in shock when I told him I was sorry and that I loved him. We both cried as we hugged each other. Wow!

This was on a Thursday, the day after I read the cancer booklet. The next day I went to my appointment for chemotherapy treat-ment, and to the surprise of both my oncologist and my radiologist, the cancer had completely disappeared! A miracle!

J.B. from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA

DEFINITION OF WALK OUT

The 8 Rs are directives to move you from one point to another. The first three Rs are critical to what is going to happen. The remaining five Rs are part of what we at Be in Health™ call �“walk out.�” Those who have been to For My Life™ in Thomaston, Georgia, know walk out is what we recommend after you have received ministry and returned home.

Getting well is not always a light switch experience. It is a journey that starts by turning from the direction you were headed to a completely new direction for a whole new life. It is a journey for the rest of your life using the 8 Rs, perhaps daily.

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NO KNOWLEDGE

Isaiah says, �“God�’s people are held captive because they have no knowledge.�”

Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Isaiah 5:13

This scripture is not addressed to the unsaved because God is saying my people. The entire Bible is about God�’s people and how they did or did not properly participate with Him. In order to avoid captivity, as God�’s people, it is important you have knowledge in order to be able to Recognize or discern. The Bible is full of instruction about the knowledge of good and evil. One of the signs of maturity in Hebrews is being able to handle strong meat by exercising your senses to discern both good and evil.

But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Hebrews 5:14

If you do not know something is evil, then how can you Recognize it as a problem? You may think it is just a psychological defect. For example Scripture tells us, Fear is a spirit.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2 Timothy 1:7

If you think Fear is a psychological defect because it is �“just who you are,�” then you have become

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one with Fear in both your spirit and your soul. You are now going along with the mentality of that spirit of Fear and not recognizing you should take those thoughts captive.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:5

The Word of God tells you that you have not been given the spirit of Fear, but you have been given power, love and a sound mind. Unless you understand that behind your disease may be a spirit of Fear which you have become one with as a way of life, you do not know you can be set free.

You therefore go to a doctor who puts you on an anti-anxiety drug, which is a beta-blocker that circumvents the mind-body connection to the limbic system. It short circuits the torment that comes with Fear and lies to you, saying you are now free when in fact you have not solved one thing.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. 1 John 4:18

You think you are free but you are now bewitched and deluded into a false sense of security. You think you have been cured, but the symptoms are being managed. If you come off that drug long enough you will be right back into your physical problems again. That is why in Galatians witchcraft, pharmakeia or sorcery, is called �“a work of the flesh.�”

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19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Galatians 5:19-21

The Greek word for witchcraft is Strongs #5331, pharmakeia, which means medication, pharmacy or by extension, magic (literal or figurative) and is translated sorcery or witchcraft in the King James Version. Be in Health™ is not opposed to doctors or medicine, but it is opposed to people taking a pill in order to bypass their spiritual issues.

If you do not know behind high blood pressure is an anxiety disorder of fear or worry about tomorrow or what could go wrong tomorrow, how can you ever overcome it? If you do not know behind asthma is Fear of abandonment, how can you defeat it? If you do not know behind congestive heart failure is Guilt, Self-hatred and Self-rejection, how can you defeat it? If you do not know behind diabetes II is Fear, as in anxiety and stress, how can you defeat it? What happens if you are a believer and you have no knowledge? You go into �“captivity.�” What does �“captivity�” produce? Eighty percent of all our diseases!

TESTIMONY OF HEALING FROM COLIC

My daughter and son-in-law have a daughter who had colic all night when they

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brought her home from the hospital. Babies with colic do not understand English; they just know they have pain inside their tummy.

My son-in-law came to me and looked a little bleary eyed. �“What�’s your problem, Scott?�” I said. �“I couldn�’t sleep all night.�” �“Why?�” �“Hannah has colic.�” �“Oh, that�’s easy to deal with.�” �“That�’s easy for you to say.�” �“No, no. It is time to grow up and understand. Your daughter has inherited a spirit of Fear. That�’s the iniquity of the generations, a familiar spirit, and a Fear of abandonment.�” That night he and Sarah prayed over Hannah and cast out Fear of abandonment. She slept seven hours!

Do you know what the good news is? Little Hannah never had colic again. When Tabitha, their second daughter came along, the first thing they did when they brought her home was to set her before the Father by faith. They cancelled the power of this iniquity that was traveling in her generation. Tabitha never had colic. This knowledge is critical.

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LACK OF KNOWLEDGE AND REJECTED KNOWLEDGE

Hosea tells us, �“God�’s people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.�”

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.

Hosea 4:6

God�’s people were destroyed because they did not have His knowledge. In addition they did not even use the knowledge they had been given. Those who reject knowledge cannot be a priest and they are causing their children to be forgotten by the Lord.

What is an example of what it means to reject knowledge? Matthew 22 tells us to �“love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul and mind and to love our neighbor as ourselves.�”

37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

38This is the first and great commandment. 39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt

love thy neighbour as thyself. 40On these two commandments hang all the

law and the prophets. Matthew 22:37-40

Obeying this scripture can be problematic for us. What if J.B. (from the testimony of healing of uterine cancer) had not forgiven her ex-son-in law?

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We talked with J.B. a year after her healing and asked if her ex-son-in-law had changed. She said, �“No, but now I accept him as he is in his own pain and love him in the Lord. When I was in my pain, I didn�’t realize his pain.�” She is no longer taking his sin into her body.

Mark says if you from your heart do not forgive your brother his trespasses, your Father in heaven will not forgive you of your trespasses. Forgiving your brother is a commandment of the Lord.

25And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

26But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses. Mark 11:25-26

Do we know that we are to forgive our brother? Yes. Do we do it like we need to? No. We have this mentality we will forgive sometime after we have seen His judgment on them to our satisfaction. Then we may say, �“They were wrong and I am right.�” We are therefore forgetting the law of God.

I am sure you do not want to lose your priestly calling. You may ask, �“Why would God reject me if I reject His knowledge?�”

If we have not become an oracle for how God thinks and what He has set forth in the earth, then we absolutely have become an oracle for Satan. We cannot preach Satan�’s gospel and still be called God�’s anointed priesthood. If we do not forgive our brother, then we are actually becoming a high priest for Satan in the area of unforgiveness. That creates an open door for Satan to

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oppress us and for God to resist us. God says in Hosea you are no longer a priest to me. You have forgotten the law of your God so I will also forget your children. This law is also in Exodus 20:5 and Exodus 34:7. There are consequences for our disobedience, and they affect our children.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; Exodus 20:5

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Exodus 34:7

If you want to protect your children and grandchildren get right with God! If you want to curse your children and grandchildren be a Christian rebel! Practice the nature of Satan in your home and your children will be carriers of your disobedience to the third and fourth generation. We know you want to be a blessing to your children and your household! You have to practice being righteous and doing the right thing.

A good way to break bad habits is to replace them with new habits. It takes 28 days of practicing a good, new habit for it to become ingrained as part of your mentality. Many people do not give themselves the time to walk out of bondage into the newness of life. Hebrews says,

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Discernment involves recognition. I want to help you understand good and evil things from the first heaven, the second heaven and the third heaven. If you do not know Fear can cause you a problem with your health, then you are ignorant. If you do not know Bitterness can cause disease then you are ignorant and you cannot walk out because you are not mature. You may say, �“Well, I�’m going to heaven.�”

You may be going to heaven, but you are not a mature saint. The Bible says, �“In that day you will be known as you are known.�”

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Corinthians 13:12

I have personally made up my mind when I get to that day, I do not want to be known in eternity as a rebellious, argumentative, incorrigible, unteachable and sinning saint. The Bible says, �“Judgment begins at the house of God.�”

17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?

18And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

1 Peter 4:17-18

If you are filled with strife as a believer then you will be known by your ways. If you are someone who

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would not forgive others then you will be known by your ways.

Depending on your ways, your spirituality, curses or blessings come upon you and your children. Your ways are your righteousness, your thoughts, words and actions as a spiritual being.

If I were a troublemaker as a believer then when I get to heaven, here is what I might hear: �“Hello, troublemaker, glad you could make it. Now it is time for judgment.�” The Bible teaches this very clearly. Most of the church is waiting to get to heaven to be rid of the responsibility of Repentance. No, we will not avoid Repentance because we will stand before Him and He will look us straight in the eyes. He will talk to each of us about our own personal sin. If we have been talking against our mother-in-law as a believer, then when we get to heaven the Lord will say, �“Tell me about your mother-in-law.�”

�“I love my mother-in-law.�”

The Lord might say to Gabriel, �“Would you hit that playback button, please?�” Here is your voice and what you said about your mother-in-law. The Bible says every idle word you have said is held in judgment against you.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of Judgment. Matthew 12:36

That verse can drive heaven right into us and hell right out of us. It is your choice whether heaven or hell stays in you today. It is your choice to be an obedient son or daughter of God.

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The only difference between you and an evil spirit within you is that you can Repent and it cannot. In days past, perhaps you were a disobedient spirit, but today hopefully you are an obedient spirit.

Because you believe God and because you Repent for your sins you are now a friend of God. You are no longer interested in becoming an oracle for Satan.

Make a list of what you discern in yourself that is not of God

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1. RECOGNIZE

he first thing you must do before you can be free is Recognize you have a problem. If you

do not Recognize you can never be free. If you do not Recognize the connection between your spirituality, your thoughts and your disease then you can never be free. The first of the 8 Rs is Recognize. We have to Recognize what is behind our bondage. We teach theology of disease and pathways of disease so people can Recognize the root behind their disease.

You must learn to discern what is within you that is not of God. It will always manifest by thoughts, feelings, emotions and direction. It will try to help us think, to help us speak, to help us act, but it does not represent God�’s freedom for our lives. If you become one with something as if it were truly you, God cannot heal you. Paul taught in Romans 7 Fear is called sin and that it is not who you are. You may have a spirit of Fear but you are not a spirit of Fear. You may have disease but you are not a disease.

Recognize what is flowing within you that you have allowed to become part of who you are. Repent to God for allowing yourself to become a servant to that sin. If you, as a called being, have become a servant to sin then you have become a living example of what Paul is referring to in Romans chapter 6.

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Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16

Your battle is not against flesh and blood. Your battle is against �“principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places.�”

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12

The first thing you have to do is Recognize what is behind your problem. Proverbs says,

As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come.

Proverbs 26:2

The curse is the disease and problems. We are looking for the doorpoint where the enemy accessed you and began to teach you his ways. It could have been generational; you could have inherited it. Hell also can access the believer, a covenant person, because of ignorance. You must Recognize. God has called you to discernment.

It is of utmost importance we Recognize thoughts separating us from the Father, from the Son, and/or from the Holy Ghost. We must Recognize thoughts separating us from our godly value system and from ourselves. Additionally, thoughts separating us from another person need to be Recognized as well because they are not of God. We want you to understand what needs to be Recognized. We love to quote Hebrews.

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For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

The Word of God PENETRATES our joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of our heart. One of the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit in 1 Corinthians 12 is discerning of spirits. What good does it do for you to discern an evil spirit if you cannot do anything about it?

To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 1 Corinthians 12:10

If I discern you have a spirit of Fear do not say to me, �“Oh, really? That is good to know. I will take some Prozac and just pretend I am not afraid anymore.�”

Physiologically, Fear is behind many diseases. Multiple chemical sensitivity is a fear-based disease that the Be in Health™ programs have had much success with. One of our pastors was healed of this disease.

Discernment involves Recognition, and freedom involves understanding and removal. God knows everything and if you are one of His kids, it is about time you asked Him what He knows. He has already told you in the Bible what He knows. Luke says, �“In the last days, men�’s hearts shall fail them because of Fear.�”

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Luke 21:26

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The book of Proverbs says,

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. Proverbs 14:30

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 17:22

You cannot Repent for something you do not Recognize

Timothy says,

24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2 Timothy 2:24-26

God�’s servants must Recognize in order that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him, the devil, at his will.

I cannot bring you to Repentance if you do not know what you are Repenting for. I must help you Recognize sin. In our program For My Life™, we want people to understand what sin is and what it is not. We want them to understand sin is a kingdom that is intelligent by its fallen nature. We want to help them separate themselves from the indwelling presence of sin so they can make it their enemy. The enemy needs to be

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Recognized. Then we want people to understand that temptation is not sin.

Temptation is not sin

We talk about the reality of Bitterness and how it affects our lives. Then spirits of Accusation with thoughts of someone accusing us, putting us down and speaking evil of us come our way. We also talk about occult practices that open us to the god of the second heaven in order to give us a pseudo type of spirituality as if it were from God. This includes false prophecies, divination, false miracles, lying signs and wonders.

Modalities of disease management have nothing to do with the revelation of the living God. They are designed to help you cohabit with the enemy in the name of therapy. They do not offer the true and living God and they do not offer repentance from sin. They may keep you in another bondage, usually at $150 per hour; however, the gospel is free.

We want you to understand about Envy and Jealousy and to Recognize Rejection and Bitterness. We want you to understand the Unloving Spirits and how Rejection and Guilt accuse you to yourself. We want you to understand the power behind addictions.

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The need to be loved is the root behind all addictions

The root behind all addictions is the need to be loved. The need to be loved takes us to altered states of consciousness in order to avoid the pain and create an alternate feeling as if we were loved.

In order to Recognize what Fear is, you need to understand that there are specific types of Fear. You need to understand what Fear of tomorrow means. You need to understand what Fear of failure, Fear of man, Fear of rejection, Fear of your mother-in-law, pastor phobia (Fear of pastors), Fear of flying, Fear of heights, Fear of fear and Fear of evil mean. You need to begin to Recognize the things plaguing you from within. The April 2, 2001 edition of Time Magazine lists 4000 different types of fears.

Do not overlook this verse.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:13

�“Neither�” is obviously a continuation of verse 12 as a flow of thought in discerning the thoughts and intents of our heart, and neither is there any creature that is not manifest in His sight.

Who do you think the creature is within you that needs to be discerned? That invisible creature flowing through mankind is the body of sin. It is that fallen kingdom of principalities, powers, rulers of darkness,

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and spiritual wickedness in high places found in Ephesians 6.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of thIs world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12

It manifests as Fear, Bitterness, Unforgiveness, Lust, etc. The creatures are the entire kingdom called �“sin.�” They want you to participate with them so they may have their being in the earth through you. If you become one with something as if it were you, God cannot heal you.

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2. RESPONSIBILITY

he second step to getting free after you Recognize the problem is taking

Responsibility. You must stop blaming others. Once you have agreed with the thoughts you recognized you are now participating with sin. It does not matter whether someone defiled you, whether it was your sin, or whether you inherited it. You have become one with it and it is now yours. Take Responsibility for it and deal with it.

When you agree with sinful thoughts, you become one with that sin

Let�’s look at the pattern of one who was called a man after God�’s own heart, King David. He had entered into a very bad situation and gotten a woman pregnant while she was still married to someone else. Then he arranged to have her husband killed. Yet God still called David a man after His own heart. There is hope for us.

EXAMPLE OF DAVID

The first thing David did when Nathan the prophet confronted him about this transgression and sin was to go directly to God in prayer. He admitted his

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guilt and Recognized his sin. He said, �“Against you and you alone, O Lord, have I committed this sin.�”

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Psalms 51:4

Most of us Recognize sin in our lives and we believe we are just �“dirty old Christians.�” Not so! We are Christians who have participated with sin but we can be cleansed and sanctified. It is Guilt that tells us there is double jeopardy and we are always going to pay for past sins.

We do not have to live back in the past, stuck in our sin. We should get our forgiveness, get cleaned up, and get on with the program just like David did.

To be able to discern the difference between the clean and the unclean is to Recognize. In the Psalm King David says to God,

3For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.

4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Psalms 51:3-4

King David Recognized his sin once he was confronted with what he had done. He had not been honest so God sent a prophet to make him honest. The Spirit of God was there to convict him, but David had a choice just as you and I have a choice. The Bible says David was perfect in all his ways �“except�” in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

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Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Kings 15:5

It does not say Bathsheba was the problem. It says Uriah the Hittite was the problem. King David had a sin against Uriah the Hittite because he took something that did not belong to him (Bathsheba) and then he tried to cover it up. Once it was brought out into the light, David first had to Recognize his sin and then take Responsibility with God for what he had done. Take Responsibility; do not try to get out of it.

The comparison between King David and King Saul is amazing. David went directly to God in his sin and made his peace with God. Saul, when confronted with his sin by Samuel the prophet said to him, Pray to your God for me.

�…turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD thy God. 1 Samuel 15:30

Each person must go to God for themselves; I cannot go there for you. The first thing each of us must do is take Responsibility for our transgressions with God. You have to go to God for yourself. No one can go there for you.

God wants us to take Responsibility for what we Recognize within ourselves

Someone said the other day, �“That is just the way I am. If you don�’t like me, get over it.�” Wait a minute.

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Corinthians says, �“From glory to glory we are being changed into His image.�”

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Corinthians 3:18

It is not to God�’s glory when we have uncontrolled rage and anger because the Bible says,

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Ephesians 4:26

This anger business must not be carried past sundown. When we allow sin to carry past sundown it will become ingrained within our nature and our spirit by morning. God wants you to deal with things every single day. Today is the day of salvation. Now is the appointed time. Take no thought for tomorrow. The evil of today is sufficient unto itself. Have you heard these scriptures? This is a today issue. Recognize today. Take Responsibility today.

(For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

2 Corinthians 6:2

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Matthew 6:34

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3. REPENT

he third R to freedom is Repent. After you have Recognized and taken Responsibility,

then Repent. You cannot Repent for something you do not Recognize, and you cannot truly Repent unless you have taken Responsibility. I have seen a lot of people who do not have a contrite heart; they have remorse because they sinned. They want to get out of the situation and away from the consequences of their sin, but they truly have not taken Responsibility for what they have done. They are always trying to blame someone else for the way they acted.

Some people say, �“Pastor, I think we should be able to Recognize the problem and Repent so that we can then take Responsibility.�” No, we cannot properly Repent unless we have taken Responsibility before God. Responsibility prepares the way for Repentance. After you Recognize, which is step number one, then step number two is to take Responsibility, and number three is to Repent.

Acts says,

Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord; Acts 3:19

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church is crying out for relief. We want relief, but we have not been taught properly. There is a teaching that says once you become a Christian you never have to Repent for sin ever again because it negates grace and mercy. The Word says we are not to sin in order for grace to abound.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Romans 6:1

Acts 3:19 provides us with an interesting insight into Repentance. Relief will not come until we Repent.

Why does God want us to Repent? Because He wants us to know that what we are turning away from, through Repentance, establishes a new destiny of righteousness in the earth for ourselves and our children. When we Recognize guilt in our lives, take Responsibility for it, Repent for allowing it to accuse God and ourselves, and deal with it, then what comes to us next? The opposite of guilt comes and a tremendous place of peace. Guilt, however, negates forgiveness and says we cannot be forgiven.

Repentance is a quality decision

Repentance is not something we do because we feel like it. Repentance is a quality decision. Either I choose to participate with sin, or I choose to not participate with sin. I either do it by the sin of commission or by the sin of omission. I either sin

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according to knowledge, or I sin according to ignorance. I choose to obey, or I choose to not obey. I choose to Repent, or I choose to not Repent. Repentance is saying to God, I Recognize I have been participating with the indwelling presence of sin in my life. �“Against you and you alone, have I sinned.�”

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Psalms 51:4

EXEMPLARY PRAYER OF REPENTANCE

Here is an exemplary prayer:

Father, I Recognize that You are justified when You speak and when You judge because You are God. I take Responsibility and Repent for participating with sin and overthrowing who You are in the earth through me. Will you forgive me?

In Ezekiel we find the word Repent.

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 18:30

When you read the entire eighteenth chapter of Ezekiel you will find it to be an interesting study. God�’s people are complaining to Him because He had been forgiving the repentant unrighteous and fixing them.

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God would not fix the righteous while they were continuing in their sins, but they felt they qualified because they had been Old Testament saints for many years.

Actually, it was not even them talking this way; it was something from the invisible kingdom inside of them speaking through them. Have you ever known someone who lived an unrighteous life, accepted God, Repented, received God�’s forgiveness, and then was healed instantaneously? Yet you, a believer, are still sick? Ezekiel 18:25 says, �“Yet you say, the way of the Lord is not equal �…,�” but I ask if your ways are equal.

Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? Ezekiel 18:25

Equal means fair. Hear now, Oh house of Israel. Are not my ways fair or just? Have you been watching your own actions? Do you think you have been fair and just with me?

26When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

27Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

29Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

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30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Ezekiel 18:26-30

We now come out of the general body of Christ to a personal salvation. We as individuals must do what the Word of God has shown us personally. We are responsible for what we Recognize individually and not for what the rest of the Church is doing.

There are thousands of churches in America teaching that once we are born again we will never have to Repent for sin because �“grace covers our sins.�” If you are attending one of those churches, I suggest you begin to Repent for your sins and �“let God be true.�”

God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. Romans 3:4

�“Not Repenting for our sins�” cannot be found anywhere in Scripture. I can prove in the Old and New Testaments that, as believers, as New Testament saints, as covenant believers, the Lord Jesus Christ requires each one of us to Repent for our own participation with sin. Let�’s look to the New Testament, with Jesus as the author, for some scriptures.

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�…repent, and do the first works�… Revelation 2:5

Repent; or else�… Revelation 2:16

And I gave her space to repent�… Revelation 2:21

�…except they repent of their deeds. Revelation 2:22

�…hold fast, and repent�… Revelation 3:3

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent Revelation 3:19

You must judge for yourself to see if you personally need to Repent as a sinning saint. We need to Repent and be converted because the prophet said that our sins have separated us from our God.

When our sins separate us from God, it keeps us from the times of refreshing that God has planned for us on this planet. I am interested in having the times of refreshing come into to my life. I need every little oasis I can find in this journey because I am a pilgrim in progress.

Chronicles shows roots of disease coming from sin.

22If a man sin against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house;

23Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

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name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house; 2 Chronicles 6:22-24

The beginning of understanding blessings and cursings is, �“If thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee.�”

When we sin against God He will give us over to what we want. If we choose to believe unforgiveness is the way of the Lord, God will let us have what we want until we have had enough.

�“If thy people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy because they have sinned against thee and then return and confess thy name,�” now we are coming to a place of Repentance. Pray and make supplication before thee in this house, then �“hear thou from heaven.�” Hear from heaven and do what? Forgive. Forgive the sin of thy people Israel, bring them again into the land which thou gavest them and to their fathers.

Then hear thou from the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers. 2 Chronicles 6:25

�“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee,�” so what causes drought? God�’s people have not been doers of the Word.

When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them; 2 Chronicles 6:26

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Yet if, remember I said there are three words in the Bible taken out of modern day Christianity? Those three words are �“if, then and but.�”

IF, THEN AND BUT

If they pray towards this place and confess your name and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them, then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when you have taught them the good way. But if they will not�…

Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

2 Chronicles 6:27

This scripture is an example of recognizing what is good. You have taught them the good way wherein they should walk by being a doer of the Word. If you pray, then God hears and forgives, but if you do not, God does not.

28If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:

29Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

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according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:) 2 Chronicles 6:28-30

Everyone shall know his own sore and his own grief. That means we are going to know what is behind our sores and our grief. We will know what kind of sin has caused it.

We are going to know what sin has caused our grief

Every one shall know his own sore and his own grief and shall spread forth his hands in this house. Then hear thou from heaven, thy dwelling place, and do what? Forgive and render. Here we come into a personal freedom, a personal victory, or a personal bondage.

Each one of us stands personally before the Lord. At the judgment seat of Christ, we will each stand there, one on one. We will not stand there together being judged. We will give an account for the deeds done in our own body as a believer, good or evil, and the Lord will judge us independently. He will judge His own, in heaven, at something called the judgment seat of Christ.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10

Do we really read our Bibles like we need to? No, Church, we do not. I have read my Bible, and then I have read it again and again.

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I am still learning. I like what I am reading because it is the only thing that makes any sense unless I am a rebel. Rebels do not ever want to do anything they are told; they just want to do it their way.

I want you to be well I want you to be free

I want you to teach other people how to get well and free

but we must do it God�’s way

Continuing in 2 Chronicles, �“Then hear thou from heaven,�” God knows our hearts.

Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:) 2 Chronicles 6:30

Go to verse 36, �“If they sin against thee,�”

If they sin against thee, (for there is no man which sinneth not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captives unto a land far off or near; 2 Chronicles 6:36

Oh, my! Did you hear what that says? That means in this room, each one of us including myself, has work to do in eliminating sin from our lives. We are going to have to grow up if we are going to be mature men and women of God.

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Do we want to grow up in maturity or do we need to change our diapers until the millennium? Do we want to serve God or do we just want to go to church for two hours a week and appease our consciences?

THE CAPTIVITY OF DISEASE

If a disease binds us, we are held captive. This is not just about being in a foreign nation. This has to do with any type of spiritual captivity. If we are bound by high blood pressure, if we are bound by lupus, if we are bound by diabetes II, if we are bound by congestive heart failure, if we are bound by depression, then we are in bondage.

We are bound because we have participated with sin or our ancestors have sinned in their generations. While we are in captivity, we must begin to turn our hearts back to God.

While in captivity, we must begin to turn our hearts back to God

We are there because we have participated with sin or our ancestors have sinned in their generations. This is what I hear Christians say: �“When God delivers me, then I will serve Him. When God delivers me, then I will pay attention to His love.�” No, while you are still �“goofy,�” and while it seems like God is a million miles away in your life, it is time to turn your heart to God. He is not far away.

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The instructions are in Chronicles.

Yet if they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly; 2 Chronicles 6:37

That is all God wants to hear. God wants us to Recognize we are in captivity. He did not put us there. He gave us over to what we wanted. He let the enemy have us because we did not want Him. We had a greater love for the enemy than we did for God.

If we have a greater love for the enemy than for God, He will let the enemy have us because we did not want Him. God will give us whatever we want. If we want to believe a lie, He will withdraw and give us a greater delusion until we have had enough of the lies, and we begin to seek truth again.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

2 Thessalonians 2:11

Have you had enough lies? Then turn to Him and begin to look again for His truth. In 2 Chronicles 6:37, it says, �“We have sinned, we have gone amiss, and we have dealt wickedly.�” Here is the if, then and but again.

Continuing in Chronicles, �“if they return,�”

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chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

39Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive thy people which have sinned against thee. 2 Chronicles 6:38-39

That means we are going to begin to Recognize, take Responsibility and Repent while our captivity has not been changed.

We have to Recognize take Responsibility and Repent

while we are still in captivity

It is hard, I know. It is hard to hear God while He seems far away, but it is better than never hearing from Him. Maybe there has been enough listening to the devil in your life.

If you have been listening to him, then why not turn to God? But if you do not, go back to Ezekiel.

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

Ezekiel 18:30

Repentance can bring healing. Our teaching on the marrow of our bones has incredible insight as to how the enemy can cause allergies in our lives through Fear, making us cancer-prone and keeping us from being healed of cancer. If we have had allergies and

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then were healed, we have experienced the scripture that says, �“He sent His word, and healed them.�”

He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.

Psalms 107:20

His Word is to be made flesh to our flesh. The question is, �“How does that work?�” This is how I get people free of allergies. Through knowledge I reveal what is in the spiritual dimension we have become one with in our psychological dimension. We Repent to God, become free spiritually, become renewed in our minds, and then our marrow belongs to God again, not to the devil of death.

Now God owns our marrow again, but we are not going to get our marrow clear unless we under-stand what God said and Recognize it. The Word of God is able to penetrate even to the joints and marrow.

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

Right here we have the absolute possibility of being sanctified, spirit, soul and body. If we repent, then allergies will no longer exist and cancer will no longer exist. That is normal Christianity. It is very simple. The gospel is a simple gospel. �“Unless we become like children we cannot even see the kingdom of God.�”

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And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 18:3

Hebrews says,


That is practical daily application. They have their spiritual and mental senses exercised to be able to discern both good and evil. Here is what evil is; here is what good is. Here is what unforgiveness looks like; here is what forgiveness looks like.

When someone has blasted us with spiritual halitosis, we have that immediate temptation to go into Bitterness and unforgiveness.

But we can grab Bitterness in one hand and forgiveness with the other. We stare at the law of sin, which is Bitterness, and then stare at the law of God, which is forgiveness. We look at this one and say, �“It is evil,�” and we then look at the other one and say, �“It is good.�” Look at the evil one and discern it is inferior to the superiority of forgiveness. This cancels out the curse of but in if, then and but.

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4. RENOUNCE

he first R is to Recognize. The second R is take Responsibility. The third R is to Repent

for what you Recognize, and the fourth R is to Renounce what we have just Repented for. Once people seem to Recognize and take Responsibility, they have no problems Repenting, but Renouncing an issue seems to be an obstacle. What does it mean to Renounce something? It would go something like this:

�“Fear, listen to me. I Recognize you. I have taken Responsibility for you. I have Repented to God for allowing you to participate in my life and for me participating with you. Now Fear of man, Fear of failure, Fear of rejection, Fear of mother-in-laws and every kind of Fear that has been plaguing me and my generations, I not only Recognize you, I not only have taken Responsibility for you, I not only have Repented before God, but now I am Renouncing forever everything you stand for in my life.�”

I cannot make people do something against their will, but we allow the invisible things in us to work through us every day. If those invisible things try to make you do something against your will, you have a right to rebuke them. Should we not Renounce and

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rebuke that other kingdom that is making itself work through us in the same way?

I Renounce you, and you cannot make me do something against my will. I am tired of being afraid. I am fed up with it and everything you do to me and through me.

That is why we teach separation. That is why we teach that Fear is not you. That is why we teach what Jesus taught in Mark 7 and Paul taught in Romans 7.

We have been trying to explain this so we can help others know how to understand which kingdom is in operation within us all. We have been called to establish the kingdom of God here in the earth. We now have the right and the authority to remove everything that is not part of the kingdom of God from us. We also can establish the kingdom of Satan by being in rebellion to the Word of God. How do we establish Satan�’s kingdom? By not forgiving our brother, by being in strife and debate, by lust, by unforgiveness, hatred and many other ways.

Now that we have drawn nigh to God, we turn our attention to what is not of God.

Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. James 4:8

TESTIMONY OF HEALING FROM SLEEP APNEA

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sleep clinic, I was told I stopped breathing 139 times during the course of 6 hours of sleep. Five times it was very severe, almost up to 2 minutes! I might add that I have two other sisters that have this problem. One sleeps with a mask and the other had major throat surgery about a year ago.

I was set free of sleep apnea during the Saturday morning prayer of For My Life�™. My freedom came when I prayed the Freemasonry prayer. My dad and granddad were both in the Masons.

The battle in Walk Out began soon after I returned home. I had terrible nightmares and a very bad headache the following morning. In fact, it was the kind of headache I had when I did not get adequate oxygen to my brain.

Medication never seemed to offer any relief. This was a strong �“set back�” for me because the doctor at the sleep clinic had told me about the possibility of a stroke or heart failure when one does not get adequate oxygen to the brain.

A friend encouraged me to Renounce and make my declaration out loud. THIS SAVED ME FROM GOING BACK UNDER THE MASK THAT VERY NIGHT! I looked at the mask and had a struggle but finally decided, �“live or die,�” I was not going back under it. I believed God�’s Word to be true. I staked my claim to my deliverance and have remained

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free since April 30, 2004! In fact, the mask has been packed away out of my sight.

I have continued to make my declaration every night that:

I am free of sleep apnea. I will have the sweet sleep promised to the beloved of God, and whom the Son sets free is free indeed.

My sleep is sweet and I have not had any further symptoms. I AM FREE!! HALLELUJAH!

N.D. from Anderson, SC, USA

Renounce what you have just Repented for. Tell it to go so it can hear. It cannot read your mind, but it can hear your voice. Speak out loud to Fear or any other spirit that is speaking to you.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

2 Timothy 1:7

We would say this to Guilt. We would say this to Hatred. We would say this to Bitterness. We would say this to Envy and Jealousy. We would tell everything that is not of God we Renounce it and everything it stands for.

Our declarations must be made boldly so that all things both visible and invisible may know the intent of our confession.

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Renounce everything that is not of God

I want to give you a powerful scripture dealing with the aspects of renouncing. Corinthians says,

But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 1 Corinthians 10:20

This is not addressed to the unsaved; it is addressed to the God�’s people. New Testament saints who are in fellowship with devils as believers. You may ask, �“How can I have fellowship with devils?�”

You are fellowshipping with devils when you have Bitterness against your mother-in-law while sitting down with your cereal in the morning. We sit down with thoughts about what our mother-in-law did yesterday when she came over and ran her finger across the dusty foyer table.

Maybe she looked in the bedroom to see how you are taking care of her boy�’s kids. The beds are not made. The floors are trashed. The toys are all over the place. The toilet seat has four days of grime on it. Come on now!

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allowing it to happen in our lives and on this planet. That is fellowship with devils!

When you see these things in your life, say this:

Listen, Fear. Listen, Bitterness. I Recognize you. I have taken Responsibility before God for allowing you to use the members of my body for your purposes. I have Repented to God.

Now, listen to me talk to you. You have to go! I Renounce everything you stand for in my life and on this planet.

Let your declarations be bold. �“The kingdom of God suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.�”

And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. Matthew 11:12

Quit being wimpy. You are not wimpy when someone steps on your toes. Let me give you a scripture used as a part of the Roman Road, but it really needs to be used as part of your life after conversion. Romans says,

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. Romans 10:10

I do not agree with those who say, �“Well, that is just the way I am, Pastor.�” I reserve the right to change, but we cannot change something we do not Recognize. We cannot change something for which we do not take Responsibility. We cannot change something for which

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we do not Repent. We cannot change something we are in agreement with until we Renounce it from our hearts.

�“Why should I Renounce, Pastor?�” God wants you to have a perfect hatred for evil. The Bible says, �“God has a perfect hatred for evil.�”

I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Psalm 139:22

The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Proverbs 8:13

He wants you to make evil your enemy. He wants you to make sin your enemy. You may Recognize something, take Responsibility for it and even Repent, but that does not mean we have fallen out of agreement with it.

We cannot be partakers of the Lord�’s Table and the table of devils. God wants us to Renounce and have a perfect hatred for what we have Recognized. If it is Bitterness, Lust, Unforgiveness, Rage or Anger, He wants us to Renounce it. Salvation is more than being born again. Yes, you must be born again.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. John 3:7

We must be in the arena of God. For with the heart, man believeth unto what? Righteousness.

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For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness. It does not say �“believeth unto salvation.�” So, here is where the Roman Road people have missed the point. You may be born again, but you have not learned the first principle of applying righteousness until the Holy Spirit begins to sanctify you.

When we were born again we did not end up sinless on the

other side of that conversion

We were still as �“goofy�” 24 hours later, almost as much as we were before we were saved. We still had our junk, right? We quit going to bars and we married our shack-up. Both of those things needed to be done, but did we deal with Fear, Jealousy, Envy and Bitterness? No. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, but with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. That is more than just being born again.

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee. Proverbs 23:7

O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Matthew 12:34

If my mouth can flap at both ends with something as negative as sin, it can flap and Renounce at the enemy

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out loud. Why do we need to say it out loud? So that all things visible and invisible can hear the declaration of our intention that our words may stand in the heavenlies, demanding to be fulfilled and so that righteousness will be established in the earth through us.

Everything visible and invisible will understand the declaration of my tongue. Since every word that I have not dealt with will stand against me in judgment in the day of reckoning, then why would I not let every word of righteousness stand for me in my favor in the day of reckoning? Let them be fueled with the wisdom of God and the understanding of establishing the kingdom of God on the earth because my words say so.

Do your words say so? God the Word did not stay in heaven in silence. He came here and made a difference by His words.

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5. REMOVE

he fifth R to freedom is Remove. After you have Renounced what is not of God, Remove

it. I can bring you to a place of Recognition which is discernment. I can bring you to a place to take Responsibility. I can even bring you to a place of Repentance. I can even get you to Renounce openly what evil stands for in your life, but you have to Remove it. Removing sin is saying this:

Not only do I Renounce you, but you and I cannot exist at the same place at the same time together. You have to go, spirit. I am not moving. Fear, not only have I Renounced you, but you do not have permission to stay in the same place with me. Go to your dry place. Get away from here! Be gone! I take authority over you in the name of Jesus; now get out of here!

If you have just been delivered from alcoholism, then hanging out with the boys at the local bar is not a good idea. If you have just been delivered from lust, then allowing that Playboy magazine to sit on the coffee table is not a good idea. If you have just been delivered from strife, then hanging out with strife-filled people is not a good idea. Ezekiel says,

30Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord

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GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ezekiel 18:30-31

Repent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions, so iniquity will not be your ruin. Then what is being said here? Remove.

We need to Remove what we have just Recognized, taken Responsibility for, Repented for and Renounced. We cannot hang out with it anymore.

We can no longer let Self-hatred get up in the morning and go get a cup of coffee with us. We cannot let doubt and unbelief join us in Sunday morning services.

You no longer have the right to have that high-octane ping when your mother-in-law walks in the front door unannounced on Saturday morning while the sink is full of dirty dishes. Remove! Remove what is causing the high-octane ping within you.

Cohabitation with the enemy is strictly forbidden in the Old Testament. In the New Testament, Paul instructed us to crucify it and put it to death.

And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Galatians 5:24

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Cohabitation with the enemy is strictly forbidden

Again, Ezekiel 18:31 instructed us to cast away our transgressions. What are we to do after we have Recognized the problem, taken Responsibility for it, Repented for it and Renounced it? Remove it. �“Cast it away from you, and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit. For why will you die, O house of Israel?�”

Choose this day what you shall have, life or death, blessings or cursings.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Deuteronomy 30:19

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

Joshua 24:15

What I deal with, you may not deal with, and what you deal with, I might not deal with. So if you think about it, the battleground is an individual thing. There are some things that are common to man. The Bible says, �“When this fiery trial overtakes you, think not that some strange thing is happening to you.�” It is nothing more than what is common to man.

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Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: 1 Peter 4:12

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 10:13

There are certain things in the earth that are common to our existence. Yet when we are under the gun in a particular area of our life, we think it is only us battling this thing. In reality, maybe a few million people are having the same battle today. Because we do not see it that way, we may feel that God is picking on us. We may think the devil or someone else is picking on us. No, it is just the things that are common to man.

Fear is a force common to man

It did not just pick on you or me. It is common, as a movement of Satan�’s intentions on the earth, to capture the faith of men and to destroy God in their lives.

You have to cast away from you what has been killing you, what has been causing disease, and what has been causing depression and oppression. You are going to Remove it, not just Renounce it and not just Repent for it. You are going to Remove it from your life until it is gone. Then you are going to make yourself a new heart and a new spirit.

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You say, �“Well, if God loves me, He�’s just going have to live my life for me.�” No, God is not going to live your life for you. You are going to live your own life. He is going to work with you. �“Draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you.�”


The Bible says, �“He that has no rule over his own spirit is like a city with its walls broken down,�” and all manner of beasts just come in and out and make a general mess of everything.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Proverbs 25:28

You are to Remove what is not of God

You are going to take control of your destiny, in the name of Jesus, according to knowledge. The Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. John 16:13

Romans says,

For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. Romans 8:14

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I am a son of God by faith. I used to be a son of the devil. I used to be in fellowship with devils, but now I have a heart to be in fellowship with God.

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6. RESIST

he sixth R to freedom is Resist. After you have Removed what you have Recognized,

taken Responsibility for, Repented, and Renounced, the sixth aspect of freedom in your life and others you would try to help is to Resist. The enemy stalks us and knows our family trees really well.

Now wait a minute! How can I Resist something that has been removed? It is going to come back to check you out. If we do not understand this point, we can be taken all over again.

Again I say, Resisting does not begin first with Resisting. It begins with submitting yourself to God.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7

The enemy�’s kingdom is very lazy and very arrogant. That is why at Be In Health™ we do not start by casting devils out of people. We could do a lot of damage to someone that way. So we do not use the gifts prematurely. If someone stays around this ministry long enough, they will begin to be discipled by us as we begin to teach, as we begin to instruct, as we begin to lay a foundation.

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with the same old stuff. When that happens, you will be filled up with the knowledge of God so he will not be able to come back in.

SUBMISSION TO GOD

How do you submit yourself to God?


To submit to God, you Recognize the indwelling presence of sin, take Responsibility for it, Repent for it, Renounce it, Remove it, Resist it and draw nigh to God.

The principles of Resist are first found in Corinthians.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 2 Corinthians 10:5

Why do you need to know good and evil? Many in Christianity say, �“Do not speak of the devil�” or �“Do not talk about evil because it glorifies the devil.�” The Word of God says, �“We are not ignorant of his (Satan�’s) devices.�”

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

2 Corinthians 2:11

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their senses to discern both good and evil. When the enemy comes, you hold up what evil looks like and what good looks like. Everything that does not match what God looks like and what He has said, take it by its scrawny neck and cast it down.

If God said we are to forgive our brother, then we must forgive our brother whether we feel like it or not.

We must forgive our brother whether we feel like it or not

That is drawing nigh to God. The feelings of unforgiveness are proof of the indwelling presence of a spirit of Bitterness. When we have dealt with our situation, we will still remember what Aunt Sally did to us in 1942, but we will no longer feel that spirit of unforgiveness against her in our stomach because we have been delivered.

The first three Rs to freedom involve submitting yourself to God. Then after we have Renounced and Removed, we can begin to Resist the devil.

�“Taking every thought captive�” is not addressed to unbelievers. It is addressed to sinning saints. �“Cleanse your hands, ye sinners�” is addressed to covenant, New Testament believers, who are practicing and participating with sin (James 4:8).

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believer. I would rather be weary in well doing than worn out and wasted from losing to the devil.

The church is lazy. It is absolutely lazy. We are to work out our own salvation daily with fear and trembling, making ourselves a new heart and a new spirit.

Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ezekiel 18:31

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Philippians 2:12

A man who has no rule over his own spirit man is like a city with its walls broken down letting all manner of beasts come in and out. It is just one stinking mess.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

Proverbs 25:28

I choose to rule my own spirit. I am getting better at it every single day. The question becomes, �“How can I Resist the devil? I thought he was already gone.�”

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When you remove an evil spirit it will return again to test you

Scripture tells us when the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, it returns to see if the house is empty.

43When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.

44Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.

45Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.

Matthew 12:43-45

One of two things will happen. You will either Recognize that it is trying to come back and Resist it, or you will not Recognize it and agree with it again, thinking it is your own thought. If you let it back in the second time, you will also let in seven other spirits more wicked than the first.

Everyone is trying to Resist the devil. I stopped attending spiritual warfare conferences many years ago because the teachings were mostly just shadow boxing. �“I�’m going to Resist the devil, bless God.�”

The devil is laughing his head off at us, Church. He does not have to leave just because you say, �“Boo, in the name of Jesus!�”

He says, �“Boo!�” back at you.

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�“Well, I use the name of Jesus, and he has to flee because the Bible says whatever I shall say in the name of Jesus, I shall have whatsoever I say.�”

For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Mark 11:23

Do you actually think the name of Jesus provides freedom just because you say so?

�“Yes, He gave me His name, and I�’m going to use His name.�”

Psalms says, �“He exalts His Word even above His name.�”

I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. Psalm 138:2

If you have been disobedient to His Word He is not obligated to honor His name

The devil does not just flee because of Jesus�’ name. It is your obedience to God and His Word out of a pure heart that breaks the power of the devil, not just His name.

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The Christian church is trying to use His name while remaining disobedient to His Word. No wonder that just using His name is not working.

SATAN NOT OMNIPRESENT

James 4:7 says, �“Submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.�” I wish that were true in and of itself. Many Christians are saying �“I am just resisting the devil.�”

He is not omnipresent whatsoever. He is a created being and the book of Job tells us he is bound to one place at one time. The sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came with them. The Lord said something like, �“What have you been up to, Big Boy?�”

Satan said, �“I have been walking to and fro up and down the earth.�”

And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. Job 1:7

If Satan were omnipresent, he would not have to walk anywhere. He is not omnipresent or omniscient because an angel came to Joseph in the night and told him to get out of town.

When Herod was tempted by Satan to kill all children up to two years of age, the angel said to Joseph, get your mobile home, get your mustang and get your horses and head for I-75 south to go into Egypt. Get Mary and baby Jesus and get out of town. So

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they did, and Satan did not even see them go. He did not even know where they went.

The issue is this; Resist the devil. Your ability to defeat Satan is in direct proportion to your obedience to the God who saved you. I am watching a rebellious sinning Church act like it has defeated the enemy, yet it is bound with diseases left and right. This condition indicates that the church is deluded.

James 4:7 says, �“Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you.�” We cannot resist the devil unless we are drawing nigh to God at the same time.

Be strong in His Word, and then use His name. Be obedient, and the devil will flee.

Hebrews says we should be able to handle strong meat but we need to go back on the milk, Church. Everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness. Strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

11Of whom we have many things to say and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.

12For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

13For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

14But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Hebrews 5:11-14

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We are to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and then all these things shall be added to us.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Matthew 6:33

�“The kingdom of God is not meat or drink, but it is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.�”

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Romans 14:17

�“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.�”


Any thought you have, any word you say, any action you do that is not what God would think, say or do is participation with sin. It is evil. Anytime that God says, �“Do this�” and we do not do it, we are participating with sin. We are participating with evil. Evil is anything that is allowed into creation that does not match the eternal personage of the living God in creation.

It fractures creation! It leavens it! It changes it! It corrupts it! It perverts it! It allows creation to be changed from what God designed it to be. We need to be able to discern both good and evil because it is a sign of maturity. God has called us to be grown up, not stay like babies. When I was a child, I thought like a child.

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But when I became a man, I put away childish things and began to think like an adult.

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

1 Corinthians 13:11

Most of us are spoiled brats in Christianity. It is time to grow up. If we are saved, let us act like it. Many of us act like we are not saved when we follow through with the thoughts and intents of our hearts that are not of God. Recognize what is of God and what is not of God in your life from the Bible.

You know your thoughts. You know if you are honest with yourself about your yucky puckies. You know in your heart whether or not you are a doer of the Word. If you go into denial, that is deception.

We do not have to worry about someone else being dishonest with us because we have already been dishonest with ourselves. That is scary. We are going to have to be honest with ourselves because the Bible says,

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. James 5:16

We need to get our faults into the sunlight. Then our minds need to be renewed.

And be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Ephesians 4:23

Sometimes our mind will kick up a memory that represents what we have been taught by the enemy,

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and then it kicks in with something called temptation. A kingdom does not bring temptation to us.

Temptation comes because our minds are not renewed

Our memory can also kick physiological things into action. So here is the deal. If what we have Removed tries to come back, we need to Resist it.

Someone emailed me anonymously and said, �“I am a believer, but I am having difficulty getting out of homosexuality. I keep falling back into it. I hate it. I am in and out of it.�” I was recently teaching at a conference, and an individual came up to me and said, �“I am falling in and out of homosexuality.�”

�“Oh, are you the one that sent me that email?�” �“Uh, yes.�” �“Oh,�” I said. �“I am so proud of you.�” �“Proud of me? I thought you would just tell me

to leave!�” �“How can I help you if you leave?�” �“Well, I thought you would reject me.�” �“You have not committed the unpardonable sin.

Why would I reject you? It is time to face it. Can I help?�”

�“Well, I walked into a ministry before that said they help people with homosexual tendencies. They had all these case histories of people that are well because of their insight. I drove hundreds of miles to their ministry and said, �‘I am one of those case histories.�’ They would not even talk to me.�”

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I said, �“Maybe they went out of business.�”

James 4:8 says, �“Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double minded.�”


You could not purify your heart if you wanted to unless you were born again. Your spirit must first come alive to God. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He shall lift you up. RESIST.

Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. James 4:10

Timothy says,

24And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;

26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 2 Timothy 2:24-26

Repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves from the snare of the devil having been taken captive by him at the devil�’s will, to do the devil�’s will in the earth. That is addressed to Christians.

Even though I am intense, I want to tell you that you are worth saving. I do not intend to tickle your ears or give you some Mickey Mouse deal.

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I intend to change the dimension of your lives forever and show you how to change other people�’s lives and challenge them in love forever. That is what the gospel is all about.

Choose to Resist!

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7. REJOICE

he seventh R to freedom is Rejoice. After you have Recognized, then taken Responsibility,

Repented, Renounced, Removed and Resisted, it is time to walk out into victory. Rejoice. Give God thanks. Rejoice, and again I say unto you, Rejoice.

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice. Philippians 4:4

Now we must give God glory for our freedom. Give God thanks that a piece of dust like you could experience the grace and mercy of the living God who loves you. He is worthy of our praise.

ISAIAH 35

One of the greatest songs of rejoicing and praise in the Bible is not even found in the Psalms. It is found in the book of Isaiah. Isaiah 35 is a powerful prophetic and positional chapter of Rejoicing by the Spirit of God through the prophet Isaiah. I consider this chapter to be the greatest psalm and song of worship, power and majesty in the entire Bible.

1The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel

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and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.

3Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.

4Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.

5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

6Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.

7And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.

9No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:

10And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isaiah 35:1-10

Rejoice! It is a powerful chapter of Rejoicing because of the power of our King and our God. Every time I read it, I just say, �“Yes, Lord, this is great!�” Give Him thanks that pieces of dust like us can be redeemed for His glory.

Our most reasonable sacrifice is to give ourselves back to Him as a living sacrifice for His glory.

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Fellowshipping with devils has to be number one on your hit list of things not to do. You must no longer participate with devils and call it a way of life

It is a way of death. It is not the way of holiness; it is a way of death. It is not the covenant of God for blessing, but the covenant of death for destruction.

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8. RESTORE

he eighth and final R to freedom is Restore others. After God has met you and set you

free, you need to turn your attention to others. The eighth R to freedom is the one we have added recently: Restore others. After we have received the blessings of God and understood the previous seven Rs to freedom as an example of a highway to freedom, the eighth R is the fruit of the gospel, you helping to Restore others.

Isaiah says,

18Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see.

19Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the LORD'S servant?

20Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.

21The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. Isaiah 42:18-21

�“Hear, you that are deaf, look you that are blind that you may see.�” Who is blind? My servant. Who is deaf? My messenger I sent.

My goal is that the Word of God might be re-established first in the house of God and then in the world, that it may be made honorable again. Then and only then can you Restore others. Verse 22 says, �“But this is a people robbed and spoiled.�”

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But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, restore.

Isaiah 42:22

This is talking about God�’s people. It is not addressed to Gentiles. It is addressed to covenant people, to the Old Testament church, and is for instruction in righteousness. These are the people of Isaiah 5:13. These are the people of Hosea 4:6. All of them are snared in holes. They are all hid in prison houses for a prey and no one delivereth; for a spoil and no one is saying Restore.

One of the things I learned in Psalm 51 is after David had Repented, there is no indication in Scripture he ever went back to these types of sins. David Recognized the problem, he took Responsibility for it, he Repented, he Renounced, and he Removed. He dealt with it and God met him. That is why he is called a man after God�’s own heart.

And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. Acts 13:22

In Psalm 51:12, he said �— Restore unto me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with your free spirit. Then in verse 13, David, after God had met him, turned his attention to others and said, �“Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee.�”

12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

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13Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

Psalm 51:12-13

Part of Restoring others is bringing the gospel to those you love, instructing those sinners in Zion who are being separated from the refreshing of the Lord and making disciples of them.

I, Henry, in my generation, say, �“Restore!�” I, Henry, in my generation, am my brother�’s keeper. I say, �“Be delivered, in the name of the Lord.�” I say, �“Be Restored in the name of the Lord.�” What I have received I must give out. You and I have been called to be a gift from God to creation forever. Be a gift. Be an epistle, not a Scud missile. Be a part of the solution, not part of the pollution of mankind.

These are the 8 Rs to Freedom. They are steps and tools you now have to use to find your way to freedom out of bondage. Recognize! Take Responsibility! Repent for participating with sin! Renounce it! Remove it! Resist it! Rejoice before the Lord! Restore others.

The 8 Rs to Freedom represent the full cycle of the gospel, from heaven to earth, giving the fruit of the gospel on this planet through you.

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CLOSING PRAYER

Father, I thank You for Your Word today. I thank You that I myself am a product of the gospel. I thank You, Lord, for these principles of the 8 Rs. I choose to live by them everyday. Thank You for giving me the opportunity to teach others what You have taught me, that people may recover themselves from the snare of the devil and help others do the same. In the name of Jesus, Father, I pray.

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