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Those are deceptions! If you’ve gotten caught up in a sexually sinful lifestyle, and you’ve been told it’s because you were born that way, you’ve been lied to! That’s not the way you were born. It’s a result of the devil preying on you in that area of your life. He preys on all of us in some area. He knows what sinful category we each fit into before we got saved, and through temptation he tries to convince us we’re still that way. But we’re not! We’ve been redeemed by the blood of Jesus. We’ve been delivered out of all that darkness and born into the kingdom of God. It doesn’t matter what our past is. When we received Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we were washed. We were sanctified and made righteous on the inside by the Spirit of our God. We have a new identity, for he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit with Him. Therefore, as 1 Corinthians 6:18 ("NKJV") says, “Flee sexual immorality.” Don’t be participating in it in any way. Don’t be watching it on television or the internet and joking about it. Don’t be giving place to it in your mind and thinking, Well, I’ll imagine this, but I’ll never do it. No, as a man “thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Proverbs 23:7). So don’t even entertain immoral thoughts in your mind. Instead, fill and renew your mind with God’s thoughts. Put His Word first place in your life and keep it before your eyes, in your ears and in the midst of your heart. Fix the eyes of your heart on Jesus, and as you fellowship with Him, beholding in the Word as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, you will be transformed into that same image, from glory to glory, by the Spirit of God (2 Corinthians 3:18). Ken discovered this in his early days as a believer when he was still struggling with a smoking habit. He hated the habit and after getting born again had tried to give it up, but despite his best efforts, his flesh had hung on to it. He’d get so fed up with smoking, that sometimes he’d throw an entire pack of cigarettes out the car window as he was driving down the road. A few minutes later he’d turn the car around and go back after them. Then one day he got a call from Hilton Sutton inviting him to come to Houston to three weeklong series of preaching meetings he was holding in his church. Ken went and got so caught up listening to the Word, morning and night, that for the entire three weeks he forgot to smoke. After the meetings were over, when Ken got into the car to drive home, he saw his pack of cigarettes stuck up over the visor where he’d left them. I don’t need those anymore, he thought…and he just threw them away. I’m telling you, if you’ll attend to it, God’s Word will change you. It’s more than just a book. “The word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit” (Hebrews 4:12, "NKJV"). It will separate you from even the most stubborn fleshly tendencies and strengthen your spirit so that you can show your flesh who’s the boss. It will reveal to you your true identity and the richness of your inheritance as a child of Almighty God. And it will strengthen your faith so when the devil tries to trick you out of that inheritance, you can send him packing. You can say, “Get out of here, devil. I rebuke you in the Name of Jesus. I learned the lesson Esau left me, and I’m not trading the benefits of my divine birthright for some temporal fleshly gratification. I’ve offered my body as a living sacrifice to Jesus and set my heart on living the high life of God!” V ******************************************* ******************************************* ********** ADVERTISEMENT ********** Watch "God Wants YOU Well!" Healing School with Gloria Copeland VICTORY™ Saturdays @ 9:30 a.m. ET | 6:30 a.m. PT Available Live or On Demand ----------------------------------------- GOVICTORY.com | ROKU® YouTube® | Apple TV ® 4th Generation GOVICTORY App | amazon fire TV Glorystar® ******************************************* 30 : BVOV

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