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right-standing with God through the sacrifi ce of Jesus at Calvary. When you awake to that righteousness, whatever sin may be trying to hang onto you will have to let go. As long as satan can convince you that you don't have any right to the things of God, he can keep you under his thumb and sin will control your life. But when you awake to righteousness, you'll realize that the devil is a defeated foe. And the struggle will be over, for "greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). You can dominate sin and the devil no matter what the circumstances. If there is a situation which is dominating you rather than you dominating it, go to The WORD of God. Spend some time in prayer and meditate in The WORD. The LORD will lead you through The WORD and through His still, small voice just as He promised in John 10:27 when He said, "My sheep hear my voice." You'll know how to take control over the problem by the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said that when the Spirit of Truth came, He would take the things of God and reveal them to us. You can reign in every area of life if you will diligently do these three things: •Find the will of God in your situation by prayer and meditation in The WORD. •Once you have found the will of God, confer no longer with fl esh and blood. •Get your job done at all costs. Don't allow anything or anyone to stand in the way of God's will. Before you can take these three steps, however, you must fi rst reclaim your royal heritage...never again to surrender it to the enemy. You must be ready to stand stubbornly on the rights and privileges you've been given as a child of the King. Not for just an hour or a day, but for a lifetime. Are you ready to do that? Great! Then you're about to discover what it means to be more than a conqueror. And you might as well throw away the white fl ag in your hip pocket...you won't be needing it anymore. 2 4 : B V O V you to stand in faith and assert those rights and privileges. He's waiting on you to take His WORD and authority and show satan who's boss! Dig In Your Heels We've all seen natural earthly examples of this kind of situation. Take the Black man's struggle for freedom here in the United States, for instance. The Emancipation Proclamation was made back at the close of the Civil War. It stated absolutely that there was freedom, in this country, for all people. But it was 100 years before Black men and women as a group really began to dig in their heels and say, "You're not going to oppress me anymore!" When they did, the law of freedom that had been put on the books so many years before was fi nally put to the test. And, thank God, it worked. When somebody stood on it, it worked! Legally, Black men and women had been free for 100 years! But until the day that, as a whole, they put demands on the law that said they were free, they were consistently robbed of that freedom. The same is true in the world of the spirit. Until you dig in your heels and demand your spiritual rights in Jesus' Name, the devil is going to walk all over you. This was one of the fi rst things I had to learn after I was born again. The devil told me that I didn't have any right to be healed. He said I didn't have any right to receive the infi lling of the Holy Spirit. He insisted that I didn't have the right to minister to the needs of other people! And if I happened to feel a little sinful at the time, I would agree with him. Then I saw in The WORD that I had a right to these things simply because Jesus gave me the right. I realized that whether I felt righteous or not, I was righteous because God had made me righteous! That's when I began getting results, not only in my personal life, but in my ministry. Your victory will come through the same revelation. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15:34, "Awake to righteousness, and sin not." To awake to righteousness means to become aware that you have been made the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ. If you've turned your back on a sinful life and have given yourself to Jesus Christ, then you've been placed in Get Get Get your digital your digital your digital your digital your digital your digital magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine magazine.kcm.org

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