These
scriptures make it clear that though we
are emancipated from sins power we have
the power and responsibility to put it
away from our lives and to exercise
dominion over it.
There is no reason any more to give
ground to,
• unforgiveness, strife and
bitterness;
• unloving spirits and fear;
• lust, uncleanness;
• pride and presumption etc
We can receive forgiveness, repent and
remove the sins that ruin our lives. And
we can exercise authority over the
spirits behind these sins and so recover
our identity and our blessing. Sin is not
just moral failure, it is the illegal
dominion of the “unkingdom”.
This kingdom of sin seeks to derail us
from God’s way and rob us from His
blessing and life. When
we are in Christ we can eject it from our
lives. For too long we have had ‘a
form of godliness while denying its
power’. (2 Tim. 3:5) The
“Sleeping Giant” is about to
recover its blessing and birthright and
rise and lay hold of the freedom from sin
that is our birthright.
Sin & Health
We are accustomed to put obvious sins
from our lives but we often fail to
recognize that unforgiveness, bitterness,
fear, worry anxiety stress are sins also.
These too are parts of the law of sin. As
we recognize and remove these sins from
our lives our physical healing will
generally spring forth speedily.
Medical science recognizes these are the
roots of many of the great diseases that
plague us today. It is recognized that
many cases of diabetes have their origin
in anxiety about the future and many
cases of childhood asthma have their
origin in the fear of abandonment3
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Thousands
of believers have recovered their health
in these areas by removing the root
causes of the disease in the first place.
When we recover ourselves from the law of
sin, the disease caused by that sin is
usually removed and health is restored.
NEW WINESKINS
As we recover the awareness our
destiny and mission the “Sleeping
Giant” will again focus its
attention on the commission to bring good
news, hope and healing to the poor of the
earth. This is why Paul so often prays, “that
we may know the hope of our calling and
how very great is His power at work in
us” – all of us.
As every believer learns to rise in
victory over sin and becomes available to
the agenda of the kingdom an incredible
awakening will take place.
The leadership ministries of the church
are learning to equip every
believer for the work of evangelizing
healing, and bringing hope, mercy and
good news.
Many today look for a sudden intervention
from heaven. They look for revival to
come as some sort of a spiritual tidal
wave suddenly generated from God’s
throne. We believe that this analogy is
unhelpful. As we awake to our destiny and
calling and begin to do what we are
already empowered to do heaven will help
us to reap a tremendous harvest.
The awakening of the “Sleeping
Giant” will create new wineskins to
hold the new wine of revival. New
structures, formats and expressions will
spontaneously arise to express this great
awakening. The old wineskins (in place
since the reformation), which have
divided the body between laity and
clergy, will yield to the new formats of
ministry, which will emerge when all
God’s willing people are released to
their true ministry as disciples.
“Thy people shall be
willing in the day of thy power.”
(Ps 110:3)
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