Oh Well, If This Is As Bad As It Gets

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 Satan must be dancing in the leaves because the old man's still kicking with uncleanness, passion, evil desire and idolatry.  What's going on here?  The old man's supposed to be dead.  He was supposed to die with Christ, remember?  And yet he keeps showing up outside the door, like a demon who still possesses me!  Satan must be smiling in delight! He pisses me off!  And i know he makes my Heavenly Father angry.  

i ask you heavenly Father, to forgive me, for i am in agreement with You that his sin is deadly and mocks the eternal life You've promised me.  Please strengthen the Holy Spirit in me to keep my mind and members focused on heaven and not on this earthy plane which will soon pass away.  In Jesus' name i pray.  Amen

And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. --[John 10:28]


i know that not even Satan can snatch me out of His hand, so Satan, you can dance all you want in the leaves until it's time for you to swim in the lake of fire.  AlmightyGod is still on His throne and i shall see Him as He is;

Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. --[1 John 3:2]

i wish to move out of this present dwelling and become a citizen in heaven, but first, i want to meet up with my Savior who comes from heaven, who is giving me a purpose, a course on which to follow until He's ready to take me home- [Philippians 3:20] He didn't promise me eternal life to hold some fantasy in my mind.  He didn't die on the cross for me to perform phony rituals at the Freedom Worship Center down the street who shows no freedom at all...only legalism and ritualism.  People don't seem to take the "wrath of God" too seriously these days.  They think they're experiencing a rhetorical "wrath of God" now and are casually going about their lives thinking, "oh well if this is as bad as it gets..."

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