Satan, Take A Hike Elsewhere

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 Happy are they who, knowing that grace, can live in the world without being of it, by following Jesus Christ, are so assured of their heavenly citizenship that they are truly free to live their lives in this world...living my life which springs from grace.  i believe all of us have a vision of heaven in our hearts. So we know what we are saying when we say we are casting out Satan with Satan, focusing on blessings and healings, dwelling on answers and not the problems.  Allowing Satan to tie the rope around his own neck.  God is helping me do this every day now.  My concupiscence is beginning to dwindle.  Satan, take a hike elsewhere.  Only the grace of God can cause people to overcome sin.  i know i couldn't do it on my own.

i see a lot of swords and daggers drawn against Andy Stanley and when i see something like that toward me or any one individual, then i believe that individual is doing something right.  Using religion or employing "lip service" about Christianity--without living Christianity--and going after somebody like him stems from one thing: Somebody or something is pulling strings and going after him like they went after my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!  For we dare not class ourselves or compare ourselves with those who commend themselves.  But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise. - [2 Corinthians 10:12]

Who wants to be the best sinner who ever went to hell?  "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." - [Galatians 2:20]  i need to come to the end of myself before i can get into God.

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