The Most Important Message You Will Ever Read
The second most important step for a new born Christian is to receive
the anointing of The Holy Spirit. This gives us the power to live a more abundant
and fulfilled life, while living here on earth, in our
natural bodies. This anointing gives us a propensity to
allow The Holy Spirit to lead us into "good
works" as opposed to vain and evil works. (Eph. 2:110, 2Ti. 3:17) In the simplest terms
this second step is nothing more than yielding to The Holy
Spirit (Who already resides in our newborn spirit and
heart), giving him access to our mind (our thought
life). It is our mind which controls all our actions.
(Luke 11:13, Act. 1:5,6, 2:4,31,38, 8:15,17, 10:44-46,
19:2,6) With this anointing, The Holy Spirit also gives
us supernatural power to align our circumstances, to the will of God,
bringing us more and more peace, which surpasses the
ability of our natural mind to understand.
(Phl. 4:7). At the same time, He also starts the
sanctification process of our soul, as we give Him permission to
conform more and more of our thinking to God's way of
thinking. (Rom. 8:29, 12:2) Jesus, himself,
received this anointing of The Holy Spirit after He was
baptized by John in the Jordon River. (Mat 3:16, Mar
1:10, Luke 3:22, John 1:32) Simply put, we need this anointing of The Holy Spirit
to be able to win the battles that this fallen world is
going to wage against us. Can we still receive
eternal life without receiving this anointing? Yes.
However, once we seek and then receive His
anointed presence, He communes with us in our thought
life (mind), to a much greater degree, making
available His counsel on every situation which we face in
life. He also reveals the truth of God's word in a much
deeper way, than we could ever hope to understand by
using just our own intellect. I have
tried living my life both ways, and the way that I am
describing here is far better.
This truth is simple,
profound, and missed by many Christians, to their
detriment. These two steps, for obtaining the "best life" possible, are the same for everyone. The first step of confessing Him as Lord, assures us of an eternal relationship with God, as our Father. The second step allows The Holy Spirit to start a counseling and cleansing work in our mind, so we can be guided in the practical application of God's truths as they apply to our everyday life. There is a third step which must be applied, after taking these first two steps. That step has to do with following Jesus's example as he went into the wilderness, fasted and took authority over the Devil. I call this deliverance and every Christian needs some type of deliverance. Frankly, I know very few Christians, who have humbled themselves enough to actively seek this deliverance process to the fullest extent possible, leaving strongholds of the mind to plague them throughout their entire lives, to some degree.
Finally, I would never promote a life shaped by religion (Act. 26:5) or
worldly "do's and don'ts" (Phl 3:4-10), but rather one
shaped by an ever-deepening relationship with the God of
everything, through the anointing and guidance of The
Holy Spirit. The answers to life's problems is never
"one size fits all" but the way to obtain those answers
is. People who choose to do, what I have briefly
described to do here, in these two steps, will always
obtain the correct answers, and those who don't, won't.
It’s just that simple. As these steps are put into play,
the landscape around a person's life will increasingly
become an environment of more and more light and hope.
Obstacles, which once overwhelmed us, will become much
easier to navigate. (Philippians
4:13
I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.) Many past challenges disappear altogether. Yes, thoughts
lead to actions (Pro. 16:25) (Pro. 19:21). Godly
thoughts infused into a believer's mind by the anointing
of The Holy Spirit produce Godly actions. All other thoughts
produce actions, which may seem to work well at first, but eventually
unravel, usually revealing their
destructive consequences, when we are at our weakest. The bottom line is this. Human beings, within
themselves, do not possess the ability to tell the
difference between the right or wrong course in life,
either individually or corporately. To navigate this
life successfully, we need God in our
spirit and His Holy Spirit in our mind. God
inspired
thoughts not only produce the best solutions, but they
produce the most satisfying solutions. As we continue in
the counsel of The Holy Spirit, these eternal solutions
produce enlightened consequences, which outlive our
natural lives. They
build a legacy, which provides enlightenment and hope for those who
follow after us.
Without taking these three steps, however, that
enlightened legacy will be diminished accordingly. Here is the
truth. Many people are not going to do what I have
described needs to be done here. (Mat. 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the
gate, and broad is the
way, that leads to destruction, and many there be which
go in thereat:) I hope some who read this will, because what I have briefly
written about here are the
most imperative truths, to be acted upon, that will ever
be read on the internet, or anywhere else, for that
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