Philippians 1:9 And this I pray, THAT your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; 10 THAT ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till (with a view toward being ready for) the Day of Christ. 11 Being filled with the fruits of righteousness,
which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God.
| Day 13—Seducing spirits stay on the watch for any person holding on to the works of the flesh. |
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With a legal right to do so, spirits sent from the anti-Christ will lay hold on any works of the flesh in us. They will use them to shake even believers who have failed to rid themselves of unclean practices. Many people call themselves Christians who continue with trouble in their lives all because of the seducing spirits that follow after them because of their carnal life-style. That’s the reason we have laid out the Scripture from Galatians 5:19-21 in this month’s accompanying article.
Look again, carefully, at verse 21. It says, …they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. This statement comes after Paul has named very clearly the works of the flesh. The words which do come from the Greek pras’sontes. This is a Present Active Participle form of a Verb that means, “to make a practice of.” Its reference is to those who are making it their practice to do those things Paul has just mentioned this Galatians passage. Because we have seen some people making it their practice to carry on with some very bad things in their lives, it is sometimes difficult to imagine some persons in God’s Kingdom.
But instead of standing away from them, let’s start believing for them, and holding them before the Lord in prayer. Those who have sinned the most sometimes make the most fervent servants of the Lord, once they are free from those works of the flesh. Some, in whose lives sin is deeply entrenched, will need deliverance.
DEAR FATHER, I have to admit it’s hard for me to believe some of the people I’m going to name before Your Throne today can ever be in Your Kingdom But, here I go. Just before You, with no one else hearing, I call their names. Let the convicting work of Your Spirit come upon them. Convince them of sin, of judgment, and of the righteousness that can be theirs in Christ Jesus.
The Heart Cry of Many a Person Who Longs to Be Free from the Bondage of some Sin—Psalm 142:1-7
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