The Bondage Breaker Insights Continues…

I’m moving on to the chapter two of the Bondage Breaker by Neil Anderson entitled Finding Your Way to the World. This chapter talks about the presernce of spiritual dark forces existing on this earth. I am not forcing anyone to belive nor I am hir to convince you of their reality. Whether you accept it or not, these dark spiritual forces keep on lurking on our world.

We are alive in flesh and we have spirits. So as these dark creatures. They have spirits, they don’t have flesh but they have the power to hurt us without knowing it. If we try to live on the extreme, we are in deep trouble. One pole is living on a two tier world and living in the excluded middle. Both of them are trying to exclude or ignore the presence of these spirits on our material world. The opposite extreme is trying to be spiritual without the presence of God. This includes the New Age Movement, mysticism, chants, sorcerers, parapsychology, and numerous cults. If we try to live spiritual without God, this is the easiest path to ignore His presence, and worse, you are leading to worship Satan. But you need not be afraid for there are ways to combat them and win the battle by God’s will.

The author identifies 6 ways:

1.) denying yourself: denying oneself is denying self-rule..this means that you try giving up the desire to be God. We can be God-like but we can never be god no matter how hard we try…it entail a complete dependence of God so you may function according to how God designed you to be..this is one of vitals of spiritual

2.) pick up your cross daily: it doesn’t mean that you have to suffer. It is carrying the Christ’s cross, not your own. It means that we acknowledge that we belong to God. Carrying the Christ’s cross is affirming that our identity is based from our relationship with God.

“I have been crucified with Christ; and 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 and gave Himself up for me” (Galatians 2:20)

3.) Follow Christ: this is to follow Christ in everything that we do..by His will and by asking His guidance, we can follow him little by little although this journey is not easy.

4.) Sacrifice the lower life to gain the higher life: our modern world focus on the material things. We nid to give up the desire to get all of them. Seek things that God wants you to have. the things that you will need fro eternal life

5.) Sacrifice the pleasure of things to gain the pleasures of life: use things and zero in on caring pipol, not care with your possessions and use pipol for your own greedy interest. Can you trade you title, power, position, wealth and fame in exchange of enduring love, patience, health, peace, happiness and so on?

6.) Sacrifice the temporal to gain the eternal: this is giving up the tings that are tangible, the things that are temporary for they are so easy to vanish.. focus cultivating enduring and long lasting values that will guarantee us an eternal life..

These ways many not be easy. There is no even shortcut. Through this challenging journey, we are inviting the courage, perseverance and commitment to stand amidst all consequences that might threaten us not to pursue them. You can start this little by little and by believing on yourself.