In The Beginning
The Truth About Job
Testimony
A Tree of Life
Spirit of Man
Demons
How the Universe Works
Beware of False Beliefs
The Fellowship
Fear Not
Tri Fold Nature of Man
The Trinity
God and Time
God and Evil
Rich Man in Hell
The Devil in the Details
Why God Allows Evil
Two Realities
A Prophecy to the U.S
The Word of God
Healing
What is Salvation
The Law of Faith
Exert From Legacy
Vietnam Experiences
The Most Important Message You Will Ever Read

 Step 2 (Continued from)

      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 also gives us the ability to allow The Holy Spirit to lead us into our God ordained destiny while living here in this world. (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) in a much more personal way. 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. As we pursue these aligning actions in everyday life, we gain 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 possess the power necessary 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 in our minds, He communes with us in our thought life (mind), to a much greater degree. We can hear His counsel much more clearly on every situation which we face in life. He shows us the correct actions to take in every situation in life, which would be impossible for us on our own to navigate successfully. We are also enabled by Him to understand the truths buried in God's word in a much deeper way, than with just our own reasoning. I have tried, as a believer, to live my life both ways, and the way that I am describing here is far better. This truth is simple, profound, and missed by many believers, 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 in acquiring the path to our God given destiny. It is a step which can only be taken successfully after we take the first two steps. This step has to do with following Jesus's example. After being anointed with the Holy Spirit, he went into the wilderness, fasted, and took authority over the Devil. I call this third step, deliverance of the soul. Every believer needs some type of deliverance, which is simply breaking those soul ties which have been established in our soul by sin and the devil. Children are particularly vulnerable to sinful soul ties, knit together by their parents all through childhood and beyond. Many times this bondage takes the form of false religious beliefs, passed on by religious parents, as it was passed on through the Jewish religious crowd during Christ's time on earth.  Religious bondage is particularly pervasive and impossible to break with anything other than the truth of God's word. Frankly, I know very few believers, who have humbled themselves enough to actively seek the deliverance required to follow the course of their God given destiny here on earth. Bondage of the mind in believers is the main reason that we, the Church of Jesus Christ, are having such little affect on the world around us. That bondage plagues more believers today than ever before.

     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 are 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 three 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 action, 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 only solutions to any problem. Everything else is just a band aid at best. As we continue in the counsel of The Holy Spirit, the solutions stemming from that relationship produce more and more enlightened results. Those results then begin to build an everlasting 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 matter.