As we reach the New Year we leave the year of intercession. Six is the number of intercession and dominion, of standing in the gap. This year I have failed in so many ways, I have been too chicken or even failed to care enough to stand in the gap. At the same time I reflect and see how much more I did participate in evangelism, how much more meaningful and heart felt time I spent with God.
My beliefs in purity, cleanliness and the understanding of our roles in God’s court has changed dramatically. I know deal with how to applies these beliefs to my current behavior, dress, and lifestyle. Worry has taken me a lot further then I wanted to go this year – as well as sin – but today, right now, I’m pure. Five minutes from now I may sin, it might be a word misplaced, a slip of the tongue, but perhaps I may not.
I want to pledge to awake in the morning to God’s word, to claim my dominion and cast out satan. I want to begin healing the scars of my past, mental and physical. I have been a Christian for nearly three years now and most of it, I admit this without pride and with a great deal of regret, has been spent in sin. I am the prime example of a very scary and chilly verse in the book of Luke 11.
Return of an Unclean Spirit
24 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and finding none it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ 25 And when it comes, it finds the house swept and put in order. 26 Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first.”
Tonight I have told satan something pivotal to the upcoming year of my life: my life is God’s, it is mine, and I will have no more of you and your’s pathetic power.
Shalom,
Jennie
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