House of Hope
Freedom Quest 
Jan 2014
Quest For Truth
Special thanks to:
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God!!
Ron Paulson and Deborah Spencley
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What needs do
humans have?
Basic Human Needs
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Bodily Needs: Air, food, water, space, light,
touch, exercise.
Emotional Needs: love, patience, kindness,
courage, affirmation, greatness, importance,
pleasure, honesty, passion
Social Needs: Free will, comradery, family,
community, unity, acceptance, contribution
Mind needs: intellect, challenges, likemindedness, exploration, fascination, excellence
Spiritual Needs
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Something/someone greater than self, a need to
worship
Guidance, standard
Identity
Purpose / Destiny
Growth, expansion, industry, work
Justice and Righteousness .
Time
Power
Order
Common Lies
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Shameful lies: I shouldn't have so many
needs. Something is wrong with me. Having
needs is a weakness. It's my fault if I have needs
Overbearing lies leading to constant
disappointments: All my needs have to be
fulfilled by one person and that person is you.
Or maybe it's you, or you? No one cares.
Independence lies: I don't have any needs. Or I
can take care of myself, I don't need anyone.
Savior mentally: I'm responsible for everyone
1. What needs do you find it hard to admit
you have or were taught that it's wrong to
have? Which lie has a hold on you? Who
taught you that?
2. Which needs do you feel the deepest
void in? Who or what do you tend to try to
fill it with? Who or what do you blame for
it not been filled?
(Write the answers down for next time)
God Meets Human Needs
Omnipotent
Omnipresent
Source of
ALL power
ALL authority
Source of ALL
wisdom and
knowledge.
Omniscient
God’s Power
In His Voice
Source of
goodness
He saw that it
Good. God
Defines
goodness
God’s order
and plan
Genesis
1
Source of
Identity, Truth
and definition.
Source of He is the
love, joy, rest,Creator
relationship
He is the
Source of Life
God the
source of
provision,
plans,
perfect
timing
Spiritual Needs
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Something/someone greater than self, a need to
worship
Guidance, standard
Identity
Purpose / Destiny
Growth, expansion, industry, work
Justice and Righteousness .
Our identity and destiny comes from
what God defined.
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We are the only creation God breathed His own
breath directly into and we were fashioned into
His image. (all other creation made after it’s
own kind.)
Mankind is God’s beloved bride.
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As a young man marries a maiden, so will
your sons marry you; as a bridegroom
rejoices over his bride, so will your God
rejoice over you.
Isaiah 62:5
and to present her to himself as a radiant
church, without stain or wrinkle or any other
blemish, but holy and blameless. Eph 5:27
What is man that You take thought of him, and
the son of man that You care for him? Yet You
have made him a little lower than God, and You
crown him with glory and majesty! You make him
to rule over the works of Your hands; You have
put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen,
and also the beasts of the field, the birds of the
heavens and the fish of the sea, whatever passes
through the paths of the seas. Psalms 8:4-8
 The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But
the earth He has given to the sons of men.
Psalms 115:16
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be
fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea
and the birds in the sky and over every living
creature that moves on the ground.”
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Subdue (Kabash): to subdue, force, keep under,
bring into bondage, make subservient, dominate,
tread down.
Rule over, have dominion over (Rada): to rule,
have dominion, dominate, tread down, scrape
out.
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Authority = jurisdiction; right to control,
command, or determine.
Power = ability to do or act; capability of
doing or accomplishing something, great or
marked ability to do or act; strength; might;
force.
Authority of the earth, God gave to man as
a gift. For the gifts and the calling of God
are irrevocable. Roman 11:29.
Power/wisdom to execute the authority
came through relationship with God.
Power - He gave us access to His Power
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through ORDER and RELATIONSHIP over
TIME.
Naming of the animals. Tending the garden.
God’s design for Tripartite Humans
•May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and
through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Thes 5:23
•For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any
double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit,
joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the
heart. Heb 4:12
Tripartite Human
Pneuma, Ruach
Righter-Wronger,
Communer, Knower
Human
Spirit
Psyche
Mind (Thinker)
Emotion (Feeler)
Will (Willer)
Human
Soul
Soma
Seer
Hearer
Taster
Toucher
Smeller
Human
Body
GOD
Human
Spirit
Inward out
movement
Human
Soul
Human
Body
Human spirit communes with God and gets download, mind and
emotion analyze it. Will decides on a response and body expresses that
response.
Eat of the fruit of Tree of Life.
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Eating: mechanically breaking food into piece,
break it into building blocks, absorbed into the
body and gives energy to the body or becomes
building blocks into needed structures.
We break down God’s words, ruminate over it,
and it become life energy and foundations of
life.
Like eating, we savor and taste the good ness of
God.
Truth
Human Body
Human Will Agrees
God is the source of Life
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Tree of Life has seeds in it and has capability for
reproducing.
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And God said, “ I give you every seed-bearing
plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree
that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for
food.” Gen 1:29.
And the Lord God planted a garden toward the
east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom
He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord
God caused to grow every tree that is pleasing to
the sight and good for food; the tree of life also in
the midst of the garden, and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil. Gen 2:8-9
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Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the
LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say,
‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said
to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but
God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the
middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will
die.’” “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the
woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will
be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food
and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she
took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was
with her, and he ate it. Gen 3:1-6
Eve
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Sin did not just happen to her. She actively
chose to entertain the temptation/doubt and
actively chose to agree with the serpent's
lies. She had a choice to go and verify with God.
Fed her mind needs-hunger for
knowledge. Override God's commandment with
the rationales.
Fed Emotional/bodily needs-pleasing to the eye
and good for food.
Body
evidence
How I feel
past
experiences
What I
know
Will
chooses
Not necessarily in
that order but the
will chooses.
Adam
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Sin did not just happen to Adam. He actively
chose to be passive and did not subdue the
serpent and his lies.
Inactivity and passivity (choosing not to engage
the serpent) did not excuse him from sin and did
not excuse him from the consequences of it.
System of Knowledge of Good and Evil
Spirit is shaped
Evidence via bodily
by what the will
senses (eye, touch,
decides
hearing, etc)
Serpent
Human
Body
Evidence is
processed by Mind
& Emo, and will
chooses
Human
Soul
Human
Spirit
Outward in
movement
Fear
Anger
Passivity
Unforgiveness
Judgments
Criticism
Guilt
Pride
Death
Shame
Doubt, lies and
accusations
Lust
Idolatry
Human Will
Mind
Emotions
Knowledge based on
Rational Logic
feelings
Evidence based on
senses of the body
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Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil is good
for food. Every fruit that has seed in it is good
for food. Therefore Fruit of Knowledge of
Good and Evil has seeds in it.
Seeds reproduces.
Anxiety, OCD,
Control
Passivity
Panic Attacks
Unforgiveness
Eating Disorders Judgments
Pride Sicknesses
Criticism
Addictions
Pornography Suicide
Manipulation
Idolatry
Death
Perversions
Occults
Doubt, Lies and
Human
Will
accusations
Inner Vows and defense mechanisms
Mind
Pride
Emotions
Evidence
Fear
Systemic disease of knowledge
of good and evil
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God as the source and definition of spirit life is
replaced by Human body, emotion and mind as
well as commentaries from the serpent .
Will/spirit is subject to information gathered,
processed by the body, emotion and mind
Human will is enslaved by the serpent. You are
subject to the one you submit to and agreed
with. Adam and Eve both agreed with the
serpent's accusations and lies.
From the information and evidence
that is gathered -- we caught
The disease of
JUDGING
Judging
After
Before
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Identity is defined by God.
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Identity is defined by
Knowledge of Good and
Evil
Shame,
Fear of
Rejection,
Worthless
Pride,
Worthy
Human Spirit
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Before: Destiny
Defined by God
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After: Destiny is
defined by natural
evidence
Hopeless
Directionless
No future
Pride
Independence
Human Soul
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Knowledge and
wisdom provided by
God
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Mind is defined by
knowledge
Stupid
Wise
Systemic disease of knowledge
of good and evil
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We judge ourselves by this system of good and
evil.
We judge each other
We judge and define God rather than letting
Him define all things.
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There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one
who is able to save and destroy. But you—who
are you to judge your neighbor? James 4:12.
Consequence of Partaking the Fruit
After
Before
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Truth is defined by God.
Justice is defined by God.
God Defines Himself
God is the Sovereign Ruler
to whom I submit my will.
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Truth is defined by Me,
Myself and I. There is no
universal truth.
What's right for you doesn't
mean it's right for me.
Humans evidence defines who
God is.
God should do as I will.
Spirit of Doubt
God as the
source is
usurped by
UNHOLY
TRINITY
Lies and
Accusations of
Satan
Fruit of
Knowledge of
Good and Evil
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9And the great dragon was thrown down, the
serpent of old who is called the devil and Satan,
who deceives the whole world; he was thrown
down to the earth, and his angels were thrown
down with him. 10Then I heard a loud voice in
heaven, saying, "Now the salvation, and the
power, and the kingdom of our God and the
authority of His Christ have come, for the
accuser of our brethen has been thrown down,
he who accuses them before our God day and
night. ---- Rev 12:9-10
Entrance of Doubt
Now faith is the substance (assurance, confidence) of things
hoped for, the evidence (proof, conviction) of things not
seen…Through faith we understand that the worlds were
framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were
not made of things which do appear (things not yet visible).
Heb 11:1, 3
Before
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We believe what we cannot see
and that belief/Faith becomes the
evidence in the natural that is to
come but not yet seen .
After
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We believe only what we
have evidence for. What
we have evidence for we
believe.
Body
evidence
How I feel
What I
know
Lies
Will
chooses
Doubt
past
experiences
Accusations
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Web entangles and reproduces. (Sin that so easily
entangles us. Heb 12:1)
SKIT Subject X before Christ
Jesus Restores
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Relationship with God and the ability to draw
from the source of life.
Ability to eat of the Tree of Life. Restores the
Spirit, Soul, Body alignment.
Restore the watering source (word of God, truth
as defined by God).
The will of humans to be free to choose.
Will gets to choose,
what source it draws
from, how it draws
the nutrients and
what waters the tree.
Skit con't
Subject X after Christ
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What did Subject X leave out?
Do you identify with Subject
X? How so? Which aspect do
you tend to leave out?
What does restoring the
alignment of spirit, soul and body
look like? What does eating from
the Tree of Life look like?
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Subject X diligently followed God, read God's
words, served at church, desired a relationship
with God.
What did Subject X not do or not know
about? ---- Address the battle between human
flesh and human spirit/will
We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual,
sold as a slave to sin. I do not understand what I do. For
what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.
16 And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the
law is good. 17 As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it,
but it is sin living in me. 18 For I know that good itself
does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I
have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it
out. For I do not do the good I want to do, but the evil I
do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do
what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but
it is sin living in me that does it.
So I find this law at work: Although I want to do good,
evil is right there with me. 22 For in my inner being I
delight in God’s law; 23 but I see another law at work in
me, waging war against the law of my mind (spirit) and
making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within
me. 24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me
from this body that is subject to death? 25 Thanks be to
God, who delivers me through Jesus Christ our Lord!
System of Stars and Dots
Story Time!
What did Punchinello do?
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Activated his will to choose something different
Went into the presence of God and letting
interaction with God and relationship redefine
who he is
Let God define who He is
Allow himself to feel and believe and in doing
so renounce the falsehood.
Consequence of the eating the Fruit
Before
After
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Authority of earth given
to mankind. Do it by
activating the will
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Alignment = execution
of authority with power
and identity. God to
spirit to soul to body.
Submission to God’s
boundaries = protection.
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Authority given by man
to the serpent. (God
never took it back from
man.)
Misalignment = Mind,
emotions and body
dictating will, behavior
and identity.
Disobedience = entry
points of attack in the
mind, emotions and
body.
Antidote: Demolish stronghold and
arguments via confession. The primary Greek
word for “confess” is homologea which
basically means “to say the same thing” and
then “agree, admit, acknowledge.”
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For though we live in the world, we do not wage
war as the world does. The weapons we fight with
are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary,
they have divine power to demolish
strongholds. We demolish arguments and every
pretension that sets itself up against the
knowledge of God, and we take captive every
thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Cor 10:3-5
Activate the will to choose
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Been present with God
Letting God define Himself
 Accepting truths without 'evidence' seen in
the natural
 Letting God be the source of life/releasing
others of a burden they cannot fulfill.
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Letting God be the source of life for others
around you.
Activate the will to choose
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Renouncing the System of Knowledge of Good
and Evil--taming the soul
Renouncing the judgments resulting
 Renouncing alliance w/ the unholy trinity.
 Getting rid of the demons and the
strongholds/roots.
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Put on the Belt of Truth.
Armor of God
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Belt of Truth: Covers reproductive system and keeps
the rest of the clothes in place, where you can hang
your weapons.
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The attack: lies, accusations,
doubt(temptation to pass
judgment on someone),
doubts. .
The defense: Choose God’s
truth about the person,
situation and promises over
that the conclusions drawn
from natural evidence and
knowledge of good and evil
Prayer of Alignment with God
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Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. I praise you for
defeating the enemies lies, accusations and
doubts. I exalt you for coming to earth to gain
freedom for human will and reestablishing
relationship with you. Thank you that you are
the source of life and fulfiller of all human
needs. I confess that I tried to fill my needs by
myself, with things or people instead of looking
to you first. I confess that I had replaced You
with the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good
and Evil. I let my life and identity be defined by
the evidence I gather through my eyes, ears and
body. I let myself be defined by my emotions,
knowledge and human reasons. I'd imprison or
deactivated my will by agreeing with the devil's lies
about who You are, who I am and who others are.
Forgive me for judging You, others and myself. As
an act of my will, I now renounce my alliance with
the unholy trinity of doubt, deception and Fruit
of knowledge of Good and Evil. We say to the
associated demonic spirits that the LORD rebuke
you, the LORD rebuke you, the LORD rebuke
you. We say to the demonic stronghold the LORD
demolishes you, be broken and loosen your hold. I
forgive myself for trying to be God for myself and
for others. The LORD rebuke the heaviness and
weight of self-idolatry that I carried. I forgive myself
for self-condemnation that resulted from the fruit of
Knowledge. I ask you to forgive me for
the condemnation of other and you. I now release
the weight of it. I bind myself to your truth. I align
my spirit, my mind, my emotions and my body with
You. Help me to know You and hear You.
Healing prayers
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Acknowledging God/Adoration--Redeclare
Confessing/Repenting
Renouncing
Rebuking
Refilling
Discerning God’s voice
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Character of God, does it match what scripture
says about God’s character? Just, loving, patient,
kind, delight. Is His power magnified or
diminished?
Tone of speech. Tone of love/endearment vs.
exasperation? edifying, inspiring? Love of a
Father and love of a bridegroom.
Contents. Is it consistent with scripture? Or with
kingdom purposes? Redemption? Identity
building? Stengthing? Comforting? Revealing
God’s heart?
God’s discipline vs Satan’s condemnation.
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Conviction of wrong
doing.
Targets behavior. (you
made a mistake.)
Specific behavior with
a road to correct and
redeem.
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Brings guilt and
shame.
Targets identity. (you
are a mistake.)
Vague and does not
give us a knowing of
what and how to
change. (brings up all past
mistakes, too many things to
correct. Overwhelms.)
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Accompanied by
grace
(empowerment to
change what we
cannot change on
our own.)
God reminds us
that He is in it with
us.
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Redemption is
unobtainable.
Hopelessness. (You
will never be able to
change.)
You are alone, no one
cares. God hates you
and is deeply
disappointed. Don’t
go to Him until you
fix it.
Lordship Prayer
Lord Jesus, I confess that I have sinned and wanted my
own way. I acknowledge that You created me and that I
can do nothing without You. I thank You for dying on
the cross for me and I confess You as my Saviour. I
choose to forgive Adam and Eve for overturning your
created order and giving the authority you gave them to
the serpent. I forgive my ancestors for continuing that
rebellion. Forgive me for partaking of the Fruit of
Knowledge of Good and Evil. Forgive me of using that
knowledge to judge others, myself and even You.
Forgive my pride and my reliance on knowledge,
what I observe through my sense, what I understand in
my thought and emotions and for letting it override
your truth. Forgive me for undermining your Lordship.
I want to repent and turn from that and come into
agreement with you in every area of my life: I want you
to be the Lord of my spirit and my relationship with
You. Lord of my spiritual awareness and worship. Lord
of my mind, my attitudes, my beliefs, my imagination,
my understanding, my memories, my dreams, all my
thoughts and my desires. Lord of my emotions, my
expression of my feelings and all my reactions. Lord of
my will and all my decisions. Lord of habits, my coping
mechanisms and my behavior cycles. Lord of my body,
my physical health, my exercise, my diet, my rest, my
physical health,
my exercise, my diet, my rest, my health care, my
appearance and all my behavior. Lord of my eyes and
what I look upon and for how long and when. Lord of
my ears and everything I listen to and for how long and
when Lord of my mouth and what I speak (fewer
questions, fewer comments, more appreciative words;
“quick to listen, slow to speak” James 1:19; “take
control of what I say, O Lord, and guard my lips”
Psalm 141: 3). Lord of my hands and all that I do.
Lord of my feet and everywhere I go. Lord of my
sexuality and its expression. Lord of my time, my
work, my ministry, my prayers, my pleasure, my home,
my family, my possessions, my perceived needs, my
safety, my finances, my plans, my ambitions, my future
and all my relationships. Thank you Jesus, that your
blood was shed that I might be set free. That you rose
again and sent Holy Spirit that I might learn to
walk in joy and peace and victory over sin and
Satan. Please grant me daily intimate fellowship
with You. I desire to know and clearly hear Your
voice and walk in the path You have for me. In
Jesus Name I pray, Amen
New Creation
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We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don't you
know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were
baptized into his death? We were therefore buried with him
through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was
raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may
live a new life.
Romans 6:24
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the
new has come! All this is from God...
2Cor 5:17
New Heart
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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I
will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a
heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move
you to follow my decrees and be
careful to keep my laws. Ezekiel 36:26-7
I will give them an undivided heart and will put a new
spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of
stone and give them a heart of flesh
Ezekiel 11:19-20
New Heart
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The holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he
says: This is the covenant I will make with them after
that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in their
hearts, and I will write them on their minds. Heb
10:15-6.
God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy
Spirit, whom He has
given us. Romans 5;5
New Mind
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Do not conform any longer to the pattern of
this world, but be transformed by the renewing
of your mind. Then you will be able to test and
approve what God's will is -- his good, pleasing
and perfect will Romans 12:2
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly
things. Colossians 3:2
Prepare your minds for action. 1Peter 1:13
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Those who live according to the sinful nature have their
minds set on what that nature desires; but those who
live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set
on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is
death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and
peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not
submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Romans 8:5-7.
Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that
you can pray.
1Peter 4:7.
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Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of
evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you
have done everything, to stand. 14 Stand firm then, with the belt
of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of
righteousness in place, 15 and with your feet fitted with the
readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. 16 In addition to
all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish
all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17 Take the helmet of
salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers
and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on
praying for all the Lord’s people.
Eph 6:13-18