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RUSSELL SANDERS

3-19-2024

GREATER IS HE…IN US

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I grew up in a small Pentecostal church where almost every evening service included a time for testimonies. It was normal that nearly every person in that group of 15-25 would stand up and give a testimony, albeit a short one.

How short? For example, “Praise God, I am saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost!” That was a statement of victory.

But I have also heard, “The devil has been after me all week, praise God!” That usually gave an impression of defeat, or at least of pessimism. That is, unless they added something like, “but I have overcome him.” This would then line up with the scripture in 1 John 4:46 which says, [NKJV] “…greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.”

We have power [authority] over the devil and his dark demonic forces because of the life if Christ within us. We are in Him, and He has all power in heaven and earth given to him by the Father. Therefore, that same power dwells in us through him.

Satan’s greatest fear is most likely that a believer realizes that they have that power and then actually uses it. His warning to his demons at the morning hour of rising could very well be something like this: “O no, guys! Watch out! She is waking up!”

Unfortunately, most believers wake up thinking of their agenda of daily activity instead of advancing onto Satan’s ground.

Let us take our offensive spiritual warfare more seriously. Then we will have a real testimony.

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HELEN SANDERS

3-19-2024

THE REAL YOU

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So often we are judged by our outward appearance. How tall, how short, how thin, how fat, how old, how young, how rich, how poor. All of those things are temporary. They are the outer man, but not the inner man.

In 1 Thessalonians 5:23 it says, “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly (all of you); and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

The real you is the inner you. It is your spirit man. Your spirit is re-born or born again through salvation. The Holy Spirit is then in your spirit. Again, that is the real you.

We must renew our minds to the fact that we are a new creation in Christ. We are renewed inside, and then the Holy Spirit, through the word of God renews our minds and our bodies. We must not judge ourselves by our outer appearances. The change is internal.

See yourself as the Father sees you. He sees you IN CHRIST. Because of that position, he sees us totally complete without any flaws or sin. Yes, we work out daily changes in our mind, will, and emotions by subjecting them to our spirit. But it does not happen overnight. We work on it. 

Philippians 1:6 tells us, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you (your salvation) will perform (continue) it until the day of Jesus Christ. (Jesus Return.)” That promise alone gives us hope! 

God is working things out from the inside my friends. He sees the “real you.”