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3. PASSING YOUR MATURITY TESTS

You will go through some maturity tests in growing towards a new level of your ministry. These are not real hindrances, but doors into greater glory of your life. Jesus has prepared you the way to overcome them. There are spiritual growth pains and areas of deep change, through which Jesus will take you as soon as you surrender yourself to Him and receive truths of the Kingdom. You are already commanded to win all your battles in your narrow gate!

Thirst after the victory so much that you are ready to work hard, to invest and to fight boldly by the sword of God’s Word and Spirit. You can make it because your new creation has this relentless will against darkness! Jesus will make you a great soldier in His army. You are prepared for great victories. That is the mind of the new creation in you.

OVERCOMING UNBELIEF

Unbelief is trusting on lies of darkness. To trust on the Truth will lead you to the victory. Every man can believe in his mind only that which has been taught to his mind. Every man can believe in His sprit all that Jesus is teaching and speaking into His spirit. False teaching in your mind in your problem. Let the thrust of the Kingdom of God overtake your thinking. Let the Fire of the Holy Spirit burn the dross away.

If teaching is incorrect, faith in your mind rests on the incorrect base. You need to wash your brains to think like God thinks. The Holy Spirit thinks like God thinks. Therefore, increased immersion in the Holy Spirit will transform your mind to think like God thinks. The you can agree with God's faith and you can operate in the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

DEFEATING THE TEMPTATIONS OF FLESH

Through temptations of flesh the enemy tries to paralyze your victorious faith. You may be already saved and you may have all the keys to the victory in your hands. But following the desires of your flesh, you will lose confidence on your spiritual position before God. The compelling desires of the flesh come from the wounds of your soul.

The Holy Spirit leads you into the inner deliverance and healing process. Jesus is waiting for you so that He can reconcile your life with yourself, with your parents, leaders, friends and with all people. In the loving touch of your Father in Heaven, you can discern and reject all demonic traumas and powers of darkness. Jesus will fill your soul with His healing power and heal your broken heart.

This healing process may be longer than you expect. The generational curses and demonic traumas are always deeper than we understand by our own thinking. The Holy Spirit leads you into all truth. Let the Holy Spirit open these secret areas of your heart. In this process, you may need some help from anointed councilors. Be patient in this process, because your reward will be great. You will overcome your flesh. Your spirit man will be tremendously strengthened. God's plans for your life will open. Jesus will release new faith of God and new peace, blessings, anointing and authority in your life.

FROM SLAVERY INTO FREEDOM

If a man is under the will of another man or under the oppression of someone's false authority, he is not free to achieve that plan which God has reserved for him. Jesus delivered you into freedom. Analyze your life in the light of the Word of God and Holy Spirit. Study whether you have accepted some slavery under somebody. Mental oppression, physical abuse, religious oppression or addiction to sin can all produce slavery.

The power of slavery is in thoughts of slavery. But the slavery has power only in your natural man, the old man. Your new creation is born to be free and is able to stand up in freedom. Your true identity is already delivered from any control, pressure, darkness and other slavery of sin. Consider and accept yourself as a free person. Live your life the way a free man lives! The anointing of the Holy Spirit will lead you into the freedom both in your inner and outward life.

GROWING INTO FULLNESS OF CHRIST

Immaturity is one of the greatest reasons for the spiritual weakness among believers. When a new creation gets born, he is a spiritual baby and he must have the right to be a baby and grow under protection – for a certain period. But 'in due time' the child must begin to mature and reject the mind of child. The goal of God for the new creation in you is to rise you up 'as a full-grown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ'.

Through Jesus you have the right to exercise completely independent, personal and free fellowship with God the Father. You have the right to serve in a personal ministry, to have your own anointing and constantly grow in the Lord.

You need to find out a spiritual fellowship where the Holy Spirit can teach and operate. The Holy Spirit can confirm only the teaching that is inspired by Him and compatible with teachings of Jesus and apostles. Your maturity in spiritual life comes from the immersion in the Holy Spirit. Therefore, ask, seek and knock so that the strongholds of your soul are broken, and you receive new immersion in the Holy Spirit and Fire.

Galatians 4:1-7: Now I say, as long as the heir is a child, he does not differ at all from a slave, although he is owner of everything, but he is under guardians and [c]managers until the date set by the father. So we too, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elementary principles of the world. But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons and daughters. 6 Because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba! Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then an heir through God.
DELIVERANCE FROM THE SPIRIT OF THIS WORLD

The prince of this world can blind the eyes of people, so that the Glory of the Good News of Jesus does not shine to them. If a believer spends lots of times entertaining himself with worldly things and thoughts his spirit starts to weaken and can even get blinded.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4: And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they will not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

God doesn't lead you to any distress or problems. Your own steps in wrong direction will open the door for darkness. The Holy Spirit in you will admonish and deliver you from the bondage of the spirit of this world. The temptation of this world will disappear when you find the love relationship with your loving Father in Heaven. Jesus will lead you to the Father through purification and transformation of your inner man.

1 John 2:15-17: Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God continues to live forever.
RECEIVE A NEW REVELATION ABOUT THE WILL OF GOD

Paul uses in many of his letters the expression: "I do not want you, brethren, to be ignorant…” Knowledge about God and revelation about His Kingdom will bring light for men. You need to know the blessings and new life that is commander for you in Jesus. Receive new revelations, new thoughts, new teachings.

Break out of your religious dungeon where you have been fed with bad food! Reject old burdens of lies, which have cast suspicion and shadows over your life and possibilities. Let the Fire of Jesus ignite your heart and life to bring revival. Sharpen your spiritual understanding in the truths of the Kingdom of God. Reject the deceitful and negative image about God and replace it with His true Glory, Splendor, Might, Love and Mercy. Study and receive all goodness that God has for you! The Holy Spirit will lead and teach you in your thirst and search for Him.

Spend peaceful time with the Holy Spirit. He will teach you everything. The spirit of revelation will be activated in you in the presence of the Holy Spirit and Fire. Jesus will speak new things for your own life. He will reveal things around you. He will open new plans and vision for you. You are not walking in darkness. His light will shine upon you.

ADOPT NEW ATTITUDES

Because of sin your own and your family’s life style has been perverted. Without Jesus, His Word and the renewing power of the Holy Spirit you had no way to live right. But now as a new creation you have the power and competence to live holy life as a child of God.

In your natural mind there are many attitudes, which you must reject as a new creation: pride, ingratitude, criticism, competition, irresponsibility, falsehood, unforgiveness, envy, bitterness and so on. These are often so-called family curses, which unnoticed have been transferred over generations.

As a new creation you are connected to Jesus. You are delivered from the corruption of your natural family. Be open and humble! Search your heart, confess wrong thoughts and attitudes. Reach out towards the character of Jesus. He is faithful and forgives your sins and cleanses you from all inequity.

Receiving the salvation of Jesus will lead you into a new identity, which is the SPIRIT OF ADOPTION. You are delivered from negative mind, fear of failure and bondage of performance etc. You have the identity of Jesus which is a CONQUERER WITHOUT FAILURE. In the spirit of adoption, you will see new opportunities to grow and you will have new desire and capacity to grow.

Be humble and quick to turn. Let the Holy Spirit give new revelation to you every day. This attitude leads you to rise up quickly into God's plan. You will see and receive plans which seem impossible but together with Jesus you are able to believe them to come to pass in your life. Praise the Lord!

God offers you great tasks, which fit perfectly for you as a new creation! Reject the old, gloomy, deceitful and servile religious insignificance. Receive and keep your right position in Jesus. You are an honored and beloved child of the great, rich and generous Father! Do not look at yourself, just look at Jesus, because He is your goal, source, power and foundation!

OVERCOMING DISEASES AND SICKNESSES

Sickness is a powerful weapon of the enemy, whereby it tries to paralyze and embitter people towards God. In His ministry Jesus demonstrated that God hates sickness and wants to bring victory over all sicknesses. In the first revival in Jerusalem God led Peter and John to heal the lame man at the gate Beautiful. We understand that the immersion in the Holy Spirit was needed for that miracle. After this incident the early church was convinced that immersion in the Holy Spirit would transform believers into the image of Jesus, where God can cause healings through the followers of Jesus.

Acts 4:29-31: And now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant it to Your bond-servants to speak Your word with all confidence, while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness.

Victory over diseases and sicknesses is in Jesus. The Fire of the Holy Spirit can penetrate through the spirit, soul and body of a believer and cause healing of a physical body also. God knows that the church needs this kind of devotion and anointing. Therefore, Jesus commanded His disciples to prepare for the immersion in the Holy Spirit in Jerusalem. Healing the sick, raising the lame, releasing the Holy Spirit and Fire would be the recipe of all revivals.

Your victory over your sicknesses is not in healing testimonies. Your victory over all sicknesses is in the conviction and confidence that Jesus wants to heal every trauma and sickness in His Body. Your victory over sickness will manifest in the immersion of the Holy Spirit. When the roots of demonic oppression in your soul are destroyed, the faith of God can settle in your soul. The Fire of the Holy Spirit restores your inner man and you can cooperate with the healing anointing. This is a deep change in your personality and anointing. But this leads you into full victory over diseases and sicknesses.

When you adopt God's thinking, you do not doubt God's will to heal. You will be convinced that Jesus bore all darkness including mental and physical sicknesses on the cross. You agree with God's faith that healing must come in your life also. When you are convinced about this, you ask, seek and knock to get rid of your mental blocks, traumas and powers of darkness, that would resist you healing. You focus on surrendering unto Jesus, transformation of your mind and immersion in the Holy Spirit. When you do this, you will certainly be healed.

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