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• Maintaining Your Freedom

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Maintaining Your Freedom

• Reality of our Freedom?
• How Do I Maintain my Freedom in Christ?

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Maintaining Your Freedom

• Some Simple Steps to maintaining our freedom in
  Christ
• 1. BE INVOLVED IN A LOVING, CARING CHURCH
• Hebrews 1024-25 (NIV) And let us consider how
  we may spur one another on toward love and good
  deeds. Let us not give up meeting together, as
  some are in the habit of doing, but let us
  encourage one anotherand all the more as you see
  the Day approaching.

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• 2. READ AND MEDITATE ON THE BIBLE DAILY
• Psalm 274 (NIV) One thing I ask of the Lord,
  this is what I seek that I may dwell in the
  house of the Lord all the days of my life, to
  gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him
  in his temple.

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• 3. PRAY CONTINUALLY ABOUT EVERYTHING AND
  ANYTHING
• 1 Thessalonians 517 (NIV) pray continually

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• Ephesians 618 (NIV) 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 saints.
• Prayer indicates dependence upon the Lord not
  self sufficiency

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• 4. LEARN TO MAKE EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE TO CHRIST
• 2 Corinthians 104-5 (NIV) 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.

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• Philippians 47-8 (NIV) Finally, brothers and
  sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble,
  whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is
  lovely, whatever is admirableif anything is
  excellent or praiseworthythink about such
  things.

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• 5. BE IN ACCOUNTABLE RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHERS
• James 516 (NIV) Therefore confess your sins to
  each other and pray for each other so that you
  may be healed
• Life Group.

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• 6. SPIRITUALLY BREATHE
• 1 John 19 (NIV) If we confess our sins, he is
  faithful and just and will forgive us our sins
  and purify us from all unrighteousness.

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• Ephesians 518 (NIV) Instead, be filled with the
  Spirit.
• Galatians 525 (NIV) Since we live by the
  Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

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Maintaining Your Freedom

• DAILY PRAYER AND DECLARATION
• BEDTIME PRAYER
• PRAYER FOR CLEANSING HOME/APARTMENT/ROOM
• PRAYER FOR LIVING IN A NON- CHRISTIAN
  ENVIRONMENT

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