Powerful or Powerless?

Powerless or powerful? I want to encourage you tonight that our Heavenly Father did all the work to empower you and me to live a life of victory! What is victory? It is spiritual harmony and oneness with our creator through an intimate, personal relationship with Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. The affect of such a divine relationship is a miraculous transformation...out of bondage and slavery to sin... to a renewed life on a straight and narrow road that ultimately leads to a place of total regeneration and complete sanctification ( in Heaven) Friends, right now with the help of the Holy Spirit as our divine Counselor we are empowered to live a life of victory over the sins that so easily entangle us. We don't need to be shackled and in the darkness of addiction, immorality, and compromise. Through the power of the Holy Spirit we can walk upright with total peace in the midst of chaos, joy in the midst of sorrow, clarity in the midst of confusion, have love for the unlovely, supernatural faith in the face of defeat! Yes we may lose a battle but we know who wins the war! Yet, many of us settle for spiritual mediocrity, we are peasants in the faith! We scrape by all battered, bruised, and tattered and torn having one foot in the world and one in the the kingdom. Some of us look like we are on the losing team! Why? We are divided- there's an internal fight for the wheel of our life! One day you are heading in the right direction because you gave God control, then you took the wheel back and decided to take a detour and bam! You ended back in the desert! I lived many years like this before I finally decided enough was enough! Friends, brothers and sisters in Christ, if this sounds familiar tonight, then make Jesus Christ The Lord of your life! That means you say unequivocally "Jesus you are my all in all! " Jesus not my will but yours be done! Jesus take my life, it's yours to use! Jesus I surrender all to you... No turning back! You see, I asked Jesus to be my Savior when I got saved at age 8, however, it took 30 years later before I made him The Lord of my life! Once I made that decision He has faithfully led me out of shackles of shame and given me victory day by day! I boast in what Jesus has done for me! Will you let him have access to every area of your life? Friends he will bring healing, deliverance and freedom to you no matter where you are tonight. 2 Corinthians 6:16 ...for we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I will dwell in them and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Therefore, come out from their midst and be separate, says The Lord. And do not touch what is unclean. And I will welcome you. And I will be a father to you. Thanks for letting me share. God bless you! Randy Young