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If economic circumstances defy you and you wonder how to make ends meet, think about your Creator, your Father, who is the SOURCE and PROVIDER of all riches. He lives at your house. His wealth is yours now. 6. God Is Ever PRESENT
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When the enemy bombards you with lying accusations and threats of defeat, don't forget that the Lord is your VICTORY. Satan must now deal with Jesus Christ when he attacks or tempts you.
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JESUS IS YOURS. You are His. You and He are friends and partners. Together, you are an unbeatable team -invincible.
You have become a winner. God's legacy of blessings guarantees His best for you. VICTORY IS RETRIEVED.
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NOW, MAKE THIS confession before the Lord, claiming His victory. Say it aloud:
DEAR LORD: Before I understood why you died on the Cross, I faced problems, fears, perplexities and distress. When there was hope of winning, something always happened to rob me of fulfillment. Solutions evaded me. Success was always out of reach.
I realize that my enemy was the same adversary that robbed Adam and Eve of their paradise in the Garden of Eden.
Now I know the Truth, and the Truth has made me free.J°h.8.32 I know that you went to the Cross on my behalf. You met Satan face to face
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and endured the punishment that I deserved. You paid my account in full.
and lifted me out of his domain.Coi.1:13 I was translated into your kingdom and have been made a member of your Royal Family. Eph.2:19; 3:14-15;1Pe.2:9
Now, Lord, I have heard this Good News and I believe it Rom.1:16 I have opened the door of
my heart for you to come and abide with me. Rev.3:20; Joh.14:23; 15:4,7 you are the Captain of my Salvation Heb.2:1O I have your new life in me
noW Joh.3:36;1Jo.5:12
pYOUR WORD SAYS, If anyone is in Christ Jesus, he or she is a new creature: old things are assed away; behold, all things are become new.
2Co.5:17
My old sins and fears, my confusion and defeats, my diseases and sicknesses, my weaknesses and inabilities, my poverty and financial lack, my distress and failures are things of the past. They died when you died for me because you nailed them to your Cross. Col.2:14
Now instead of sins and guilt and fear, I
have salvation, righteousness and peace. Eph.1:713; Phi.3:9; Rom.5:1
Instead of confusion and defeat, I have direction and success. Pro.3:5-6; Jos.1:8 Instead of disease and sickness, I have health and strength. P,,.27:1; 2Co.4:11 382
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Instead of weakness and inability, I can do all things through Christ.Phi.4:13
Instead of poverty and lack, I am rich with Christ.2Co.8:9 God, the Creator of all wealth is
my Father who wills for me His success and material blessings.
Instead of loneliness and fear, you, Lord, are now making your abode with me and blessing my life.
Instead of struggles and lost battles, now I am a winner because you are the Captain of my Salvation and I cannot lose.
MY LIFE HAS new meaning and purpose. If God be for me (Band with me and in me] who can be against me? om.8:31 The Lord is the strength of
my life; of whom shall I be afraid Psa.27:1
Nay, in all these things, I am more than a conqueror through you, Lord, who loved me. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate me from the love of God.Rom.8:37-39 PRAISE THE LORD, no enemy or power can separate me from this glorious salvation. I now live in your presence.
You said, as many as receive you, to them you give power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on your name.Joh.1:12 You
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Thank you for your righteousness, peace, forgiveness, and salvation. You are my Shepherd and my Guide, my Physician and my Provider.
You are my Source of blessings for all of my needs and you are ever present in my life, as my Deliverer and my Victory.
What a wonderful salvation! What an abundance! What joy unspeakable, and full of glory! 1Pe.1:8 My VICTORY IS RETRIEVED.
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NOW THAT YOU have received New Life from God and have learned about His redemptive blessings,
remember that all of these discoveries are seeds that have been planted in your life. They will grow and produce their harvest.
Every time you read aloud the PrayerConfessions in this book, you will be watering the good seeds and they will procreate of their kind in your life.
You will begin to see circumstances around you change. It will be the harvest of God's seeds that are in your life and that you will now sow in other's lives.
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Adapting To The New Life-Style New Thinking-New Language
This book has facilitated your understanding of what redemptive truths mean. As you reread these chapters and restate the Prayer Confessions, these truths will become solid images in your mind and spirit. Your thinking and your tongue will conform to God's way of thinking and speaking. The language of redemption will become automatic for you. In fact, you will forget how you used to think and speak. As this happens, you will find yourself acting on the basis of redemptive truths.
You will be surprised at how quickly a new world will surround you-because it begins to grow inside of you. New Life Blessings
,/Friction and dissension will give way to love, harmony and fellowship.
,/Sickness and pain will fade as you learn to believe in the power of God's life in you more than in the power of disease.
,/Confusion and indecisiveness will dissipatelike a fog as you find yourself with the ability to think a situation through, to sense God's direction and to embark on a straight and good course.
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,/The plague of poverty and unpaid bills will become a thing of the past because you will come to see yourself as a child of Royalty. You will begin to function according to God's laws of sowing and reaping. As you reach out to bless and help others, God will reach out to bless and help you.
./Loneliness will vanish. You will discover new purpose as a member of God's Family. You will remember that Jesus never leaves you.
,/Failure and defeat will be swallowed up by new successes, because the Creator becomes your Life Partner. ono
AS THESE BLESSINGS spring up around you, you will realize how powerful these good seeds are. You will want to plant them in other's lives.
The richest reward on earth is to plant good seeds in others and to reap a rich harvest from your words and actions. It makes life worth living. This is what we spend our lives doing. The abundant Life of Jesus Christ is so wonderful that we cannot keep quiet about it.
Paul said, So everywhere we go we talk about Christ to all who will listen ... this is our work, and we
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can do it only because Christ's mighty energy is at work within us. Co1.1:28-29 LB Sowing And Reaping
So we give our time, our efforts, our money and our energy in a constant drive to sow the good seeds of the Good News in every life we can possibly influence. As we sow these good seeds in people, our world becomes better.
Every effort we make, every gift of money we invest and every message we record or publish is another seed planted in people.
Whatever we sow, that shall we also reap. Gal.6:7
Only the seeds that a farmer plants can be multiplied back to him or her in a harvest.
Only the money that one plants in God's work can be returned to him or her in a harvest of material blessings. Share these good seeds by planting them in other's lives so that they too can learn about God's abundant Life blessings!
Get copies of this book and plant them in other's lives. Pass the good word on to others in need. 388