Once Dead, Now Alive!

The Gentile lifestyle is the life we were saved out of, the life where we were dominated by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. That was the domination of the old life. There’s supposed to be Someone in our lives now who interrupts that. Unchecked, that same pattern can dominate us.  Ephesians 2:1-3, that’s what we were, that’s the Gentile life. That’s the old life, but we’ve been saved from the old life. It is easy, if we are not careful, to begin to justify those old regulators, to give the old regulators a place of authority in the new life.  

Prayer: Most gracious heavenly Father, You said that if any man be in Christ He is a new creation. Help us to appropriate and appreciate the newness of being in You, even if we have been saved for days or decades. Your purpose for bringing us out of darkness into Your marvelous light was to bring glory to Your name, that we would be sons and daughters accepted in the Beloved! Now that we are in Christ, we find in our walk with Jesus that there are times when our flesh yearns to visit the familiar vices of old. Oh, Father through Your Holy Spirit speak to our hearts that we may recognize that we are Your purchased possession and that our mind, body, soul, and spirit are under new ownership to serve the Lord Jesus, Christ. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
by Pastor Wayne Cockrell
Taken from “Casting Down Strongholds”