07 November 2021
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Being Adopted by God is an Incredible Thing (TMF:1740)

Friday, November 12, 2021
Peace to Live By: Being Adopted by God is an Incredible Thing (TMF:1740) - Daniel Litton
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       The Spirit we have received, Paul says, is the Spirit of Adoption. This is a wonderful thing for us. Being adopted by God is incredible thing. He is now our Father, and not simply our Father, but we can actually call him Daddy. It’s an intimate, close father son, father daughter, relationship. Now some of you out there are likely saying, “Ho, hum. God is my father, but I don’t care.” You’d prefer seeing it as Jesus your friend, because unfortunately there are some who didn’t grow up with a good father relationship. So, for you, seeing God as your father isn’t that appealing. If your earthly father was harsh, legalistic, overly demanding, abusive (whether verbally or physically), you just don’t have a good picture of a father. And these wreck-of-a-fathers can exist inside the church walls also, especially in legalistic churches. The good news today is that God isn’t like this as our Father. He’s the nice, cool Dad you saw other’s had.

Two Tactics to Overcome the Spirit of Slavery (TMF:1739)

Thursday, November 11, 2021
Peace to Live By: Two Tactics to Overcome the Spirit of Slavery (TMF:1739) - Daniel Litton
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       How do we overcome the spirit of slavery? I have two pieces of advice for you. One is that at the moment we recognize a demon is lying to us, we need to dispel that lie with a verse or passage from God’s Word. It’s that simple. I’m sure you can recall the movie from the mid-1980s called Gremlins. I think a lot of us have seen this holiday classic. For us if we don’t confront demons, it’s like we let the Gremlins loose in our minds and they reap havoc. In the movie, flashing a bright light in their face disoriented them and caused them to move back. This is like speaking God’s Word to an evil thought (which is brought about by a demon). You have to kill a gremlin to prevent his destruction; so, you have to vaporize an evil thought so that it cannot cause destruction. And if a demon insinuates something to us, like that a particular person really doesn’t like us for instance, and we’re not certain of the reality of the situation, we need to believe the best in that situation. That’s how we combat that.

A Fear-Filled Mind Affects our Perception (TMF:1738)

Wednesday, November 10, 2021
Peace to Live By: A Fear-Filled Mind Affects our Perception (TMF:1738) - Daniel Litton
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       The reason the demonic spirit of slavery is so detrimental to us is because having a fear-filled mindset actually affects how we see everything around us, and it actually causes us to live enslaved lives. Don’t know if you’ve noticed or not, but stop and think about the most success people you know—Christian or non-Christian. I guarantee you that those people are those who do not operate out of a fearful mindset. A successful person can’t be full of fear. A golfer, for instance, if he or she was full of fear would never win a tournament. A businessperson who was full of fear would never make lots of money on the stock market. Even in science and medicine it has been noted that when we believe things that are not true, that actually causes our brains to not function correctly. It’s a domino affect. So, if Satan and his demonic forces, if the spirit of slavery, can get us to think untrue, incorrect things, he can actually bring us into slavery so that we have a deluded mind.

Accepting Lies Hurts Our Lives (TMF:1737)

Tuesday, November 09, 2021
Peace to Live By: Accepting Lies Hurts Our Lives (TMF:1737) - Daniel Litton
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       If we accept beliefs that are based in lies, we can’t live the life God really desires us to live. We can begin to act differently toward the people the demon has told us doesn’t like us. We can begin to act differently toward the people the demon has told us doesn’t like us, and we may even try to oppose or lash out at someone whom we have come to believe is against us, when that actually wasn’t the case at all. Sometimes demons fill in the blanks for us, and they don’t fill in those blanks with good things. God wants us to fill in the blanks believing the best about people, not the worst. In fact, that’s a Biblical command (see 1 Corinthians 13). There’s a lot of church going folk that need to learn this. It is not scriptural to always be operating out of a ‘so called’ discerning (which is truly a fault-finding) mindset versus a believing the best about others mindset—a loving mindset. To do that is actually sin.

Looking at the Spirit of Slavery, Part 2 (TMF:1736)

Monday, November 08, 2021
Peace to Live By: Looking at the Spirit of Slavery, Part 2 (TMF:1736) - Daniel Litton
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       The spirit of slavery is a demonic spirit from Satan that tries to enslave us. And how does he do this? Well, as Paul said it is through fear. Fear can be a tremendously debilitating problem for us, as believers. Demons seek to deceive us by telling us lies on a daily basis inside our minds. Thoughts come to us of theories and possible things in the world, and often those thoughts are brought about by a demonic spirit. The problem for us comes at the moment we decide to believe the enemies lies, to see things how he’s telling us they are. For instance, he may tell us a certain person or group of people really doesn’t like us, that they are really against us. And if we believe that lie, that undoubtedly will have an enormous impact on our relationships with people. If we accept beliefs that are based in lies, we can’t live the life God really desires us to live. We can begin to act differently toward the people the demon has told us doesn’t like us.