by Michele Jackson

Created on: July 15, 2009   Last Updated: July 25, 2009

Open your Bibles to Deuteronomy 7:6 and 1 Peter 2:9. I like to read from the Amplified Bible. I would suggest that you write these Scriptures down until you have them memorized. Our enemy and accuser, Satan, along with the negative side of our inner person are always talking to us. Boot the devil and negativity out of your brain; fight back in your minds with the Word of God. Ephesians 6 teaches us that the Word of God is a weapon. You cannot use a weapon that you don't know. Deuteronomy 7:6 (Amp) in the Old Testament says, For you are a holy and set-apart people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.

God was speaking to the nation He had chosen from the bloodline of Abraham and Sarah; the Israelites. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. So if He had chosen people in the past; He has chosen people today; and He will have chosen people throughout eternity. 1 Peter 2:9 in the New Testament says, But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation, [God's] own purchased, special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. God calling you out of darkness into His marvelous light is a snapshot of what salvation is. Sin is darkness. God is Light.

He is also complex. God is a multiple of one as 1 X 1 X 1 = 1 God the Father, God the Son Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit. When God the Holy Spirit presents Himself to you John 16:8 says that He convicts, convinces and brings demonstration to you about what is sin, what is righteousness, and what is judgment. Since God is perfect; and we are not; God has to teach us His ways. Some of His ways are expressed in the Ten Commandments. They are a tough set of teachings to follow. I will not go through all ten but some are to love the Lord your God with all your being. God I cannot see, but man I can.

I have been drawn away from my First Love God at various times in my life due to conscious and unconscious evil desires and dealing with corrupt and compromised characters. Exodus 20:13 (Amp) seems easy to keep; it says, You shall not commit murder. But then Jesus says in Matthew 5:21 if you are angry with your brother you are guilty of murder. I have had deep-seated anger against some individuals. How about you? You don't have to raise your hands or say anything out loud, but answer the question

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