This topic started from a social media post about witchcraft. Any post about witchcraft is sure to get traction, cause people love it. This post mentioned different types of witchcraft including yoga.
One lady responded to the post stating that we now live under “grace” according to the new covenant and all we have to do is plead the blood of Jesus over any pose or stretch. “Faith over fear in Jesus Name” , is what she said.
This person also believes the new testament trumps the old testament. Now I know the new covenant with Jesus is the better covenant. However the old testament is the blueprint and it is still valid to this very day.
I thought to myself, that sounds like you’re abusing grace. I was soon reminded how I myself have abused grace. First I’d like to share a couple of definitions.
ABUSE- to treat with cruelty regularly or repeatedly
GRACE-courteous, goodwill, favor, benefit, gift, liberty, reward
Romans 6:14-15--For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under GRACE, what then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under GRACE ?
May it never be (ASB)
Certainly not (AMP)
God Forbid (KJV)
By no means (NIV)
In 2022 I went through deliverance to be set free from unclean spirits. One way I knew I had unclean spirits is because of the sex dreams. Often time those dreams happened with a faceless man/person. The dreams were so real I would wake up to myself having an orgasm. This unclean spirit is commonly known as a “spirit spouse”. After I FASTED I stumbled on a video detailing the characteristics of this spirit. How did this spirit attach itself to me? It attached itself to me through the act of molestation which happened when I was much younger.
The thing is once you’ve been delivered, meaning the unclean spirit has been cast out in Jesus Name, it’s important to maintain that deliverance.
Matthew 12:44-45—Then he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it empty, swept, and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first. So shall it also be with this wicked generation.
That house is us/our bodies and if we don’t fill our houses with the Word of God and maintain our deliverance through obedience, the spirits can and will come back seven times worse.
The dreams seemed to slow up however they never completely stopped. I recently realized those spirits still had a right to violate me because I was abusing grace. I thought I could sin a little here and there without penalty.
I abused grace, the benefit of not dying in my sin.
I abused grace, the liberty to make my own choices.
I abused grace, because of God’s goodwill He did not allow me to be struck with any incurable diseases.
It’s easy to get distracted with why other people can sin and seemingly go unpunished but we must maintain our own salvation. Remember in
Exodus 33:19—Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be GRACIOUS to whom I will be GRACIOUS, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
God brought correction to me through this scripture.
Once He has set you free from whatever you asked, you cannot return to that same way of living.
John 5:14__ Afterward Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”
Hebrew 4:15-16—For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Romans 6:1-2—What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not!
Romans 6:12—Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.
STOP ABUSING GRACE