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Break the Chains Holding You CaptiveHarmful habits, negative thinking, and irrational feelings can all lead to sinful behavior and keep you in bondage. If you feel trapped by any of these strongholds in your life, know that you are not aloneyou can break free. This bestselling study guide has brought hope to over a million readers facing negative spiritual attacks with personal application and practical strategies. Ideal for individual or group study, this guide will help you...realize you have the right to be freelearn how to respond to the power of Satanfight the temptation to do it your waytrade deception for graceactively affirm your identity in ChristThis life-changing resource will help you break through your spiritual battles, and find freedom in Christ.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers
Date de parution	05 mars 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736977425
Langue	English

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CONTENTS
Abundant Life Through Jesus Christ, the Bondage Breaker
PART ONE: TAKE COURAGE!
1. You Don t Have to Live in the Shadows
2. Finding Your Way in the World
3. You Have Every Right to Be Free
4. You Can Win the Battle for Your Mind
5. Confronting the Rebel Prince
6. Jesus Has You Covered
PART TWO: STAND FIRM!
7. Manipulating Spirits
8. The Lure of Knowledge and Power
9. Tempted to Do It Your Way
10. Accused by the Father of Lies
11. The Danger of Deception
PART THREE: WALK FREE!
12. Helping Others
Appendix: The Steps to Freedom in Christ
Freedom in Christ Ministries Books and Resources
About the Publisher
ABUNDANT LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, THE BONDAGE BREAKER
I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
JOHN 10:10
T hose words were spoken by Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd. He gave His life for us, His sheep, so that we might experience life abundantly and life eternal. But for too many believers, the words of that promise sound empty, and the reality seems far away.
Does Jesus s promise sound empty to you? Do you feel far away from the joy and peace that other Christians seem to experience? Instead of enjoying a productive life of freedom in Jesus Christ, do you seem to be in bondage to fear, anger, or depression? Are you struggling with habits you can t break, thoughts or inner voices you can t silence, or sinful behaviors you can t escape?
It s for people like you that I ve written The Bondage Breaker and this study guide. The Bondage Breaker explains your position of life, freedom, protection, and authority in Christ. It warns of your vulnerability to very real demonic influences that are intent on robbing you of your freedom, and tells you of your need to submit to God and resist the devil. The book also presents The Steps to Freedom in Christ, which will help you walk free of the enemy s designs on your life.
But simply reading about these things is quite different from living out the freedom that Jesus desires you to have, and that s why I ve written this guide-to help you apply to your own life what you read about in The Bondage Breaker . I encourage you to work through this book slowly and thoroughly, and to pray each step of the way.
As you work through these lessons, you ll be studying more closely the scriptures I refer to in the text; taking a closer look at your own life, past and present; and, I pray, opening yourself to the work of God in your life. Linger over the passages of Scripture. Let God speak to your heart and use His Word to work in your life. May this be an opportunity for you to draw closer to your loving and powerful heavenly Father.
It is also my prayer that you will be able to personalize the Bible s powerful words of truth, believe its life-changing message of hope, and experience the freedom and abundant life that are available to you through the work of Jesus Christ, your Shepherd and your Bondage Breaker.
- Neil Anderson
PART ONE
TAKE COURAGE!
1
YOU DON T HAVE TO LIVE IN THE SHADOWS
ARE YOU LIVING IN THE SHADOWS?
Dear God,
Where are You? How can You watch and not help me? I hurt so bad, and You don t even care I love You, but You seem so far away. I can t hear You or feel You or see You, but I m supposed to believe You re here
P erhaps you can identify with this woman s feelings. Perhaps you ve felt this way in the past or are feeling this way now. The message of this chapter-and this book-is that you don t have to live in the shadows.
Why are you reading The Bondage Breaker and working through this study guide? What do you hope to learn about God s ability to work in your life and His power over Satan?
Read again the following passage:
Over the past 40 years, I have encountered hundreds of Christians like the one who wrote this heartrending note. Most of them didn t attempt suicide, but many of them talked about dark impressions to do so. Nearly all of them admitted to the presence of them -inner urges or voices which badgered them, tempted and taunted them, accused them, or threatened them. We often tell people who come to our ministry for help that they will struggle with thoughts such as, Don t go; they can t help you -or they will think disruptive thoughts in first-person singular, like I don t want to go , or I ve tried this before, and it didn t work
Others may not be hearing voices, but their minds are so distracted that their daily walk with Christ is unfulfilling and unproductive. When they try to pray, they are tempted and bombarded by all sorts of things around them. When they attempt to read the Bible, they can t concentrate, and when they finish a chapter, they can t remember any of what they read Instead of being victorious, productive, joy-filled Christians, they trudge through life under a cloud, trying to hang on until the rapture.
Where, if at all, do you see yourself in this description? Where might the enemy be deceiving you or robbing you of the joy of the Christian life?
Define bondage in your own words.
What do you feel when you hear that word?
COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SPIRITUAL BONDAGE
There is much confusion about the presence and activity of demons in the world today. This confusion keeps many Christians in bondage to a power they don t acknowledge. Write out in your own words arguments against the following misconceptions about the spiritual world.
1. Demons were active when Christ was on earth, but their activity has subsided.
2. What the early church called demonic activity we now understand to be mental illness.
3. Some problems are only psychological, and some are only spiritual.
4. Christians cannot be affected by demons.
5. Demonic influence is evident only in extreme or violent behavior and gross sin.
6. Freedom from spiritual bondage is the result of a power encounter with demonic forces.
Which misconceptions have you accepted as truth? Rebut those ideas with passages from Scripture that refer to God s power, His truth, or Satan s defeat. Write out those verses on an index card to carry with you to remind you of your victory over Satan through Christ.
KNOW THE ENEMY AND THE VICTOR
Look up the following passages. Write down the phrases used to describe Satan.
-John 8:44
-John 10:10
-1 John 5:19
-Revelation 12:9
Compare those terms for Satan with the following descriptions of Jesus and His Holy Spirit.
-John 6:48
-John 14:6
-John 16:13
-Isaiah 9:6
THE ARMOR OF GOD
Read Ephesians 6:12 and 2 Corinthians 10:3-5. Note the present-tense verbs. What did Paul say believers will encounter in this world?
Believers are not left defenseless in the face of the enemy. Read Ephesians 6:10-18.
-List the six components of the full armor of God. (We ll look at them more closely in chapter 6.)
-When should we be praying?
-What does the role of prayer suggest about the nature of spiritual warfare?
SETTING CAPTIVES FREE
Why is there so little instruction on setting captives free in the epistles? Look again at the section in which I point to the cross, and give two reasons. Read the scriptural support, then explain the reasons in your own words.
-Matthew 28:18 and Colossians 2:15
-Ephesians 1:18-21 and 2:5-6
When one woman was experiencing deep spiritual, mental, and emotional turmoil, she wrote a letter to God, which I quoted at the beginning of the chapter. Take time now to write your own letter to God. Cry to Him for help. Share what s on your heart. Ask Him to work in your life.
-If you can-and you may not be able to now-write a letter from God in response to your letter to Him. In it, personalize verses from the Bible. Let God address you specifically through His Word by weaving your name into the texts you choose.
-Maybe at this point in your journey, the darkness is too thick for you to imagine God saying anything to you. If so, read the letter to the Lost Sheep, and replace Lost Sheep with your name.
THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE
The truth of God s love and His power is what liberates Christians from the hold of the enemy. Which of the following verses, or which verse of your own choosing, is an especially effective reminder of that fact? Write it out. (You might also want to write it on an index card to carry with you or to put in a strategic place where it can remind you of God s power over evil, confusio