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Perhaps you are wondering how to get through the pain of divorce or financial hardship. Perhaps you are having trouble sorting out your emotions in a new relationshipor even a relationship of many years. Perhaps you are wondering how to listen for Gods word in your daily life. Twin sisters Daura Jones and Daphne Parker address all this and much more in Sleeping with Holiness. The Greek word for sleep is Koimao, which means to calm, quiet, or be still. Just as our physical bodies need sleep to be restored, our souls need rest so that we can prepare for the Holy Spirit to enter and work in our lives. Each of us fights battles within our minds, bodies, and spirits, and each of us experiences trials. This guide explores what it means to rest in God. It also offers the encouragement you need for cultivating endurance and patience, makes clear the power of prayer and love, and demonstrates the true purpose of fasting. Jones and Parker speak to those who have misplaced their hearts with God and reach out to those who may not yet know Christ except in the most superficial way. Whether you feel you have drifted away from God, yearn to renew your passion for the Christian life, or want to deepen your walk with him, here are tools that can help. Get ready to experience new joy and confidence as you learn to sleep with holiness!

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	10 juillet 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462402199
Langue	English

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S leeping with Holiness

Daura Jones and Daphne Parker

Copyright © 2012 Daura Jones and Daphne Parker

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

References with Greek meanings are taken from: Thayer and Smith “The NAS Greek Lexicon”,1999, http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/greek/nas/ (7 , June, 2012) (Koimao, Strongs #2837, Osphys, Strong’s #3751, Hupotasso, Strong’s #5293, Agape, Strong’s #26, Phileo, Strong’s#5368,Meno, Strong’s #3306)

References with Hebrew meanings are taken from Thayer and Smith “The NAS Old Testament Hebrew Lexicon”,1999, http://www.biblestudytools.com/lexicons/hebrew/nas/chayah.html (7, June, 2012) (Restoreth, Strong’s #2421)

English Definitions taken from The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, (7, June, 2012)

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are (KJV) and (NIV) taken from the http://biblegateway.com . Copyright © 1995-2010, The Zondervan Corporation. All rights Reserved.

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0220-5 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-0219-9 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012942896

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 07/26/2012
Contents

Preface
Dedication
Introduction
Chapter 1 Enter into the Resting Place
Chapter 2 Commitment: A Consecrated Life
Chapter 3 The Union: Love & Holiness
Chapter 4 Living with Holiness
Chapter 5 The Virtue of Patience
Chapter 6 Authority Over the Works of the Flesh
Chapter 7 The Power in Releasing Burdens
Chapter 8 Counting the Cost of Holiness
Prayers
Author’s Bio

Preface
Why is carnality ruling the lifestyles of Christians? In the body of Christ today, there are many habits and attitudes that need to be addressed and removed from believer’s hearts. Whether we are a pastor or a deacon, a mother or a father, a faithful employee, a brother or a sister, a daughter or a son, we are held accountable for our own actions. Through the three principles of love, believers need to exercise their power to instruct, correct, and embrace others.
There are personal challenges and emotional burdens a believer must overcome as he or she begins to walk closer towards destiny. Believers must understand that sin begins inside the body of man (heart, mind & soul) working its way into the body of Christ. However, as believers grow intimate with Christ, the weight of iniquity dissipates out of his or her life. The information provided in Sleeping with Holiness is essentially for believers to make the necessary choice to strengthen their relationship with God and to live disciplined lives.
Dedication
First and foremost, we express our earnest thanks to the Holy Trinity, (Father, Son & Holy Ghost) for giving us the strength, peace and agreement in writing Sleeping with Holiness . We would like to give honor to our parents, Moses and Mary, children Jasmine and Tarbree, and our brother, Darren.
Thank you all for reading Sleeping with Holiness . We pray that the truth be revealed to you and may God endow you with power to move into the next season of your life!
Introduction
The hour has come for God to purge out filthiness and perfect the Body of Christ for the near end times. As wicked as the world may seem right now, it is going to get a lot worse in the coming years. Matthew 24:12 states, “… because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold .” Therefore, it is God’s intention for believers to follow the thelema (individual) will for his or her life. Philippians 2:13 states,“ For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. ”
The Lord has mandated the two of us to go out and to inform every believer, including those fallen from their place in Christ Jesus, about the detriments of living without His holiness. 2 Peter 2:21 states, “ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them .”
As believers, we are held accountable to the knowledge we have attained in Christ Jesus (Philippians 3:16). Every hidden and overt sin must be placed on the altar so our spiritual gifts can be used appropriately and not be centered on selfish gains in this dying world. Believers are to walk with integrity and obedience, not in personal victory.
This is the time for the people of God to uphold their position in God’s holiness so we might not fall away from our faith and lead others into destruction of everlasting punishment. Without holiness, no one shall see God. Time is running out! Holiness must come back (in our teaching and lifestyles) into the Body of Christ before it’s too late.
Sleeping with Holiness will draw believers into a deeper intimacy with God. Then, we will be able to hear from God, obey His commands, and trust in Him without wavering.
In order to be intimate with God, there has to be a consistent practice of prayer, meditation, reading and obeying God’s Word, walking by faith, resting in spirit, and submitting to the love of God. When one encounters daily intimacy with God, one completely gives up carnal desires and cease from sins.
Holiness brings faith that manifests the glory of God to keep us away from unclean spirits. Believers must carry out what they believe in the Word of God and trust God to bring it to pass.
Many Christians are deceived by false doctrines and selfish gains. These are the two lethal weapons that the antichrist employs in the hearts and minds of believers. False doctrines lead believers to deception. The spirit of pride, doubt, and ignorance open the doors to deception. If believers become entangle with their own pleasures, they can become distracted in their hearts which makes it difficult to follow the way of righteousness.
The Bible speaks about apostasy in 2 Thessalonians 2:3 stating, “ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there comes a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition. ”
Men have developed strange (false) doctrines that are now accepted in the church. Yet instead of rebuking the dogma, some believers embraced the language and lifestyle therein causing dissension and division.
If the body of Christ continues to allow unsacred practices to enter into its place of worship, then the Church as a whole is in jeopardy of falling into apostasy. We cannot limit ourselves or reduce our time spent in quality devotion to God and in meditating on the Word since this is where we gain insight into the power of His might and discernment between truth and deception.
There are many believers who have attended services for many years, yet their minds have never been transformed to fulfill the perfect will of God. As a result, they begin to partake in wickedness which may end up in apostasy. They do not realize where overt sin may lead. But in the New Covenant, there is the hope with the blood of the Lamb and baptism: washing away sins, dying to self and everlasting resurrection.
We must begin to examine ourselves using the Word of Truth. After truth is revealed, it becomes a witness to the righteous heart in us. Our hearts will begin to trust and submit to God to develop an intimacy with Him so as to fulfill the character of holy and royal priesthoods in Christ Jesus. When we surrender to the intimacy with God, it manifests in our lifestyles, our conversations, in our dreams, when we lie down and when we rise up.
Holiness is distinctive, with implications of being set apart for the commitment to God. It’s not enough to just say no to unclean living. Within the process of manifesting holiness, we are graced with the power to choose to let go of our “self” (old ways and habits). The proof is in the pudding, which is, showing in our lifestyle that we have let go of self.
If the Church will begin to sleep with holiness, then the glory of God can infiltrate the lives of every believer. There will be more healing, more deliverance, more miracles, more love, and more power to sustain salvation and God’s righteousness. When believers commit to letting go of former thoughts and habits, God will step in to guide them to that next phase of purpose in their life. Faithful believers must surrender their hearts willingly, act in true humility and maintain patience as they wait on God.
While enduring our cross, we must stand still without stagnating in emotions or questioning circumstances. We cannot allow our emotions and thoughts to overtake us. Often, believers step out of the will of God and begin to