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The Power
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authority ?gures whom He has placed in our lives. They are there for our protection and bene?t. God’s power is too precious and too powerful to be let loose in an unsubmitted soul. (This is something to pray about, not worry about, so we’ll do that in chapter 9.)
God’s Promises to You
So often we don’t move into all God has for us because we don’t understand what it is He has for us. We may know He has given many promises for our lives, but if we don’t know exactly what these promises are, we can’t get a clear perspective on our situation. God’s “divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:3-4). We need to know these promises well enough to keep them perpetually in our minds and on our hearts. In fact, the deeper they are etched in our souls the better off we will be. That’s because the enemy of our soul will try to steal them from us. He doesn’t want us to know the truth about ourselves. So we must grab on to these promises with all our might. We must cling to them like life and refuse to let them go. For this reason, at the end of each chapter in this book there is a section called “God’s Promises to Me.” In it I have listed important promises from God’s Word that are applicable to that particular subject. I want us to declare these promises out loud in the face of all obstacles in order to erase any doubt about those priceless truths for our lives. As you read each one, determine what God’s promise in that particular Scripture means speci?cally for you and your life.