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What To Repent From

—An Introduction 

In order to understand what to repent from we have to know how God defines "other gods." We have to consider these things in the  context of turning to God because repentance is about turning to God just as much as it is about turning from sin and idolatry of the heart. 

You will see in this section how everything about what we need to repent from can be boiled to changing how we quench our thirsty desire for God's presence.

You will also learn why our repentance has to change us from drinking by our "works" to drinking by God's grace. We have to change from "drinking" by the glory that we think we achieve to drinking by what we receive from God by His grace. 

In order to repent, we need some specific things to target. That is why the concepts in this section are important.

(Note: The "Causes and Solution" words below are duplicated on the  "In Conclusion" page of this website)

Why We Do What We Don't Want to Do Causes and Solutions

1). Cause: Emotional / Spiritual dependence on earthly sources and not drinking from God; Solution: Heart-training for changing our dependence to God (It is my opinion that changing emotional / spiritual dependence to God is not practical without Heart-training - it is possible but it takes too long without Heart-training).    

(To me, emotional / spiritual dependence on earthly sources is the outworking of what Paul talks about in Romans 7 and 1 Cor. 15. The reason why I feel this way is explained elsewhere on this website and in the books.)   

2). Cause: Hurts from the recent or distant past. Solution: Learning to draw near to God and let Him reach in and heal you. Some Christians specialize in helping others with this kind of thing. My approach is to use the Heart-training and the spiritual exercises in the back of the book to bring people to a place of being able to receive inner healing from God on their own. I believe that teaching people to do this on their own is necessary because the more dangerous you become to the enemy the bigger target you are. When that happens inner healing is needed often enough to be impractical for always depending on others.   

3). Cause: Demonic Influence. Solution: Here again there are Christians who specialize in helping others work through difficulties in this area. If you have a background in the occult you may find it necessary to seek help from Christians who specialize in the area of Deliverance Ministry . My approach is to have people use the Heart-training because it removes the "handles" that the enemy uses as reasons for hanging around Christians. By using they the Heart-training to find freedom to draw near and stand before the Lord people also find that they have a much increased authority in the area of deliverance ministry.   

4). Cause: Character weakness. Solution: After learning how to teach people how to receive inner healing, I have also found that the same principles can be applied for great benefit in the area of character growth. For this I use the Heart-training, the spiritual exercises in the back of the book, and also the pages toward the back of the Heart-training about "Letting God Give You a New Heart."  

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Barry.

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