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Devotional-Who is on the Lord's Side? · The Father's Business Podcast

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  Speaker 1: The Father's Business was founded by Sylvia Gunter to encourage people to a deeper relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to this devotional.
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  Speaker 1: In 1 Kings 18, we find the story of Elijah as he challenges the 450 prophets of Baal.
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  Speaker 1: After the 450 prophets of Baal have poured water upon the altar multiple times, god sends fire down from heaven to prove that he is superior to Baal.
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  Speaker 1: It also was the end of a drought that had lasted for three and a half years.
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  Speaker 1: There's an important question that Elijah challenges the people of God with in verse 21.
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  Speaker 1: How long will you waver between two opinions?
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  Speaker 1: If the Lord is God, follow him, but if Baal is God, follow him.
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  Speaker 1: Elijah's challenge to the people of God was whose side are you on?
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  Speaker 1: Today, this question remains relevant as we navigate our daily lives.
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  Speaker 1: It is vital to reaffirm each day that we stand firmly on the Lord's side, declaring our unwavering allegiance to Him in our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Join me in this declaration of whose side you are on.
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  Speaker 1: Today, in the presence of my Heavenly Father, I say that I am saved by grace, through faith in Jesus the Son, as a pure gift, not by my own doing.
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  Speaker 1: I am God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works which God prepared in advance for me.
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  Speaker 1: I declare that I am on the Lord's side.
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  Speaker 1: I pledge my allegiance to God above all.
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  Speaker 1: My body is the temple of the living God.
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  Speaker 1: I align my spirit, soul and body with my Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: The blood of Jesus cleanses me from all sins and sets me free.
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  Speaker 1: Through the power of Jesus, the strong man and his henchmen have no control over me or place in me.
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  Speaker 1: My Lord, jesus Christ, legally released me from all his claims, setting them aside, making them null and void.
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  Speaker 1: I renounce all agreements with all of Satan's devices in my life, through my thoughts, feelings, actions, words, ignorance or family heritage.
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  Speaker 1: I repent of receiving any of his inputs.
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  Speaker 1: The Word of God alone is the judge of truth for me.
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  Speaker 1: I stand in the authority and name of Jesus of Nazareth over the enemy's power against me.
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  Speaker 1: I stand against all the assignments that seek to hinder, block, sidetrack or obscure the glory that God is due in my life.
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  Speaker 1: The name of Jesus protects me from the evil one.
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  Speaker 1: I set myself in line with God's good, acceptable and perfect will.
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  Speaker 1: Satan cannot rob me of God's best, the abundant life of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I surrender to the Holy Spirit for conviction of sin and the ministry of his righteousness and grace.
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  Speaker 1: I worship you and say O God, you are my God.
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  Speaker 1: Earnestly I seek you, my soul thirsts for you.
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  Speaker 1: I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
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  Speaker 1: This devotional is taken from prayer Portions by Sylvia Gunter.
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