OCTOBER 30
MATTHEW 7:14_and few there be that find it.
You enter the strait gate when you answer the knock of Jesus on your heart’s door. Some baggage automatically drops off. I have known people with strong addictions instantly set free through the power of Jesus in their heart.
The baggage that Jesus does not relieve instantly goes with you through the gate. The narrow path, like the Needle’s Eye, can become narrower as you travel. When you reach these narrow passages, you are forced to make some changes. You may need to turn sideways to pass through. In some places you’ll have to bend down, because to go through also requires going under a large rock formation.
The changes you make as you pass through the tight places require two things: repentance and humility. When you repent you’ve changed your position.
You no longer see value in earthly pain relievers.
You are filled with the convicting power of the Holy Spirit.
You walk free through the narrow path and exchange all your baggage for true love.
True love is not baggage. It is something you give away. To keep it for yourself would not be true love.
Holy Spirit power reproduces love daily and daily you give it away.
PRAYER
King of Kings, Help me to repent and worship You. In the powerful name of Jesus, Amen.
Christ calls us to repent and be humble—He helps me!
The Works of Her Hands 
Great lesson! Wisely written. I’ve heard of couples who smoked cigarettes and upon praying for deliverance and repenting for poisoning God’s temple, the husband was delivered immediately and never smoked again. However, the wife wasn’t delivered even though she repented. She continued to smoke. She had to make the changes. Eventually she was set free from the addition and now as she travels she makes sure to testify and teach others that God’s ways are not our ways, His thoughts are not our thoughts. Sometimes we have to do the work ourselves.
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Surrender it to Jesus and He will through your baggage in the rubbish where it belongs. Joseph- Anthony a son of Jehovah
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Yes! I’ve known the same. A man with alcohol addiction for decades and in his senior years he surrendered and Jesus took it instantly. Others with the same addiction but weren’t set free right away. It’s all about the surrender.
God bless you!
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