Jentezen Franklin - Limitless: Your Past is a Memory. God Makes All Things New.

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LIMITLESS by Jentezen Franklin

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Franklin, Jentezen, 1962- author.

Title: Limitless / by Jentezen Franklin.

Other titles: Spirit of python

Description: Lake Mary : Charisma House, 2016. |

Originally published under

title: The spirit of python : Lake Mary, FL : Charisma

House, 2013. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015051234 (print) | LCCN 2016005300

(ebook) | ISBN

9781629986654 (trade paper : alk. paper) | ISBN

9781629986661 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Spiritual warfare. | Devil.

Classification: LCC BV4509.5 .F7463 2016 (print) | LCC

BV4509.5 (ebook) | DDC

235/.4--dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015051234

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This book was adapted from The Spirit of Python by Jentezen Franklin, published by Charisma House Book Group, ISBN 978-1-62136-220-3, copyright 2013.

CONTENTS

W HEN IT SEEMS as if everything is falling apart, it can be hard to stay focused on the promises of God. With the weight of the world on your shoulders it becomes very inviting to sit down and give up. Before you know it, doubt, frustration, and bitterness begin to creep in and steal all of the joy and power from your life and your relationship with God.

You have a real enemy that battles for your soul and his name is Satan. The good news is that you dont have to live a powerless Christian life. You dont have to listen to the negative voices in your head that say things are never going to get better or that this is all youll ever be. You dont have to believe that your kids are never going to serve God or youll never regain your health.

As followers of Christ we dont have to live with hopelessness, depression, or addiction. We dont have to live powerless, lukewarm Christian lives. We can be victorious through the power of the Holy Spirit! You can expect God to come through! God has made provision for victory and power in your Christian life. Your present circumstances do not have to limit your faith or dictate your future. You can live the life He planned for you: a limitless life!

This is more than positive thinking. It is a passionate challenge to live a life of zero tolerance for sin, distractions, or lies from the enemy, and to boldly and obediently to step into a new season of life where God makes all things new and the limitations of the past become a distant memory.

Its time to let go of the baggage and overcome the limits of your past once and for all. Block the enemys access into your life and cancel his assignments to limit you. Revive your prayer life and worship times through new levels of intimacy with God. Activate your faith to stop merely talking about miracles and start experiencing them. Dream God-sized dreams, determine not to become satisfied with less than Gods best, and decide to go to the next level in your walk with God.

As you read the powerful insights from the Lord in the pages that follow, you will find strategies for overcoming the enemys attacks and will learn to walk in victory, dismantling Satans schemes in your life and loosening his grip on you so that you can live a life of abundance as God intends.

I MAGINE YOURSELF IN the Desert of Judea at the edge of the Jordan River. John the Baptist, the first prophetic voice from God to speak in four hundred years, has been preaching repentance in the desert. He is a wild-haired young man, dressed in animal skins and subsisting on locusts and wild honey. Many recognize him as the one spoken of by the Prophet IsaiahA voice cries out in the desert: Prepare the way for the Lord! Make his paths straight! (Matt. 3:3, GW). You, like so many others from Jerusalem and all of Judea and the whole region of the Jordan, are coming out to the desert to confess your sins and be baptized by John. As he preaches, John tells of one who is coming, one who will be much more powerful and will baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire!

Then you notice a man coming through the crowd. He approaches John at the waters edge, asking to be baptized. John hesitates, saying, You need to baptize me, but the man insists, knowing it is the will of God in order that all righteousness can be fulfilled. And so John consents and baptizes Him. As the man [Jesus] comes up out of the water, the whole of the Trinity is present. The Holy Spirit of God descends from heaven and rests upon Jesus, and God speaks, declaring that Jesus is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased (Matt. 3:17, NIV). Like everyone around you, you are speechless. Something very holy has just occurred but you arent sure what it all means.

With this glorious event the public ministry of Jesus begins. But Jesus doesnt stride away from the riverbank and begin to heal and teach about the kingdom of God. Instead, He allows Himself to be led by the Spirit of God into the desert to be tempted by the devil. For forty days He fasts. We can only imagine how weak in body and mind He must have become.