At Calvary, Jesus paid the price so we can really be free- exercising sovereignty here on earth. The freedom that Jesus offers is liberation from the punishment of sin; people who are in Him are no longer under condemnation
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.- Galatians 3:13-14 KJV
We were buried with Him in baptism, from which we were also resurrected with Him by the power of God, who raised Him from the grave
Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.-
Yes, we pray against backwardness because God loves us. His Word clearly states the plans I have for you are of good and not of evil to give us a future, hope, and expected end
While sin holds us captive, Christ alone offers genuine freedom. While claiming to offer freedom, Sin only serves to corrupt and control its victims.
The verse above tells that the path of the righteous man is onward ever backward never. Jesus said I am the light of the world and so if we are in Him- joint heirs in Him
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.-
In this passage, a connection is drawn between our love for God and our capacity to stick by Him when things go tough
The Lord our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: 7 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the river Euphrates.
In all these, they never knew the mind of God for them. It was the land God hath promise their ancestors that He was about to give to them. Imagine they did not go ahead. They would have possibly missed it