Are you hooked by a besetting sin? Are you convinced your habit will destroy you? The covenant promises of God have brought me freedom, rest and victory:

1) God has promised to subdue all our sins. “He will subdue all our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Micah 7:19). The word for subdue here means to put down or conquer. The Lord promises to mortify and kill off all our sinful habits and strongholds through faith and true repentance.

2) God has promised to cause us to walk holy. Do you think, “I want to be free, but I don’t have the will to forsake my sin”? The Lord answers, “I will cleanse you.. .a new heart also will I give you.. .I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them” (Ezekiel 36:25-27).

3) He has promised never to forsake His possessions. The Lord chastens us for our sin, but he never forsakes his seed: “If they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod. Nevertheless my loving-kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fall. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me” (Psalm 89:31-36).

4) He has promised to put fear in our hearts. “I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me” (Jeremiah 32:40). I want to say directly to those struggling with secret sin, despair or spiritual weariness: the only thing keeping you from total victory is unbelief. God has sworn to give you all the power you need to obey his every word. Indeed, he has given you these covenant promises so you’ll quit trying to overcome sin by your own power.

Here is a key to understanding the New Covenant:

God has no boundaries or limits. We limit the Lord by our own limited thinking. But he gave us His covenant promises to take off the chains we put on Him.

In the Garden of Eden, Satan used God’s limitless nature to seduce Adam and Eve. He told them, “You can be as God. He has no boundaries, no limits. And so can you.” (Out of this deception came the false doctrine that claims, “Whatever you can conceive, you can do. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.”)

The Lord had to send his law to show humankind we can’t be as God. We simply can’t break down all the boundaries and limitations of our flesh. So the Lord used the law to help us recognize our utter powerlessness. Jesus also demonstrated this truth. He limited himself with the boundaries of flesh, saying, “Without the Father I can do nothing.” Yet Christ also came to reveal that any trusting believer can be brought into this New Covenant promise: “I will be God to you, without limits or boundaries.”

You may think your unsaved spouse will never come to Jesus. But God says, “You’re limiting me. I have no boundaries.” Likewise, at one time the church thought Communism would eventually rule the world. We reasoned, “The Lord can’t move under such godless dictatorships.” But we were limiting God. In his time, the Lord tore down the whole system, beginning with the Berlin Wall. His Spirit swept through all of Eastern Europe and into Russia.

Christians had the same thoughts about the Bamboo Curtain. We put limits on God’s ability to move in China. But today that vast nation is on fire with the Spirit of God. We also put boundaries on God in Cuba. But I just saw a film telling of 100,000 Methodists there on fire with the Holy Ghost.

I tell you, God has no boundaries, no limits, even in the world of Islam. Revival can take place anywhere the Lord pleases. It can happen In your home, with your children, even among your unsaved loved ones. And God can wipe out abortion or pornography at any time. Our task Is merely to give up what our flesh can conceive, and surrender to God’s faithful promises. We need to believe him for miracles.

As you face your own struggle, remember that the Lord will not give up on you. He calls you his friend, and he still has his hand on you. All he asks for is a repentant heart and absolute trust in his promises. Yet, you are to heed this warning: Though God will not quit on you, you can quit on him. And that leads to hardness of heart. Remember Saul’s example. Had that hardened man turned to the Lord instead of to a witch, God would have saved him.

Right now, you face both a burning bush and a prophetic voice. I firmly believe the Holy Ghost is speaking through my words to you, saying, “This is your hour of freedom. Don’t put down this message unchanged. Don’t allow yourself to go away carrying any discouragement, bondage, guilt, stronghold or besetting sin. Instead, lay hold of the New Covenant promises. You are the Lord’s, and he needs you. Soon he’s going to lead you into green pastures and still waters. So now, by faith, receive his love, power, forgiveness and freedom. Your best days are still to come.”

“The Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance” (Psalm 94:14).

From: The God Possessed Man