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• Purity Course
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  This was a wonderful and encouraging response today

  Question 8. How are you today? Is the good news of the cross breathing life into your heart? And if not, even if you are struggling or failing, please share with your mentor, who longs to pray for and with you, and share God’s own counsel from His Word.
  I am so thankful to Christ for the amazing ministry that is Setting Captives Free.

  These courses have been an incredible journey into a relationship with Christ that wasn’t there before. Having discipline and focus to come the cross each day has been life changing. I am finally seeing the prospect of lasting freedom from sin.

  I would pray that I can continue on this path towards the cross and away from this world.

• A United Front Course
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  Question 4. What does focusing on the good news that happened at the cross do for your heart and mind? Please share your thoughts.

  "Focusing on the cross enables me to see Truth! My identity is found in the fact that God loves me enough to sacrifice His Son for me, and Jesus loves me enough to die a horrible death and be separated from His Father for me. Focusing on this truth helps me to trust Him more (His promises and character), and see the cross as beautiful thing. When I focus on Christ and the cross, I stop thinking about my life and the “what if’s.” I start resting in His ways and put my hope in His plan. I start drawing on the power of His resurrection that is in me."

• Weight Loss Course
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  @SR-Coker Drinking water is good for us and should not interfere with your stomach growls; however, if you have a metabolic disorder such as diabetes be sure to check with your medical doctor before making any radical changes to the way you and eat and drink.
  I hope this helps.

• Depression Course
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  Depression L19 Q 8. Here is a place, if you would like, for you to express your praise to God for His great love to you, and for the wonderful things He has done for you at the cross. He has redeemed you and forgiven your sins:

  April writes: “Oh, My Lord, we sing Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty, Who is, Who was, and Is to come. I thank you for your unfailing love. I thank you for your long-suffering with me. I thank you for making a way in which I am forgiven and can walk with your Holy Spirit. Thank you for my scars to show how you healed me. Thank you for your scars that show how much you loved me. What love, peace, overwhelming joy. Praise you Jesus.”

• Audio Testimonies
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  Have you ever thought the message of the cross was only for unbelievers, or for baby Christians? Think again!

  Check out this interview of Erick Hurt and Weight Loss course member (and now Setting Captives Free mentor) David Tharp. David has lost 30 pounds now.

  David's Testimony

• Media Addiction
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  Question 2. Think for a moment about all the changes God has made/is making in your heart, and specifically how those changes are related to the good news of the cross. Please share those changes briefly:

  Christine writes;

  The Lord has definitely changed my heart. It is no longer about me, but about Christ. The sins committed are primarily committed against a holy God. It is no longer about how I can influence my husband to change and to turn from sexual immorality, bringing about change by changing his external behavior and avoiding sexual sins, but it is about how Christ can change him and how true and lasting change is not only possible, but is inevitable in light of the Cross and the Gospel. It is about loving and forgiving my husband, not because he deserves it, but because I have first been loved and forgiven in my own sinful state. It has been a steep learning curve and has sometimes been a heart struggle on my own side, but through Christ all things are possible. Even though my situation has not entirely changed, I can walk in peace with love and hope because I trust a holy God who is faithful, who loved me at my darkest and who gives me a living hope, through Christ Jesus my Lord, and I can pass that hope and love on to my husband, my children and to those I come in contact with daily.

  My heart is being continually warmed and encouraged journeying with Christine through the Mentorship course. I sometimes forget who's the Mentor and who's the student.....

• Faith Building Studies
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  The only thing I would add is not to try to 'remain mindful' of too much Marilyn. Pick just one key truth, something definite and condensed. I can look at any lesson fo say the Bootcamp course and there is SO MUCH for me to revel in, but I try to take away just one point to think over as I go through my day

• Set Free Recorded Live Course
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  Question 7 at Marker 49:40 in video: Do you see the gospel pattern in these Old Testament stories? If yes, is your faith in the resurrection of Jesus increased? Please share your thoughts

  Cindy writes:

  Wow...as often as I've read those stories I never made the correlation until today. Each picture and story represented something so very significant to Christ and his death and resurrection. It puts my life and dying to sin in a new light.

• Mentorship Student Comments
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  Question 4. Considering Sam Storms’ statement above, in particular “The only thing that will ultimately break the power of sin is passion for Jesus”, how will that truth affect your mentoring here with Setting Captives Free?

  Jeanette writes:

  It confirms and validates that the only way I can mentor my students is to lead them to Jesus. Help them see the power of the cross and what He did for them so they can fall in love with Him like I did.

• Looking to Jesus
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  Denise says;

  I like that the lesson pointed out what righteousness means. I tend to forget this and get caught up with associating righteousness with only meaning perfect obedience. Not realizing that perfect obedience is the cause and not the effect. We are righteous (accepted by God) forever because of the credit of the perfect obedience of Jesus freely given to us at the cross, in exchange for all our sins! What an amazing gift!

  This part really spoke to me: Jesus sacrificed Himself on the cross so that when God looks at you through the blood of Jesus, you are seen as perfect. God loves and accepts you! Because you are in Christ, because you are one with Christ, you eternally hear, "This is my Son (or daughter), whom I love; with him/her I am well pleased." (Matthew 3:17).

  People always say, myself included when they die, they hope the Father will look at their life and say " I am well pleased" or "well done my good and faithful servant" How sad that is because it means they have not fully believed and accepted Jesus sacrifice of his life for them on the cross; His righteousness given to them in exchange for their sins as the only thing that makes the Father pleased with them. They are instead hoping in their works and good deeds and efforts to live godly as "the thing" that will make God pleased with them. As humble as their hope to hear God say "well pleased" sounds, it is full of sinful pride and unbelief and is the very thing that will draw out God's displeasure towards them.

  May we always abandon hope in the sinful pride of trying to earn God's love, favor, and acceptance. To do so presumes that our sacrifices are more holy and pure and acceptable than the sacrifice Jesus life, His blood poured out on the Cross. Instead, may we humble ourselves by abandoning hope in ourselves and fall at the foot of the cross believing and receiving the blood sacrifice of Jesus alone that makes us acceptable. When we do, we don't have to wait until we die to hear the Father say He is well pleased with us. Because of our faith in Jesus's sacrifice for us on the cross, the Father says it to us now, today!