Declaration of Dependence

Got this from Pure Church. It’s writ­ten by a fel­low named Skip Moen:

I believe that God is the sov­er­eign ruler of all cre­ation.

I believe that God is a God of order, not con­fu­sion or chaos.

I believe that God is com­pas­sion­ate beyond mea­sure, faith­ful to a fault, mer­ci­ful and for­giv­ing.

I believe that I am lost and hope­lessly ruined with­out His daily inter­ven­tion and inter­ac­tion in my life.

I believe that the sys­tems of this world lie within the power of the evil one who unfail­ingly pur­sues the destruc­tion of all of God’s cre­ation, includ­ing me.

I believe that reliance on human effort, human think­ing and human willpower aligns me with the sys­tems of this world and places me within the power of the evil one.

I believe that my own expe­ri­ence con­firms my total inabil­ity to res­cue myself from destruc­tive choices.

I believe that I am addicted to my own agen­das, mood-altering behav­iors and self-sufficiency.

I believe that Yeshua died on the cross to redeem me from the power of sin that would oth­er­wise dom­i­nate and con­trol my life.

I believe that Yeshua alone can set me free from this slav­ery to self and sys­tems.

I believe that Yeshua calls me to a bap­tism of death in order to destroy self-sufficiency and system-addict think­ing.

I believe that until I sur­ren­der com­pletely to His will and lord­ship, I will fal­ter in every attempt to live a life pleas­ing to God.

I believe that dis­ci­ple­ship is the invi­ta­tion to become a vol­un­tary slave to the will of Yeshua and the plan of the Father.

I believe that God desires my devo­tion to Him above all else and He will tax the far­thest star and the last grain of sand in order to help me express that devo­tion.

I believe that obe­di­ence is more valu­able than knowl­edge.

I believe that the will of the Father is man­i­fest in the midst of suf­fer­ing, afflic­tion and hard­ship because these are the prin­ci­ples of king­dom redemp­tive work.

I believe that God pro­vides for His chil­dren, lifts them from afflic­tion, grants them peace and joy and pre­pares them for pur­poses beyond this life.

I believe that God’s path of right­eous­ness is clear to those who are led by the Spirit and trust in His Word found in Holy Scrip­ture.

I believe that I must live by every word from the mouth of God, eschew­ing all temp­ta­tions to rely on my own under­stand­ing, efforts and abil­i­ties.

I believe that I am called to emu­late Yeshua, accept his path, iden­tify with his suf­fer­ing and expe­ri­ence the power of his res­ur­rec­tion.

I believe that God is trust­wor­thy regard­less of all my cir­cum­stances and that He will not fail to bring about what is best for me.

I believe that oth­ers should see Yeshua in the con­duct of my life.

To this end, I declare today a com­mit­ment to act only under the direc­tion of my Lord and God, leav­ing behind any con­sid­er­a­tion of the world’s mea­sures of suc­cess and any attempts to deter­mine my own agen­das for life. I real­ize and acknowl­edge that this com­mit­ment will require my total depen­dence on moment-to-moment inter­ac­tion with my Lord. Today and hence­forth, I am a slave of Yeshua the Mes­siah.

Signed _____________________ Date ____________________

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