Thank God for Jesus and the beautiful gift of salvation. After salvation, there is room for more: deliverance. Deliverance is essential to living a Christian life. The Word of God says, "Lay aside every weight and sin that so easily besets us"-the sins that create stumbling blocks in our lives and cause us to repeat the same cycles, living in and out of unforgiveness, bitterness, alcohol and drug abuse, fornication, adultery, and the like.

It is impossible to totally lay aside these sins until we allow Jesus inside to do a full deliverance in us. Deliverance requires facing truths, forgiving those who hurt you, taking accountability, releasing the past, and posturing yourself for an amazing future in Christ Jesus. "For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and hope" (Jeremiah 29:11).

It takes time. The journey to deliverance: it's a process.