Religion or the Abundant Life - You Choose
God says: Choose Life!
 2 Corinthians 4:6-7 Amplified Bible 6 For God Who said, Let light shine out of darkness, has shone in our hearts so as [to beam forth] the Light for the illumination of the knowledge of the majesty and glory of God [as it is manifest in the Person and is revealed] in the face of Jesus Christ (the Messiah).
 7 However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.
 Father God has devised a systematic plan of redemption and development. It always works.  The enemy has a systematic plan of destruction. He has tried to make the church look inept, powerless, and staggering through life under the pressure of circumstances. ( 2 corinthians 5:21)
•	He has put question marks around the truth that we have been made righteous.
•	He puts question marks around the power and the prayer language we have been given in God’s Holy Spirit.
•	He has promoted religion.
 Religion always begins with the perspective-Sinful man is seeking to find what they need to do or change to please God.
Real  faith and Life always begins with the truth that a  holy God reaches down to sinful man and lifts him up, changes him and gives him fellowship with a loving, grace-filled Father God.
This is possible only through the finished work of Jesus Christ.
The good news is the power of the enemy was FINISHED in the FINISHED work of Christ.
Colossians 2:13-15 Amplified Bible (AMP) 13 And you who were dead in trespasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh (your sensuality, your sinful carnal nature), [God] brought to life together with [Christ], having [freely] forgiven us all our transgressions,
 14 Having cancelled and blotted out and wiped away the handwriting of the note (bond) with its legal decrees and demands which was in force and stood against us (hostile to us). This [note with its regulations, decrees, and demands] He set aside and cleared [a]completely out of our way by nailing it to [His] cross.
 15 [God] disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross]. We are to command the Light of the Glorious Gospel (the power of salvation) into every place darkness tries to invade our life. Jesus gave us His authority to do this. The enemy is tarried, absolutely fear-filled, that the Body of Christ would find out the truth about who they are in Christ and start walking in it.
God says:
This is My way of doing and being. Walk in it.