Pit to Palace or Palace to Pit?

You need to be careful you don’t fall back into a pit that you once crawled out of. Without God’s help you would have never got out of that mess so don’t be playing around and fallin back in. There’s mud and muck at the bottom the sides are slimy and it reeks of the stench of sorrow. Don’t think “I’ll quit hangin around here tomorrow” because tomorrow never comes you know, and maintaining victory has a lot to do with where you go and self-control. Yet true self-control is not merely the effect of your own effort but the fruit of the Spirit within. When you’re in control you’re free! Free to do whatever the Holy Spirit within is leading you to do or not do. Free from fear and full of cheer because you know that wherever you go and whatever you do that Almighty God is in you. “And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2 Cor 3:17) You’re no longer the slave of your own desires because you’ve given the control to Another. Now you’re ruled from the inside out and not the outside in. Your Governor is glorious and victorious and able to rule over oppression and set you free from all fleshly obsessions. Something or someone will control your life but you get to choose what and who. To be ruled by Satan, stuff or self simply sucks because those aren’t good gods. They are not free nor will they enable you to be and misery loves company. But God is Good and truly free and when He rules your life so shall you be, “because as He is, so are we.” (1 John 4:17)

Ps 7:14-16
14 Behold, the wicked brings forth iniquity;
Yes, he conceives trouble and brings forth falsehood.
15 He made a pit and dug it out,
And has fallen into the ditch which he made.
16 His trouble shall return upon his own head,
And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.
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Eccl 10:8
8 He who digs a pit will fall into it,
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Isa 38:17
17 Indeed it was for my own peace
That I had great bitterness;
But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.
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Zech 9:11

11 "As for you also,
Because of the blood of your covenant,
I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.
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Jonah 2:6
6 I went down to the moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my life from the pit,
O Lord, my God.
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Ps 40:1-3
1 I waited patiently for the Lord;
And He inclined to me,
And heard my cry.
2 He also brought me up out of a horrible pit,
Out of the miry clay,
And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps.
3 He has put a new song in my mouth —
Praise to our God;
Many will see it and fear,
And will trust in the Lord.
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Gal 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
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2 Cor 3:17-18
17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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1 John 4:4
4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
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Gal 5:1
5 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
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1 Peter 2:16-17
16 as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
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1 Peter 2:16
6 Exercise your freedom by serving God, not by breaking the rules.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)

1 Peter 2:16
16 You are free from the law, but that doesn't mean you are free to do wrong. Live as those who are free to do only God's will at all times.
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Rom 8:21-22
21 because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
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Luke 4:18-19

18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed;
19 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord."
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Ps 119:45
45 And I will walk at liberty,
For I seek Your precepts.
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John 8:31-32
31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
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1 John 4:16-18
16 And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.
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Isa 9:6
6 For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
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