LOVING CHOICE THERAPY

      Human life is a sequence of choices in which the person attempts to meet the needs that are designed into the human.  The person chooses in accord with the belief and purposes of his heart. 

                 THE HUMAN NEEDS

      1.  LIFE  is survival in eternity.  This is being
          "born again"  of the Spirit in the  Kingdom.

      2.  LOVE is the relationship with God and
            others that enables LIFE.  "without 
           Me you can do nothing."
 
      3.  JOY is the POWER "You shall receive 
           power when the Holy Spirit comes upon
           you."  and the strength to LIVE.  "The joy
           of the Lord is my strength."

     4. PEACE is Spirit rest, soul contentment 
           and bodily quiet, a fruit of the Spirit.

      5.  FREEDOM from slavery to sin and 
           darkness comes when Control is re-
           placed by Self Control.

     The way to meet these needs is Self Control.  It
is communion with God in the Spirit.  The Self Control cycle is  Quiet - Prayer - Faith - Love - Service - Peace and then back around through Quiet.  It operates in the kingdom as a spiritual energy cycle like the Kreb cycle operates in the chemistry of the body.  In this communion of a living whole person with God, LOVE empowers with JOY and enables the person to acquire the fruit of the Spirit and other character traits of Jesus. 

    The heart is the operating system of software in the whole person.  The spirit and soul relate through the heart. "For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.  The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him."  The attitudes of the heart and things stored there come out the person's mouth and out in his behavior.

    This Self Control cycle is therapy as it replaces lies in the heart with Truth.  It tears down strongholds of the enemy that were built on ground in the heart that was surrendered to enemies that came to steal kill and destroy.  Those enemies are tormentors of the person but the torment serves to clue him that he has needs.  The choices he makes to meet the needs determine whether he LIVES or dies.

    Liberty is the release from any arbitrary control.
   "Where the Holy Spirit is, there is liberty."

    Conscience is the spiritual function that alerts a
     person  as to how a choice will affect his 
     relationship with God.

     In the Self Control cycle a believer often hears Rhema from the Holy Spirit and then obeys. "Man shall not LIVE by bread alone but by every rhema as it proceeds out of the mouth of God."  and so God works His loving choice therapy.