Advancing Encouragement By:
Bishop James Jr. Hairston

John: 20:23: Whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever sins ye retain, they are retained.

In order to have this power you must possess the Holy Spirit to be able too remit and retain sins. Today I want to express the power of the Holy Ghost possessing the believer in such away that you will be able to take dominion over all sin against you and never let the sins of people ever affect you again or cause you pain, distress and hurt in your life. This sounds impossible but this is the power I believe the Holy Spirit have all believers to possess. Jesus Christ breathed on the disciples and said unto them receive you the Holy Ghost. In order for the apostles to accomplish the great things Jesus Christ had for them in the world they had to possess this power and in order for you and I, baptized born again believers to accomplish the great things God has for us, we too must possess this power. To remit sin in some translations it says whosoever sins you forgive which is one way of looking at it but in the Greek is a wider range of explaining what the word remit mean. To remit that has more weight than just to forgive; it is to send, to go or to send forth. This is another form of loosing, Matthew 16:19, 18: 18 therefore, you are not only forgiving a person but you are sending there sin far away from you where it does not take root in you or to harm you in anyway. It gets even better than that not only do you have the power to send people sins away from you but you also have the power to seize it and to take dominion over it where it cannot penetrate you or enter into your spirit to control you, this comes from the word retain in the Greek! This is huge because some people like to control your emotions, behavior and generally how you feel and function with their sin or behavior. When that happens is a sign of weakness of the believer to let someone take control over how you feel or behave and Satan will have a field day with that weak spirit! If you know someone that are letting people control how they feel or behave let them know they need Jesus and the Power He wants to give them through the Holy Ghost to remit and retain sin against them to destroy, send away and to take dominion and rule over it in Jesus Name. If it is you that need to start operating in the Power of the Holy Ghost to remit and to retain sin then I declare and decree that you will receive this message and believe in your heart that you have the Power to remit and to retain sin so that you can conquer every attack of the enemy and do let people control your spirit on how you feel, function, behave and live because you have the victory over them right now to send their sin away far from you and to take dominion over it in Jesus Name …

James Jr. Hairston