Ken: It's in 1 Corinthians chapter three. Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? He is dwelling in each one of us. It never has been a matter of our doing works that will please Him. It's a matter of Him working with us and through us in every situation that we face, and being led by His Spirit, by His presence. The Lord's Holy Spirit is in us.

Mike: It says, “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.” How do we glorify God in our body? We allow Him to work in and through us by humbling ourselves and submitting our wills to His will. That's how we glorify God in our bodies, and that's the only way. Other than that, we forget. He's the potter; we're the clay. He made us into these vessels that He moves in and through—only if we submit our will to His will and Him doing it His way.

Ken: Do you realize all the people out there in this world that are tied up in knots and don't know up from down and have no idea? And some of 'em have a lot of money and some of 'em have nothing. Yeah. But they all are not free. You come into a freedom by the Holy Spirit renewing your mind and actually coming into you and dwelling in you, and you have His presence with you constantly. That is a freedom. That's the way He created us to be—to be free. That's why He set us free: to be free. Free to worship Him, free to love one another, free to be what God called us to be. Freedom is peace and joy and love.

Bill: I'm His possession, and I'm free. Wait a minute. Explain that to me. You have to understand that by giving in to His possessing you, it brings the freedom that we all want. Part of that is that we're saying, “Lord, I'm Your possession. Now let me give You a little insight as to how You're to treat me.” That's the first hurdle to get over—to say, “Yes, You're the potter, I'm the clay, but let me tell You what I'm to look at.”

The freedom in our relationships with one another comes when we accept—and be thankful for, and be grateful for—that we are His possession. Because in that position, you're not only free to serve His purposes in the earth, but you shed so much of the negative, so much of the problem, so much of the fears and doubts. You just say, “Hey, I'm His possession. I don't have to worry about those things anymore because He's got the reins in every sense of the word.”

Lois: Can we do this individually? No one comes forth unless someone prays for them. We come forth because we love one another, because we're a many membered body—that the body's functioning in a healthy way. It is so important to pray for each other.

Ken: We all have a thing that God speaks to us to function in. All of us included have a ministry. And that ministry first of all is to love the Lord and to love what He's created in all of us who love Him. We have been brought forth as a family, as a body of Christ, to love one another and build each other up. Ephesians four really lays it out perfectly. God gave all these gifts, He said each gift is to minister in love to one another.

Mike: There was a verse that said, “For freedom we have been set free.” I got to thinking about that. Free from what? For freedom we have been set free. Free from what? Free from the soul-flesh part of our lives that wants to put us in bondage to bonds created on a level that is not spirit. We're in the day of spirit, and the Lord says, “Not by man's power, not by man's might, but by My Spirit,” sayeth the Lord, and it's only by His Spirit that things are gonna get accomplished.

To allow the Lord to have His will take place in this realm—and it only comes through, as I spoke earlier, the fact that we humble ourselves and give our wills over to His will and allow Him to come through and do His thing through a body of people. And in that atmosphere of spirit and in that level of spirit, we're not subject to the bonds and the trappings of the soul-flesh side of our lives. We're putting the soul-flesh under the subjection of the love of God, and that changes everything. That whole focus changes everything. We truly can walk in a freedom and be free to allow the Lord to do His thing.

Dale: You overcome because of the blood of the Lamb. Because you take the communion honestly. You come to appropriate His nature, not get your problem solved. You come to change. You come to grow.

Lois: You change when by faith you bring what Christ did for us right into your present.

Ken: Make it out of the sincerity of your own heart as you take the body and the blood, because honestly that's how it works. It's not about all the religious order of doing it. That's not it. It's about taking it with a sincere heart and letting God examine you.

Ron: You don't stand by your strength. You stand by other people's prayers. If I look into myself, I don't see very much good. No good thing, honestly. So how do I stand before the Lord? What even makes me able to stand before the Lord? It's the prayers of the saints. It's the love of the saints for me that keeps me in the presence of the Lord. You stand before Him because you're part of a family that holds you up, prays for you, and loves you. And that's it.

Bill: So the Scriptures have a word where it says He is enthroned upon the praises of our heart. And listening to Ron, I'm thinking we are enthroned upon the prayers of one another, and that's our foundation before the Father. That's what we're sitting on—the prayers of those around us that hold us in a place before Him. We are enthroned upon the prayers of one another.

Debbie: We are each other's wall. We keep our walls pure before the Lord in His presence. That shuts out everything else. We pray for each other. We minister to each other, and we cover one another.

Monnie: We are each other's rock. All of our faith and our love—we help each other to stand in our relationships.