When you surrender to God are all your actions for him?

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So, when you're baptized, the Holy Spirit enters you, and, what truly happens to your life? Are all your actions from then on devoted to the Lord, YHWH? It's impossible to devote an action or routine to the devil, right? I want to keep the devil out of my life permanently and I really need reassurance that I can't devote anything to the devil with just a thought. You can't, right?
 

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So, when you're baptized, the Holy Spirit enters you, and, what truly happens to your life? Are all your actions from then on devoted to the Lord, YHWH? It's impossible to devote an action or routine to the devil, right? I want to keep the devil out of my life permanently and I really need reassurance that I can't devote anything to the devil with just a thought. You can't, right?
Think of yourself like someone who was kidnapped when they were born. You were raised by a family who took care of you, but they weren't your real family; not your genealogy nor identity. You always knew you were different, but didn't understand why. Then, one day, you found out you actually belong to a royal family, the problem is, you were raised as a pauper. Your real family welcomes you in and now you are learning who you really are. You will make many mistakes because you were raised as a pauper for years, but the more you learn about your family as you spend time with them (communion with the Trinity) you start to transform into the reality that was always supposed to be yours from the start.

Also, everything belongs to God, you surrender it to Him or not, it belongs to Him. The devil can't create anything, he can only use whats already God's. If you already surrendered to Him, it means everything is submitted to Him by an act of your will the day you surrendered. Everything is already God's, you just became aware it is.
 
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So, when you're baptized, the Holy Spirit enters you, and, what truly happens to your life? Are all your actions from then on devoted to the Lord, YHWH? It's impossible to devote an action or routine to the devil, right? I want to keep the devil out of my life permanently and I really need reassurance that I can't devote anything to the devil with just a thought. You can't, right?

No, it takes more than a thought, because thoughts are like being presented with a temptation from the devil. You can dwell on it, and it can turn into an action of sin; or you can resist the devil and push away the thought/temptation. James 1:14-15
 
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So, when you're baptized, the Holy Spirit enters you, and, what truly happens to your life? Are all your actions from then on devoted to the Lord, YHWH? It's impossible to devote an action or routine to the devil, right? I want to keep the devil out of my life permanently and I really need reassurance that I can't devote anything to the devil with just a thought. You can't, right?
You can't devote anything to the devil by thoughts. You do need to rebuke the thought and declare that you did not choose to think it. If you do not, there is the opportunity for the thought to get into the heart and then you are in real trouble.

Ensure that you put on the armour of God every day. Ask God to watch over your thoughts. The mind is our battlefield. We have the victory, but it must be enforced. I've watched police chatting away while a teenage drunken brat went around cursing everyone who looked sideways at her. She assaulted another teen. The cops went on chatting. They had the power to intervene but could not be bothered.
 
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You can't devote anything to the devil by thoughts. You do need to rebuke the thought and declare that you did not choose to think it. If you do not, there is the opportunity for the thought to get into the heart and then you are in real trouble.

Ensure that you put on the armour of God every day. Ask God to watch over your thoughts. The mind is our battlefield. We have the victory, but it must be enforced. I've watched police chatting away while a teenage drunken brat went around cursing everyone who looked sideways at her. She assaulted another teen. The cops went on chatting. They had the power to intervene but could not be bothered.
Is thinking something such as "No, I devote that action/thing to the Lord, not the devil" rebuking it? What counts as getting into the heart? Is being worried about it the same thing? What happens if the thought gets into my heart?
 
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Is thinking something such as "No, I devote that action/thing to the Lord, not the devil" rebuking it? What counts as getting into the heart? Is being worried about it the same thing? What happens if the thought gets into my heart?
Thinking is good, even better is making a spoken declaration. When it gets into your heart, you begin to behave and speak as if it is true. It eventually leads to bondage. You seriously do not need that. It's much easier to stay free than to get out of bondage later.
 
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So, when you're baptized, the Holy Spirit enters you, and, what truly happens to your life? Are all your actions from then on devoted to the Lord, YHWH? It's impossible to devote an action or routine to the devil, right? I want to keep the devil out of my life permanently and I really need reassurance that I can't devote anything to the devil with just a thought. You can't, right?

I think it depends on what you want. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth, it guides people to the truth.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
John 16:13

I believe, if you are devoted to God, you will live by His commandments and love others as taught in the Bible.
 
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Think of yourself like someone who was kidnapped when they were born. You were raised by a family who took care of you, but they weren't your real family; not your genealogy nor identity. You always knew you were different, but didn't understand why. Then, one day, you found out you actually belong to a royal family, the problem is, you were raised as a pauper. Your real family welcomes you in and now you are learning who you really are. You will make many mistakes because you were raised as a pauper for years, but the more you learn about your family as you spend time with them (communion with the Trinity) you start to transform into the reality that was always supposed to be yours from the start.

Also, everything belongs to God, you surrender it to Him or not, it belongs to Him. The devil can't create anything, he can only use whats already God's. If you already surrendered to Him, it means everything is submitted to Him by an act of your will the day you surrendered. Everything is already God's, you just became aware it is.
So, even if someone left the faith after being baptized or was stupid enough to ask God to quote "give their stuff back", their life and possessions would still be devoted to God, because they were baptized, right? And if not could they give it back to God?
 
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So, even if someone left the faith after being baptized or was stupid enough to ask God to quote "give their stuff back", their life and possessions would still be devoted to God, because they were baptized, right? And if not could they give it back to God?
As I said, everything belongs to God already, you just become aware they are. You don't have anything because everything belongs to Him. Anything you have is by grace. The war is in your mind. God is God, God is the King, anyone acknowledges it or not, that doesn't change. When a person comes to God, they are just awakened to that reality.
 
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As I said, everything belongs to God already, you just become aware they are. You don't have anything because everything belongs to Him. Anything you have is by grace. The war is in your mind. God is God, God is the King, anyone acknowledges it or not, that doesn't change. When a person comes to God, they are just awakened to that reality.
What's the point of devoting anything to God (old testament context) if it's already his? Was it just implying to devote the object to his purposes and use only?
 
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What's the point of devoting anything to God (old testament context) if it's already his? Was it just implying to devote the object to his purposes and use only?
The Old Testament is the image of Jesus, its an image of what was to come; Freedom from the law through Jesus. He made a new thing, a new plan. Thats why Jesus was upset with the religious people, because they studied the scriptures but they didn't recognize Him in the flesh.

In the Old Testament God was trying to guide people through a Law, through religious actions, but that was only until Jesus came. From Him forward, is through Him alone.
 
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Thinking is good, even better is making a spoken declaration. When it gets into your heart, you begin to behave and speak as if it is true. It eventually leads to bondage. You seriously do not need that. It's much easier to stay free than to get out of bondage later.
If you're in bondage does that mean that doing the action in question is a sin?
 
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So, when you're baptized, the Holy Spirit enters you, and, what truly happens to your life? Are all your actions from then on devoted to the Lord, YHWH? It's impossible to devote an action or routine to the devil, right? I want to keep the devil out of my life permanently and I really need reassurance that I can't devote anything to the devil with just a thought. You can't, right?

While we live this mortal life we live in a state of tension between the now and not yet; for we have truly and indeed been seated with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6), our citizenship is from heaven (Philippians 3:20), and Christ Himself has promised, "That where I am you will be also." (John 14:3). And yet, we are still here with these mortal bodies of death, and so as St. Paul says in Romans chapter 7, "For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing." (Romans 7:19), so that though we know the Law of God is good and holy, but that we are not, and so we cannot be righteous by the Law but we can only be righteous through faith (Romans 3:20-22), for Christ Himself is our righteousness (1 Corinthians 1:30).

There then exists the tension between the old Adam and the new man in Christ; so that there is that struggle, a war within us between the old and the new; that by the old man still at war we are sinners, and the Law of God condemns and causes us to grieve that we might repent; but the new man which is the new creation of God in Christ is alive by grace, through faith, by the power of the Spirit and this new man is perfect, righteous, holy. Thus we are walking paradoxes, at once and at the same time sinners and saints.

Thus the working of God in our lives indeed is continual, but we have this promise from God spoken by the Apostle St. Paul, "that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ." (Philippians 16), so that between now and our resurrection on the Last Day, God is at work in us, to conform us to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29), that is His promise to us, that He is faithful to this good work even when we are faithless, for He remains faithful even in our faithlessness (2 Timothy 2:13).

Therefore do not trust in your own abilities, do not look to your own attempts at good works, do not measure your place before God based on what you see in yourself, or what you think or feel at any given moment; but instead look always to Christ who gave His life for you, reconciling you to God, in whom you have righteousness from God, and peace with God, are the heir of God, the child of God, are the property of God in Jesus Christ.

Let us therefore drown ourselves daily in repentance, boldly confessing our sins before God, trusting in Christ in whom we have forgiveness freely from God. Confident that though we shall face the onslaught of many temptations, and many failures, and with the fiery darts of the devil who would seek to deceive us and lead us away from our faith, we have faith from God that ours is every good gift from above, ours in Christ Jesus our Lord who loves us. Therefore setting our gaze forward, to Christ, to run the race set before us--for indeed Christ is the Author and Finisher of our faith (Hebrews 12:1-2).

Surrender, repentance, etc is not going to be some sort of once-and-done and now you have no more struggles; it is instead the call of Jesus Christ to be His disciple in this world, where He says, "Take up your cross and follow Me" (Matthew 16:24), that in dying to ourselves we have life. This life is a life of discipleship, a life of the cross, a life consisting of dying. And this is something that will encompass this entire life of ours, from the day of our baptism until the day of our final breath. But, in all this, remember it is Christ who saves you, it is Christ who keeps you, it is Christ who holds you--therefore trust in Him in and through all things.

Jesus has your back, always.

When you fall. Trust in Jesus.
When you can't get up. Trust in Jesus.
When all seems lost and hopeless. Trust in Jesus.
When things seem well. Trust in Jesus.
When you don't know what you are doing. Trust in Jesus.
In everything. Trust in Jesus.

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