Colossians 2:13-15, NLT You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross. A step of deliverance in my life that I still remember clearly took place in the summer of 1997, during a conference of Near East Ministries. Up to that point in my life, I had developed a pattern of seeking comfort from the wrong source. Especially in the area of sexuality, there was impurity again and again. I was so tired of it. That’s why I went to the conference with a deep longing for breakthrough and freedom — and with questions I desperately wanted answers to. In particular, I wondered why putting on the helmet of salvation from the spiritual armor every day didn’t help. Impur...