Making the List
"Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!" — Lamentations 3:40
Everything Depends on This
Everything you have learned now comes down to a practical act: making the list.
It is not glamorous. It involves a pen, some paper, and several unhurried hours. And it is the part that determines whether all of this becomes a set of interesting ideas or an actual change in your life.
The people in these accounts did not merely understand the principles. They made lists. The pastor with chest and back pain made a list of sins committed over the years and repented of each one. Three days later the pain was gone.
How to Build It
Do not rely on memory. Rely on revelation.
Pray first: "Holy Spirit, bring to mind everything that needs to be dealt with. I cannot produce this list myself." Then work — because revelation tends to come to people actively engaged, not to people waiting passively.
Work by category, not by free recall. Categories jog memory; blank pages do not.
Work by decade. Childhood. Teens. Twenties. Each decade forward.
Keep the notebook with you. Things surface while driving, showering, falling asleep. Write them down immediately, without evaluating whether they count.
Do not filter. If it comes to mind, it goes on the page. You are not the judge of what matters.
The Three Lists
Keep them separate, because each has a different remedy.
List One — Activity Sins. Things you did. Remedy: repent.
List Two — Unholy Soul Ties. People with whom sin occurred between you — consensual or not; also anyone who taught you something destructive. Remedy: repent where applicable, forgive, break the tie.
List Three — Agreement Sins. Oaths, vows, dedications, occult involvement, words declared over yourself, plus family line patterns. Remedy: repent and renounce.
Applying the wrong remedy to the wrong list is the single most common reason people get partial results.
The Issue Grid
Alongside the three lists, maintain your issue grid: every problem, its intensity from one to ten, and today's date.
This is not optional bookkeeping. Change is often gradual enough to be invisible without a baseline, and people routinely forget how bad things were. The grid is what will tell you the truth later.
Point to Ponder
Understanding the principles changes nothing. The list is where it becomes real.
Verse to Remember
"Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!" — Lamentations 3:40
Question to Consider
Have I been reading these lessons as information rather than doing the work they describe?
Today's Practice
Block out real time — two hours minimum, ideally more, somewhere you will not be interrupted.
Set up four pages: Activity Sins. Soul Ties. Agreements. Issue Grid.
Pray for revelation. Then work through categories systematically:
Sexual. Anger and violence. Dishonesty and theft. Substances. Relationships and betrayals. Speech, gossip, curses. Money and unpaid vows. Occult and other worship. Oaths and organizations. Family patterns. What was done to you.
Go decade by decade through each category.
Do not repent of anything yet. Today is collection. Tomorrow is the praying.
When you finish, you will likely feel heavy. That is normal, and it is temporary. What you are looking at is not a verdict on you — it is a work order, and every item on it is something that is about to be removed.
Prayer
Father, I am doing the work today rather than just reading about it.
Bring to my mind everything that needs to be dealt with. I am not going to filter or excuse or decide what counts. I will write down whatever You show me.
Give me stamina for this, and keep me from despair when the page gets long. A long list is not a verdict on me. It is a list of things about to be gone.
Show me everything. In the name of Jesus. Amen.
A long list is not a verdict. It is a work order.