With so much evil in the world, it is EASY to close ourselves off, and not experience that abundant life God's promised us.
Satan takes every opportunity, every open door, even glimmer of hope he can get, to oppress us and to steal from us.
But we don't have to accept that. We do NOT have to just live with it. We can fight back. We can truly internalize who we are in Christ, truly seek Him for who He wants us to be and how He wants our lives to look. And we can take our lives back - because we have the authority to do so.
One of the best weapons we have, really, is knowing who we are created to be - and being that person. Because if we do the work of finding that out, and then allow the process of evolution in our spirits to be complete, we find ourselves surrendered to God and dependent on Him. And in that dependency, we learn how He would have us to stand and wage war against the enemy of our essence - that being that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, created in God's own image and given all we need to live the lives He purposed for each of us.
There is nothing more scary to satan than a Believer who KNOWS God. Because there is truly NOT A THING he can do to them that walk in relationship with the Lover of our souls.
But because he is such a deciever, he wants us to believe that he has power in our lives. Truth is, he only has what we willingly hand over to him. He's a bully, and as soon as we expose him for who he really is (a big baby, throwing a HUGE hissy-fit), then he runs screaming for the hills.
I don't know about anybody else, but that riles me up. THAT makes me angry. And it makes me determined to take back ALL MY STUFF. Because seriously. Why should I give away what God reserved just for me?!
All we gotta do is trust God. If we would just take a step back and stop tryin to be our own source, our own protection, our own sanctifiers, our OWN saviors, then... THEN we'd know God's wonder-working power in our lives. Because the first wonder He'd work is IN US.
Everything else is just gravy.
He WANTS to do big things in our lives. But we have to let Him. He wont intrude. He ALWAYS waits to be invited. Because that's just who He is. But when we invite Him, we've gotta know that it can't be on our terms. We have GOT to be willing to do it His way. It's higher than ours, after all. And it works out much better in the long run.
Satan is powerless, if we are willing to become sold out to God's Love for us. If we will do that, if we will just walk in who we are in Christ, we would see restoration and victory in every area of our lives.
Stop believing the lies. Quit giving your power away. Wrap up in the Holy One. Rest in Him and open that door that has been so long barred against His wooing. He has great great things in store, if you would invite Him in.
Take this not as an invitation from me, but as an invitation from the King for you to enter His private chamber and be intimate with Him.
You won't regret it. Not at all. Not even for a second. Promise.
I'll be back.
Ro
Satan takes every opportunity, every open door, even glimmer of hope he can get, to oppress us and to steal from us.
But we don't have to accept that. We do NOT have to just live with it. We can fight back. We can truly internalize who we are in Christ, truly seek Him for who He wants us to be and how He wants our lives to look. And we can take our lives back - because we have the authority to do so.
One of the best weapons we have, really, is knowing who we are created to be - and being that person. Because if we do the work of finding that out, and then allow the process of evolution in our spirits to be complete, we find ourselves surrendered to God and dependent on Him. And in that dependency, we learn how He would have us to stand and wage war against the enemy of our essence - that being that we are fearfully and wonderfully made, created in God's own image and given all we need to live the lives He purposed for each of us.
There is nothing more scary to satan than a Believer who KNOWS God. Because there is truly NOT A THING he can do to them that walk in relationship with the Lover of our souls.
But because he is such a deciever, he wants us to believe that he has power in our lives. Truth is, he only has what we willingly hand over to him. He's a bully, and as soon as we expose him for who he really is (a big baby, throwing a HUGE hissy-fit), then he runs screaming for the hills.
I don't know about anybody else, but that riles me up. THAT makes me angry. And it makes me determined to take back ALL MY STUFF. Because seriously. Why should I give away what God reserved just for me?!
All we gotta do is trust God. If we would just take a step back and stop tryin to be our own source, our own protection, our own sanctifiers, our OWN saviors, then... THEN we'd know God's wonder-working power in our lives. Because the first wonder He'd work is IN US.
Everything else is just gravy.
He WANTS to do big things in our lives. But we have to let Him. He wont intrude. He ALWAYS waits to be invited. Because that's just who He is. But when we invite Him, we've gotta know that it can't be on our terms. We have GOT to be willing to do it His way. It's higher than ours, after all. And it works out much better in the long run.
Satan is powerless, if we are willing to become sold out to God's Love for us. If we will do that, if we will just walk in who we are in Christ, we would see restoration and victory in every area of our lives.
Stop believing the lies. Quit giving your power away. Wrap up in the Holy One. Rest in Him and open that door that has been so long barred against His wooing. He has great great things in store, if you would invite Him in.
Take this not as an invitation from me, but as an invitation from the King for you to enter His private chamber and be intimate with Him.
You won't regret it. Not at all. Not even for a second. Promise.
I'll be back.
Ro
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