Heb 12: 1-3 12 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
Before you can enjoy the
kind of victory that God has made available for you, you must first learn about
the strategies the devil is using against you.
You must learn how he
operates, so you can put a stop to his operations in your life. You must find
out exactly where he is going to attack you.
We must lay aside and get
rid of everything that slows us down… sin,
wrong desires…We must look away from ourselves, or at the circumstances
surrounding us, and keep or eyes upon Jesus.
If we start looking away,
our eyes will be deceived; we must keep Jesus in our sight.
We are not the first to struggle with the problems
we face, look at what the disciples faced.
Look at what Jesus faced, he saw the joy ahead of
him, so he endured death on the cross and ignored the disgrace it brought Him.
Then he received the highest position in heaven,
the one next to the throne of God the father.
Unless you become weary and faint in your minds,
you too will have an eternal position with Christ.
As long as you live in a mortal body, your carnal
natural mind is the place where your fight with Satan will be won or lost. Some
people think Satan’s attacks come in the realm of the spirit, but they don’t.
Jesus defeated him where the spirit realm is
concerned…once and for all. When we made Jesus theLord of our life, that victory became forever ours. The battle for your spirit is over; it has already been fought and won.
As a believer you have been spiritually re-born
into the image of God. There is absolutely nothing the devil can do to change
that.
You must understand the difference between the soul
and the spirit.
When you’re operating purely in the realm of the
spirit, your mind, which is the realm of the soul is not in charge.
Even though Satan himself is a spirit, he has lost
all his authority in the spiritual realm. He can not fight you in the spiritual realm
anymore. But he can battle you in the mind.
1st Corinthian 10:13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
When you are tempted,
God will give you the ability to endure the temptation as your way of escape.
That means, satin has to
operate in this natural soulish realm, and even in the natural realm he has no
authority.
But he can deceive you, deception is all he has. That
doesn’t mean that he will just pack up and go home. He is still going to try to
steal, kill and destroy you and your relationship with Jesus. He is going to
try to do it by gaining control of your mind.
If you’re going to take
a successful stand against the devil, you will have to do it on the battlefield
of your mind.
If we start looking away
from Jesus, our eyes will be deceived; we must keep Jesus in our sight.
Stay in the word,
Brother Andy
Stay in the word,
Brother Andy
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