BATTLEFIELD OF THE MIND
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 the
Lord 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.
But
in the flesh, we still have to deal with him.
It’s
the battlefield of the mind.
2 Timothy 3:1 This know also, that in the
last days perilous times shall come.
2 Timothy 3:7
7 Ever
learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
The false arc angel Lucifer the history and future
Ezekiel
28:15 15 Thou
wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee.
Ezekiel 28: 17
17 Thine heart was lifted
up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy
brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.
Some
where the will of God had become distasteful to Satan.
He
wanted to exalt his throne above the stars of God as to be like the most High.
God
in His eternal plan had reserved this exaltation for His son Jesus, not for
Lucifer.
It
was given to Jesus alone to sit with the Father on his throne.
Revelation
3:21 21 To
him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also
overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Lucifer
though “vice regent” was destined to hold a lesser position.
But as it turned out he was not satisfied with
this.
When
it became evident that he was not to have the supreme position he saw his
ambitions thwarted, or down graded to third place. It was this that prompted
his rebellion.
The
question I have is how Lucifer hoped to be successful in challenging God for
his throne.
Obviously
the devils rebellion was not born on the impulse of the moment, but rather had
to be a calculated plan.
But
he reason for its eventual failure was because God had foreseen the entrance of
evil into the universe and had prepared a plan in advance to counteract it.
It was the divine plan of redemption.
So
when Lucifer painted a glowing prospect to the angels that they would be as
gods, as he did to Eve, makers of their own destiny, they left their first home
to follow him.
So
it came to pass that one third of the angels elected to follow Lucifer.
God
had not been taken by surprise that sin had entered His universe.
God
however had knowledge which the devil did not have. He foresaw the extent of
the rebellion.
He
knew that although Satan would disrupt his plan, Satan could not prevent it
from eventually succeeding.
There
was one thing that God held in reserve, not even the angels knew.
God
had a grand plan of salvation through his Son, Jesus Christ. Not even the
righteous angels knew about it.
1Peter 1:19-20
19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot:
20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you,
Jesus Himself would become flesh and die
in the sinners place.
At Calvary
the devils legal authority was stripped from him, and he has no further power
over the believer.
John 8:32
32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Verse 36
If the Son therefore
shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
Being free is having victory, staying free
comes with obedience and commitment.
Stay away from negative thinking, it can
rob you of the truth.
How? Because you have an enemy involved.
He wants to kill steal and destroy.
His name is
Lucifer or Satan or Devil.
But Jesus came that we might have life and
have it abundantly.
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