No more Low Living, Bottom Dwelling, or Stinking Thinking, Its my Battle Cry! Yesterday as I was getting ready for church thinking about the past year and the year ahead, I told the Lord, I just plan on going swimming in 2007, going deep into the reservoir of His presence and staying there for longer periods of time. 2006 from a spiritual standpoint and a relationship standpoint was probably my worst year ever, having to deal with physical issues within the family and relationship troubles as a result, whats sad though is how I allowed those things to affect my relationship with the Lord. With a new year comes renewed opportunities to set the order for the rest of the year. My family has begun this year with prayer and fasting, following the mandate in Matt. 6:33 "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you." Yesterday while I pondered these things in church during communion service I realized the importance of forcefully standing for what is right in our walk with God. Jesus made it clear in Matt. 11:12 "And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."
When you study this out it speaks of forcefully entering in, grasping with determined power and force the things of the Kingdom. We don't hear enough messages today of Satan's attempts to resist our every move and his determined purpose to derail us. We have an enemy who outside of God knows us better than we know ourselves. He has studied mankind since the garden, and Christ and the Apostles made it clear that our enemy isn't just determined, but very cunning as well, only a fool would take an enemy such as him lightly. That's why my Battle Cry this year is L.L.B.D.S.T, no more Low Living, Bottom Dwelling, or Stinking Thinking! Won't you join me this year in standing forcefully even violently? And that my friends is the reality of it!
3 comments:
I'm with you, Jesse...you sure are right about how the devil is just waiting in the wings to drag us down to his level...we have to be always on the lookout and on guard cause he is a lowlife scumbag and will resort to every trick ( and he has a bunch!) he can to foul up our progress!
And as far as Stinking Thinking..it's enemy #1..it will get you quicker than anything! We need to hold on to Jesus with all our strength and fight with all that's in us to keep the evil one at bay!
Your right,I believe God is re-establishing the importance of spiritual warfare and how it relates to our life in Him. If we're going to make it, we need to aggressively stand against the enemy. And I plan on doing that more.
I think we must take a greater stand against the enemy of self. Some of our greatest conflicts are not always satanic and much as they are fleshly. While I realize that satan influences everything evil, our flesh is in constant conflict with the spirit man and the things of the Lord. Good post!
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