Know Your Fight!!!

       Well it's been quite a while. An extended sabbatical it would seem. And i must confess, it's been a stormy one. A perfect picture of the devil taking the fight to you to keep you distracted from the actual battles you should be fighting. Much like busying yourself with quenching the flames at the edge of an inferno while ignoring the raging inferno totally, either because you don't know the inferno exists or simply because you're thinking that the little flames could grow to becomes infernos too so therefore they need your attention NOW. All i can say is that it's weary business. A very distracting wearisome business. And that's where a lot of Christians find themselves today. Milling around(Spiritually) after experiencing salvation, focusing on the things that seem important and urgent but are usually not,  while neglecting to get direction for the whole course of their lives. They get pushed to seek direction when they are faced with prospects like job-hunting, marriage, business decisions, etc, but they do not seem to be interested in the whole picture or master-plan that is available for their lives. In other words, They don't see the fight they should be fighting because they don't know it. Know Your Fight!!!!!  Don't be begging God for healing when the bible tells us that Jesus said in Mar 16:18 " They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well. ", Don't be begging God for money when Paul said in 2Co 8:9 " For you are becoming progressively acquainted with and recognizing more strongly and clearly the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ (His kindness, His gracious generosity, His undeserved favor and spiritual blessing), [in] that though He was [so very] rich, yet for your sakes He became [so very] poor, in order that by His poverty you might become enriched (abundantly supplied)." .
Know Your Fight!!!
       Should you be in the missions field? or be a fearless evangelist taking the gospel to the furthermost reaches of the earth? or a teacher rightly dividing the Word of Truth? or an intercessor taking over kingdoms of this world for our Master on your knees?

Know Your Fight!!!

Mat 6:33 " But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides."

 tells us to follow the things that are important to God, this means His ways are more important to Him than whatever way we could ever cook up ourselves, and the reality is that His way is the only way to win completely, nothing missing, nothing broken, 10/10!!! 

         However we try to factor in our humanity and limitations and fears and hopes and dreams, it will always fall short of God's complete plan. The devils knows this, and is always trying to push our humanity and limitations and fears and hopes and dreams in our faces to get our attention when it is all too glaring that it will always fall short. And that's exactly where he(satan) wants you, that point where you are feeling down on your luck and the whole world seems a thick wall of worries that seems set out to destroy you and snuff out whatever life you have left. 

         I say ignore the devil. Put him in his place if he becomes a nuisance but taking authority. Pursue God's plan for you.  You can't be on your country's Olympic football team and say you are training for the tournament by playing street soccer. You have to train with the rest of the team at the training camp for the tournament.  In the same way, you can't live out God's way by doing things your own way, rather, you have to get to the place where others are also been groomed to live God's way. Stop focusing on yourself, and start focusing on God. Your life will get a whole lot simpler. And the key to focusing is simple. 

KNOW YOUR FIGHT!!!

Stop being distracted by the devil.