Overcome

Hello again dear friends. I’m coming to you on a VERY important day. It’s the last Sunday of the finishing season! YEEESSS! For those who aren’t aware, and I don’t remember if I covered what it is in past posts, the Damon gave a word in June that from then up until this point would be an epoch of time known as the finishing season. In it, there would be a grace from heaven to get done and deal with those things that prevent us, as believers, from running full force and from stepping into the intended purpose God put us here for. Now, I’m paraphrasing somewhat, but in other words, deal with the junk…big and small…sin and not sin. As I look back over the past four months, I’m truly amazed at what He has done in me in such a short period of time. But that’s for a another blog.

A lot of my blog posts are determined by conversations I have with people. In my life, I’ve noticed, I will, for certain periods of time, be asked about a certain subject, or in talking with other people, that same subject will come up somehow. Thus, I come to todays subject: resisting temptation. Unfortunately, I don’t have all the answers. I wish I did. Maybe when I’m 90 I’ll be able to confidently say that I do. All I can merely do is speak from experience.

This whole topic has changed in my way of thinking in this finishing season. And that’s apart of it. Damon prophesied that we would be moving out of the age of the sword and into the age of trumpets….not that we wouldn’t have to fight anymore, but that we would be fighting FROM victory and not FOR victory. How powerful is that? One of the scriptures that has greatly changed my way of thinking is Galatians 5:16. It says, “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” What a promise! I mean, it’s a pretty straightforward text. If you walk by His Spirit, you won’t gratify, carry out, the desire of the flesh. And I love the phraseology! If we walk BY Him. As Damon has taught us, a lot of these wordings are positional. So, when I hear that, I, in my mind, see Holy Spirit literally walking beside me and I beside Him. Paul goes on, in verse 25, to say, “If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” Walk there could actually, also, be rephrased to say, “follow the Spirit”. How do we live by the Spirit. Well, how do you live as a human? What are the essentials to our existence? Food. Water. Sleep. Holy Spirit is one with the Father and the Son. Jesus declared Himself to be the Bread of Life. Hm. I think that is found in Holy Spirit. The Father said, in Jeremiah 2, that He is the Fountain of Many Waters. And there are multiple promises that we can rest in His presence.

Here’s the thing, and I was telling a person this last night, we like to wait until the temptation of battle to get into spiritual mode. No. For instance, this girl told me she was battling depression. Earlier in the service Holy Spirit told me to go declare encouragement over her. So, she got touched, and it was awesome. But when I was talking to her, I told her, “That’s a word of the Lord for you. Don’t wait until the next battle to say it. Remind the enemy everyday of what He has said about it, about you.” To me, that is effective warfare. Sometimes you just need to remind your enemy what The Father has said about you through His word, through spiritual fathers and mothers, and to you in your personal time with Him. The Old Testament is filled with accounts of naming the size of the armies if Israel and then throwing in there that no one wanted to attack them.

It’s all simple. I know. It’s not that flakey spiritual warfare that everyone wants it to be. But simple is good. I can do simple. One last scripture. 2 Peter 1:2-5 says, “Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining the life and godliness, through true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, in order that by them you might become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped that corruption of that is in the world through lust.” Selah. In our ever growing knowledge of Him, through prayer, the word, and intimacy with Him, we are filled with EVERYTHING we need pertaining to life and godliness. That’s a magnificent promise my friend. One to be taken hold of.

Let’s do this. But not in the carnal way. Let’s overcome by being overcome by a Savior who wants us free more than we want to be free.

Love you guys.

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