Meditating on scripture is key to a victorious Christian life!
I have recently started really filling up myself with scripture and going it over in my head throughout the day. When I start to feel fear or defeated or whatever else. I meditate on it and really try to dig deep down into the meaning of the passage. Today the line that struck out to me was "one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all." Ephesians 4:6
I kept thinking about it trying to wrap my head around the idea that God is overall, through all and in all and what that meant. As I was doing it, suddenly I was filled with the Spirit and was given boldness and courage so I started praying and my prayers had POWER.
We have the Holy Spirit but the gateway that the allows the Holy Spirit to work is through the WORD it all works TOGETHER. The Word is your sword!! So if your unequipped you will be powerless on the battlefield. Satan is so much stronger than us. He has strongholds in our life that we're not even aware of. Thats why we need to FILL our life up with TRUTH and not things of the world. ex. TV shows , music (most of it), etc. Its all NOT of God because we live in a fallen world. A pagan society that worships everything BUT God. GET RID OF IT! STOP KILLING YOUR SOUL.
17"Therefore come out from them
and be separate, says the Lord.
Touch no unclean thing,
and I will receive you."
-2 Corinthians 6:17
15But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; 16for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."
1 Peter 1:15-16
I had two dreams last night both about people in my life who I knew.
One was an agnostic girl who I'm really good friends with. She goes to my church sometimes but doesn't really believe. In my dream I was sitting in a club with her facing a bar. She asked me "why don't you go get some drinks?" I started explaining to her how I wasn't into that stuff. She was listening to what I had to say and then suddenly she broke down in my arms and started confessing her brokenness to me.(don't want to go into details)
This really opened my eyes up to the people around me. I knew of her family situation before but whenever we talked about it she would always be so cool about it. I've been praying for her for A LONG time and I guess I never saw her as a broken person ...just a person who had a hardened heart against God and wanted to party all the time. I knew she was broken but I didn't understand or feel it. As fallen people one of our greatest sins is apathy.
The next dream I had was about a girl in my church who is a Christian. In the dream were talking and the Spirit started to move in her heart. She was starting to talk about her brokenness in her relationship with her father and how he abandoned her and all the hate and resentment she had towards him. I was probing her, encouraging her to keep going to fight through it and give in all to The Lord but something was holding her back spiritually. Justin To was beside me the Spirit moved in his heart and he started to pray in tongues interceding for her.
Within the church there are so many brothers and sisters CRYING for support. The evil one wants to suppress them to keep them in a state of infant faith so they don't grow strong and start doing WORK for the Kingdom. There are so few within my own church that have a solid group. Its our job to be an example to lead others in the direction of open fellowship and vulnerability before God. We can't do everything but we do what we can. We need courage to stand and the courage can only come if you immerse yourself in the Word or else your useless, a fallen soldier or noob soldier.
This is a battlefield. Its no game. When you pray you pray for the Kingdom and whatever will bring the most Glory to God. You see the dire situations around you. You see people falling left, right and center and you PRAY for help your PRAY your heart out and then you GO in POWER to be salt and light. (easier said than done, its definitely a long process that we all go through)
Something that God has really convicted me of is my prayer life. To REALLY start praying and not to just give MY daily itinerary and problems and ask God to fix them for me. To cry out on behalf of those who have no voice in front of the Throne of Grace.
As I continue to mature in the Lord I am slowly being filled with more courage and boldness, but I also have times when I'm paralyzed by fear unable to move forward.
I hope you know I say ALL these things in love because I want you to see more clearly and through the lies of the god of this age. Don't feel discouraged! We are all growing and God is working in us to grow. However, DON'T use that as an excuse to be complacent. NO you MUST take up your cross DAILY and have faith. Its a two way thing.
Keeping praying for me please!
God is turning up the heat.........always hotter no rest. T_T"
Love,
Evangel
