Spiritual Battles

Dear Child,

In order to overcome you must be active!

In order to win a victory, you must be active in a battle!

Yes, the battle is mine!

Yes, the battle was won at Calvary!

                  But

You must actively be seeking Me,

You must be actively be abiding in Me,

You must actively be yielding to My spirit.

You must actively be identifying with My death.

You must actively put on your armor,

Then you may actively claim the victory!

                                                Thus saith Papa

1 Cor 9:26  I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

1 Tim 6:12  Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

 2 Timothy 2:3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

All the above scriptures have the active not passive tense of the verbs! If we want to be mature and be spiritually fit we must actively exercise our spiritual muscles. We are all soldiers in the Lord’s army. Soldiers do not train and prepare in the heat of the battle. The training and preparation is done in the anticipation of war! The rumble of war in the heavenlies is already reverberating in the spiritual realm! Do we hear the call to battle!  Are we actively maturing in the Lord? Are we ready?

“Why should we await the Lord’s return in passive contemplation? It is spiritual fitness which makes us ready for His coming, and that demands an onward progress with Him now.” Watchman Nee

Challenge: Are we all talk and no action? Talk will not stretch, mature or strengthen our spiritual muscles. Many talk about exercising physically but we know that will not get us physically fit! Likewise only talking will not mature us in the faith, it also takes action! We need to enroll in God’s spiritual boot camp to prepare us for battle.

For further reading see my book “Developing a Secret History with God” Pages 25-30

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