This can’t be what the Lord planed for our lives to be like?... Satan constantly pulling the rug out from under me, It use to feel like I was trying to constrain a tiger in a cardboard box!
Sometimes I would get so weary of the battle, the constant struggle of fighting off the enemy. I desired to walk in close communion with the Lord but every time I would draw near to Him, it seemed the enemy of our souls was always redoubling his assault and would try to beat me down again. He is constantly pulling and angling to keep us off balance, he digs and claws at our faith, one day it’s our health and the next it’s a family crises or financial dilemma, he is relentless, always trying to choke out our faith at the roots, rendering us ineffective!
The warring we endure in our body and mind is not unlike a garden, it must be constantly maintained, ciaos, death and disorder threatening to overtake the order and discipline we constantly fight for. We trim and prune and rip out the weeds in the garden as well as the weeds in our own life, (lust, pride, jealousy…) ie (culling the curses) as all of creation cries out for deliverance, trying to fight off the death, disease and pestilence that is all around us, the curse we all travail under, the Fall of Adam.
Then I realized I was trying to fight the battle in my own strength, when the scripture was very clear,
"The whole Earth is groaning and trivaling, waiting for the Manifested Son's of God to take authority" Thats you and me! (the new greg version)
"I am in Christ and raised up above all principalities and powers and authority!"
"And behold, I give YOU authority over serpents and scorpians and over ALL the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means harm you!"
"If you believe in Me, the works that I do, you shall do also and even greater than these shall you do!"
"Then I saw a lamb standing in the center of the throne, with four living creatures and the 24 elders, The lamb looked like he had been slaughtered... He took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne and when the lamb had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the 24 elders bowed down in front of him. Each held a harp and a gold bowl full of incense, the prayers of God's holy people. Then they sang a new song,
“You deserve to take the scroll and open the seals, because you were Perfect and you were slaughtered. You bought people with your blood to be God's own. They are from every tribe, language, people, and nation, Praise the Lam who is Worthy to take the scroll! You made them Kings and Priests for our God. They will rule as kings on the earth.”
I believe this means us and I believe this means NOW! “sit at My right hand, until I make your enemies your foot stool”! Who else is there to make His enemies His foot stool?, We are to exert Kingly Authority here and Now over the enemy and all the Earth just as Adam was given power and authority in the garden, Jesus reclaimed power and Dominion for us to prevail until He comes!)
The power we have is through the spoken Word of God! We can speak our lives into power and victory, we can speak health, we can speak blessings and we can speak authority!
11 Then I heard the voices of many angels, the four living creatures, and the elders surrounding the throne. They numbered ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands times thousands. 12 In a loud voice they were singing, “The lamb who was slain deserves to receive power, and wealth, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and praise.” 13 I heard every creature in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, and on the sea. Every creature in those places was singing, “To the one who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise, honor, glory, and power forever and ever.” 14 Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!”
And the elders bowed and worshiped. Rev 5:6-14
Then I saw a Lamb! … THEN I SAW THE LAMB! Then I saw Victory!
