Spirit Breakfast 🍞☕ 11/7/2019

Theme: Guarding your progress (part 9)

Anchor Text: Nehemiah 4:11-23

Subtext: Ephesians 6:13-18

Continued from the last post on this series

Ephesians 6:14 Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness.

When discussing Ephesians 6:13-18, many folks skip a part of Ephesians 6:14 and jump right into the first battle peice of a believer's armour. However that first part of that verse is very essential.

We must understand that the purpose of this series once again is to ensure that once you begin to progess, you are well equipped to guard that progress. This is why every single detail must be looked upon.

In guarding your progress, you have must have a firm stand. In other words, you must stand your ground.

A good number of believers lose the battle even before they begin. The reason is that they go into battle with the wrong stance (stand).

The right stance in a battle ensures you don't get knocked over easily. Any one who knows a thing or two when it comes to any form of fighting art knows this to be true. In fact you could end up injuring yourself of your own accord if your fight stance is wrong.

The enemy is always aware of this and he looks out for such flaws in our battle stance. Once he discovers this, he is certain we have lost even before we begin.

Therefore how does a believer stand his/her ground even before a battle that seeks to rob him/her of such a person's success?

We must understand that our victory does not lie in the fact that we are equipped with the whole armour of God. Rather it is in the truth that we have a Divine Backing from God. This is why Ephesians 6:10 encourages us to "Be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power".

2 Corinthians 10:4 goes further to say: 'We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments'

Therefore the armour of God is made up of God's mighty weapons that allows us to exercise God's mighty power. And there's nothing in the universe that can contend with the mighty power of the ruler of the universe.

Knowing that your victory is made possible by God Himself must make your mind assured and without a shadow of doubt that you will come out victorious. That is standing firm.

Every double-mind as you engage the enemy is a witness to his eventual victory over you. In the same vein, assured victory in your mind before battle is a testament to your great victory.

Hence the first place you win the battle is in your mind; not your spirit nor your body but your mind. Your spirit already knows that you have the victory as a believer. Your body on the other hand will conform and act according to that which the mind instructs.

Take the right stand against the enemy like Nehemiah did who wasn't faxed but the oncoming attack. He was confident of the victory that God will provide as they stood and guarded the ongoing work.

I therefore pray for you, every battle of the mind that you're already losing, I decree a turn around. By the reason of this post, the Lord grants you a mental assurance of victory that translates into physical manifestation in the name of Jesus.

We continue tomorrow by His Grace.

Stay Graced...


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