Spiritual Warfare

Do you ever run up against God telling you to do something, that you just don't want to do? It is a miserable experience. You don't want to do what God wants, because you want to hold on to whatever "it" is. It may be a grudge, a lifestyle that you aren't willing to give up or some behavior that is giving you some kind of payoff, that is contrary to what God wants. You know what God wants, because His Holy Spirit is an in-dwelling guide to the believer. So we engage in church talk; "I've been praying about it", "I want to do what the Lord wants" or some derivative that will placate anybody who might actually be able to help you.

Let's clear a few things up: if God tells you to forgive somebody, then that is what you have to do, if God tells you to stop behaving a particular way, it's with good reason. You can not improve on the divine perfect will of God, but you can get in line with it. But you don't know how they hurt me! Well, you don't know what a wreck your life is going to be with you choking on your own hatred. So, you want to make them pay for what they have done: then what? Boy, you really let them know how they hurt you! Did it change the hurt? Does making them hurt make you feel better? If it does: you need to understand that doesn't come from God. Little anger fantasies that brood in your mind are plainly the work of the evil one. You need to recognize that, confess it and run to God whenever it happens until you break the cycle. Satan is going to come back again and again right down that same path, until you release it to God, and sanctify Christ as the Lord of the situation. Suppose you just check out, here's what you are doing: you are surrendering to the Satan, not God.

This is not what I want or don't want, this is spiritual warfare!!! The outcome of the battle is either victory through Christ; or being sidelined by the Devil, replaying the same hurt over and over until you wreck your life and the ones who love you over it. Listen to me, dear ones, you cannot handle the situation, the situation will handle you every time. You can't love, forgive or heal without God Almighty filling you with love until it spills over to others, enabling you to forgive and touching you with His healing hand. Loved one, I know (in the fullest since of the word) that it is not easy, it is not supposed to be; how else will you ever learn what God can do, if you don't see it with your own eyes? God is waiting to amaze you, and all you have to do is surrender what you can not help anyways. Bless you all.