God has been so good to me. one example is what happened last night. Upon wanting to pay for a drink I realized that my wallet was missing, and thinking it was in a friend's car didn't think too much of it. However, upon searching for it in their car we quickly realised thst it was not there... and as all of you know, in South Africa it's quite a headache getting all the paperwork done for new ID's, Drivers licence etc. I could not even recall when last I had used my wallet!
I got home and started looking in the obvious places, but found nothing. Suddenly an idea popped into my head: my car!! I headed to my car, and found my wallet on the floor by the passenger seat! The God factor? Whilst heading home, my friends prayed and asked God to give me clearness of mind to remember where I had used it last. How Good is God that He even CARES about something silly like a wallet in my life!
We have been going through a bit of a rough patch at our new evening services and this is directly linked to a spiritual onslaught. We launced open to the public 2 weeks ago and since then things have felt a bit strange. Last night in our praise and worship I felt moved to pray for protection. Standing aside I declared the blood of Jesus over the building and could see in my mind's eye 4 columns of fire rising up at each of the 4 corners of the building. This is ground that God had given us to reach that community and we have the authority to stand on that. Where the light is the darkness has no choice but to flee!!!
The service went smoothe and we even had quite a few new comers, Praise God!
I used to be scared regarding topics like spiritual warfare but I now know it was only because I never fully understood the consequences of what Jesus had done when he died on a cross and took up the keys of hell, and then rose from the dead. See, the victory is ours, The battle has been won. But what would be the easiest way of pulling our attention away from the fact that the battle is won and we only need to stand firm in authority on that? It's so simple yet so sneaky: leading us to believe that there is still a chance that evil could provail... Now Ive come to understand a tiny bit of what it means to stand on the authority of what Jesus had done: I have no fear and I only have Hope. there's no going back!!!
My night was spent rolling around in bed with weird dreams. at first I thought it was because of my love for reading fiction books with elves and faeries and dragons in them, but fell asleep again praying against that. the dreams didn't stop coming though, and only after did i realise that I never prayed for protection against spritual warfare. How could I stand up and declare war and not expect a sneak attack?
I am tired but overjoyed because this confirms that I obeyed when it was needed. My God is bigger and better and the WINNER in this battle.
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