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Ephesians 6:13, 18
Wrestling against things, not wrestling against God. We indeed wrestle with God but we are the ones who end up crippled. Let's look at what this really means. We may confuse things with God. When God puts us outside our comfort zone, we enter the fire of battle within our own reasoning, which we have developed for a large part in a fallen world and not always grounded in the truth of God's Word. We are to be sanctified by the renewing of our minds in the Word of God. We live, my friends, in a crippled world. A lie believed as truth will act as truth even though it is a lie. Why? Because we choose to believe it instead of the truth of God's Word. I think most of us are stubborn and bull-headed, we all just have different points in which we are. These things are reasoning we believe as truth! And they probably make perfect common sense to us. We must learn to wrestle against these things before God. Here is an example which may help. On different occasion's God has put me in very uncomfortable situations. I have spoken to some particular person on a sensitive issue. No one likes being put in this position because we all know how bad it could end up. It will always end badly if it is not from God on His timing, with His Word. As for me, personally, I know this experience all too well; so when God leads I must wrestle with my own fear before God, not with God. In my personal experience He keeps patiently nudging me if I allow my self to stay in His presence. God does not drop the subject until I either decide to ignore Him or take that leap of faith. I have found that when I wrestle with my fear before the Lord when I do speak to whomever it is always with the fruits of the Spirit and this is how I joyfully know it is of God and not me. When at first something bothers my spirit all kinds of worldly emotions surface and at first I think I must lash out at this and set them straight, but when I do insist on my justification, others are offended and I am the one who ends up crippled and of no use to God. I may have indeed said truth but the spirit in which I said it was wrong! We must wrestle these things out before God. For me many times first comes anger, then fear, but when I end up trusting my Father He blesses me with the fruits of the Spirit every time. If we insist on our logical way God will win the match and we will be out of joint. We must wrestle with what hinders us from acting on God's will before God or we will not acquire the fruits of the Spirit we need to do His will. This all takes faith and courage to lay our lives out there for God's glory everyday knowing there will be many trials ahead but the more we surrender the deeper our personal relationship with our Father becomes and we find we have all we need. " Trust and obey, for there's no other way, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey."
Heavenly Father give us the strength and courage we need to be your hands and feet. Let us be diligent in getting to know you as our Father, let us see ourselves as your children and to follow Your Son's example in being about our Father's business. Thank you for saving us, loving us, being patient with us as we struggle to understand and give up ourselves so we might know what it is to live. Father we love you and our hearts' desire is "Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven." In your Son Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
love to all in Christ Jesus C:)
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