ENEMIES DEFEATED

Genesis 14:20 NLT And blessed be God Most High, who has defeated your enemies for you.

I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to fit a large cushion into a tight cover after it’s been washed? It’s like a full scale wresting match! Or trying to fit a duvet into its cover and you nearly stand on your head trying to fit it inside! 

They are physical things we sometimes wrestle with, but Paul talks to us about wrestling with spiritual things, with beings that we can’t even see but that are real.  (Ephesians 6:12)

The thing is we’ve not to wrestle with them in our own strength but through Christ who strengthens us, from the standpoint of victory already won.😊

Whether it’s physical ailments, relational upsets, financial lack, whatever tries to steal our peace, whatever comes against us and tries to bring us down, those enemies have already been disarmed because God has defeated them for us through Jesus’ victory at the Cross.

Now our part is to enforce the victory which has already been won, to use our God given authority over those spiritual forces and remind them they are already defeated by Jesus, they’re beneath our feet and we have total victory over them. 

Be encouraged today to enter into the full benefits of our covenant. They’re already bought and paid for by Jesus so let’s resist our enemy and remind him he has nothing on us any more because we’re clothed in the righteousness of God, and we’re actively receiving the wonderful abundance of His grace and mercy each and every day. In Jesus name. Amen.

JUST DO IT

2 Corinthians 12:9 NLT Each time he said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” John R. Wooden.

When God told Moses to go and rescue His people from Pharaoh’s tyranny, Moses found every excuse under the sun not to do it and asked that someone else would go instead! So God told him to take Aaron with him and to tell him what to say and do.

We read how Aaron was the mouth piece to begin with and he told Pharaoh what Moses told him to, but by the end of the plagues we see Moses was doing it himself in a face to face encounter with Pharaoh because Moses was so angry with him. Moses discovered he could do far more than he thought he could, that he could do what God told him to do in the first place!😊

We can feel like that ourselves sometimes. God asks us to do something and we back off because we think we can’t do it. But our quote at the beginning reminds us that we should carry on and do what we can do and not let what we can’t do interfere with our progress!

The truth is, we’re not doing it in our own strength anyway! We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us and where we’re weak it doesn’t matter because Jesus will show up all the more to do it with His strength through us.😊

I hope that makes sense and encourages us to go out into our new week and just do whatever it is we can do, and let God’s grace take care of the rest. Just do it! God’s grace is sufficient! Amen.😊