Stand in Victory
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Ephesians 6:11, ESV
You can read a scripture and hear it taught so many times and then all of a sudden you get what God is saying. I had read the verse above so many times, but never really understood that I was supposed to stand in the word of God when Satan throws his schemes my way.
The verse above says to stand in victory. It does not say fight. It does not say wrestle. It says to stand. When you read further in the chapter it says, For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Ephesians 6:12-13, My focus has always been on the fact that we are not wrestling with flesh and blood, but the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. I completely missed the message again to stand!
God is not telling us that we have to fight and wrestle, when we do those things we have moved out of our position of standing on the word of God. The enemy will use anything to tempt us to move from our position. That is his goal to get us to wrestle and fight, but the word says we have victory by standing on the word of God. When we find ourselves worked up we have succumbed to Satan’s schemes because with God our position is joy, peace, calmness in the Holy Ghost.
When we are in our armor every response is with the word and then we stand in victory. I have been in a season where God is making me keenly aware of every emotional feeling that I have. I hear him say to me, “What is this that you feel? Don’t react to those feelings, but lay them down with the word of God.” I know that I am in battle training and as long as I stay in the word I keep my peace and therefore I am in the correct position.
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. Joshua 1:8, ESV
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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