Spiritual Battle

We often hear the Gospel and take it for granted. His truth has to be applied to every area of our lives. The Gospel says that you are not your own, you are freed. So walk in confidence. What are the areas in your life that you haven't died to yet? If we are saved, now what??

By Grace, through Faith, we are saved. We are saved for God's glory and Kingdom. Without a personal relationship with Jesus, you don't know Jesus. The enemy is trying to tell us that we're someone we're not, whispering lies to us. Satan is swinging hard and he's coming at our lives. It's a spiritual war and often times we don't even know that we're at battle. We've turned Christianity into consumerism and we wonder why we're getting our butts kicked in this war. We stop fighting and we shift into neutral. To put it simple: you're either stopping, or you're growing.

Ephesians 6:14-18 says "Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shelf of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints..."

The Gospel should lead to a fight and an urgency to go out and share it with others, live it with others. We are ambassadors for the community around us. Know who your enemy is and keep fighting. See the fight for what it is: a battle for spiritual space and spiritual territory. Go and push back darkness. In the Christian bubble, we create a list of what a Christian is supposed to look like. We lead with judgement. We forget we are broken. The only thing you bring to the table is your sin, which makes salvation necessary. He wipes this sin from us. Lead with who you need to know to be saved. Instead, we lead with a list of things you should be and do and not do. We should be a culture that loves people where they are. Don't hold the lost community that we do for Christians. Introduce them to our Savior. Look into this Gospel and be overwhelmed by His love. God wants more of you. He is better than our way. Our way brings death, but His way brings life. James 1:22 says "But be doers of the world, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves."

Surrender to His calling,
Courtney