SPIRITUAL WARFARE (12) - the JOY of the LORD - 16 November 2017
Many people live their lives being troubled by something - being haunted by thoughts - being wearied down by something bothering them - without dealing with the problem and living in the JOY of YHWH.
Scripture tells us - in living a life habitually in OBEDIENCE to the WORD of YHWH God, we can also CLAIM the PROMISE - "The JOY of the Lord is our STRENGTH". In habitually living a godly lifestyle we shall be able to RECOGNIZE an attack and "HIT" BACK with the WORD - DESTROYING the FALSENESS. We should GUARD ourselves DILIGENTLY for the ENEMY would LOVE TO STEAL JOY away from us.
Neh. 8:10 "... for the JOY of Elohim YHWH is your STRENGTH"
Ps. 28:7 "YHWH is my STRENGTH and my SHIELD, my HEART TRUSTS in HIM and HE HELPS me. My HEART LEAPS for JOY ..."
Spiritual warfare where we are CLOTHED with the ARMOUR of YHWH FIGHTING WITH HIS WORD - is more than ENOUGH to QUENCH the evil darts fired at us.
KNOW the WORD OF YHWH:
Unfortunately many people only use the armour half-heartedly. To be able to USE it to its FULL EXTENT - it is imperative to KNOW SCRIPTURE - to KNOW THE WORD - to KNOW MESSIAH INTIMATELY and habitually and IMPORTANTLY to OBEY the WORD and YHWH'S COMMANDMENTS. It is to SET ASIDE TIME to STUDY the WORD, to "EAT" the WORD - to MAKE IT YOUR OWN - to SIT IN ABBA'S PRESENCE so that HIS VOICE and HIS WORD ARE SO CEMENTED INTO OUR BEING that when the EVIL COME NEAR US we would immediately "FIRE" BACK with the WORD. We need to know that Satan also KNOW the WORD, and he would even use it in a distorted or half-true way to get at us.
We are all being TEMPTED and this will continue even up to the end - (Satan even TEMPTED the SON OF YHWH GOD - why should people think he will leave them alone?)
The enemy are using THREE DESPOTISMS in his warfare against us:
1. ACCUSATION
2. TEMPTATION
3. DECEPTION
ACCUSATION:
The enemy and his evil agents will continually ACCUSE US with our PAST, (OUR SIN - and EVEN OUR GENERATIONAL SIN) even things that are NOT TRUE. That is why it is so important to REPENT of ANY SIN and INIQUITIES PAST AND PRESENT (ours and our ancestor's) to be COVERED completely with the BLOOD of the LAMB - that will SAFEGUARD US against attempts.
The aim of the accuser is to WEARY US DOWN - WORK US DOWN - KEEP ON REMINDING US OF OUR PAST SIN (even if we have repented) KEEPING IT ALIVE IN OUR MINDS while Scripture tells us in Phil. 3:13 "I (Paul) do not consider, brethren, that I have captured and made it my own yet; BUT ONE THING I DO [it is my ONE ASPIRATION]; FORGETTING WHAT IS BEHIND and STRAINING FORWARD to WHAT LIES AHEAD.. :14 I PRESS ON TOWARD the GOAL to WIN the [SUPREME AND HEAVENLY] PRIZE to WHICH YHWH in MESSIAH is CALLING US UPWARD. :15 So let those of us, who are SPIRITUALLY MATURE AND FULL-GROWN (in faith) HAVE THIS MIND AND HOLD THESE CONVICTIONS AND IF IN ANY RESPECT you have a DIFFERENT ATTITUDE of MIND, YHWH WILL MADE THAT CLEAR TO YOU ALSO."
Scripture tells us that we should PRESS ON towards the GOAL to win the HEAVENLY PRIZE and LEAVE the REPENTED THINGS BEHIND. Scripture also tells us that so far as the east as from the west - so far ABBA will SEPARATE US of our REPENTED SIN (Ps. 103:12). The KEY to SHALOM PEACE is REPENTANCE!.
DECEPTION:
Deception is as old as the accuser himself. Deception is the main spirit in the churches today - People are baptized with the spirit of deception - thinking they are in right-standing with YHWH GOD. There are another form of deception and that is to believe that they are merely forgiven sinners and there is no hope for more. Deception is holding the Holy Spirit away and has taken the place of the Holy Spirit.
The churches today has a NEED for the HOLY SPIRIT. We ALL NEED the HOLY SPIRIT. For too long, the Holy Spirit of YHWH has been neglected. It is through the HOLY SPIRIT that all the MIRACLES - and ALL the POWER GIFTS of the SPIRIT are manifesting.
It WAS the HOLY SPIRIT'S WORKING that RAISED YAHSHUA from the DEAD. It was the HOLY SPIRIT that DIVINELY IMPREGNATED MARIA with baby YAHSHUA. HOLY SPIRIT IS PART of THE TRINITY - the POWER WORKING SPIRIT OF THE HOLY ALMIGHTY YHWH GOD.
The evil trinity WORKING TOGETHER with DECEPTION is TRADITION - CULTURE and RELIGION. With this three in place in a church - the HOLY TRINITY is REPLACED. HOW SAD IS THAT!.
SINS and UN-REPENTED SINS GIVE the ENEMY the LEGAL RIGHT to WORK in our LIVES:
We should be BEWARE of the LEGAL RIGHT we give the enemy through un-repented sin - even the un-repented sins of our forefathers (generational sin). Un-repented sins BLOCKS the BLOOD of the LAMB of WASHING AWAY our SINS and the ALMIGHTY Father HAS TO GRANT the ENEMY the RIGHT - the LEGAL RIGHT - to continue to work in our lives - for YHWH IS the JUST and RIGHTEOUS JUDGE.
Revelations tells us that Satan is the GREAT ACCUSER - ACCUSING US DAY AND NIGHT before YHWH God - Rev. 12:10 - "Then I heard a strong loud voice in heaven, saying, Now it has come - the SALVATION and the power and the kingdom (the dominion, the reign), of our Elohim YHWH, and the POWER (the SOVEREIGNTY, the AUTHORITY) of HIS CHRIST the MESSIAH YAHSHUA; for the ACCUSER of our brethren, he who KEEPS BRINGING before YHWH our GOD CHARGES AGAINST THEM DAY AND NIGHT ...
TEMPTATION & LUST:
TEMPTATION has other agents working closely with it such as spirits of LUST, STEALING, LYING, and ADDICTIONS such as ALCOHOL, DRUGS, PORNOGRAPHY, FOOD, ANOREXIA etc.
LUST working together with TEMPTATION also has OTHER spirits working closely together with it, such as IMMORALITY -SEXUAL PERVERTION - HOMOSEXUALITY - LESBIANISM - ADULTERY (adultery's co-workers are FALSENESS - BETRAYAL - DECEIT - FAITHLESS - DISHONESTY - LYING - MISTAKENNESS - FALLACIOUS and MYTHICAL) - PROMISCUITY - PEDOPHILIA - RAPE - SEXUAL ABUSE - CHILD MOLESTING - SEXUAL ASSAULT - CHILD ABUSE - MISTREATMENT - VIOLENCE and others can end in the spirit of MURDER to take over in SUICIDE and ABORTION.
THE ULTIMATE AIM of the ENEMY in ALL CASES is to KILL our FAITH - to STEAL our JOY and to DESTROY our RELATIONSHIP with our heavenly FATHER.
ABBA, please help us to STAND - help us Father through the mighty working of Your HOLY SPIRIT to HAVE a TEACHABLE SPIRIT - to REPENT of ALL our WRONGS also our GENERATIONAL WRONGS so that we can PRESS FORWARD in FAITH not looking back at things that should be left behind. Help us Yahshua to say like Paul, "let us hold true what we have already attained and walk and order our lives by that" (Phil. 3:16) Help us to REJOICE in YOU our ABBA FATHER - ALWAYS - to DELIGHT ourselves in YOU (Phil. 4:4) in YAHSHUA MESSIAH'S NAME. Amen.