IT IS WAR

Memorise: "But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members" (Rom 7:23)

Read: Romans 7:15-25

Life is full of battles. What determines whether you would be a victim or victor in the battles of life is who you choose as your ally. May the Prince of Peace be your ally. Take sickness as an example: In Mark 5:25-34, we read about a woman with the issue of blood. She went through a lot in her battle with that sickness. If sickness is fun to you, just ask for stomach pain for just one hour then you will know it is war. Every agent of sickness fighting against your health shall be destroyed. Poverty is also war. Proverbs 10:15 says, "The rich man's wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty". This means that poverty destroys. The poor is a victim or captive of the spirit of poverty. The poor who refuses to fight the spirit of poverty will die poor. Besides, poverty makes your relations to hate or look down on you (Pro 14:20). That means if you refuse to fight against poverty, those who should have become your friends will turn enemies. If you do not want to lose your loved ones, you must win the battle against poverty. Poverty shuts you up. It robs you of your right to freedom of speech. The foolish ideas and opinions of the rich are heard at the roof tops while the most brilliant ideas of the poor are unheard. In anyway poverty has shut you up, the Lord will help you silence that spirit.




Barrenness is also war. When Hannah was still childless, she was put in perpetual sorrow. She lost her right to joy. Is barrenness denying you of the joy of the Lord? The Lord will intervene and deliver it into your hands this season in Jesus' Name. Another thing to fight is bondage. The man in Mark 5:1-15 was in bondage. He lost the right to do what he wanted. When Paul saw himself doing what he hated, but could not do what he really liked, he knew he was in the same bondage as the mad man of Gadara (Rom 7:15-25). Yet, in both cases, God gave victory. Paul did not mince words; he called it war. Are you struggling with sin? That is a fight against bondage. The Lord who rescued Paul and the Gadarene demoniac will give you victory over sin and your flesh today in Jesus' Name.




Father, take over the war against my life and deliver victory to me today.