Author: Lisa Groen
Category: Encouragement to pray the Word
I want to encourage us today that there may be some of us that seem like we may have been brought full circle in battle by the Lord which can be symbolized by a full 360-degree rotation of a swinging sword wielded by a warrior of an ancient kingdom. We may have had victories in one area or another, but we should not give up the fight or throw in the towel. We should not make light of previous battles we have fought and won but seem to be numb over. We should not downplay our previous spiritual victories as meaningless or powerless, because they did take real spiritual virtue in prayer and life and faith to fight successfully, and we needed God’s love in those areas of our lives to be victorious. Do not despise your previous battles thinking their spiritual size is just “small” in the “victory realm” because they are not meaningless and not without spiritual “stakes” in the ground. We may need to regain strength, and regain flexibility, regain vital virtue, and goodness and kindness and love in the areas we may have become systematic and militant in, or burnt out and robotic in or just going through the motions. Let us stretch again forward in faith and in our wielding the spiritual sword in prayer and live out this precious gift of faith and ask for God’s Spirit to fill our lives to overcome our battle fatigue and to overcome our own frustrations with our own cumbersome weaknesses and find his virtue. Let us find his power to hate our sin and by his unfailing love to maintain purity and passion, and to overcome by his Spirit our innate spiritual clumsiness because we have been granted to be filled with his life, strength, and grace.
Keep growing in the Word! LG
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