And ye shall know (not just intellectually, but experientially by using The Word of God as the mighty weapon that it is. This is how you know The Truth works. This is how you get used to using it every day) the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 18:34
Satan doesn’t want you to know The Truth. He does everything he can to keep you from being well-versed in The Word, to keep God’s Word from operating in your life. He will fight you to keep you from becoming skilled with God’s Word because he knows he’s going down if he can’t succeed.
The devil hates God’s Word and hates those who rely on and believe in The Word because the devil can’t manipulate those who learn how to use The Word to defeat him and his destructive plans for their lives.
This morning, the spiritual atmosphere during our coffee time was pretty thick and oppressive. I felt nervous, backed into a sort of spiritual corner, anxious and somewhat overwhelmed. The Lord told me it was an evil spirit in the room. As a result, I told the spirit to go to hell and to take his lies with him. I got out Psalm 91 and began saying it out loud. Sure enough, the air cleared and I felt God’s strength mounting up in me. Hallelujah! There is nothing like God’s Truth. Nothing!
I need to choose the Word in order for it to work for me, and in me. I can choose to stay with defeating, oppressing thoughts and actions or I can choose to apply the Word to my thoughts and actions and be delivered. That’s why the Word is the blessing it is. I can use it and be free. Spiritual freedom is everything.
When you’re in a faith fight, stay with it. Don’t let the enemy discourage you and tempt you to lose your faith and your trust in God. God will use every single spiritual battle to bring a new truth or spiritual tenacity to you that will make you even stronger in Him. The battles are only meant to be a blessing in you. They come to better prepare you, to make you more free in God’s truth, to better equip you.
Jesus replied, “But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice.”
Luke 11:28
Think you don’t have what it takes to live by faith? Afraid of entering the fight against Satan? Those are lies the devil has you believing. Remember, the power is in The Word of God. You don’t fight in your own strength. You use The Word – The Truth – and it does the work that brings you to victory.
With the Word, you can live in victory over the enemy’s lies that try to oppress you and try to steal your faith in God. The blessing in putting The Word into practice is that you can live free from the enemy’s lies. The Truth will set you free. Believe It and live free, live blessed.
He (God) trains my hands for war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
Psalm 18:34
Charge headlong towards freedom in Christ!
Thanking and praising God in all things,
Mark