by Alan Taylor | Jan 24, 2022
Don’t be intimidated in any way by your enemies. This will be a sign to them that they are going to be destroyed – Philippians 1:28 New Living Translation.
When we choose not to yield to fear then we’re sending a clear signal to our enemies – “victory is coming!”
We know that people are not our primary enemies. Rather it’s the demonic kingdom that is against us, described as rulers and authorities, world forces of darkness, spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places (Ephesians 6:12). Although our enemies are primarily from the demonic kingdom we are often uncomfortably reminded that this antagonism to us is manifested through people, whether they are earthly authorities, neighbours or family.
Fortunately God has provided spiritual weapons that destroy these strongholds (2 Corinthians 10:3,4).
Our key verse in Philippians shows us one of these spiritual weapons – bold faith (which is a lack of fear). Our bold faith and lack of fear is a signal to the demonic kingdom that they will be defeated in the current battle.
My paraphrase of Philippians 1:28 – If you’re not afraid of them, then they are afraid of you.
Conversely if you’re afraid, this gives the unseen realm power over you. Just as sharks can detect blood and movement in the ocean so the demonic realm can sense our fear and then gain a foothold in our lives.
If you start feeding stray cats then you’ll soon wonder why you get every cat in the neighbourhood coming to your door. In the same way if we “feed our demons” then they’ll stay and bring their friends. Fear is demon food. Instead, repent of your belief that bad things will happen, find some good scriptures to build your faith, meditate on and verbalise those scriptures.
As you replace your fear with faith you’ll be hanging up two signs in the invisible realm:
- Fear is no longer served in this kitchen
- Warning: electric fence – powered by Jesus – do not come near
by Lynne Taylor | Jan 13, 2022
Many of us have been believers for some time but have not experienced much of God’s power working through our lives. When was the last time we led someone to the Lord, cast out demons, saw the sick healed, raised people from the dead. Maybe sometimes, but I believe this should be happening in our normal everyday lives. I dream about the time when we are buzzing with excitement when we gather together because of what the Holy Spirit has been doing in our lives during that week, with people being added to the church daily. We are called to live as Jesus on this earth. We are a royal priesthood, ruling and reigning in His authority to bring the kingdom of heaven to earth. We are to have His heart for people (they will know we are Christians by our love), we are to be His hands, His feet. Why? To destroy the works of the evil one! Putting this into a relevant context for us now – we are God’s answer to bring our nation back to God. God and you are a majority. It’s not about numbers it’s about God’s power and authority living in us. Nothing is too hard for God through us! It’s time to believe it!! It’s overdue, but not too late to repent of our mindsets that are contrary to how God sees us, repent of the lack of prayer and hearing His voice, repent of, often unknowingly, agreeing with the enemy’s plans. We declare and decree what God desires for our nation. Our words are powerful to negate the enemy’s plans. Get activated for such a time as this. The harvest is just around the corner and each one of us needs to be positioned and in correct alignment with the Holy Spirit’s leading, ready for action.
We have entered a new era and none of us have been this way before. It is time to brush the dust off those prophetic words you haven’t seen come to pass and claim them afresh, declaring them over your lives, getting refired in prayer and stepping out in faith to see them come to pass.
In my experience believers often struggle in their lives if they haven’t been baptized in water and haven’t been baptized in the Holy Spirit. If that is you then now is the time to follow through and have your breakthrough. Let’s be reminded of what the Word says. Acts1:8 (The Passion Translation) “But I promise you this – the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will be seized with power.”
Let our prayer with Paul be “that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection”. We can also claim his prayer for the Ephesian church: “I pray that you will continually experience the immeasurable greatness of God’s power made available to you through faith. Then your lives will be an advertisement of His immense power as it works through you! This is the mighty power that was released when God raised Christ from the dead and exalted Him to the place of highest honour and supreme authority in the heavenly realm.” Ephesians 2:19,20 (The Passion Translation)
Get plugged in to the mighty power of God to enter into this supernatural era we live in, and to see the glory of God manifested through you as you bring the kingdom of God to earth and to our beautiful New Zealand.
