Daily Devotional for Sunday November 7, 1999

Spiritual Warfare - Part III

(Ephesians 6:18-20)

Winning!!! In any war, the objective is to win. In a spiritual war, the key to winning is prayer. Sound easy? Want to tell me you have been, but it doesn't work? Maybe God has been answering but you aren't listening. In the battle for Jericho, how do you think the great military minds felt about the battle plan of walking around the city blowing trumpets? Sounds like great military strategy doesn't it? But it was God's plan and it worked!!! The point I am making is, you are praying about a situation, and in your mind you have figured out how God is supposed to answer. Maybe God wants to do it another way, maybe He has his own strategy that isn't exactly like yours. Do you want victory or do you just want victory your way? Praying involves turning it over to God and letting Him fight the battle, and it also means letting Him win the battle in his own way. Why? So He gets the glory!!!!!!

Part one of this series talked about the attacks of the enemy and that our battle is a spiritual battle. Part two dealt with the whole armor of God, both for defensive and offensive purposes. Today is about winning. After all, the Bible tells us we are more than conquerors. We are the children of the King. We have a royal inheritance. If you know Jesus as your Savior, you no longer have to worry about where you will spend eternity so you can go through this life with full confidence, with no fear, working for God in confidence that in the end...YOU WIN!!!!!!!!! I want you to go forward today realizing that fact. Whatever the battle in your life may be, start living in the victory Christ won on Calvary 2000 years ago. Do not be denied, do not be discouraged. As you pray, God will put His plan in effect no matter how crazy it may seem to you, that will give you the victory!