Daily Devotional for Monday March 4, 2002

Spiritual Warfare - Part III

(Ephesians 6:18-20)

In any war, the objective is to win. In a spiritual war, the key to winning is prayer. Sound easy? Many of you tell me you have been praying but it doesn?t work. Think about this. 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 and do not be discouraged as you pray. If you let Him, God will put His plan in effect no matter how crazy it may seem to you, that will give you the victory!

I am praying for each of you today to live the victorious lives that we should be living as Christians. God has shown us who our enemy is. He has provided the equipment to fight with, and most important, has guaranteed us the victory! With that knowledge, there is no battle you are fighting today that should cause you any fear. Pray and let God lead you to victory. Never forget, ?Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world?!!! Because of Him, we have already won the VICTORY!!!