Fight From Victory, Not For
Victory
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| Ephesians 6:11 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. | ||
God does not need you to defeat the
devil today. Jesus has already done it and given you the victory. (Colossians 2:15, Romans 8:37) Your part
is to enforce the victory by simply standing your ground, which is victory
ground. In other words, you “fight” from victory ground by standing. You
don’t fight for victory.
In Ephesians 6:10–18, the passage on spiritual warfare, the word
“wrestle” appears only once (verse 12),
while the word “stand” appears four times — “stand against the wiles of
the devil”, “withstand in the evil day”, “having done all, to stand”,
“Stand therefore”. (Verses 11,
13–14) Four times the Holy Spirit tells us to stand. Yet, many Christians
are focusing on wrestling their way to victory!
My friend, you are already on
victory ground. You already have everything in Christ. (1 Corinthians 3:21, 23) You are already blessed with every
spiritual blessing in Christ. (Ephesians
1:3). The devil knows this. And that is why his tactic is to deceive you
and make you think that you don’t have the victory.
So when he attacks you by saying,
“Look at that small sum in your bank account! How are you going to pay the
bills?” stand your ground. Declare, “I am not trying to be rich, I am rich. In
Christ, I am rich!” It doesn’t matter how much you have in the bank. You are
rich because you are in Christ. And as the need arises, the supply will be
there if you believe that you are already rich.
It is the same with healing. The
devil will try to attack you with symptoms in your body. He will try to put
pain in your body, and make you feel weak here and there, so that you think
that you are still sick. He is trying to make you believe that you don’t have
your healing. That is the time to be conscious of Jesus’ finished work and
declare, “I am not trying to get healed, I am healed! I am standing on the
victory ground which Jesus has given me!”
Beloved, it makes a world of difference when you
fight from victory and not for victory!
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