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1-21-14 Where is your stronghold?


1-21-14 Where is your stronghold?
Reading today’s devotional in Charles Stanley’s Into His Presence. It is talking about David and says “David was in his stronghold… David plotted the next attack against the enemy.”

Where is your stronghold?  Where is it that you are seeking God?  Where is it that you are claiming war against the enemy?

The enemy seeks whom he may devour. (1 Peter 5:8).  Devour = to destroy, waste; to engulf, absorb. 1 Peter says like a lion.  A lion will tear its prey to shreds.  What does he seek to devour?  Your family, your finances, your mind, your spirit, your very soul and those of people around you. 

Are you ready to take the battle into the enemy’s camp?  Have you spent time with the commander-in-chief and made a plan of attack?  Divide the troops.  Send this platoon after this enemy (i.e. homelessness), and another after a different enemy.

The devotion goes on to talk about David’s men crossing enemy lines to obtain a drink from the well that David had expressed a desire for.  Are you ready to cross enemy lines to bring back the souls that the Lord desires?  “Only God can save”, you say and you say rightly. But, “How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?” (Rom 10:14) We think of preachers as the pastor of the church.  Often we think winning souls is “their job”.  A preacher is anyone who declares the gospel of Jesus Christ. Preacher = one who preaches.  Preach = to proclaim or expound upon. Any believer in Christ can proclaim Him and expound upon what He has done for them.  Your story can be the catalyst for someone else to believe. God reaps the harvest, you sow the seed.

Are you ready to draw a line in the sand and dare the enemy to cross it?  Have you prayed a hedge of protection (Hosea 2:6) around those you love?

It is time to pursue the enemy instead of him pursuing you!

In the movie Facing the Giants the coach rallies his team at half time and says that it’s time to get them(the opposing team) off their game and start playing their game (the Eagles team).  It is time to stop letting the enemy dictate how the game is going to be played!  We have the ultimate coach, the ultimate strategist.  Let Him call the shots and let us be ready to carry out the plays.

Get in a huddle with your coach today and listen to the game plays.

Melissa Going
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