Are you at War with a Defeated Enemy?
We are not fighting to try to win the mastery over the kingdom of darkness. By virtue of the new birth we already have it! So why should we be at war with a defeated enemy?
We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works that He has before ordained that we should walk in! (Eph. 2:10)
I am not at war with the devil, praying and trying to defeat him; he already is defeated! Jesus defeated him for me. Now His victory is mine.
I am not “bombarding the gates of heaven,” trying to get God to hear my prayers. Jesus told us that all we have to do is pray to the Father in His name and He will give us what we ask Him for. He said in John 14:13 that we can use His name to command what we will and it shall be done unto us.
We do not have to cry, to plead, to beg, to moan, groan, do penance, fast or in any way try to impress Him to hear our prayers. Jesus said that all we have to do is ask in His name, believe that we receive, and it shall be done unto us.
He said in John 15:7 that if we abide in Him and His words abide in us, we can ask what we will and it shall be done unto us!
So the struggle is over! The victory is ours! God hears and answers when we pray!
We no longer have to live under a religious system of laws, ceremonies, statutes and ordinances. We are living in a kingdom of freedom under a New and Better Covenant with new and better promises.
The apostle John said it this way, “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: and if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” (I John 5:14)
Jesus said, “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full!” (John 16:24)
We are peace with God. The Father loves us because we love Jesus and believe in Him. He hears and answers our prayers just because we ask in the name of His Son Jesus.
When Jesus became the Firstborn from the dead we were created in Him and raised from the dead together with Him- far above all principalities and powers!
There is no power or ruler of darkness that can stop us from having what God says we have! Jesus has sent His Holy Spirit to show us what belongs to us in Christ!
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you! (John 16:13-15)
• Now that we know that God has given us all things and we are living in His kingdom of freedom, let us just walk in the works that God has prepared for us to walk in!
• Let us no longer think that we have to win a battle with the devil that Jesus has already won before we can do what God says we can do!
We are not fighting to try to win the mastery over the kingdom of darkness. By virtue of the new birth we already have it! So why should we be at war with a defeated enemy?
We are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works that He has before ordained that we should walk in! (Eph. 2:10)
I am not at war with the devil, praying and trying to defeat him; he already is defeated! Jesus defeated him for me. Now His victory is mine.
I am not “bombarding the gates of heaven,” trying to get God to hear my prayers. Jesus told us that all we have to do is pray to the Father in His name and He will give us what we ask Him for. He said in John 14:13 that we can use His name to command what we will and it shall be done unto us.
We do not have to cry, to plead, to beg, to moan, groan, do penance, fast or in any way try to impress Him to hear our prayers. Jesus said that all we have to do is ask in His name, believe that we receive, and it shall be done unto us.
He said in John 15:7 that if we abide in Him and His words abide in us, we can ask what we will and it shall be done unto us!
So the struggle is over! The victory is ours! God hears and answers when we pray!
We no longer have to live under a religious system of laws, ceremonies, statutes and ordinances. We are living in a kingdom of freedom under a New and Better Covenant with new and better promises.
The apostle John said it this way, “And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us: and if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.” (I John 5:14)
Jesus said, “Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full!” (John 16:24)
We are peace with God. The Father loves us because we love Jesus and believe in Him. He hears and answers our prayers just because we ask in the name of His Son Jesus.
When Jesus became the Firstborn from the dead we were created in Him and raised from the dead together with Him- far above all principalities and powers!
There is no power or ruler of darkness that can stop us from having what God says we have! Jesus has sent His Holy Spirit to show us what belongs to us in Christ!
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come.
14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
15 All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you! (John 16:13-15)
• Now that we know that God has given us all things and we are living in His kingdom of freedom, let us just walk in the works that God has prepared for us to walk in!
• Let us no longer think that we have to win a battle with the devil that Jesus has already won before we can do what God says we can do!
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