A fight to the finish!

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6: 12-13

The Christian life is a fight to finish. For we who call ourselves by the name of Jesus Christ it is a fight until the end of the race. The fight is a close mark fight, a wrestle, which means that the enemy is closer than we think. He is not hidden from us but in plain sight and the focus of his fight is not to cause us physical death, this in most cases come from our choices.

The whole idea is to make it impossible to move forward, to run our race of life. What the devil does is to pin us down one way or the other so much so that we give up hope. We begin to tell ourselves that we can never succeed in life. This leaves us a bit damaged one way or the other, we are always looking over our shoulders. Some people the devil will attack one’s finances, some it is their marriage, some it is their health, some it is their business and so many areas of our life. He would attack your business and bring about failure. What is his end game? He wants you to look at your life and believe you can never be successful in business. He wants you to deny God. But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. Job 1:11

We must no longer be casual, simple, ordinary, predictable, pedantic about the way we live our life and fight to win our race, we must be able and ready to fight. Why? We are in a wrestling fight against 4 types of enemies – principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual wickedness in high place. One level is more deadly than the next.

We must empower ourselves in the 4 areas of fight. We must know exactly how to face the people that the enemy is using to fight us. We must face the spirit operating through persons working against our growth and not focus on the person. Once the spirit operating in them is defeated those people become a tool for us. The fight has 4 hierarchical levels. It becomes tougher with each level so we should be stronger with each fight.

We are to get back into spiritual activities that will lift us up, make us stronger, build us up and empower us to win and succeed in life.

What is the meaning of life? pt 4

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2: 7, 15 KJV

A lot of people are so brilliant but are poor, a lot are so capable and yet cannot excel. A lot of us are not succeeding because of someone who does not want you to succeed. There is the story of an old man who at 70 years had a capacity to remember word for word sermons and discussions in church without leaving anything out. For this skill he was made secretary in many departments. Then one day the Pastor asks him; Baba how come you are this brilliant but you are poor? Baba said he didn’t have an answer. Baba was brilliant, found it easy to solve people’s problems and everywhere he went he was a solution. Then the pastor prayed for him and he asked Baba to find out from his ancestral home what happened when he was born.

When he went home and asked the question he found someone alive who still had the answer. He told him that his parents went to inquire about his future. They told his parents he would travel and excel, that he would be great in diaspora. His parents said no that as an only child they do not want him far away from them. Due to their shortsightedness they decided to prevent him from leaving them. This became the stumbling block to his success and fulfilling his destiny.

This is what a lot of us face this day. Someone somewhere decides that what we have is not good enough. They are used as the stumbling block to our success, not because they do not love you but because they feel that they know the best for you. We must find out who we are, what our purpose is and what we are to achieve with the fulfillment of purpose.

Finally, you need to ask yourself; where am I going after I leave this earth. How can be sure of this answer? What is the solution to this struggle and achieving? Give your life to Jesus! This world is our exam and we must pass that exam in a great and mighty way. Talk to Jesus today. So that we would end up in the right place at the end of life here on earth.

What is the meaning of life? pt 3

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. Genesis 2: 7, 15 KJV

What am I doing here? What is my duty and what is my responsibility here on earth? There is a reason God created you; you are not a mistake. The bible tells us in Genesis 2:15, that God put man in the garden to dress and to keep it. The duty of man is to obey God and do that which He has told us to do. Everyone has a duty and responsibility here on earth. Most of us has been created to do something and to protect that thing.

We are not just here to look good and to accumulate, we are here to fulfill a purpose.  Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5. This means before our conception God already knew you; He had imagined you in His thought and had an idea of what you would become. It is after He had finished the design and purpose that the baby is conceived.

God had known you before He formed you. He and pictured you and known what purpose you will fulfill. We have a specific duty to carry out as creations of God. A lot of us work below par and find it so hard to fulfill our potential of our life.

Exodus 3:1-10 tells us the story of a man called Moses. The bible said Moses at the age of 80 found himself in the back of life. He found himself not where he is supposed to be but where he was not supposed to be. He was a lonely shepherd man living off his father-in-law. Instead of him being the Shepherd of men, he was leading the sheep. Moses at the backside of the desert suddenly had an encounter with God. God told him that he is not a failure but his purpose was to lead the people of Israel.

It is important for us to know what we are meant to achieve in life. There is a difference between duty or responsibility and achievement. Some people know what they should do, they do it but even in their doing there is no achievement. It is one thing to labour, yet it is another thing to show fruit of the labour. You are working hard and struggling; trying one thing it doesn’t work and trying another one but there is no fruit to show for it.

As a creation of a universal and eternal God, we are created not to labour in vain. We are created to labour and to be fruitful. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Genesis 1:28 KJV
Being fruitful is a portion of God's own inheritance saved by Christ.