Ephesians 6:11 11Put on the whole amour 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 blessed, I am already blessed in
Christ!” It doesn’t matter how much you have in the bank. You are richly
supplied because you are in Christ. And as the need arises, the supply
will be there if you believe it.
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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