UNSEEN BATTLE, UNSEEN DEFENSE

Post date: Jan 30, 2013 5:12:21 AM

There are several unseen battles being fought on your behalf every day. These battles frighten the eyes and discourage the mind, fought in the spiritual realm by God’s Spirits against the demons. While they are unseen to you, they are always seen and fought by your Lord. He alone is able to fight and to defeat them, while you remain rested and dependent on His strength always. It is amazing to know that though you are heavily pushed by known and unknown forces to take the wrong path in life, keep wrong thoughts, perception, vision and desires on many issues, and sometimes forced to suffer afflictions, keep unwelcomed anger, suffer loneliness and unknown lack, frustrations and unwanted despair, God is always defending you from completely falling over, and helping you to always stand in His victory despite the efforts of these forces.  

While you think that the physical battles against your moral values, good emotions, finances, Christian views and family values are enormous, the spiritual battles that you cannot see are far greater in number, fearful in magnitude, and carries greater consequences than the ones you see if you are defeated, but your God is defending and battling these forces on your behalf. The devil told God concerning Job: Have You not put a hedge about him and his house and all that he has, on every side?” Job 1:10. That is God placing unseen defense on Job against unseen battles.

Apostle Paul wrote: For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.” Ephesians 6:12

These battles are real, and your defenses are strong. The design of these battles are to bring you to your knees in shame, defeat and compromise, to beg those you should never beg, to stop you from moving forward on the things promised by your God, to stop you from achieving the kind of success that will glorify God, to stop you from having your joy and health truly restored, to stop you from seeing the fruits of your labor, marriage, business, seeing your family and children free and joyful, and stopping families from staying together and being faithful to the Lord.

The frontier of the battle is large, fearsome, complicated and difficult to understand. Paul got it right ‘we are not fighting flesh and blood’ these are ancient spiritual forces of wickedness. Left for you alone, you will be crushed in no time, but with God, you remain always a conqueror.    

The devil knows that though you try your very best to be sinless, there is still left in you some unchanged and unregenerate nature, a trace of ill-temper, some thoughts of vanity, a little of pride and some selfishness. But while the devil knew this about you, you should not submit and surrender to him, you must not rest from the battle, and you must not throw in the towel.

God does not require you to be sinless when you come before Him, He requires you to be unceasing in your resistance of evil, persevere in that which are good, and always seek the path of love, peace, sincerity and true repentance. He did not say you shall never fall, but He requires you to stand up after a fall. He does not require you to always win, but He does require you not to compromise and to keep fighting. This is because He will never back off from you; He will never forsake you, and He will never leave you to face this battle alone.

Satan truly has a plan to wear you out in almost everything. This plan is to keep reducing the best of your efforts, reduce your faithfulness, commitment and dependence on God until you are totally frustrated in waiting on Him. He wants to reduce your time of praying, days of fasting, and makes you trust less in God and more on self and to take ungodly steps as others to settle certain life issues. Job enjoyed that unseen defense, and you will enjoy it also. “Be not afraid or dismayed at this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God’s.” 2 Chronicles 20:15. Though the battles are unseen, but you will experience the victory. For prayers Click here