Is Your Style of Armor Working?

Posted on January 27, 2014 by Janie | Leave a comment

Prayer is armor. It is one that protects, develops, and increases the spirit, characteristics, and the abilities you already have. This is an armor that is needed for the war that comes into your life with or without warning.

I am not talking about the kind of prayer that is done just for one to say that he or she has prayed for the day, week or month. I am focusing on the prayer of intimacy and growth, the prayer that will transform you (your thoughts and actions) and even what you see as you pray. This prayer is come by seeking God’s face, not looking up into the sky and imagining Him as a shape of a cloud. I am speaking of getting low, getting your own face hidden so His can be sought. This kind of prayer allows you to feel His presence and to hear His voice. This is prayer as armor.

When suffering loss, financial distress, or any kind of life altering obstacle you feel it, when you are attacked you feel it physically, mentally, and emotionally then you feel the impact to your spirit. Most attacks in life become a spiritual war. You are faced with being up or down or stuck somewhere in between and you run from one end to the other trying to keep a balance. Without the proper armor you will feel an intensified blow, become exhausted and may have trouble recovering. Even when you are armed you must be sure to use all of your armor to get the most benefits from what is available. Don’t let your armor sit dormant while you suffer.

Become mentally equipped to execute the use of your armor. The mentally equipped will keep fighting if the will to succeed is dominant and if faith in a winning outcome is present. In the mind is where the battle begins and if your mind is ready you can move forward believing that your armor will do you some good. You will believe that you can use what you have to effectively counteract what comes against your spirit.

You have the armor within you strengthen it, all you need is: time, a private place, your voice, your ears, your mind, and faith. Prepare yourself, life is happening every day.

If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not ear me: But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. Blessed be God, which hath not turned away my prayer, nor his mercy from me. Psalms 66:18-20

Overcome To Live

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Janie | Leave a comment

Overcome: to defeat someone or something, to gain control of something difficult, to affect someone very strongly (Merriam-Webster, 2014).

Satan is not for you, he is not excited about your victories. He feels good when you fail, are overtaken by life, and find yourself crawling instead of standing. He enjoys seeing you injured. When you are injured you have potential to be eliminated.

Recall a time when you were stumbling over the rocks on you path and chose to voice your issues to others; what response did you get? If you have witnessed others sit up with excitement and tuned in to hear your misery you can use that kind of response to gauge exactly how Satan is behaving when he has injured you and is waiting to overcome you. He is enjoying with anticipation, circling his prey, preparing to devour you. Some of the people in your circle or those you communicate with may not want to devour you, but if they seemingly perk up at your troubles they have a similar spirit. They may not appear to be harmful, but they are. People of that nature bring negativity and negativity drains life of energy, energy that you need to keep from being defeated.

Now consider when you have succeeded or overcame, you shared the good news about the promotion you received, the insight you gained from a recent failure or the debt you paid off, and what happens? Does the body language of your audience change; does the voice of a certain friend or acquaintance become monotone or maybe these people cannot get a vocabulary word out that exudes congratulations or a “way to go friend”. It could be that you have excelled where they have not, however it is not a positive responds and this is how you can expect Satan to respond. He is disappointed and is not going to congratulate you, but he is thinking of how to overcome you for the future. He is planning an attack, a way to injure you, or a way to eliminate you through the way you deal with life events.

You can stop the process of elimination, you can overcome. You can overcome sin and be reconciled to God. You can overcome obstacles and day to day blows and leave Satan defeated. When you are able to overcome in such a way you can then feel and live out the meaning of the scripture that reads like this: “If God is for us, who can be against us” (Romans 8:31KJV). If you are an overcomer you are becoming more intimate with God. You have learned to be equipped by Him through prayer and fasting and he is for you. You are his called, and his chosen, and his faithful; God is for you, but Satan can be against you. If you are living as a diluted version of the power Satan has in the earth by way of the sin you have not yet escaped, he can come against you, but with God you will overcome.

Live to be an overcomer and overcome to live.

Scripture Inspiration; Romans 8, Revelation 12, 13 KJV

Let Go

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Janie | Leave a comment

Let go. Yes, open your hand and let it go. Don’t wait for someone to pry your hand open one finger at a time, do it yourself for yourself. The thought of hearing whatever you have released hit the surface brings anxiety, but the sound will not last. Once it lands the energy it has will come to a rest, you can then walk forward. No longer held back, you can cross the bridge and move closer to the change you desire to see in yourself. Choose to conquer by placing the will to overcome in your mind and let your limbs follow.