On this day after the election, there are many people who are going around saying, “We’ve lost! America is lost!” I want to say to them, “America was lost before the election.” I’m sorry but the Bible makes it clear that, “We have all strayed like sheep. Each one of us has turned to go his own way, and the LORD has laid all our sins on Him.” Isaiah 53:6 So to say that “We’re lost,” is not really a good statement. Because without a relationship with Jesus we are all lost.
However, I want to tell you that God never meant for you to lose. As believers today we need to get that into our heads. Get that into our minds and let it sink deep into our hearts. Everything in your life may just seem opposite to that statement, but I want you trust me on this. God never meant for you to lose. I want us to understand that God didn’t send His Son, bring redemption to the world, save you from your sin for you to lose. God didn’t predestine you from the foundation of the world, He didn’t call you from your mother’s womb, sanctify you, set you apart, or has brought you into the knowledge of Christ. Just for you to live a defeated life.
Think about this for a moment…if you were going to live a defeated life, you could have been defeated in sin. You could have been overcome by your own lusts and addictions. If thought enough about you to choose you, to pull you out, to set you apart, then you have to get winning down in your spirit. God never meant for you to lose.
Now I know the devil’s trying to tell you that you’re supposed to be defeated. That maybe you’re not supposed to be blessed. Maybe you’re not supposed to be happy and maybe you’re not meant to be free. Maybe it’s not meant for you to get up. Maybe you’re wrong for wanting something in the Kingdom of God. But the devil is a liar. After all he is the father of lies. He wants to bewitch you. He wants to put into a trance. He’s trying to hypnotize you with trouble until you are intoxicated with problems and you no longer believe that God has anything in His goody bag for you. But I want to let you know that the devil is a liar!!!!! God never meant for you to lose.
Now that I’ve written the introduction to this blog let me get into this. Now, don’t get me wrong in saying all of that introduction, we are going to have challenges. You have to understand that. When I get up every morning there are challenges that come my way. Some of them are physical, some mental, some even spiritual. However, the challenges that we have today are demonstrated in the Old Testament by the battles they fought and I can go to those and gain some insight to what I’m going through.
Now we don’t see as many wars between people of faith and people not of faith as we did in the Bible days and I believe that is because the warfare has moved from the natural to the Spiritual. Maybe we’re not being called upon to suit up, get swords, get shields and run out into the battle fields and fight for our God. Maybe outwardly we seem to live a plush cushy life, whereby we are not challenged to walk through deserts, or sleep in tents, or drink water out of dripping rocks from caves. Maybe it seems like we don’t have conflict. But in reality we have greater conflict today than any time in the history of this world. It has just moved from the natural into the Spiritual and there’s a fight going on. If you’re not a spiritual person you won’t even know that you are taking licks and taking hits and getting bruises and taking punches. Because you don’t see any swords. You don’t see any guns or pistols. But please believe me when I tell you there is a tremendous fight going on. Paul says in Ephesians 6:12 “This is not a wrestling match against a human opponent. We are wrestling with rulers, authorities, the powers who govern this world of darkness, and spiritual forces that control evil in the heavenly world.” That means that you’re not going to see your Philistines coming down over a hill behind your house in your back yard and you’ll have time to run back by the bush. You’ll have to fight through the rose bushes and jump into the swimming pool and shoot your machine gun and fight off your Philistines. They are not coming in a tangible way. They are marching against your mind!! That is a great battle that we are fighting. They are marching against your health, your physical well-being, your emotions, against the prosperity that God has promised you, against your destiny. Trying to get you to give up on the things that God has placed down in your spirit and it’s a terrible warfare.
Next time we’ll deal a little more with this battle and how we fight that enemy. An unseen enemy. Remember, though, that as a believer you were never meant to lose!!! Those are powerful words. I didn’t say them, God did.
Pastor Rob
