ALWAYS KEEP FIGHTING
NEVER GIVE UP
Part-2
Peter walked on water not because of his ability but because he fixed his eyes on Jesus.
The moment he doubted, he began to sink. Faith is what keeps you above the waves. It is what allows you to walk where others sink, to move forward when others turn back.
The enemy’s goal is always to attack faith because he knows that without faith, victory is impossible. If he can make you doubt, he can make you quit.
But those who refuse to let go of faith, those who hold on when everything tells them to give up, will see the hand of God move in ways they never imagined.
Faith is what sustained Job when he lost everything. He did not understand why he was suffering. But he held on to God.
Though he lost his wealth and his children, he declared,” Though he slays me, yet I will trust him.” That is faith in its purest form.
Not trusting God only when things are good but trusting him even in the fire, even in the storm, even in the silence.
And because he held on to faith, God restored him double for everything he had lost.
The three Hebrew boys, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, stood before a fiery furnace with the option to bow down to the idols or burn.
They chose faith. They declared that God was able to deliver them. But even if He didn’t, they would not bow. That kind of faith cannot be intimidated, cannot be shaken.
DIVINE STRENGTH IN MOMENTS OF DELAY
And because they held on to faith, they walked in the fire without being burned. And the Son of God walked with them.
Faith does not always keep you out of the fire, but it ensures that the fire will not consume you. Faith does not deny reality. It defies it when the doctor’s report is bad.
Faith declares that God is still the healer. Even when the bank account is empty, faith says that God is still the provider. Psalm 23.
When the door seems closed, faith believes that God is making a way where there seems to be no way. He works in ways you cannot see. He will make a way for you. (God will make a way where there seems to be no way.) hymn
Faith is not blind optimism. It’s confidence in the faithfulness of God. (What a friend we have in Jesus.) hymn.
Surrender all your problems at his feet. Surrender yourself completely to His will. Tell your daddy how you feel. Though he knows, tell him. He wants to hear from you.
Declare the Word of God over your problems.
And you will see them diminish one by one. Reject the lies of Satan. “No weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Isaiah 54:17
If you are ill, “Declare” By His stripes we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5.
I cancelled every negative word I spoke over my life and my family in the name of Jesus.
When doubts try to enter, you declare,” For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper me and not to harm me, plans to give me hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29:11.
- All to Jesus I surrender,
- I surrender I surrender, I wanna know you God (hymns)
Note: My brothers and sisters, if you have a pistol or bow and arrow in the other room. And suddenly, there is an attack on you and your family unexpectedly. And the criminal or burglar will not even give you a chance to go and fetch your pistol and arrow. The weapon is of no use.
When you face an accident or any crisis, you will not get time to go and open your Bible to check for God’s word.
The Bible will be a book only if you keep it decorated in a room to get dust unlike other books or just read.
But when you memorize verses and you come across any situation, the Holy Spirit will remind you of what you have read and learn and memorized, and you can immediately speak the word of God into those situations.
And believe me when you speak it boldly with faith. It’s like flaming arrows knocking down your enemies.
God gets annoyed when you give up. He says, “You are my sons and daughters. I haven’t given you a spirit of fear.” Jesus has defeated Satan and death already on the cross. He has given us the authority to trample the serpent, Satan, under our feet. Psalm 91
Recognize the authority God has given you over Satan. Bring them to use and see how he flees. Remember, Satan himself was created by God. Satan is not the opposite of God. God has no opposite.
He can’t give you life. Can he die for you on the cross as Jesus did? Can he save you? He knows his end is near. Satan laughs at God the Father when his children let him down with their doubts, when we give up.
Abba Father says,” Get up” and fight the enemy. Jesus didn’t sacrifice himself on the cross for us to be failures but instead to be victorious.
It’s just that no one taught you how to fight.
The enemy will try to wear you down to make you question, to make you believe that God has forgotten you. But Fath reminds you that even when you cannot see the way, He is still leading even when the answer hasn’t come.
He still works even when the battle seems endless. Victory is still certain. Faith is the weapon that defeats fear. F.E.A.R. (false evidence appear real) that silences doubt, that breaks chains.
Those who hold on to faith no matter what will always see the power of God at work in their lives.
Trials are not meant to break you but to build you for greater victories. Every person who has ever walked in the power of God has faced trials.
There is no victory without a battle, no testimony without a test, and no strength without resistance.
The challenges that come into life are not there to destroy but to refine, strengthen and prepare for something greater.
When trials come, they reveal what is truly inside a person. They expose weaknesses, but they also build resilience.
They strip away reliance on human strength and force dependence on God.
Joseph was given a dream of greatness, yet before, he never saw the fulfilment of that dream. He was betrayed by his brothers, thrown into a pit, sold into slavery, falsely accused and imprisoned.
Every trial he faced seemed to move him further from his destiny, but in reality, each one was positioning him closer to it. In the pit, in the prison, in the lowest moments of his life.
God was preparing him. He was learning humility, leadership and trust in God’s timing. And when the moment came, he stepped into his destiny.
He was second in command over Egypt, not because of his strength but because the trials had shaped him into a man who could carry the weight of his calling.
Part -3
To be continued
PRAYER IN HARD TIMES
I thank you, God, that you are the God of the Impossible.
You can do anything.
I want to trust in your ability and not my own.
Teach me to see difficulties in my life from your perspective.
Help me to focus on you and your power.
I want to be like Joshua and Caleb, who believed in a good report
And focused on you even in hard circumstances. Numbers 14: 7-9
My responsibility is to carefully read, trust, and obey your word.
Today I bring before you this difficulty in my life……. (Name a hard situation you are facing.)
Help me not to fear but to trust you in this situation.
I declare my faith in your ability to fulfill your promises to me.
You will fight for me and win the battles in my life.
You are mighty, righteous, powerful and true.
I have nothing to fear with you on my side.
I will be strong and courageous even in hard times.
I will not be terrified or discouraged, for the Lord my God will be with me.
Wherever I go. Joshua 1:9
You will never leave me or forsake me. Joshua 1:5
I do not need to figure everything out.
You already know the best plans for my life.
I will not try any man-made method
to do only what I can do.
Show me your supernatural power.
Teach me how to walk by faith and pray breakthrough prayers.
I choose to have faith in your ability
To break through every obstacle in my life.
Just like Joshua, you will give me the land and everywhere my feet step. Joshua 1:3
Through you we push back our enemies, through your name we trample our foes.
I do not trust in my bow; my sword does not bring me victory.
But you who gives us victory over our enemies.
You put our adversaries to shame.
In God we make our boast all day long
And we will praise your name forever. Psalm 44: 5-8
Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup.
You have made my lot secure; the boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places,
sure, I have a delightful inheritance.
I will praise the Lord, who counsels me,
Even at night, my heart instructs me.
I have set the Lord always before me.
Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Therefore, my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, my body also will rest.
Secure because you will not abandon me to grave,
nor will you let your Holy one sees decay.
You have shown me the path of life
You will fill me with Joy in your presence
With eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalm 16: 5-11
In Jesus’s name I pray. Amen
