I Will Be Your LORD!

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There is one reason our witness is so often ineffective:
Our hearts are divided, our affections are split, our
loyalties are torn. . . . Every kingdom divided against
itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided
against itself will not stand. "If Satan drives out Satan,
he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom
stand [Mt 12:25,26].

How then can we stand, if our hearts are hot one day and
cold the next, rejecting sin one hour and reveling in it
the next. Warring with the devil one minute and welcoming
him the next. No wonder we can't have victory within our
lives. Those who mingle and mix with Satan will never gain
the mastery over him. But-how painful yet true, We really
are in a struggle.

Peter spoke of "sinful desires, which war against your
soul" [1 Pe 2:11]. James spoke of the "desires that
battle within you" [James 4:1]. Paul counseled Timothy
to "flee the evil desires of youth" [2 Tim 2:22]. It is
only when we have "done everything that we can stand" [Ep 6:13].

But-how powerful and how gloriously true! We can stand.
There is a place of victory for the children of God! There
is a place of purity! God's grace is totally sufficient.
He can enable us, each and everyone of us, to do His bidding
with passion, to pursue His will with joy, to follow Him
whole heartedly. Christ Jesus has risen from the dead!
In Him we are raised too! His life has now become ours.
It is "Christ in you" which is the hope of glory. Let's
allow Him to live through us!

In the OT, people were clothed with the Spirit and gripped
by the Spirit [Jud 6:34]. But we have been 'filled' with
the Spirit. God now inhabits us! Clothed, gripped, filled-that
is the equipping of the LORD. In the OT, people like Job
feared God and shunned evil [Job 1:1]. They were called to
"Love the Lord and hate evil" [Ps 97:10]. To "hate evil and
love good [Amos 5:15] and "to act justly and to love mercy
[Mic 6:8].

We are certainly not called to anything LESS. We have been
given the very armor of God! He has clothed us with His
righteousness. The armor we are called to put on is the
armor God Himself WEARS. We put on the helmet of salvation
[Ep 6:17], and so does He [Is 59:17]. We wear the breastplate
of righteousness [Ep 6:14] and so does the Lord [Is 59:17].
He is the man of war [Ex 15:3]. We are called to "be strong
in the Lord and in His mighty POWER [Ep 6:10]. We fight His
battles in His strength. We go to war with His arsenal.
Yes, the weapons we fight with "have divine POWER to demolish
strongholds" with in our lives [2 Co 10:4]. "For everyone born
of God overcomes the world. This is the VICTORY that has
overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes
the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?"
[Jn 5:4,5].

There is a place He is calling us to, a place of refuge and
life. We have a divine invitation. He is saying "Come away
from your effort, Come away from your striving, Come away
from the filth and the stench. Enter the hiding place, Enter
the strong tower, Enter the fortress divine. Seek the face
of God!" Then emerge clothed with FIRE, clothed with POWER,
clothed with AUTHORITY, clothed with the very NATURE of God!

Arise and scatter the enemy! Give chase to the devil and his
hosts! Confront the world and its sin. Speak up to hypocrisy
and pride. Renounce ungodliness and greed. Rebuke immorality
and murder. Reject the lust and lies, and PURSE righteousness,
faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord
out of a pure heart [2 Tim 2:22], Through His grace that makes
you to stand. And I will be your God and ye shall be my children.

Love into Christ Jesus the Lord.
frank.

"The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the
righteous runneth into it, and is safe." Pro 18:10
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