Dear Partner,
It’s time for you to stop allowing the devil to frustrate you, and it’s time for you to start frustrating the devil!
The enemy can’t read your mind. He doesn’t know what you’ve been meditating on until you have opened your mouth and actions follow. That exposes, to the enemy, what you’ve been feeding on internally. It exposes what you’ve been thinking about, and what you consistently think about will then have an effect on your feelings. We are faith people which means feelings are important to us because they are important to God. God wants our souls to PROSPER, as it says in 3 John 1:2 NKJV…
2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers.
The soul is made up of the mind, will and emotions.
Now this is how we can confuse satan! When he attacks us with a trial or circumstances, instead of giving in to worry and staying afraid, we OPEN OUR MOUTHS with praises to God and we use our faith, decree a thing and SHOUT THAT WE HAVE THE VICTORY AND THANK GOD FOR IT! We speak what GOD said about the situation, not what fear says. Notice fear can be heard, it has a tone. Well, faith can be heard and seen, and it has a tone too. So therefore we must remain in a spirit of faith!
When we respond like this (just as we should, because God is who He says He is) just imagine the enemy’s camp! They’ve been plotting and planning on you, thinking evil thoughts towards you and to harm you, to steal, kill and destroy your life somehow, EVERYDAY. And then here it comes, disappointments, things seeming to not work out the way you thought it would, attacks, trials, hard times, delays, hindrances, diseases, killings, threats, accusations, etc. but instead of holding your head down and stopping your faith and starting fear, you get up on the inside of yourself first (let faith come by hearing God’s WORD and receive holy edification), then on the outside and REJOICE!!
Let’s look at James 1:2-6 TPT
2 My fellow believers, when it seems as though you are facing nothing but difficulties, see it as an invaluable opportunity to experience the greatest joy that you can!
3 For you know that when your faith is tested it stirs up in you the power of endurance.
4 And then as your endurance grows even stronger, it will release perfection into every part of your being until there is nothing missing and nothing lacking.
5 And if anyone longs to be wise, ask God for wisdom and he will give it! He won’t see your lack of wisdom as an opportunity to scold you over your failures but he will overwhelm your failures with his generous grace.
6 Just make sure you ask empowered by confident faith without doubting that you will receive. For the ambivalent person believes one minute and doubts the next. Being undecided makes you become like the rough seas driven and tossed by the wind. You’re up one minute and tossed down the next.
Going through difficulties would tempt anyone to be confused and frustrated, but instead of giving in to the temptation, we are to see the moment as an OPPORTUNITY to experience GREAT JOY in the Lord as we ask Him in faith and confidence for HIS wisdom and KNOW that we will get it! And that wisdom of God will show us exactly how to pray and what to do or keep doing.
We must not only spend time in the presence of God, but also make time to intentionally sit still and pull down strongholds in our lives. Not knowing which weapon to use is a very dangerous thing. Your situation is only as bad as it looks when you don’t know HOW to fight. Imagine you’re watching a boxing match and one of the fighters has not been properly trained. What do you think is going to happen to him? He’ll lose and get knocked out sooner than he thinks. Why? Because he doesn’t know how to fight. He doesn’t know what to do once he sees the enemy coming towards him with a right hook, jab, and then an uppercut. He stands there, looks confused, afraid, and then when he does try to defend himself and fight back, he looks foolish. He’s not “fit for the fight” and it’ll show, everyone will be able to see it, it won’t have to be discerned.
Well, we look even worse, when we choose to be untrained while a Bible lays right under our roofs, and it carries the answers, training and instructions we need every single day to be able to live a victorious life.
We don’t have to be confused and stay frustrated, OPEN THE BIBLE. You and I know there’s nothing like God’s presence and once we’ve spent quality time with Him and in His WORD, we leave CHANGED, CONFIDENT AND CERTAIN that “this too shall pass!” Whatever satan throws at us is subject to change. The battle is not over until we win and the answers, security, instructions and COMFORT can be found in the WORD of God. It’s in the Bible. The Bible.
I will say it again. It’s…..in……the…..BIBLE.
Need courage? It’s in the BIBLE.
Need hope? It’s in the BIBLE.
Need peace? It’s in the BIBLE.
Need joy? It’s in the BIBLE.
Need answers? It’s in the BIBLE.
When we get in the Bible, we will learn HOW to tap into what He’s provided for His special possession, His special people, which is us, those who have received Jesus into their hearts as their Lord and savior.
God chose you, therefore if God chose you, He didn’t choose for you to be confused and stay frustrated, He chose you to proclaim the praises of HIM, because He’s the one who saved you out of darkness and brought you into a place of light, immortality and VICTORY!
I Corinthians 15:57-58 NKJV
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
So remember, we’ve already won. It’s time for you to stop allowing the devil to frustrate you, and it’s time for you to start frustrating the devil!
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE IF A PERSON BELIEVES!
-Terry Minor Jr
PS: I am praying for you daily!