Ways To Overcome

Ways to overcome - Psalm 91:13

Psalm 91:13, “You will tread on the lion and cobra; you will trample the young lion and serpent.

What are the threats to you overcoming?

If the devil can pressure you, and you concede (don’t concede)

Sometimes the devil, acts just like a bull. He will try to intimidate your intentions as a follower of God. And this should encourage your spirit, even though it is difficult, when the enemy defies you, and your God.

If the devil can influence you: and you concede (don’t concede)

the person, who is after God will have the immediate and focused attention of the enemy, to stop this devotion and commitment, or to stifle it somehow. He will work through unknown amounts of ways to convince you that this is not what you should do, or be like.

If the devil can mimick you and look like you are not where you should be (don’t concede)

The devil will also try and make you look unattractive, to the world, and those who God want’s you to reach. He will try by people who walk in presumtion, to diminish the word of God, that you represent to be nothing better, or more substantial than a heresy or false teaching. He will use, people who do not correspond or accept your values, or essential beliefs, to walk in presumtion, to claim that the essense is the same.

Don’t let the enemy use false teachings to diminish your message. Hold the word of life, and the doctrines of God, and don’t let presumtuous people hinder and stop the gospel of the Scriptures.

If the devil can cause you to deny God through an immenent leader. (don’t concede)

God also raises up the ungodly. Isaiah 40:23-24, “He brings princes to naught and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing. 24 No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.

Usually we hear the words that God “raised them up” in reference to men and women of God. This is true. But it is also true that God also raises up leaders, who he knows will wreak havoc in this world and be a severe test to believers. The ungodly leader, “which was his will for him to exist, and rise, and also God’s will for him to fall” this will serve a purpose. Possibly to end ability for the resisting to have sway on the believers, who will remain. And the weak, to be uprooted, rather than keep the church where she should not be. God won’t cause the weak to stumble, but he may provide a test, that will cause the weak to make a decision to grow or not, so that they don’t impede the church to grow.

If trials and hardship, there are many times that people fall away from the faith. Many times, it is due to “this or that person” who had influence, or leadership, and they were ungodly.

If the devil can cause you to place routine over obedience (don’t concede)

God is a God on the move. He is working, and he is fulfilling his purpose. He is also adapting to save, to complete, to fuflill his promise, to establish the fulfilling of his covenant, and he is adapting to where and what the devil is doing at this very moment, so as to cause his Word to have supremacy in all the earth.

Routines, though they can be good in themsevles; they are just not an end in themselves. We need to follow Christ, and we need to adapt to the leading of the Spirit in our lives, so that we can be a people, who are reflecting the intention of the church in the scriptures.

We are to be a church that is moving and going and doing and acting with God.

This is particularly applicable to leaders in the church, with the gifts of pastors, teachers, missionaries, prophets and evangelists. Many times, ordinary sheep, are local, and God moves the leaders of the church to do what he calls them to do, so as to establish, or maintain the local people of God, in different places in the earth. If you feel called to be in church leadership, and the gift of an office of ministry, then you can expect that God may specifically also call you to different places, and nations.

Concluding remarks:

Your job, is not just to hold out, and wait. Your job is not just to “hold out” until the difficulty passes. Your job is to go forward, and to overcome. Your job is not to die on the precipice. Your obligation of being a child of God, is to be able to enjoy the covenant relationship with God, that he established with you, in his blood and body.

Your job is to complete your purpose and do the will of God, like David, who “did the will of God, in his generation”. And for God’s glory to be known.

Don’t let the enemy keep you and cause you to fail. Don’t be among those who went down for the count.