Revolt The Enemy Within!

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Romans 7:14-25 (TLB)

14 The law is good, then, and the trouble is not there but with me because I am sold into slavery with sin as my owner.

15 I don’t understand myself at all, for I really want to do what is right, but I can’t. I do what I don’t want to—what I hate. 16 I know perfectly well that what I am doing is wrong, and my bad conscience proves that I agree with these laws I am breaking. 17 But I can’t help myself because I’m no longer doing it. It is sin inside me that is stronger than I am that makes me do these evil things.

18 I know I am rotten through and through so far as my old sinful nature is concerned. No matter which way I turn I can’t make myself do right. I want to but I can’t. 19 When I want to do good, I don’t; and when I try not to do wrong, I do it anyway. 20 Now if I am doing what I don’t want to, it is plain where the trouble is: sin still has me in its evil grasp.

21 It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love to do God’s will so far as my new nature is concerned; 23-25 but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind I want to be God’s willing servant, but instead I find myself still enslaved to sin.

So you see how it is: my new life tells me to do right, but the old nature that is still inside me loves to sin. Oh, what a terrible predicament I’m in! Who will free me from my slavery to this deadly lower nature? Thank God! It has been done by Jesus Christ our Lord. He has set me free.

1. My doing good and my doing bad have nothing to do with me – the ability to both be good and be bad has no connection with my brain, or seen as my forte. This ability is not my area of specialisation in any sense.
2. There are two forces constantly contending over my life – BUT one is far more SUPERIOR than the other. What I need to do is to identify the place of the SUPERIOR FORCE and give it full expression in every area of my life.
3. The Controller of the Superior Force (God) needs a platform in my life to aid and guide its full expression – Jesus is this PLATFORM! He is always ready to revolt the residue of the strength of defilement in my life.
4. The “enemy within” constantly leaves my life open to spiritual setbacks, weakens my spiritual defences, triggers character flaws and helps the devil to fulfil his mandate to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:10). These are all designed to truncate my divine purpose BUT THANK GOD FOR THE VICTORY THROUGH THE CROSS.

 PRAYER:

• Thank God for what He has done through the CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST. Thank Him for the victory He has given us over the conflicts between our flesh and His Spirit. Thank Him for the great impact of the CROSS on our lives.

• Lord, please repair all alterations that are not in line with Your will for my life. Deal with anything that seeks to frustrate my intentions to serve You faithfully – do something to all “the goliaths within” that are suppressing my defeat over the works of the flesh. Quicken the SURE VICTORY OF GRACE in my life to conquer these goliaths permanently.

• Lord, affect the seat of my soul in a unique way and destroy anything that is clogging my upward level in Christ. Crush my appetite to any form of defilement. Deliver me from my refined way of patting sin on the back and giving place to the devil.

• Lord, deal with all the instruments of imperfection in me. Help me not to spare my spiritual weaknesses. By Your Grace I disown every weak area in my relationship with You that I have claimed and carried this far – let there be no ground for me to claim them anymore.

• Lord, de-house the lower nature in me; do not allow it to find habitation in my life anymore. Lord, I desire a definite shaking from heaven to inactivate the source of dead works in every area. Deliver me from the grip/hold of sin; destroy the platform of the fulfilment of devil's mandate in my life.

• Lord, please open my eyes and life to what makes someone to be convinced by Your Word, but not changed by it – consume me with the FAITH and the LIFE that are wrapped in Your Word. Help me to believe and accept Your Word as it concerns my life, everything and everyone connected to me.

• Lord, fuel my life constantly with the Grace to have an unhindered relationship with You. TAKE ME TO THAT PLACE WHERE MY INSIDE AND OUTSIDE BECOME THE EXPRESSION OF YOUR HEART!

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Daughters of Zelophehad

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Numbers 27: 1-11

Convinced, Courageous and Audacious Daughters of Zelophehad...

Whose Daughter Are You?

1.    Zelophehad had a traceable lineage. Our destiny and quest to make a difference to the nations will only be a mirage if our genealogy cannot be traced to Christ.

• Holy Spirit, please bear witness in my heart that I am a daughter of God. 

2.    We seldom see in scriptures where a chapter of a book starts with the story of daughters, singles or women. These five daughters were pregnant with a burden that grew into a vision and they were injected with a scope. They became embolden with that vision so much so that their conviction made them restless.

What am I pregnant with?

What cause am I sold out to?

What was the burden that made these single ladies restless and ‘defiant’?

The quest of the daughters of Zelophehad was to preserve and ensure continuity of their Father’s name - a name that was not capable of saving any man from sin; self; Satan or the world system.

• Holy Spirit, please reveal to me the content and nature of what I am pregnant with. Inject into my heart a vision and a scope that has eternal significance.
• Let the sum total of my life be Christ and HIM crucified.
• Make my life an embodiment and a tangible interpretation of the scripture- “Not I but Christ”. 

3.    They were bent on giving expression to their conviction so much so that they defied the law, the tradition and the social norm by going into the Tent Meeting and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and all The Israelites.

What is my conviction?

Have I given expression to that conviction?

Has it or does it cost me something?

• Lord, please grow your conviction in my heart. Do not allow me to bottle the very life of Christ in my heart but rather let it find freedom of expression.
• Grant me courage to be willing to count the cost in order for Christ to be made manifest.

4.     The five daughters had knowledge of events that took place when the children of Israel journeyed through the wilderness. They agreed that disobedience and joining alliance against God entitles one to no inheritance here on earth or even in heaven. They challenged status quo because continuity of a family name was carried on by sons not daughters.

• Deepen my understanding of who You are LORD. 
• Let the Word of God be my final authority so that I never join alliance against Christ or HIS Word. 
• Grant me grace to challenge error, wrong interpretation of the Word and the oracles of God, unrighteous acts and misinterpretation of who CHRIST is. 

5.  These women expressed their conviction to all of Israel - to anyone who would listen. They were not content to quietly murmur or simply pray in their closest. They challenged status quo. They made a demand that was unprecedented. They were clear about what they wanted and highlighted the disparity in gender that denied them of having any inheritance.

Where are my women of courage?

Where are my audacious daughters?

Are we suppressed with cowardice and fear of men?

Their Cry

Our Father died of natural death {Our own old nature died with Christ on Calvary}

Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? {Why should Jesus who is our life be done away with and not have continuity because there are no sons (Christ ambassadors)}.

Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father. {Give us therefore a possession, a vision, make us part labourers; give us our lot and quota as it were of ensuring continuity of our FATHER’s name.

• Lord, make this my personal and life cry.
• Let every travail, labour, investment of my life work together to ensure continuity of the life of Jesus.

Results

Moses had to bring their cause before the Lord.

History, laws and tradition were revisited and updated on account of these ladies’ burden. A flaw was highlighted by these five daughters and God corrected it.

This act of courage by five daughters changed the laws and traditions of acquisition of inheritance and set a new tone for possibilities when women take their place in destiny.

Can I find daughters who are passionate for the cause of Christ?

Daughters who will lay their agenda down to see Jesus’ agenda be made manifest throughout the globe?

Where are my audacious daughters?

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