Our weapons are not physical; with that said, your fight and your war is within you and also the atmosphere you allow and accept. Our faith is aggressively accosted by our emotions, and by the circumstances of life that appear. Our initial reaction is to respond with fear and doubt as we struggle to stir up our faith. Being emotional doesn’t mean we don’t have faith. It means that we are flesh and spirit at the same time; we have to fight the good fight of faith; by remembering to believe. For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind, 2 Timothy 1:7. God knows just by reading scripture that it’s not an overnight occurrence to believe and walk up right. He knows that it will take time with Him to grow. The balance of this is the promises of God that He keeps them.
How do I stir up my faith? Start praying.
Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
To war is to battle between two choices, except what you see or believe what you don’t see; that all things are working together for your good, Romans 8:28, in any situation.
Choosing to either follow the righteous path or the path that’s set before you. And, more than likely the path that is set before you is the path taken before. Some paths that are connected to faith have not been seen or taken before. The decision to follow after righteousness is a war. The fight to keep the faith sometimes will hold you in between emotions and what you believe; live through it for Christ has said, He will never leave you or forsake you. You will come out of that space. Start praying, ask for prayer, seek counseling; your emotions don’t dictate your deliverance. Sometimes a prayer struggle is a growth accomplishment.
Romans 7:23-25 Living Translation 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.
Hebrews 7:25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
Embracing your relationship with Jesus Christ will require you to fight for your right to believe the promises of God. Keep praying!
