THE REIGN OF FAITH!!!

in #story5 years ago

2 Chronicles 20:1-30
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God did not promise us a battle free life; what He promised is victory celebration life.
It would appear that from the very beginning of God's placement of man, in the Garden of Eden, He had an agenda for man to rule and reign through warfare and conquest (Gen:1:26-28)
The term to 'subdue' connotes that battles and warfares are imminent, while 'dominion' speaks of reigning.
The challenge with us is twofold.

¹. The wrong impression that if God is with us, we should face no battles, oppositions or challenges - very wrong assumption!

². The difficulty to understand God's arrangement. That He shows us the promise; which is the end or final stage, the celebration stage: but he compels us to start from the beginning, go through the proper process, before arriving at the promise.

A proper examination of Genesis Chapter One verses 26 - 28 will clearly buttress this point. And God blessed them; that's the empowerment to reign. But look at the layout of the key words in a proper sequence after been blessed. Be Fruitful, Multiple, Replenish, Subdue: and have Dominion.
Now, dominion is the reigning stage, but to get there you must first subdue oppositions. To subdue opposition, sometimes you have to replenish or replace spent forces and some losses incurred along the way. To replenish also means to replace or reinforce weak links in a system or organization. Then you can begin to experience multiplication, which leads to fruitfulness, flourishing and then the dominion stage. It is a process!
In the process line, the most challenging are the replenishing and subduing stages. It's the battle stages before your victory and celebration time.
One important feature of the battle stage is a separation or replacement of bad and evil elements for us. You don't know who truly love or believe in you when all is well with you, when business and family is doing well.
So God permits some battles to show you the real nature of those you have gathered around yourself. Sometimes, battles show up to train you to be stronger and better for what lies ahead. Sometimes too, battles show up because it's your time of promotion. The conspiracy of Moab, Ammon and Mount Seir; was to give a very great boost of wealth to Jehoshaphat and Judah.
Now, that brings us to very important point. Moab and Ammon were the descendants of Lot and Mount Seir, the descendants of Ishmael: whom God instructed Moses not to take their land or meddle with them. But when it was time for them to lose their inheritance, they conspired and came together to war against Jehoshaphat and Judah.
To reign in life, faith must be promoted in our heart and thought (1 John 4:4) Often times, the conspiracy to war against the believer takes an intimidating shape.


The reason is that the enemy is aware that to defeat the Christian, you must drive him out of faith to the land of fear. Faith prompts the presence of God and divine intervention, while fear gives the devil an impetus to attack. No wonder James Hardly Chase quipped that ' fear is the key that unlocks the wallet of the rich'.


Refuse to fear the number of the opposition or their composition. One with God is majority and if God be with us, who can be against us?
This is your season to subdue all opposition and claim back your position and all lost grounds in Jesus name!
LET US PRAY!

  • Let's thank God for this 5th day of March 2019, for a peaceful night rest and strength to be up today.
  • Commit all dreams and revelations of the night to God. Ask God to separate every evil dreams and encounters of the night from you and your household and burn them with everlasting fire.
  • Ask God for quick manifestation of the good dreams and revelations without delays.
  • Come against every conspiracy and gang up against you to scatter by fire in Jesus name.
  • Ask God for grace and capacity to overcome every battle permitted by God for your enthronement.
  • Come against any satanic battles prompted to undermine your promotion, command the enemy to scatter from you in Jesus name.
  • Ask God for favour as you go out today.
  • thank God for answer to your prayers.
    The Greatest is Love


About the Author

Am Emekasegun a Nigerian, a true believer of Christ, Electrical/Electronics Designer, also a poet and Sports analysts, graphics and image editor. Started writing some couple of months ago, I write basically about poet, and occasionally also write about sports and scriptures

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