MY FRIENDS, HE LET’S CONTINUE OUR JOURNEY FROM HERE!!

May 5, 2016

MY FRIENDS, HE LET’S CONTINUE OUR JOURNEY FROM HERE!!

“I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no claim on me, but I do as the Father has commanded me, so that the world may know that I love the Father. Rise, let us go from here.” My friends “let’s go from hear” [because we have lingered long enough, there is work to be done.] Matt 14 30-31 (NKJV)

Luke 11:24-26 (NKJV) says “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man or woman, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds.” Then Luke tells us, “the unclean spirit finds our mind and body is swept and put in order.” But today my friends, we are going to re-word that text since it’s personal and say when the unclean spirit returns to our lives, there is no entry because Gods presence now abides within us.

And His word and spirit now abides within us. And there is no entry because we pray without ceasing because we know the enemy is forever looking and watching to move back in. And most important, there is no entry for the enemy to abide because we are strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. We also realize we cannot fight against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

So we now stand firm on the promises of God because we have put on His full armor, starting with the “belt of truth buckled around our waist, along with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and on our feet we are fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition in our hand we have the shield of faith, with which we can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

And on our head, we are wearing the helmet of salvation. And in our other hand we are forever clinging to the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And daily we are praying in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. And with this in mind, we ae alert because we know the enemy goes about [“like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour”] Eph. 6:10-18 NKJV paraphrased)

My friends, there is a war being waged daily against our character because Satan knows he lost the battle in his pursuit “to be like the most High”at Calvary. “Now when [Christ] rose early on the first day of the week, He appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven demons.” Mark 16:9 (NKJV)

That text tells us, our Savior lives and “because He lives” Mary Magdalene can be our example of the love grace and mercy of Christ that even though Ms. Magdalene kept returning back to her sinful life and kept allowing the god of this world to take her down that road that she didn’t want to go down and even after seven times, Christ forgave, while never leaving nor forsaking, when she needed Him the most.

And since God is a personal God, He personally tells Ms. Magdalene first, before anyone else that He lives and now she can face tomorrow and so can you and I. My friends, we have given Satan to much credit because even though the god of this world has claimed us “our father which art in heaven” has given us His only begotten Son to Die for our sins if we only believe and endure until the end while forever remembering He lives. So now Christ is calling us to “go from hear,” there is work to be done.