I
have won more battles than I lost
It
is easy to view yourself as a complete failure, especially when your
antagonists vent their hatred toward you. But sometimes it pays to take a
backward look over your life, and see what God has done.
‘Count your many
blessings, name them one by one; and it will surprise you what the Lord has
done.’
I
have made more mistakes than most. But then it seems that I have had more
battles and conflicts than many other believers ever seem to encounter. Whilst
they sleep in their comfy beds, I find myself alone fighting a warfare that
very few know anything about.
The devil is only scared of those who he knows
pose a serious threat to his kingdom of evil.
As
I walked out last night under the midnight sky, I considered all of the travels
my life has taken over so many years. I began to count the victories that I had
gained by God’s grace since starting out on my Christian pilgrimage. And I
realized that there had been far more victories than defeats!
We
soon forget the positives when clouds of condemnation and the sly and dirty voices
of accusation surround our souls.
Many
of the victories that I remembered were very personal battles, when Satan
sought to utterly destroy me. Others were breaking through the hoards of
darkness to deliver light and truth into the most impossible situations.
Oh
yes, I have had far more victories than defeat!
It
is true that the failures on my battlefield were dreadful and at times
seemingly total in their consequence, but I have learned that what is
impossible to man, impossible to the religious, impossible to some of the churches, impossible to those who despise and
frown, is altogether possible with my God.
From
the dry bones in the parched desert, from the coldness of the graveyard, from
the ashes of ruin and destruction comes the command to live! God tells us to
get up, shake ourselves down, and throw away the grave clothes and the garments
of corruption and despair. We are to adorn once more the garments of
righteousness, and arise and shine – for the glory of the Lord is risen once
more upon us! (Isaiah
61)
There
are more battles to fight! There are more confrontations with evil to overcome!
There are more enemies to crush under our feet! It is time to get back up and
live to fight another day, and see the devil brought down.
Oh
yes, I have had face to face confrontations with evil, and one who rose in my
face to tell me that it was their personal mission in life to destroy me. And
seek to do that utterly, they did. But God is bigger and better than all of
their satanic assignments, and He will yet rejoice over me with joy unspeakable
and full of glory!
My
concern is for my people and for the salvation and restoration of this tribe
that have forgotten their God for so long. We may be despised, but God
remembers the prayers and works of former generations who spearheaded the
gospel throughout the world, and took God’s word to the unreached and lost tribes
of humanity.
I
love my tribe. I love this nation. And for anyone to love this nation, it will
mean coming to the fiercest battlefield that ever there has been in the history
of the world. For the real Battle of Britain is yet to be fought.
This
war will echo around the entire world, and the consequences of its outcome will
make either devastating, or remarkable impacts upon every nation on earth.
It
is time for the hidden warriors in this nation to arise and come to fight for
our children and our families and our future.
This
is not about getting yourself a platform to promote your skills, but this is
about pain and fighting, and long nights and fearful days. This is about a
glorious victory against all the vile hoards of demons and darkness; and about
freeing our people from spiritual blindness and satanic misery.
If
the church wants to play religious games and its followers want to enjoy the
temporary peace of hypnotised religious ritual, then let them do so. If the ‘national prayer organizations’ are what
you think will turn this nation around, you are greatly mistaken. These are too often just platforms for the named prancing preachers to advance their personal status.
It
gives them more airspace on television and the chance to show just how ‘important’
they are. Do they really love the people of my tribe? NO. But they will talk
the talk, and write their books, and get invited onto all the stages the
churches have to offer.
However, they will not move a thing, and heaven will
remain untouched by their glamour and pomposity, and our county remain unmoved
by all their dreamy words and ‘prophetic’ utterances (which never come to pass
in any case). What has been achieved by all of their gatherings even to this
date? Nothing whatsoever.
As
Paul said, ‘But of these who seemed to be something, (whatever they were, it
makes no matter to me: God is no respecter of persons, names, or position:) for those who seemed to
be somewhat important in conference added nothing at all to me.’
God is calling for valiant warriors (usually the unknown, the
nothings of this world, the insignificant and rejected, even the rotten old
backsliders) to come to the battlefield and pledge their lives and futures to
the King of kings, and gird their swords on, and come and fight ’til the victory
is won! (And before anyone thinks I am talking of a physical war, let me make it clear that this is a spiritual battle, and the superior weapons that we possess are mighty in God and will tear down the citadels and massed armies of the enemy.)
Yes
indeed, I have lost some real fights and crawled off the battlefield severely
wounded at times. But I am on my feet, sword in hand, shield at the ready, and
looking for the warriors who got downcast, thrown away, damaged and defeated in
the last battle they fought. For dry bones will arise and become an exceeding
great army when the Spirit of God blows upon the slain victims of Satan’s
hatred.
And
God heals and restores and re-commissions, so that we can rise valiantly and
dynamically in all of His glory and miraculous power. We can look our accusers’ right in the face,
and say, “Who is he or she that condemns us, who is this that judges us?
It
is God Himself who justifies us (who presents us just-as-if-I’d never sinned),
and it is He who lifts us up and presents us righteous in His sight!” Isaiah 54:17
God will take the 'nobodies', the despised, two unnoticed elderly women, a group of young people praying secretly, and answer their prayers in a way most church-goers will never experience.
And
be certain of this, our
finest hour is yet to come!
