Hola,
Here’s the recap from yesterday’s sermon
Title: Strength for the Battle
Why: Many saints are getting worn out by the bombardment of challenges and the feeling like we’re losing.
Daniel 7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.
Scriptural Springboard: [[Deu 31:6 NLT] 6 So be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid and do not panic before them. For the LORD your God will personally go ahead of you. He will neither fail you nor abandon you."
[Heb 13:8 NIV] 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
[2Ti 1:7 NLT] 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
[Isa 40:29-31 NLT] 29 He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless. 30 Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion. 31 But those who trust in the LORD will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
Intro: I want to remind you that God will give his children who ask, seek and knock strength to go and grow from victim>Survivor>Thriver.
I want to make you aware of a victim mindset that I’ve seen in the body of Christ.
THE VICTIMHOOD MINDSET
Constantly seeking recognition of one’s victimhood
we currently live in a culture where many political and cultural groups and individuals emphasize their victimhood identity and compete in the “Victimhood Olympics.
Avoid Feeling Sorry For Yourself
“A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.” (Proverbs 15:13)
There were 2 powerful Prophets in the bible that went thru a battle of Self Pity. Jonah and Elijah.
SELF-PITY ATTRACTS ATTACKS, blood in the water. Self-pity, by its very definition, is self-indulgent.
Self-pity is one of the enemy’s prime strategies for imprisoning your soul and station.
Rather than looking inward or outward, we need to be looking upward. This is the one and only way to rid ourselves of self-pity and be truly happy.
FORGOT TO MENTION “We are not determined by our experiences, but are self-determined by the meaning we give to them…” – Alfred Adler
It’s hard to win when you whine
No more whining Jesus lives- Old Praise song
[Phl 2:14-15 NLT] 14 Do everything without complaining and arguing, 15 so that no one can criticize you. Live clean, innocent lives as children of God, shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked and perverse people.
Don’t whine but SHINE
Resist & Persist
2 points in one :)
[Jas 4:7 NIV] 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Take courage faith fam! You can resist the devil because Christ already won the victory. Don’t allow your own sin to give Satan a foothold in your life. Stay humbly submitted to God and actively pursue him every day.
Persist
Matt 7:7-8 AMP “[a]Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened.
ASk for VICTORY, SEEK God for strategy and KNOCK on heaven’s door and doors of opportunity.
Remember the parable of the Persistent Friend (luke 11) Persistent Widow. LUKE 18. There’s a Kafka story called BEFORE THE LAW
Ana read Before the Law
Conclusion
I pray you all will have a little more Strength for the Battle and Journey.
We see in the life of Christ the refusal of Jesus to embrace a victim mindset (12 y/o, Never mentioned birth in a stable or Egypt, Promotion of brothers after the resurrection)
We see Jesus avoiding self-pity when he was arrested and put on trial, he knew there was a bigger picture (Heb 12:2)
We see Christ Resisting the Enemy and Teaching his disciples to PRAY with Persistence. Luke 11:5-13 and Luke 18:1-8
May God give you the wisdom and strength to overcome gatekeepers stopping you from reaching your goals.
Prayer:
Dear God, By the power of the Holy Spirit please give me strength when I am weak, love when I feel forsaken, courage when I am afraid, wisdom when I feel foolish, comfort when I am alone, hope when I feel rejected, and peace when I am in turmoil. Teach me to know my identity, walk-in my inheritance and seek to live with boldness and joy in Jesus’ name
Amen.
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