2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether), the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
The new creation man/woman is a Spiritual being who is born of God and is superior to all other creatures on planet earth. Our warfare has never been with mankind, but with the spirit of antiChrist that now works through mankind, in order to bring about satan's kingdom of darkness in the earth. Our country isn't involved in a political fight, but in a spiritual warfare against God and His Church. Only the Spirit of God, working through and in the new creation family of God, has dominion over the chaos enveloping our nation today.
We must develop our new creation man/woman, by learning who we've become in being born-again. Our church is called, "Living Word Christian Life Center" and is a "Boot Camp for God's Army." Everyone in boot camp learns how to safely and effectively operate the weapons of warfare, setting him/herself for battle, even during peacetime. Boot camp is preparation for a sudden attack from outside or within our nation. We entered God's Kingdom when we were born-again and we're to protect and uphold His Laws and statutes.
We live in a fallen world, which is being used against God's Laws and His Kingdom. We are redeemed from the Curse of the Law, but it's evident that the Curse is still at work on the earth. We must look to God's Word and Jesus, in order to make a stand and resist the lies, the world view and all obstacles of the enemy. Most in the Church, have been taught that we're only required to live right and wait to go to Heaven when we die. Jesus said, "I will never leave or forsake you, but will be with us until the End of the Age." Jesus' work on this earth, was to destroy the works of the devil and He's called us to do the same works. God's Church has been called to continue the spiritual warfare Jesus fought against the kingdom of darkness.
Our nation is in a spiritual battle. Evil forces that oppose God's Laws have prompted those in our government to pass unGodly laws and many media sources to promote secular vulgarities. We need to learn how to proficiently use the weapons of our warfare, according to Eph.6:10-19. Paul instructs us to use these against the unseen forces trying to rule over mankind and earth. Jesus went about undoing what the enemy had bound mankind with. He healed those who had fallen prey to disease and sickness and Jesus ministered the Life of the covenant they had forgotten.
God made provision for their every need, but like today, the people had forgotten man of the things He had done and instructed them to walk in. We're in warfare with and against "the god of this world," according to 2Cor.4:4. We can't see him with our natural eyes and he must be dealt with by the Spirit. We still have natural bodies and have been raised in a natural world, so our senses have become blind to the Super-natural things. We've heard and said, "I'll believe it when I see it." We can't see the wind, but we can see the evidence of it's reality. We can't see gravity, but we'll believe in it, if we jump from a tall building. Knowing God's Presence and the Power of His Word comes from accepting what they've already created in this universe. The Same Word and Spirit that created the wind and gravity, will bring results, if we stop trying to see it and just accept it.
There are many things which could and would be changed, if we would trust God's Word. So long as we're on this earth, we'll need to use the Truth of God's Word to what God expects us to do. This is a Spiritual warfare that's gone on, since Adam's fall in the Garden of Eden and will continue until the Lord's Return. We must deal with the things of this earth, by Spiritual warfare. Becoming proficient in this warfare requires prayer, study and faith in God. God and His Truth will make us victorious. We think that we only need to sit back and God will do everything on His Own. Jesus didn't tell His disciples to "sit at home and I will go out and cast out devils, heal the sick, and speak in tongues." Jesus told them to, "Go into all the world, do these things, and I will confirm what you do with signs and wonders," in Mark16.
Praying isn't telling God what's wrong, He already knows that. He wants us to go against what is wrong and He will work through and for us, in order to fix it. We're not to pray the problem, but go into His Word, in order to find what God says about it and then we're to speak and pray the answer. Faith stops at the question mark, where we question His Word in us. If we don't know what God's will is, then we'll falter and stumble in our faith, without going forward. God tells us that "He is the Lord of Hosts," which means "The God of Armies." This is Who God is still today.
God's Church is the earthly army filled with His Spirit and His Word and we're called to do His will here on earth, just like Jesus did. We must learn to use the weapons of our warfare, so we can be successful in this combat. We must arm ourselves with God's Armor and His Word, which is a two-edge sword, putting on that which He provided in Eph.6:10-19, so we can win the warfare satan declared against God. King David converses with the Lord in Psalm17:4-6(Amp) saying, "Concerning the works of men, by the Word of Your lips I have avoided the ways of the violent, the paths of the destroyer My steps have held closely to Your paths, the the track of the One Who has gone on before: my feet have not slipped. H have called upon You, O God, for You will hear me, incline Your ear to me, and hear my speech."
We must learn to trust and walk by God's Word, in order to persevere in what He intends for us to have and do. God will "watch over His Word to perform it" and God's Word will "not return to Him void." The Self-fulfilling Power of God's Word will bring to pass, exactly what He said it would do and nothing can prevent it from manifesting it's Promise.
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