(2Corinthians 10:4) “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;”
We are also able to glean from scripture that because of Adam’s sin in the Garden of Eden we were born as sinners and therefore sold and slaves unto sin. Our birthright we received was the fruit of a sinner. Nice birthright, No, terrible! What chance does man have? BUT GOD...There are endless opportunities with God, for nothing is impossible, well almost. “It is impossible for God to lie” (Hebrews 6:18)
Other than that He is able to take smoking flax and cause it to reignite and illuminate where it was once intended to give us light. A bruised reed when in the hands of a man would be tossed and discarded, but not with our great Jehovah, “a bruised reed He will not break.” He will take that reed and shape it and I trust we will find many bruised reeds in the musical pipes of heaven.
“Yet to be carnally minded is to be against God.” That is quite an indictment.
“What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this that your passions are at war within you?” (James 4:1)
How often, when honest with ourselves do we pray and we do not receive. There is a very simple answer for this, we have covered it outside the will of God. We ask the wrong questions and for the wrong reason, we ask so that we may indulge our passions. When I ask for wealth and health, who will benefit? Well if I am vigorous and have want of nothing financially, then I benefit. However, when I pray for victory over sin to make me more Godlike, then my prayer is heard, it must and will be! You see, this is the heart God seeks out. He looks to all His children to learn the lesson of finding obedience for their lives. This is a process and it will take a lifetime. God is patient, kind and tolerant yet without compromise. The sooner we learn this, the quicker we can begin to appropriate God’s meaty truths to our lives.
We are naturally drawn to think of ourselves in our own worlds and whether we like it or not we always come first. That is not Christ’s example; that is not Pauls example; it may well be the example of many money preachers, but there is a day coming when many will come to the Lord Jesus saying, “Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?”
And He will say, “Not everyone so says Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.”
The above statement is a fact and not any figment of some mans imagination, it is true, many will come claiming to be Christians but the Lord Himself will reject them as never knowing them. This is very serious and we need to sit up and take note; could I be one? Make me more like my Saviour Father I pray and help me lay down my life for others, less of me and more for you!
The carnal mind will always pull us in the opposite direction to God’s Word. But we now have a weapon that is not carnal, it does not come from the fleshes armoury, it come directly from God’s munitions store. We may have many strongholds that war against the direction we need to go, with the call he has place on our lives. But if we have the Spirit of God living within us, we are then entitled to the use of the key for God’s armoury, where we can find an arsenal of weaponry to help combat our strongholds. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal,” therefore we must be armed spiritually. But to be armed spiritually we must be trained in spiritual warfare. A good soldier does not entangle himself with the cares of this world but he rather dedicates himself to the task at hand. To be spiritually mind is his motto, may it also be ours!
Signing off
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