TURN YOUR ENEMY BACK AT THE GATE

There has been a lot of encouraging words for the body of Christ as we move into the Gregorian year of 2015.  I, for one, do anticipate what Father God is doing in moving us ahead to fulfill purpose and destiny, corporately and individually.

There are two scriptures that come to mind when I have pondered on this new year.  I would like to elaborate on the first one in this blog.

I Corinthians 16:9 - …because a great door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many who oppose me.

There are many open doors and opportunities for those who seek them.  Yes, we all get excited when opportunities come to us, but what we don’t like is the opposition that comes with the open door.  It’s important for us to realize that as we seek to move through the open doors before us, there will be opposition.  That opposition may nor may not be obvious, but be assured it will be there.

The purpose of the opposition is to have you turn back at the gate of entrance into the new.  The opposition may come in the form of offense when someone says or does something that hurts you.  It may come as an attack against your family, your health, your finances, other relationships. Remember that your enemy, Satan, comes to steal, kill, destroy.  If what you are experiencing comes within this job description, it is opposition designed to get you to turn back.

So what do we do?  Like any other time when we face challenges and obstacles, we must speak to the mountain, to that which stands in our way.

Mark 11:23 (NAS) – Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea’, and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him.

This is a time to set your face like a flint towards that which God has promised.  Do not be moved by mountains of opposition.  Activate your faith by speaking the word of the Lord and the promises of God to your mountain.  Then, watch it move.

More to come…