The battles we face in life and to depend on Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior in order to help us through them.
Battles, we all have battles that we are facing in our day to day lives from things at home to things at work to personal and health issues. No one wants to be battling something or someone for any reason of any kind, we all want an easy and peaceful life. Yet, the road we go down when we chose to follow Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior is one where we will get even more battles than before. This is because the world will try to get us to lose our faith and become stuck in its traps again. Jesus promised that he will be right with us to the very end of our race, not wishing for us to die eternally, but to live with him for eternity.
Yes, battles in life suck and they can all range from small ones like trying to finish a project yet you keep getting distracted, to big ones like health and personal problems. They can affect everything from work, school, even to marriages and relationships we all have with one another. We are not just told but even promised that will have troubles and battles in life because we follow the one true king being Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Battles for his children and believers have been happening for thousands of years, even before Jesus was born back to Adam and Eve with the tree of good and evil; they had a battle, and they chose to eat from a tree that they weren’t supposed to eat from. We will have many battles in life and every decision we make influences the rest of the battle, yet we are not alone, and we are called to not do it alone. Call upon God and his glory and allow him to not just fight it for you, but to also carry you through it.
Trust in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior with the battle that you are currently facing and fighting and he will guide you through it. Get help from others as well, speak to other church members and people of God and ask for their advice and expertise in what is happening. The battles of life from the enemy should never be between each other as brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ. We should all unite around Jesus and fight with him backing us up, fight the enemy and the world in order to help those in need and to bring more people to him. Fighting each other is how a house is destroyed from within, as Jesus said in Matthew 12:25 “Every Kingdom against itself is brough to desolation…”. do not get distracted about the small things that a different denomination might do or not do, fight around Jesus and fight back against the enemy. We can know Jesus Christ as our Messiah, Savior, and Son of God, we just have to seek him out and then we become one of his children ready for the battles ahead. We can have the deep relationship that his mother Mary had with him as she was pregnant with him since God desires this kind of relationship with us.
We know we can win these battles against the enemy because of the Holy Trinity. God is with us, The Holy Spirit rebirths us, and we are God’s servants. We are promised that Jesus will always be with us when we fight troubles in life and even when we are not fighting. We get this pleasure because the Holy Spirit within us rebirths us into new creatures within Christ himself, making us his sons and daughters. And then we are his servants, doing what he wills and listening to his commands about our lives. We are God’s servants by listening to everything that he has to say to us and when he speaks to us about it. To effectively fight we must listen to God for instructions and his battle plan and then listen to whom he wants us to appoint as advisors.
You cannot win a battle if you have battle plan and you cannot execute a battle plan you do you have advisors and leaders to give out the instructions. Having good leadership in anything is key for that thing to succeed, from parenting to teachers, to governments, and leadership in a business. Proper leadership, council, and people can lead to success in areas of life including battles, remember to always include God as your highest leadership and councilman when devising plans. Last but not least is the community of people, community of people who are submitted to one God and then who listen to whom God has appointed over them. we need people to help us accomplish things in life since God has made all of us uniquely to do certain tasks. One person might be gifted in art and sowing, another in math and finances, and another in tech and setting electronics up. We need people of varying abilities and skills in order to complete the work God has appointed us to do to battle the enemy.
Us all uniting and using our abilities and both physical and spiritual gifts for the Kingdom and Glory for God is how we win this battle. Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior didn’t choose 12 fisherman or 12 mathematicians to help him with his preaching. He chose 12 unique individuals, they might have had overlapping talent, yet they still had unique talents as well, to help him. He chose people who seemed less likely to receive what he preached and did and then he chose others who were skilled in other ways to help the ministry. The same is for us, we have unique skills and talents in order to help those in need and to care for the poor and each other in order to fight the enemy. You may not be a financial person, yet you can make art and sow as a hobby, God can use that. You may be able to make music and sing songs, God can use that. You may not be able to do either, yet you great with tech and computers, God can still use that, God can use what he has given you for his Kingdom work.
We just have to surrender what he has given us in order for him to help us figure out how to use it. So let God help you fight your daily struggles and battles and then allow him to show you how he can use you to fight against the enemy. God will always be right with you, helping you and guiding you down the path he has for you. May God help you through life and our struggles. I pray that he blesses you and keeps you strong, encouraging you and revealing to you where he needs you right now. In God’s mighty name, AMEN!!!!