He’s in a similar situation I found myself in many years ago when I was a young man, still running from God. I’d just gotten home from the Army and I woke up one morning feeling tired and mad at the world. When I walked into the kitchen for breakfast, I took my irritation out on my mama and said something sassy to her.
Just as I got the words out of my mouth, my dad came through the door. He grabbed the lapels of the terry cloth bathrobe I was wearing, pushed me up against the refrigerator, and got right in my face. “Boy,” he said, “you and me are going to have a fight and, by God, I’m going to win!”
Although I’d gotten fairly strong during my stint in the army, I immediately surrendered. “No sir!” I said. “We don’t have to fight. You’ve already won. Just put me down and you won’t have any more trouble out of me.”
What caused me to respond that way?
I remembered what had happened a few years earlier when I was 16 years old. My dad had said something that aggravated me. I’d come at him with my fist drawn, and he’d cut me off with a punch that sent me sailing through an open closet door and absolutely knocked my lights out!
Later, after I came stumbling out of the closet, Mama had said, “Kenneth, what in the world were you thinking? Don’t you know your daddy was a prize fighter?”
No, I hadn’t known that! No one ever told me. I had to find out the hard way—and once I did, I never wanted to fight that “old man” again. As far as I was concerned he’d already won.
How had he won? By the power that was in him!
That’s the way it is for you, when you’re dealing with the devil. You’re in the same position my dad was. You have the Superior Power on the inside of you. As 1 John 4:4 says, “Ye are of God…and have overcome [the devil and all his cohorts]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
Start right now paying more attention to that fact! Stir up the power on the inside of you and build yourself up on your most holy faith by praying more in the Holy Ghost (Jude 20). Spend time reading the Gospels, and as you read them purposefully, identify, not with the people who received from the ministry of Jesus, but with Jesus Himself. Remind yourself that you’ve been given Jesus’ Name, you carry His Anointing, and you’ve been assigned to carry on His ministry on the earth.
You’re supposed to be thinking like Jesus, talking like Jesus and getting His results—and you have the ability to do it because you have the Trinity Himself residing in your inner man. The Father is in there. Jesus is in there. The Holy Spirit is in there.
God Almighty is in you 24 hours a day, and He’s not there just so you can carry Him around as a spiritual passenger. He’s in there to work. So, give Him the opportunity to do it. Learn to trust Him and do what He leads you to do. Get more God-inside minded and live every day like the Greater One truly is living in you! V
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