FIGHT THE REAL BATTLE

Colossians 2:12 For when you were baptized, you were buried with Christ, and in baptism you were also raised with Christ through your faith in the active power of God, who raised him from death.
The Training Ground of God

“Praise be to the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.” – Psalm 144:1
* It is only when we are placed in the furnace of battle that we truly learn to fight the real battles.

*Practice doesn’t make you battle ready.

*War games won’t prepare you for facing your real enemy in the battlefield.
**The stark reality of being in the midst of the battle makes us effective warriors.

*Simply reading your Bible will not make you a warrior for the Kingdom.

*Knowledge without experience is mere folly.(see Hosea 4:6)
**Only when you are placed in situations where there is nothing or no one who can save you but God, will you learn the lessons of warrior faith.

This is the training ground of God, which will make you into a soldier for Christ.

Consider it to be suicidal faith – faith that says I want to be dead to anything that keeps me from fulfilling God’s purposes for my life.

2 Corinthians 12:10 I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
*GOD demonstrates his power in our weaknesses.

These are the real training grounds of God.

* Do not shrink back from the battle that God may be leading you to today.

*It may be a training ground that is necessary for the calling He has on your life.

Deut. 31:8 The LORD himself will lead you and be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you, so do not lose courage or be afraid.”

GOD USES ENLARGED TRIALS TO PRODUCE ENLARGED SAINTS SO HE CAN PUT THEM IN ENLARGED PLACES!

Father, today I give You my questions, frustrations, concerns and doubts. Have Your way in me. I trust that You are at work in every difficult situation  and hot spot in my life in Jesus’ name. Amen