We Fight and Inherit God’s Blessings
After accepting Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives, we receive the Holy Spirit into our hearts. When received, He imparts several things of eternal value to us. First, He gives us a Heavenly image of who God has made us in Christ. We are to think of ourselves accordingly. Romans 12:3 declares, “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” The Holy Spirit is the spirit of adoption. He gives us faith by revealing to us that we are the “children of God.” (Romans 8:15:16) As God’s children, we are His heirs and are destined to possess prepared blessings as inheritance. He has ordained that we inherit blessings that make our lives abundant—health, financial abundance, valuable relationships, etc. We must think that as God’s heirs, we have a God-given right to these blessings.
Second, and equally important, the Holy Spirit gives us a Heavenly vision of the behavior that God has ordained for us to come into possession of our blessings. That behavior is fighting and overcoming. To overcome means to win in conflict with something that challenges. Revelation 21:7 declares, “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” We are to effectively resist demonic forces by warfare and receive inheritance. Accordingly, God has chosen us to be solders for battle. We must see ourselves as such. II Timothy 2:4 declares, “No man that warreth entangeleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
As soldiers, we are to be built spiritually strong for battle to inherit. Acts 20:32 declares, “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” God’s word contains His grace to build us up. Without it, we will submit to fear in battle and not overcome. His words must be seen as spiritual “grace food” that strengthens us. We are built up by daily eating, or meditating, upon God’s grace word. (Hebrews 13:9) Since our battle is spiritual, it is against spirits, not people. The Holy Spirit trains us to fight and win spiritual battles. He trains our minds to think spiritually and our mouths to speak spirit words. Proverbs 16:23 declares, “The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.”
We fight against principalities and powers, the rulers of the “spiritual darkness” of this world. Ephesians 6:12 declares, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Demonic spirits work and manifest lies in the lives of people: lying diseases in our body, financial lack, turmoil in our relationships, etc. We are to fight and overcome them and inherit God’s blessings. God Bless.
From Pastor Leroy Rankin
After accepting Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives, we receive the Holy Spirit into our hearts. When received, He imparts several things of eternal value to us. First, He gives us a Heavenly image of who God has made us in Christ. We are to think of ourselves accordingly. Romans 12:3 declares, “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.” The Holy Spirit is the spirit of adoption. He gives us faith by revealing to us that we are the “children of God.” (Romans 8:15:16) As God’s children, we are His heirs and are destined to possess prepared blessings as inheritance. He has ordained that we inherit blessings that make our lives abundant—health, financial abundance, valuable relationships, etc. We must think that as God’s heirs, we have a God-given right to these blessings.
Second, and equally important, the Holy Spirit gives us a Heavenly vision of the behavior that God has ordained for us to come into possession of our blessings. That behavior is fighting and overcoming. To overcome means to win in conflict with something that challenges. Revelation 21:7 declares, “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” We are to effectively resist demonic forces by warfare and receive inheritance. Accordingly, God has chosen us to be solders for battle. We must see ourselves as such. II Timothy 2:4 declares, “No man that warreth entangeleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.”
As soldiers, we are to be built spiritually strong for battle to inherit. Acts 20:32 declares, “And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.” God’s word contains His grace to build us up. Without it, we will submit to fear in battle and not overcome. His words must be seen as spiritual “grace food” that strengthens us. We are built up by daily eating, or meditating, upon God’s grace word. (Hebrews 13:9) Since our battle is spiritual, it is against spirits, not people. The Holy Spirit trains us to fight and win spiritual battles. He trains our minds to think spiritually and our mouths to speak spirit words. Proverbs 16:23 declares, “The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.”
We fight against principalities and powers, the rulers of the “spiritual darkness” of this world. Ephesians 6:12 declares, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” Demonic spirits work and manifest lies in the lives of people: lying diseases in our body, financial lack, turmoil in our relationships, etc. We are to fight and overcome them and inherit God’s blessings. God Bless.
From Pastor Leroy Rankin
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