Years later Peter learned through humility and now on the other side,he teaches others how to hold steadfastly to your faith. There are lessons to be learned from Peter, other wise it wouldn't be here for us in the word!
1 Peter 5: 5- Cloth yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore , under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.
Be self- controlled and alert, Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith.
Peter is saying don't under estimate your opponent, know that when you humble yourself and allow God to train you up through the word, you are being equipped for this good fight. Its like in the natural when top fighters train for there fights, what do they do? They eat well, exercise, watch that they don't hang out with people who will make them feel like they can't win this big fight that's coming up! So it is with us, if you are not in a fight right now, then we should be training for one! We are to be ready, equipped all the time! We have to know the devil schemes. 2 Corinthians 2:11- After all, we don't want to unwittingly give Satan an opening for yet more mischief - we're not oblivious to his sly ways! But thanks be to God who always gives us the VICTORY, THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD!
God always gives us insight to how to fight through his Word, and how the enemy attacks.
2 Corinthians 10:4- The weapons we fight with are not weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
So how do we do this certainly not on our own.
Ephesians 6: 13- Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything to stand, Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition all this , take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.
There is a reason we need all this armor, our enemy is going to shoot at us, and we need to protect ourselves, learning how to respond, to stand steadfast in the faith. He wants you to be clueless and not know where all these thoughts come from, imaginations, and fiery darts that hit your life. The word says Faith comes from hearing and hearing the anointed word of God, we can lose it the same way, by hearing the wrong negative things that come against us, same principal at work here!
It is pride to think that we can entertain anything, say anything and it will not effect our faith, it will! We should be in training, and cast down things in our life that want to exalt themselves above the word ! What does it say who we are? We are over comers , we are the healed, we are prosperous, we are blessed, we are free! Shut down all other things that say you are not, stand and hold fast in your faith! This does not mean you are striving, no quit the contrary, we can rest in Him, and do all this from a position of Victory! Knowing he has won the fight for us! We just walk it out without being passive about things! So this is part of our daily walk with Him, things we must be aware of, I'm continuing on in future blogs, hope you read it and be encouraged! Always remember he love you!
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