The Spirit of God has come into your life with all of the tools necessary to create a life that is not vulnerable to every attack of your enemy. What makes you vulnerable? You, as a believer, are vulnerable when past sin keeps you weak.
The Spirit of God has come into your life with all of the tools necessary to create a life that is not vulnerable to every attack of your enemy. What makes you vulnerable? You, as a believer, are vulnerable when past sin keeps you weak.
As a new creation, you are free from sin's dominion spiritually; however, your soul is in the process of being renewed. You have complete access to the presence of God.
Satan launches an attack against your soul using the areas that have defeated you before:
- He comes against your intellect with doubts, confusion, imaginations, and reasoning.
- He attacks your emotions with fear, lust, temper, anger, bitterness, and un-forgiveness.
- He challenges your will with accusations of past failures or lack of resistance to compromise.
- He cripples your confidence in your ability to make a quality decision.
The Holy Spirit has come to lead you into all truth. He does not come to point His finger at your imperfections, but rather to point you to Jesus, to show you the beauty of God's kingdom and the power He has given you. He has come to restore control to your life.
Proverbs 25:28 says, "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls." The Spirit of God comes to stand with you against the weakness you have known. He desires to bring you to a place of confidence in moving with Him.
In Romans 8:26 Paul said it this way: "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities." The word "helpeth" comes from a Greek word that literally means "to take hold together with you against."
The Spirit of God takes hold together with you against your weaknesses. He comes to strengthen you and stand with you as you allow God to build new strongholds in your life.
Excerpt permission granted by Dennis Burke Ministries