I’ve made up my mind that I’m going to complete my destiny in God. I don’t care if it takes thirty days or thirty years, I shall finish my course with joy. God has given me a ministry, and it must be fulfilled according to His will.
Is the devil running your world? How long will you let him stay in your home or your church? When will you wake up and use the resources that God has given you and open battle on Satan’s works? Why sit and wait for him to attack?
Stand up as a mighty army and say, “Wait a minute, this earth belongs to me.” If we believe that everything has to bow at the name of Jesus, we should have the guts, gall and audacity to quit talking about it and start manifesting it.
If you have a wife who’s not saved, don’t cut her head off. Just keep your eye on the promise instead of the problem. The God in you is stronger that the devil in him.
Why do we play games with the devil? I’ll tell you why: because religion has taught you to play with him. The religious crowd didn’t like Jesus, because He didn’t play games. He broke the power of darkness everywhere He went.
As long as there is a sinner in this world, we have a destiny to complete. But many churches in America have a Samson mentality. They are living with their enemy, and he is controlling them. Samson did not deliver Israel from the Philistines. He made them live with their enemy because he loved one of their women.
God is looking for men and women like Gideon who will stand on His Word and deliver people from their enemy. It’s time to stand up like Joshua and Caleb and claim your promised land. There may be giants in the land, but you are well able to defeat them in the name of Jesus.
You have to make a quality decision to stand firmly on the Word of God. Jehovah made a quality decision to put Jesus on the cross so that you would have the ability to tell sin and Satan NO!
If your boy were nailed to a cross and cried out to you saying, “Father, Father, why hast thou forsaken me?” You would run to him and rescue him from that cruel cross.
But God made a rational, quality decision when it came to the life of His Son, Jesus Christ. He refused to look at Jesus while He hung on that cross because the sins of the world were upon Him. It hurt Jehovah to see man spit on Jesus and devils gnash on Him.
At that moment, God was running toward Satan. Jesus came to earth to die for man’s sin, but God did not plan to leave His Son in hell. He was destined to rise and cut off the head of Satan.
Jesus left His clothes as evidence that He rose from the dead. He left that tomb in a glorified robe of righteous light. In front of His empty tomb, and angel sat on the opened stone door and proclaimed, “He’s not dead. He’s ALIVE!”
As every member of the heaven looked on, Jesus walked into the portals of glory. His entrance declared to His Father and all of creation that the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world had been sacrificed. He had ransomed back God’s most prized possession-mankind.
He took a bucket of His precious blood and threw it across the altar, sealing man’s redemption forever. Jehovah announced to all: “Man has become the righteousness of God. Go forth with the good news: He has risen!” Glory to God!
Jesus ran toward His giant-mankind’s sin-and demolished it utterly. He ran toward the giants of poverty, sickness, hate and depression and annihilated them with His precious blood.
He is the great conqueror who was and is victorious over every work of the enemy. He has made you and me more than conquerors through Him. Why did He do it? “…That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands” (1 Sam. 17:46-47).
Don’t stand back and let a stinking devil from hell defy the promises of God. Stand in the strength of God, stop playing games with the devil, run toward that giant in your life and defeat it in the name of Jesus!
Excerpt permission granted by Harrison House Publishers
Jesse Duplantis, minister of the Gospel, motivational speaker, television personality, and best-selling author, has been in full-time ministry since 1976 and is the founder of Jesse Duplantis Ministries, located in the Greater New Orleans area of south Louisiana in the United States of America. With over four decades of sharing his unique blend of humor and faith around the world, generations of believers have been inspired by his messages and countless numbers have come to know Jesus Christ as Savior through his ministry.
Known for his unflinching, status-quo-breaking messages and humorous take on experiences in the life of the believer, Jesse continues to draw large audiences of believers through social media, television, and meetings held around the world. With speaking engagements booked years in advance, Jesse Duplantis continues to keep an intense traveling schedule, flying throughout the United States and the world preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. With no booking agents pursuing meetings for him and no set fees imposed upon churches for speaking engagements, Jesse chooses his outreach meetings based on the same two criteria he always has: invitations that come in and prayer over each one. This uncommon way of scheduling in today’s world means Jesse’s many followers may find him speaking in some of the largest churches and venues in America and the world, as well as a great many small and growing congregations, too. No church is too big or small for the Holy Spirit, as he says.
Side by side with his wife Cathy Duplantis, the co-founder and chief of staff of Jesse Duplantis Ministries and the senior pastor of Covenant Church in Destrehan, Louisiana, Jesse continues to fulfill his life’s calling by daily taking up the Great Commission of Jesus Christ: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). Through social media, television broadcasts, books, and other ministry products, as well as through many evangelistic meetings, the JDM website, the JDM app, and Voice of the Covenant magazine, Jesse Duplantis continues to see growth in his ministry and expand each year while maintaining his roots. Jesus is the center of his life. The salvation of lost people and the growth of believers is the purpose of his ministry. And for both he and his wife, every day is another day to “Reach People and Change Lives, One Soul at a Time.”