STRUGGLES, ATTACKS, TERRORISM, ANXIETY, NECESSARY OR NEEDLESS INDIVIDUAL CONFLICT…doesn’t sound good to me, does it you? Learn how to rise above and put your trust in God. Choose to dance through the storm–and hack the enemy off.

While real life can seem a bit chaotic in this present world in which we live, Satanic attacks are very real. With the chaos and “Trojan Horse” war of words, manipulation, media explosions, and attacks across this nation, let us be reminded that we serve a risen Savior!

If you want to see change in your life through the waiting, try praying the Word of God specifically over yourself and whatever you are facing in life.

Many are waiting on someone to repent, someone or an organization to do the right thing, someone to meet that is Mr. or Ms. Right, some are waiting on a new position at work, some are waiting through sickness and disease, some are waiting till the funeral services are over, while others are waiting and enjoying life to the fullest. There are many reasons why we wait in life. 

Life has seasons—and the anointing on your life attracts satanic attacks. Satan hates Jesus, righteousness, and any forward movement that takes territory from him. 

While butterflies have to struggle before they can emerge from the cocoon; the struggle is necessary for the butterfly to emerge well and healthy. The restricting cocoon and the struggle for the butterfly are both God’s design to have the butterfly emerge with the ability to fly and come to full destiny through metamorphosis. 

On another note, satanic struggles and attacks are another thing entirely. In life, we must be humble, patient, bearing with one another in love—making every effort to keep the unity of the spirit and peace. You might be asking, “How do I do that with what I am dealing with in life?”

What does the Word of God reveal about what to do and how in real life struggles and attacks?

Paul reminds us that our own struggle is not against flesh and blood “but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” 

He urges us to come dressed for battle, to put on the full armor of God so that we can stand in the day of evil (Ephesians 6:12-13). In case you haven’t noticed, we are living in that day. 

As we stand, we are also to remember, that, despite appearances or even how we “feel”, when the battle rages and is at its worst, the LORD of Hosts is still with us, “able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20).

God has at His disposal the entire created universe with which to accomplish His purposes. No matter how sophisticated the weaponry in the history of the world—it is nothing next to God. Let’s remind ourselves WHO we are IN CHRIST and WHOSE we are today.

We ask God to equip us for the spiritual battles that will surely come and we praise God for His plan of salvation. 

Be reminded of Isaiah telling the story of how a single angel slew 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. Jesus, the night he was arrested, assured His disciples that he had more than six legions of angels (72,000) as his beck and call!

There is nothing too hard for God. With such amazing and crystal clear evidence, there is no need to fear anything. The same Jesus who cast out devils, walked on water, multiplied bread for thousands, raised the dead, and calmed a storm, can and will surely come to deliver us from the hands of the enemy.

Jesus became the Savior of the world, and laid down His life for all—-through perfect submission to His Father’s will, laying down his life in a display of perfect faith, lowliness, and love.

One of His names is Yahweh Tsebaoth, THE LORD OF HOSTS. Consider a few stories in Scripture to remind you of God’s faithfulness and how He has the entire world at His disposal:

The Red Sea parting (Exodus 14:15-31)

The earth swallowing up the guilty (Numbers 16:28-35)

Locusts swarming over Egypt (Exodus 10:12-15)

Thunder routing an enemy (1 Samuel 7:10-12)

Fire consuming God’s enemies but preserving His friends (Daniel 3:19-30)

The sun locked in its place until a battle is won (Joshua 10:12-14)

Daniel in the den of lions with their mouths shut and cozying up to the prophet (Daniel 6:16-23).

We thank God “For a child has been born for us, a son given to us; authority rests upon His shoulders….His authority shall grow continually, and there shall be endless peace, for the throne of David and his kingdom. He will establish and uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time onward and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this” (Isaiah 9:6-7 NRSV).

Offer thanks to God, as a believer, that you belong to the LORD of Hosts. Confess any complacency about your faith and ask Him to strengthen you in your weakness. Magnify the LORD GOD. Elevate HIM over all! 

Choose to dance through the storm—it will hack the devil off. Submit to God, resist the devil, and He will flee. You are unstoppable with God! Obey His instructions and enjoy the journey of obedience—no matter what attack you attract. Laugh out loud and say, “It’s only you —Satan” …and keep moving forward in faith—focused on Jesus. 

Pray and read this daily—remind yourself of how big God is and that He owns the entire world and all of creation! He owns it all! 

DEBORAH STARCZEWSKI 

Anyone like to fish? I used to go fishing with my dad and he would bait the line for me. In many ways, that is how we are to fish for souls—we listen to the Holy Spirit, allow Him to bait the line (give us the words to say, tell us what to do), and we obey Him. It’s really not complicated when you trust the Holy Spirit’s leading.

Jesus said that He would make us fishers of men–that means all mankind. (Matthew 4:19) “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” (NIV). 

God cares about every person. He allows our paths to cross so we can impart Truth, impact others through God’s love, and leave a lasting legacy of knowing God and making Him known.

When we discover the greatness of God’s power within, we are moved to obedience through passion and purpose. In order to make the kingdom of God our first priority as Jesus taught us, we must choose to cut through the mystery surrounding it and find out what God wants to reveal to us through His Word. 

We can only go as high as the revelation we have received, so we must continue to renew our minds daily in the Word of God. The gospel of Jesus Christ turns the timid into the bold! 

In Matthew 3, John the Baptist begins to preach about the two kingdoms.

“In those days came John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, Repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:1).

John called people to repent (to turn away from sin and their old way of doing things), and to seek God and His way of doing things. God is calling all to come out of the kingdom of darkness. 

As believers, we have the mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16), but we must CHOOSE to live by the Spirit of God and function from His mind instead of our natural, carnal, stinking thinking. It is only with the mind of Christ that we can walk in the supernatural power and goodness of God. 

When we follow Jesus, we will be confronted by the enemy. We cannot avoid it. The Bible makes it clear: “Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (2 Tim. 3:12). When we face hardships, attacks, and persecution, we must remember it is going to be a time for miracles—a time for God to show His Power to the world around us. There is no need to fear–God is with us, and never back down.

We need miracles in America. The Bible reminds us in the book of Daniel, King Darius had signed a law making it illegal to pray to any God or man. Daniel 6:10 says, 

“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.” 

Daniel didn’t hide his faith, and he didn’t try to avoid confrontation. He faced it head on and chose to obey God in the midst of a time when the law went against God. Satan cannot continue to steal, kill, and destroy because the Kingdom of God reigns over the kingdom of darkness, and like Daniel, we choose to work God’s system—by saying what He says about us and doing His Will.

Obey God’s Word, obey all His instructions to you, and He will change the world through you—one person at a time to the nations.

Jesus is LORD over all! Elevate Him and watch miracles happen! 

DEBORAH STARCZEWSKI

“But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him?” (1 John 3:17, ESV). 

God is calling us to be helping hands to those in need. Helping hands reveal the heart of our Father God

Faith links us to the supernatural Creator, and we now have a “super” attached to us as believers in Christ. We walk and live in a natural world, but God does not want us to be bound by that reality. He desires that we walk in faith and in love—showing God’s love to the world around us. His design is for us to come into agreement with His Word, His Ways, and live a surrendered life to Him. We are ambassadors of Jesus Christ to reveal the love of God to others through acts of kindness, reaching out to help others through practical ways. 

The people we can help may be a friend or neighbor, a child, the elderly, a stranger down the street, your parents, brothers and sisters in family, the weak, rich, poor, sick people, needy people, fellow Christians, non-believers, helping in the community or in the church. 

Luke 6:38 says, “Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you” (ESV). 

God met Abram’s needs. In Genesis 14 we find Abram’s nephew Lot in trouble. Armies had come to take Sodom and Gomorrah and their king and all the other kings with them. They took Lot and all his goods and left. As soon as Abram learned of the tragedy, he took over three hundred trained servants to pursue, catch, and defeat them. 

Look at verse 16:

“And he brought back all the goods and also brought back again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.”

Abram and his men not only got the women, the men, and the children back, but they got the goods as well.

The Bible continues:

“And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale. 

And the king of Sodom said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself. 

And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up mine hand unto the Lord, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.” (Genesis 14:17, 21-23).

Abram was following the rules of God’s kingdom. Abram didn’t want to appear that anyone had made him rich but God. It is Almighty God that causes us to prosper and He is the One who provides. 

We are called to pursue God, point others to Jesus through revealing God’s love, and live victoriously through our Savior who died, was raised, and ascended to heaven, and is seated at the right Hand of God, interceding for us that our faith will not fail. We have a Blood Covenant that cannot be annulled through the shed Blood of Jesus—the Lamb of God.  

Because Abram was honoring God and operating according to His Kingdom principles, we see Abram receiving God’s great promise:

“After these things the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield and exceeding great reward.” 

If we absolutely trust God, we are at peace. We are to “occupy till Jesus comes” and that means we help people and take one city after the next for God. God wants the kingdom of God to be  spread throughout the whole earth. 

God is raising up an army of believers that abide in Him—and that will not tolerate Satan taking over this earth or those in our path. God has chosen His people to bring heaven to earth. His favor is upon us. People will see what heaven is like by seeing how we talk, how we walk, how we act, how we respond to those in need, and how we think.

“The secret things belong to the Lord, our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever. That we may do all the word of this law” (Deut. 29:29)

When we have a revelation of the secrets of the kingdom of God and live accordingly, the world will see the difference in our lives. We will become witnesses as ambassadors of Jesus Christ, and we will take back this earth—one person at a time, one city at a time, to one nation at a time. 

It takes someone special to extend the heart of God. Be the hands and feet and heart of God to someone in need today. Ask God to show you someone in need—He will do just that! From acknowledgement, encouragement, to practical ways of helping people in need, that is our calling as believers. 

Arise and shine. Open your hands and heart! Wrap your arms around someone today and let them know our Savior’s love—Jesus.

“A friend loves you all the time, but a brother was born to help in times of trouble” (Proverbs 17:16). As children of the Most High King—we are the family of God.