Prepare for battle

Prepare for battle
2 TIM 2:4,22
No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.
Flee also youthful lust; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace with those who call on the Lord of a pure hear

Are you ready? Before you can do spiritual warfare, you must first deal with your life. You have no authority unless you first have your personal relationship with God. You also must have a deep understanding of GRACE (Rom 5:12 Rom 6:13) and who you are in Christ. If you do not know you are already perfected in Christ (Heb 10:14)and seated in the heavenlies with Christ (Eph 2:6) you will struggle with guilt, shame and condemnation. So understanding these concepts in very important.

We start by telling you to repent, of sin, over generational curses, bondages, unforgiveness, woundedness bitterness etc because these bind you, so that you cannot contend with the kingdom of the devil when these things still have a claim in your life. We have to break every chain through repentance and the blood of Jesus. There we are setting ourselves free so that the anointing for warfare may come and rest in our life.

Before Jesus could enter into ministry and spiritual warfare, He went to the wilderness. He did not take Himself. The Spirit of God led Him to the wilderness for 40 days and nights. Doing what? Creating that personal relationship with the Father before ministry and contending with the kingdom of darkness in the spiritual realm. On coming out of the wilderness, the first word that came from His mouth was “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me. Because He has anointed Me to preach the good news, set captives free, to open prison doors, to declare the year of God’s favor.” Why? He had legal ground to work from. He had prepared his heart. He had come as a son of man therefore He was showing us what to do first, before we can go on in ministry and spiritual warfare. Our personal devotion before God is very essential before God. Seek God. There are things in your life you will only begin to notice through fasting and prayer and humbling yourself before God to search you. Areas like generational bondages, personal character traits that may be so much a part of you that you don’t notice how they bind you. There may be habits, which you have conformed to because of the world system around you and you don’t realize it does not please God because it is so much a part of your life, etc. If you don’t deal with your life, when trying to engage in warfare, you will get the backlashes from the enemy. He will ask you “Where did you get legal ground to attack me when you have this and that covenant, or generational curse from me?” Then he strikes you. So the first step is to REPENT for yourself. Break all agreements you made with the enemy.

Who are you? You need to know who you are in Christ so that you can know what to do, when to do it, where to go, and how to do it. Who I am in Christ
The more you agree with God about your identity in Christ, the more your behaviour will reflect your God given identity.
Learn to see yourself as God sees you. Accept what God says about you and become the spiritual person you are. God's opinion is the one that counts. feelings are just the fruit of our thoughts and beliefs.
The best way to renew your mind and experience transformation is by knowing, thinking and speaking who you are in Christ
Train yourself to say the same things that God says in His word. Become who you are in Christ. God wants to do more in your life than you imagine.
Do you believe who you are in Christ? Do you look like Jesus? Are you doing greater works? If not there is one sure answer. The word of God.

Smith Wigglesworth said in hisbook Greater Works "the more of the word you have in you, the easlier it is to live a Holy life. Ps 119:11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.

Time to get ready for battle.