He Changed Me

It has been a while since I have written and I have lots to share with you all. Any of you who have known me personally know that I have been struggling with some areas of my spiritual life but I want all to know that God is delivering in my life. Each day I read God's word He reveals little by little to me. The one area I want to share with you tonight is the spirit of FEAR!

 

We live our life each day understanding that God is a powerful God. He is merciful but also just. But, have you acknowledged that Satan has powers too? I feel that this is something we all need to open our eyes to. The reason why is because once we acknowledge he does have power here then we can prepare ourselves against it. How do we resist it… with the authority Jesus gave to the church (the body of Christ).

 

Let me give you an example of something I have been going through for years. Many know I have been called to preach the gospel of Christ. I fought this decision after God revealed it to me until He showed me that He chose me for this and I was not the one who chose it. That means a lot because I never wanted to do anything unless God wanted me to and He will show you these things through the Holy Spirit. If we do things on our own then we will only mess things up. Why? Because we are only human;) However, recently I still found myself doubting. Afraid that I would mess something up but God has made it known to me the power Satan has. The Bible says he is like a lion and lions wait to attack until their preys guard is down. Some times they will even send their cubs out to hunt for them and bring the food back. Then I found this in 2 Timothy 1:7

 

 

This scripture showed me something… did you see it? It actually names fear as a spirit! Then I realized this doubt I have been having is FEAR! So immediately I started praying and demanding the spirit of fear to flee from me in Jesus’ name! Each day that goes by I feel this spirit losing its grip on me. But, I had to realize that these spirits did exist before I could use the authority Christ gave me. He showed me that I have this authority because He (Jesus Christ) has already defeated the devil and his angels and that I am part of the body of Christ so I am above Satan and his angels too, but I must resist them all. WOW! God is AMAZING!

 

Now God has been showing me a lot lately. The reason why is because I prayed that He would. There are many things that I thought I knew and some things I did not agree with but now He is showing me much differently and I will share these with you, but for now let me share just one.

 

I have always heard of people say that they are fasting for God. Well, I always thought and some times said… huh? fasting? No reason to do that anymore but God has opened my eyes. After praying and asking God to reveal more to me and help me defeat this spirit of fear I woke up Tuesday and was getting ready to prepare my lunch for work. A lot of you know I like to eat;) God spoke to me through the Holy Spirit and explained that today I was to NOT eat lunch. That’s right… DO NOT EAT! I was to take some oatmeal and eat breakfast because He wanted me to read His word during lunch because He was going to feed me spiritually today. I thought…. what? Me not eat? Well, I have learned from my past that if I ignore God’s request then the result will not be good so I did what He asked.

 

During lunch I was going out to my car and prayed “Well God I am doing what you asked so tell me where to go”. Answer: Corinthians. So at the beginning of the books it referenced Acts 18:1-17.