Making Sense of…!

Living Up! is learning to respond to life differently. It’s when we take our normal and turn it around with the Truth in God’s Word. It’s when we challenge our thinking to be crisply alive with what the Bible says about life, love and all things pertaining to the game of life. And, though life is not really a game, it often feels like it is. In reality life is a sacred journey and we need instruction and coaching on how to live it.

I haven’t posted lately for a few key reasons:

1. I have been busy finishing manuscripts for new books

2. I have been “down” trying to make sense of some situational stuff I have been in.

When you add the two up, what you get is no devotional posts, but just one woman trying to make sense again of life and all it’s messy pieces. During this week God keeps pressing upon my heart that the battle is bigger than what I think. The battle is against things that I can not see. Like most, I brush that thought off and try to figure out the pieces right in front of me. I move them around on the game board of my mind and try to determine what fits where and why. But, at the end of the day, all my human reasoning and figuring pretty much leaves me empty and gets me nowhere.

Back to the game board!

This morning a friend forwarded me a devotional that someone sent her. I have no idea where it came from, but it ministered to me in amazing ways. I hope it does the same for you.

In reality…and we all want to live in reality, right? The battles before us ARE bigger than what we can see. If we are to be “grown up” girls in Christ, I guess its important to pay attention to spiritual things and handle life in spiritual ways.

My prayer for you is that you realize, like I must, that our battle is never with people, but with an enemy who wants to devour us. Can sound eerie…I know. But, good news girlfriend….Jesus is the Victor! He has triumphed over the enemy. Stand firm and resist the devil.

Sending love…from the battle field 🙂

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Do you know why so many believers are losing the battles in their lives?

They’re fighting the wrong enemy!

They’ve been deceived into believing that just because a person said or did something to hurt them, that person is the one they need to fight. But they’re wrong.

You see, the Bible says we don’t wrestle with flesh and blood. And since people are definitely flesh and blood, they’re never the source of our problem.

“But, you just don’t know what So-and-so did to me!”

It doesn’t matter. If you waste your time fighting So-and-so, your real enemy will get away scot-free.

Who is that real enemy? Look at Ephesians 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Satan and his demons. They are your lifelong enemies! They are behind every personal affront you encounter.

The people who hurt you and persecute you are only Satan’s tools. When he wants to strike out at you, he uses them to get the job done.

Remember this: Persecution is not the manifestation of another person’s hate for you. It’s a manifestation of Satan’s fear of you. When you get into the Word and start swinging it around–using it like the sword of the Spirit it is–he gets scared. So he looks for some person he can send in there to stop you.

Next time someone hurts you, don’t let yourself get sidetracked into fighting them. Bind the spirit behind them. Put flesh and blood battles behind and war with the weapons of the Spirit. Zero in on Satan with authority and the Word of God and bring your real enemy down!