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The assault:
- Against your passion
- Against your focus
- Against your identity
- Against your family
- Against your confidence
- Against your calling
- Against your purity
- Against your rest and contentment
- Against your heart
- Against your relationships
That stinkin' enemy wants to render us ineffective but we have the tools.
ReplyDeleteI like how she said:
We pray because our own solutions don't work and because prayer deploys, activates, and fortifies us against the attacks of the ememy. We pray because we're seious about taking back the ground he has sought to take from us.
He wants us to be passionless, powerless, prayerless, and quiet. He wants us to be defeated.
Isn't that the truth! He wants us deflated and defeated. He wants us disappointed in ourselves, our jobs, our families, etc. I'm creating a battle plan.
1) Injury-It is a time to draw close to the Lord in a different way because I have to slow down. It will be a time for me to lean into Him even more. I have to trust Him to get done what needs to be done for this trip and all things Fifty5five related.
2) Honestly, my brain that has been a great mutlitasker has suffered. I questioned the suspected TIA, grief, or age. Now I'm seeing my B12 levels are low and it is a symptom. I'm on mass doses. This is definitely an attack. My prayer is for complete restoration in this area.
3) I've spent a lifetime not fitting in as I was given up as a baby. I've finally tackled this one. I realize that many people want to spend time with me and I no longer have the time or energy concerned about those that don't. My prayer is to stand firm in this not slipping back.
4) Of course I've had my share of marriage issues. That has only been redeemed by Christ. I'm forever grateful. My prayer in this season is that I continue to invest and nurture that relationship and not just go through the motions. To truly put his needs before my own. Even more is my daughter, that she would return to Jesus and that her husband would come to know Him. I pray that God would redeem what the locusts have stolen.
5) As an uneducated woman, this is a big assault in the workplace. I also allow myself to be assaulted by the enemy in my position in Fifty5five. My prayer is to always remember that the Lord has placed me in the positions I am in for such a time as this. He equips me.
6) Every now and again I carry this burden. Now is not the time. But it may sneak up on me this trip. So I am putting on my armor and praying in the Spirit against this type of assault.
ReplyDelete7) Sometime I'll start watching something I shouldn't or say something I shouldn't. It is good to have this prayer plan of intention.
8) Rest???? I am content...oops, just thought of Kaiser. I need to stop complaining about it. I have a good paying job with amazing benefits! I am grateful for it. I am going to pray against bitterness that I am still harboring because they didn't reduce my hours like they said they would. If the Lord wants me in another position I will get another position as long as I'm doing the foot work. I am praying contentment. Rest I will be doing this weekend. Rest I think looks different for different people. For me I love to active rest: run, kayak, bike, etc. It gets me away from the responsibilities and quiet time with Him. I also am blessed in this season to have quiet time in my home in the morning. I will say I really miss being a mama but I do love this season. My prayer is that I keep to that time with Him and not have it divided.
9) Ugh. My heart. Always need prayer there! Against my evil heart and against those that I allow to wound me. I really allow things to get to my core but this season am so much better. But to me the enemy isn't crafty. He uses the same old assault tricks on me. So best to pray against the return of those assaults.
10) It's all about us right? Hurt feelings, feeling of rejection, feeling unneeded or unwanted. Feeling devalued. All assaults by the enemy. What if I look at every relationship through the lens of Christ? I use to pray this and I remember not being able to bear it. I think it is time to pray that again. After my mom died, I found a letter she never sent me as well as her Alcoholics Anonymous step book. She had shared a lot of things with me over the years that but a few things I discovered I did not know. These helped me see some of the reasons she did what she did. Also, in the letter she said some things I always needed to hear. My prayer is that it would be unleashed in me a desire to nurture those relationships to their fullest potential. And most importantly to pray like never before over those people I relationship with=-)
My post was so long it wouldn't accept it and I had to post it in 2 comments=-0
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