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Warring for Your Breakthrough

II Corinthians 10:4 – “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,”

This is a very significant year.  The year 2017 is the year to wield the sword of the Lord.  We have titled this year as a year to war for your breakthrough.  Jude the half-brother of Jesus wrote in Jude 1:3, “Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.”

Paul wrote these words concerning the battle we are to engage the enemy in 1 Timothy 6:12, “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” Too many of God’s people are asleep.  We must understand the times we are living in. Romans 13:11 says, “And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.”

There is a cry from heaven today to wake the sleeping church from her spiritual slumber.  Many in the Body of Christ are unaware of the spiritual war going on around them.  What is this warfare about?  It is to distract you, delay you, and deny you the breakthrough you are believing for. Joseph Mattera writes, “When someone on earth wants to bring the influence of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven, Satan erupts with fear and anger against them since he doesn’t want to be thrown out of another place.”[1]

What are you believing God for today?  What promise are you standing in faith to see? Many times, you engage your enemy at the point of your breakthrough.  We must allow the Commander of the Lord’s Host to stand with us in battle today until breakthrough comes. This battle is not an earthly battle to be fought with fleshly weapons.  II Corinthians 10:3 says, “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.” 

An effective strategy to use against the enemy is found in James 4:7, “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” The Christian can best resist the devil in the following three ways: First, we must know how the devil attacks. II Corinthians 2:11, “Lest Satan should get an advantage of us:  for we are not ignorant of his devices.” Second, we must stand guard waiting for Satan to attack.  I Peter 5:8 instructs us to, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.” Third, we must put on the whole armor of God.



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