Time to Fight

{Hallelujah it is finished.}
{Hallelujah it is done.}

The past six weeks I have been working at Pine Cove camps doing Camp in the City. I realized very quickly that Pine Cove didn’t need me and God didn’t need me, but I needed Pine Cove and I needed God. God uses Pine Cove to transform the lives of others for His glory and His purposes, but also transformed mine as well. I felt like a sponge soaking up and learning so much from God and from my team. I was able to witness the faithfulness of God. I got to share life with a community who served, challenged, and encouraged me for a month- and for that I am grateful!!!

One thing my senior counselors pushed on us this summer was truth. Stopping the lies that we believe and taking back what the enemy has stolen. Truth is a big deal to me. I HATE LIES! God chose people to speak truth to me freshman year of college and it changed my life forever. This summer I further realized the importance of truth.  I recognized lies I believed and how the enemy was using my past to mess with me.  But Jesus came for me and shined light on the darkness. And where there is light there can be no darkness.

There is a saying I hear too often and it goes like this: “I struggle with _______.”  Insecurity, self-control, pride, depression, approval, idols, lust… We all have different struggles. We tend to have a “pocketed struggle.” A weakness we are aware of that feels too hard to overcome. So we keep doing what we’re doing. Each time we mess up we blame it on the “pocket struggle.” When people ask us what we struggle with we pull out the “pocket struggle.”

This breaks my heart that we continue to deal with something instead of fight to overcome it. That we continue to be believe any lies from the enemy. Christ was sent to set us free.  If we are men and women of the Lord then lets freaking fight! We don’t need to revel in our weaknesses because His power overpasses them.  So lets fight with truth and scripture and prayer. Lets hold on to the promises that the Lord has given us!!! I will fight to follow the Lord because he has set me free. In John 8 Jesus tells us “if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Its time to fight with the belt of truth. His perfect love cannot be overcome.

“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name and you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.” Isaiah 43:1-3

“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1:5-7

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery/” Galations 5:1