“Do you know that I just realized when we rise up to confront certain forces—resistance, for instance, maybe in our bloodline—we also confront territorial devils?” This was one of the conversations I had with my sister early this morning. And the scripture that immediately rose up in me was: “Casting down every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of Christ.”
Confronting our personal challenges is not really the issue. The real matter is that God has an agenda far bigger than our personal struggles, and that agenda also needs to be confronted and rebuked. When we choose to arise in Christ, it isn’t just a choice that affects us personally; unknown to us, we are battling high things in our workplace, our neighborhood, our nation, our continent, and sometimes even the world at large.
God is saying to us: “The plan isn’t just about your inability to pay the rent—I have called you to lend to nations. It isn’t just about the infertility or constant miscarriages—you are the well through which I want to deliver men and women in seasons of barrenness.” The enemy highlights the challenge, but God says: “This is the very thing I want to use to bruise the head of the serpent. If you can war with this, I will make the enemy your footstool.”
The marriage struggles, the divorce, the child-related issues, the debts, the failures, the stagnation, the business crises—these are tools through which God can bring victory. But first, can you rise and go to war?
Can you make a sound? Can you release a statement that will be recorded in the realm of the spirit?
Yes, there are high things that need to be cast down, but often all we see is the unpaid light bill or the empty food store. Still, we can choose to find peace in God, who has a complete plan for us. He is enough. So arise—take your stand and make the move.
When we move, we knock and the door opens. We ask, and we receive. We seek, and we find. But now we no longer do this with only ourselves in mind—we look at the bigger picture: God’s future.
Stay Revived!
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