We have been given enemy-occupied territory to take over!
The mind is the enemy-occupied territory that must be overtaken.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 1:
18 But as God is faithful, our Word to you was not Yes and No.
19 For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us-by me, Silvanus, and Timothy-was not Yes and No, but in Him was Yes.
20 For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
In other Words, for as many as are the promises of God, in Christ they are all answered “Yes.” So through Him we say our “Amen” to the glory of God.
21 Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God,
22 Who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
Those of us who “Amen” to the positive promised of GOD do so in purity, passion, and power. We don’t need HIS anointing to reside in Heaven, but we need It here on earth to bring forth Heaven to earth. A true prophecy is a promise from GOD.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Timothy chapter 1:
18 So Timothy, my son, I am entrusting you with this responsibility, in keeping with the very first prophecies that were spoken over your life, and are now in the process of fulfillment in this great work of ministry, in keeping with the prophecies spoken over you. With this encouragement use your prophecies as weapons as you wage spiritual warfare by faith and with a clean conscience. For there are many who reject these virtues and are now destitute of the true faith,
FATHER does not intend for us to passively stand by and expect HIM to simply bring HIS promises to fruition. We are to actively “Amen” those prophecies as we wage spiritual warfare by faith.
Paul also wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 10:
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the Knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
6 and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled.
Although we live in the natural realm, we don’t wage a military campaign employing human weapons, using manipulation to achieve our aims. Instead, our spiritual weapons are energized with Divine power to effectively dismantle the defenses behind which people hide. We can demolish every deceptive fantasy that opposes God and break through every arrogant attitude that is raised up in defiance of the true knowledge of God.
The example of the children of Israel who left Egypt and were meant to occupy the Promised Land are given to us as a warning.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Corinthians chapter 10:
1 My dear fellow believers, you need to understand that all of our Jewish ancestors who walked through a wilderness long ago were under the Glory cloud and passed through the waters of the sea on both sides.
2 They were all baptized into the cloud of Glory, into the fellowship of Moses, and into the sea.
3 They all ate the same Heavenly manna
4 and drank water from the same Spiritual rock that traveled with them—and that Rock was Christ Himself.
5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their dead bodies were scattered around the wilderness.
6 Now, all these things serve as types and pictures for us—lessons that teach us not to fail in the same way by callously craving worthless things
7 and practicing idolatry, as some of them did. For it is written: The people settled in to their unrestrained revelry, with feasting and drinking, then they rose up and became wildly out of control!
8 Neither should we commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, which caused the death of twenty-three thousand on a single day.
9 Nor should we ever provoke the Lord, as some of them did by putting HIM to outrageous tests that resulted in their death from snakebites day after day.
10 And we must not embrace their ways by complaining—grumbling with discontent, as many of them did, and were killed by the destroyer! [
1 All the tests they endured on their way through the wilderness are a symbolic picture, an example that provides us with a warning so that we can learn through what they experienced. For we live in a time when the purpose of all the ages past is now completing its goal within us.
12 So beware if you think it could never happen to you, lest your pride becomes your downfall.
Some would say that the Old Testament is not applicable to us today. Paul and The Holy Spirit disagree with that false assumption. The Promised Land does not represent Heaven above; it represents the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. I recommend that you dwell on the parallel in which we will go into greater depth soon.