We must not look back to the past!
The battleground of the enemy is over our mind… our thought life.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in Ephesians chapter 6:
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with Truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the Gospel of peace;
16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. [
7 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God;
FATHER uses your obedience to shame the powers of darkness. Victory comes through us by The Holy Spirit operating in our lives.
Jesus spoke to the Samaritan woman in John chapter 4:
13 Jesus answered, “If you drink from Jacob’s well, you’ll be thirsty again,
14 but if anyone drinks the Living Water I give them, they will never be thirsty again. For when you drink the Water I give you, It becomes a gushing Fountain of the Holy Spirit, flooding you with Endless Life!”
The Holy Spirit in us will bring forth endless Life to those who drink. The adversary cannot stop this flow.
23-24 From now on, worshiping the Father will not be a matter of the right place but with a right heart. For God is a Spirit, and He longs to have sincere worshipers Who adore Him in the realm of the Spirit and in Truth.”
We are to trust in the Word of GOD only which is absolute Truth. Anything else promotes a lie and we must not let such lies impede our progress toward maturity in Christ.
We must not allow the enemy to occupy our minds, our thought life. Do you think that the enemy tried to keep Paul focusing on his past when he was an enemy of Christ, persecuting Christian?
He wrote by The Holy Spirit in 2nd Corinthians chapter 10:
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh.
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.
Be assured that Paul had to bring every thought into captivity himself.
Your purpose that you have yet to enter into, is occupied by a lie. The enemy will attempt to raise up a stronghold against your purpose to make you think it is impossible for you to fulfill that aspect of your purpose. Else, you would already be in it.
The adversary will attempt to use your past failures to convince you that you are not worthy to enter into your promise given by FATHER. The Promised Land is a picture of us coming into the fullness of GOD’S Intent and purpose for our lives.
Jesus expects us to do greater works than Him. We can’t do greater works until we have done the same works. Strongholds built on lies must be taken down. Jesus is drawing us into a possibility through promise.
Paul spoke to Timothy this vital Truth as he recorded by The Holy Spirit in 1st Timothy chapter 1:
18-19 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,
We all have been given promises through the Word of GOD that are yet to be fulfilled. We wage spiritual warfare by faith for these promises to manifest in our lives. A clean conscience is vital. The enemy wants to dredge up your past so that you will perceive that you don’t have a clean conscience. That is a lie.