Let us challenge our spiritual growth

                                        Hindi translation is below)

 We all need to understand that satan is defeated by our Lord through His death on the cross and resurrection from the grave. We are saved by His grace and that is our position in Christ Jesus but it will take time have experience of that position in Christ.

Remember Jesus Christ is coming back to take His bride without spot and wrinkle. But when we came to Him, we are not without spot and wrinkle. Our mind and souls were in mess (we are spirit, soul and body 1 Thessalonians.5:23). Here you require to fight and to reclaim the territory of our mind by overcoming the enemy who is already defeated. God has given us all that we need to lay hold of Christ Victory and be more than conquerors (see Romans 8:37).

However, Satan does not want us to know that victory God has already given us. Satan wants us to keep in bondage through fear so that you never become an acceptable bride. Remember God has no intention to letting you give in or go down to defeat. God want you to be strong and triumphant.

In Habakkuk 2:3-4 the word Of God says “Now the just shall live by faith; But if anyone draws back, My soul has no pleasure in him.”

 Satan will try every effort to bring every fear you have ever had in the past in an effort to press in and strangle the new spiritual life in you. Satan goal is that you never reach spiritual maturity.

 Paul wrote in Galatians 4:19 “My little children, for whom I labor in birth pain until Christ is formed in you”. Paul found that getting people saved is easy part but getting them to grow up them spiritually mature and victorious is different matter. Apostle John reinforces this when he tells on in John 1:12 “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the power tom become the children of God”.

 Remember half of the virgins shut out of the wedding feast (Mathew 25:1-10). Can you imagine 50% fatality rate in the Churches today?

 Let us remember the following two things and act according. Remember that fear ------

 1.FEAR IS A CRETIVE FORCE: The first step to overcome is to understand it that fear is a spirit (see 1 Tim.1:7) and is a powerful force which can create and call into being things that is feared. Job experienced that in Job 3:25 “What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me”. This being so, how does the evil power work.

 Note: This way works the power of darkness and influence minds and if we imagine and act then it happens in our life. The fallen world and its inhabitants are controlled by the power of darkness like this only.

 Remember what ever spirit we chose to accept into our mind, will determine what will be manifested in our physical realm. For example, we allow the spirit of fear in your life, we will think fearful thoughts, speak fearful words and what you fear will eventually come to pass. You have the spirit above all spirit (spirit of God) allow to work in your life, you will think peaceful thoughts, speak peace and create serenity all around you.

 Let us make no mistake, there are two kinds of spiritual forces in the world those that are of God (for good) and those that are form satan (for evil). You have the spirit above all the spirits (Spirit of God) dwelling deep in your inner being. The crucial question you will face daily which spirit, Spirt of Good or the spirit of evil-----will I choose to accept in my mind today.

 Be warned that which side you permit to control your thought that side will control your whole being.

 See Romans 6:6- “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”

 2.FEAR IS A FACT BUT FEAR IS AN ACT: - Remember that faith is a fact but faith is also an act. It means that faith is a created spiritual force is not manifested in the physical realm until you chose with your mind and your will to bring into being by acting on it.

 Fear works in the same way; Satan can roar at you in your mind by pushing various thoughts and if you refuse to let his fearful thoughts dwell in your mind and refuse to act on them then nothing more satan can do and he will flee from your resistance.

 However, if you chose to act on suggestion planted by the spirit of fear (or the word of you moth to reinforce them), you will release powerful evil force to start working your life (see proverb 6:2 and proverb 15:21). The fear will become a dangerous habit which is hard to break.

 Likewise work the other evil forces of darkness and create havoc in the life of the believers. This way works the evil spirits like sickness, bitterness, hated, unforgiveness, depression, heaviness of the heart and others……

 Remember what happened in Garden of Eden, satan wasted no time in going after eve’s mind. He knows that if she accepted his suggestions in her mind, this thought then would feed her will. Once she chose (with her will) to act on it what all happened after that you all now.

 Let is challenge our faith today what we believing A famous scholar has said: -

 “Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson.

God bless you

Brotherly yours in Christ

 Ramesh C koundal