The Fight...

Ya know it seems like we're always fighting something...we're always coming against some sort of emotion or something that contradicts our ways of life. As young people, we fight things every day. We fight emotion, we fight carnality, we fight against music, we fight against ourselves, and we fight against each other.

My youth group has recently been fighting against a few of these things. Under our amazing leadership, we've prayed together, we've broken through, and we've made decisions to change our attitudes and ways of thinking. But, even as all these great things are happening, we're fighting things. We have things coming against us, tempting us, spilling lies into our minds, and distracting us from the breakthroughs and powerful moves of God we've had. It seems that as soon as we leave the prayer room or the sanctuary...old thoughts, emotions, and desires come flooding back to attack us. Then the devil tells us that we didn't really break through. He tells us that the crying and the speaking in tongues was just because we felt convicted, not because we broke through something and became stronger. I have been found guilty too many times of believing this lie. I've fought things and situations for months, years even, and after I get a breakthrough...I find myself fighting it again. Through my many yeeeeaaars of experience, and my overly abundant amount of wisdom and knowledge ;), I've discovered a few things.

I've discovered that regardless of who you think you are or what you think you've allowed yourself to become, you are powerful. Even during the moments where you fall, you have the power of God. When you think you're as far away from God and as deep into mess as you can get, His fire is still inside you. It doesn't leave. The moment you feel conviction after your breakthrough is the moment you need to realize that God is bigger than that and that He resides inside of you, regardless of your situation. You CAN refuse to succumb to a bad attitude. You can refuse to give in to the things you've fought over and over and you can become the person God has designed you to be. You have the ability to speak to those things in the name of Jesus and command them to leave. You're not too weak to overcome the things you've been fighting for years! It's absolutely retarded to just admit that you are a certain way and that you can't be better. I hate that that is something we all have or will feel sometime in our lives. God designed every one of us for greatness and it's up to us to take advantage of the spiritual authority that was birthed into us when we were born again. We can pray against these things in us and they WILL go away. It takes faith, believing and strength. Pray for these things. No, seriously....do it. :)