One of Satan’s attacks in my life is to try and cripple the Spirit’s voice and deaden my awareness of the spiritual realm. He tells me that it doesn’t exist, that it’s just a bunch of emotions and feelings, that reality is only what I can see with my eyes and touch with my hands.
Father, open my eyes more to your spirit and what you are doing in the spiritual realm. I can get so focused on what is right in front of me physically that I know I miss a whole other dimension. When I meet someone, I want to see their spiritual being as clearly as the flesh standing in front of me. I want to see them as God sees them.
God created us as spiritual beings with a temporary, physical body here on earth. To deny the spiritual side of us is to deny who we truly are. Satan would love for us to live without a spiritual awareness. He knows the power that that lies in this realm…about how it is just as much a reality as our physical realm. He knows that when we recognize his attacks and know how to battle him in the spiritual, God becomes the center and Satan is put in his proper place with no control because we know the blood of Christ covers us.
I know that asking God to open my understanding could be an overwhelming thing. I know that I have no idea of all the things that I could be opening myself up to. But I also know I serve a big God. I would rather open myself up to the Spirit and face hardships, than sit on the sidelines. I would rather have to rely on God than stay an infant that Satan doesn’t give a second thought to because I’m no threat. I want to be in the battle. I’m tired of being a spectator of a war that holds people captive…a war that Satan is winning in a lot of areas because followers of God won’t stand up and fight for those who can’t fight for themselves. God, open my eyes, put me in the battle, and please be my strength through everything that will come. May I bring your name fame and may you be glorified through me.
