Hey everyone, so you know how I said I was going to blog every week? Oops didn’t do that, I’ll try to be better in the future, but for now I have a story for you, a story of lies, of anger, and of war, story of deceit, and of freedom, this is the story of manistry!
2 months ago we had a month of just men, for 1 month it’s just the boys. The month started off good and fun, for the first day. On day two we opened a space to be vulnerable, everyone of us took their turn until it got to me. I told some of my story from high school and the next 2 years after leading to the race.
In the middle of my story a heavy weight came over the room, and we decided to pray over the space and then go to bed because it was so late. I didn’t really think anything of it, until the enemy decided to play with my head. “They didn’t care about my story” ” you don’t have a story” “what you have to say doesn’t matter” all these lies flooded into my head.
I let these lies sit in my head and build up anger, but I didn’t show the anger.
About a week went by and Joel ( my new team leader) noticed something was off, so he came and talked to me, I told him what was going on and he asked ” what can we do to make this better?” That’s when it happend I knew what I had to do, i had to share my testimony. I told Joel I wanted a couple of weeks to get it together. 2 days later I woke up and something in me knew I was doing it that night, and of course not 5 minutes later Joel walked over and asked me to do it that night.
That evening I shared my testimony and it went….amazing. for the first time I felt like my story went deeper then ” my name’s Sam, I was born and grew up in the church…the end” and i was able to look back on things in my life a let them hold the weight they deserved.
The next week I was still struggling with lies the enemy told me through out my life. That is until i had a 1 on 1 with my SQL Mason, he challenge me to really pray into these lies and fight back against them. I got some music went out side and went to war.
While having this time I had a vision, a vision that would froever change the way I deal with these lies, and would change the way I saw spiritual warfare.
In my vision I was standing in a huge field, Completely by myself, and the only thing I saw was an army lead by the devil himself. He stood across the field and laughed at me, and I couldn’t do anything. Then I heard the voice of God tell me somthing crazy….”charge!” And I was like “what you must be kidding me, there’s thousands of them” the once again “CHARGE!” so I ran into battle, screaming and scared. Then something unexpected happend, the army, looked scared. As got closer they started to take stepes backwards. Then out of the corner of my eye I saw a man in all white running next to me, then I saw another and another before I knew it I was surrounded by an army charging with me. By the time we got to the Devil his army was long gone, and he fell to his knees in defeat.
What did this mean? Well let me brake it down. The devils army were lies, they looked big and strong, but they weren’t. And I thought I was all alone, but I had an army of truths that I didn’t see. And when we charged, the lies can’t even stand in front of the truths. And the Devil may look like a big bad dog, but has nothing more then a little chawawa nipping at your heals.
This is my story of how I stood up to the lies found out that they can’t even look me in the eyes they are defeated and my God has already won the war.
