Have you ever just looked at the ground and saw simply that…the ground?
Or have you noticed a bunch of bugs on the ground, well after you see that, that’s all you see. You no longer just see the ground…you now see every ant that runs in that area.
I know your like what the heck does the ground and ants have anything to do with my time in Costa Rica. Well first off ANTS ARE CRAZY HERE!!!!! You drop a crumb of something and within seconds it feels like there are 100’s of ants!!! But that’s not the point of my blog. Okay, off of that rabbit trail.
Ants are such a small thing but they can totally steal our attention. And once you see one ant you notice so many other ants or little ant like bugs. I feel like this is very similar when it comes to spiritual warfare. Both good and bad. Sometimes when the enemy try’s to attack we notice a little thing he is trying to do and then sudden our brain replays our last 24 to 48 hours and we start to notice all the little ways that we allowed the enemy to try to change the course of your day. OR you can look at it the other way. Something incredible happens and sudden we see how the Lord has been working for us the whole time, through small little blessings throughout your days.
Spiritual warfare has been pretty thick around Costa Rica these last few weeks. From being woken up in the night, to bad dreams, to sickness, to a few other things. But what started to happen is we become fixated on what the enemy was doing and we kind of lost focus on the bigger picture of what God was actually doing.
We had another missionary that works with the ministry, Amanda, come and teach us a bit on spiritual warfare. She gave a lot of incredible nuggets of wisdom. I want to share a few things that she spoke that encouraged me. These might be truths that you know but it’s good to hear them again and remember who’s side you really fight on.
There are more for us then there are against us.
Only 1/3 fell from Heaven that leaves 2/3 to fight for and with us.
God created everything with His voice, and He gave us that same power. If we don’t give voice of God’s word on Earth. The Angels can’t have a voice on Earth. They are wanting us on to release them. (Matthew 16:19 “And I will give you the keys of the Kingdom. Whatever you forbid on Earth will be forbidden in Heaven and whatever you permit on Earth will be permitted in Heaven).
It’s time to wake up in the morning and look for Angels & not demons
A few days after that we were helping another person clean up and organize their ministry site and I was reading a children’s book “I believe in Jesus” and I read about how Satan was an angel that fell. And I felt like the Lord said “So many people think of the enemy as another god who fights against our God. But really Satan is only an angel. He literally has no where near as close as much power as God has. So why do we give him so much attention? Why do we act like he has all this power? Why do we get nervous when warfare is happening?I think we forget that we fight on the side of God who literally has ALL THE POWER. He has all the weapons needed, He has all the ammo we could ever need.
The next time you a fighting a battle ask yourself this “what is the enemy TRYING to do? & What is Jesus actually doing?
You are the winning team! You have victory! You have the strength to continue to fight the battles. There’s nothing that can knock you out. YOU WIN!!!
