The movie terminator is for me the most horrible movie I cannot watch it because of this continual robot that just keeps on coming and will not die! You think you have got him one minute and the next it gets back up and away we go again. That is how it feels sometimes with the giants in our lives, we think they have been slain and then they rise to live again another day.
In thinking about this I think why is it that the Terminator will not die. What is it that makes it come back again and again. In Christ the victory has been won. In Rev 12:11 "the accuser has been hurled down" how? By the blood of the lamb and the word of the testimony! Christ has already overcome whatever giant you have, and have had, in your life and that is why the blood is so important. That is why sharing the testimonies of Christ in our lives has so much power because it testifies of the victory that has been won.
Why is it then that if the victory has already been won, we seem to keep coming under attack?
I believe it's because we actually have not come to fully realise and understand what has actually taken place on the cross. I believe we have not actually come to understand what it is to be a true 'son' or 'daughter' of the King of Kings, Lord of Lords. I hesitate to say (in all humility) that it is actually because we do not 'believe' because the word says if you believe you will say to this mountain move and it will move. I believe it is because we have not really understood the authority that the Lord gave us way back in Genesis and then again at the cross, in which he gave us the earth as our dominion to rule and reign over.
The Lord has been taking Jim and I on a journey over the past four years of learning to enter the 'rest' of God. What he has shown us in that journey is basically that our faith has been over time, as walking as a Christian, been shaped and moulded by unbelief, actually shaped and moulded by how the world sees things, and added them to our belief in Christ. Shaped and moulded by what we have seen, and our experiences in life, rather than the word of God. And that place of learning to come into the 'rest' of God is actually a journey of coming into belief that what His word says, He will do. It's been and continues to be a place where we are learning the authority we have in Christ and learning to walk in it in such a way that when I speak to that mountain it will move, whatever mountain it is. It's been learning to rest that its not anything I have done or can do that makes things change, it's simply a faith that rests on what God can do and has already done, because his word says it and he cannot lie. So when that terminator rises again to try to destroy me, that I don't need to run and hide from it, but simply that I can turn and stand up to it without fear, without anxiety, without panic and speak to it and it will die! Truth sets you free and so to slay the giant we have to speak the truth to it. The truth of the word, the truth of what Gods says into that situation, the truth that Christ has already overcome it.
My husband said something really profound to me a little while ago and one in which I am learning to do and yet something he found himself having to address again as well the other day and that was "In order to slay the giants, you have to face them". All of us have many giants in our lives, all different but in essence, the same giant. We have a choice each day to let that giant overcome us, or for us to turn and face it like David did with Goliath. He didn't trust in himself to slay the giant, but he knew his God and what he could do.
This is a continual process in the Lord in coming to understand who we are in him and sometimes we get it wrong. The key is when you get it wrong, don't come under condemnation but rather just get back up and try again. We all have unbelief in our lives at some level, but as the disciples said to Jesus, "Lord forgive our unbelief" and so we repent and ask the Lord to forgive us our unbelief and help us to believe! There is so much more I want to see and need to see in my own life and in the lives around me, in walking in this authority where "every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord", but I am choosing not to let the disappointments and failures of the past hold me in that place but I am pressing onto that goal. I want to be a person like Peter that the presence of the Lord was so powerful in him that people were healed in his shadow, or a person that believes that when Jesus spoke and said that "we would do even more than him", that I would come into some understanding of what that means and looks like on a daily basis.
In thinking about this I think why is it that the Terminator will not die. What is it that makes it come back again and again. In Christ the victory has been won. In Rev 12:11 "the accuser has been hurled down" how? By the blood of the lamb and the word of the testimony! Christ has already overcome whatever giant you have, and have had, in your life and that is why the blood is so important. That is why sharing the testimonies of Christ in our lives has so much power because it testifies of the victory that has been won.
Why is it then that if the victory has already been won, we seem to keep coming under attack?
I believe it's because we actually have not come to fully realise and understand what has actually taken place on the cross. I believe we have not actually come to understand what it is to be a true 'son' or 'daughter' of the King of Kings, Lord of Lords. I hesitate to say (in all humility) that it is actually because we do not 'believe' because the word says if you believe you will say to this mountain move and it will move. I believe it is because we have not really understood the authority that the Lord gave us way back in Genesis and then again at the cross, in which he gave us the earth as our dominion to rule and reign over.
The Lord has been taking Jim and I on a journey over the past four years of learning to enter the 'rest' of God. What he has shown us in that journey is basically that our faith has been over time, as walking as a Christian, been shaped and moulded by unbelief, actually shaped and moulded by how the world sees things, and added them to our belief in Christ. Shaped and moulded by what we have seen, and our experiences in life, rather than the word of God. And that place of learning to come into the 'rest' of God is actually a journey of coming into belief that what His word says, He will do. It's been and continues to be a place where we are learning the authority we have in Christ and learning to walk in it in such a way that when I speak to that mountain it will move, whatever mountain it is. It's been learning to rest that its not anything I have done or can do that makes things change, it's simply a faith that rests on what God can do and has already done, because his word says it and he cannot lie. So when that terminator rises again to try to destroy me, that I don't need to run and hide from it, but simply that I can turn and stand up to it without fear, without anxiety, without panic and speak to it and it will die! Truth sets you free and so to slay the giant we have to speak the truth to it. The truth of the word, the truth of what Gods says into that situation, the truth that Christ has already overcome it.
My husband said something really profound to me a little while ago and one in which I am learning to do and yet something he found himself having to address again as well the other day and that was "In order to slay the giants, you have to face them". All of us have many giants in our lives, all different but in essence, the same giant. We have a choice each day to let that giant overcome us, or for us to turn and face it like David did with Goliath. He didn't trust in himself to slay the giant, but he knew his God and what he could do.
This is a continual process in the Lord in coming to understand who we are in him and sometimes we get it wrong. The key is when you get it wrong, don't come under condemnation but rather just get back up and try again. We all have unbelief in our lives at some level, but as the disciples said to Jesus, "Lord forgive our unbelief" and so we repent and ask the Lord to forgive us our unbelief and help us to believe! There is so much more I want to see and need to see in my own life and in the lives around me, in walking in this authority where "every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord", but I am choosing not to let the disappointments and failures of the past hold me in that place but I am pressing onto that goal. I want to be a person like Peter that the presence of the Lord was so powerful in him that people were healed in his shadow, or a person that believes that when Jesus spoke and said that "we would do even more than him", that I would come into some understanding of what that means and looks like on a daily basis.