A Call to Fight

A Call to Fight: Three Common Fight of every Believer

Every believer is in a fight. The moment you accept the Lord as your saviour, you take your stance in the kingdom of God and you continue the fight. This fight is one that started before you were born and it is as old as time. Even before the foundation of the earth was formed, light and darkness warred. So the concept is not new, but unfortunately many Christians may not be aware of it, and may not be equipped to fight.

One of the first fight will be against who you use to be. It is the fight against the soulish nature adapted by years of pollution from the patterns of this world. These are the systems and behaviours that govern everyone who live in this world. Things like the ideology of self and the concept of life. It is the “I am here to find and live for myself” mentality. It is the rat race of life that is lived out by our desires and on our terms. The self-gratification of creating goals based on our heart desire and working mercilessly to achieve that which has been conceived. We must fight to resist the temptation to live for self.

Secondly, you must learn to fight to keep your salvation. Philippians 2:12 (NIV) challenges us to “continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling”. Of course the enemy will blind you with the grace message, such that you lose focus on becoming like Christ; so much that you forget the work required to remain saved. The enemy will always set traps, create devices, form weapons, and shoot arrows in an attempt to distract, discourage and disarm you; however, the bible warns us that we should not be ignorant of the enemy's devices. As we continue our pursuit of God, we should continually and intentionally fight to keep our salvation. We must hold fast to the Lord and His word, for He has become our salvation.

Lastly, we fight to manifest our calling in God. The revelation of who we are is found in Him. In Mathew 4:19 (ESV) Jesus calls his disciples to “…follow [him], and [he] will make [them] fishers of men.” To find ourselves, we must follow Him. That relational communion becomes the pathway for our transformation. So through this journey, God will begin to give you desires, dreams, and directions into your calling. So when God begins to reveal us to ourselves, we must fight to become that person. That manifestation will take patience, prayer, sacrifice, focus, preparation, and trails. The journey to become is a journey that will render our physical knowledge and strength futile, because it will require us to be plugged into God, our source. All the while we grow, we also must resist the temptation, trial, test that will be sent our way as we expand our capacity to become.

The Christian walk is a walk of faith, fighting to possess that which has already been restored to us through Jesus Christ.