It is more fun helping other people over obstacles than it is to cross the finished line alone.
People find out who they are in the company of other people.
God not only needs strong sons, but strong daughters as well!
Lions are the best killers, but lionesses are the best hunters. Lioness Arising is the best book because if you can’t speak to the women, then you can’t flip the culture. If you can’t flip the culture, you cannot win the war.
Without the involvement of women, you cannot win the war. The military understands this but the body of Christ must as well. The Enemy is afraid that the women and men will stand hand-in-hand, side-by-side and know that they are not enemies but intimate allies.
Lioness Arising was a wakeup call, but Girls With Swords is a weapon.
In order to have the spiritual grit factor in the kingdom, you must operate in faith and not just have thought faith.
Grit factor: I will not quit, be distracted, be detoured.
If you aregoing to have a spiritual grit factor, you will have to operate with faith, know who you are, and how God prepares you.
“Through faith’s power they conquered kingdoms and established true justice. Their faith fastened onto their promises and pulled them into reality! It was faith that shut the mouth of lions,”
Hebrews 11:33 TPT
https://www.bible.com/1849/heb.11.33.tpt
This is again not just a thought faith but an active faith. You must lay hold of all of the promises of God for yourself. If you listen to a song, read a Scripture, whatever, if something begins to stirr within, you must say, “That’s for me.” You may need to be fierce, but that is what is needed in this hour. That’s okay.
Micah 4:according, NKJV:
“Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion;
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your groves bronze;
You shall beat in pieces many peoples;
I will consecrate their gain to the LORD,
And their substance to the LORD of the whole earth!”
You were not created to escape in the Rapture. You were created to rise up in these last days.
You need to use a season of captivity in strength.
In the natural, in order to be strong, you cannot be busy. You’ll burn muscle. You have to be able to bare some weight. Well, it is the same in the spiritual. We in the Church are skinny-fat which is what you get when you are busy and fits the description above. How many of us are busy but when it comes to standing under pressure, we cave?
Let’s look at our trainer, Jesus’s words in Revelation:
“Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Sardis, for these are the words of the one who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I know all that you do and I know that you have a reputation for being really “alive,” but you’re actually dead! Wake up and strengthen all that remains before it dies, for I haven’t found your works to be perfect in the sight of my God. So remember all the things you’ve received and heard, then turn back to God and obey them. For if you continue to slumber, I will come to you like a thief, and you’ll have no idea at what hour I will come.”
Revelation 3:1-3 TPT
https://www.bible.com/1849/rev.3.1-3.tpt
Spiritual business does not build strength. Jesus values different things than the world. He sees the real you. You need to be very careful that you are not so busy listening to what everyone else says that you are that you forget who you truly are.
Look at His letter to Laodacea:
“Write the following to the messenger of the congregation in Laodicea, for these are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation: I know all that you do, and I know that you are neither frozen in apathy nor fervent with passion. How I wish you were either one or the other! But because you are neither cold nor hot, but lukewarm, I am about to spit you from my mouth. For you claim, “I’m rich and getting richer—I don’t need a thing.” Yet you are clueless that you’re miserable, poor, blind, barren, and naked! So I counsel you to purchase gold perfected by fire, so that you can be truly rich. Purchase a white garment to cover and clothe your shameful Adam-nakedness. Purchase eye salve to be placed over your eyes so that you can truly see. All those I dearly love I unmask and train. So repent and be eager to pursue what is right.”
Revelation 3:14-19 TPT
https://www.bible.com/1849/rev.3.14-19.tpt
God disciplines us because He wants us to move beyond our limits and live life at our best.
Micah 4:10, NKJV:
Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
O daughter of Zion,
Like a woman in birth pangs.
For now you shall go forth from the city,
You shall dwell in the field,
And to Babylon you shall go.
There you shall be delivered;
There the LORD will redeem you
From the hand of your enemies.
Our enemies in this culture say, “Kick her when she’s down.” God didn’t fall off the throne and is not surprised, but this must be a wake-up call to the Church. Let’s keep going.
Micah 4:11, NKJV:
Now also many nations have gathered against you,
Who say, “Let her be defiled,
And let our eye look upon Zion.”
But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD,
Nor do they understand His counsel;
He will gather them like sheaves to the threshing floor (Micah 4:11-about, NKJV).
Hardship is when we find out our strengths and weaknesses. To whom much is given, much is required. This is not a begrudging thing but should be something to motivate us and keep us saying, “There is something more in me.”
Sometimes, ISIS remembers who we are more than we know who we are. They call us, “People of the Cross.” In the U.So., the enemy’s number one goal is distraction. It is not about who you have been in the past, but who you will be in the future. The enemy attacks who you might be by reminding you about your past.
If the enemy cannot distract or diminish, he divides. We will never -every into the unity of doctrine, but we are in the unity of faith. Folks, stop being devided. If the enemy cannot divide, he destroys.
The enemy knows that Jesus is coming back for the bride. He is now killing baby girls.
What happens in the Middle east, we must fill over here. We are all one. What we tollerate for others will -every into our own lives if we are not careful.
The LORD is a man of war;
The LORD is His name (Exodus 15:3, NKJV).
Our Father is not a part-time warrior and a part-time Father, but is a man of war. If you are a child of the most high God, this is personal. We are in a war!
You need to fight until every enemy is put underneath Christ’s feet. That is not Jesus’ job in the millenial reign like some preachers of our day claim. That is ours.
If you give God permission to speak to you, seize those moments. Write down or sing whatever it is that you hear.
The Holy Spirit asked her one time, “What does it mean to carry your cross?
Well, this is Christianity 101:
The cross is what is given to you in your everyday life. We need to be a people that are willing to give all if that is necessary. Here’s the Scripture she mentions:
“Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If you truly want to follow me, you should at once completely reject and disown your own life. And you must be willing to share my cross and experience it as your own, as you continually surrender to my ways.”
Matthew 16:24 TPT
https://www.bible.com/1849/mat.16.24.tpt
The cross is your weapon.
When you only preach a portion of the Cros’s benefits, you will only see a portion of its power.
Here’s what it looks like to bear your cross:
“Beloved friends, what should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.”
Romans 12:1-2 TPT
https://www.bible.com/1849/rom.12.1-2.tpt
The second that God drops something into your spirit, if you don’t quickly do it, you began to second-guess it.
God understands that when you face your fears, you will become fearless. God will intentionally cause you to face your fears. God areas of your life where you are weak so He can show Himself strong.
“I’m writing to encourage you to fan into a flame and rekindle the fire of the spiritual gift God imparted to you when I laid my hands upon you. For God will never give you the spirit of fear, but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control.”
2 Timothy 1:6-7 TPT
https://www.bible.com/1849/2ti.1.6-7.tpt
Jesus was different than the Pharisees because He lived what He said.
If we don’t preach all that He is, He doesn’t come on the scene.
Whatever He has been to you, He wants to be to others. You carry the anointing ofthe Holy One.
When we begin to worship, we begin to sing swords into the atmosphere.
This is the Scripture she declares over us. Take hold of it.
Zechariah 9:12–13, NKJV:
Return to the stronghold,
You prisoners of hope.
Even today I declare
That I will restore double to you.
For I have bent Judah, My bow,
Fitted the bow with Ephraim,
And raised up your sons, O Zion,
Against your sons, O Greece,
And made you like the sword of a mighty man.”
Works cited:
Kingdom Advance 