Why Wait?
I was in the midst of a battle in flesh recently and I heard The Lord speak in my heart and say, "Why wait until the last minute or just before a battle to build up a stronghold? You can build and fight at the same time." As I thought about what he had said I remembered Nehemiah and his efforts to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem (the city of peace). The enemies to his project were using all their cunning and strategies to stop the work at hand and Nehemiah set men to building and men to guarding the work. Half of them were carrying weapons and the other half had tools to build with. So I set myself to create a "stronghold journal".
I'm a journal keeper from way back. I have hundreds if not more that I've written from my youth. I have journals with healing scriptures, journals with love verses, and journals with teachings on just about ever subject one can think of. Now I've begun compiling scriptures about things that help me build a wall of protection around myself, my husband and those I love. Each and every time I find a verse that makes me feel protected and strong I write it down. I've also started sharing with others and encouraging them to do the same. We live in perilous times and while we are pulling down the enemy's strongholds in our lives we need to building up the walls of God's protection as well. Why wait?
I will share my two favorites with you here. The entire 91st Psalm is a good one as well as Psalm 5:12 "For thou, Lord will bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield." Psalm 91 speaks of us hidden in Messiah Yeshua/Jesus. In HIM we are hidden and Moses spoke of what being hidden in the secret place means!
Yeshua/Jesus is the High Priest of our confession. We need to be using the power of life and death that comes in our mouths to defeat the garbage of the adversary. Every time the enemy attacked The Lord with junk he either said, "It is written" or "It is spoken". He told us in Mark 11 that we could have what we say! If we don't say anything we get nothing. If we line our lives up with the word and SPEAK it we create what God has said! So instead of running to God when attacked in finances, flesh or in your mind be ready with your own stronghold! You can build up walls of defense against the enemy WHILE you tear down his walls made of smoke and mirrors.
Selah
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