God does not need you to defeat the devil today. Jesus has already done it and given you the victory (see Colossians 2:15, Romans 8:37). Your part is to enforce the victory by simply standing your ground, which is victory ground. In other words, you “fight” from victory ground by standing. You don’t fight for victory.
In Ephesians 6:10–18, the passage on spiritual warfare, the word “wrestle” appears only once (verse 12), while the word “stand” appears four times—“stand against the wiles of the devil,” “withstand in the evil day,” “having done all, to stand,” “Stand therefore” (verses 11, 13–14). Four times the Holy Spirit tells us to stand. Yet, many Christians are focusing on wrestling their way to victory!
My friend, you are already on victory ground. You already have everything in Christ (see 1 Corinthians 3:21, 23). You are already blessed with every spiritual blessing in Christ (see Ephesians 1:3). The devil knows this. And that is why his tactic is to deceive you and make you think that you don’t have the victory.
So when he attacks you by saying, “Look at that small sum in your bank account! How are you going to pay the bills?” stand your ground. Declare, “I am not trying to be rich. I am already blessed in Christ!” It doesn’t matter how much you have in the bank. You are richly supplied because you are in Christ. And as the need arises, the supply will be there if you believe it.
It is the same with healing. The devil will try to attack you with symptoms in your body. He will try to put pain in your body, and make you feel weak here and there, so that you think that you are still sick. He is trying to make you believe that you don’t have your healing. That is the time to be conscious of Jesus’ finished work and declare, “I am not trying to get healed, I am healed! I am standing on the victory ground which Jesus has given me!”
Beloved, it makes a world of difference when you fight from victory and not for victory!
"I'M HERE TO TELL YOU" EDITOR'S NOTE
The war is over, we won. Many Christians feel they are still in a battle and need to do this or that and struggle to get where they are going. The truth is we are already there. Jesus finished it all on the cross and with His resurrection. When Jesus died for our sins, it worked, our sins are gone (paid for). When Jesus rose into a new life, so did we. He made us new a new creation. He not only is our savior but He is our King and High Priest. He makes intercessions for us constantly to the Father. The Bible says that we are kings and priests also. We need to know that we won, the devil knows and he's mad. Last night I had a quick dream that I was driving along a hill, beautiful, green and on the way to the top, I was scared that I might fall or somehow lose control, then I remembered that Jesus was there with me and I felt safe and complete. That's the way I wanna live, always remember that Jesus is there and I'm safe, happy, on the way to the top, with Him in control. The fighting is over. Even the little battles that cone up in life are not ours to fight. The Bible says that the battle is the Lord's. So the war is over and it's all because of Jesus. Today pray to God that He reminds you always what His Son has accomplished at the cross and realize that it was all for you.
