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Confronting spiritual warfare in our daily lives -- and why God?

Benny Hinn once said that he wished that he could take a Holy Ghost machine gun and blast away at all those who accuse him of being a false teacher. Is this the way we deal with spiritual warfare?

"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; (2 Corinthians 10:4)"

God sees things differently than we do. We are here not to acquire material wealth or amass professional success or attain fame or experience pleasure -- we Christians are here to serve Jesus, and to win eternal rewards thereby. If we were in a human war, we might not like it if we were ordered to assault a hill in the face of deadly enemy fire, but we would have to do it, and we would have, one hopes, at least some small measure of confidence that there was an important purpose in our doing so. In the spiritual conflict in which we serve, we can have "complete" confidence that Jesus has only our best interests at heart in all He asks us to do (cf. Jer. 17:7-8; Isa. 26:3; 43:2; Ps. 9:10; 37:5-6; 56:3; 91:1-2; 121:3; 143:8; Prov. 3:5-6; 16:3; 29:25; Nah. 1:7; 2 Cor. 5:7; etc.). What we cannot have, what it is important in fact that we "do not" have is a clear view here and now of exactly how and why that is so when troubles come upon us. If the Lord appeared to us just before every major test and explained what we would undergo and why it was important, we might have a much better chance of passing such tests, but you can be sure they would not try us and refine us and build our faith the way they do when we have to take it on "faith" that our Lord is looking out for us and employing us in the battle in just the right way.

For most of the time, in my reading of scripture and personal observation and experience, in the most difficult trials we are "always" tempted to ask "Why me, God?" or just "Why is this happening?" As human beings, we are probably always going to feel the pull of this temptation to doubt God and even to blame God, but as we mature in the Christian life, we get better about denying this inclination and thanking Him instead for the help we do receive to get through whatever it is we are called upon to get through. I heard an athlete one time talking about dealing with pain and explaining how successful competitors have learned "not even to have a conversation with their bodies" about whether or not they can take the pain any longer. As Christians, we are competing for something "far" more important, and we also need to learn never to have the "Why me, God?" conversation with our emotions, but instead to just keep our heads down and keep charging ahead spiritually.

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Confronting spiritual warfare in our daily lives -- and why God?

Benny Hinn once said that he wished that he could take a Holy Ghost machine gun and blast away at all those who accuse him of being a false teacher. Is this the way we deal with spiritual warfare?

"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; (2 Corinthians 10:4)"

God sees things differently than we do. We are here not to acquire material wealth or amass professional success or attain fame or experience pleasure -- we Christians are here to serve Jesus, and to win eternal rewards thereby. If we were in a human war, we might not like it if we were ordered to assault a hill in the face of deadly enemy fire, but we would have to do it, and we would have, one hopes, at least some small measure of confidence that there was an important purpose in our doing so. In the spiritual conflict in which we serve, we can have "complete" confidence that Jesus has only our best interests at heart in all He asks us to do (cf. Jer. 17:7-8; Isa. 26:3; 43:2; Ps. 9:10; 37:5-6; 56:3; 91:1-2; 121:3; 143:8; Prov. 3:5-6; 16:3; 29:25; Nah. 1:7; 2 Cor. 5:7; etc.). What we cannot have, what it is important in fact that we "do not" have is a clear view here and now of exactly how and why that is so when troubles come upon us. If the Lord appeared to us just before every major test and explained what we would undergo and why it was important, we might have a much better chance of passing such tests, but you can be sure they would not try us and refine us and build our faith the way they do when we have to take it on "faith" that our Lord is looking out for us and employing us in the battle in just the right way.

For most of the time, in my reading of scripture and personal observation and experience, in the most difficult trials we are "always" tempted to ask "Why me, God?" or just "Why is this happening?" As human beings, we are probably always going to feel the pull of this temptation to doubt God and even to blame God, but as we mature in the Christian life, we get better about denying this inclination and thanking Him instead for the help we do receive to get through whatever it is we are called upon to get through. I heard an athlete one time talking about dealing with pain and explaining how successful competitors have learned "not even to have a conversation with their bodies" about whether or not they can take the pain any longer. As Christians, we are competing for something "far" more important, and we also need to learn never to have the "Why me, God?" conversation with our emotions, but instead to just keep our heads down and keep charging ahead spiritually.

God Bless!
Thank you very much for this, message heard loud and clear. I find this very encouraging.
 
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