Memorable quotes and scriptures
MEANING: RESISTANCE IS THE ATTEMPT TO PREVENT SOMETHING BY ACTION OR ARGUMENT
You’re in a new season of your life…the words you need to hear from Me is what is going to establish you and cause you to be effective in the new season that is upon you.
Our lives are locked up in times and seasons. Everything (Word/word/event/situation) connected to your life is a time and season. You cannot manipulate your way through it. You have to resist every resistance.
A Time for Everything
There is a season (a time appointed) for everything and a time for every delight andevent or purpose under heaven—
Ecclesiastes 3:1 (AMP)
and they have no real root in themselves, so they endure only for a little while; then, when trouble or persecution comes because of the word, immediately they [are offended and displeased at being associated with Me and] stumble and fall away.
Mark 4:17 (AMP)
OPPOSITION
Opposition is labour pains to a new season. Problems will occur as you take steps towards your purpose.
Jesus Christ was led into the wilderness as He stepped into His new season. He would have changed once He was baptised, there was a switch. Things would have been different if He had failed and yielded to temptation, but He was ignited by the Holy Spirit
Opposition comes in many forms, for example: people; disappointment; negative, destructive narratives in your mind; and events.
Satan only has power according to permission. Therefore, either God is in control (personal note – Job) or you are.
And angels who did not keep their own designated place of power, but abandoned their proper dwelling place, [these] He has kept in eternal chains under [the thick gloom of utter] darkness for the judgment of the great day,
Jude 1:6 (AMP)
Shut the door on any permissions given by our family lineage (great-grandparents, grandparents, parents). Need to break.
Resistance strengthens faith. Faith is not about the size it’s about the strength.
He answered, “Because of your little faith [your lack of trust and confidence in the power of God]; for I assure you and most solemnly say to you, if you have [living] faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and [if it is God’s will] it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Matthew 17:20 (AMP)
When you talk about faith you are talking about a Word that has come to you
So faith comes from hearing[what is told], and what is heard comes by the [preaching of the] message concerning Christ.
Romans 10:17 (AMP)
QUESTIONS TO ASK DURING PRAYER
- WHO AM I NOW?
- WHAT DOES THIS SEASON OF MY LIFE REPRESENT?
- WHAT DOES THIS SEASON OF MY LIFE REQUIRE?
When faced with opposition, remember the below verse. Remembering the below verse provides clarity.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.
Ephesians 6:12 (AMP)
Tap into Who has put us where we are. Opposition works for us and not against us. It’s not random.
So submit to [the authority of] God. Resist the devil [stand firm against him] and he will flee from you.
James 4:7 (AMP)
Submission is belief. Believe what good says about you. Satan doesn’t need to attack what you are called to do but what you believe you are called to do. What you believe is possible.
God is referred to as LORD God. This portraits His authority over creation, humankind, over everything.
Go before the LORD and request that you want to be what He created you to be – humbly.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], And before you were born I consecrated you [to Myself as My own]; I have appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:5 (AMP)
Think what YOU would do (react, bring forth to the world). Not what the counterfeit version of you but the version that God created you to be.
Realise that satan is a liar. Once you remember that, everything he tries to intimidate you about will make more sense. You will believe what God has called you to be. You will become more effective. You CAN do great and mighty things. You WILL believe what God has called you to be. You believe what God thinks about you.
Unapologetically Marcia 