Everything To Stand – Part 3

Pastoral Counsel – Jen Miller
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Part 3:  Continuing study of Ephesians 6:13-14
“…and after you have done everything, to stand.  Stand firm…”

This very real spiritual war that you and I are encased in is taking captive, torturing and destroying countless lives, every second of every day, and countless lives for ALL of eternity.  Whether we acknowledge it or not, it infiltrates every aspect of your life and mine, waking and sleeping.  (Yes, even in sleep!) 

The spiritual battle began in heaven, with ONE ‘thought’, when the angel Lucifer considered to himself that he could reign higher than his Creator, God.  From that one thought, he made a ‘decision’ – that he would challenge God in an effort to overthrow Him.  From that one decision, he ‘acted’ and that one act changed the atmosphere and activity of heaven, then earth, and sin reigned in the hearts of men beginning with Adam through to this day in time – 2009. 

Through the generations, this three-fold process of thought, decision, action has propagated and perpetuated sin and evil with every human being born into the world, including you and me.  It continues with YOU and ME, with each and every thought that enters our minds, minute by minute.  This is why He tells us to “take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 

Every thought that enters our minds is in regard to either 

• God
• ones self
• another person
• a relationship (with people & God)
• a situation or circumstance

That thought is then followed by a ‘decision’ (a choice)  - even from the most seemingly mundane – and that decision is followed by an ‘action’. 

EVEN OUR DECISIONS TO ‘NOT’ ACT IS A CHOICE THAT RESULTS IN ACTION:  THE ACT OF DOING NOTHING. 

EVERYTHING that transpires in our lives, 24 / 7, waking or sleeping, is the direct result of a thought, then a decision, then an action on the part of people, spirits, Satan, or God. 

YOU IMPACT THE WORLD WITH YOUR EVERY THOUGHT, DECISION, AND ACTION, whether you are conscious of it or not.“Taking EVERY THOUGHT captive” gives us a clearer discernment and direction whether or not we are acting FOR GOD or AGAINST GOD. 

Yours, mine, and every other person’s process of  thought, decision, and action impacts YOU and ME and everyone else, either directly or indirectly.   It impacts our relationship with God, our spouse, our children, our immediate and extended family members, our co-workers, our friends, our acquaintances, and the strangers who cross our path at any given moment – including those strangers we encounter on the Internet in chat rooms, blogs, bulletin boards, auction sites, etc… 

Technology is yet another means by which we move through the process of thought, decision, and action which either perpetuates the power and purposes of God (directly or indirectly), or evil (Satan and his demons). 

With God, there is no gray area.  He says we are either “for Him or against Him.”  There is no sitting on the fence.  With EVERY thought, decision, and action – even in the most seemingly mundane – we are making a CHOICE for Him or against Him. 

Matthew 12:25 says, “Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand.” 

 Then He goes on to state in conclusion of this text, “He who is not with me isagainst me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.” He does not mean ‘some of the time’, or at ‘certain times’, but with every thought, decision, action as we move through the minutes of our days… 

DO YOU GET IT, that YOU and I play a KEY role in this life-impacting and eternity-impacting war?  Otherwise, God would not have created you or I in the first place.  But, since we were created by God, you and I have a purposedirectly related to impacting this war for Christ or against Him.  

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