Blessings Come With Battles

God’s promise seasons come with training seasons…

Have you ever felt promise heat? That promise heat, that promise struggle, gets tough when we get close. Sometimes it feels like when we pray hard it gets harder and when we stand up more attacks show up.

God’s treasures come with God’s teaching

Let’s unpack that…God uses the place He’s going to bless us in to teach us how to fight for our blessings. How to handle the conflict and the devils that come with new levels.

See, inheritance comes before possession. Between inheritance and possession there’s God warfare. When we inherit what God has for us, we have to be trained in the warfare that God knows will come with possession.

Put this in your spirit…When the children of Israel entered into the promise, God left some of their enemies in the land to teach them how to war for their promise. The Bible declares: “God left enemies in the land to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan…He did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience” (Judges 3:1-2).

Did you hear what God said? The warfare has a purpose. You won’t stand by those divine boundaries without divine tests that will convict you to stick by you. You won’t have a great relationship without divine tests that will convince you that a great relationship takes great work. You won’t guard your heart without warfare that pricks you to convince you that when God shows you who people are, believe Him. You won’t appreciate the right one until you get tired of the wrong one’s. 

You prayed for a business but did you understand the fight that comes along with possessing that promise? You can pray for a ministry, a marriage, authority to break generational curses but did you anticipate the attacks and the challenges that come along with that blessing? Most of us don’t. But God does…

“…for your Father knows what you need before you ask him” (Matthew 6:8)

God’s promises come with warfare that will train us how to keep and fight for the land that we possess. Why? Because God won’t take us to a place or level without training us in the warfare that will enable us to stay there.

You can be set free from a past relationship and no sooner that you get free, all hell breaks loose in your emotions. Before you were free you were miserable about being in bondage and now that you’re free, you’re struggling to be happy about being free. Why? Because the battle is not over your history, the battle is over your destiny…God is going to allow the conflict you need to convince you that you don’t need what you had. You will have to war through emotions that will work out any doubt.

“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (Romans 5:3-5).

That perfect relationship comes with hard work. That new chapter comes with new responsibilities. That business comes with sacrifice. That ministry comes with being cut. That breakthrough will require you to break out of some stuff. Resurrection power comes with resurrection suffering (Philippians 3:10).

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