FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

3/4/2025

“Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.” (1 Timothy 6:12)

Things can go from bad to worse in a moment of time, if you let it. This is why the Bible is very emphatic about how to respond when adversity comes to your doorstep and it seems like all hell has been let loose. It says, “Fight…” But it’s not a fight with your colleague, spouse or any human person. No. It’s a different type of fight because of what is at stake. The adversity has been sent to test your divinity and render you a human being, prone to defeat. This is why the way to fight is to “lay hold on eternal life” according to 1 Timothy 6:12. 

Mark 4:15 tells us that the adversary has come to steal the word out of your heart and mouth. Isn’t it interesting that the reason for the diagnosis or the mishap is to steal your good confession in the presence of many witnesses and render you vulnerable? This is why the Bible admonishes you to “Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward (Hebrews 10: 35 KJV). Hear me, the whole objective of spiritual warfare is not to afflict you but to steal the word from your heart and mouth through a distraction. 

If you would get this, Saint of God, the adversity is an illusion. It is not real. However, that to which you pay attention will be magnified. If you give the Word of God your attention, then the symptoms will dissipate but if you give the symptoms more attention, then the Word of God will be rendered impotent in your life. The New Living Translation puts it this way: “So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen. For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever” (2 Corinthians 4:18). The things that we cannot see that last forever are our confessions of the Word of God. 

This is why you have got to pay attention to words. Spiritual warfare is about words and not circumstances. Once, Peter spoke by the Spirit of God and then, in the next instance, he spoke by the devil. In the first instance, the Bible says,  “Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” (Matthew 16:16). And in the next instance, the Bible says, “From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!” (Matthew 16:21-22). But what did Jesus do? The Bible says, “But He [Jesus] turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men” (Matthew 16:23).

So, anything that removes your mind from your divinity and tries to treat you as a human being must be rejected immediately. This is why 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 says, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” The symptom, delay, adversity, bad-mouthing coworker, maliciousness came to steal the word from your heart and your mouth. 

Don’t let it. Say and continue to say what God has said without any consideration of failure because the Bible says, you will reap if you refuse to give up (in Galatians 6:9). Hebrews 12:3 says, “For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.”

Now is not the time to let circumstance dictate your confession. Rather, it is a time to confess unto salvation. Keep speaking what God has said. The principal job of the Holy Spirit in you is to keep witnessing to the principalities and powers what God has said (see Ephesians 3:10). So keep witnessing.

Have an excellent day!

Faith-Filled Confession

I say only what God has said about me. I am a new creation. All things concerning me have become new. And these things that have become new are of God. No sickness, defeat or poverty is of God. Therefore, no sickness, defeat or poverty is permitted to reign in my life. I am God’s witness and so I hold on to the word of God steadfastly. In Jesus’ name. Amen.

Prayer Point

Prayer for the Salvation of Souls

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

-       We are declaring the salvation of souls in every sphere of our lives

-       Be it in our catchment areas, families or places of work

-       We break the influence of satan over their hearts and minds in the Name of Jesus

Prayer for Church Growth

Mark 16:20

-       We are praying that all our soul winning activities are yielding to growth in all our Churches

Psalm 22:27-28(Msg)

-       Declare that all over the world the Churches of Jesus Christ are overflowing with souls, as the gospel dominates all nations transcending all manmade barriers to its spread

-       As they come, they will be inundated with the Vision our ministry and become strong and radical followers of Jesus.