No Weapon That Is Formed Against Us Will Prosper

   “Don’t Be Afraid Just Believe nothing gets through faith when you keep your shield of faith raised, nothing can hurt you because it can’t get through faith. Why? The faith that’s in you came out of God Himself. 

It’s a portion of the same substance He used to create the universe. To get through faith, it would have to go through God. That’s why nothing can get to you. That’s why you can’t be hurt.

First John 5:18 says, “He that is begotten of God keeps himself, and that the wicked one touches him not.” How do you keep yourself? In faith. A  weapon might be launched against you. You might hear the thud of it against the shield, but you won’t feel it. It won’t get through to you.

Ecclesiastes 8:5 says. “Whoso keeps the commandment shall feel no evil thing…you can believe the Scriptures and take them literally, without exception. So put your armor on. Strap on the truth. Take the sword of the Spirit and raise a great big, door-sized shield of faith.

Remember, as long as you’re behind that shield, “No weapon that is formed against thee shall  prosper.” (Isaiah 54:17). And above all, don’t leave home without it!

 

Follow God’s Path To Your Dreams

But if those dreams are divinely  inspired, hope is far from lost. When we  focus on  finding our personal path while nurturing a closer relationship with God and Jesus Christ.  God wants  us to succeed no matter who we are or where we come from.

Godgiven dreams have no expiration dates, you are important to God, and your dreams and visionary-style thinking may affect future generations.  “Somebody is going to succeed why not you?” You can experience real joy, fulfillment, and success by following God’s path to your dreams. Dreaming is wonderful. Doing is better. When we decide to follow the teachings of Jesus and the Bible, it is also a decision to change our mental strategies.

Before, we followed Jesus’s teachings we didn’t understand spiritual concepts like faith. But after we accepted Christ and choose to have a personal relationship with him, we begin to get a clearer picture of what it means to think God’s way, to trust Him and start living by the teachings in His Word. When you accept God’s call on your life He will drop ideas  and dreams that my seem way beyond your capabilities.  You can choose to  keep them in your dream file or you can decide to “reboot” your mind so to speak and actually consider that the dream could come to pass.

You see, daydreams are idle thoughts. They can be fun. The can be forms of escape. But mental maps are the kind of thoughts that have purpose and direction. They’re the thoughts with intent, thoughts that are actually taking you somewhere that you want to go. You could call them “determined thoughts.” There are also God-thoughts which can be a thought about you or about reaching more people for Him.

Determined thoughts produce ideas and those thoughts produce actions, combined with faith in God, trust in His Word, and never give up is what will draw your dream to reality. Many people wonder thought life with big dreams, but they don’t have determined thoughts. Start doing what it takes and move your dream to reality. The Apostle Paul put it this way. He said, “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting, those things which are behind,  and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark  for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:13-14).

Paul deliberately dismissed what was behind him and pressed forward in his “mark”or goal toward the prize that was in front of him, which was the high calling of Jesus Christ. This may be your mark too, if you are a preacher of the gospel or your mark may be in another area of life. It doesn’t matter. This is a principle that you can use in whatever sector of life you’re in,  forget about the past, focus on your future, and keep pressing in.