As you grow as a Christian that wants to bear much fruit, you must understand that you are not living in a vacuum. You are planted in a territory that has a spiritual climate. The Bible says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers. Those principalities sit over cities, tribes, families and even professions, pushing people in a particular wrong direction. When you decide that you will live as a serious Christian in your own city, the ruling spirit in that land will notice you. Some of the pressures you call ordinary trouble are actually the environment trying to pull you back to its old pattern. Until you discern the spirit in your environment, you will keep explaining away spiritual battles as normal life and you will surrender fruits that God is looking for.
One of the things God must teach you if you will fruitful as a believer is how not to team up with the spirit in the land. In some places people worship money; corruption is normal conversation. The spirit in the land is only adding names to its list of people it has conquered. The Church cannot copy that pattern and expect to manifest the glory of God.
For a believer, excellence must become a lifestyle that flows from the nature of God inside you, not a performance you put on when people are watching.
Acts 8 shows us another important truth. Principalities do not operate in the air alone, they look for personalities to express them. In Samaria there was a man called Simon who used sorcery and bewitched the city, giving out that he was some great one. When Philip came with the gospel, the unclean spirits cried out and came out of many that were possessed, and there was great joy in that city. The principality that had ruled through Simon lost its grip. In every land the devil is looking for men and women that will become his mouth, his hands and his legs, so that he can spread rebellion, immorality, laziness, bad work attitude and wrong values. You must therefore be sensitive, not suspicious, and ask the Holy Spirit to open your eyes to the ruling attitude in your environment and to the personalities that carry it. As you refuse to copy the spirit in the land and insist on copying Christ, you will stand out as an overcomer, finish what you start, honour God where others despise Him and bear fruits that no territorial power can stop.
THOUGHT TO PONDER: How will I practically refuse to team up with that spirit and instead follow the Holy Spirit so that I can finish my God given assignments?
PRAYER: Lord, open my eyes to the spirit in my environment and to the personalities it uses, help me to refuse every wrong pattern and to finish every assignment You give me, so that my life will bear fruits that glorify You. Amen.
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Genesis 42:18-43:34; Matthew 13:47-14:12; Psalm 18:16-36; Proverbs 4:7-10
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