No Way!!

by Paul Dawn
Published November 15, 2005

If there is one thing that I have determined over the last few days is that there is no way I will let the enemy win, in this walk called life.

Especially when he attacks at a time when I am pressing into the things of the Lord and I know that the Lord is bringing me into the fullness of His purpose for my life!

Church last Wednesday night was awesome. A tremendous presence of the Lord in the time of prayer, in the worship and the study of the word brought by Pastor Paul [not me :)]

And what does the enemy do? He attacks me in a way that he knows will effect me most. He caused all kinds of problems with my colostomy and everything that could go wrong, went wrong, I had no control.

It began to stress me out because I had to leave quickly! No time for fellowship, to make it home in time to take care of everything.

As I was driving home, in tears, in pain, the enemy began to make me self-conscious, saying “you know, you ought to stay home, don’t go out, don’t go to church, forget Starbucks, you don’t want to be embarrassed do you? No guarantees that you will have control, your better off at home.”

That is when I looked to the Lord! I began to talk to the Lord, asking questions like, “Lord, why didn’t you just let me come home that night when I stopped breathing in ICU? Don’t you know how much I hate this Lord, who want’s me, look at me Lord? I am tired, so very tired!”

I then lifted up my heart to the Lord and I heard my Father speak: “It’s all right, I know what you are going through. I have been with you. You will finish the race. You will accomplish what I have called you to do.”

“You and many others, who are going through the trials, the battles of life, who have put your trust in me, will reflect the reality of what I am doing in you.”

“There will be many who will see in you, what I see! They will see my son being made manifested in your lives. They will see you as I see you, my child, my creation. For I have called you for a time such as this.”

“Your lives are not a mistake, what I have begun in you and in others will be accomplished!”

As I began to meditate on that, I began to weep because of the love that Our Father has for us.

We are His children, born again, adopted and part of the family of God.

He is calling us to lift up the banner of His love, of His peace and of His rest and to declare His awesome power and to know that the enemy flee’s at the very thought of the presence of the Lord in our lives!!

Till Later,
Paul

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