The Weapon Called Disregard

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One of my favourite scriptures in 2 Corinthians 4:8 where Apostle Paul distinguishes between the assault happening on the external and the defiant response of the internal to such an assault. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair, we are persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed, always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. (2 Corinthians 4:8) According to Apostle Paul, the defiant response is underpinned by the constant reminder of the import of the death of Christ and that reminder and alignment with the death of Christ constantly injects the life of Jesus Christ into their lives and their situations. There's a level of association with the death of Christ and that makes us practically, make confessions and even experience situations that are immune to the barrage of assaults against us in the external. One can stretch this further to then say that if a believer cowers in the face of external pressure, the problem is not really with the magnitude of the pressure, there's a kink in the level of identification with the death of the Lord Jesus which shunts the lease of life that such believer should experience. This is not in a bid to trivialize trials that people go through but Apostle Paul emphasized that the Spirit of God always furnishes us with the right level of fortitude to withstand any external pressure, the Spirit of God will never cry 'yepa or mogbe' (cries of helplessness) in the face of contrary situations. It may look like it's the empathetic thing to do but the testimony of the Spirit will always be different because of what He knows. That ability is available in the faculty of the Spirit, the question is whether as believers, will we cower in our confessions, or agree with what the Spirit is saying in these times. One of the things that gets the enemy excited is watching God’s sons and daughters act contrary to the covenant in response to negative situations. So also, one of the things that gets him angry is when he sees staunch men and women adopt, to the tee, the response the Bible recommends to tumultuous situations. I have found that one of such responses the Holy Spirit furnishes in our hearts is a disregarding disposition to the enemy. It shows we know the place of the enemy, how far we know He is from us and we are willing to constantly remind him of where he is ranked in the scheme of things - under our feet.

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