You Are Built for Battle: (Colossians 3:1) : Daily Devotion and Prayer

📔 Daily DevotionIn this episode of "Warfare Prayers," Derrick Crosby offers spiritual encouragement for those facing life’s challenges. Drawing from Colossians 3:1-2, Derrick emphasizes the importance of knowing one’s identity in Christ and activating the Holy Spirit’s power through focused faith. Incorporating Daily Prayer, Daily Devotion, and Scriptures, he provides prayer guidance and practical analogies, urging listeners to set their minds on heavenly things, engage in Spiritual Warfare, resist distractions, and trust God’s guidance. The episode concludes with a prayer for strength, direction, and renewed focus, inspiring believers to embrace their God-given power through Bible Study and overcome obstacles with confidence.📖 Today's ScriptureColossians 3:1-3Not Carnality but Christ3 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.💡 Main Takeaways**Introduction to Warfare Prayers Podcast (00:00:00)**  The host welcomes listeners and sets the tone for spiritual encouragement. The podcast aims to provide guidance and strength for overcoming life’s challenges.**Identity in Christ and Spiritual Equipment (00:00:00)**  Listeners are reminded they are spiritually equipped and "built for this" through their identity in Christ. Colossians 3:1-2 is referenced to emphasize focusing on heavenly realities.**Forgetting Identity: The Fireman Analogy (00:01:40)**  A fireman analogy illustrates the risks of forgetting one’s spiritual identity. The segment highlights the importance and power of the Holy Spirit in believers’ lives.**Activating the Spirit Through Focus (00:03:07)**  Activating the Holy Spirit’s power requires intentional focus on spiritual, not worldly, matters. Listeners are encouraged to shift their attention to heavenly things.**The Value of Focus and Earthly vs. Heavenly Mindset (00:04:35)**  What we value determines where we place our focus. The episode urges valuing heavenly things to experience God’s power.**Biblical Examples of Mindset: Israel’s Journey (00:06:03)**  The contrasting mindsets of Moses’ and Joshua’s generations are used to show the impact of a heavenly focus. A heavenly mindset is linked to receiving God’s promises.**Prayer for Focus and Spiritual Strength (00:07:29)**  A prayer is offered for renewed focus, direction, and discipline. The host asks for spiritual strength to activate God’s power in listeners’ lives.**Closing Prayer for Renewal and Peace (00:09:01)**  The episode concludes with a prayer for restoration, peace, and a mind fixed on God. Listeners are blessed with encouragement and spiritual renewal.🛡 Spiritual Warfare Resourceshttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbL9sqcPLOrmzG0c91Igb6wWarfare Prayers Website🙌  Call To Action Subscribe To Warfare Prayer Podcast for daily inspiration, devotion and prayer. Share this episode with someone going through trails and challenges Leave a review for Warfare Prayers Podcast. Support Warfare Prayers Here TranscriptionWelcome to warfare prayers. The podcast where you will find guidance and strength for life's toughest battles. Here you'll be inspired and spiritually grounded through my daily devotions, discovering the power of deliverance and peace that comes from God's Word. In our daily prayer today. I want you to know that you are built for this. I want to plant in your mind, soul and spirit, and I want you to be grounded in this truth that whatever God has brought you to, it means that you already have the ingredients, the components within your spirit that's needed to get through it. You are built for this. My scripture today comes from Colossians three and one. The Bible says, if then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. This particular scripture is all about our identity in Christ. You have an identity, and identity means that you are already equipped with everything that's needed for what you are facing today in life.You are built for it. But some of us, we fall victim to not knowing what our identity is. It is like a fireman coming to a fire scene, and he has on a fire jacket, and he has a water hose in his hands, but he gets afraid of the fire. He fails to even use or utilize his equipment because he forgets his identity. He forgets that he is a fireman and he was trained. He was built to put out fire. He has the equipment and everything that's needed to solve the problem. I want you to know, today, in this daily prayer, that you've been equipped with everything you need to get victory today. Simply because you have this one. Two. If you're saved and you know Jesus Christ, you have the Holy Spirit. And because you have the spirit living on the inside of you, no weapon formed against you today will not be able to prosper. You are built for this. The Bible says this, that he will do exceedingly and abundantly above what you may ask, or what you may think.That simply means God is ready and God is able to do the impossible in your life. But he says it's according to the power that works in you. What is this power that works in us? It is the power of the spirit. But in order for the spirit to work, you need to activate the spirit to work. Well, how do I activate the spirit to work in my life? How do I activate the spirit for breakthroughs? For miracles? How do I activate the spirit to see the hand of God moving in my life? Well, the Bible says in Colossians three it says, if then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is sitting at the right hand of God. The Bible says, set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. So in order to activate the Holy Spirit, you got to realize your focus activates everything in motion in your life. It is your focus that activates everything in motion. For the hand of God to move. So I ask you today, where is your focus? See, the lust of the eyes is all about what you value. Okay. A toddler will value toys. They light up when they see toys. As an adult, you may value your job or promotion. The world values money. They light up for money. But see, you cannot activate God's power until you value heavenly things more than you value earthly things. This is why the Bible says in verse two, I just read it. Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth. Because your focus activates God's power into motion. This is why the Bible says in Hebrews 12 one and two. Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. These are earthly things. Then it says, let us run with perseverance the race set before us. And then here it is. Fixing our eyes on Jesus. Your focus. The author and finisher of our faith. My question for you today, brothers and sisters, as you start out your journey. Do you value heavenly things enough to focus on Jesus? See the reason the children of Israel, an entire generation didn't make it to the Promised Land. That was Moses generation, and Joshua's generation made it to the Promised Land was all about a heavenly mindset. See Moses generation, everyone but Caleb and Joshua. The entire generation had an earthly mindset. All they thought about was Egypt. They complained about the water. They complained about the food coming down from heaven. They complained about everything. They had an earthly mindset. And that mindset delayed the promises of God in their life. And that mindset actually closed off the promises of God in their life. But Caleb and Joshua, the 12 spies went to spy out the land in Canaan, and Caleb and Joshua came back and said, we can take it. They had a heavenly mindset. They believed not in man's earthly ability, but they believed in God's ability. Who sits in heaven? And they were the only two from that generation to enter into the Promised Land. See, your focus activates everything in motion. Do you have an earthly mindset or do you have a heavenly mindset? The Bible says in verse two again, Colossians three verse two. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. Your focus activates everything into motion. Let us pray for your focus.Let us pray for your direction today. Let us pray that the Holy Spirit would have his way in your life. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus. Lord, we thank you for the daily scripture that leads and guides us into all truth. Thank you, father, for teaching us through the word that our eyes must stay fixed on you, father. So we pray today that your Holy Spirit would lead and guide us into all truth, that you would set the path before us. And we pray, father, that you would give us strength to resist every temptation ......