You Are Built to Succeed : (Colossians 3:1-3) : Daily Devotion and Prayer

📔 Daily DevotionIn this episode of "Warfare Prayers," Pastor Derrick Crosby offers encouragement and biblical insight for those facing life’s challenges. Emphasizing Colossians 3, the message focuses on keeping a heavenly perspective, daily devotion, prayer guidance, and viewing suffering as a path to spiritual growth and spiritual warfare. Listeners are reminded through daily scripture that they are equipped by God to endure hardships, and that trials are temporary. The episode concludes with a prayer for renewal, strength, and supportive community, reinforcing the central theme: with God’s help, believers are built to overcome any challenge they face.📖 Today's ScriptureColossians 3:1-3 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 & Theme: Built for This (00:00:00)**  Affirms that listeners are divinely equipped to handle life's challenges through spiritual strength and God's provision.**Focus on Heavenly Things (00:01:35)**  Urges listeners to prioritize heavenly perspectives over earthly distractions for true spiritual progress.**Dying to Self & Ongoing Surrender (00:02:58)**  Highlights the necessity of both initial and continual surrender to God for ongoing spiritual growth.**Suffering, Weakness, and Spiritual Power (00:04:20)**  Explains that suffering and weakness are opportunities for God's power to be revealed in our lives.**Decreasing Self, Increasing Spirit (00:05:45)**  Encourages embracing hardship as a means for self to decrease and the Holy Spirit to increase within us.**Prayer for Renewal & Endurance (00:07:14)**  Offers a prayer for mental renewal, accountability, endurance through suffering, and a life devoted to God.🛡 Spiritual Warfare Resources https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbL9sqcPLOrmzG0c91Igb6wWarfare Prayers WebsiteTranscriptionWelcome 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.I want you to know today that you are indeed built for everything that you're facing in life in this season. If God brought you to it, he's going to bring you through it. You are already built for it. It simply means that God has already placed all of the spiritual components and all of the ingredients that you need to get through this season of your life. You're going to get through it because you're built for it. But it's a few things you got to recognize, realize, and that you must do. Because our scripture is based in Colossians three two. And the Bible says to set your mind on things above and not on things of the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. So to activate the Holy Spirit in your life, to really move and set everything in motion to keep moving forward, you got to realize that your focus activates everything.You have to make sure brothers and sisters through every day that your focus, your value, is in heavenly things and not on earthly things. Yes, we are in the world, but we're not to be of the world because we are from another kingdom, and our kingdom is the Kingdom of God. So you realize that your focus activates everything in motion. Your focus is to be heavenly and not earthly. But then our lesson And in our daily prayer for today takes us into our second point. And our daily prayer is the number two. Realize you died with Christ. The Bible says, for you died. It is to realize that you are dead to the things of the world at the moment of salvation. At the moment you accepted Christ into your heart. You died to sin and its power in your life. And here's what's important. You must keep dying to see God's power. See it? Salvation. You died once that was to be saved to be a child. But as you live in this flesh, you have to continue to crucify the flesh.That is why in Colossians three verse five, Paul says, therefore put to death your members, which are on the earth fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desires, covetousness, which is idolatry. So he's talking to some believers who had not quite put away these things. And so Paul is telling them, you died and your life is hidden in Christ. Therefore put to death. He's calling them to suffer. See, there has to be a death before there's a resurrection. You got to suffer. There has to be suffering before there is a celebration. Sometimes there's a breakdown before there's a breakthrough in your life. This is why John the Baptist said I must decrease and he must increase and understand that the fire of the Holy Spirit. It works in your suffering seasons. It works in your night seasons. This is why Paul asked God to take the thorns away. And the spirit said, my grace is sufficient, for my power works best for you in weakness. This? Yes, night seasons have an end.That's why, he says weeping may endure for a night. But joy comes in the morning. You may be in a night season in your life right now, but I want you to be encouraged that your story doesn't end in the night. The night season is temporary. Death season is temporary. The suffering season is temporary. The breakdown is only temporary. There's a reward coming for your pain. There's going to be double for your trouble. How can I say this confidently? Because God keeps his word. He is faithful. He brought you to this point in your life because you are already built for it. See, the enemy wants to plant voices in your mind that you're not strong enough. You're not wise enough. You're not experienced enough. You're not smart enough. No. Those are the thoughts of the enemy. God has put everything in you that's needed to handle what you're going through today, or you wouldn't be facing it. So I want you to realize that you are built for this. But you have to decrease so that the spirit can keep increasing in your life.Remember, you're built for this, but you're also called to suffer because it's in suffering that the power of the Holy Spirit gets to manifest. Just like gas is to a fire. This is what suffering is to the Holy Spirit. As you decrease, as you decide to pick up your cross and carry it daily, the Holy Spirit will begin to light in you more and more and more. And this is where you have the joy of the Lord. This is where you experience his fulfillment, his strength, his power in your life. You're built for this. But be ready to suffer. You must decrease before he increases in your life. Let us pray. Father, we thank you for your presence. Your grace, your goodness, your mercy and your love. And father, we pray right now that you would renew and restore our minds. That we may die to ourselves and that we may live for you today. We pray today, father, that you would remove the people that shouldn't be in our lives, that only serve as a distraction.And we pray that you would send brothers and sisters our way, would hold us accountable. Who would encourage us? Who would lead and guide us into your word, who would be a blessing and not a of course. Who would be of light and not of darkness? Father, activate your grace in our lives today, that we may live for you. And we pray that you would give us power to endure the night seasons of our lives, the suffering seasons, and help us to fix our eyes on you. For you are the author and finisher of our faith, and we will trust in you today that all of your promises are yes and Amen. Empower me today, father, to die to myself. That I might live for you because I am built for this. In Jesus name, Amen.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/warfare-prayers-podcast-daily-prayer-devotionals-deliverance-daily-scripture-spiritual-warfare--5866282/support.