Accepted in the Beloved

April 6, 2000

EXPOSING THE ENEMY

There is an attack that has started to be launch out against the people of
God. This will come in a very similar manner to the attack against Elijah
from Jezebel after the Mount Carmel victory. (1 King 19:2-3)

Many of God's people has passed through many spiritual battles covering all
front and at this point, God has given us an assurance of His victory in our
heart and
spirit. Yet many of His people are still waiting for the physical
manifestation of these promises.

As His people continue to press in to the promises of the Lord and as we
prepared to map and claim the inheritance and promise of God by ACTS OF
OBEDIENCE. It will be at these point in time that the attack will be launch.

THE FORM THAT IT WILL TAKE

This attack will come as thoughts patterns questioning our integrity or
motives. The enemy would throw questions to us with the intention of causing
us to focus on our areas of weakness. The enemy would even used words by our
love ones and twist it and  add sarcastic meaning and colors to them with
the intent of making us feel "unappreciated, unloved, unimportant."

The enemy wants to confuse the issue at hand. He is trying to jump ahead of
the Holy Spirit after each of these spiritual  victories and intends to
steal the peace in our hearts  and instead is trying to plant fear and
discouragement by  making us feel  and think that " every act of obedience
we has just done were not of God but were just the product of our own
imagination."

THE WEAPON OF WARFARE

The Lord is reminding us about what Jesus did when He was tempted in the
wilderness. He used the Word of God to silence the voices of the enemy.

We are therefore to dig deep into our hearts and maybe even notes and
journals
and to retrive and  keep handy every prophetic words and impressions that we
have received from the Lord and from others and further fortified these with
the different Rhema promises from the Bible that the Lord has given to us to
claim.

And like Jesus we are to use these are our weapons of warfare and speak
these words back to the enemy to silence him.

THE PAST JOURNEY

The Lord has seen all the battles that His people have been through in the
past. Those were the seasons  of breaking, molding, changing and growing.

THE PRESENT POSITIONING

Like the children of Isreal, we have come out of our dessert and God has
allowed us to stand and see our inheritance from a distance.  It is within
our reach and this season He has already started to led many to step forward
in boldness to start claiming these inheritance.

Some have been called to give up old established ministries  and to moved
forward  to plant and start new ministries by faith.
Some have been called to move and tranfer and effect changes in many areas
which includes work and to some even even actual  changing  of  residences.
Some have been called to exercise physical prophetic actions similar to what
the prophets in the Old Testament were led to do. Jeremiah was ask to buy a
land at the very time when the people are about to be led away into
captivity  (Jeremiah 32:7).

Many of these actions may even look foolish and impractical outwardly but
have great spiritual significance and meaning.

All these are part of God's positioning us to enter and claim the
inheritance that He has prepared for us. Every one of these action and
decision takes a lot of spiritual exercises of faith and trust in the Lord.
And Like Elijah after Mount Carmel, this is where we are most vulnerable.

THE PROMISE OF GOD

The Lord is saying to those who are finding themselves facing these attacks
to stand firm in Him.

FOR WE ARE ACCEPTED IN THE BELOVED.

And His recompense and reward is with Him being readied  to honor His
obedient children. He is preparing a bangueting table in the presence of our
enemies. And His anointing oil is ready to be pour down and we will soon
begin to see our cups overflows. Surely the goodness and love of the Lord
will follow us all the remaining days of our lives and we will be dwelling
in the Presence of the Lord
forever. (Psalm 23:5-6)

He is delighted with the obedience of His people. He will not allow any of
His faithful children to lost or to miss their inheritance and their
blessings. He will make sure that all that He has promised to us will be
fulfilled.

PRAYER OF FAITH

" Father, we thank you for your word to us this day. And we stand in these
promises because we know that they will never fail. Cover your people with
a blanket called  Perfect Love today and hide us from the attacks of the
enemy. Amen!"

In His Service,

Sis. Ching Co
Cebu City
Philippines