THANKSGIVING & STUFFING
(Warfare Secrets)
After Joseph was betrayed he told his malicious brothers: “What you meant for harm God turned for good.”
The Bible says “in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” In everything is not FOR everything. “In” implies that the thing that happened may have had nothing to do with God. Still, God has power “to cause all things to work together for your good.”
By choosing to be thankful in spite of the situation you enthrone God the situation and He works to make the outcome even more glorious. Thus “no weapon formed against you shall prosper.” It does not always mean no weapon can reach you, but rather that God will so work in the situation that the weapon is reversed against the enemy and YOU PROSPER. Thus the weapon of persecution and jail was reversed in Pauls case (and Joseph's) so that the ever praising servant of God takes over the prison and afterward gets released!
The opposite of this is “stuffing.” This is the art of shoving the pain and hurt irons deep pocket that never gets sanitized by thanksgiving and begins to leak like a corrosive emotional battery. Much physical infirmity and sickness is broken and reversed by forgiveness at a later date, but you can beat the infirmity entirely by forgiving quickly and putting yourself under an umbrella of divine intervention by being thankful “in” the situation.
If God be for you, everything the enemy throws at you will be converted to strength and advancement in the purpose of God for your life!
Enjoy the holiday stuffing and avoid the emotional stuffing. Be thankful that you have power to position all of life under the mighty hand of God who promises to work it all together for your good. A good that is greater than the good you would have had had the enemy not attacked.
At times you conquer and the enemy can't get near you, but when he does get near and you do exchange blows you become “more than a conquerer” by both defeating the attack and converting his blows into more territory conquered.
Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equal or greater enlargement of territory to those who refuse to stuff and decide to sing!
Can you see this principle in the characters in the Bible? Or in your own life?
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