Many opportunities are presented to us on a daily basis to give up. However, God’s plan for us is always to succeed. So when you feel like giving up, use these tools to help you fight the giant of defeat.
COME INTO AGREEMENT WITH GOD’S WORD
When we are faced with overwhelming challenges our thought life goes into overdrive. We can think of every reason why we can’t and why we shouldn’t.
As negative thoughts flood our minds, we begin to agree with them, and then we find ourselves speaking them. Before we know it we have convinced ourselves that what we think is so.
Agreement is a powerful kingdom principle. Jesus told His disciples, “‘If two of you agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven'” (Matt. 18:19).
The Bible tells us that man will have to give account for every idle word he speaks (see Matt. 12:36). That word “idle” is very significant. It means inactive, useless and barren.
Whether we realize it or not, as we speak out words in relation to our situations we are coming into agreement with something or someone. Once the agreement is made a plan is set into motion for success or failure. That’s why it is imperative to know what God has to say about our situations and to come into agreement with Him.
I do not know what you are facing today, but I can promise you that God has something to say about it. I want to encourage you to go to His Word and come into agreement with it.
If, when you do this, the opposition increases, remember that when Jesus was in the wilderness He faced much opposition and discouragement. But the Bible says that as He continued to speak the Word of God, agreement was established, and after a season Satan departed from Him.
There is a dynamic of human nature that is proved time and again; we rise to the level of demand that is placed on us. Difficult circumstances make a demand on us to excel and exceed our limitations. We never know what is in us until we are faced with a demand for greater.
Human nature always chooses the lesser and would settle for simple comfort. But just as the mother eagle stirs her nest to nudge the eaglets into flight, God allows and uses our difficulties to teach us how to fly.
We all face moments when we want to give up. As believers we must be willing to face these moments with courage, faith and utmost trust in God’s ability to bring us to victory.
Shirley Arnold is pastor, along with her husband, Steve, of TLC Family Church in Lakeland, Florida. They have also established The Spirit Life School of Theology, The Secret Place Associated Network of Ministries and The Secret Place Training Facility. She is the author of several books and ministers in churches and conferences around the world.
