Battle

How lovely, how beautiful, are Your mercies every morning sweet Lord! I dwell in Your presence and bask in Your Light. Your healing clothes me and purifies the broken in me. I behold Your glory and am lifted up out of the miry clay.

The fowler’s snare easily captures my feet and I fall, entangled in a mass of rope and chains. My face smeared with tears; my knees skinned and raw; my feet are caked in the mud of despair at my flawed nature. That nature that rears up proudly, flaunting her independence, flirting with the enemy and then too late, awakens to the trap.

Oh Father! Forgive me! Cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Thank You for the blood of Jesus that covers all my sin.

” For what I am doing, I do not understand. For I am not practicing what I would like to do, but the very thing I hate.” Romans 7:15

He hears and comes near. He wipes my tears and lifts me up. His arms come round about my hunched shoulders and we walk in the cool of the morning. The night is closed. The torment of the sneering enemy, accusing me of my mistakes, of careless words and crooked steps, disappears in the Light of my Savior. He paid the price and offers me continual grace and a new name.

No longer is my name ‘shame’. No longer am I called ‘foolish’. Wearing the heavy cloak of darkness is not for me again. For my name is ‘beautiful’. My name is ‘grace’. My name is ‘holy’. I am clothed in His ‘righteousness’.

I rise up and take up the helmet of salvation to protect my thoughts. I wear His righteousness as a breastplate, covering my heart. I hold the sword of the Spirit in my right hand and the shield of faith in the other.The fiery darts of the enemy are extinguished with this great faith. My loins, the generations to come, are girded with Truth. I share this wisdom with the hungry little ones around me. My feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. Everywhere I walk I carry peace!

We all, with our stories of defeat and with victory, overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony!

“There is, therefore, now, no condemnation for them that are in Christ Jesus.For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death.” Romans 8:1