No
matter how long you’ve been living by faith, no matter how much you’ve
learned about it, every once in a while you’re going to suffer a
setback. You’re going to run into some circumstances that just don’t
turn out the way you expect them to.
When that happens, remember
this: Those setbacks are just temporary. You may have lost a battle, but
you’re not going to lose the war. Just get up and go at it again.
“But
I don’t understand it,” you say. “I did the best I could. I walked in
all the truth I knew to walk in. Why didn’t I get the victory?”
Because
there was something you didn’t know! It shouldn’t shock you too much
that there are things you don’t know about the realm of the spirit. Ken
and I have been in the ministry since 1967. We’ve spent untold hours in
the Word. Yet it seems like the more we learn, the more we realize we
don’t know.
So, when we
get to a situation where we can’t seem to get victory we have to ask
God for more wisdom. If you’ll look in 2 Samuel 21, you can see a time
when King David had to do that. His country had been suffering from a
famine for three years and David just didn’t understand it, so he
inquired of the Lord. You know what the Lord told him? He told him the
famine had come because of something Saul had done! Isn’t that
amazing? Saul had been dead for years, yet what he’d put in motion in
the realm of the spirit was still affecting his country.
David
could have just given up when his usual confessions of faith and ways
of praying didn’t drive out that famine, but he didn’t. He inquired of
God for more wisdom. He used his temporary setback to cause him to seek
more knowledge from God.
Follow
his example! Overcome the habit of quitting because of temporary
setbacks. Refuse to let them knock you out of the game. After all, this
thing’s not over till it’s over. And the Bible says when it’s all over,
you’ll have won. So just be steadfast in your faith. In the end your
victory is guaranteed.
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