Our reading: Judges 6:11-27
It is very easy to interact and to identify yourself your weaknesses and wrong identities that people and the enemy gives you, than to interact and identity your true self with your strength and your true identity in Christ Jesus.
Many people are trapped in a verge of interacting and idenfying themselves with their weaknesses than to identify themselves with their strength and identity.
When I was a child till the age of 15 years I had a weakness of stammering, slow in speech and had the fear of unknown gripping so deep to my soul.
I would see creature and demons, that led me to not eat a chicken, fish or anything with the head because I thought it will bite with or eat me when it enters through my body.
I was antisocial, quiet, short-tempered, sorrow and had a strong low Self-esteem.
The enemy and demons they gripped to my natural personality and controlled my temperaments in a wrong way.
It is impossible to defeat the enemy when you spend your time interacting with your weaknesses, more than with your strength, because the enemy uses you weaknesses to stop you, to trap you, to kill you, to rob from you.
When God was revealing my calling to do the work of Ministry, how impossible that was to my sight? Looking to how opposite I lived and saw myself, that a was a far thing to happen, as east and the west can not meet, so was I with my strength and my true identity with Christ.
Look at Gideon when the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said the Lord is with you mighty man of valor.
And the assignment he received to go and save Isreal? His response was and opposite of what and how God knew him.
Gideon he interacted more with his weakness and least identity than with how God knew him and identified him.
99.9% of how many people know themselves, is not how God knows them.
The jobs they do, the titles they carry, the names they are called, the functions and operation they carry, the places they would like to be, is always an opposite of what God created them to be.
Gideon The mighty man of valor turned into the mighty man of fear.
Peter the man who was to serve and to die for Christ sake the enemy turned him to person that denied Christ.
Paul the apostle of Christ persecuted the church when he was to defend and save the church.
John the Baptist waited for the messiah to rescue him when he carried the double portion of the spirit of Elijah.
Intercessors are going around from churches to churches looking for people to pray for them, when they were created to stand in the gaps.
People’s Destiny helpers are turned into beggers when they were created to be sponsors of the kingdom.
Joseph in the bible was created and ordained by God to interpret dreams but instead he sought for an interpretation from men and ended up in prison, however it was by interpretation that he was promoted and came out of bondage.
The enemy always make people an opposite of what they are, to stop them from functioning.
Preacher are turned into gossiper and liars when they are to preach the gospel of truth.
Wife who are to be examples and teachers of the fellow house wife how to be a praying wife or to be a woman with a purpose are turned into prostitutes.
People who are to be security men in the community are turned into thieves and armed robbers.
People ordained with authority to bless like balam are turned to sorcerer, divination, cursing and tie lives.
Watchmen are turned into slumbers they sleep night watch hours.
Antichrist, false prophets, false teacher, false apostles are in the field destroying souls when, the true ones are in bondage of disobeying and struggling with their callings and acceptance.
Manager turned to maids
Accounts turned into a bar attendant.
How has the enemy tuned you into an opposite of what God created you to be?
How has the enemy turned your loved ones and family into an opposite.
It is time to break the strongholds, the bondage, the shell and walk in the very identity of which God had called you into.
Claim your right purpose to identity, vision, calling, function etc into being.
Note this: the least are highly considered but the strong and great are least considered, you can withdraw your strength from your weaknesses, because the opposite of what you suffer daily is the strength to overcome the enemy.
ACTIVATE
Stop interacting with your weaknesses and start to identify yourself with God’s image, likeness, dominion, authority, grace, strength and power.
Look into your weaknesses to withdraw your strength.
If you have hard times to know who you are, the easiest way is to look into your weaknesses and look for the opposite of your weaknesses.
For example, drug addictions were created to set free or liberate people from drugs and it’s addictions, so the enemy used their strength and turned it into a weakness, so they may not set free the captive.
Do you face rejection? Your weaknesses are to seek acceptance from people when you can’t accept yourself. You don’t accept what God has made, you seek for completeness and wholeness from people, and that why you are rejected, but your opposite is to love yourself the love others as you love yourself, that attracts them to love you back, because they don’t sense rejection from you.
You are created to liberate men from self rejection and the rejection of men.
Do you face depression and frustrations? Your weaknesses are you are led by emotions, you easily meditate on what is done or see with your emotions, you are too expectant from individuals and other people. You are led by expectations than purpose.
You spend to much listening to the people than to the Holy Spirit.
Your strength is to be led by purpose and by the Spirit of God.
You were created to liberty people from unworthlessness into the true values of life.
Are you dealing with a low self-esteem, your weakness is lack confidence, lack of trusting yourself and lack of reading scriptures so could learn to identify yourself with God.