EPISODE 692 – SIXTEEN PROJECTILES TO INTERCEPT 9
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Apostle Benjamin Nana Amissah Ansah
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Don’t allow your emotions to lead you.
Your emotion or the deep seat of your desire has been exposed to the corruptibility of the flesh before you got born again.
The flesh has always had its way of governing or influencing the soul of a man. A man’s soul includes the will, the mind and the emotions. For you to express God, your mind must be renewed by the word, your will must submit to God’s will and your emotions must be immersed and trained with the deep desires of God. Selah!
Apostle Bennie
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Sunday, 15th December, 2024
SIXTEEN PROJECTILES TO INTERCEPT 9
“so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs.”
2 Corinthians 2:11(ESV)
The adversary doesn’t stop until he is resisted. Your resistance to the devil is not what brings you victory.
To resist the devil is to enforce the victory that Christ has obtained for you.
Victory is your inheritance in Christ. Your responsibility is to enjoy that victory and not permit any force of darkness to derail you.
The goal of the devil is to disrupt your enjoyment of Christ’s victory for you, by using all his schemes to shipwreck your faith.
I have mentioned Nine (9) of the Sixteen (16) Projectiles of the Devil already in previous episodes. These include:
3. Despair
4. Doubt
5. Disbelief
6. Distraction
8. Deception
9. Dullness
The 10th Deadly Projectile of the devil is:
DEADLINESS.
Most believers don’t think it’s possible they can find themselves in this state. Which is understandable, considering what Christ has achieved for the new creation.
The reality of the Born Again is this:
“that even though we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s grace that you have been saved!)” Ephesians 2:5 (NLT)
The life which the born again received is the New creation life or the Newness of Life. But until the saving grace of Jesus, the man who got saved was dead in sin.
This was also your state. Until you were saved in Christ, you were dead in sin. It was by the grace of God that you have been quickened or made alive in Christ. This was not the quickening of your mind. It was the quickening of your spirit.
When you got born again, the life of God was transfused into your spirit. And by the continuous culturing and nurturing of your mind through the Word of God and the intimacy of the Holy Spirit, you experience transformation through the renewal of your mind.
“Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.” Romans 12:2 (TPT)
The more you experience the renewal of mind the more you experience transformation and inwardly become effective in the things of Christ.
When you are not experiencing a renewal of mind, you will start becoming dull in the things pertaining to Christ.
Instead of growing in the knowledge of Christ and becoming more fervent in spirit, your mind rather imitates the ideals and opinions of the culture around you.
This leads to the deadness of your mind.
The deadness of your mind is to lose interest in the things of Christ. To be dead in the mind is to be saved but think like an unbeliever. These are people who behave like unsaved.
There are some Christians who are not just dull in spirit but dead in their minds. Yes, they are born again; baptised in the Holy Spirit but are carnal.
“For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.” Romans 8:6 (KJV)
Dullness in spirit will always lead to carnality or deadness of mind when not corrected immediately.
When the adversary succeeds at luring you into this phase or state of mind, he doesn’t have to suggest thoughts any more to you. You will oppose the things of God by your own imagination and pride.
At this stage, you will esteem your thoughts above the truth of the scriptures.
The way out of such a state is to decide to humble yourself before the Lord.
If you are in this state where you are governed by your flesh and pride, you must turn to Jesus and submit to the authority of the Word.
Are you beginning to act contrary to the word of God?
Are you losing interest in the things of Christ?
You don’t even see the usefulness of Church meetings?
Are you esteeming the activities of this world above the study of the Word and staying patiently to be taught in Church?
It’s time to make a decision to be yielded and submissive to the instructions of Christ.
Shalom!
DIG DEEPER
(Colossians 3:2; Galatians 6:8; Galatians 5:16-17; Proverbs 14:12; John 6:63; 1 Corinthians 2:14)
WE PRAY
Heavenly Father,
Thank you for the opportunity to grow in your word and be renewed in my mind unto total transformation. I pray that through the training of your word, I will always live in accordance with the revelation of the Newness of life in the name of Jesus.
BIBLE READING IN THE YEAR 2024
Revelation 21 – 22
DECLARE THESE WORDS:
– I am fervent in Spirit.
– My heart is always alive and sensitive to the wisdom of God.
– I refuse to be dominated by the flesh.
– I remain humble at all times to be trained and nurtured by the word.
– My confidence is in the glorious plan of God for my life.
– I live daily above disappointment, discouragement, despair, doubt and unbelief, distraction and double-mindedness, deception, dullness and deadliness.
Thank you Lord Jesus!
I remain humble at all times to be trained and nurtured by the word of God.
Thank you lord Jesus. 😍
God lifts the humble in due season.
Thank You Lord Jesus, I am submissive to the word of God
Hallelujah!!
I am alive in Christ
God bless you all
This is amazing. Today is actually the first time I am understanding why a believer can get carnal, talk in a perverse and resist the church. The same way the word transforms a believer’s mind by making it filled with life and peace. A believer without the transformation of the word grows dull and dull, becomes more carnal minded until his mind becomes dead. I actually thought to be carnally minded is death means to be carnally minded implies the person will die. But there is something worse than dead, it is the deadness of the mind.
Kai!
I choose life and a peaceful mind through the transformative power of God’s word.
I value the word, I value the trainings of the word.
Yes sir..i give my mind to daily washing of the word.
– I remain humble at all times to be trained and nurtured by the word
I will grow in the knowledge of Christ and become more fervent in the spirit 🙏
I take the bold steps
This is so serious to the extent that the devil makes things feel normal but its a great attack against your faith and destinies
Because God doesn’t put fear in us towards his things we tend to take spiritual staffs for granted until the devil triggers an attack then many will be found wanting
Like a prisoner feeling comfy in his cell until the bars are shut.
The saying always goes that seeking too much comfort as a young and energetic man is dangerous you will sleep on a lot of things and crush them and before you realise it things are messed up
If the mercies of God doesn’t speak on your behalf
It is wise to bear the yoke of the word in your youthful energies.
We must pay the price to build ourselves for anything at anytime but not always to be caught off guard by silly situations
Hmm..if the mercy of God doesn’t speak on our behalf?
To resist the devil is to enforce the victory that Christ has obtained for you.
Hallelujah!
So ths solution to deadness of mind is Humility to God word that is
Upholding the Authority of God’s Word
we must make the bold decision of submitting to the instructions of Christ.
Pride is a cancer..it reeks of death stinks..
Even God cannot stand its stinky essence
Believers this is very critical..let us stay away from Pride.
What is even striking is when one yields to deadness of mind..he become carnal, prideful, opposes the word and the punchline is that the devil doesn’t even have to do any work..eeii.
The mind has turned to automated canality..
Lord help us humble ourselves to your perfect will
Victory is my inheritance in Christ
I choose to be submissive to the instructions of the word