CHRIST COMMONWEALTH-COMMUNITY
The Love-Life Agency
EVERY LEADER MUST LEARN TO FIGHT 1
“Afterwards, Jacob went back and spent the rest of the night alone. A man came and fought with Jacob until just before daybreak.”
Genesis 32:24 (CEV)
Every man has the inherent potential to lead in any course they set for themselves. However, the born-again in Christ has the direct call of the Lord into His Kingdom leadership.
The new creation in Christ is made a king and priest (Revelation 1:6, 1 Peter 2:9).
This means every believer is designed and sent to lead in his or her sphere. As mentioned in previous episodes, if you are born again, see yourself as a leader.
To be a leader means you have an assignment to inspire, influence, and direct people toward God’s agenda. Jesus Our Lord calls His disciples (which includes you) as the salt of the earth and the light of the world (Matthew 5:13-16).
Which means you provide guidance, illumination and preservation of destinies. Destinies depend on you.
As a leader, your life is not for your self-gratification but for divine glorification. The more you shine as a light in your sphere, men glorify God because of your impact.
As a leader, your decisions, choices, plans, actions, and results affect the lives of people in your sphere.
Your failure is the failure of many. Your victory gives opportunity to many others to also experience a victorious life.
This doesn’t come by chance. There are many factors which may serve as a resistance or limitation, but you must be daring to exercise your victory.
Thankfully, every born-again operates from the place of victory because of the victory of Christ.
The victory of Jesus doesn’t mean you will not face opposition and resistance.
Paul the apostle referred to Epaphroditus as a brother, fellow worker and a fellow soldier (Philippians 2:25). He told Timothy to endure suffering along with him as a good soldier of Christ (2 Timothy 2:3).
Why would Paul the apostle call you a soldier in Christ if there is nothing to fight for?
During the final days of his ministry, Apostle Paul himself said, “I have fought a good fight” (2 Timothy 4:7).
So, a son of God in Christ, you are also a soldier of Christ.
There is no destiny which is fulfilled without a fight. This fight is not an ordinary fight. It is a fight of faith. The fulfilment of your destiny in Christ is the fulfilment of a purpose which is foreordained by God.
If the adversary can prevent you from fulfilling your purpose, then he has attempted to disrupt a divine plot. And this also affects others whose destinies are connected to yours.
Most believers assume that as long as they have entered the rest of Christ, there is nothing to fight for.
There is a whole lot more to fight for; as believers, we fight from the place of rest or faith:
– to enforce our victory which we have obtained in Christ Jesus.
– to liberate others from the power of darkness and to bring them into the light.
– to cause the glory of God to manifest in our world.
– to ensure that the Lord’s vision is fulfilled in our sphere.
As you can see from the opening verse, Jacob, who has the birthright and the blessing, had to still wrestle to enter the full manifestation of His blessedness as a nation.
It was after he prevailed that he fully matured as a nation (corporate man). Until then, Jacob was just an individual man and a family man. He was not yet Israel, though he was the custodian of the blessings and promise of Abraham and Isaac.
No believer is called by God to live an ordinary life. Every believer is a custodian of a divine vision and mandate.
To expand the scope of your impact, you must learn to prevail. And if you want to prevail, you must learn to fight.
Don’t allow the challenges or limitations of your background to bully you. Don’t bow to the systems of this world. Be a fighter.
Don’t allow anything to reduce you to ordinariness.
You are not ordinary; you are of God. Therefore, don’t live an ordinary life; live as a leading victorious soldier.
David said, “The Lord trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze” (2 Samuel 22:35)
Be a fighter.
Learn to fight!
Learn to prevail.
Glory to God!
2 Chronicles 6-8
2 YEARS PLAN
Numbers 7
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