Thankful Thursday: Thankful That God Has Won The Victory

It's Thankful Thursday.  I had to sit and think about what I should write today. Not that there aren't many things to be thankful for, but what has the Lord been trying to teach me this week.  Friends, there's a battle being waged against me--against my family?--a spiritual battle.  How do I know?  Well, I see God at work in and through us--God's opened up opportunities for us to serve and disciple, and He's showing us our sin, and placing within a yearning for more obedience, more submission to His will--but I also am experiencing an unusual amount and kind of temptation or oppression.

All week my dreams have been disturbing.  On the internet, inappropriate photos came to my eyes in places where I wasn't expecting them, and our filter didn't prevent them.  I've been feeling it was difficult to do what was the norm for me (and tempted to throw off disciplined living), and it was an uphill fight to keep on keeping on, to think and do what I knew the Lord wanted all week. I did, but feeling a weight pushing against me.  I have been crying out to the Lord, and asking Him to bind and rebuke satan and his emissaries all week, in the Name and by the power that raised Jesus from the dead. 

So, how does this relate to Thankful Thursday, you ask? Well, I am so thankful that Jesus Christ has won the victory!! I am so grateful that the war has already been decided and I'm on the winning side!  These are satan's last ditch efforts at a losing battle.

There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man:  but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

(1 Corinthians 10:13)

But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

(1 Corinthians 15:57)

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.

(1 John 5:4)

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

(1 John 4:4)

I would be remiss if I didn't also say how thankful I am for you, dear friends and brothers and sisters in Christ, who pray for me.  Your prayers are powerful in taking down strongholds.  And your friendship is very precious to me. 


To participate and read other thankful thoughts, visit Lynn, at Spiritually Unequal Marriage. Thanks, Lynn, so much for hosting this month!