Category: Destiny

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Understanding where the battle is won or lost

One thing we need to do that David recognized, something that every other soldier on the battlefield that day had missed is that the battle that was going on was not just a physical battle but also that it was also a spiritual battle between the people of God and their enemies. The soldiers showed up for king and country, David showed up for God and His divine Kingdom. A different mindset and faithset.

The armies Israel were under the Mosaic Covenant  so when an enemy came against Israel, that enemy came against God Himself. David knew what it meant to be in a covenant with God. David knew that  God is a God of justice, a God who is faithful to fulfil His promises and that if we want success we need to rely on our connection to God and our status as His people. Continue reading “Understanding where the battle is won or lost”

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Possessing the Kingdom – ‘just show up’

David is famous for his defeat of the giant Goliath. In the space of one day, he went from unknown shepherd boy to nationally renowned war hero. Just like that, unexpectedly, his life changed. Until this event David is that he was just like the rest of us—an average person living an average life. He had not spent years in the war academy of Israel, training as an elite warrior. He was just a normal person showing up for normal life, and one day normal life brought him an extraordinary opportunity.

Yet, we would be wrong if we thought David’s lack of military training meant he had no training at all. Normal life was, in fact, the training ground that uniquely prepared David to take down a giant no one else could. As the youngest son, David had received an unimportant job—watching over the sheep. It was a job with very little potential for promotion. Though David could have resented this assignment, it seems he instead embraced it patiently and gave it his all. In other words, he learned to serve, and he learned to be faithful with the mundane and inglorious tasks of life. Continue reading “Possessing the Kingdom – ‘just show up’”

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An ultimate goal

There is a difference between immediate and ultimate goals. Success with an immediate goal makes it possible to reach an ultimate goal. But failure in the immediate prevents us from reaching our final goal.

Bowlers know this. Each lane not only has ten pins at the far end, it also has markers on the lane itself. A good bowler knows how his or her ball rotates as it is released from a hand. Bowlers will aim at a marker in the lane as an initial target. Yet they receive no points for hitting it. Points are only given when the ultimate target is hit—the pins at the end of the lane. Continue reading “An ultimate goal”

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Right Living or Right Believing?

The following is an excerpt from Steve Backlund’s regular blog. Steve and Wendy Backlund head up Igniting Hope Ministries which host a Lent ‘Negativity Fast and Positivity Feast’ go to  ignitinghope.com for information.

Is it more important to preach about right living or right believing? The Old Testament answer was right living, but the New Testament answer is clearly right believing – and right believing actually creates right living: “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2). When we are focused on right living we are focused on our own efforts to “do” righteous. When we are focused on right believing, we place our trust in the finished work of Jesus that He has “made” us righteous.

Abraham, an Old Covenant person, is held up to us as the example of how to live in the New Covenant. “For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the law brings wrath, but where there is no law there is no transgression” (Romans 4:13-15). Continue reading “Right Living or Right Believing?”