Hello, and thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is, Be Encouraged.

These incredibly challenging times, filled with negative reports about what the enemy is doing,

can become a bit overwhelming. Add to that,

the urgency many of us feel to oppose these evils, and if not careful, we can become weary

in our well-doing, Galatians 6.9. One of Satan's primary strategies is to wear down the saints.

That's a quote from Daniel 725. It says he does so in order to alter God's timings and decrees. The Hebrew word used for wear down is only used in scripture to describe mental or emotional

weariness.

It is important that we guard against this.

Keep in mind that the passage in Daniel is about the ancient of days,

the supreme judge of earth, ruling in favor of the saints. The great pastor, teacher, and patriarch Jack Hayford, now in heaven, used the powerful phrase enforcing the victory of Calvary in his teachings on prayer.

In other words, we wore from victory, not for victory.

We do not have to re-defeat the devil.

We enforce his defeat in Christ's name.

We are distributors of power, not generators.

We are in the distribution department of the kingdom, not the

production department. When we keep this in the forefront of our thinking, we can remain

in our rest of faith spoken of in Hebrews 4, 1 through 11.

Remind yourself of these things, as well as the reports of progress being made through our prayers of enforcing Christ's victory.

In one of his recent articles, Larry Tomzak lists several such praise reports. Here are some of them.

Over 30,000 young people came to a fill the stadium event in Oklahoma focused on evangelism

and worship. Over 30,000. Twitter officials censored the

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