I went to sleep last night awakened by the Lord writing something on my heart.

 

There was a season-a long one- where I came into agreement with the enemy. I believed that it was “Gods will” for me to lose relationships, a ministry, my ability to trust people, and even a clear view of my calling. In my heart I felt I just needed to surrender to the losses. So I operated in this mindset for almost 5 years.

 

About a year and a half ago, I was walking with the Lord and in my best “Christian wording” was laying down my heart regarding the hard season.

 

Suddenly I heard the Lord say, “Shelly, stop imputing to me what I did not do. The enemy came to steal, kill, and destroy. That is who is to blame.”

 

This caused me to weep because I realized I blamed myself and to a measure the Lord. It must have grieved Him so much to watch me struggle through it all in those long years.

 

I realized in that moment I had to position myself in prayer differently. I began to demand the enemy to release everything that he took from me in that season. I realized how often Christ is waiting for us to rise up and contend for what is rightfully ours. Very often, we sink into a twisting of the scripture by the enemy and lay down and “just take it.”

 

Slowly, I began to see Christ recover the smallest of things that I felt I lost in that horrendous season. He is still recovering my stolen property today…but He is delivering with it a beautiful plunder of war.

 

Something broke off of me in that moment when I declared to the enemy I was breaking up with him and no longer in agreement with his lies.

 

Now…. my mission with Christ is one of a different perspective. My stake is in the ground and we have launched an all out assault on the Kingdom of darkness. I am on to him. I intend on making him wish he had not bothered.

 

You will have to come to the point where you are angry enough to pursue him like Benaniah pursued the lion into a snowy pit. Stand in an offensive position rather than a defensive one.

 

Be careful to not do what I did. Very often you will have to fight for your promised land. Just like in the scriptures, just because it’s yours doesn’t mean you won’t have to uproot the giants in the land.

 

He is faithful to recover ALL just like He did for King David.

 

The enemy’s time is running out. Let us rise and fight.