Hidden Joy in a Dark Corner by Wendy Blight

Author:Wendy Blight [Blight, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-57567-318-9
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Published: 2009-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

I had a weapon, and I knew I had to wield it!

It all began to make sense. After years of prayer, months of Bible study and personal quiet time with God, I realized that Satan was at the root of my fear. I had allowed his spirit of fear to fall upon me, and it controlled every part of my being. Satan saw me as a victim and began working on me the moment my rapist walked out the door. At every opportunity, Satan fired. I turned off the television the moment an announcer warned of a rapist loose in our city or the night a CSI episode involved a serial rapist. These were not coincidences. Satan knew I was trying to free myself from the prison of fear in which he held me, and he did everything within his power to keep me there. When Monty traveled, sounds I had never heard before emanated from my house, or the alarm would go off in the middle of the night for some unknown reason. Satan took every opportunity to return me to a place of vulnerability and weakness. He knew fear paralyzed me and left me ineffective as a wife, as a mother, and as a friend. Even more significant and most pleasing to him, I was ineffective for God.

In the early years following my attack, I was unaware that fear was Satan’s work or that I had weapons to fight him. As I studied God’s Word, I learned that I had not only weapons but also an arsenal at my disposal. Scripture tells me my greatest weapon is the armor of God. In Ephesians 6, God calls us to put on His armor daily so that when Satan’s evil forces strike, we will be able to stand against them. With God’s armor, we are ready for the battle. “Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests” (Ephesians 6:14–18).

Where was my battle taking place? In my mind. A spirit of fear had taken over, and the only way I was going to win was to fight using God’s armor. Specifically, I am going to focus on one particular weapon, the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. To defeat Satan you MUST stand on the Truth of God’s Word. By now, I had been studying God’s Word for years. Much of what I had studied was used by God to do a tremendous work to this point. Yet, despite more than a decade of asking God to take away my fear, I was still afraid.

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