It's Your Move by Kenneth Hagin Jr

Author:Kenneth Hagin Jr.
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-03T16:45:21+00:00

Chapter 4

Position Yourself to Win

The attitude Jonathan portrayed in First Samuel 14 is the attitude some of you need to get hold of. Get up and do something with the authority God has given you in His Word. Get with it! And I'll tell you what! When you get up and get into action, you'll open the channels for God to begin to move.

That's what happened when Jonathan advanced toward the enemy with faith in God. God moved and gave Israel the victory. But as long as the Israelites were sitting down with tears running down their cheeks and their chins slumped to their chests, crying, "It's no use! We're going to die!" then God had nothing to work with!

The same thing is true in your Christian walk today In First Corinthians 10:11, the Apostle Paul said that what happened to the children of Israel happened as examples for us.

You see, the Israelites' possession of the Promised Land was a type of our Christian walk and our possession of what belongs to us in Christ. The Israelites had to continually fight to keep what was theirs because the enemy kept coming in and trying to take it from them.

The same thing happens to you spiritually. Your enemy, the devil, will try to take from you the blessings God has for you.

Just like King Saul, you can sit down under the pomegranate tree and say, "Oh, Lord, please deliver me."

But you will be praying a prayer that is unanswerable, because God has already delivered you. Or you can say, "Lord, I'm in a tough situation. The enemy has me hemmed in on every side, but I'm going to rise up with confidence in You, believing that Your Word is going to set me free!"

In order to move out of defeat to appropriate victory, you're going to have to take bold action and exercise confident faith. However, you can't exercise confident faith until you know God's will.

You Must Know God's Will—His Word

It doesn't matter how bold your action or how confident you seem, if you don't know what the will of God is, you're still in a mess. So get in the Word and find out what the will of God is. Ask God to reveal which way you should go and what you need to do.

God has said certain things in His Word, so you know that's His will. But sometimes you don't know exactly how you're going to take the victory—how you're going to move out of defeat to appropriate the victory He has given you.

1 SAMUEL 14:8-10

8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men, and we will discover ourselves unto them.

9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.

10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up: for the Lord hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign unto us.

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