Spiritual Warfare: When Life Gets Hard After Baptism

No one told me this! Life was hard before, but why now after I was baptized. Spiritual warfare is hard.

Deeper in debt than ever.

Broke is an understatement.

Relationships are chaotic.

Family member passed away.

Marriage is in turmoil.

Shocked by infidelity.

Owe the IRS.

Medical bills. 

Children out of control.

House is a disaster.

Past is haunting the present.

Why spiritual warfare makes life harder.

I’m moving forward with a new me, new life, fiery darts shred through from a gazillion directions.

Why God?

What do you want from me God? 

I don’t know what else to do God?

I thought my life would be better with you God.

Spiritual warfare is real.

New mindset means spiritual warfare will increase.

Truthfully, when the decision to stand firm on the promises of the Lord is settled, life will explode. Not gonna lie. Spiritual warfare is real. Please ask me how I know.

After years of giving the devil exactly what he wanted with self destructive behavior, depression, and recklessness, he will want you back.

Being a disciple of Jesus isn’t easy, it’s worth it and hardships build faith. I know, without a doubt, it’s possible. The Lord has promised to never leave nor forsake us and that’s a promise that cannot be broken.

But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven. He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Listen to this video again and again until faith rises and the spirit stirs with power. Stand with a determined purpose to know Him more through the storm!

Below are the words to read. The video is a powerful reminder that God never stops fighting and neither should we. 

You are more than a conqueror, child of God.

There comes a time in every life when quittin’ looks good.

There comes a time in every job, in every marriage, when quittin’ looks good.

When problems seem insurmountable. 

When the giants seem unbeatable.

When the mountain seems unmovable.

When defeat seems absolutely inescapable, retreat seems like your only logical option.

I want you to remember it is always too soon to quit. 

Say that with me. 

It is always too soon to quit.

Christopher Marley said and I quote. “Someone who is a big shot, is only a little shot who kept on shooting.”

Persistence is a fire in your bones that will carry you through ridicule, will carry you through rejection and reversal. 

Persistence does not need public approval.

Persistence does not need a slap on the back.

Persistence couldn’t care less about being politically correct. 

Persistence says, in faith, mountain get out of my way.

Persistence says nothing is impossible to those that believe.

Persistence says if God be for you who can be against you.

Persistence says victory is ours through Christ the Lord.

Persistence says faith is the victory that overcomes the world.

Persistence says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

Persistence looks at 10,000 coming against you from every direction as King David, and says, though a host should encamp against me let God arise and let His enemies be scattered.

You’re looking at the winner here.

Hallelujah to the lamb of God.

Give him praise and glory in the house.

Quit living life looking in the rear-view mirror.

Quit looking at the mistakes of yesterday and say it prohibits me from being all I can be today.

Every page in this book says press on. Endure. Fight back. Win.

For greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.

Fight back. You’re a child of God.

The royal blood of heaven is flowing in your veins.

God does not sponsor flops and He does not manufacture junk.

You are a child of the most-high God.

You are going to stand in the winner’s circle.

You are not going to be the victim, you’re going to be the victor because Christ is us Lord over your situation, only believe all things are possible for you.

Never give up, never! Never never, never, never give up, stay at it.

If you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on! 

If you get whipped, go home and lick your wounds and come out the next day. And fight to win again.

This book says nothing is impossible to you.

If you Believe that, that one verse will transform your mind and your life.

This book says, greater is He, meaning the Holy Spirit that is in you, than he that is within the world.

This book says, if God be for us who can be against us.

This book says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me

This book says, let us not be weary in well doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.

That means press on, that means endure, that means God cannot not fail and you’re not going to give up, that’s not an option for a child of God.

This means you are going to be the winner.

Listen to this and write it down if you can’t remember it.  

You’re never going to outgrow warfare. You simply must learn to fight.

I hear people saying to me all day “when is it going to get easier”?

When you die!

Spiritual Warfare, is a normal new testament Christian posture. Get used to it.

-Pastor John Hagee