Battle Preparations

Have you ever sat there and just been like "I don't know what God is doing, but there is something huge in the works?" That is the feeling that I have been getting for a few weeks or so now. My daily devotions have been consistently echoing the same idea. That idea is one of personal challenge and testing of faith for me.

I've only in the past few years learned that there is something called spiritual warfare. Even after I had first heard of it, I was certain that it was something not intended for me to deal with. That it was something intended for the much more spiritually mature than I was. Except lately it has been coming up in my devotions much more often than I am comfortable with.

Another topic that keeps coming up is prophecy. This is another topic which is relatively new to me. I have started to test what I was taught as a child about prophecy, especially modern day prophecy, and have found it to be incorrect. But this means that I am quickly learning about it, and finding myself encountering it in my life in a rather unsettling way.

A third topic that has been coming up a lot is the giftings that God has blessed me with, and the calling for my life that best uses these. While I'm comfortable with the idea of teaching from a textbook a traditional academic subject, I'm not that comfortable with teaching from my own experiences. But this is the direction God seems to be taking me.

I feel like He is telling me that it is time to make sure that all of the preparations He is leading me to make are in order, because the time until I truly enter the spiritual war that is going on is very near.
I feel like He is telling me that I'm going to be using my story to help others a lot more and very soon. There is a lot that He is leading me toward, and I have to pay attention to what it is that He wants in order for me to reach the point where He wants me to be.

I know that because I intend to follow where God is leading, I am going to be forced to face any and all tactics of the devil wanting to lure me back to who I used to be. But I know that through God, I will be able to stand strong and fight the battles I need to fight, because God has already won them.

I feel like Satan has realized that just tempting me isn't working, because I have so many who will stand strong around me and with me, that he must go out and hunt those whom I love but are not following God. My brother was in what could have easily been a very serious accident, but thankfully walked away. He is sore today,  but otherwise he is fine. The truck, unfortunately, will likely be written off by the insurance company as a total loss.