Breaking Through Resistance
If you are like myself you start things that you don't always finish. Being in a complex culture with all it's distractions, it's easy to lose focus and change passions.
To see a work through it takes discipline and endurance, being stedfast and unmovable which takes being in continual prayer. I am easily moved from one project to the next because of not being in the counsel of the Lord. God is faithful, what He has started He promises to complete. John 15 describes the Lord as the gardener, we must allow Him to dictate what He plants and what He prunes away. When we neglect prayer weeds grow and choke what has grown to the point of death. For a plant to grow so it can produce fruit, daily nourishment is required. All God's works are for the purpose of harvest we must not settle for less, or we have failed, and our God is not a failure.
We are working to build God's Kingdom while the enemy is working to tear it down. There is a spiritual battle raging that can only be won in the spirit through consistent prayer. The enemy is not going to just lay down and let us walk over him, it is a fight, when we pray with faith not wavering we break through resistance. The culture dictates our actions when we are under it's cloud, we must daily wait upon the Lord, renewing our strength, maintaining a heavenly perspective, or we will be persuaded by the spirits of the world to operate as it does.
So at is says in Luke 18:1 "men always ought to pray and not lose heart."
We lose heart when things don't develop as originally planned. America is the land of instant gratification, we expect to get what we want when we want it. Well the bible does say ask and you shall receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened. It also says we have not because we ask not or we are asking with the wrong motive. So first of all what we are asking has to be aligned with His will, then we must keep asking as we see through the parable of the persistent widow in Luke 18:2-7, until we have what was promised. The parable gave the example that if a judge who does not fear God responds to the continual cry of the widow how much more will God respond to us who cry night and day. Our faithfulness to prayer will determine whether a work is processed to completion or aborted along the way.
When we know our prayers are according to God's will then we know we don't have to persuade Him, for His spirit led us what to pray, therefore it is will to answer our prayer. Each time we approach God by faith we pull answered prayer nearer. Why the delay? Spiritual warfare! The enemy counters our prayers with opposition we break through the opposition by continual prayer. If we waver in faith then the wall between prayer being answered thickens. Our confession will determine our profession, what we speak is what we will have.
So I have learned that when God gives me an assignment I must continue to lift it before Him or opposition will prevail, and what was started won't be completed. Now what God starts He does continually change, things don't remain the same, as we grow, His assignments for us grow along with it. So to expect a work to look the same year after year is not God. The ball never drops when we place it in His hands and remain the vessel He carries it with. So the form of His work may change but He never leaves something that He started incomplete.
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