Tonight was truly unexplainable.
Tonight was reviving and healing and glorious and the student body left Campus Community filled with the Spirit and lives utterly changed.
We left on a spiritual high- not saying that's not okay because I needed healing tonight as much as the next person- but what happens tomorrow?
What happens when we get back to our dorms and get a bad phone call from home or wake up the next morning with temptation and fear staring us in the face waiting for us to crawl back into what we were just set free from?
What happens then?
What's the aftermath of being on a high?
War
Yes I said war. As soon as we began to walk away from the events of tonight, Satan was already planning ways to hit us where it hurts and bring us right back down. The enemy is going to put the wrong people in your path and create seemingly unbearable circumstances to make you question the healing you experienced tonight. (I'm preaching this to myself as well.)
So how do we combat that?
How is our flesh supposed to fight back?
Well it's actually an easy and shocking answer:
WE DONT FIGHT
What the heck? Why not? Is the enemy just going to walk all over me?
The answer to that is yes- if you let him.
The solution to war is not fight because God is fighting for us. God has already won every battle we're going through. He fights for us daily but the great thing to REST in is that JESUS PAID FOR ALL OF IT ON THE CROSS. The blood shed of Christ covered us and our circumstances with grace, mercy, and a vast, unconditional love.
So take away from all of the above with peace and rest that your Father is holding you so close to Him.
{Son, your Father has it covered. There is nothing you can do that will make Him love you more than He already does. There is nothing here on this earth that you can achieve to make Him more proud of you.}
{Daughter, you Father calls you loved. He calls you perfect and beautiful and holy and righteous in His eyes. He sees no flaw in His creation and formation of you. There is nothing you can do to earn His approval or satisfaction of you because He's the proudest a person ever could be of YOU.}
I'm going to do one more thing and write out a prayer for those who take the time to read this and make it this far..
-God, I thank you for the way You showed up and showed out at Campus Community tonight. I'm thankful for Your sovereignty and for who You are and for Jesus' blood on the cross that has paid our debt in FULL. I pray tonight for those reading this and even for those who will never know this prayer exists in that You guard them as they travel home to bad circumstances, as they face old temptation throughout the day. God, I pray that You give them a constant reminder that You are holding them so near and that You have already overcome the trial in front of them. I pray you give them peace and rest in knowing You have paid and covered it ALL. I pray that they wake up each day and go throughout the day with their focus fixed on You and that they're not afraid to just stop and pray for strength when they need it. I pray You remind them that they are healed and forgiven from their past and that any sin that they've ever done does NOT define them. Let them know that their identity is the sons and daughters of Your kingdom that You have pronounced and claimed them to be. I pray they seek accountability with their struggles God and that You bless them with community and surround them with encouragement and blessings. I pray that as we prepare to part from one another that You intercede on our behalf to put people in our path right now that we will be able to do life with back home and let us not forget the things we've learned here from one another and how we've grown in You. I pray that You take away all worry, fear, shame, any emotion that is not of You, God, I pray you ease our hearts, minds, and souls and continue to strengthen us through You and through the community we have here together in the next few weeks to remind us that we're not alone in life and in our struggles and to remind us of what a supportive family we're apart of and the blessing and privilege that is here at Liberty. I pray all of these things in Your holy, precious, healing, trusting, powerful name Jesus - Amen.}
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