DAILY DEVOTIONAL – July 8, 2024 Are You Ready to Fight? By Gary Wilkerson Don’t settle for partial victories just because you are weary, frustrated or feeling helpless.  God never stops at half a victory.  The moment you feel so tired that you can’t take one more step is often the moment he is about to give the greatest victory and breakthrough. The church is not meant to be composed of masses and crowds who want comfort, pleasure and everything handed to them on a silver platter.  The church is meant to be full of warriors who say, “God, I know this is going to be a fight.  I know it is going to be wearisome and will even cause tears to flow; but, God, I’m with you in this battle!” You may feel that you have prayed the last prayer you’re ever going to be able to pray about the need that is pressing you.  You are exhausted, but you must stay in the fight. Don’t stop praying, and don’t give up.  Yes, it has been a long day! Nighttime is coming, and inside you are saying, “It’s time for me to sleep.”  Instead, God says, “No, no, the fight is just starting.” What has happened to the all-night prayer meetings in churches?  What has happened to people waiting on God?  What has happened to people who fast and pray for a breakthrough? The church was called into battle. It was not begun just to have good services and a nice building with lights that go off and on during the music.  That’s not why we’re here.  We are here to do battle against the gates of hell because we have a promise that hell will not prevail (see Matthew 16:18).  We do not have a promise that it won’t be strenuous or that all we have to do is whisper and the gates of hell will not prevail.  No, there is going to be a battle, and Satan is not going to give up easily, but we have a promise. It’s going to take a battle! Are you ready to fight?  Read and Listen OnlineForward to a Friend

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