The Purpose of Your Battle Part 2

Your battle is necessary. Friends create comfort, family creates humility and your enemy (battle) creates movement in your life. In 1 Cor 2:8 Paul says if the rulers of this age had understood it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. Why? Because by crucifying Him, they multiplied him. The purpose of your battle is not to decrease you but rather to multiply you. God will never put a 10 by 12 vision in 5 by 8 people or a 2 liter blessing in a 12 ounce can. God allows the battle to create focus in you and to increase your capacity to receive what He is about to release to you.

David had a Kingdom key long before he even knew what the Kingdom of heaven was. That key is this. Your promotion or next level is always locked up in your ability to solve the problem closest to you.

Most people in life pick up a magazine, watch a movie, read a book and attempt to live their life vicariously through the person they fantasize about. Proverbs tells us that those who chase after fantasies will accomplish nothing... Instead of discovering who you are and what is in you, you attempt to become something you are not, which causes you to step out of the grace God has put on your life.

How horrible it is to go through life dreaming about what someone has already done, never knowing what I have and what I am supposed to do. Remember all sin is the result of mistaken identity. In other words, the place you miss it is a result of ignorance concerning who you are. When you discover who you are and what's in you, you begin to dominate!

The moment you begin to discover who you are, your assignment in life, the enemy shows up. He is always revealed on the edge of new revelation. He hates your blessing, and the reason grace is necessary is your gift, your prophetic potential attracts adversity. That's why it is ridiculous to spend your life wanting what somebody else has got, why? Because you don't have the grace to handle the adversity that comes with it. You are not asking for what they got, you are asking to go through all the hell that they have been through.

One of the major problems I see in the Church is that we have a lot of titles but no function based on the title. Who you are is not determined by your title, it is determined by your function. And by calling someone something they are not functioning in, we are lying to them. For example if you give someone the title of lead singer, but they can't sing, you are lying to them, and putting a expectation on them, that they don't have the grace to deliver upon.

If you have the title of a usher but you can walk down the aisle, see a piece of paper on the floor and not pick it up. I am lying to you when I call you an usher because you are not functioning in what I am calling you. Jesus did not say you will know them by their title, he said, you will know them by their fruit. If you are that, you will do that, but if I call you that and you are not doing that...

The bible says your gift will make room for you and bring you before great men. What is inside of you will reposition you for greatness. Most people are seeking out the mighty man. Years ago I had someone tell me, you need to get some flashy cards, and rub shoulders with so and so, because it is not what you know, it is who you know. Why is it that people are positioning themselves for someone to bless them, as if there is no God. I'm not trying to get in the room with the right person, cause nobody can give me what God has for me! Why is it that the mighty man (butler and the baker) forget you after you used your gift to bless them? Because God has a level of blessing that they can not give to you. If you have been forgotten, get ready there is another level blessing coming to you.

How many of us have troubles? How many are facing adversity right now? How many of us has 2007 been a year of intense battles? Could it be that the enemy fears what is on the other side of 2007 (completion or the end of something)? Could it be that what you have been fighting for will be released at 12:01 January 1st?

What is they key, it is the ability to solve the problem closest to you. Instead of looking for the mighty man, we need to look on the inside for the gift that solves a problem. If you get in the room but you have not discovered what is inside of you, the weight of the blessing will be too great to handle.

The gateway to your next level is in your ability to solve the problem closest to you. It is your gift that causes your life to move. Joseph solved a the butler's problem before he solved Pharaoh's problem. David solved a demon problem, bear and lion problem, a giant problem, a nation problem, many nations problems... Some want to display their gift publicly but they have never developed it privately. You want to use it when everybody sees you, but God says what you do in secret I will reward you openly. Why should God put you in front of millions when your wife hates your guts? Why should God trust you with millions , if you can't tithe off a thousand?

It is solving the problem closest to you. It is solving the problem right here, the one right here, the one right here and then before you know it you look back and say look what the Lord has done! It is the the problem right next to you, that is your gateway, your ticket, the portal to the next dimension of your life.

Joseph solved his father's problem, Potipher's problem, the prison's problem, Pharaoh's problem and a nations problem and then He looked back and said how did I get here in the palace? Let me bring it home. Lately we have faced some challenges, and God has challenged me to change my perception of the challenges, that they are not unwelcome intruders but they are friends. He then shifted me from trying to solve my own problems to solving other Pastor's problems.

Blessings
Craig

Tommorrow, Get ready to cut the head off your greatest enemy. When he falls there will be a domino effect and all will fall!