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Icebreaker
• Through this series, what has been the top lesson you have learned about enemies?
• How do you handle enemies?
• Share a time when God showed up during a difficult season with an enemy.
Message Review
1 Corinthians 16:9 NKJV says, “For a great and effective door has opened to me, and there are many adversaries.” Great doors require great battles. You do not have ordinary battles when it comes to opening great doors. If you’re going to open great doors, there is always a great giant and difficulty before you. If you’re going to open small doors, then there is a small victory to be had. There is a great and effective door. The door is not only going to be big, but it is going to make you effective. In front of every door that is great and effective, there are many adversaries. The enemy will let you open little doors all day long. Doors that are not effective. However, if you want to move into greatness, then you are going to have enemies, you will have a Goliath, Pharaoh, and walls. Luke 19:11 -13 NKJV says, “11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 12 He said therefore, A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return. 13 And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.” Our warfare is not to win. Sometimes our worship is warfare. You have to push back the forces of darkness.
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Jesus has already gone to the cross. He has already defeated Satan. He has already defeated death, hell and the grave, and all victory belongs to Him. All authority belongs to Him. Therefore, every knee shall bow, and He has gone back to Heaven and now sits at the right hand of the Father in a posture of completion. So, there is nothing left for Jesus to do. There are no battles left to win.
We have to occupy until He comes. You have already won. You are already victorious. You already have peace, joy, prosperity, restoration, and it is all there. But you have to occupy it. We have to possess what Jesus has already taken for you, but know that the enemy will try to keep you out. Hell has gates to keep you out, but your job and the struggle is to fulfill every promise that Jesus purchased for you on the cross of Calvary.
Occupying requires closing doors, then fighting the next giant to keep pressing. You never stop pressing and forgetting. Don’t give up, but press, shout, jump, clap, spin and run; you have to praise God! Apostle decrees and declares that doors will open for you. The moment your next assignment is the moment your next enemy is revealed.
Let’s Talk About It!
Satan tempts your identity, who you are. You have to understand: 1. You are dealing with occupational warfare, 2. Whenever you next assignment is revealed, your next enemy is revealed, and 3. When your enemy is revealed, the greatest thing you can do is to obey an instruction from God.
What instruction is the enemy causing you to not obey from God?
The giant is there to keep us from opening doors God wants opened. There is a great and effective door, but there is also an enemy. The enemy’s bark is less than his bite. The enemy will try to make an assault on your senses. God wants to give us a complete victory, but we keep fighting the same enemy. We have to say, “NO MORE”! It is time to stop crying to God, but time to go, we have to go! It is time to engage. There is a Divine instruction that we have to obey.
What is a big battle in your life right now? How are you overcoming it?
Your peace, your purpose, your prosperity, rest on instruction, and correction are the proof that God still cares. When you obey God, the success is on God, not you. It is God’s responsibility, not yours. It is time to seek God. It is time for your stop rebelling, and obey God in the instructions that God has given. You are struck in rebellion and fear. You have to obey. You also might not know what the instructions are.
What are some benefits to seeking and obeying God’s instructions?
Prayer Focus and Requests
Ask your members if they have any prayer requests or praise reports. Encourage one another to stir up your faith and pray BIG prayers this week and expect God to blow your mind with His answers.