Sabotage defined:
• To damage, destroy, or disrupt something deliberately, especially in a war.
• To hinder something; to undermine or destroy somebody’s efforts or achievements.

Other words similar to sabotage are: damage, disrupt, interfere with, interrupt, harm, incapacitate, and impair.

Have you ever heard of someone sabotaging someone’s promotion or sabotaging a marriage or sabotaging the plans to a big project, etc? Well, when you hear the word sabotage you can’t help but to think, “They did it on purpose”. When someone sabotages something it was generally pre-meditated. In order to successfully destroy something you need to know something about what you want to destroy. If you wanted to destroy a tall building you would not walk up to it with a plastic bat and start hitting it. No, you would want to know what it was made of so that you could bring the right equipment to bring it down. If you were serious you would not waste your time on things that would not cause destruction.

The bible says in John 10:10, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

Whether you want to admit it or not you and I have a serious enemy. He is not playing ring around the roses with us. His intention is to sabotage your entire life, little by little if need be. The enemy does not mistakenly cause persecution or afflictions to come your way, no, his does it deliberately. He wants to take your head right off. However notice in the scripture John 10:10, Jesus said, “The thief cometh.” Jesus did not say the thief destroyeth. Just because he comes to steal, kill and destroy doesn’t mean he will. Jesus gave His church power over all the power of the enemy and that nothing by any means would hurt us (Luke 10:19).

1Peter 5:8 declares, “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: “

This lets us know that the devil cannot devour whomever he desires but he seeks for potential prospects. If we stay sober and continue to be vigilant he cannot harm us. The word vigilant means: watchful and alert, especially to guard against danger, difficulties, or errors.

We must remain on guard at all times, never sleeping (spiritually) or slumbering. We are not helpless prey or sitting ducks, just waiting on our turn to be the next victim for him to devour………the devil is a liar! Be strong in the Lord, my brother and my sister, God will not allow your adversary to triumph over you.

Psalms 34:19 says, “Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.”

You are a child of the Most High God, put your spiritual armor on and pursue your enemy and bring destruction to his kingdom. Sabotage his plans and purposes, crushing them to mere dust particles that evaporate in the wind. Bind the strong man and deliberately spoil his goods. It’s time to disrupt the enemy’s plans and bring un-repairable damage to his evil accomplices. You have an advantage over the kingdom of darkness, you have been raised up with Christ seated in Heavenly places, ruling and reigning with the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS!

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2Timothy 3:11-12
Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me. Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Whenever you take steps of obedience toward the plan and purposes God has for your life it won’t be long before persecution arises for the Word sake. Gods will for every born-again believer is that we grow and mature in His ways and accomplish His plan for our lives. However, God knows that when we pursue with the intent to do and follow through with His every instruction, mental, physical and spiritual assaults will come against His people. But, fear not, for Jesus foretold us that in this world we would have tribulation but be of good cheer He has already over come it and deprived it of power to harm us. God knew the things we would have to face in this earth so He saw to it that we would have everything we needed to win. God did not leave us without help as a matter of fact He did not leave us at all, He is with us in the person of the Holy Spirit who is the one that will abide with us forever.

Progress is good but not without challenges. The enemy will always challenge the believer’s authority to see if you will back down or not. He challenged Jesus’ authority in the wilderness during His earthly temptation. He also challenged Jesus during different seasons of His life and ministry, as recorded in the scriptures.
The word precipitate means to make something happen suddenly and quickly. This is our enemies strategy to try to catch us off guard and over take us with the element of surprise. However, he is defeated and we are not ignorant of his devices. We have an advantage over every trap and scheme of the enemy. We are not unarmed but rather fully equipped with the whole armor of God. We can withstand him, not in our own strength and ability but by our Heavenly Father’s grace, which is sufficient for us to win every battle and walk away from every fight victoriously triumphant.

Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Don’t be weary in well doing but make progress going full steam ahead. These test and trials are light afflictions and are not worthy of your focus and/or meditation. Rise up and shake the dust from this world off you and be the victorious king and/or priest God has called you to be. Take your place, run your race with all diligence and honor. Every step you take forward in the plan of God is a demonstration of resurrection power and life that glorifies God.

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Isaiah 59: 19-21
So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the LORD. As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.

It may seem like sometimes that the enemy has the upper hand on you but don’t quit, the battle is not over, God has the last word. Sometimes you can hear the enemies of your destiny and faith laughing at you as if they have conquered and you are defeated. However their laughter will turn to their own demise. Every device that the enemy tries to bring against you is powerless to harm you. Lift up your head and be encouraged, God is on your side and He will not fail you. Don’t agree with the words of the enemy that he has sent to steal, kill and destroy from you.. You are not a failure. You are not defeated. You are not a nothing or a nobody. Don’t believe a word Satan says, he is a liar. You are the head and not the tail, above only and not beneath. You are more than a conqueror through Christ that loves you. Put God’s word in your mouth and speak life in the mist of troubling storms and dark clouds of despair. People may be looking at you waiting on you to go down, cave in and quit but you are not a quitter. Tell those spectators to keep looking because they will see the glory of God manifest in your life. You’re not down and you’re definitely not out, so keep on stepping in the direction of your Divine Destiny and don’t be moved by the light afflictions that come to try and get you off course. Just know that the joy of the Lord is your strength and the word of God ,which is your standard, is your sword. You can’t lose with that combination. You are a winner in Christ. Lift up the standard and tell the enemy it is written, “no weapon formed against me shall prosper.” Lift up a standard and tell the enemy it is written, “By Jesus stripes I am healed.” Lift up a standard and tell the enemy, it is written, “Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.” Go ahead walk in your authority and maintain the victory through Christ our Redeemer!

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John 16:23-24
And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Prayer is simply communicating with God. It is having living contact with our Maker. Communication is a form of contact and interaction. Contact is an element of intimacy. Words similar to intimacy are: familiarity, nearness, relationship and inseparability. Now there are different levels and facets of intimacy. We all would probably agree that words have a major part to play in intimate relationships. Words have the ability to impregnate the spirit, soul and body of man thus influencing all realms. Words are seeds that produce for good or evil. When someone’s words make contact with the soil of your heart, those words will bring forth a harvest unless they are up rooted. It is important that we be selective in who we allow to be intimate partners of communication in our lives because our heart’s has rich nutritious soil that will produce heartily what we allow to flow into it. The scriptures declare, “Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.” (Hebrews 4:23 AMP.)

Intimacy with God produces rich abundant life. Whenever we have been impregnated with words from God they will produce great things. You cannot spend quality intimate time with God and come away barren. Whatever you need, if its direction, correction, healing, deliverance, victory, battle strategies, no matter what you ask (which is prayer) according to His will He will do it (1John 5:14-15). Intimacy with God is vital for life success, without Him we can do nothing. Intimacy means contact was made because sometimes people show up but they don’t make a connection. They never seek God with their heart; they never draw near to Him from their spirit. When Jesus was on the earth many people thronged or pressed upon Him and yet they received nothing from Him even though they were near. They had no faith in God they just showed up to be a spectator.

We must purpose to press in and make contact. Now don’t misunderstand me I am not saying it is a work of the flesh or hard labor kind of press. We cannot labor in our own natural ability or strength to draw near to God. No the press is pulling away from everything that will distract you and focusing on Christ. We must seek Him with our whole heart and attention. Turn off that TV, radio, and internet and spend quality time with Him. It you are married and you want to be intimate with your spouse they would be very upset if you tried to be intimate with them and watch your favorite TV show at the same time. It just doesn’t work like that, does it? True intimacy bears fruit, producing evidence in your future that true contact was made.

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Hebrews 4:14-16 (AMP)
Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him]. For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning. Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].

Aren’t you glad that God loves and cares for you. Even in the mist of great trials and temptations the Lord understands and sympathizes weaknesses and infirmities. He is such a great High Priest, He is not untouchable. God is always willing to comfort, forgive and heal the broken hearted. He is always ready and willing to help. He will never leave you or forsake you. We must always go to God, He will help, He will give mercy and grace, no matter what you face. He is always on time. Thou others may not care or offer help or support, God will always be there for you. He will not condemn you or cast you aside. God is love. Love is forever actively pursuing you. You are not alone, He is there. He is more than enough!

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John 5:38-40 (AMP)
And you have not His word (His thought) living in your hearts, because you do not believe and adhere to and trust in and rely on Him Whom He has sent. [That is why you do not keep His message living in you, because you do not believe in the Messenger Whom He has sent.] You search and investigate and pore over the Scriptures diligently, because you suppose and trust that you have eternal life through them. And these [very Scriptures] testify about Me! And still you are not willing [but refuse] to come to Me, so that you might have life.

Jesus said that these people did not have His word living in their heart because they did believe on Him. Isn’t it amazing that people can read and study the word of God and yet not believe in God. Jesus said that these people even searched and investigated the scriptures diligently and yet they would not come to Him. God is a wonderful loving Father, He wants to do good to all who come to Him. Jesus said that the scriptures testify of Him, yes, they tell of all His mighty acts and reveal His awesome ways.

Search defined:
• To discover, come to know, or find something by examination.

God says we can have a deeper knowledge of Him but we must want to know Him, we must search or seek Him out with all our heart. Evidently the people to whom Jesus was referring to in John 5 were searchers but for another purpose other than to know God. They investigated and searched the scriptures to find information to increase their natural knowledge base and human intellegience not to grow spiritually and get to know God more. They were not willing; as a matter of fact, they simply refused to yield their lives to God. They wanted to be the Lord of their own lives. They wanted to make all the decisions and develop the plan and course for their lives. They had no intention of yielding to God even though they had searched the scriptures diligently. Many searched the scriptures just through mere religious tradition. Many searched just for quick relief from life’s problem but not to know or fellowship with God.

God loves you and He wants you to love Him without strings attached or without coercion. God will never bully anyone into living for Him.

Jesus came to this earth so that we could have life and have it more abundantly. Seek God with all your heart and find out the true meaning of total surrender and splendor in His presence.

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Why are you here? What on earth is your purpose? Do you know? Can you answer without hesitancy or uncertainty?

How can you know your purpose without going to the one who created you? Many people live their life with vague answers to these vital questions. The heart of every man, woman, boy and girl longs to know, for what purpose was I born. Drifting from place to place, trying to find the meaning of their race in the face of a world of confusion. Who can I trust or who would even know the true purpose of my life?

The true answer is in Christ.

Acts 17:24-29
The God Who produced and formed the world and all things in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in handmade shrines. Neither is He served by human hands, as though He lacked anything, for it is He Himself Who gives life and breath and all things to all [people]. And He made from one [common origin, one source, one blood] all nations of men to settle on the face of the earth, having definitely determined [their] allotted periods of time and the fixed boundaries of their habitation (their settlements, lands, and abodes), So that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel after Him and find Him, although He is not far from each one of us. For in Him we live and move and have our being; as even some of your [own] poets have said, For we are also His offspring. Since then we are God’s offspring, we ought not to suppose that Deity (the Godhead) is like gold or silver or stone, [of the nature of] a representation by human art and imagination, or anything constructed or invented.

God is our creator and He is the only one qualified to tell us for what purpose we were born. God told Jeremiah the prophet, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.” (Jeremiah 1:5)

Just like God spoke clearly and specifically to Jeremiah the purpose for which he was born, God can also speak to you and I. God is not withholding anything from us however it is our responsibility to seek Him to find out His specific plan for our lives. It is not somebody else’s responsibility to find out for us we must have a passion and a desire to want to know the purpose for which we were born. Then once we have clarity from the throne of God then we can go forward to fulfill our God given destinies.

Your life is important and you have a God ordained purpose. God loves you and waits for your earnest seeking of His plan for your life.

Smile, your future is bright in Christ, so get ready for the journey of your life as your Creator unveils your true purpose.

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