Guard Your Heart

‘Obey my commands and live! Guard my instructions as you guard your own eyes’ Prov.7:2

Jesus instructs every Christian to watch and pray. In other words, guard your heart and guard your walk with God. Stay alert so you know how best to engage. This is also true in the face seeming challenges. For every challenge, the number one point of attack is your relationship with God. A number of people are deceived into thinking that the enemy is after their money, job, recently acquired status, or possessions. The truth is that the pressure and fierceness of the battle you are facing is because the enemy is after your faith. The enemy’s number one target is your relationship with God and your belief in Him. It is important that we look beyond the immediate effect on our finances and see what the attack is really about. The enemy does not care about your many possessions. He said to God concerning Job, ‘does Job fear God for nothing, touch him and he will curse You’. And the challenges that Job faced afterward were devices of the enemy targeted at getting Job to lose his relationship with God. When the enemy touches you, what do you say; what comes out of your mouth? Job must have understood this truth because even when his wife, being used by the enemy, told him to curse God and die, Job refused. This must have been really hard especially since your wife is supposed to be your number one support and encourager particularly in the faith. In other words, her connection to God was material. Job said ‘Will I curse God, will a man ask for God and not have a mix even in this life’. You must stay alert to what the real situation is and look beyond the apparent challenge. The pressure you are going through is so that you can question your faith in God [Luke 22:31]. The enemy wants you to curse God; he wants you to question the Sovereignty of God. And I am praying that your faith will not fail in the Mighty Name of Jesus.

Prayer: Holy Spirit, help me guard my heart and my faith. I pray that even in the midst of seeming challenges, Lord that You deepen my faith and my trust in You, in Jesus Name.