You Can't Lose / It Is Finished

Over the last few days I have felt the Holy Spirit dealing with a subject inside of me that just wasn't quite clear. In those days several things have happened to open up the message He was saying. In the next few minutes I pray that every word He wants said is written. It has touched my heart and brought great insight to our Father's love for us beyond anything I have heard before.

For years I have felt God expressing to me how great He truly is for us. He has purposely continued to keep me on the same subject for months. The Holy Spirit would say it different ways, but as I followed, the message was always the same. I want you to understand that Satan enjoys confusing us. Whether he knows that our Father is in control of what's going on or not, is still not clear to me. Leading up to this message, the Holy Spirit reminded me of how Satan thought he had defeated God when he killed Jesus. The great revelation I saw, was that God was in control all through the sacrifice of His Son. Our Father along with Jesus, knew the only possible way for us to receive what God wanted for us, was for this sacrifice to take place. You know this had to be a difficult experience for our Father and Jesus. Yet it was fulfilled. Victory was accomplished. The pathway for us had been finished. In fact, those very words were spoken at the completion of the task, "It is finished"!!!

We can see that what Satan thought was going to defeat the plan, was actually the very thing that had to be done for the plan to come together. This leads me to what has been placed heavily on my heart from the Spirit. For many of us, we get up every day feeling this pressure to be this certain kind of person. We try and do our best to succeed and yet we fail, or at least that is how we feel. We find ourselves getting caught in a trap. It's this up and down in our life that gets to us. We feel that we are making some ground and all of a sudden, it happens. We make that next mistake. That same one I thought I had overcome. Satan steps up and reminds me of my failure and causes me to feel departure in my standing with God. He is gracious enough to let me know that I had made some progress, but that I need to go back and work even harder. He wants to make us think that we can accomplish this feat and to keep on working at it. This is where most of us are making our biggest mistake. This attitude of failing causes us much grief and takes us up and down in our feelings. Oh how we want to make it. We desire so much for that peace of knowing we are doing the right things. It only makes sense at trying to be the best Christian we can be. And when we fall down or move backwards it sort of destroys us. In that thought we have tremendous support from Satan.

Here is some great news!! God is in control!! Just as Satan thought he had defeated God when he killed Jesus, he feels that exact same thing when he thinks he is robbing us of our Father's joy. Here is some breaking news, God knows what He is doing. Amidst this turmoil and trouble, victory is growing deeper in our life. The very thing Satan uses against us, which is allowed by God, is the very thing that delivers us!! God knows. Can you say praise the Lord? Thank you Jesus!! This confidence and joy we seek, is being delivered to us from our Father. We are safe and secure in Jesus. Go back with me to the cross when we heard Jesus say, "It is finished". Our Father called us out. We heard Him touch our heart. The Holy Spirit reached in and moved us to respond to this call. We found out that we were lost. We had sinned and been cut off from God. But because of how great His love for us was, we reached out and accepted this wonderful love offering, sacrifice, for our sin. God made it perfectly clear that He provided the way for our debt to be paid. Jesus took on all my sin and yours. He paid the price. The moment we accepted it was over, FINISHED!! We no longer could be cut off from our Father. We no longer could lose!! Everything that was needed or ever would be needed was done on the cross. That includes the success of mine and your life. Jesus took on that responsibility and completed it on the cross. That's why God says He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. That includes us. Upon accepting Jesus, God started it and He finishes it.

Stay close to me here, this battle we go through every day is not our responsibility. When God allows Satan to turn us upside down, inside out, and every which way, He is leading us to see how foolish Satan is to think he can destroy us. Our Father is leading us back to the cross. When we can see that it is finished, we can be set free. We can find this peace we are looking for. Why should we care about those things we label defeat if it reveals the truth about the cross? We won't. Instead of us standing toe to toe with Satan, we will instruct him to take that lie to Jesus. We will tell him to go and try to take it away from Jesus. We will find ourselves not feeling any defeat or think we are being punished, but instead being matured and lead to see the wonderful power of the CROSS!! We will be confident that only good can come out of my suffering. That only good can fill my life through those things I go through. Instead of it having any power over me, the power of the truth, the cross, and who Jesus is will keep me steady, and lead me through each step. Now I can confidently proclaim the truth, because our Father has us standing on top of it. I can live the truth because our Father has released it to me. No more can Satan confuse me about what's going on. I'm not saying I want fall anymore. I'm not saying things want happen in my life any more. I'm just saying they can't make me think I am being defeated any more!! I thank the Lord for revealing my weaknesses and my misunderstandings. I thank Him for showing me that it all has been taken care of. I thank Him for allowing me to see that I can't lose!! I thank Him for showing me that He has taken the responsibility to see it through. I thank Him for loving me in the way He does. Cast all your cares upon Me!! Be still and know that I am God!! Praise Him for the corrections He brings, which in turn develops us into being able to stand in His victory. The battle has already been won. We need not ask for anything for everything has already been given. We no longer will perceive that God is the Alpha and we are the Omega!! It is FINISHED!! We can't lose!!

Thank you Jesus,