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Chapter 4 Keeping The Higher Ground Of Victory! Posted Onjuly 10, 2018‌


POSTED ONJULY 10, 2018
Keeping The Higher Ground of Victory!

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a blessed morning so far! I recorded another podcast yesterday on Anchor titled keeping the higher ground of victory, and I am planning to broadcast this same content on my spreaker podcast as well. This is a little unusual for me because I haven’t been broadcasting the same message on both channels up to this point, but for this particular content I felt God wanted it on both podcasts so I am really hoping and praying it will be a blessing and help to you! Keeping the higher ground of victory is something we all want to achieve in our journeys with God, and yet we still encounter opposition and adversity at times along the way, so any help for us in being able to keep the spiritual ground God has brought us through is so very helpful! Here are just a few excerpts from my podcast where I explore how faith and trust in God are just a couple of important keys to keeping that higher ground –

“…if you have been either coming out of a transition into a new place with the Lord like I have, or if you are still in transition , adversities are going to strike, and when they do we often are

tested to our core and we might become vulnerable to doubting God. Part of what I believe transition is about is to deal with those places within us that might hinder us from not only being able to fully enter into our new season and promise, but could hinder us from being able to stay in a victorious place with Him! So when these adversities come we need to know how to stay in faith and on our path with the Lord and not be pulled down into discouragement, fear, doubt, or even unbelief…the Lord is working to build in us a strong foundation of trust in Him as He takes us through a process of deliverance from the bondages of those desert places that might still be in our souls…we can take heart that as we stay in faith, and keep our eyes on the Lord He will raise up a standard against those things that would hinder us from walking in a place of freedom and victory in and with Him!”

I hope you can tune into one or both podcasts if you are interested in hearing more! I can be found on spreaker as podcaster SMills and my show there is called Real Talk Radio and on Anchor my podcast is called Real Talk with your host Sonja! I will also be adding some additional thoughts here on the blog that I didn’t get to explore on the broadcast about the ways in which God might raise up a standard on our behalf when adversity strikes! Until then I pray that God will Bless you today and I will leave you with this excerpt from one of the Streams In The Desert daily devotionals that seemed particularly highlighted to me as an encouragement for those struggling with keeping the higher ground of victory, especially if you are currently experiencing adversity –

“Poverty, hardship and misfortune have pressed many a life to moral heroism and spiritual greatness. Difficulty challenges energy and perseverance. It calls into activity the strongest qualities of the soul. It was the weights on Father’s old clock that kept it going. Many a head wind has been utilized to make port. God has appointed opposition as an incentive to faith and holy activity…like combat, like victory. If for you He has appointed special trials, be assured that in His heart He has kept for you a special place. A soul sorely bruised is a soul elect.”

Chapter 5 How Does The Lord Raise Up A Standard For Us? Posted Onjuly 14, 2018‌


POSTED ONJULY 14, 2018
How Does The Lord Raise Up A Standard For Us?

Happy Saturday everyone! I hope you are all having a blessed day today! I wanted to share a little bit about the idea of the Lord raising up a standard when we are experiencing adversity in our spiritual walk, and how the Lord might do that. In my last podcast I talked about possible ways to hopefully keep the higher ground of victory after you have been brought to a new place of victory with God in any area of your life! I believe that our ability to trust and have faith in God’s faithfulness to us and His goodness are key to this, but in the podcast I did not go into too much depth about how God might actually raise up a standard against the opposition and enemy attacks we might be experiencing as we either are moving into places of higher spiritual ground with the Lord, or if we are currently occupying those places and need to hold the new ground. So I wanted to post here on the blog some additional thoughts about how God raises up a standard on our behalf when we come under enemy fire. My first thought is that if you are being led by the Holy Spirit as you are advancing with the Lord, then there will surely be times in your walk where you sense the Lord leading you into battle, I am especially basing this on my own journey and experiences as I have been going through my own transition out of the wilderness and into a

new Promise Land. Even though my discernment is not where I would like it to be, I have definitely sensed many times that the Lord was leading me straight into battle! I think maybe the most important key here is that when the Lord is raising up a standard on our behalf these strategic maneuvers are offensive rather than defensive, and this is good news! This running toward the battle instead of away from it by the power of the Holy Spirit, and at the Lord’s leading, can be a powerful and liberating experience for us as we face the giants in our lives that previously held us captive in fear and bondage! As we have repeated experiences of the Lord being there for us in this way, I believe our faith and trust in Him cannot help but grow and develop more fully, until we are finally able to really process and believe from the depths of our being whole-heartedly Romans 8 verse 31 (NIV) which says, “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us”?

So I pray you will be encouraged as you are moving forward through adversity into your new beginnings with the Lord! As you progress, opposition is inevitable, but the Lord has your back, and we can take comfort in the truth that He is stronger, wiser, and more brilliant than we could ever conceive! Before I close, I just want to pray that you will be encouraged and strengthened and that your faith in God’s goodness, His faithfulness to you, and His deep and abiding love for you, will be firmly established within your innermost being! Be blessed and strengthened in Jesus’ name!

Isaiah 59 verse 19 (NKJV) – “So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and His glory from the rising of the sun; when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.”

Psalm 60 verse 4 (New Living Translation) – “But you have raised a banner for those who fear you – a rallying point in the face of attack.”