WEAPONS FORMED WITHIN
Realizing that trouble is not always just a common venture of life, but rather a customized weapon, can be the first challenge in the war of embracing promise. It is easy for pain and problems to demand our focus and become a pattern and a norm, so it is essential that we realize our patterns and norms themselves can be weapons formed against us. Our own life issues can snare us over and over as they cycle through our lifetime. It is essential that we recognize weapons so we can make conscious efforts to defuse them. 
(This is a continuation of the “Weapons of War” series by Kathy Gabler)
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Stealth Mode Weapons (Kathy)

Another stealth mode weapon that had long term effect in my life kept me focused on rules instead of relationship until I realized that God is not looking for perfect Christians but sons who will hold firmly to their sonship.  Look at the weapon formed against us as the church with the implication that our salvation is based on perfect behavior.  That misconception, that our salvation pivots on behavior rather than the cross, is a slap in the face of Christ, yet is widely embraced as though it were the gospel.  The cross is the pivot of our salvation.  Righteous behavior is a result of centering on the finished works of Christ.  The inordinate priority of legal and illegal behavior is a weapon, a religious misbelief that God is grading behavior to measure righteousness.  Instead, God is looking for sons who cannot be talked out of their righteousness, sons who will not be manipulated by fear and legalism, sons who will not be robbed by condemnation.  A son does not believe more in his ability to fail than in his relationship with his Father.  That kind of trust will enable mature sons to take the fuse out of any bomb thrown.

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Undetected Weapons (Kathy)

The simple fact that we often do not recognize the weapons unleashed against us can keep us in silence that ends up being passive agreement with hell’s agenda instead of active agreement with God’s promise.  Once a weapon is exposed, we can counter it, but some weapons are so embedded in our life that we cannot discern their presence or aim.  Recently, I realized how an undetected weapon can stay active in a stealth mode:  Knowing that we are sons of God on the earth to represent and activate His government, I now realize that some of my beliefs early on had limitations that were a weapon formed against me, and those limitations have continued in stealth mode through many years.  A specific example is that Jesus said while He was on earth to pray the Kingdom come and God’s will be done; so a weapon formed against me was to believe the Kingdom is only a future entity whose government could never be realized in my lifetime on earth.  That weapon, that limitation, that confusion, has been successful in keeping God’s government as pie-in-the-sky and ineffectual to generations that did not disagree and lived bound by that  misbelief.  
(This is another in the series “Weapons Of War” by Kathy Gabler)

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