I was recently asked “How Have I Overcome the Struggle?”- in other words how I have overcome the bondage, the restraint, the attacks?  I was going to try and give some real powerful action that I-in and of myself had accomplished but then – as if prompted by someone, the word of God stood me right in the face and I had no choice but to respond with the words of Ephesians 6:12.  “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

Spiritual forces of evil or Satan’s team-and again the question “How have I overcome them?” The word of God again is clear. Rev 12:11 “And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony.”

Every struggle-particularly the major ones I have overcome by sharing and allowing others to be encouraged and determined in their own struggles. Robbery, relationship failures, restoration of a cancerous body, and now the rebuild that is required after the end of an almost 11 year marriage are all things I have openly shared and will continue to share.

While I encourage others to experience that same freedom, I fully recognize that many are not willing to do so.  Never has that been a problem for me and never has anyone experienced any judgment from me.  The problems lie in others’s attempts to discourage, discredit and just plain dis me for the level of freedom I have chosen.  The end result-more envy, more backbiting, more failed friendships, more cover-up, just plain- more sin.

So I ask you to consider what makes more sense-being free to overcome Satan, his team and tactics or being bound with the “appearance” of freedom, and a life full of cover-up, corruption, and many other cancerous conditions that -as I have stated in my book, “Cancer-Us”- lead to the death of something.

Whatever your choice, I pray that you will be able to rest with it.  If you’ve watched me fare through storm after storm, you should be amazed how little I look like all I’ve been through.  I’d like to take credit for that.  But truth of the matter is, all credit belongs to the one true and living God I serve-the one who sent His only Son to overcome the greatest struggle of all.

 “A time is coming and in fact has come when you will be scattered, each to your own home. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my Father is with me. I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16: 32-33