Knowledge Isn’t Change!

I’ve mentioned elsewhere that when I left home at 18, I ended up far away from the Lord.

When I came back to Him I had a lot of difficulties in my life.  I thought if I read books about deliverance I would learn how to solve some of my problems. Then I remembered the things that I observed during the Friday night fellowship, and I tried to deliver myself from my problems (What I tried to do is sometimes referred to as spiritual warfare.  We use this term frequently in We Can Get There From Here). I found that I was quite unsuccessful at improving my life.

Ultimately, this is what I discovered:  All the knowledge I had from reading books and witnessing deliverance didn’t bring change to my life. I felt quite humbled when I recognized that for all my reading and all my experience I couldn’t even solve my own problems.  It felt like I had a giant brain and a tiny, little spiritual body.

As a kid I would look at advertisements for books on bodybuilding by Charles Atlas.  These ads had a picture of a skinny kid getting sand kicked in his face by a big muscle-bound bully.  The kid was the “98-pound weakling.”  In my spirit at the time, I felt like I was that 98-pound weakling. Satan was the jerk kicking sand in my face and I didn’t know what to do about it.

What about you?   Has there ever been a time when you have felt like that 98 pound weakling?

I have good news for you!  Together, we’re learning how get strong in the Lord.  And we’re going to learn how to find release from the traps and snares we’ve been caught in and we’re going to learn how to demolish the strongholds that have kept us in instead of letting us out to fulfill God’s purpose in our lives.

Thank you.  God bless you - on your journey today!