Taking It To The Edge Of Crashing

Push it to the place where you are frightened. Then when you are no long afraid there, push out again.

The Unseen War: Winning the Fight for Life

Most of us simply endure life, trying our hardest to just hang on until Jesus returns, oblivious as to why life seems so hard. Consequently, much of what happens to us (much of life for that matter) produces in us a kind of frustration and confusion.
The Unseen War: Winning the Fight for Life was written out of the context of those daily battles.
It addresses three key issues:
First, it outlines a paradigm shift, as such, shedding light on the reality of the battle around us and the enemy at the root of that battle.
Second, it reminds us from the Scriptures who we are and the power that every believer has in Christ.
Then finally, it offers tools that we will need for the battle, so that, as Paul encourages us in 2 Corinthians 4:16, we do not lose heart.

“Few people have the courage to communicate what they see, even fewer persevere through the battle to write it all down. David has captured an essential but misplaced truth for this chapter in history for the body of Christ in his book, The Unseen War. David, thank you!”
Gary Barkalow

David's book can be ordered at: http://www.knightvisionministries.com/Resources.html

Battle for Freedom

Here is a good question...

In the battle for a whole and free life, what is my part?

The apostle Paul answers the question this way:

So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. (Rom. 12:1-2, The Message)

Paul says that you will attain the maturity that you desire (maturity = whole and free) if you make God the center of your live instead of the culture, embrace what he is doing for you, fix your attention on him and respond to his counsel. In other words, walk with God.

Gerald May, in his excellent book, Addiction and Grace, tells us how to find freedom from addiction by this process of engaging with God.

Addiction cannot be defeated by the human will acting on its own, or by the human will opting out and turning everything over to divine will. Instead, the power of grace flows most fully when human will chooses to act in harmony with the divine will. In practical terms, this means staying in a situation, being willing to confront it as it is, remaining responsible for the choices one makes in response to it, but at the same time turning to God’s grace, protection and guidance as the ground for one’s choices and behavior.

An Adventurous Life

What's next, Papa?

God intends for us to live an adventurous life.

Romans 8:15-18

This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children. And we know we are going to get what's coming to us—an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!