{"id":3620,"date":"2010-12-16T07:15:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=3620"},"modified":"2010-12-16T07:21:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T15:21:10","slug":"wrestling-before-god-12-16-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=3620","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling Before God 12-16-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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December 16,2010<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Take up the whole armor of God . . . praying always . . . \u2014Ephesians 6:13<\/a>,18<\/a><\/div>\n

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You must learn to wrestle against<\/em> the things that hinder your communication with God, and wrestle in prayer for<\/em> other people; but to wrestle with<\/em> God in prayer is unscriptural. If you ever do wrestle with God, you will be crippled for the rest of your life. If you grab hold of God and wrestle with Him, as Jacob did, simply because He is working in a way that doesn\u2019t meet with your approval, you force Him to put you out of joint (see\u00a0Genesis 32:24-25<\/a>). Don\u2019t become a cripple by wrestling with the ways of God, but be someone who wrestles before God with the things of this world, because \u201cwe are more than conquerors through Him . . .\u201d (Romans 8:37<\/a>). Wrestling before God makes an impact in His kingdom. If you ask me to pray for you, and I am not complete in Christ, my prayer accomplishes nothing. But if I am complete in Christ, my prayer brings victory all the time. Prayer is effective only when there is completeness\u2014 \u201ctake up the whole armor of God . . . .\u201d<\/p>\n

Always make a distinction between God\u2019s perfect will and His permissive will, which He uses to accomplish His divine purpose for our lives. God\u2019s perfect will is unchangeable. It is with His permissive will, or the various things that He allows into our lives, that we must wrestle before Him. It is our reaction to these things allowed by His permissive will that enables us to come to the point of seeing His perfect will for us. \u201cWe know that all things work together for good to those who love God . . .\u201d (Romans 8:28<\/a>)\u2014 to those who remain true to God\u2019s perfect will\u2014 His calling in Christ Jesus. God\u2019s permissive will is the testing He uses to reveal His true sons and daughters. We should not be spineless and automatically say, \u201cYes, it is the Lord\u2019s will.\u201d We don\u2019t have to fight or wrestle with<\/em> God, but we must wrestle before God with things<\/em>. Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wrestling Before God December 16,2010 Take up the whole armor of God . . . praying always . . . \u2014Ephesians 6:13,18 You must learn to wrestle against the things that hinder your communication with God, and wrestle in prayer for other people; but to wrestle with God in prayer is unscriptural. If you ever […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3620\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}