In my communion time with the Holy Spirit this morning He reminded me of the parameters he has provided for us to remain within so the enemy does not break through our hedge and assail us and rob us of our forward movement and the new thing the Holy Spirit has set before us to partake of and walk in.

The Holy Spirit went on to say to me that is why when I started my journey with Him He taught me on personal warfare to maintain everything He spoke and gave me as a priority because things on earth will be challenged and we have to have the backbone to stand and defeat them in the name of Jesus who trains us to overcome. So allow these words to revive your spirit to take decisive action in the grace supplied you in them to say no devil you are not going to rob me this time.

The Holy Spirit highlighted a truth to me this morning that reminded me that the Lord has set parameters about what can affect and harm our lives which we need desperately to know so that we are not hurt and affected by what is illegal against us from God’s perspective. In Proverbs:12.21 it says Calamity is not allowed to overwhelm the righteous, but there’s nothing but trouble waiting for the wicked.

The Holy Spirit said that calamity does not have permission from Him to overwhelm the life of the righteous.

So I asked Him why then do the righteous have calamity constantly seeking to overwhelm and drown out and swallow up our lives if He the Lord has set for that not to happen. The Holy Spirit pointed out to me first that though something is decreed does not mean it cannot be challenged on earth. If someone takes you to court and you don’t show up and defend yourself what is determined will happen to you.

The reality is that we need to know what we have been given and the extent of our authority and what is not permitted against us. For example the word says no weapon formed against us shall prosper and every tongue that rises up against us in judgment we shall condemn, for this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their righteousness is of Him says the Lord.

However we see that weapons are formed and many times seem to prosper against us but if you truly look at the context of that promise it never said weapons will not be formed against us it is that they will not prosper and we need to condemn them.

“What we do not condemn will condemn us because we did not refute and reject them.”

He reminded me of Job who was assaulted by the enemy with a vicious attack that wanted to reduce him to nothing and make a mockery of his righteousness.

God even commended him as one who eschewed evil and worked righteousness however once Job was attacked if you look at his speech and conversation and conduct in it he gave the enemy room to ravage his life more because he seemed unsure of his covenant with God and started self cursing, and agreeing with the lies, but in the end when he came to his senses on the back of the word of the Lord spoken by Elihu his friend and God stepping in to remind Job of who He was and is to Job the whole situation changed and Job was restored back to life and given back double for his losses and another 140 years down to the fourth generation without satan being able to ravish him because he now knew the God of his covenant and the parameters of his protection and how to ward of attacks and attempts to hurt him.

The Holy Spirit said in like manner we need to know the parameters in our lives and fight against the enemy when he seeks to harass us and rebuke him and his lies and take what has been apportioned to us as our inheritance. He reminded me that satan even tried to make Jesus question His sonship by saying if you are the son of God after he heard the Father say to Jesus You are my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. What did Jesus do! Agree with satan that He was not what God said He was. No He said it is written and on that I stand and the enemy had to back off because Jesus could not be robbed of His identity by lies and always addressed lies with the words it is written and the enemy had to flee.

So today the Holy Spirit wants you to know that calamity has no permission to overwhelm your righteous life because your righteousness is of the Lord not yourself and therefore you need to stand up and demand calamity in any form to leave with all its effects from your presence and your life now to be overwhelmed with the power and Presence of the Holy Spirit which brings complete freedom from the oppression of the devil in the manifestation of good with signs, wonders and miracles reflecting the Hand of the Lord on your behalf.

Rise up in this might of yours and take back your peace, joy and results of good and watch the enemy scoot away because you know whose you are and to whom you belong and He does not permit calamity to take you over in Jesus Name.

Have a wonderful start to the week with this reality in your lives and never move from it.

Say aloud Calamity your days in my life are over in Jesus Name and promises fulfilled you are my daily Reward in Jesus’ name. Amen.