When a person experiences symptoms of infirmity, on his or her visit to a doctor, the first thing the doctor does is to identify the underlying cause of the person’s medical problems because failing to do so can lead to a misdiagnosis and therefore a wrong treatment that could be fatal in some cases. This same situation is true with life generally. Most of the time for instance people point at others as the source of their particular problems without bothering to identify what role they may have played in bringing themselves under the heat of the enemy. This is so because the enemy can only get as far as we permit him. However, sometimes your situation may be as a result of the trial of your faith but before the enemy can get the go ahead, you must have let him mostly by your fears, ignorance or personal utterances. See Job 3:25-26, Hosea 4:6, Prov.18:21 and Matthew 12:37.
In light of the foregoing, let us see some situations that point at the heat of the enemy. Let me say here that whatever the cause of heat, beginning this month, you shall recover and you shall be ready to bounce back to life in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Recurring troubles especially when they follow each other closely. Job’s testimony is a very good example as we see in the book of Job.1-2. In Job’s case, he was made vulnerable by his fears. However, the adversary did not come at him because of his sin but because he was righteous. His claims was that Job did not truly love God but loved all the blessings he received from God but God knew Job and was willing to take a bet on Him and as usual, God was right and Satan was wrong. At the end, God gave Job double for his troubles. This month, you shall begin to receive double for your troubles.
Unexplainable demonstrations of animosity from envious neighbours, friends and family. A good example of this was the testimony of Joseph in Genesis 37-41.
Persistent sicknesses without real explanation especially when such sicknesses are tagged terminal like the case of Job. However, God terminated his sickness. In the case of the lepers who encountered Jesus also, their plagues were terminated. Also, in the case of Jairus’ daughter the Lord terminated by raising her from the dead.
Persecutions from different people even when they do not know you just because of your faith. This was the story of Apostle Paul in 2Cor.4. All the early Church fathers were persecuted for their faith and most of them were even killed for believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.
When you try to plant good seeds of love in the life of others and another person comes to sow evil seeds in their lives to make your efforts vain. See the example of the parable of the wheat and the tares in Matthew 13.
You can personally identify many more symptoms of the enemy shooting arrows at you in your life. When we see these things, what do we need to do to deal with them?
First, we must identify any access we have given the enemy into our lives like sin, fear, ignorance etc and repent of those accesses and get back on course with God. While repentance would result in instant forgiveness, the process of recovery from the effect of the heat may not be instant depending on what the consequence of our error was. However, your recovery is sure if your repentance is genuine. See the story of David in 2Samuel and see Hosea 4:6
Second, we have to draw nearer to God for His presence to envelope use bringing us the much needed refreshing from the effects of heat. See Ps.16:11 and Acts 3:19. This is so even when there is no known cause of the heat you are experiencing.
Third, you must seek to fill your life with the word of God especially as taught by the Holy Spirit and anointed teachers. The entrance of God’s word would bring the much needed light that would change your status forever. See Ps.119:130; Isa.28:9-12; 30:20-21; 1Tim.4:13-16 and John 6:63
Fourth, pray in the Spirit without ceasing. See 1Cor.14:14-15, Ephe.4:18, 1Thess.5:17 and Luke 18:1.
Finally, change your language and general lifestyles to conform to the ways of God. See Isa.55:8, Deu.19:30, Rom.12:2, Jas.1:22-25, Matthew 7:24-27 etc.
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