Some Fights are Beneath You

In the book of Nehemiah we learn of the great leader who organized the people of Israel to return to their homeland and rebuild the wall around the great city of Jerusalem. During the process of rebuilding the wall Nehemiah was confronted by many obstacles and distractions on one occasion the enemies of God's people came to him and tried to distract him from his purpose by calling him down from the wall for meeting. Nehemiah knew that this was a set up and so he sent his servants to tell these men that he would not stoop down to their level and impede his focused on the worked he had purposed to complete.

As people of God we have a position of elevation over the enemy. In Genesis chapter 3 God cursed the serpent and said that humanity would bruise his head and he would bruise their heel - "And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel." (Genesis 3:14-15) When you know where you are in Christ you will realize that you are in a position of dominance. Because of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ we have a position of authority over our enemies.

If we think about the universe as a company, God is the President of the company and we are his personal assistants. We may not have the title of COO or CFO but because we work so closely with God we are seated in a place of authority with him and everything is below us because everything else is below God. Don't come down from your purpose the enemy is beneath you and it is not your responsibility to engage your enemy in direct combat. When the Lead Angel in the God's army, Michael,  disputed with Lucifer over Moses's body in the book of Jude Michael simply called on the name of the Lord to take authority over the enemy and retrieve Moses's body - "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee." (Jude 1:9) All we have to do is turn our fights over to God who has all power and authority and when we are confronted by the enemy we won't lower ourselves to fight, we will call on the name of the Lord.

Pastor Lamar Belcher teaches that God is the only one that can fight in the mud and never get dirty. We are more than Conquerors because God will fight all our battles and God never looses.