“He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them.”
William Golding, Lord of the Flies
“Swat!” came my towel in the kitchen as I tried to kill the fly. This was the third day of chasing it around my house. It was taunting me every day and reminded me of how the enemy behaves in our lives. I had enough. I began to yell at the fly and curse it, like Jesus cursed the fig tree.
I had been through seven weeks of intense spiritual warfare. Something inside of me “snapped”. The fly was the final straw.
Inwardly I began to feel power rise to the surface. There was a power and a force I did not know was inside of me. It was only a fly, but I was determined he was not going to win.
When I began to curse the fly, it landed on the wall. I quickly snapped my towel and got him. I began to do a native war dance around the dead fly celebrating my victory. My victory dance then broke out into a full fledged assault on the enemy. I began to bind and loose things in my house. I drew a line in the sand with the enemy and shouted “NO MORE!”
It sounds silly to rejoice over killing that fly. But for me, it was completely symbolic of winning the first battle in a long season of spiritual warfare. It was my own personal tipping point. I began to rise up and declare aloud the promises that God had given me. After I had done this, I could feel the shift in the atmosphere of my house.
Are you going through a season of spiritual warfare? Maybe some of the small things are getting you down. Take heart. Tackle one of those small things and watch your faith grow. Once you get that first small victory, you will feel empowered to rise up in the authority that God has already given through the blood of his precious Son, Jesus Christ.
“Anyone who believes in Me will do the same works I have done,
and even greater works…”
John 14:12 (NLT)
What is the “fly” that you need to squash this week?
One fateful decision landed me smack in the middle of my own Wilderness…
Though I was obeying God’s voice, I spent the next several years “walking on water,” even though it felt more like I was treading water. A Journey Out of the Wilderness is for people going through a rough time—a Wilderness experience—where you feel as though you are “down for the count” and ready to give up. Wilderness Wanderers feel as though they are doing laps around the mountain, passing the same tree over and over again wondering, “Will this never end?” However, being in the Wilderness will be one of the most transformational times of your life.