Are you ready for battle?

I was watching this old television show, where the team leader would have this really great plan for how they would accomplish something. If things went wrong, they would go to plan B. A lot of times... they would go to plan C.

When the leader said Plan C, one of the team members would say... "What's Plan C???" and the leader would say "IMPROVISE!"

I think a lot of us can relate to that. Things don't go the way that we imagine a lot of times and we often find ourselves in a place where we have to... improvise.

The problem is... this ideology has crept into how we approach Christianity. God has a plan for how HIS church is to grow, affect change in the world, and represent Him... we we are improvising!

Mature Christians "...understand that the church is God's plan to beat down the gates of hell and that there is no plan B." (Jim Putman - Real Life Discipleship: Building Churches that make disciples)

Matthew 16:17-19 (New Living Translation (NLT))

 

15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”

16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus replied, “You are blessed, Simon son of John, because my Father in heaven has revealed this to you. You did not learn this from any human being. 18 Now I say to you that you are Peter (which means ‘rock’), and upon this rock I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it."

God built his church based upon this simple thing... Faith in a living God. After spending time with Jesus, hearing him teach about all the things the scriptures said about Him, it clicked. in that instance, Peter knew in his inner most being that Jesus was truly the savior!

Do you know it in your heart? Do you believe it with the every fiber of your being? Does it affect your life?

When you know that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of the living God, you are ready for battle. There will be no need for a Plan B or Plan C. You'll know that there is only one way without wavering.