The Triumphant Church

The Triumphant Church

they will understand exactly what kind of "wrestling" it
is that believers are to engage in.
Believers don't have to overpower and overcome the
devil or wrestle him in their own strength. We only
"wrestle" demonic forces by our faith in God's Word
from a position of victory seated with Christ because we
have authority over demons in Christ. That's why the
only wrestling we engage in is the faith fight. If we are
in any other fight, we are in the wrong fight: “Fight the
good fight of faith ....” (1 Tim. 6:12).
You see, sometimes you have to "wrestle" to stay in
faith, because as long as the devil can keep you in the
sense realm where he is god, and you look at the
circumstances, he'll whip you every time. But as long as
you stay in the faith realm depending on God's Word to
put you over, you'll whip him every time.
The faith fight—trusting God's Word to work for you
—is the only fight the Bible says believers are to fight.
The Bible says, “Let us labour therefore to enter into
that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of
unbelief” (Heb. 4:11). We labor to come into God's rest of
faith: “For we which have BELIEVED do enter into
rest....” (Heb. 4:3). Some believers are laboring and
laboring, trying to defeat the enemy. They just need to
enter into the rest of faith because they believe the
Word.
If you are a believer, you are in Christ and you have
authority over satanic forces now. You don't have to
labor to attain authority over Satan because Jesus
provided that in your redemption by defeating those
principalities and powers for you. So you are not coming
to prayer with the idea that you have to whip
principalities and powers. Jesus did that for you on the
Cross.