By: Shi-Anne Eakin
When you have God’s character and you’re abiding in Him and the oil is producing God’s character in you, that’s what fights the personal demons. It’s not learning to be a crazy warrior so you defeat the lion and the bear, it is abiding in His name, it’s abiding in Him.
It’s abiding in Him.
God’s character won’t be jealous. God’s character will DEFEAT jealousy and pride. That’s how He fights for you! It’s not that our character gets better, His character fights everything that comes against our life, our spirit life. When you abide in Him and His Spirit is flowing through you, He will defeat every demon that comes your way. He will preach the gospel to the lost. He will love your neighbor. He will love your enemy—this is how He fights for us. It’s Him! His character! So it’s not only that “we’re free to love Him and He loves others through us.” We’re free to love Him and He fights jealousy, He fights insecurity, and He defeats the tornados [that come against our life].
He does everything and we go low in worship and awe—and this is what we do the rest of our life.
And we stay in the Spirit, we don’t come back into the mind. We stay in the heavenliness, in the Spirit. We don’t have to strive and battle and crawl in our minds on this earth. We’re here but our home is there in heaven. We’ve already made it by faith we’re just getting through the journey.
So here is what you need to spend your whole life doing: being ready for His return.
I know people argue and say, “Well I’m focused on winning souls.” Well, you can focus on winning souls and not be ready for His return. But if you’re truly ready for His return you are winning souls. It’s all Him.
It’s all the same, everything is the same thing—all the parables are the exact same thing. It’s all kingdom, it’s all the gospel. Every bit of it is the gospel. He’s the oil in the lamp, He’s the fire, it’s all Him. The ten virgins is the same as the pruning, so you’re not cut off or snuffed out. All we do is abide.
Because if you obey Him you’re not going to be jealous. If you obey Him you’re not going to think you’re less than or more than. The insecurity won’t take you into pride and the pride won’t drive you into insecurity, and because you’re not insecure you’re not going to be jealous because you’re His and you have crazy value. You value His life and so you’re set. And you love your neighbor and you tell the gospel and you preach to the lost and you do everything because you’re doing nothing— because He’s doing it all!