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Are you in your place of comfort, of peace?
If so, you know how hard it is to stay there!
What it takes is balance.
Call it your "spot of blessing": When we get to where Christ wants us, to the spot He designed for us, we find comfort, peace -- and resistance from the enemy.
The devil wants anything for us but to see us remain blessed.
But there is that spot of blessing and you can find it.
Previously, we wrote of a "place" of blessing. That's an actual physical location that may afford us grace. A "spot" of blessing is not just an actual location but our entire circumstances. It's where our "heads" (our spirits) want to be. It is the spot to which we have aspired our entire lives (without realizing it).
And when we get there, there is a heavenly sense but also the knowing that Heaven does not exist on earth and that there are folks who seem to come after us -- who seem intent on nudging us from this "spot," on disrupting us -- when we get there.
That's the enemy at work, and he does this because he wants to keep us off balance. A balanced person is a person who prays, who has God on his mind, who can work hard, who can struggle, but who can also relax and laugh. The enemy hates laughter! A balanced person is living in a way that is "natural" to the spirit -- and this is what brings the harmony that translates into a sense of comfort.
To regulate our lives, to make time for the health of both body and mind, to set aside enough time for prayer, for exercise, for relaxation, and for personal relationships, is to head for the right "spot." We are in balance when we are in control of our schedules, instead of slaves to the passage of time (and the chatter around us). We reach our spot of comfort when we are healthy of body and when we have emotional equilibrium. We are in balance when our hearts are pure and meld with the Sacred Heart.
The simple formula is in Luke 2:12: "Glory to God in the highest Heaven, and peace to men who enjoy His favor."
Once attained, it must be protected.
For there are the cares of the world. There is the wrong energy of television, of hard music, and of radio, which disturb the spirit (and often nudge us from that precious peaceful spot). There are tensions that arise.
Folks sense that we are in a place that is blessed, and they think they have to knock us out to get to the same spot. They don't realize that it is not the spot of their anointing.
We all are anointed in a different way.
And we have to respect that. Each of us has worked and suffered in a different fashion and are designed for a unique place in the eyes of God.
We know when we are there when security resonates in the spirit.
You know how a teeter-totter is? It goes up and down and when there is a loss of control it fluctuates wildly -- painfully.
Ups and downs can be the result of a spiritual shortcoming and what we have to do is get the teeter-totter back in balance with the point or fulcrum (which is Jesus).
When you are depressed, God will lift you up if you believe He will lift you up; when someone tries to knock you down, or tensions come, don't react; let the wave go right past. You will be blessed for that. You are headed to a spot of anointing! Your peace will be prolonged.
Work hard. Rest enough. Go to no extreme. Eat in a way that agrees with your body. Harbor no passion (but for Him). Remember personal relationships, and make sure being thrifty is balanced with the generous. Be wise, and yet a dove. Be strong, and yet meek. Seek to complete your mission in life but don't run yourself into the ground doing it.
If it seems like time has sped up, ask the Lord to organize your day and slow it down!
To stay at our spot of blessing means paying strict attention to how we regulate our lives -- what we think, how we pray, how we speak, what we expose ourselves to. Evil in any way can throw us off balance -- and cause us to waver from that precious "spot."
So can jealousy: the attacks of others pierces the bubble of the cocoon God has around us unless we strengthen it (through balance).
Don't give voice to the enemy. When someone comes at you because you are where you want to be, because you are in a state of comfort, where you feel grace, harbor no anger and don't keep talking about it. Don't quote them. Never repeat the words of the enemy. When we hover over a matter, we energize the spirits -- good and not so good -- around us.
Instead, spend your efforts getting back to that place of balance and find life a struggle but a joyous one at the end of which -- if we pray enough -- the spot of our blessing will serve as our portal to the eternal and death will have no sting.
