One of my
favourite scriptures in 2 Corinthians 4:8 where Apostle Paul distinguishes
between the assault happening on the external and the defiant response of the
internal to such an assault.
We are
hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in
despair, we are persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed,
always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of
Jesus also may be manifested in our body. (2 Corinthians 4:8)
According to
Apostle Paul, the defiant response is underpinned by the constant reminder of
the import of the death of Christ and that reminder and alignment with the
death of Christ constantly injects the life of Jesus Christ into their lives
and their situations. There's a level of association with the death of Christ
and that makes us practically, make confessions and even experience situations
that are immune to the barrage of assaults against us in the external. One can
stretch this further to then say that if a believer cowers in the face of
external pressure, the problem is not really with the magnitude of the
pressure, there's a kink in the level of identification with the death of the
Lord Jesus which shunts the lease of life that such believer should experience.
This is not in a bid to trivialize trials that people go through but Apostle
Paul emphasized that the Spirit of God always furnishes us with the right level
of fortitude to withstand any external pressure, the Spirit of God will never
cry 'yepa or mogbe' (cries of
helplessness) in the face of contrary situations. It may look like it's the
empathetic thing to do but the testimony of the Spirit will always be different
because of what He knows. That ability is available in the faculty of the
Spirit, the question is whether as believers, will we cower in our confessions,
or agree with what the Spirit is saying in these times.
One of the things
that gets the enemy excited is watching God’s sons and daughters act contrary
to the covenant in response to negative situations. So also, one of the things
that gets him angry is when he sees staunch men and women adopt, to the tee, the
response the Bible recommends to tumultuous situations.
I have found that
one of such responses the Holy Spirit furnishes in our hearts is a disregarding
disposition to the enemy. It shows we know the place of the enemy, how far we
know He is from us and we are willing to constantly remind him of where he is ranked
in the scheme of things - under our feet.

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