The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they might have life and have [it] abundantly. John 10:10

Following our baptism, there will be threats to the abundant life that God promises us but God will dispossess them of any hold they have on what He wills to give to us, if we follow Him and do not go ahead of Him outside of His authority and command.

God does not say that what stands before us is little and easy to overcome. He says: "Hear, Israel, thou art passing over today the Jordan, to go in to possess nations greater and mightier than thyself; cities great and fenced in the heavens, a people great and tall, sons of Anakim, whom thou - thou hast known". (Deut 9:1,2)

But we are to know that Yahweh 'thy God is He who is passing over before thee - a fire consuming He doth destroy them."

And we, we do not go forward with our eyes closed, but aware and prepared for battle, dressed in the full armour of God and knowing that God is the one who dispossesses and not us. We are to remain in God and with God, we are to engage in the spiritual battle ahead.

What is the city? It is the gathering of people in spiritual agreement where they oppose God. What is the greatness and mightiness of the nations? It is their power over others, their control and dominance, their control over the minds and lives of the people, who consume the lie of greatness , - the powers and principalities of this dark world. What are the people who are great and tall, whom thou, thou has known (and thou hast heard Who doth station himself before the sons of Anak?) Are they not those who make a name for themselves, who make themselves god in their own eyes?

But God laughs for He is the judge of all the earth and their time is short.

We are to proclaim God's truth and stand for God's justice and do what is right in His eyes and not to be afraid nor daunted nor put off nor silenced by the opposition we may find ahead. The apostle Paul prays that he might speak as he ought.

"Through prayer and supplication praying at all time in the SPirit and in regard to this same, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints - and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news, for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely - as it behoveth me to speak. " Ephesians 6:18-20

When we have done all, we are to stand and see the deliverance of the Lord.

"I never said it would be easy. I said I would be with you always." This was the word spoken to me when I first turned back to God to walk with Him as my light and saviour, complaining in my soul that giving my life to Him had not taken away all the difficulties and deterrents I had been facing and was still facing. God spoke to me: "I never said it would be easy. I said I would be with you always"