I believe many times, as believers, we have a dangerous tendency to immediately interpret adversity as evidence of God’s disapproval when, in fact, it may be something far more purposeful. We go through financial strain, family tension, confusion, delays, or spiritual exhaustion, and the immediate thought is, “What did I do wrong?” As if suffering always means disobedience. As if spiritual pressure always means divine punishment. It doesn’t.
Beloved, let me offer you something truer: The size of your resistance often reveals the weight of your assignment. In Ephesians 6:12, Paul lays it out clearly, “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness…” There it is. Plain as day. This isn’t a natural fight. We are in a war against unseen forces that are terrified of us becoming who God called us to be, and the enemy is very strategic. He does not waste his time on those who pose no threat. So if you’ve come under unusual pressure, maybe it’s not punishment, maybe it’s confirmation.
The devil doesn’t target people for fun. He targets what he fears.
He sees our obedience. He hears our prayers. He watches our persistence, and sometimes, the warfare is not trying to stop us from doing wrong; it’s trying to exhaust us from doing right. The most dangerous person to hell is not the platformed preacher. It’s the quiet intercessor who never gives up. It’s the man of God who resists bitterness. The mother who fasts in secret. The believer who forgives even when it costs everything. So when the pressure increases, the warfare intensifies, and everything around you starts to rattle, don’t run. Don’t panic and don’t misinterpret the battle.
There are times in life when hell knows your name more than your friends do, and while that might not make you famous here, it certainly makes you dangerous there.
If you knew what was attached to your obedience, you would stop wondering why it’s so hard.
This is not the time to retreat and is definitely not the time to reinterpret God’s silence as abandonment. He is closer than you think, and the breakthrough is often disguised as a breakdown. Right before something moves in the Spirit, everything shakes in the natural, and many times it feels like a whirlwind.
Son, daughter, ask yourself this question today:
What if the thing you’re calling “opposition” is actually evidence that you’re stepping into territory the enemy doesn’t want you to reach? Because maybe, just maybe, the battle didn’t show up to stop you. It showed up because you’re getting close to the thing the enemy’s been trying to keep you from your whole life, and if that’s the case, then you can’t afford to quit. Not now. Not here. Not when you’re this close.
So let me leave you with this:
If the enemy is fighting you this hard, it’s because there’s something on the other side of this battle that he can’t afford you to walk into. You may feel worn down, misunderstood, pushed to your limits, but the presence of war doesn’t mean the absence of God; it often means you are standing at the precipice of purpose. So do not lay down your sword. Do not shut your mouth. Do not leave the watchtower He assigned you to, because in the realm of the Spirit, pressure always precedes promotion, and resistance is often proof that you’re carrying something eternal.
So fight back. Not in the flesh but in the Spirit. Fight with your worship. Fight with your voice. Fight with your obedience. Fight with your Word. Hell does not break out against people with no future, it wars against the ones who carry legacy.
Family, this is not punishment. It is actually proof. Proof that you are a threat. Proof that you are chosen. Proof that you are walking in something hell hoped you would never survive long enough to see.
Don’t misread the battle. Master it.
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