A foolproof way to score a win against your adversary is to launch a counter-attack by seeking to restore a relationship!
When it comes to your adversary, a prime target in his attempts to destroy your life is your relationships!
Your relationships, at times, are literally on the front lines of his attack!
Do you have a relationship that has been left ravaged by his previous attacks?
Do you have a relationship where the battle is raging right now?
Don’t just sit back! COUNTER ATTACK!!!
Now, your counter-attack must begin with taking back control of what the military strategists call the “Center of Gravity!”
The Center of Gravity is: “The hub of all power and movement on which everything depends, the point at which all energies should be directed.”
So, what is the Center of Gravity on the battleground of your relationships?
You don’t have to look any further than YOUR OWN HEART!!
Your heart is the “Center of Gravity!”
Your heart is… the hub of all power and movement on which everything depends, and thus it is the point at which all energies should be directed!
Proverbs 4:23 says it well!
“Above all else, guard your heart, for it affects everything you do!”
And Hebrews 12:15:
“See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.”
When it comes to your relationship that is experiencing or has experienced an attack… What is the state of your heart?
Who has operational control of the center of gravity of your heart??
According to Galatians 5:19-26, it is pretty simple to figure out.
You can discern who is at the root by inspecting the fruit!
Verse 19… “Now the works of the flesh…” also known as the evidence something or someone other than God has operational control of our hearts… “Now the works of the flesh are evident!”
“Enmity, strife, fits of anger, divisions… and things like these…” which also means roots of bitterness, holding grudges, unforgiveness.
In contrast, the fruit of the SPIRIT… also known as the evidence that God has operational control of our hearts…
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control… humility… forgiveness…
So once again…
When it comes to your relationship that is experiencing or has experienced an attack… What is the state of your heart?
Who has operational control of the center of gravity of your heart??
Ephesians 4:30-32 (NASB1995)
[30] Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. [31] Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. [32] Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
A foolproof way to score a win against our adversary… is to forgive!
We remove a favorite weapon from his arsenal when we forgive!
We re-establish God having operational control of our hearts when we forgive!
And with God in control, the battle has already been won!!!!
