Always Get Back Up [Dragon Slayer pt. 4]

Gravetop Church

Main Idea: While it’s hard enough to find the bravery and courage within your faith to get into the fight of spiritual warfare, it can be even harder to get back up after feeling knocked down. Whether it’s from being exasperated from an ongoing battle, being discouraged after not seeing the victory you were necessarily praying for, or feeling impotent after giving into temptation, the Bible urges you to get back up again.

'As for me, I look to the Lord for help. I wait confidently for God to save me, and my God will certainly hear me. Do not gloat over me, my enemies! For though I fall, I will rise again. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. ' -Micah 7:7-8

Today, we’re going to unpack the moments after a fight that we feel like we lost. We’re going to talk about the moments that we get knocked down and how you’re not the only one. We’re going to analyze the power of grace and how to access it in our weakest moments. And at the end, we’re going to talk about carrying the presence of victory even after we feel like we lost.

The reason that this topic is so important to talk about is because so many believers think that they are the only ones who experience losses and feel too discouraged to get back up again. People disqualify themselves through their feelings of unworthiness and guilt unnecessarily, and they give up on being a vessel for God’s Kingdom because they feel like they don’t deserve to be used by God anymore. Today is all about understanding the power of grace, regardless if you feel like you’ve won or lost a spiritual fight.

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1. We All Fall

[BECAUSE WE ARE IMPERFECT, WE CLING TO JESUS]

There is this constant battle within us and outside of us. One between our flesh and our spirit, and one between our faith and the devil. While people commonly understand that nobody is perfect, we wrestle with this philosophy personally in the moments that we feel like we lost certain battles. We disqualify ourselves from the possibility of being used by God because of the feelings that come afterward. Feelings like impotence, guilt or insecurity. But we shouldn’t let our feelings determine what we can or can not do.

(Philippians 3:8-9; Romans 7:21-25)

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2. We All Struggle

[EVERY WEAKNESS AND STRUGGLE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAN ON GOD’S GRACE]

Jesus didn’t fulfill His mission on the cross to simply turn bad people into good people. His death and resurrection was to bring us from death to life. And this new life that we’ve been given is so much more than how much sin can I avoid. We are called to bring others out of death as we ourselves are able to tap into the source of life itself. Every new struggle and weakness we realize within ourselves on this journey isn’t a sign that we suck and should just give up but rather is a new revelation and opportunity to lean into God’s grace even more.

(2 Corinthians 12:7-10)

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3. We All Choose

[YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE CHOICE TO CARRY THE PRESENCE OF VICTORY]

Every day we are given a choice to carry the presence of God with us. And with that presence is also the Spirit of Victory. Whether it’s for ourselves or someone else, we are able to carry that victory solely because of what Jesus has done and not by our own merit or performance. Most of the days that we struggle with the choice to carry it are usually the days that we are going through a spiritual battle without even realizing it.

(1 Corinthians 15:54-58; 1 John 5:4-5)

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