Rabbi Schneider - The Hidden Battle Shaping Your Life
Sometimes we think in simplistic terms in terms of black and white. But the reality is there's a lot of gray and there are different levels of reality. Sometimes we don't consider the fact that every individual in the earth is living, in a sense, in their own world. We're all processing life differently. We all have such a different, unique experience. And going from a complete dark place to a place where we're in bright light, we first go through different levels and shades of gray. We're all living in different realities. And as we ascend in the spirit, in our spiritual walk, as we're strengthened with the Ruach Hakodesh, with the Holy Spirit, we begin to break off more and more of the dark, more and more of the gray. And slowly we enter in to more and more light.
So, for example, let's say that you struggle with anger. At first you might start out you're just an angry person When you're in that state without self-awareness, you'll actually feel justified in your anger. You'll think that you're right to blame everybody else on your problems and anger, frustration. And over time, the Holy Spirit begins to convict you that maybe your anger isn't the other person's fault, maybe it's your fault. And you need to resist that spirit of anger. That's what happened to me.
So going back now close to 20 years ago, the Holy Spirit really woke me up to this fact. And so I started warfaring against anger. And I remember the first real test that I had. Something happened and I was so angry and I was angry at a person. But the Holy Spirit had begun to deal with me about this. So I resisted letting out that anger. It took all my strength to resist letting out that anger. But I was successful by the grace of God. And what happened was something began to break and I got more and more power in the Holy Spirit to resist anger. Then slowly over time, what happened is I started gaining more peace and people even saw the change in me - it was real.
And I began to ascend out of that place of darkness - for me, it was a stronghold of anger - to slowly coming into more and more light, more and more peace, more and more love. But I had to ascend. And it took time. And I had to build strength in the spirit by resisting. Well, that's just one example of ascending into a different reality. You see, God has called you and I out of darkness into his marvelous light. But we don't just go bam, out of darkness into the light. We have to grow into it. And so even as I began speaking today about different people living in different realities, which is absolutely true, it's also true that you and I move through different realities in our walk, in our ascension into the depths of Jesus.
So I want to encourage you today that there is more for you and that walking with Jesus is just about confessing him as Lord. Yes. It begins with confessing him as Lord. That's absolutely the beginning. But some people think that's all there is to it. We are on a quest. We're on an adventure. We're climbing a mountain. We have to pick up our cross every day and struggle against the world, the flesh and the devil. And as we do, we ascend out of darkness into the light. And God keeps on bringing us into more and more light in our reality. So I want to encourage you today. You got to understand you're in a battle and I want you to take this word seriously. We are not here on earth to recreate. We're here to warfare. We're spiritual warriors that are called to overcome. And this is why Yeshua taught in the Book of Revelation, chapter two and three. Seven times he said this he that overcomes will inherit these things. We are here to overcome. And as you do, you're going to find your perception of reality changing. You're going to be brought more and more into the depth of God's love.
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