This word is submitted by Teresa Seputis (ts@godspeak.org)

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                 I Have Given You The Victory


I have given you the victory, but you must choose to walk in it. Likewise,
I have given you My authority, but you must exercise it, or it does you
no good whatsoever.

The enemy of your soul wants nothing more than for you to be powerless
and ineffective, so that he can trample you underfoot.  However, I
have destined you to smash his head with your heel, not the other way
around.  The enemy of your soul wants you to be afraid to rise up
and fight, for a soldier who will not enter the battle is not a threat
to him.  

But I have called and ordained you to be more than a conqueror in Me.  
I have fully equipped you.  I have given you spiritual armor, and it 
will protect you if you will but put it on.  I have placed My Spirit 
within you and I have placed My authority upon you. What more do you 
need?

Child, do you see the pattern here?  There is one battle that must be 
fought and won before you set foot into the main battlefield. That 
battle is in who you listen to and who you will believe.  Your enemy,
the devil, will do all that he can to prevent you from rising up in the
authority that I have given you.  He will do all that he can to get you
to disqualify yourself so that you do not step up to the battle and 
begin to war.  For he knows that when you war in Me, you will win.  And 
he does not want to be defeated, so he does not want you to fight.  And
he does all he can to convince you to shy away from the battle and 
he does all he can to scare you out of using the authority that I have
already given to you. Will you listen to him or will you listen to Me?

Child, I have already called you into My army and I have armed you in
My power, My anointing, My authority.  Do not shy away from the battles
that I led you into, for child, you cannot win if you do not fight. 
You cannot gain the victory that I have ordained for you if you run
away from the battle. Fear not. Trust Me and know that I have already
given you the victory.