Exactly why were you born into a war zone and how can you not only survive it, but thrive in the midst of it?
How can you take ground for the Kingdom of God and see His justice over your life story?
All of this craziness just above your head and deep inside your soul is nothing less than a very real battle that's raging between a real enemy and your soul. The simplicity of 1 Peter 5:8 helps us to remember why our daily lives are so difficult:
"Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour."
God placed you into your specific body and family at this specific time in history for a very specific purpose. Was it just to see you barely hang in there?
Your life is an obstacle course designed by God to maximize your capacity to love and be loved!
What you've personally battled and come up against again and again is so much bigger than you are. That's why it's so hard. You're not just fighting for yourself or generations before or after you in your lineage. Nor are you simply fighting to attain your version of success or happiness or to fulfill your God-given potential.
Whether you're aware of it or not, you are contending to know and experience the truth of God's heart for you in the face of great contradiction and mystery while you're simultaneously fighting creation's war for the truth of who God is as Love to be revealed in all of society itself.
We believe that the war will be won through individuals like yourself, who become fully convinced that His heart towards us is indeed good. In every individual battle that you win—to personally believe in and live from the goodness of God is evidence of the Kingdom itself coming to earth; the very greatest victory that is promised us.