Thursday, 25 September 2025

THE ENEMIES OF YOUR RACE

Hebrews 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, 2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. 3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.


Every great destiny has many adversaries; there is no greatness without opposition. Your ability to overcome every opposition is what makes you a great man and a great woman (1 Corinthians 16:9). The weight of your greatness lies in how much opposition you were able to crush as you continue on the race. Satan has no business opposing those who are not in the race; he is a destiny hunter; that is what he does for a living, and he is not ashamed of it. Job 1:7( And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it).

He knows how to set traps for his target, but you will not be his victim, in Jesus' name. The only way to avoid his trap is to focus on Jesus, focus on the goal, and keep your eyes on the destination. If you know how glorious your crown is, you will endure affliction, and that is why you need to ask God to open your eyes and show you your future (Genesis 13:14-17). 


The enemy of our race is Satan, but he uses weapons of distractions which manifest mostly in the form of sins, offence, complaint and murmuring, impatience, unforgiveness, and many more. You can't run the race with all this baggage; they are too heavy; the bible says that you will be wearied and faint in your mind. As a child of God, we have a thick wall of protection around us, but any of the above weapons of Satan can break the hedge, and the serpent will bite. Sin is a serious distraction; it will create a wedge between us and God, and without God, we can do nothing. When your mind is clouded with offence, you will lose your covering, and the weight of unforgiveness can set you back in the race. Complaining and murmuring are insults to God, and people get destroyed by that. If you complain, He will stay away from your midst, and guess who will rush in to afflict you, Satan the devil, but you will not fall into the temptation of murmuring, in Jesus' name. Those who murmured against God in the wilderness did not get to see the promised land; they lost out in the journey (Numbers 14:27-29 and 1 Corinthians 10:10). Dwelling on the past failure is a heavy weight that you cannot carry along with you on this journey;  when you keep looking back, you can never get to your destination. There is nothing in the past for you; your goal is in the future, and that is where your focus should be.

Philippians 3:13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.


1 Corinthians 9:24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

The race of destiny is for the serious-minded people; you are to fight having a target in mind and not as one beating the air; that is a waste of energy, sweating but achieving nothing. That will not be you, in Jesus' name, you will achieve your God given purpose, in Jesus' name.

Your focus should be on Him that knows how to make every crooked way straight; that knows how to break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron (Isaiah 45:2). Friends, but cannot focus on someone whom you don't know and that is why you need to become His son by accepting Jesus Christ as your Lord and saviour. Hurry up and say yes to Jesus today by praying this salvation prayer below, and be blessed, in Jesus' name


Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins and accept You as my Lord and Saviour. I believe you died for me to make me a new man/woman. Forgive me all my sins, wash me with your blood, and give me a new heart. Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul. Now I believe that I am born again. And I am a child of God. Amen!


NENE ISAH,

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