Where do you go to in the Bible when things are going wrong in your life?  It seems many times people go to the book of Job.  They forget the part that the Lord turned the captivity of Job and the fact that his dilemmas lasted 9 mos.  Job 42:10 A lot of people can be in imprisoned who are not physically in prison.  Circumstances are pressing in on them and they need a change.  Ps. 126:1 What happens when your captivity is turned?  Job’s counsel was family and friends and they were wrong associations in that they presumed his problems were caused by God or his sin.  We see that an ignorance of the truth or a lack of knowledge caused wrong thinking/believing.  God’s Word is our counsel and it is pure and stands firm as Truth.  When we stand on God’s truth we raise up a standard and we have dominion and authority in the name of Jesus! Most people will live their entire lives out of the appetites of their physical body or the issues of their soul, very few people live out of their spirit.  They do not possess their souls!  Our churches and spiritual lives are in the condition they are because we don’t walk out our authority we have in the name of Jesus!

For example:  Suppose I was a teacher and I presented the material in a classroom setting.  I would still have students with various grades and levels of achievements.  I would not consider myself a failure as a teacher based on these results.  The key could be application, interest or even development.  Sometimes the teacher has to evaluate and even change the style of  teaching while the material is the same.  The only realm satan has to hold me in captivity is through my soul.   My resistance to him has to come up from my spirit and out.  He is coming at me from the outside in.  When I realize that God is already in me  and the Greater One…than I can put satan where he belongs…..under my feet!