The Red Zone
It’s no coincidence that the most crucial zone to success in football is referred to as the RED ZONE. For red refers to the heart.
The fighting is fierce in this zone and championships are won or lost based on a team’s Red Zone success. It is just as true in the Spirit realm. If God’s truth does not make it through our red zone (the distance between our head and heart) to our hearts- we will never experience the abundant life Jesus promised us. The more truth has victory in our red zone- the more we will experience Heaven on Earth- the abundant life Jesus promises.
John 10:10
10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
Have you allowed Satan and his lies to sack Gods truth from healing your heart and bringing you fully alive? How is your red zone offense and defense? Are you diligently pushing the truth through Satan’s defenses into your heart? You must realize that the battle for your heart is fierce and the intensity is great. Just as football becomes increasingly violent in the red zone, so it is true when it comes to your heart.
Watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flow the springs of life. – Proverbs 4:23
Jesus said,
“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” – John 8:32
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” -John 16:33
BUT, TAKE HEART!
Fight The Fight, Jonathan
PS. The following from Streams In The Desert ties in perfectly.
March 3
“And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him.” (Mark 9:26.)
EVIL never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battle field. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood. Apollyon is not put to flight by a courteous request; he straddles across the full breadth of the way, and our progress has to be registered in blood and tears. This we must remember or we shall add to all the other burdens of life the gall of misinterpretation. We are not “born again” into soft and protected nurseries, but in the open country where we suck strength from the very terror of the tempest. “We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” — Dr. J.H.Jowett.
“Faith of our Fathers! living still, In spite of dungeon, fire and sword: O how our hearts beat high with joy Whene’er we hear that glorious word. Faith of our Fathers! Holy Faith! We will be true to Thee till death!
“Our fathers, chained in prisons dark, Were still in heart and conscience free; How sweet would be their children’s fate, If they, like them, could die for Thee!”
