Fortify Devotion

Proverbs 25:28 - Fortify your Walls

 

Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control. Proverbs 25:28

 

The man or woman is like a city. A human is an entity in which there are systems and subsystems that must work efficiently for life to continue. Where these systems, also include the boundaries around the entity itself. Break down, there is trouble.

 

A city or a person unprotected will be in reaction mode every minute of every day. A human who cannot defend themselves against the passions of the flesh will have no power over those passions and will do according to the flesh.

 

If we cannot rule our spirit, we are vulnerable to say or do things that could cost us dearly. We may already have be damaged by such actions. It is our wisdom to learn how to control and manage our feelings to only do what is right.

 

A wise man rules his spirit by his conscience and mind. He locks it down with chains of self-denial to keep ambition, anger, lust, pride, or revenge from breaking forth.

 

He guides it by a mental commitment to hold fast honor, humility, righteousness, and virtue.

 

He rules his thoughts, his desires, his inclinations, his resentments, and keeps them all in disciplined order.

 

A fool does not resist impulses from his spirit. He lets his spirit direct him; he forfeits the fight for character and godliness. He cannot stop doing what he should not.

 

They never grow up, for they are controlled by childish passions of a depraved heart.

 

In Solomon’s time, a city depended on strong fortifications and gates, with great walls surrounding it.

 

If the barricades, gates, or towers were broken down and the walls taken away, a city was totally exposed to the intrusions of any enemy that wished to plunder or conquer it.

 

If a city did not invest sufficiently in these means of protection, it could easily be captured.

 

A man without a rule of his spirit is exposed and vulnerable like a defenseless city. His spirit is ready to sin with very little provocation, and he cannot marshal it or power it for any real good. He is helplessly, hopelessly, perpetually at the mercy of his enemies

 

The mark of maturity is control of the self. This is nearly impossible to do in one’s own strength. But with the Spirit’s help, the one who abides in Christ and loves the stewardship of the mind and body will have a maturity that is as strong and powerful as walls around a secure city.

 

Jesus Christ ruled His spirit and submitted to God’s will. Though tempted by the devil at various times, He never considered the devil’s suggestions (Matt 4:1-11).

 

when we ask, He will provide grace and strength for those who ask. Philippians 4:13 says I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.

 

Your life will be plundered and wasted unless you take control and raise a defense. You will never amount to much. You will be a castaway, for an unruly spirit does not produce good things for God or man. You will plunge into sins of commission and omission. Built your barricades! Raise the towers! Close the gates! Build the walls! Let the Holy Spirit rule your spirit!

 

Let us Pray:

 

Lord, I surrender my spirit to you today, I declare that I will see victory over my spirit. I understand that the battle belongs to you lord. Your name is powerful and mighty and to you, I surrender completely. You take it and turn it to good. In Jesus Name. Amen.