Lance Wallnau

Remove The Legal Groundwork Beneath Your Enemy's Feet

Weak-strong-peopleSometimes, before you can deal with a spiritual enemy, you need to remove the legal groundwork beneath his feet. This is where repentance comes in. An act that involves accurately judging yourself and owning where you are wrong.

Here’s a trap: ”all or nothing” thinking. Suppose you are mostly right and the other person is mostly wrong? What if you are 25% at fault but they are 75% at fault? Can you do a 25% repentance and reconciliation? No.

But you can take 100% responsibility for your 25%….and this often releases the GRACE on the other person to own their 75%.

There will be other times when you need to ignore the enemy. This isn’t easy. Ever get into a fight where you want to keep at it? The hardest thing to do is to stop and disengage! If you are accustomed to verbally persuading and influencing others, something inside you wants to talk, text or type your way into triumph! But it never works. You can’t ever kill off a spirit by conversation.

And if the spirit has an offended person attached, you are in for a season of never ending verbal volleyball.

That’s where you need to ignore the situation. Bide your time. David ignored the deeds of those who conspired against him…..but told his son Solomon that he needed to deal with those specific troublemakers if his administration was going to succeed. Think of yourself as a combined David/Solomon. David is the guy that screwed up and gave the enemy an opportunity to injure the dynasty. Solomon is the “wisdom” that came out of that screw up (talking about Bathsheba.) Once you get wisdom (often from the consequences of your bad decisions), God gives you a season to deal with your enemies and uproot them.

Revenge is not an option.  “…Avenge not yourselves but give place to wrath: for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.’ ” (Ro 12:19) If we do our best to overcome evil with good, and it does not work, there is always the prospect that God will take matters into His own hands and overcome evil by visiting it with an ax. Isn't that the point Jesus made about the unfruitful tree?

Jesus taught that an unfruitful tree may have a delayed execution, but, if it persists in its unfruitful state, it will be uprooted. What if God does that with areas of our life? He “dungs around the tree” so to speak, but after a while, if thing's don't yield to the master, He uproots it.

 This cycle is manifest in David’s unfinished business being taken care of by Solomon.

Be wise. Remove the legal groundwork. Repent of 100% of your 25%, if need be. Bless… do good… Ignore judging – till the time comes, if necessary, to judge… when that time comes.

Lance Wallnau

66 thoughts on “Remove The Legal Groundwork Beneath Your Enemy's Feet”

  1. Spoke to me in many relationships where I am not sure how to handle the situations. Family friends etc. Thanks again for this on time word. Blessings and shalom Lance & family !!!

  2. Great article once again Lance. God bless, and yes, I’m going to sit down tonight and take a good look at myself and forgive those that I may have not noticed that I didn’t forgive. I believe that many Christians especially believe we got it all together, but we need to always sit down with ourselves and reflect on what’s in our hearts, and recognize it for what it is. Get real with what’s in our hearts.

  3. Yes Lord I hear you in this ‘Word of Wisdom’. I came across your work in a group called Gaurd Your Mind in London UK and I have been drawn to your articles ever since. Could not make your meetings earlier in the year due to finances but I have continued to follow you and scan you with the Spirit to ascertain where you ae coming from. This word was on cue for me this morning. Thank you. Jesus.
    PS are you also a Minister?
    God bless
    Doreen

  4. I really needed this, very timely, and right on target.
    It’s elementary, yes, but it helps to hear (or read it) from another perspective. Thank you.

  5. Yes! First thing after my lengthy time away from home and drinking out of the well, I was lured out to my back patio. Upon stepping out and crossing the threshold of my doorway,my eyes were drawn to my garde, which is my landscaped back yard. I received the word, uprooted. I have taken pictures of this to be a set print of what the Lord is doing. He always speaks to me through my garde, as I call it. things have been jumbled and uprooted across our nation. He had me pull out two dead flowers in a flower pt.there were some straggly branches with a few flowers on them. I said, I should shake them to drop off the seed so they can be replanted and sprout again. I heard, no, don’t do that. New ones are going to replace them. Completely new ones. Then He had me pull out only 2 stragely weeds in my garden and said to leave the rest. so I was wondering why only 2 were shown to me and to ignore the rest ? He also had me partial refill up my birdgeeder.When I went to pour it into the bird house, I noticed some old sticky seed blocking the holes for the birds. I asked inside if I should shake it. He let me know, no, put in the new. It will overtake the old and push it out of the way.
    Amen Lord !
    Stephanie L.

  6. Wanted to make a comment on a recent post on fb had to go back to your page for reference–there are so many posts that do not show up on news feed–have missed out on some really good posts. #bummer. The post on guarding the heart very good. Never heard that approach before on guarding the heart and appreciate the post from earlier this morning *needed to hear. Thanks!!

  7. I am reminded of Eph 6:12
    “we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
    When somebody verbally hurts you its good to take a step back and realise the above verse. Also to pick your battles. Like you quoted what God says ‘Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.’ ” (Ro 12:19) and we overcome all things by love. Love is one of our most powerful weapons. It destroys and confuses all evil.

    1. How GREAT IS HASHEM’S timing. Cleaning out emails…found this one from almost TWO years ago…… and it is EXACTLY the
      Word that was needed today!!! ABBA is GOOD…and is mercy endures forever. Still keeping you in prayer…. always thankful
      to have heard you speak in Grantham @ Messiah2008. Shalom Shalom

      1. Dr. Lance Wallnau

        Thelma – Thank you for your thoughtful encouragement. Blessings from Team Lance!

Comments are closed.