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Overcoming your Wild Beast

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit (Rom. 8:1)

It was reported last week that a 66-year-old man was attacked and mauled by his own “pet” tiger. This wild beast, weighing over 600 lbs, was living in an enclosure on the gentleman’s property. The tiger had been living there as a pet with other large wild cats for several years and on Sunday morning when the gentleman came to feed him his regular meal, the cat decide to change his menu and went after his owner instead.

I don’t know about you but as I think about this, I find myself asking why he would risk his life every day with these beasts, knowing their desire for flesh and how unpredictable these huge animals can be even at the best of times. Why is it that he scorned human contact and would rather spend his days with large wild cats that eventually were the catalyst for his demise.

The Apostle Paul in Philippians understood the danger of living with wild beasts that live on instinct and feeling. He reminded the believer in Philippians 3:2 to be watchful for dogs which was another term for false Jewish teachers – men who would demand the believer to come under the Mosaic law in order to be saved.

These men and women were devoted to their laws and would stop at nothing to bring what they believed on the people. They were legalistic and full of knowledge. They put their flesh under great stress in order to look good and acceptable on the outside.

Paul knew these kind of people because he was once one of them. He knew what it felt like and how quickly we could get so caught up in our own flesh and allow ourselves to act and behave in ways which is so against everything that we have been taught.

Or do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? (Romans 7:1)

The truth is friends that we all have a wild beast that we have locked up in our lives that we feed with our fleshly desires, but attempt to keep locked away. We know he is dangerous, but we still allow him to survive. We feed him with acts of kindness, good deeds and loving confessions. But it does not work.

The only way you are able to overcome this beast is allow the Spirit of the Lord to enter your heart and He alone can release you from every spirit of resentment , anger and bitterness. For what you feed will grow stronger in your life and what you don’t feed will eventually die.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God (1 Corinthians 2:12)

In the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I say with all my heart and soul to you today that you don’t have to live with any wild spirit. We don’t have to put up with any spirit of anger, depression, despair or despondency. We are the people of God and He has come to set the captives free and to loose those who have been in bondage all their life.

My Prayer for You … Father, I pray today for my brothers and sister who are reading this letter. That  they will reach out by faith and take hold of Your promises to their lives today. I pray that whatever has been their prison last year will become their cradle, that every wild beast that has troubled their soul will be declared dead to them and never again become a source of pain. According to your Word set them FREE in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Apostle Anthony Nelson