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The word was short but had so much meaning
and clarity....
“Continue to stand”.... that’s all it said and I
understood.
At the time I was faced with a decision, do I
continue to submit to God’s direction in my
life, or do I obey my husband which actually is
being disobedient to God’s Word.
The word I received meant that I should
continue to stand in what God has told me to,
even if it means I would lose my husband in the
process.
Another word for “Stand” is “Steadfast”
further meanings includes the following:
“Uncompromising”, “Postured”, “Focused”,
“Purposed”....This has everything to do with the
position of your spirit man in the supernatural,
when it’s achieved in the supernatural, then you
will become unwavering, uncompromising, in
the natural, your face is set as flint and nothing,
no one except you can remove you from that
position....this is what I mean by STANDING.
I had to stand on God’s direction in my life
and what He told me and if my husband didn’t
like it; he had to take it up with God and not
me.
Easy to say but it was extremely difficult as
I faced so much oppression and pressure to

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conform to my husband’s desire.
I wasn’t standing for my husband, neither was
I standing for myself; rather I was standing for
the next generation of people who were to take
their positions too.
God requires every forerunner to stand in
Him in the trial/challenge, not to faint but to
stand and that’s why it’s important for us to put
on the whole armour of God daily, so that we
can resist the enemies devices, he’s schemes,
he’s devices and all that he does to make us fall
in compromise.
God’s leaders are tested in this one thing...
standing to the end; standing until you see
God’s Promise.
There is something that happens when we
stand in God’s word and His Promise, as we
stand there is an exchange and God does what
He Promises to do.
Look at the scenario with Jacob and the
Children of Israel, God promised that they
would go into their promise land, the land He
promised them; the land flowing with milk and
honey through the River Jordan, but it would
be on dry land, they will not have to swim to
the Promise Land, they would walk in on dry
land.
They were instructed to set themselves apart