day no. 15,132: destroying the darkness is our heritage

"Matthew 16:18 'And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.' If you think about that for a second, there’s something very key that sometimes escapes people’s notice. What are gates for? Are they offensive weapons or defensive? If Christ is promising that the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the church, what does that imply about the actions and position of the church? Right. The church is the army that is charging, not the one that’s on the run. We are supposed to be besieging the strongholds—and that command was given to the church." — Rebekah Merkle, Eve in Exile

The church is not a cloister of communicants hiding from the darkness and holding on for dear life until Jesus comes back to stop its assaults against her. The church is a militant band of soldiers risking their lives to attack the forces of darkness that surround her. The church will see its spotlight expanded, its perimeter moved back, and the darkness on its heels. As the light increases so will its circumference. A larger circle means more surface contact with the darkness around it.

No weapon formed against the church will succeed and no defense devised by the darkness will survive her. The gates of hell cannot prevail the piercing potency of the Gospel of God revealed in His Christ by the power and presence of His Holy Spirit. 

Isaiah 54:16-17
Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. have also created the ravager to destroy; no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.

Destroying darkness is our heritage and vindication from God, let us be glad and walk in it.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ

It is the destiny of those delivered by God to see the devil's strongholds made weak and the weak in Christ made strong.