INDESTRUCTIBLE!!!

 ‘Diabolical Ironclad Beetle’ photo by Jen CCO Via Wikimedia.

Stand up straight and tall!  You are (by faith), indestructible!  There is a beetle that carries that message to you!  It is called, the ‘Diabolical Ironclad Beetle’!  ‘Diabolical because it is ‘wild, crazy and over-the-top!  It’s a ‘tiny tank on six legs’!  You can run over it with a car and it will not hurt it!  ‘The beetle’s exoskeleton has internal layers, tight joints and overall, nearly indestructible shape to give it both toughness and flexibility under pressure.  It allows the beetle to withstand a crushing force 39,000 times its own body weight!’  Smithsonian Magazine.  It is also called ‘nature’s jawbreaker’ because a predator who tries to bite it will probably break its jaw!!! 

Native to California, the Baja Peninsula and Southern Oregon, this inch long beetle is a decomposer that feeds on rotten wood and the fungi that grows on the wood.  Because it is ‘ironclad’ and knows how to play dead, fooling its would be predators, it lives an unbelievable 8 years!  Most beetle species live only a few months to a year.  

This beetle says, ‘Stand up tall’, you are spiritually indestructible!!!
The scriptures tell us that, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper!’
Isaiah 54:17.

STAND TALL!  
As the scripture admonishes in Ephesians 6, ‘Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.’
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.  In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.  Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.

STAND TALL!
‘Jesus replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.  I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.”  Luke 10:18-19.

STAND TALL!
‘In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.’  Romans 8:37

STAND TALL!
‘I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.’  
Matthew 16:19.

As Kenneth Copeland of Kenneth Copeland Ministries states in an article entitled, ’10 Scriptures That Prove your Authority as a Believer, ‘If we have been born again, we have authority over the devil and all his evil works–just like Jesus did. This includes sickness and disease, lack and poverty, relational division and strife…and every wicked thing the devil stirs up in our world.
But if we don’t take our God-given authority and use it, nothing will change, and we will lead a defeated life. God has called us to be agents of change in our world and in this world. It’s our responsibility to enforce the goodness of God over the works of the devil in our lives, in the lives of others, and in all of society. But we have to choose it. We have to rise up (Stand Tall) and speak the Word of God that’s backed by the blood of Jesus.

STAND TALL, YOU ARE SPIRITUALY INDESTRUCTIBLE!!

If you want to read the entire article by Kenneth Copland, you can click on the following link:https://www.kcm.org/authority/10-scriptures-prove-your-authority-believer