One of the big surprises for people who come out of the wilderness of their pasts and enter the promised land of answered prayer is that there are giants in the land and they have to fight against them in order to possess it. 

Because Satan never has a day when he's feeling friendly toward us, our prosperity, success, breakthrough, deliverance, and healing will not go unchallenged. We have to remember to STAND STRONG against the evil work of the enemy in the easy times as well as the difficult. 

During the year that my grandmother died, it finally brought me to the realization that the devil had designed a plan to destroy my life, my new business, as well as, my health through my finances. Worse then that, was the fact, I was allowing him to do it. Thing seemed to be going along well in the area of finances, so I hadn't prayed much about them. 

Suddenly, my finances started to get a little shaky. One evening, on the brink of what could have been financial ruin, I knelt before God and repented of my failure to cover my finances in prayer.  I had not stopped tithing but had neglected to be very prayerful about the stewardship of the finances the Lord God had blessed me with. 

I asked the Lord to be in charge and bless me with restoration. From the moment on every morning I would diligently pray about my finances, and immediately the strain on my marriage and health showed great signs of improvement. Soon the business and finances also began to turn around. Glory! Glory! Praise the Lord God! 

Now, I'm praying about a certain lawn service contract and I believe the Lord God will bless both me and my wife with soon, simply, because now the pressure is off. We cheer, we praise God, we dance before the Lord God, we whoop, and we scream. Yes, we're very blessed of the Lord God through the life changing power which can only be found in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.