Ways To Confront The Challenges Stayed So Long

The fourth key you'd need to make the best of any year is confront challenges when challenges tarry for too long - beyond supplications and intercession, then you need to confront them. What you don't confront has a right to remain. Some people struggled with a particular challenge all through last year because they kept making intercessions for the challenge instead of confronting it. Bishop David Oyedepo remarked that there are 3 kinds of prayer:

• Supplication prayer 
• Intercession prayer, and 
• Confrontational prayer you don't intercede or make supplications to the challenges oppressing you, you confront them. 

Jesus confronted the fig tree when he cursed it. David wasn't praying to goliath, he confronted him. What you don't confront, you cannot conquer. Stop interceding or making supplications to those challenges and start confronting them. Ezekiel was driven to a valley of dry bones - bones that were potential soldiers, and all he needed to do was to confront them by the word of the lord.

As he did, bones literally became an army. Hallelujah! So that's what you do when you're faced with challenges, you confront them by the word of God. I remember many years ago when I had a stomach ache; I had just finished eating but it seemed the food didn't go well with my body. The instance I noticed the pain, I addressed it saying, "stomach, while I was blessing the food, I didn't ask it to ache me, so stop aching now". And that was it! Someone else will start praying to God about it. 

There are things you pray to God about, and there are other things you use god's word to confront just like Ezekiel did. As long as what you're going through has a name, then you can confront it. Call it by its name and address it by the word of the lord.