SHE BEAT THE FOOL OUT OF AN INTRUDER

It pays to be trained and active -- Physically and Spiritually. You never know when you will be required to exert strength against an intruder.  Especially when you find a strange guy in your bathroom.

Jannine Ramirez had just won a karate competition when she arrived at her Fresno apartment early Sunday and heard someone in the bathroom. Ramirez, 20, kicked down her bathroom door, then kicked the intruder through a shower door.

A drunk 18 year old thought he was in his own apartment...he wasn't.  And he will never be the same.  Jannine has been a karate and Muay Thai kick-boxing student for a year.  Upon discovering him in her bathroom, she beat the fool out of him. He didn't know what hit him.

She lives there with her mom and no man should have been there!  She kicked the door down and then aggressively kicked the young man to kingdom come....no, really she kicked him through the shower door and continued with an onslaught of kicks and punches until Wilberto Zapata was outside her apartment.

She stated that competition makes her nervous but she felt no anxiety while banging this 18 year old around until he was out of her domain. 

Why do I find this rather funny?  He was drunk.  He went into the wrong house.  But, yet I find it funny that he got his rear-end whipped by a trained and daring gal. 

I compare this, spiritually speaking, to moments when our adversary is guilty of wrongful entry into our space - our life - our domain!  We are told that we have legal jurisdiction (given by Jesus Christ) to walk all over the devil. 

Luke 10:19  Look, I have given you authority over all the power of the enemy, and you can walk among snakes and scorpions and crush them. Nothing will injure you.

"Crush them" -- That's what we have legal authority to do to the enemy when we find him in our territory.  He may not be drunk, but he sure is forward.  He has no right to bother us. He has no claim on us.  He has no hold on us.  Take your liberty in the spirit and beat the fool out of him by and through the authority given you by Jesus Christ.  It is with the Word, the Truth of God, that we stand firm and resist him.   

James 4:7
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

I have a feeling Wilberto will run when he sees Jannine Ramirez anywhere in the apartment building.

Resist and flee.  Two great words.  I like them.

Oh yeah,  she has no regrets.  He shouldn't have been there. 
:)   I agree.
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