Checkmate!

According to wikipedia, checkmate (often shortened to mate) is a game position in chess and other chess-like games in which a player's king is in check (threatened with capture) and there is no way to remove the threat. Checkmating the opponent wins the game. The term checkmate is, according to the Barnhart Etymological Dictionary, an alteration of the Persian phrase "shāh māt" (شاه مات‎) which means, literally, "the King is helpless". Others maintain that it means "the King is dead", as chess reached Europe via the Islamic world, and Arabic māta (مَاتَ‎) means "died" or "is dead". However, in Pashto (an Iranic language), the word māt (مات) still exists, meaning "destroyed, broken".

King Saul was the first king of Israel. After his initial reluctance, he was used by God to defeat Israel's enemies, the Ammonites when the spirit of the Lord came upon him (1 Samuel 11). However, Saul did not continue to walk in the ways of the Lord and eventually was checkmated; helpless, broken, destroyed and desired death as opposed to falling into the hands of his enemies.

We gather from 1 Corinthians 4:8 and Revelation 5:10 that we have reigned and should reign as kings as children of God. What hinders us now from walking in our kingly authority? Are we checkmated by the demonic forces that Christ has already defeated? Checkmate?