Friday, December 30, 2016

Spiritual Warfare.

Resisting the devil is not easy.  Those who are not engaged in the battle are already won and will find very little warring against them. Those who do not fight the spiritual fight can scarcely comprehend the fight as a reality in others. Those who do fight the spiritual fight can understand just how important it is for us to resist the devil- we know that resisting the devil is a REAL thing, not something manufactured by actors on tv and in movies, or authors in fictional books.  We are in a battle and in our battle the war is for our spirit and its suppression. Satan will take control over our spirit if we do not engage in the battle, if we do not resist, if we do not avail ourselves of the weapons and protection given to us by God. God WILL provide all we need to live for Him, may we by HIS grace and mercy, comprehend what He has provided and utilize His gifts to us.

In His love!

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'How shall we resist? With the Word of God which is the Sword of the Holy Spirit. As a believer receives God’s Word it becomes “spirit and life” to him. Hence he can employ this as his weapon of resistance. A heavenly believer knows how to use the Word of God advantageously to break down the enemy’s lie. Even now a battle is raging in the world of the spirit. Though unobserved by the eyes of the flesh, it is sensed and proven by those who are seeking heavenly progress.'  The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee

Joh 6:63  It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. 

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

1Pe 5:8  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 
1Pe 5:9  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. 

Rev 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 

Eph 6:11  Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Eph 6:17  …and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God



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