Thursday, August 2, 2007

Spiritual warfare!

Had bible study wif Bro.Darren, tink that personal discipleship wif him is realli great and i noe that i will grow to be a better person wif him to guide me and of cus the Holy Spirit. 2Cor 10:3-5 says that "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." As christians, we are not spared from the attacks of the devil. But nonetheless, we have God on our side. The Lord is a fighter and He will fight for us! And we noe that those that are for us are greater than those who are against us. Our God is the Lord of host, ie to say the Lord of armies, thousands upon thousands of angels. Hence, in watever we do, we can believe God for victory! For greater is HE who is in us than he who is in the world!

The greatest warfare takes place in the area of our minds, our thought life. Hence, we must be watchful, we must be vigilant, we must be steadfast. We must make a conscious effort to discipline our mind, emotion and spirit. Hence, we gotta be led by the spirit and be in the spirit. Though our outer man is not waging a war, but our inner man is fighting a war in the spiritual realm. In 2Tim2:4, we also learn that "No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier." And because we are enlisted into God's army, we must be ready for battle, for we are not waiting for the enemy to come, but we are ever ready to make the move, to strike down satan and his evil doers.

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