SPIRITUAL WARFARE PART 2



 

 

 

ONE OF SATAN'S MOST EFFECTIVE TOOLS IN THE LIFE OF A BELIEVER IS

 

FEAR

 

 WHERE DOES FEAR COME FROM?  IT IS A SPIRIT FROM THE PIT OF HELL SENT  OUT TO HARASS THE SAINTS!  AND IT SPAWNS WORRY, PANIC, DISPAIR, AND ANXIETY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WHICH RESULTS IN OUR MINDS BEING CLUTTERED WITH VAIN IMAGINATIONS MOVING US INTO THE FLESH REALM WHICH THEN DRAWS OUR FOCUS QUICKLY AWAY FROM THE LORD AND WE MOVE FROM TRUSTING THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, RESULTING IN  SATAN DECLARES: "GOT CHA!".

 

THUS WE HAVE ALLOWED THE ENEMY TO STEAL OUR PEACE , OUR JOY , AND OUR STILLNESS! 

 

WHAT DOES THAT WONDERFUL PRAISE SONG DECLARE: "BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD, BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD, BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD.....".  AND WHY DOES THE LORD WANT US TO "BE STILL"? HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY HEAR THAT "STILL SMALL VOICE" SAYING TO US: "YOUR EARS SHALL HEAR A WORD BEHIND YOU SAYING,'THIS IS THE WAY, WALK IN IT,' WHENEVER YOU TURN TO THE RIGHT HAND OR WHENEVER YOU TURN TO THE LEFT.'"

 

AND WHAT DID MOSES TELL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN EXODUS 14:13,14 AS THEY WERE FLEEING FROM EGYPT?   "AND MOSES SAID TO THE PEOPLE, 'DO NOT BE AFRAID. STAND STILL AND SEE THE SALVATION OF THE LORD, WHICH HE WILL ACCOMPLISH FOR YOU TODAY.....THE LORD WILL FIGHT FOR YOU, AND YOU SHALL HOLD YOUR PEACE." WERE THEY IN A STATE OF FEAR....ABSOLUTELY!  BUT GOD WAS WITH THEM ALL THROUGH IT ALL AND THEY INDEED

EXPERIENCED THE "SALVATION"(BEING SET FREE FROM....) OF THEIR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY...EL SHADDAI.

 

 MY WIFE AND I DURING THE CONSTUCTION OF THIS BLOG (AND SHOULD WE HAVE BEEN SURPRISED?), WERE IMMERSED IN  A VERY SERIOUS SATANIC ATTACK THAT WAS ATTEMPTING TO BRING FEAR UPON US AND WE HAD TO BATTLE THAT "SPIRIT OF FEAR" THAT SO WANTED  US TO TAKE OUR EYES OFF OUR TRIUNE GOD! 

WE KNOW THAT WE ARE TO FIGHT VAIN IMAGINATIONS (FOR THE BATTLE IS IN THE MIND) AND "TAKE EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE TO THE OBEDIENCE OF CHRIST. " ( 2 COR. 10:5)  THANKFULLY, HE WALKED WITH US THROUGH THE NIGHT AND THE NEXT MORNING WE SAW VICTORY! PRAISE GOD...HE WAS FAITHFUL AND TRUST WORTHY THROUGH IT ALL!  AND WHAT DID WE LEARN THROUGH THIS...TO FOCUS ON OUR LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND  "CASTE ALL OUR CARES UPON HIM FOR HE CARES FOR YOU".... BEING ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING" (1 PETER 5:7) AND TO BRING QUICKLY TO MIND NOT TO LOOK AT THINGS SEEN, BUT THINGS HOPED FOR.  WE ALSO TOOK OUR ASSURANCE AS TO WHAT IS WRITTEN IN ROMANS 8: 34b,37 "....JESUS IS EVEN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, WHO ALSO MAKES INTERCESSION FOR US" AND BECAUSE THEY ARE, VERSE 37: "YET IN ALL THESE THINGS WE ARE MORE THAN CONQUERORS THROUGH HIM WHO LOVED US!"

 

                               SPIRITUAL WARFARE PART 3 WILL COVER:

 

                  WHAT DO THE SCRIPTURES TELL US CONCERNING FEAR?

 

 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 " FOR GOD HAS NOT GIVEN US A SPIRIT OF FEAR; BUT OF POWER,

AND OF LOVE, AND OF A SOUND MIND."

 

MY PRAYER FOR YOU IS THAT YOU WILL HAVE "EYES TO SEE, EARS TO HEAR, AND A HEART TO RECEIVE" (ISAIAH 6:10) THAT WHICH THE HOLY SPIRIT IS REVEALING TO YOU IN THESE BLOGS.

 

                                                         TO GOD BE THE GLORY