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Gaining Victory & Overcoming Adversity
Our victory comes through faith in God and obedience to His Word. The Lord does marvelous things for us and by His right hand and holy arm we gain the victory. The Lord makes us victorious wherever we go.
Our victory comes to us through our Lord Jesus Christ, and we are thankful to Him.
We overcome our accuser, the devil, by the blood of the Lamb, the word of our testimony and we do not fear death. Because I am born of God, I overcome the world. My victory over the world is my faith in Jesus as the Son of God.
As an overcomer I partake of eternal life and I am rescued from hell. As an overcomer I partake of God’s heavenly bread and I have power over the nations. As an overcomer I am clothed in pure white, and my name is written in the book of life.
In all these things we are more than victorious through Him who loved us. We are persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers, height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
Victory comes through faith in God and obedience to His word, rather than through military might or numerical superiority.
- Psalms 98:1 Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory.
- 1 Cor. 15:57 Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 1 John 5:4-5 Whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. 5 Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
- Rev. 2:7 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God.” ’
- Rev.2:11 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” ’
- Rev. 2:17 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat. And I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it.” ’
- Rev. 2:26 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the end, to him I will give power over the nations.
- Rev. 3:5 He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.
- Rev. 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.
- 2 Sam 8:14 He placed garrisons throughout Edom, and all the Edomites were subject to David. The LORD made David victorious wherever he went. 15 So David reigned over all Israel, administering justice and righteousness for all his people.
- Rom 8:37 In all these things we are more than victorious through Him who loved us. 38 For I am persuaded that not even death or life, angels or rulers, things present or things to come, hostile powers, 39 height or depth, or any other created thing will have the power to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord!
I AM FORGIVEN & FREE TO FORGIVE
I AM FORGIVEN & FREE TO FORGIVE
Suppose you committed a crime and were found guilty by the court system. As a guilty person, you should be punished according to the crime. Think about standing before a judge and the judge begins to sentence you for the crime you committed and all of a sudden, another lawyer, with a reputation of never losing a case, comes into the courtroom and gives the judge a pardon from the President of the United States. The judge looks at the document, recognizes the seal and signature of the president, and pronounces to you, “You are free to go and are absolved from the crime you committed.”
That is exactly what Jesus did for you in forgiving you. He has forgiven you and you are free to forgive others. He has pardoned you in spite of your slights, shortcomings and errors. What an amazing God we serve. Consider some of these truths about forgiveness:
No religious book except the Bible teaches that God completely forgives sin.
You will only find the truth about forgiveness in the Bible. No other book or religion offers this to you. Forgiveness is God’s amazing gift that He has given to you. Only God, through Jesus Christ, is the author and originator of forgiveness.
- Dan 9:8-10 To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. NKJV
- Acts 5:30-32 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree. 31 Him God has exalted to His right hand to be Prince and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. 32 And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.” NKJV
To forgive, you must receive forgiveness. You can’t give what you don’t have.
God helps you to forgive others by forgiving you. He is our example to follow when we have to forgive others. You will have many opportunities to forgive others in a day. You are able to forgive because you have been forgiven.
- “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:32 NKJV
If you need help in forgiving others, change your attitude to possess the attitude of Christ.
There are certain qualities you must have to be able to forgive others. Take on the attitude that was in Christ Jesus when He was on the cross and called on His Father to forgive those who hurt Him.
- Col 3:12-14 Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do. NKJV
- The qualities that you need to forgive others are; tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering and love. Love is the force that operates in you to bear up under anything. These qualities are in you when you invite Jesus to be Lord of your life.
Forgiveness frees you and causes your prayers to be effective and powerful.
If you are not a person inclined to forgive others, then you are holding a grudge, acting/being? hateful and will eventually become bitter. All these things will destroy you from the inside out. To keep yourself free from pollution and junk, forgive others.
- Mark 11:25-26 “And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. 26 But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” NKJV
- If you hold unforgiveness in your heart, you will feel unfulfilled in life. Not forgiving others will hinder your prayers and prevent God from forgiving you. Receiving forgiveness from God makes you free to forgive others. Take a moment right now to clear your heart and forgive anyone who has hurt you, harmed you or mistreated you. Ask God to forgive you also and ask Him to help you forgive others and you will experience His freedom.
Things God Wants You To Know Scriptures
A List of Study Scriptures to Help you Understand Things God wants you to Know!
Pastor Douglas Pyszka
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Things God Wants you to Know Scriptures
- Know the Power of Forgiveness – Matt 9:6 That you may know that the Son of Man has power on earth to forgive sins” NKJV
- Know the Truth – John 8:32 You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” NKJV
- Know His Voice – John 10:4-6 When he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” NKJV
- Know How to Identify True Disciples – John 13:35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” NKJV
- Know the Father’s Works & Where He Dwells – John 10:37-39 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know & believe that the Father is in Me, & I in Him.”
- Know God the Father, the Son & Holy Spirit – John 14:7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him & have seen Him.” NKJV
- Know Your Position in Christ – John 14:20-21 At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. NKJV
- Know What God has Given You – 1 Cor 2:12 We have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.
- Know God’s Grace – 2 Cor 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich. NKJV
- Know How to Give Good Gifts – Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
- Know the Authority of Jesus – John 12:49-50 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50 I know that
- His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.” NKJV
- Know the Truth about Serving & Foot Washing – John 13:13-17 You call Me Teacher & Lord, & you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord & Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. NKJV
- Know How Jesus Loved the Father – John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here. NKJV
- Know How Jesus Loved the Father – John 14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here. NKJV
- Know the World Hates the Word – John 15:18 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. NKJV
- Know What God’s Judgment is About – Rom 2:2-3 We know that the judgment of God is according to truth against those who practice such things. NKJV
- Know that Things Work Together for Good for Believers – Rom 8:28-29 We know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. NKJV
- Know that Faithfulness Makes You a Ruler & a Judge – 1 Cor 6:2-3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? NKJV
- Know What Happens after Death – 2 Cor 5:1 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
- Know How to be Part of Abraham’s Family – Gal 3:7 Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. NKJV
- Know What Your Calling, Inheritance and Power is as a Believer in Christ – Eph 1:18-19 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 & what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power.
- Know Christ’s Love – Eph 3:17-19 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width, length, depth & height — 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. NKJV
- Know How to Answer Others – Col 4:5-6 Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one. NKJV
- Know How To Possess Your Vessel – 1 Thess 4:4-5 That each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; NKJV
- Know How the Lord will Return – 1 Thess 5:2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
- Know How to Follow True Ministers – 2 Thess 3:7-9 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow us, for we were not disorderly among you; 8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread free of charge, but worked with labor & toil night & day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, 9 not because we do not have authority, but to make ourselves an example of how you should follow us. NKJV
- Know How to Use the Law & Who it Applies to – 1 Tim 1:8-11 But we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully, 9 knowing this: that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless & insubordinate, for the ungodly, for sinners, for the unholy & profane, for murderers of fathers & murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, & if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, 11 according to the glorious gospel of the blessed God which was committed to my trust. NKJV
- Know Who You Believe & Know What He Can Do – 2 Tim 1:12 For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed & am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
- Know How to Work with Difficult People – 2 Tim 2:24-26 A servant of the Lord must not quarrel but be gentle to all, able to teach, patient, 25 in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if God perhaps will grant them repentance, so that they may know the truth, 26 and that they may come to their senses & escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will. NKJV
- Know the Value of Winning Souls –James 5:20 Let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and cover a multitude of sins. NKJV
- Know How to Flow in God’s Power – 1 John 2:20-21 You have an anointing from the Holy One, & you know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, & that no lie is of the truth. NKJV
- Know that Sin is Defeated – 1 John 3:4-6 Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, & sin is lawlessness. 5 You know that He was manifested to take away our sins, & in Him there is no sin. 6 Whoever abides in Him does not sin. Whoever sins has neither seen Him nor known Him. NKJV
- Know What Salvation is – 1 John 3:14-17 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. 15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, & you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. 16 The Outworking of Love By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. We also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has this world’s goods, & sees his brother in need, & shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? NKJV
- Know How to Test Spirits – 1 John 4:2-3 By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, 3 & every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. This is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, & is now already in the world. NKJV
- Know How To Pray – 1 John 5:14-15 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. 15 If we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. NKJV
Uninterrupted Healing – Confession
Get PDF Printable Version Here! – Uninterrupted Healing Confession
Introduction
This earth is full of people who need to know the truth of God’s Word concerning Salvation through His gift of Jesus to mankind. God’s will is for you to be healed and made whole. It is in His best interest and yours that you be completely healed.
If you are a Christian, being sick hinders you from helping in God’s big plan for humanity according to John 3:16, which is for all to receive the gift of Jesus. Being sick actually helps the enemy, Satan, to keep God’s people from being effective.
Being sick doesn’t mean that you did something wrong and are being punished, it simply means that the enemy wants you to be completely impeded from being effective for the kingdom of God. Sickness not only hinders your body, but steals your resources and time. Both are vital to the sharing of the Gospel of Jesus to a dying world.
If you are not a Christian as yet, meaning you have not received the Salvation that Jesus bought and paid for you, then you are open to all of the weapons of Satan against you to kill you. His mission for every human is to steal, kill and destroy them, according to John 10:10.
However, this verse also states that Jesus came to give life and life more abundantly. The only kingdom that supplies life is the Kingdom of God. Whereas, the kingdom of Satan only supplies death and destruction.
Once you grasp the difference between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of darkness ruled by Satan, you will never again doubt God’s desire and perfect will to see you completely whole and healed. You will no longer wonder if God wants to heal you. You will understand that He does want you healed and that He heals people very day, all over the world. Why should you be any different?
The confession included in this package is for you to speak into your atmosphere, so that your heart and mind can be focused on the truth of God’s healing for you.
Here’s to your complete healing, spirit, soul and body.
Pastor Fiona Pyszka – Victory Christian Fellowship
Uninterrupted Healing – My Confession
I cover myself under the Blood of Jesus. I accept His finished work on the cross for my Salvation and Healing. I see myself completely whole and have no doubts that I am restored to good health.
I reject and resist every “well-meaning” phrase, sympathetic “comfort”, and intentional or unintentional words that contradict my acceptance of the healing anointing of God working in my body. I reject any thoughts that come from anyone spoken or read that contradicts God’s Word and plan of healing for my body.
I consider myself not just healed, but whole. Which means, everything put back to its rightful working status as if sickness never attacked my body. I accept no side effects or no deterioration of my physical body because of the assault of sickness on it.
I declare that my body is still the temple of Holy Spirit and I yield myself to His complete work.
I confess according to Psalm 118:7 that I will be an eye witness to the goodness of God to my body. I will be a witness against sickness and disease and cause the arrest of any sickness and disease from further actions against my body.
I further confess as stated in Ephesians 6:14 that I stand my ground, with the truth of God’s Word about healing and His body armor of Righteousness. I refuse any other ground to stand on and any other armor offered by friends, family or enemy.
I only agree with those who agree with God’s Word concerning my healing and wholeness, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Scriptures
Psalm 118:7 –17 I will not die; instead, I will live
to tell what the Lord has done.
Ephesians 6:14 – 14 Stand your ground, putting on the belt of truth and the body armor of God’s righteousness.
Matthew 8:3 – 3 Jesus reached out and touched him. “I am willing,” he said. “Be healed!” And instantly the leprosy disappeared.
Matthew 8:7 – 7 Jesus said, “I will come and heal him.”
Psalm 103:3-5 3 – He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. 4 He redeems me from death and crowns me with love and tender mercies. 5 He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle’s!
December 2016 – The Great Gift Exchange Pt 1
The Great Gift Exchange Pt 1 – December 2016 Series
Pastor Doug Pyszka
A gift exchange is where a donor meets recipients with generosity, kindness and love and an exchange takes place. God has delivered gifts to us and we must acknowledge His gifts and accept them for us to use them. The gifts that God has given to us apply to every believer and can be accepted or rejected. Open your heart and value God’s gift today.
Text: 2 Corinthians 9:15 Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
- The Greatest Gift of All
- John 3:16 God loved you so much He gave you this.
- John 4:10 Do you know the gift of God?
- Romans 6:23 Eternal life is a gift of God.
- Eph 2:8 Salvation is a gift of God.
- John 1:12 God gives you the right to be His child.
- Romans 5:15-18 Righteousness and grace are gifts from God
- Ephesians 4:7-8 Grace was given as a measure of Christ’s gift.
- Ephesians 3:7 The grace of God is a gift of His power.
- Ability to Minister
- 1 Peter 4:10 God gives gifts to minister to one another.
- Ephesians 4:8 God gave gifts to men.
- 2 Timothy 1:6 Stir up the gift of God in you.
- 1 Timothy 4:14 Don’t neglect the gift in you.
- Matt 10:1-2 He gave them power to do what He does.
- God Gives Only Good Things
- Matthew 7:11Our Father knows how to give good things.
- Luke 1:11 God gave to Zachariah an angel; an answer & the desire of his heart.
- Romans 9:4 God gave Israel several good gifts.
- Exchange Your Life for His Life
- John 5:21 God raises the dead & gives life to whom He will.
- Acts 17:24-25 God, Creator, Lord of heaven & earth, gives to all life, breath, & all things.
- John 6:32-33 Father gives you true bread, 33 Jesus Who gives life to the world.
- John 6:63 The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing.
- Romans 4:17 God gives life to the dead.
- 1 Timothy 6:13 God gives life to all things.
- 2 Corinthians 3:6 The letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Releasing God’s Creative Ability
RELEASING GOD’S CREATIVE ABILITY
MAKING DREAMS A REALITY
Pastor Doug’s Notes – Wednesday Night Refreshing January 20, 2016
- Words are creative containers that cause things to exist & manifest.
- Just as God used words to create, so you & I use words to create.
- Positive words produce positive results. Negative words produce negative results.
- To create like Jesus created, Speak like He speaks. Use words that He uses.
- Use God’s words – speak what He says; righteous words; faithful words; steadfast words; gracious words; words based in God’s authority; Spiritual & life-giving words; wholesome words
- Holy Spirit is waiting for you to speak God’s words so He can bring them to pass.
- Gen 1:2 The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. AMP
- 2 Cor 4:13-14 The Spirit of faith believing & speaking based on what is written in Scriptures
- Faith is believing, resting, knowing, being confident in and being fully persuaded that God’s word is the reality.
- Creation is a process of speaking God’s words, believing what He said & resting in it.
- Gen 2:3-4 On the seventh day God rested from all His work which God created & made.
- Heb 4:2 Mix faith with what you hear; 2 Cor 4:13-14 Believe & speak; Rom 10:8-11 Heart & mouth
- Everything created has a spiritual side & a natural side.
- Gen 1:1 God created the heaven & the earth.
- Col 1:16-17 By Him all things were created that are in heaven & that are on earth, visible & invisible; thrones; dominions; principalities; powers. All things were created through Him…
- Rom 1:20 His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. NKJV
- Things that are created follow after a pattern & image. What image are you using to create what you want to happen, what you want to have or what you want to exist?
- Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; KJV
- Gen 1:27 God patterned them after himself; male and female he created them. NLT
- Gen 1:27 So God created human beings, making them to be like Himself. TEV
- Gen 1:27 God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, YLT
- Heb 6:13-14 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself…
- Use the right Image – Ex 20:4-5 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image — any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; 5 you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God. NKJV Lev 26:1; Deut 4:16-20;
- Rom 8:28-30 Be conformed to the image of His Son,
- 2 Cor 3:18 We all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.
- God Creates Good Things
- Ps 51:10 God creates clean hearts and right, persevering, steadfast spirits. AMP
- Create – OT:1254 bara’ (baw-raw’); a primitive root; (absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes): –choose, create (creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat). (Biblesoft’s New Exhaustive Strong’s Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.)
- Creativity increases through the seed.
- Seed creates futures & sustains generations.
- Gen 8:22 Seedtime & harvest will remain as long the earth remains.
- 2 Cor 9:10 God gives seed to sower.
- Seed – NT:4685 spao (spah’-o); a primary verb; to draw: KJV – draw (out). NT:4703 sporos (spro’-os); from NT:4687; a scattering (of seed), i.e. (concretely) seed (as sown): KJV – seed (X sown). NT:4687 speiro (spi’-ro); probably strengthened from NT:4685 (through the idea of extending); to scatter, i.e. sow (literally or figuratively): KJV – sow (-er), receive seed.
(Biblesoft’s New Exhaustive Strong’s Numbers and Concordance)
- Gen 47:23-24 Joseph gave people seed. Out of the increase, they were to give Pharaoh 1/5
- Gen 1:11 God created plants yielding seed & fruit trees yielding fruit whose seed is in itself, each according to its kind, upon the earth. It was so. (Gen 1:29 Seed-bearing; Gal 3:16 Abraham’s seed; Eccl 11:6; Mk 4; 1 Pe 1:21 God’s word a seed;
- He creates covenants & makes promises
- Ex 34:10 Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD. For it is an awesome thing that I will do with you. NKJV
- God Creates New Things
- Num 16:30 But if the LORD creates a new thing, & the earth opens its mouth & swallows them up with all that belongs to them, & they go down alive into the pit, then you will understand that these men have rejected the LORD.” NKJV
- Isa 65:17-18 “For behold, I create new heavens & a new earth; The former things will not be remembered or come to mind. 18 “But be glad & rejoice forever in what I create; For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing & her people for gladness. NASU
- God Creates New Things
- Num 16:30 God creates new things; Isa 65:17-18 He creates new heavens & earth. Isa 66:22; 2 Pet 3:13; Rev 21:1 No more sea;
5 Keys to Win A Fight With Faith!
5 Keys to Fight With Faith Like a Pro and Win
1 Timothy 6:12
Fight the good fight of the faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and [for which] you confessed the good confession [of faith] before many witnesses.
5 Keys
1.
Have a Good Weapon – For any fight, whether natural or spiritual, you need to have the correct weapon for the fight you are involved in. As we see in the scriptures below, our weapons for warfare are not physical (touch, feel, see, hear, taste), they are mighty before God. They are also effective in overthrowing destruction and strongholds. So what weapon is mighty before God? Faith. . .
2 Corinthians 10:2-4 (AMP) – 2 I entreat you when I do come [to you] that I may not [be driven to such] boldness as I intend to show toward those few who suspect us of acting according to the flesh [on the low level of worldly motives and as if invested with only human powers].
3 For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons.
4 For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds,
2.
Use Your Faith – A weapon in the hands of the most skilled fighter is useless unless the fighter uses the weapon. Our faith is only useful to us if we use it. We know that the bible tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God (see Hebrews 11:6). The last person you want to displease in a spiritual fight is God. God has at His disposal, and has made it available to you, angels, powerful words, access to places, people and things that you need to win your fight. The way you access and operate all of these things is through Faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing the Word of God (see Romans 10:17).
3.
You must know what God’s Word says – To be able to fight anything in the spiritual realm, you have to know the Word of God on the subject. It is not enough to hear what other people know, you have to know for yourself. You do this by developing a reading and understanding plan of God’s Word. You do this especially in times when things are going well. This allows you to read objectively and get an understanding. Soldiers train for war before there is even a threat of one. They become prepared, qualified and positioned before a war ever starts. In some of their lifetime, they may never actually see war, however, they were prepared. You have to be prepared using and knowing God’s Word.
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Be Alert and Be Ready – Having faith, learning how to use it and knowing exactly how it works, is of no value to you, if you don’t realize you’re in the middle of a warzone. If you behave as if the enemy or person trying to attack you is a friend or a non threat, then you will simply communicate with them using friendship skills. You will overlook their discrepancies and not see it as a plot to steal, kill and destroy you (see John 10:10). You will make allowances for them and you will not take a stance of protection or fighting back. Many Christians make this mistake, thinking that they are walking in love. Just remember, if you are “walking in love” with your enemy, you are letting them through to hurt someone you love. That’s right. If you don’t stop the enemy at your door, they will enter your house and destroy what you’ve worked your whole life to build. If you have been building your home with God’s help and His guidance, then you are allowing the enemy to come in and destroy the work that God has done in you and through you. The enemy doesn’t want to be friends, he wants you dead. That’s the way we have to see people who are operating in the lie the enemy presents to them. Their acceptance of his lie, should not be your defeat.
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Learn to Get Back Up – In any fight, be it war or sport, there are occasions when you will miss the ball, miss the shot or be in the wrong place at the wrong time. That’s not when you beat yourself up, that’s when you get back up quickly and get in the right position. You start doing what you know is right and you keep fighting. You will win, if you faint not. Do not faint because of fear or lack of stamina to fight the enemy. You have a more powerful source of life. The enemy’s source is full of death, destruction and darkness. Keep that stuff off of you by always working with Truth and Light by Faith.
Blessings to you,
Pastor Fiona