As a General or Commander In Charge, you would never head into a battle without knowing who your opponent was! Would You?
As a coach, you wouldn’t ignore the other team’s abilities and strengths? Would You?
No, of course, you wouldn’t; you would have studied their styles, techniques, strategies, how they attack, and wherein their power derives! You would go into battle prepared!!!
Yet, that’s precisely what we do every day. We wake up, start our day, head out the door into the world, the rat race we call life. There are battles everywhere, health battles, political battles, price battles, workplace battles, road rage battles, children, and spousal battles, etc…but what about the battles we can’t see?
Ephesians 6:12 NCV “Our fight is not against people on earth but against the rulers and authorities and the powers of this world’s darkness, against the spiritual powers of evil in the heavenly world.”
Satan has a network of demons out there working as hard to destroy you and your peace as God has his angels surrounding you. You need to know who your adversary is, his tricks, lies and HIS STRATEGY!!!
He knows YOU! He knows your weaknesses, your fears, your doubts. He knows the spaces you are empty and how to fill those dank places. Are you longing to be loved? Do you crave success? Do you just want someone to notice all you do? There is a whole network of substitutes for the peace and wholeness that come from a relationship with Jesus. Be careful with what you fill those caverns and to the voices whispering in your head.
Be aware of your soft spots, your weaknesses, your places of vulnerability because Satan has a strategy too! Are you being attacked? Do your thoughts resemble or feel, cold, foreboding, scary, too hard, worthless, or stupid? If you answered yes to any of these emotions, chances are you are under attack.
Satan doesn’t want you to know about God’s love, his victory, the healing balm of his Holy Spirit in your life, so he lies to keep you down. Remember the concordance I always talk about? Get out your Bible and look up scriptures pertaining to Satan, learn his ways and how he prowls around looking to seek and destroy. God wants us aware of our enemy and has a given us all the tools we need. His Word!
1 Peter 5:8 NIV “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
A simple prayer for attacks: Dear God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I bind these emotions and thoughts coming from the dark, and I release the refreshing calm of the Holy Spirit to cover me. What I bind on earth is bound in Heaven and what I loose on earth is released in Heaven. Thank you in your Glorious Name I pray…Amen!
Just now, God’s team of mighty protection surrounds you, and the dark imps flee! Trust me on this…at Jesus’ name every knee shall bow.
Philippians 2:10-11 NKJV “That at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of those in heaven, and those on earth, and those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father”
Know your adversary it’s a battle out here! Be blessed today and thank you for joining me. 🥰
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