Presenting ...
... a weekly letter of encouragement.
August 30, 1993
Good Morning!
Do you handle Satan's attacks just like you do the other pressures
in your life:
- Through the power of your intellect?
- By toughing it out?
- By cool, rational thinking?
If that is your modes operandi, you are dead meat.
Satan is profoundly superior to you in winning spiritual battles.
After all, he has had thousands of years to perfect and ply his
trade. Because Paul understood Satan's deadly power, he
wrote:
"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as
the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons
of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish
strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension
that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take
captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." (II
Corinthians 10:3 - 5)
The "arguments" and "pretension"
are our prideful assumption that we can handle Satan's attacks
on our own without the spiritual weapons of warfare outlined in
Ephesians 6:10-19:
Moral integrity
Preparation to give the Gospel
Faith
Salvation
Word of God
Prayer
We will be defeated at every turn until we realize:
* The power of the enemy
* Our prideful inclination toward thinking we
can handle his attacks
* The Biblical rules of spiritual warfare
Only in our sense of inadequacy and in suiting up in His armor
can we win over the enemy:
Have a great week!
Dwight Hill
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