Spiritual Warfare

“standing in the face of this present darkness. Number one, we must remember that spiritual warfare is reality, not a fantasy. Spiritual warfare is a reality, not a fantasy. Though spiritual warfare is in an unseen world, it does not lessen the significance nor the visibility of the impact of that war going on in our lives and in the world around us.”

“We'll fight the wrong front. This is especially important in spiritual warfare. Someone asked me, how do I win in spiritual warfare I said well half the battle is knowing that spiritual warfare is happening it's not your kids it's not your job and your co-workers you have to identify that there's an enemy behind this and once you understand it's spiritual warfare then all of a sudden”

“You know, half the battle in spiritual warfare is knowing that there's warfare going on. And so you've got to understand that when you are tempted, it's spiritual warfare. And you've got to understand the mechanics of the battle, who your enemy is, the source of your temptation, so that you can begin to resist it. When Jesus was tempted in the wilderness, we see three broad categories”

“And what we think we're going to do and what we hope to accomplish is to show you how spiritual warfare played a very real part of Paul's thinking and Paul's action. And we want to trace these themes so that we can learn about spiritual warfare and we know in our own walks how to resist the schemes of the devil. So let me start and let me read and then we'll begin to break it down. chapter 11 verses 1 through 3 says I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness do”

“in these ways to to serve and to be served this morning as we gather in grovetown well as we open our bibles again to the book of second corinthians we are continuing our discussion on the topic of spiritual warfare and we're talking about being unshaken and we're talking about being unshaken in the battle that we all are in the middle of as we face spiritual warfare on all sides and as we're”

“in this spiritual warfare because here's the reality we we face this adversary Paul brings up this truth in Ephesians chapter 6 that this battle was not against flesh and blood but it is a spiritual warfare that has so many elements to it that we can't even see with our physical eyes and so though we don't have the strength to actually get physical swords and fight this thing in our own strength but what we can do is go before”

“that we advance in the engagement of spiritual warfare but prayer is how we fight our battles and prayer is how we grow in faith prayer is the opposite of panic and so many of us are struggling with panic and anxiety and fear because these are natural impulses of the natural man and of the”

“It didn't occur to him that there would be spiritual encounters that he wasn't prepared for. Spiritual warfare that he was undergoing. It didn't occur to him that he was going to a place where there were no churches. Therefore, how can you nourish yourself whenever you don't have a church to go to? You have to learn to nourish yourself in your own time in God's word. And so we spent a week training and preparing Ashton, and it was a joy. He was a blonde-headed surfer-looking dude, 21 years old, green and eager.”