spiritual-warfare

Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.

He was the perfect soldier: he went where you sent him, and stayed where you put him, and had no idea of his own to keep him from doing exactly what you told him.

Fantasies and wishes carry their own significant messages.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

I admit that at times my prayer for my children is nothing more than vocalized unbelief aimed at God.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

The worst thing to be afraid of is fear. Give yourself grace. _ Jessica Willis

Every source of blessing is a point of attack.

We have invented a moral sense which is rotting now that we can't give it employment, and when a moral sense begins to rot, it is worse than when you had none. I suppose that all endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my precious civilization was, contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

The temptations that use the raw material of good for evil can continue unrecognized for a long time without awareness.

The nature of the enemy's warfare in your life is to cause you to become discouraged and to cast away your confidence. Not that you would necessarily discard your salvation, but you could give up your hope of God's deliverance. The enemy wants to numb you into a coping kind of Christianity that has given up hope of seeing God's resurrection power.

I am very happy to see the enemy wish to avoid our coming to him. _ Napoleon

If God declares that all is well, ten thousand devils may declare it to be ill, but we laugh them all to scorn. Blessed be God for a faith which enables us to believe God when the creatures contradict Him.

Don__ attempt to fight the enemy in your own strength. You will experience burnout, and you will fail. Don__ even think about it! The key is to engage in spiritual warfare God__ way. And that is by resting in him and fighting from victory, not for victory!

God isn__ asking you to fight the devil. He is asking you to simply uphold or sustain the victory won byJesus at Calvary and enforce his authority over the devil. You__e like the traffic warden who raises his hand and the vehicles stop. They don__ stop because he can physically bring thevehicles to a halt, but because he is representing and upholding the authority of the state.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

A man is his tallest when he is down on his knees in prayer.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.