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Tag: Spiritual warfare

  • 2 cor 10:3-6 not about cosmic spiritual warfare

    2 cor 10:3-6 not about cosmic spiritual warfare

    Some have misinterpreted and misapplied this text as if it spoke of cosmic level spiritual warfare (i.e., territorial demons). “Strongholds” and every “lofty thing” (NASB) have been taken as referring to demonic spirits who have been assigned by Satan to specific territorial or geographic regions. We then, according to this view, are called to identify,…

  • Joy is spiritual warfare

    The enemy does not expect you to be joyful. After all, this is war. And the enemy does not know how to combat joy in a person. He can’t lay hold of anything. A joyful person is buoyant, even merry, laughing when the circumstances would seem to dictate crying. Beni JohnsonClick to Tweet

  • Satan stays active, keeping pace

    Satan stays active, keeping pace wth God, cunning aiming to spoil God’s work and to thwart His plans to do good for his people and bring praise to his name. So teh church must be at war with Satan, since Satan is always at war with it – with us who believe J.I.PackerClick to TweetFrom…

  • Time must be properly budgeted

    Time must be properly budgeted for the gathering of inner strength and resolved in order to compensate of one’s weakness when spiritual warfare begins Gordon MacdonaldClick to TweetFrom the book “Ordering Your Private World” Available on amazon.co.uk*Available on amazon.com*

  • In his book,Territorial Spirits and

    In his book,Territorial Spirits and World Evangelization? (Mentor/OMF, 199),Chuck Lowe concludes that the strategic-level spiritual warfare advocated by the likes of C. Peter Wagner is unbiblical and the claims associated with it are unfounded. He points the way forward by exploring the experience of James Fraser, a pioneer missionary among the Lisu people in the…

  • There are two equal and

    There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased with both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the…