Me:  Prodigal, what are you doing with all the weapons and gear?

 

Prodigal:  Getting ready for battle!

 

Me:  Well, I have some very wise words about going into spiritual battle.

 

Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer the founder of Dallas Theological Seminary wrote these words about spiritual battles.

 

Committed Christians are placed on the front lines of the battle.  It’s the place where the enemy’s fiercest pressure is felt, but it also offers the best view of his crushing defeat.  You’ll never grow beyond the power of temptation.  You’ll see it in ever-new, more devious forms.  But your eyes will be filled with the glorious sights God reserves for those who follow Him with the utmost devotion.

 

You are asking what is going on and you have just been called to the front lines my friend!  Yes, you see the enemy but you are about to see the enemy’s defeat!

 

2 Corinthians 1:8-10

For we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, of our trouble which came to us in Asia:  that we were burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we despaired even of life.  Yes, we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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