251 Quotes About Spiritual-warfare

Christ is my standard, the Bible is my guide, and His Blood is my healer. On the narrow way I press on looking forward to the eternal glory on the other side.

Praying hard is not the past of least resistance; it's usually the path of most resistance because we engage in spiritual warfare. In fact, when we begin interceding for others, we better make sure that others are interceding for us. We need a prayer circle that provides a prayer covering.

He who lives in us is greater! Sometimes we forget that we do not fight against flesh and blood, but against principalities and evil powers (Ephesians 6:12). We desperately need to remember whose we are and how to fight.

Isn’t it just like the enemy of our souls to seed our minds with destructive thoughts and fertilize them with some manure? Then we come along and water them like there is no tomorrow. What was a passing thought in my mind had turned into the creature from the black lagoon, slime and all. I should have known better than to play into the ploys of the devil.

get out of your cage and take over your stage

In order for the assembly (ekklesia) to be built up, every believer needs to rise up and be actively seeking the Lord and functioning according to the gifts that the Spirit has given each one.

The author concedes that humanity had the fatal tendency to shape truth to our beliefs rather than beliefs to the Truth.

Unmasking the intentions of a Satanic character: He cannot be both counselor and tyrant.

Baptism, then, is not what produces salvation. It 'saves' in that it reflects a heart decision: a pledge of loyalty to the risen Savior. In effect, baptism in New Testament theology is a loyalty oath, a public avowal of who is on the Lord’s side in the cosmic war between good and evil. ... Early baptismal formulas included a renunciation of Satan and his angels for this very reason. Baptism was—and still is—spiritual warfare.