Winning Your Spiritual Battles by Tony Evans

Author:Tony Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736979436
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.

God tells us to start by praising and thanking Him for all the things He has provided. He wants us to begin by giving thanks for all He has done and by thinking about His goodness—not only in our own lives but also in the world around us.

Satan tries to pull our focus away from the goodness of God because he knows that the only way he can defeat us is through deception. Truth exists within the goodness of God, and wherever the truth of God is present, Satan’s ability to deceive is diminished.

Keep in mind as you face Satan’s tricks of deception that you cannot fight him on your own, with your own methods, or even with your own thoughts. God’s Word—His truth—trumps Satan. You don’t. Satan has constitutional superiority over every man and woman because he is a spirit being. He is not bound by the limitations of flesh and blood. Therefore, you cannot compete with him on the level of his deception. He is the master chameleon.

In fact, Satan is such a masterful chameleon that rarely will you find him strutting his stuff in a red jumpsuit carrying a pitchfork. That’s too obvious. His scheme is to trick you. He doesn’t want you to see him for who he truly is. He’s not merely hanging out at the First Church of Satan. Rather, he’s also concerned with finding a way to infiltrate First Baptist, First Methodist, or First Bible Church of Anytown, USA.

Not long ago, I sat down after a long day to spend some time relaxing in front of the television. A popular old show called The Outer Limits was playing on one of the stations. I had seen this show before, but this time something stood out. There was a clear similarity between what was playing on the television and what Satan often does in our own lives.

The Cliff Notes version of this show is that a ship had crashed in an alien environment. One of the human prisoners was taken captive and fiercely interrogated. When he wouldn’t give up any information, the aliens tried another approach. They sent a beautiful young woman into the room with him to be incarcerated as a prisoner as well. As the two prisoners talked and as days drifted into weeks, they shared secrets with each other.

Over a period of time, scales began to appear on the woman after she would be taken away for questioning and then returned to the cell. The man was concerned for her and asked her what they were doing to her when they took her.

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