*📜SPIRITUAL WEAPONS FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE*
*Friday, June 26th*
*Pastor Chris*
_*📖For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God… (2 Corinthians 10:4-5).*_
The Bible makes it clear that as Christians, we’re engaged in a spiritual warfare. This warfare isn’t against flesh and blood or humans but against principalities, powers, and rulers of the darkness of this world (Ephesians 6:12). These are spiritual personalities, and therefore the warfare is spiritual.
Now, because the conflict is spiritual, the weapons we employ can’t be man-made or natural. The Scriptures declare that they’re mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds. Our victory against the adversary isn’t determined by physical strength, human strategies, or intellectual reasoning but by the spiritual weapons God has made available to us.
In our opening scripture, the Spirit, through the Apostle Paul, highlights a specific dimension of this warfare. He shows that certain spiritual weapons are designed to deal with strongholds in the mental realm. These strongholds include imaginations, arguments, prejudices, and reasonings that exalt themselves against the knowledge of God. These are entrenched patterns of thinking that contradict God’s truth.
But with the Word of God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we dismantle such strongholds or mental fortresses and bring them into alignment with Christ. This is a particular category of spiritual warfare, specifically the kind that deals with the mental realm. Not all spiritual warfare is limited to this dimension.
The Scriptures reveal that spiritual engagement can involve broader operations against demonic structures and influences. Therefore, you must approach spiritual warfare with the right understanding. Where it concerns mental strongholds, apply God’s Word, and every reasoning, imagination and resistance to God’s truth will be dismantled.
*🙏PRAYER*
*Dear Father, thank you for the spiritual weapons you’ve given me for victory in life. By your Word and the power of the Spirit, I pull down strongholds, cast down imaginations, and bring every thought into obedience of Christ. My mind is governed by your truth, and I walk continually in dominion and victory, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.*
*FURTHER STUDY📖=>* *||* *Ephesians 6:12 AMPC For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the despotisms, against the powers, against [the master spirits who are] the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) sphere.* *||*
*||* *Hebrews 4:12 KJV For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.* *||*
*||* *2 Corinthians 10:4-5 AMPC For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, [5] [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One),* *||*
*📖DAILY SCRIPTURE READING📖*
*1-Year Bible Reading Plan📖=>* Acts 12 & Nehemiah 4-6
*2-Year Bible Reading Plan📖=>* 2 Corinthians 9:1-10 & Isaiah 14
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