Quotes About Spiritual warfare

The real war is not without, but within: between ego-based fear and spirit-based love.

Life is a war against a spiritual enemy we cannot see. We can't win on our own, but the God who sees all gives us courage, perseverance, and wisdom to win an otherwise unwinnable war.

entire churches can be consumed with the demonic drama that proceeds from one tongue speaking on behalf of a bitter heart.

Lasting solutions to the battles in our workplaces, homes, and battlefields will come only as we end the war in our souls.

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

La cosa estaba entre ser Cazador Oscuro o profeta. Personalmente, me gusta mucho más lo de luchar y matar que lo de rezar en la posición del loto.

She [Catherine of Siena] compares Christ, too, with a knight who has ridden out to fight for us; for our sake He came down from Heaven to fight and triumph over the devil. The crown of thorns is His helmet, his flayed flesh His mail, the nails in His Hands and Feet, His gauntlet and spurs. So we should follow our Knight and take new courage in our trials and difficulties.

If you are going to resist the desires of the flesh (negative), you will need to live in the power of the Holy Spirit and walk according to his disciplines (positive).

Satan will always find you something to do when you ought to be occupied about that [regular, prayerful Bible study], if it is only arranging a window blind.

I command any seed of the devil that has already entered into my life as a result of my unforgiveness to be cast out and to die. Any door that unforgiveness has opened in my life to the devil and his demons, I slam you shut

Moloch, scepter'd king,Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spiritThat fought in heav'n; now fiercer by despair.

Satan's purpose is to take from you what God has given you.

be killing sin or it will be killing you.

Satan would willingly lose every battle to us, so long as he could successfully steal the attention that belongs to God.

We need to note that not once did Paul address any second Heaven powers of his day. He did recognize their existence, but he always chose to ask God for strength to overcome them rather than taking them on himself. Should we not do the same?

Jezebel spirit is ruthless and deceptive, even to the person who manifests this spirit.

You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.

Well, God does not mean for us to be passive. He means for us to fight the fight of faith—the fight for joy. And the central strategy is to preach the gospel to yourself. This is war. Satan is preaching for sure. If we remain passive, we surrender the field to him.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

A GOOD FIGHT It will help us fight for joy if we realize why Paul calls it a good fight. First, it is a good fight because the enemy of our joy is evil. The enemy is unbelief, and the satanic forces behind it, and the sins that come from it. When you set yourself to combat the forces that try to make you delight in yourself or your accomplishments or your possessions more than in God, you oppose a very evil enemy. Therefore it is a good fight.

Let us labor to memorize the Word of God--for worship and for warfare. If we do not carry it in our heads, we cannot savor it in our hearts or wield it in the Spirit.

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 JOHN 3:8

The Christian preacher has nothing to hide. The Devil is in the business of hiding. The preacher reveals. The Devil obscures. The preacher clarifies. The Devil dulls the mind and heart. The preacher shines and burns. He is ashamed of nothing in his message. And this has everything to do with logic and right reason.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks."5