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Authors: John Osteen
was healed of everything that was wrong with her, and she received the baptism in the Holy Spirit. When she went back to her doctors, they verified the fact she no longer had lupus.
This miracle happened because the Holy Spirit spoke to me. Don’t let the devil get you to do some foolish thing that God has not told you to do. Keep Jesus first in your life and follow His voice.
W HO BUT THE ENEMY
WOULD SAY THAT YOUR AGE
GETS IN THE WAY OF YOUR SERVICE?
G OD CAN USE YOU.
Y OUR BODY AGES,
BUT YOUR SPIRIT NEVER GROWS OLD.
Y OU HAVE ETERNAL YOUTH
IN YOUR SPIRIT MAN.
Reflections from
JOEL
R ecall how the children of Israel had been miraculously delivered from the Egyptians and were camped right next door to the Promised Land, but didn’t go in for fear of giants. Don’t allow a similar lack of faith or a wrong mind-set to rob you of your destiny. Maybe you are camped right next door to your Promised Land. God has great things He wants to do in your life. He wants to increase you, heal your body, restore your marriage, or bless you financially. Maybe you are right on the edge of a miracle!
If you will get your thinking lined up with God’s thinking, nothing will be able to stop you. No obstacle will be too high, no situation too difficult. If you believe God’s Word, all things are possible.
Remember, the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows God has something great in store for you. The darkest battle, the darkest storm, will always give way to the brightest sunrise. Keep believing, keep praying, and keep pressing forward.
CHAPTER THREE
Engaging in Spiritual Warfare
O ne of the great themes of Scripture that the church routinely neglects is that of spiritual warfare. There is a warfare with the enemy of our souls that all Christians are called to engage in, but the majority of today’s churches refuse to take it seriously, and many dismiss it completely. But just because someone denies the devil and demon powers does not diminish their reality.
The apostle Paul said at the end of his life, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7). If this great apostle had to fight, do we actually think we are going to heaven on flowery beds of ease? If it was possible for a veteran such as Paul to be hindered by Satan (1 Thessalonians 2:18), what warning ought this to be to us? We’ve linked ourselves up to Jesus and His Great Commission to reach the heathen world, and the devil will do everything he can to stop us.
For many years after I put my faith in Jesus and had entered the ministry, I did not know my rights, my privileges in Him. Consequently, I did not know how to use the Name of Jesus or how to resist the devil successfully. And you know, the devil beat me down. But thank God, through that entire struggle I learned what I know today. I don’t know everything, but I know who my enemy is. I know who the troublemaker is and what he’s trying to do.
He is going to do everything he can to confuse your mind, discourage your spirit, and make your body sick. The devil is doing his best, but his best is not enough when we know who we are and our rights and privileges as believers.
T HE T RUE N ATURE OF THE S PIRITUAL B ATTLEFIELD
According to the apostle Paul, this is the true nature of the spiritual battlefield upon which we are engaged: “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand” (Ephesians 6:10–13).
A different translation says our battle is “against the world rulers of this darkness,” and
This miracle happened because the Holy Spirit spoke to me. Don’t let the devil get you to do some foolish thing that God has not told you to do. Keep Jesus first in your life and follow His voice.
W HO BUT THE ENEMY
WOULD SAY THAT YOUR AGE
GETS IN THE WAY OF YOUR SERVICE?
G OD CAN USE YOU.
Y OUR BODY AGES,
BUT YOUR SPIRIT NEVER GROWS OLD.
Y OU HAVE ETERNAL YOUTH
IN YOUR SPIRIT MAN.
Reflections from
JOEL
R ecall how the children of Israel had been miraculously delivered from the Egyptians and were camped right next door to the Promised Land, but didn’t go in for fear of giants. Don’t allow a similar lack of faith or a wrong mind-set to rob you of your destiny. Maybe you are camped right next door to your Promised Land. God has great things He wants to do in your life. He wants to increase you, heal your body, restore your marriage, or bless you financially. Maybe you are right on the edge of a miracle!
If you will get your thinking lined up with God’s thinking, nothing will be able to stop you. No obstacle will be too high, no situation too difficult. If you believe God’s Word, all things are possible.
Remember, the enemy always fights the hardest when he knows God has something great in store for you. The darkest battle, the darkest storm, will always give way to the brightest sunrise. Keep believing, keep praying, and keep pressing forward.
CHAPTER THREE
Engaging in Spiritual Warfare
O ne of the great themes of Scripture that the church routinely neglects is that of spiritual warfare. There is a warfare with the enemy of our souls that all Christians are called to engage in, but the majority of today’s churches refuse to take it seriously, and many dismiss it completely. But just because someone denies the devil and demon powers does not diminish their reality.
The apostle Paul said at the end of his life, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith” (2 Timothy 4:7). If this great apostle had to fight, do we actually think we are going to heaven on flowery beds of ease? If it was possible for a veteran such as Paul to be hindered by Satan (1 Thessalonians 2:18), what warning ought this to be to us? We’ve linked ourselves up to Jesus and His Great Commission to reach the heathen world, and the devil will do everything he can to stop us.
For many years after I put my faith in Jesus and had entered the ministry, I did not know my rights, my privileges in Him. Consequently, I did not know how to use the Name of Jesus or how to resist the devil successfully. And you know, the devil beat me down. But thank God, through that entire struggle I learned what I know today. I don’t know everything, but I know who my enemy is. I know who the troublemaker is and what he’s trying to do.
He is going to do everything he can to confuse your mind, discourage your spirit, and make your body sick. The devil is doing his best, but his best is not enough when we know who we are and our rights and privileges as believers.
T HE T RUE N ATURE OF THE S PIRITUAL B ATTLEFIELD
According to the apostle Paul, this is the true nature of the spiritual battlefield upon which we are engaged: “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand” (Ephesians 6:10–13).
A different translation says our battle is “against the world rulers of this darkness,” and
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