Friday, April 5, 2013

Renew Your Mind -- Reject the Attacks

The issue is not "thinking the right thoughts" -- but instead renewing our minds to the truth of who we are in our Spirit.

Because of God's love, we are taken from dead in our trespasses but alive in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2: 1)

We have been blessed with all spiritual blessings in Christ (Ephesians 1: 3)

Paul also prayed that we would ask God to open our eyes to all that God has given us (Ephesians 1: 17-19; Philemon 6)

But scorning the shame and rejecting the lies of the Enemy.

We do this by faith.

and faith works through love (Galatians 5: 4)

This is why Paul prayed to the Ephesians, who were the most "spiritually mature" Christians, according to most historians:

" (Ephesian 3: 16-19)

The more that you know how  much God loves you, the more that you will see God move in your life:

(Ephesians 3: 20)

So, the Enemy cannot take from us what God has so freely given, so the only thing that the devil can do is -- distract us. Yet in the two instances, where Satan attacks, our faith is the answer:

"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" (Ephesians 6: 16-17)

The fiery darts will not last second if we rest in faith, which access God's grace in our lives.

"Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

"Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." (1 Peter 5: 8-9)

Renew your mind to truth, stand in faith on it, and the lies of the enemy will fall.

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