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| Father God guide me always to do all things that will bring glory and honor to You Amen How does "spiritual battle" impact physical? Spiritual warfare is the cosmic conflict waged in the invisible, spiritual realm but simultaneously fleshed out in the visible, physical realm. Paul tells us that out battle is not against flesh and blood. Our battle, according to The Word of God, is against the rulers. Powers and world forces of wickedness located in heavenly places. " Heavenly places" simply means in the spiritual realm. Ephesians 6:10-12 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might. Put on a full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against the flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against. The powers, against the world forces of this darkness,against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians, is letting us know both the scope and occupants of the location of evil. chapter 1:3 " Blessed be the God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with EVERY spiritual blessing in the heavenly places. We learn from this verse that everything God is going to ever do for us, He has ALREADY DONE! Every spiritual blessing is already located in this unseen realm, EVERY promise God ever made and plans to fulfill on your behalf, every gift you will ever receive, and every hope that will ever be satisfied has already been deposited in your account in the spiritual realm. Your VICTORY and your BLESSING are already located there with your name written on them, waiting for you to GRAB them, USE them, and WALK with them. Many believers live defeated lives simply because they are unaware of this truth. Yet Paul makes clear in this passage that we have already been blessed with EVERY spiritual blessing in the spiritual realm. In the spiritual battle, Satan tries to deceive you into believingthat God is holding out on you and that it is up to you to get God to give you both blessings and victory. Satan wants you to think that if you pray more, give more, serve more, sin less, do better, or worship more, maybe God will give you more. This shifts the focus off of God and what are has He already done in the spiritual realm and what you need to do in this physical realm. Doing these things in the physical realm is good and beneficial for spiritual growth and cultivating intimacy with God and others, but those things are not the key to accessing what God already has for you in the spiritual realm. The way to access you power of your blessing is through biblical understanding and application of grace through faith. In grace, God has made every believer complete in Jesus Christ, " works" that we do in an effort to get something from good actually nullify grace Galatians 5:1-4 because grace and works can never be mixed. Romans 11:6 Grace is the point of access to God. The way we enter this point of grace is through faith. Faith is ACTING as if God is telling the truth. It is acting as if something is true even when it doesn't appear to be true in order that it might be shown to be true simply because God SAID it's true! The job of faith is to discover what the spirit blessing in the heavenly places already are, ask God for them, and make life CHOICES in the light of reality. Live life so those who know you but don't know God will come to know God because they know you. For it is with God all things are possible Matthew 19:26 BLESSED MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE ALL! GOD LOVES YOU!
Edited by Ladyjockey 2 2021-12-24 8:39 AM
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