Daily Devotional for Friday November 5, 1999

Spiritual Warfare - Part I

(Ephesians 6:12)

The enemy is attacking!!!! So many of the emails I receive every day are from good Christian people who are looking for God to help them, and wondering why they are going thru the difficulties they are. Unfortunately there is not always an explanation. I try to encourage and challenge you each day to do your part, because in all honesty, we cause a lot of the problems in our lives ourselves by not following God's plan and ignoring the warnings He has clearly laid out in His Word. But for those living a holy and Godly life, who are still experiencing major battles, you have to understand that there is an enemy, Satan, who is very real and very actively trying to disrupt the work of God. The Bible clearly tells us that our battle isn't against flesh and blood, but that it is a spiritual battle. Over the next 3 days, I am going to try to help you fight these battles. The most important thing you have to understand, no matter how intense the attacks may be on you right now....you have already won if you know Jesus as your personal Savior. The most important battle is the one for your soul. Knowing Jesus insures you have won that battle, and that knowledge alone, should give you the confidence to wage the battles of this life knowing that in the end, YOU WIN!!!!! The lesson for today is that as a person who has put their faith and trust in Christ, no matter what you may be facing, in the end..YOU WIN!!!!!

The reason for these next 3 daily devotional on Spiritual Warfare comes out of the incredible attacks this ministry, Liveprayer.com is under today. God told me when He gave me the vision for this Internet ministry that it was going to be a major battle since the Internet has basically been Satan's domain and to a large extent still is. For whatever the benefits of the Internet have been, they are far outweighed currently by the ungodly content that dominates this world. You would be amazed at the number of lives destroyed over the last 5 years by the Internet. Men and women in total bondage to Internet porn, gambling....marriages destroyed by on-line romances that became real...people lured by the greed of on-line trading and losing everything they had in this world...every kind of evil and destructive thing has found a place of prominence here on the Internet. I had no illusions that this would be easy work as we try to take back the internet for the Kingdom of God.