SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Truman Ron Coates said:

Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled about your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed, and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. Ephesians 6:10-18 Berean Study Bible

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Nancy said:

Beautiful G. great share and, will I EVER stop crying??!!! Lol.
A broken and contrite heart is what He desires, or He can do not a thing with us. Potter and the clay, for sure.
His in not only Savior but He is LORD-Master-Father.
The go to scriptures as you had mentioned, about commanding Satan to flee have been uses countless times by me simply saying, it is written that you MUST flee at the Name above All Names, Jesus Christ...you have no place here, God rebuke you, be gone, and it most certainly DOES work, instantly! But, lately these words seem week and empty, without conviction, with ought His authority. It's a phase, or a testing of sorts I think, as we all go through from time to time but I cannot say how grateful I am for you all on here, I've grown close to many over the last almost 3 years of daily coming onto this site. People come and go but, I find there is ALWAYS someone on here who gives a flip, lol. And, you all know who you are ❤

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Truman Ron Coates said:

The Lords says to you: "Five-fold ministry."

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marks said:

My wife and I have made Andrew our "virtual pastor" for our covid-free home church, she and I. Hymns and prayers and Bible readings and we pick one of his sermons.

What a faith builder!

Much love!

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marks said:

Romans 5:1-2
1) Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2) By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

When I put these two passages together, by the same faith we had in Jesus to be saved, that very same faith let's us into the grace in which we stand, I think the message is to believe these things are true of us, and act accordingly.

We are wrapped with and supported by Truth. Let us walk in truth. We are righteous with His righteousness, nothing will separate us from God. He has prepared our feet with His gospel of peace, that we may walk in His works. And we can trust Him completely, not fazed by whatever is thrown our way.

Salvation, and the Word of God, we are born again by the Living Word of God which remains forever! The Book tells us all about it.

And pray pray pray!!

Much love!

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Truman Ron Coates said:

Finally, be strong in the Lord and His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so you can make your stand against the devil's schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world's darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand. Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled about your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed, and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. Ephesians 6:10-18 Berean Study Bible

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Nancy said:

Thank you Truman,
you are right, I'll be putting on my praise and worship list very soon and keep it on all day. Funny, when we need Him most, He seems very silent and distant. When not hearing any direction from Him it is like, talking to myself, no dialog. There are other issues that come into play here as well, I know. But, this like, month long attack is not letting up and not sure what to do anymore. I am happy you are on here Truman as, many of those I had grown to love so much are now leaving this site more and more. Just another heartbreak, we should all be quite used to that by now, haha. Fellowship is so HARD TO FIND! And, if we do not have that, have our brothers and sisters lifting us up, we will burn out and I can see how fast that could happen. But, it seems there is only infighting and everyone telling everyone else they are wrong and they themselves are right! People can make the Word Of God say anything they want it to. Everyone say's "well, I can back it with scripture"!! Ooooh...well, so can Satan so, that means nothing at all. People fall for all kinds of weird and "new" things...there IS nothing new under the sun.
The battlefield is in the mind and, man my mind can be mush sometimes, lol. Recently, I've tried to study spiritual warfare and put it to use but...I still get hit with fiery darts in the mind. Oh how I wished we all lived closer!!!
God bless you and thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words. I am sorry, am having a dark time of it lately and there is nobody to talk to but on here. my church doesn't call, I don't know anyone there but a very few people and, they have their own lives with hubby and kids so...I do not fit into the mainline church's well. Though that is NOT for lack of trying!
His Blessings abundant brothewr,
nancy

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Backlit said:

Wow. You do have at least one Friend. I am convinced that God takes away everything extraneous, even friends and family, in order for us to finally surrender to Him and grasp a hold of Him saying... Regardless that the world may be disintegrating all around me, I am going to trust You. I am going to trust You because I believe your word. I believe your Name which says, the Lord, the Lord God. Merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth.(Ex 34:6) Not only is that your Name... It is Who you are. And because this is Who you are I believe you will never let me go.

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Nancy said:

He is one of my Sunday go to's also After his sermon, he has a half hour question and answer show on one of our radio stations here at 3 P.M. He is very up lifting!

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marks said:

I've listened to a lot of those. I'll let them run on autoplay on my computer during the day sometimes.

Much love!

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Nancy said:

He is such a Christians Christian! How he knows the grace of God like no other I have ever heard...and being a professor of linguistics is the cherry on the top!!!

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