Quotes about Spiritual warfare

One of satan's most successful devices is to preoccupy us with "good" things to distract us from the "right" things.

There are temptations to idolatry at every level, and the greater the good the greater the temptation.

Saul the zealot had expected a Messiah to defeat the pagan hordes. Paul the Apostle believed that the Messiah had defeated the dark powers that stood behind all evil.

To retrain the imagination and the natural impulses to resist the murky short-term delights of the pagan world is harder still. To make and sustain marriages of genuine mutual submission is perhaps hardest of all. Compromises and second-best solutions are easy. To go for the full version of discipleship is to sign on for spiritual warfare.

Victory over the powers, once more, is accomplished through the forgiveness of sins.

Christians are called to tear down mental fortresses and liberate people from the power of false ideas.

Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer

When we expose the lie, the enemy's power is broken. Often

Jesus did not come just to forgive our sins and give us life; He came to undo the works of Satan (see 1 John 3:8).

Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world.

Our battles are first won or lost in the secret places of our will in God's presence, never in full view of the world. The Spirit of God seizes me and I am compelled to get alone with God and fight the battle before Him. Until I do this, I will lose every time. The battle may take one minute or one year, but that will depend on me, not God. However long it takes, I