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BECOMING GROUNDED PARTS 1 & 2 To be effective in spiritual warfare, there must be a solid foundation of absolute trust and belief in God’s ability AND willingness to give you the victory in the battle you are facing. Without being deeply grounded and rooted in these principles, you will be moved off your position. This teaching will show you how to stand against all odds and not be moved. ************************************************************************
BECOMING GROUNDED PART 1
INTRODUCTION
Becoming grounded in God is essential to being victorious in every single battle
you engage in for the Kingdom of God. Becoming grounded is the process to ensure
that Satan, the enemy, cannot make you turn back and give up the battle. Becoming
grounded will cause you to stand, and having done all—to stand your ground without
giving one inch back to the enemy.
THE CRITICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SPIRITUAL WARFARE
• There are some critical requirements that need to be in place in your life
before engaging the enemy in a battle.
• You must have a personal relationship with the Father, the Son and
the Holy Spirit.
• You must be confident in God’s motives towards you and your life
(family, job, health, finances).
• You must know who you are in Christ Jesus. You must know your
AUTHORITY.
• You must be fully persuaded that God is a good God and the devil
is a bad devil.
• You must be born-again to engage the enemy. (Acts 19:13-16)
• You must know the Lord intimately or are in the pursuit of an
intimate relationship with Him. (Colossians 3:3)
• You must be Baptized in the Holy Spirit to be led by Him. (Acts
1:9 & 19:2)
• You must believe that God’s love for YOU is beyond reproach. It
is without equal. (Romans 5:8 & 8:35-39)
• You must accept that His Word, the Bible, IS His will for your life
and every word in the Bible shows His promises to you for GOOD
and not EVIL. (James 1:17)
• You must know who you are in Christ Jesus. You must know your
AUTHORITY.
• You must realize and accept the authority that Jesus Christ has
given YOU as a believer to defeat ALL the power of the enemy.
(Luke 9:1 & 10:19)
• You must EXPECT the enemy to back off when you exercise that
authority. (Luke 8:30 & Acts 16:16-18)
• You must be fully persuaded that God has only benefits and good
things stored up for you. You must be convinced that it is His will
to give you the victory. (Luke 12:32 & Luke 11:13)
• You must be willing to give the devil his due: HE IS THE
AUTHOR OF EVIL AND BAD THINGS! (2 Cor. 2:11 & John
10:10)
BUILDING STRONG FAITH
• One of the reasons that God allows Satan to operate is so that we can to build
strong faith in Him. (John 16:33)
• Spiritual warfare builds faith because you are depending on God to give you
victory. With each battle, your faith grows. It is a natural progression. (Jude
1:20-25)
• Faith must be exercised to grow. Just like muscles in your body must be
exercised to maintain their strength. (2 Peter 1:5)
• The beauty of spiritual warfare is that once you have gone through the battle and
come out stronger on the other side: it cannot be UNDONE. You will be stronger
and you will go from strength to strength going forward. (Psalm 84:7)
THE FAITH STAND
• Every battle requires a faith stand. Once you have made your stand, bound the
enemy, drawn the bloodlines etc., there comes a time when you just stand your
ground and refuse to be moved off your position. (Ephesians 6:13)
• The faith stand is the toughest part of any spiritual battle. It is tough because you
don’t see ANY progress at all in the situation. This is a critical juncture because
it is so easy to turn back and give up. (James 1:3)
• The faith stand begins AFTER you have made your petitions, bound the enemy,
gone to the Court of Heaven and applied the Blood and the Name of Jesus to
everything.
• This is the point where you stand and declare God’s Word over the situation, day
after day in FAITH. Giving Him thanks and praise and worship for the victory—
in spite of not seeing any improvement.
THE FAITH STAND
EYES ON JESUS
• Faith looks to Jesus Who is the Author and the Finisher of our faith. (Hebrews
12:2)
• Keep your eyes on Jesus and you can walk all the way across the sea with Him.
(Matthew 14:22-33)
• When the waves are a hundred feet tall its hard to keep focus, but still we must.
Peter could have walked all the way if he would have kept his eyes on Jesus.
SEEING THE DESIRED END RESULT
• God always looks at the desired end result. Everything He does, He does with
that in mind. He looks with the eyes of faith. (Isaiah 46:10)
• What is the desired end result of your battle? Your financial breakthrough,
healing, deliverance, salvation of loved ones?
• THINK ABOUT IT FOR A FEW MINUTES
• The desired end result is your “vision” for victory. You are chasing the vision
that God has placed in your heart. (Jeremiah 29:11 & Habakkuk 2:2)
• Having a vision in your heart will keep you focused. The vision makes it difficult
to let go. It’s in your heart—your spirit. It was placed there by God.
• Faith and spiritual warfare go hand in hand, you can’t do one without the other.
Remember: Faith is the currency of heaven.
THE IMMOVEABLE POSITION: FULLY PERSUADED
• What is the immovable position? The immovable position is a new “micki-ism”
that I have come up with.
• It means that you get to a place in God where it doesn’t matter what it looks like
or how impossible it seems—you refuse to stop believing. You refuse to quit.
You refuse to let go of His promise.
• The immovable position is when your faith is rooted so deep that nothing can
sway or change your mind about it—except God.
• A person who gets into the immovable position is a real pain in the neck to Satan.
It’s like he is fighting one of those blow up punching bags that keeps bouncing
back for more.
• A person in the immovable position is convinced they have the victory. They are
convinced and fully persuaded the battle is won in their favor and Satan has to
flee.
A LOOK AT THE APOSTLE PAUL
• The Apostle Paul stayed in the immovable position. What makes a person able to
get to this place and then STAY in this place?
• Paul KNEW God—He had a personal, intimate relationship with Him! Because
of the deep intimate relationship, Paul became fully persuaded that God not only
COULD do anything, but that He actually WANTED to help Him! (II Timothy
1:12)
• Paul kept his eyes on the prize. Jesus Christ is the prize. He is the Pearl of great
price. (Philippians 3:14)
• Paul was prepared to go all the way for God. He was determined to complete his
race. To lay his crowns at the feet of Jesus on that day. (II Timothy 4:7)
• Paul was in the immovable position and there wasn’t anything Satan could do.
He tried to kill him time and time again. He only could when Paul’s race was
over.
A LOOK AT JOB
• Job is another man who loved God and pursued Him with everything he had. As
a result, God blessed him in every way.
• He had lots of children
• He was the wealthiest man in the entire East
• He had lots of servants
• He was healthy and strong
• But Job had one weakness: his children were undisciplined and wild as young
adults. They loved to party.
• Job knew their rebellious ways would eventually offend the Lord, so every time
they had a wild party, he would offer sacrifices for them.
• He should have taken them to task over it, but for some reason he did not. His
constant sacrifices was an indication of fear for his kids.
• Enter Satan, who was watching all this with great interest. He had been looking
for a way through the hedge surrounding Job and this was it. Fear is the opposite
of faith. Fear empowers Satan and ties God’s hands.
• Satan had legal ground against Job. He went to the Court of Heaven and made a
charge and won permission to attack him. But God set parameters.
• Satan then goes out and destroys all of Job’s wealth and kills all his children in
one day. Job kept getting bad news all day long. Yet he kept his immovable
position. He refused to blame God.
• Satan goes back to the Court of Heaven and demands permission to attack Job’s
physical body. He gets that permission.
• He puts loathsome sores all over Job’s body even on the soles of his feet.
• Job is now one of the most miserable human beings that has ever lived. He has
lost everything dear to him—except his wife.
• Now he is covered with these horrible, painful sores. He looks like he’s dying.
Satan used his wife against him, when she said “curse God and die.” Whose
words are those?
• Still in all that, Job refused to blame God. He said “though He slay me, yet will I
praise Him.” (Job 13:15)
• Finally, here comes Job’s friends who think they know God. They proceed to tell
him things about God, they knew nothing of, which angered God.
• God was not angry with Job. God had no intention of doing anything to hurt Job.
God accepted Job’s sacrifices and prayers for his children. God knew Job’s love
for Him.
• Satan is the one who accused Job before God. Satan is the one who saw the legal
ground of fear in Job’s life. Satan made a demand on eternal law and God
granted it. God’s mercy and grace were towards Job through all this.
• Finally, after all the talk of his friends, Job began to curse himself and wish
himself dead. God then began to talk to him and straightened him out.
• In the end, Job’s relationship with God was closer than ever. God restored his
wealth and his health and his marriage. God gave him ten more children to
replace the lost ones. God not only restored his wealth, but He actually doubled
it! God then added many, many more years to Job’s life and he saw several
generations of his children. He died full of days.
• The immovable position pays off.
THE FIERY FURNACE ATTITUDE
• There were three guys who were companions of Daniel the prophet. Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego. Their Hebrew names were Hananiah, Mishael and
Azariah. (Daniel 1:6)
• These young men were of the nobility of Israel. Well-bred men of royal lineage.
Well-educated and intelligent. (Daniel 1:3-4)
• These young men served the Lord. They worshipped Jehovah God Almighty—
and they were GROUNDED in Him.
• From the very beginning of their captivity in Babylon, Daniel, Shadrach, Mesach
and Abnego determined in their hearts to not part-take of the king’s idolatrous
foods. (Daniel 1:8-15)
• Their minds were set to obey God at all costs. At the very outset, they stood
against what the Babylonians represented. They knew the Word of God very well
and they knew what it meant to eat at the king’s table
• They made a deal with the chief steward of the young men. They asked him to
give them just vegetables and water for ten days.
• The chief steward was afraid that they would be looking starved and he would be
executed, so Daniel made this deal with him. He agreed. (Daniel 1:11-14)
• At the end of the ten days they looked better and healthier than all the rest of the
men eating at the king’s table! (Daniel 1:15)
• The king wanted all these young men to help him communicate with the Israelite
captives. That is why he chose the noble youths of the nation because they were
natural leaders.
• So the king began the interview process with these young men. After he had
talked with Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abnego, he found them ten times
better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in his realm! (Daniel 1:18-
20)
• Life was pretty good for these guys, even if they were in captivity. How many of
us know, that a period of blessings is seasonal? Trouble will inevitably come
around.
• The king got the bright idea to make this huge golden image on the plain of Dura.
It was ninety feet tall and nine feet wide. He called in all the people in authority
in his kingdom and told them the new law was to bow down to this image
whenever the trumpet blew. Everyone, everywhere was to do this. (Daniel 3:1-7)
• The law was in effect. To disobey this new law meant certain death. It was way
more than civil disobedience to refuse this law. It was a violation of God’s Law –
Thou shalt not have any other gods before Me—nor bow down to them.
• All this time these guys had supernatural favor with the king. They were his
golden boys. His bright stars. How quickly things can turn.
• They did not bow down and they were accused before the king. Their accusers
pointed out the law to the king. He had to kill them. (Daniel 3:8-12)
• The king was not hesitant at all, in fact, he was enraged that they refused his
command! He did give them another chance though. (Daniel 3:14-15)
• But the young men told him not to bother that they had determined in their hearts
not to bow down. Do what you have to do King. (Daniel 3:16-18)
• The king gets even more enraged and tells his men to heat the furnace seven times
hotter than normal! (Daniel 3:19)
• So the young men were bound and thrown into the burning fiery furnace. The
furnace was so hot, the heat killed the king’s men who threw the guys in! (Daniel
3:20-22)
• What happened? Jesus came into the middle of the fire with them! The king was
astounded when he saw a fourth man in the furnace. (Daniel 3:24-27)
• What was the result of the fiery furnace attitude these guys had? God was
GLORIFIED in the midst of the heathen. And they got promoted yet again.
(Daniel 3:28-29)
SPIRIT LED
THE POWER & PURPOSE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• The Holy Spirit is the Third Person of the Godhead or the Trinity as is commonly
known. The Holy Spirit is very, very precious to God the Son and God the
Father. In fact, all manner of blasphemy can be forgiven EXCEPT blasphemy
against the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 12:31-33)
• Throughout the history of mankind, the Godhead has been individually involved.
God the Father formed mankind from the dust of the earth and breathed life into
him. (Genesis 2:7)
• God the Son, came to the earth as a man, lived as a man and died as a man. He
arose from the dead forever tied to man in an immortal body.
• The Holy Spirit came after the Son ascended to the Father and sat at His right
hand on the throne.
• Now is the age of the power of the Holy Spirit. He was sent to guide us into all
the Truth of God! (Acts 2:1-5)
• A few things to know about the Holy Spirit:
• The Holy Spirit is the POWER of God. (Romans 8:11)
• The Holy Spirit can be grieved. (Ephesians 4:30)
• The Holy Spirit is a “He” not an “It” (John 14:16)
• The Holy Spirit speaks to people. (Acts 8:29)
• The Holy Spirit wants fellowship with us. (2 Corinthians 13:14)
• The Holy Spirit is everywhere—He is Omnipresent. (Psalm 139:7-10)
• The Holy Spirit is all-knowing—He is Omniscient. (I Corinthians 2:10-11)
• The Holy Spirit is all-powerful—Omnipotent. (Psalm 104:30)
• The Holy Spirit’s purposes on earth are:
• To instruct us and teach us. To reveal truth (revelation knowledge) to us
as HE WILLS. (Luke 12:12; John 14:27; 15:26; 16:13, 14; Acts 13:2; 1
Corinthians 2: 10, 13; Ephesians 1:16, 17; 3:5; 2 Peter 1:21; 1 John 2:20,
27)
• To counsel and guide us. (John 14:26; 16:13; Acts 11:12; 16:6, 7; 20:22,
23; Romans 8:14; Galatians 5:18)
• To intercede for us and help us to pray effectively. (Romans 8:26, 27;
Ephesians 2: 18; Jude 20)
• To comfort us (John 14:16)
• To anoint for ministry (Act 31:2, 20:28)
• To convict believers and unbelievers of sin (John 16:8-11)
• To give power and boldness to believers (Ephesians 3:16)
• To testify that we are the children of God (Romans 8:16)
TO NAME A FEW…
THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
• The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the impartation of the POWER of God into the
life of a believer.
• This power gives us boldness and confidence to do what the Holy Spirit tells us to
do to advance the kingdom and engage in spiritual warfare.
IT IS ALL ABOUT ADVANCING THE KINGDOM! IT IS NOT ABOUT US!
LISTEN & OBEY THE HOLY SPIRIT
• Before you do anything regarding any kind of spiritual warfare, ALWAYS
check with the Holy Spirit! (Romans 8:14)
• People will go in where angels fear to tread sometimes! I know because I
have! It’s not pretty!
• Jesus did ONLY what the Holy Spirit told Him to do. He did not heal
everyone. He healed those the Holy Spirit brought to Him.
CONCLUSION OF PART 1
TO BE FIRMLY GROUNDED IN GOD IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT IN
SUCCESSFULLY ADVANCING THE KINGDOM THROUGH SPIRITUAL
WARFARE. JESUS LOVES US SO MUCH, HE WANTS US TO BE WISE
AND FULLY EQUIPPED TO FULFILL ALL THE PLANS HE HAS FOR US.
THOSE PLANS INCLUDE SPIRITUAL WARFARE SOMETIMES IN OUR
CHRISTIAN WALK.
BECOMING GROUNDED PART 2
INTRODUCTION
As we saw last week, we must have a solid foundation and an intimate
relationship with the Most-High God in order to wage spiritual war--effectively.
What happens if I’m just getting started in this thing? GET SOME HELP! Tonight
we are going to gain some insight into the strategies and motivations of our enemy.
We talked about some of Satan’s strategies last week, so tonight we are going to learn
about him a little more, so that we will be fully informed of where we stand and
where he stands. More important than anything about Satan, is the Great Purchase for
YOU and ME that God made before time began. We are going to look into the
depths of God’s love for you and me.
WHO IS THE ENEMY?
Who is the enemy we are fighting? In order to be successful in any battle, you
have to know and understand your enemy. Know their attitude towards you,
understand their weaknesses and their limitations. There is the enemy of our souls:
Satan. It is his goal to destroy us beyond repair if at all possible and drag us into
Hell. He comes to steal and to kill and to destroy. He hates mankind so much he
can’t see straight. Sometimes we are our own worst enemies.
OUR FLESH
Our flesh is naturally rebellious against the things of God. Have you ever noticed
that you can do a worldly activity all day long and still be pumped, but can’t take 2
hours in church without having to take a 2 hour nap? Sometimes we get in trouble
because of our own bad decisions and we can’t honestly blame Satan for it. So many
times we are so easily tempted because we are drawn away because of our own lusts.
(James 1:14) The flesh is going to want to sleep instead of getting up at the 4th
prayer watch like the Lord asked us to. The flesh is going to want to watch that
romantic comedy because the story is so good. The flesh is ok with the cussing and
the sex scenes. The flesh hates fasting. The flesh screams when it has to bow to the
will of our spirit-man following God’s instructions.
THE HISTORY OF LUCIFER
Satan’s current name means “the adversary.” We all know this to be true! His
original God-given name was Lucifer. He was called Lucifer, son of the morning, the
day star, the covering cherub. Lucifer was created as an Archangel on the same level
as Michael and Gabriel, maybe even a notch above them. The book of Ezekiel has a
great description of the fall of Lucifer from heaven. Turn to Ezekiel 28:12-19.
• Lucifer was created by God.
• Lucifer was created perfectly. Ezekiel 28:12 “You are the full measure and
pattern of exactness [giving the finishing touch to all that constitutes
completeness.]
• Lucifer was in Eden, the garden of God.
• Lucifer had every precious stone in his being at the time he was created. –
Carnelian, Topaz, Jasper, Chysolite, Beryl, Onyx, Sapphire, Carbuncle, and
Emerald.
• Lucifer was wrought intricately in gold (verse 13). On the very day he was
created, God prepared all of it.
• Lucifer was created some time in eternity past because Ezekiel 28:13 says that
he was in Eden, the garden of God.
• He had an exalted position in God’s kingdom. He was “the anointed cherub
that covers with overshadowing wings, and I set you so.”
• He was trusted by God. Verse 14 says “You were blameless in your ways
from the day you were created until iniquity and guilt were found in you.”
• He was in an intimate relationship with God. “You walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire.”
• Lucifer was in charge of something having to do with commerce and got
corrupted in doing it.
• “Through the abundance of your commerce you were filled with
lawlessness and violence, and you sinned, therefore I cast you out as a
profane thing from the mountain of God and the guardian cherub
drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.”(Ezekiel 28:17)
The root cause of Lucifer’s downfall was PRIDE. Verse 18 says “Your heart was
proud and lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake
of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I lay you before kings, that they might
gaze at you.” Lucifer’s judgment from God is pretty bad. Look at this: You have
profaned your sanctuary by the multitude of your iniquities and the enormity of your
guilt, by the unrighteousness of your trade. Therefore I have brought forth a fire from
your midst; it has consumed you and I have reduced you to ashes upon the earth in
the sight of all who looked at you. All who know you among the people are
astonished and appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and shall never
return to being.” (Ezekiel 28:18-19) It is a mystery that will only be seen when we
get to heaven where all things are made known. How and why Lucifer fell is not as
important as what he is doing today and how we can overcome all his evil schemes
against us.
WHY SATAN HATES MANKIND
Satan is the mortal enemy of mankind. He has been ever since he was aware of our
existence. Why does he hate us so? There are a few reasons:
We are created in the image of God – when he looks at us, he sees God’s
imprint on us and it infuriates him.
We are so loved by God that He actually paid the price for our sins
Himself! Satan hates it
Our position in the kingdom of God is over him. We have the authority
in Jesus Christ!
SATAN’S OBJECTIVES AGAINST MANKING
Satan’s objectives are simple:
To undermine our faith in God through lies and deception. To convince us
that God is the author of everything good or bad.
To entrap us in sin and bondage to sin if possible to block the light of
Jesus from reaching us.
His ultimate goal is to cause every last human being to go to hell for all
eternity. Eternal separation from God..like he will be.
MISERY LOVES COMPANY!
SATAN’S KINGDOM STRUCTURE
Satan has a kingdom if you will. You could call it an organization. He is a rebel.
When he fell from heaven he convinced one third of the Host of Heaven angels to follow
him to perdition. He’s basically a con artist. Imagine, one third of the entire angelic
population in heaven rebelled with him! Every one of these angels daily saw the face of
God and they STILL rebelled! No wonder He has such patience with us!
Like any kingdom there is a hierarchy of authority. Since Satan doesn’t know any
other way—he imitates everything God does. He just twists and perverts it. Remember
this: he is NOT created in the image of God. He does not have God’s DNA in him.
The structure of Satan’s kingdom is found in Ephesians 6:12. Let’s look at this.
SATAN’S CURRENT STANDING & POWER LEVEL
After the fall of Adam in the Garden, Satan had Adam’s God-given dominion of
the Earth and the Second Heavens. He was the legal ruler. He conned Adam and Eve
just like he conned the angels that rebelled with him. He had a much easier time in
attacking godly men and omen as we saw with Job last week. And ungodly people were
sitting ducks. We can see the level of his authority over the earth when he tempted Jesus
in the wilderness. Read Matthew 4:1-11 in your Bible.
As you can see from the Word, Satan seemed to have it all. The world was literally his
oyster. But his pride completely overlooked the eternal plan that would shortly take it all
away—for all eternity. Jesus spent a large portion of His earthly ministry casting out
devils. Why is that? Any ideas? Write your idea of why people in Jesus’ day were so
easily overrun by Satan.
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Fast-forward just 3 ½ years later and this same Jesus was hanging crucified on a
Roman cross. The most cruel and brutal way to kill a man. Between the wilderness and
the Cross Jesus healed a lot of people and He cast a lot of demons out of people. He had
made a lot of enemies, not the least of which is Satan. He thought he had Jesus all sown
up. He didn’t realize the blood flowing from the Cross was divine and sinless—not
subject to death—the wages of sin. Three days’ later, to his horror Jesus rises from the
grave taking His divine Blood and all the Old Testament saints with Him to heaven
where He poured the Precious Blood on the altar for the sins of all mankind. It is
finished! The souls of men are redeemed from damnation! The dominion of man is
restored! The veil is rent between God and man! The lifeline of salvation is extended—if
man chooses to take it. During this time, in the spirit-realm Jesus made a complete fool
of Satan in front of the entire three worlds—heaven, earth, underworld.
“God disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and
made a bold display and public example of them, in triumphing over them in Him
and in it—the Cross.” (Colossians 2:15)
Satan was stripped of his rule over the earth and his tyranny over mankind legally ended.
Enter the con-artist again.
HOW SATAN OPERATES TODAY
Today it is all about legalities. That is all that Satan has left after Jesus destroyed
his kingdom. He no longer has authority over the earth. He no longer has dominion over
mankind the way he used to. However, the key word is LEGALITIES. There are three
things that Satan can use to legally attack us and God will allow him to do it.
The three things he can use against us are:
Our words – if our words are negative, he can legally use them if he wants to.
For example, I’m a Christian and I say “I’ll probably get that cold that’s going
around” or “I just can’t lose this weight because I’m 57 years old and it’s just
stuck there.”
What is the result? Satan can legally make a case to put that cold on me or keep
me fat! Because that is my confession!
Our sins – uh oh…the S word! Yes, he can legally use our sins against us. What
are our sins? Faithlessness, gossip, unforgiveness, bitterness, pride,
prayerlessness, lust, greed, lying and the list goes on. Yes Christians do this
too…
All these sins are legal avenues for Satan to make a charge against you in the
Court of Heaven. The Bible says he is up there day and night accusing us! That
is what he does.
Our Unbelief and/or Fear – did you know that the first two sets of people cast
into hell are the FEARFUL and the UNBELIEVING? “But as for the
cowards and the ignoble and the contemptible and the cravenly lacking in courage
and the cowardly submissive, and as for the unbelieving and faithless….[all of
these shall have] their part in the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone. This is
the second death.” (Revelation 21:8)
How does Satan know we don’t believe? By our inaction and faithlessness and by
the words of our mouth.
How does Satan take these “legalities” and use them against us? He makes a case
against us and takes it to the Court of Heaven and charges us against God’s Word. He
knows that God is bound by His Word—and Satan knows the Word of God very well.
Satan presents his arguments to the Court of Heaven and if there is no repentance of
sin from us, then legally Satan can attack us. However, God does set parameters on what
he can do to us. God’s mercy endures forever. Jesus is our Advocate with the Father, so
He is praying for us—remember what He told Peter in Luke 22:31. He said that Satan
“demanded” to sift him but Jesus prayed that his fail wouldn’t fail. God set the
parameters right then.
WHO IS NOT THE ENEMY
People are not the enemy—they are pawns and tools of Satan against you
Looking through the eyes of AGAPE love
Becoming like Jesus – loving people into the kingdom