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Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle QUOTES

Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle QUOTES

1 " behind every idol is a demon. Someone may say, “Well, that’s just an Old Testament problem.” No, it’s a New Testament problem too: "

― Tony Evans , Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle

2 " This is why Satan loves to see divorce among Christian couples. If he can get husbands and wives fighting each other over their disagreements and personality conflicts and preferences, then they will miss the bigger battle altogether. "

― Tony Evans , Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle

3 " But let us keep in mind Philippians 2:13: “It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.” When your will is combined with God’s will, He gives you the power to do what your will is telling you you ought to do. You are not fighting this battle alone. You have tremendous power available to you in Christ. "

― Tony Evans , Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle

4 " The woman is not the only person under authority here. Men are to operate under the authority of Christ. And Paul says that even Christ is subject to God the Father. Men and women are equal in essence but distinct in function. And when you rebel against that chain of command, you lose access to the angelic involvement and activity in your life. I suspect that many women are not seeing the power of God operating in their lives, are not seeing their prayers answered, are not seeing God intervene in their circumstances, because they have decided to address things by means of rebellion rather than by means of biblically based obedience. The same thing can be said of men. When we rebel against the authority of Christ over our lives, we place ourselves outside God’s protective angelic hedge, "

― Tony Evans , Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle

5 " The reason there are so many casualties among believers in spiritual warfare is that we have lost sight of the fact that we are in a perpetual state of warfare, which demands constant alertness. And so we let down our guards. We open ourselves to attack. We forget that we are warriors, not tourists, in God’s kingdom on earth. "

― Tony Evans , Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle

6 " The devil has some Christians in POW camps due to alcohol, drugs, pornography, fear, discouragement, depression, pride, narcissism, materialism, and a whole host of other problems. "

― Tony Evans , Warfare: Winning the Spiritual Battle