#234-SNEAKY SPIRITUAL ATTACK

Monica leads us this week on sneaky ways we experience spiritual warfare that we may not recognize as warfare, as well as things that may not be warfare at all! Listen in as we funnel down practically what warfare may look like to us as women on a day-to-day basis, and ways to combat it.

THIS WEEK'S VERSES:

“A thief has only one thing in mind—he wants to steal, slaughter, and destroy. But I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect—life in its fullness until you overflow!" (John 10:10)

“As the most dangerous winds enter at little openings, so the devil never enters more dangerously than by little unobserved incidents, which seem to be nothing, yet insensibly open the heart to great temptations.”  (John Wesley)

“Therefore I was left alone and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me, and my countenance grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.”  (Daniel 10:8)

“I tell you this timeless truth; The person who follows me in faith, believing in me, will do the same mighty miracles that I do—even greater miracles than these because I go to be with my Father!”  (John 14:12)

PRACTICAL APPLICATION:

1. Know what you’re up against and what you’re doing.
   1. Satan attacks with “fiery arrows.”
   2. Resist--get in position, and set your feet to fight 
2.      Have the right perspective and understand who you're fighting.
   1. David Guzik says in a commentary about Job,  “The fact that Satan came among them shows that Satan is himself an angelic being, and in no way equal to God. We often—to Satan’s great delight—inflate his status and importance, thinking of him as the opposite of God, as if God were light and Satan were darkness; as if God were hot and Satan were cold. Satan wishes he was the opposite of God, but God wants us to know that Satan is a mere creature and is in no way the opposite of God. If Satan has an opposite, it is not God the Father or God the Son; it would be a high-ranking angelic being such as Michael.”
3. Know Who’s on your side:
   1. John 14:12, “I tell you this timeless truth; The person who follows me in faith, believing in me, will do the same mighty miracles that I do—even greater miracles than these because I go to be with my Father!”
   2.  2 Cor 12:9, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
      1. Remember, ‘sufficient’ in Greek means, to be possessed of an unfailing strength. 
      2.  It’s enough because it’s so full of an unfailing strength that you don’t need anything else added to it.
4. Change what you think about. 
   1.  Philippians 4:8-9, “Finally, brothers and sisters, fill your minds with beauty and truth. Meditate on whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is good, whatever is virtuous and praiseworthy. Keep to the script: whatever you learned and received and heard and saw in me—do it—and the God of peace will walk with you.”

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