The No. 1 Spiritual Warfare Strategy for Every Christian
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July 27, 2023 at 11:48 pmFather God, Your Word says that only those with clean hands and pure hearts may ascend to the hill of the Lord. “Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12
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July 27, 2023 at 11:49 pmDo you want to be as close to God as possible? Do you also desire to win every spiritual battle you fight?
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July 27, 2023 at 11:54 pmIf so, the No. 1 most important spiritual warfare strategy in which you will want to specialize is simply this:
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July 27, 2023 at 11:55 pmKeep clean hands and a pure heart before the Lord. In Psalm 24, we read that only those with clean hands and a pure heart may ascend into God’s holy place.
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July 27, 2023 at 11:57 pmThe earth is the Lord’s, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein. For He has founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the waters.
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July 27, 2023 at 11:58 pmWho may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully.
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July 27, 2023 at 11:58 pmHe shall receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:01 amThis is Jacob, the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face. Psalm 24:1-6 What does it mean to have clean hands and a pure heart? It means that we each, as individuals, must view the most important part of our relationship with God to be personal holiness, purity, and individual obedience to Him. It means that we learn to love righteousness and hate lawlessness as Jesus does:
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July 28, 2023 at 12:02 amYou have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You with the oil of gladness more than Your companions. Hebrews 1:9
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July 28, 2023 at 12:04 amIt also means we are careful to repent of our sin as soon as we commit sin. We don’t have to go around all day sinning; God’s grace empowers us to live holy lives. However, if and when we do sin, and whether that sin seems big or small, we must immediately repent to the Lord.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:33 amWe must change our minds and forsake the sin right away. We must confess those sins to Him, which involves admitting that the thing we did is sin and telling Him that we are genuinely sorry.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:34 amAs we do, He will forgive us every time: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness .
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July 28, 2023 at 12:35 amHowever, remember that repenting does mean to change one’s mind. Therefore, you must actively work to “… not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God”
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July 28, 2023 at 12:36 amWhat else does keeping clean hands and a pure heart before the Lord look like? Here are a few ideas: It looks like reading God’s Word, the Bible, and letting His Holy Spirit convict you as you read, showing you every way in which He desires you to change.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:38 amIt looks like asking the Lord to make you good soil into which His Word can run swiftly, bringing forth good fruit—30-, 60-, and 100-fold. It looks like beating your own breast and crying out, “God, change me. Keep me from sinning against You,” rather than pointing the finger at everyone else and telling God to change them.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:39 amIt looks like asking again and again, every day, for the Lord to make you humble—even if you think you don’t have a pride problem. Read how the Lord convicted me about my pride problem here!People with clean hands and a pure heart cry out for humility and holiness, just because they know that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9
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July 28, 2023 at 12:40 amIt looks like forgiving everyone who has ever hurt you, and continuing to forgive them even if they continue to hurt you. Keep in mind that boundaries are also good. We have to continue forgiving, but we don’t have to continue allowing toxic people so close that they are continuously able to hurt us.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:41 amIt looks like being more concerned with bearing fruit unto righteousness than you are concerned with how many people know or recognize your name.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:42 amBeloved, keeping clean hands and a pure heart means that you take your personal relationship with Jesus personally—and that you take responsibility for it.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:43 amWe would each be wise not to enter an external spiritual battlefield until the battlefield within ourselves has been subdued under the blood of Jesus.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:43 amEvery person is engaged in spiritual warfare at some level. But when you begin waging war in the spirit on broader fronts, you catch the attention of the demons of hell.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:45 amIf you’re going to do that, you can win in the name of Jesus every time—but not if you’re not truly submitted to Jesus. Remember the seven sons of Sceva in Acts 19:
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July 28, 2023 at 12:46 amThen some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.
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July 28, 2023 at 12:46 amAnd the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
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July 28, 2023 at 12:47 amThen the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
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