Spiritual Ignorance (Part 3)

Spiritual Ignorance (Part 3)

Remember these four things:

-Satan will constantly try to wear you down physically, mentally, and spiritually until you are so tired, discouraged, and depressed that you are ready to throw your hands up in defeat. 

-Satan will try to create havoc in the circumstances in your life by bringing affliction and disease upon your body, attacking your children and loved ones, causing strife in your marriage, binding your finances, and creating problems on your job. 

-Satan will hold your mind in a vise-like grip through fear, worry, and doubt, and try to keep you in a constant state of turmoil.  His strategy is to get you caught up in a vicious cycle that hinders you from living and acting in faith. 

-Satan’s objective in attacking you through your circumstances is to steal your health, tear apart your family, destroy your marriage, take your children captive to sin, and keep you in financial bondage:

Don't be confused by the devil's attacks, but take ahold of the Word of God: 

John 10:10 "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."

2 Corinthians 4:8. 9 NAS "We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed."

Paul faced problems that were beyond his strength to endure, even to the point of despairing for his own life.  But Paul knew exactly what to do.  He expressed his confidence, faith, and hope despite the negative circumstances.

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 NIV "We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us."

You probably won't face the same situations that Paul faced, but you very well may face difficult problems today.  You can conquer every negative circumstance through the power of the Lord.  Paul understood this, and because of this knowledge he was able to achieve victory in every battle of life.  So can you.