If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.
– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –
Spiritual Warfare
Authenticity, Reality, and Truth – Art Katz
The powers of the air are only obliged to recognize one thing; authenticity, reality, truth. They see through the appearances and they yawn.
– Art Katz –
Never Doubt Christ’s Strength – William Gurnall
Doubt your own strength, but never doubt Christ’s. In your gravest conflicts with Satan, trust Him to bring you out of the devil’s dominion with a high hand, in spite of all the force and fury of hell.
– William Gurnall –
from The Christian in Complete Armour
Gird Your Armor On – LE Maxwell
Suppose we quit our “inevitable councils” and “innumerable excuses” and begin to “glare defiance” at a Christianity that merely maintains drills, talks war, and plays church. Rise up, O men of God! Gird your armour on. Get armed to the teeth. Be as determined as fighting men to win a war. Christ’s soldiers live to fight, love to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and go anywhere providing it be forward …
– LE Maxwell –
Field of Battle – LE Maxwell
Our tent is pitched not in a paradise, but on a field of battle.
– LE Maxwell –
How Revival Comes – Charles Finney
Revival is no more a miracle than a crop of wheat. Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die—or if need be, to win and die! “The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.”
– Charles Finney –
Thomas Brooks on the Conquest of Sin
In conquering of those enemies that be within, you make a conquest over the devil and hell itself. … And as this is the most noble conquest, so it is the most necessary conquest. You must be the death of your sins, or they will be the death of your souls. Sin is a viper, that does always kill where it is not killed.
– Thomas Brooks –
Why You Struggle in Prayer – Oswald Chambers
If we are struggling in prayer it is because the wiles of the enemy are getting the upper hand, and we must look for the cause in our lack of discipline. There are some things we have not been strenuously practicing. We used to pray in the morning, do we now? We used to commune with God over the Bible, do we now? We used to be in contact with God wherever we went, are we now? Put on the whole armor of God and continuously practice, then the wiles of the devil cannot get you unaware.
– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask, 30
No Combat, No Victory – Richard Sibbes
There can be no victory where there is no combat. The victory lieth not upon us but upon Christ, who hath taken upon him, as to conquer for us, so to conquer in us. Let us not look so much who are our enemies, as who is our Judge and Captain; not what they threaten, but what He promiseth.
– Richard Sibbes –