Spiritual Warfare

March 17, 2014

God’s training ground, where the missionary weapons are found, is the hidden, personal, worshiping life of the saint.

– Oswald Chambers –

May 25, 2013

Don’t leave your house naked! Just like we put on our clothes – we need to put on our spiritual clothes! (armor of God) Be ready for battle!

– Heather Elyse –

April 26, 2013

It cannot be stated too frequently that the life of a Christian is a warfare, an intense conflict, a lifelong contest. It is a battle, moreover, waged against invisible foes, who are ever alert, and ever seeking to entrap, deceive, and ruin the souls of men. The life to which Holy Scripture calls men is no picnic, or holiday junketing. It is no pastime, no pleasure jaunt. It entails effort, wrestling, struggling; it demands the putting forth of the full energy of the spirit in order to frustrate the foe and to come off, at the last, more than conqueror. It is no primrose path, no rose-scented dalliance. From start to finish, it is war. From the hour in which he first draws sword, to that in which he doffs his harness, the Christian warrior is compelled to “endure hardness like a good soldier.”

– EM Bounds –

April 23, 2013

Prayer is the preacher’s mightiest weapon.

– EM Bounds –
from Power Through Prayer

March 19, 2013

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it while you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

– John Owen –

February 16, 2013

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.

– Guy H. King –

December 23, 2012

It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.

– J. Gresham Machen –

November 20, 2012

The potency of prayer has subdued the strength of fire; it has bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine that is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

– St. Chrysostom –
from EM Bounds’ book Purpose in Prayer