Satan is sure to try to hinder us when we are earnest in prayer.
– Charles Spurgeon –
Spiritual Warfare
Evil doesn’t surrender without a fight – Dr. JH Jewett
Evil never surrenders its hold without a sore fight. We never pass into any spiritual inheritance through the delightful exercises of a picnic, but always through the grim contentions of the battlefield. It is so in the secret realm of the soul. Every faculty which wins its spiritual freedom does so at the price of blood.
– Dr. JH Jewett –
Undermining the authority of Scripture – HB Charles Jr.
I believe the enemy of our souls is at work to undermine the authority of Scripture. The veracity and authority of the sacred Scriptures are attacked to thwart and threaten the truth of the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The enemy seeks to sabotage the biblical proclamation of Christ to stop the advance of the message of the gospel to all the nations (Matthew 28:18-20).
– HB Charles Jr. –
Strong in the Lord – Henry Scougal
Let us be strong in the Lord, and the power of His might, for He it is that shall tread down our enemies.
– Henry Scougal –
from The Life of God in the Soul of Man
Do we have Holy Spirit power? – Leonard Ravenhill
But have we Holy Spirit power—power that restricts the devil’s power, pulls down strongholds and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil’s dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?
– Leonard Ravenhill –
God’s Most Effective Tool in Our Lives – Charles Stanley
Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God’s most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
– Charles Stanley –
It costs to be faithful – Anonymous
It costs to be faithful. It cost Abraham the yielding up of his only son. It cost Esther to risk her own life. It cost Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being put into a fiery furnace. It cost Stephen death by stoning. It cost Paul his life. Does it cost you anything to be faithful to your Lord and King?
– Anonymous –
Preparing Messages or Preparing Ourselves? – Vance Havner
The devil doesn’t mind how many sermons we preach or prepare if it will keep us from preparing ourselves.
– Vance Havner –
When Satan Comes – Smith Wigglesworth
When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.
– Smith Wigglesworth –