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Steps to Breakthrough to Victory- Exposing The Enemy’s Traps.Pt. 2
Hebrews 2:4
1 Cor 15:57
2 Cor 10:3-5
Rev.12:11
Isa 59:19
And God confirms His Word by giving signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ
They defeated the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony;
When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
Our focus for 2017 :
Releasing the power of God through your life
“Most Christians are giving the world explanations
when they’re starving for a demonstration.”
“In order to believe for the impossible, we must see the invisible.
The world says
“If I see it, I’ll believe it”
The Christian says
“Because I believe it, I can see it”
Turn to someone and say :
It’s All About the Spiritual”
Very Important to remember for the days ahead
3 Categories of Spirits
- Holy Spirit
- Human Spirit
- Evil Spirit
Characteristics of a Victorious Christian in the next move of God
A victorious Christian will need to-
Deal with the enemy
1 Peter 5:8-9 Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith
James 4:7 Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
2 Cor 2:11
We are to know very well what Satan’s plans are.
The Word of God
Luke 21:8
He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’
Matt 24:24-25
Your enemies will try to fool even the people God has chosen, if that is possible. Now I have warned you about this before it happens.
2 Cor 11:14-15
Even Satan changes himself to look like an angel of light (truth).
Remember
“We don’t fight FOR victory
We fight FROM victory”
In our last series we looked at
The Powerful weapons of Personal Communion
The Results (Fruit) of Personal Communion
- Creates a greater sensitivity to the Holy Spirit
- Increases Faith
- Releases the Power of God
- Defeats the Enemy
- Increases Discernment
- Releases God’s Provision for the day
- Brings greater unity and connection in marriages
- Draws us closer to the Lord
Turn to someone and say-
“Were not finished with the enemy
until
We finish him”
Isa 59:19
When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
1 Peter 5:8-9
Stay alert! Watch out for your enemy, the devil. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Stand firm against him, and be strong in your faith
2 Cor 2:11
we are not ignorant of the enemy’s devices and schemes.
Luke 10:19
Jesus said, ..I have given you authority …to overcome all the power of the enemy
“If you don’t take authority…
You are giving authority”
– Good News is..
When the dark becomes darker…
The Light becomes brighter
Jn 8:12 Matt 5:14
“I am the light of the world
“You are the light of the world”
Our next focus in Defeating the Enemy-
Exposing the Tactics of the Enemy
Very Important
In order to see the BREAKTHROUGH in the Physical Realm
You have to BREAKTHROUGH in the Spiritual Realm
(It’s all Spiritual”)
Jesus said
Matt 6:9-10
- “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come(spiritual)
- your will be done on earth (physical)
- as it is in heaven (spiritual)
Exposing the Enemy’s Traps
Don’t allow the enemy to limit you
You must understand that you are not limited by
who you are or what you have done
What you think you can or cannot do
It’s through the power of the Holy Spirit
1 Cor 15:57
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Phil 4:13
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
Matt 17:20
Nothing will be impossible for you if you believe.”
Don’t allow the enemy to limit God
In the garden.. God was limiting man
His plan is to cause you to doubt God
Your situation is beyond his help
God does not promise/cover this
Zech 4:6
‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.
Jer 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
1 Cor 2:9
“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him”
We continue
Defeating the Enemy : Exposing the Enemy’s Traps
Don’t Allow the Enemy
Allow
to give permission
to yield to
to accept
Important:
As a Christian the enemy cannot take from us unless we allow him
Exposing the Enemy’s Traps
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Don’t allow the enemy to rob you
That’s his target -neutralize you- rob you of ministry
Be on guard
Robbery starts in the morning and will last the whole day
Wrong words/ poor night sleep/ rush hour/ bad news / meetings / Dr. appts
That’s why morning prayer/ personal communion for protection is so important
(Personal confessions? Armor of God)
Control of your day begins in the morning
Lam 3:23 His steadfast love is renewed every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Ps 118:24 This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Don’t allow the enemy to use your past to control your future
Accuser of your past failure
Don’t allow your past to naturalize you present and future
2 Cor 5:17
anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Important
Don’t allow yesterday to wash over into today
Don’t allow the sun to set on your anger
Don’t allow the enemy to define your present circumstances
- The enemy will falsify things that are happening
- Cause you to draw conclusions in the middle of things
You Must see things from God’s perspectives
Looking from heaven not from earth
2 Cor. 5:7 Our life is lived by faith. We do not live by what we see in front of us.
Eph 2:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus
Your present circumstances can either define you or refine you
Don’t allow the enemy to cause you to speak death
Life and death in the tongue
You can curse yourself and others –enemy’s
Prov 18: 21 The tongue has the power of life and death,
God is released with the (+)
Speak life
The Jewish greeting is Lahyme
to be continued…