BUILDING UP OUR ENDURANCE, TO AVOID THE ATTACKS OF THE ENEMY.

 IT IS THROUGH OUR RESISTANCE THAT WE WILL BUILD OUR STRENGTH.

LIKE AN ATHLETE WHO STRESSES HIMSELF TO THE END OF HIS STRENGTH. HE IS BUILDING UP ENDURANCE.

ENDURANCE IS THE ABILITY TO OUT LAST THE PAIN.

WHEN WE RESIST THE TRICKS OF THE ENEMY AND STAND FIRM FOR JESUS, WE WILL ALSO STRENGTHEN OUR ENDURANCE.

THE MORE WE RESIST THE CUNNING TRICKS OF THE DEVIL, THE MORE STRENGTH WE WILL HAVE IN THE LORD.

HEBREWS 10:36

FOR YOU HAVE NEED OF ENDURANCE, SO THAT AFTER YOU HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD, YOU MAY RECEIVE THE PROMISE;


WE MUST FIRST SUBMIT TO GOD. MAKE CERTAIN THAT OUR HEART IS ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.

JAMES 4:7

THEREFORE SUBMIT TO GOD.  RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.

IT IS IN OUR RESISTANCE, AFTER WE HAVE SUBMITTED TO GOD, THAT THE DEVIL WILL FLEE FROM US.

THE ENEMY WILL TRY TO MAKE US FEEL GUILTY, AND HOLD US IN BONDAGE TO WHAT WOULD SEEM LIKE A GOOD THING, BUT WAS IN FACT IS A TRAP.

THE DEVIL WILL PUT THOUGHTS IN OUR MIND TO MISDIRECT US, AS HE HAS SET US UP TO BRING HARM ON HIS TIMING.  BE WATCHFUL AND ALERT WHEREVER YOU GO.

ALWAYS ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO REVEAL ANY HIDDEN TRAPS.

HIS GOAL IS TO MAKE US OF NO EFFECT FOR GOD'S KINGDOM.


WE NEED TO KNOW THE SCRIPTURES THAT TELL US, THERE IS NO CONDEMNATION FOR IN CHRIST.

ROMANS 8:1

THERE IS THEREFORE NOW NO CONDEMNATION TO THOSE WHO ARE IN CHRIST JESUS, WHO DO NOT WALK ACCORDING TO THE FLESH, BUT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT.


IT IS IN OUR RESISTANCE, BUT IT IS THE LORDS STRENGTH WORKING THROUGH US AND IN US.

WE BUILD SPIRITUAL MUSCLE BY RESISTING ALL OF THE TRAPS THAT ARE SET UP FOR US.

USE THE WORD OF GOD LIKE JESUS DID WHEN HE CONFRONTED THE DEVIL.


SOME OF THOSE TRAPS CAN LOOK LIKE A GOOD THING, BUT THAT IS A FACADE.  

UNDERNEATH THAT THING THAT LOOKS GOOD, IS SOMETHING TO WEAR US OUT, TO WEAKEN US OR HARM US.

EACH TIME WE RESIST THE DEVIL, WE WILL BECOME STRONGER AND STRONGER.


SOON WE WILL RECOGNIZE HIS TRICKS AND STAY CLEAR OF THEM.

WE WILL DRAW ON THE STRENGTH OF THE LORD, AND LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.

IT IS HIS STRENGTH THAT WILL SEE US THROUGH.

PAUL SAID WHEN HE IS WEAK ,THEN HE IS STRONG.

2 CORINTHIANS 12: 10

THEREFORE I TAKE PLEASURE IN INFIRMITIES. IN REPROACHES, IN NEED, IN PERSECUTIONS, IN DISTRESSES, FOR CHRIST SAKE.  

FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG.


IT IS IN OUR WEAKNESS THAT WE WILL FIND THE STRENGTH OF GOD.

BELOVED, BUILD UP YOUR RESISTANCE, AND YOU WILL FIND A STRENGTH YOU NEVER KNEW WAS THERE.  

WE BUILD UP OUR RESISTANCE BY FEEDING ON THE WORD OF GOD, AND PRAYING, AND DOING THE WILL OF GOD BY SPEAKING THE WORD OF GOD.  

JESUS FOUGHT THE DEVIL WITH HIS WORD. USE YOUR TWO EDGED SWORD WHICH IS GOD'S WORD, AND SPEAK THOSE THINGS OF LIFE.

EXERCISE THOSE SPIRITUAL MUSCLES, AND YOU WILL BECOME STRONGER EACH DAY.

1 CORINTHIANS 16:13-14

WATCH, STAND FAST IN THE FAITH, BE BRAVE, BE STRONG.  LET ALL THAT YOU DO BE DONE IN LOVE.

BELOVED, JESUS GAVE US ALL WE NEED TO SURVIVE THIS WORLD, USE THE THINGS HE HAS PROVIDED.

GOD BLESS YOUR DAY

JESUS LOVES YOU

LOVE IN JESUS

JOY






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