What are the weapons of our warfare?
2 Cor 10:3 For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, 5 [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasoning's and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One
Can you “see” it? Fighting with things you can’t see. what a new concept for those who can only believe what they can see.
2 cor 4: 18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
What a marvelous promise if we can see it we can change it. So many things we see we think should be change the thing I usually find I shat the one who needs changing is me. I’m the one the Holy Spirit is focusing on. You see the only one you can truly change is yourself. Do you want a change? Then you make a change. The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result.
Why should you desire to change? If you truly do love others you will allow the Lord to make changes in your life so that you can be a more effective witness in their lives. The scripture in Peter is addressing marriage but it is a spiritual principal that applies to all situations, it is the hidden man of the heart.
1 Pet 3:4 But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.
This is Just another way of saying that as true disciples of the Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth we must live the life of love before all men and we can do it because that wonderful Rabbi lives in us and is waiting to manifest himself to a lost and dying world through us, His Body.
The most powerful weapon of our warfare may well be our own freedom of choice.
In His dust,
Lois
2 Cor 10:3 For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not physical [weapons of flesh and blood], but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds, 5 [Inasmuch as we] refute arguments and theories and reasoning's and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the [true] knowledge of God; and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One
Can you “see” it? Fighting with things you can’t see. what a new concept for those who can only believe what they can see.
2 cor 4: 18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.
What a marvelous promise if we can see it we can change it. So many things we see we think should be change the thing I usually find I shat the one who needs changing is me. I’m the one the Holy Spirit is focusing on. You see the only one you can truly change is yourself. Do you want a change? Then you make a change. The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result.
Why should you desire to change? If you truly do love others you will allow the Lord to make changes in your life so that you can be a more effective witness in their lives. The scripture in Peter is addressing marriage but it is a spiritual principal that applies to all situations, it is the hidden man of the heart.
1 Pet 3:4 But let it be the inward adorning and beauty of the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible and unfading charm of a gentle and peaceful spirit, which [is not anxious or wrought up, but] is very precious in the sight of God.
This is Just another way of saying that as true disciples of the Rabbi Jesus of Nazareth we must live the life of love before all men and we can do it because that wonderful Rabbi lives in us and is waiting to manifest himself to a lost and dying world through us, His Body.
The most powerful weapon of our warfare may well be our own freedom of choice.
In His dust,
Lois
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