Last week (JUNE 6TH) I begin teaching a new sermon series entitled Spiritual Warfare. You don’t have to look far to find information on this subject. Countless books and messages are available on this subject, but it’s a subject that cannot be exhausted.
We need to understand that the enemy’s ultimate desire is to bring death to our dreams and our God given destiny. See, the enemy loves to bring up our past, our pain and our mistakes. When he does this he begins to establish a strategy that becomes a “death structure,” resulting in death to vision and abortion of destiny. Once the structure is in place, he seeks to gain illegitimate authority over a life. If he has gained authority, then he can steal vision, hope and destiny.
Someone said, “If you ask the devil to dinner, he will bring his suitcase!” In other words, if you open any door, he moves in to stay! The devil advances into our lives to establish a stronghold. A stronghold does exactly what it states: it gets a hold on us that is strong. Jesus warned us of a “strong man” who desired to take our possessions (see Luke 11:.21). Read the rest of this entry »
