Do you hear it?
The voice that whispers sickness to you.
The voice that sings despair.
The voice that tells you you have no future.
The voice that hisses death in your ear.
The voice that never stops speaking so you can’t hear life.
You can’t hear joy.
You can’t hear faith.
You can’t hear God.
But you can hear him really.
Listen.
You have, living within you, a greater power and if you close your eyes and really listen between the scary little voices you will hear a still, small voice telling you to get up.
Demons have no power here.
Tell the demons to shut up, to be silent because the power that was in Christ lives in you through the Holy Spirit.
It’s there, not hidden or gone like you think it is.
You can order those voices to be gone.
He gave you the power to wage war against the powers of the dark world, against spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Put on the armor and get ready but if you’re too tired to fight, remember that he will do the fighting for you because the battle is ultimately his to fight and win.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Ephesians 6:12 (NIV)
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Amen! Thank you Lisa for this encouraging message. When we wrap our actions around Ephesians 6, our faith strengthens and sustains.
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Amen.
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Boom!! We need to remember those ugly whispers are of satan’s work and Jesus holds the ultimate victory with encouraging, positive words of truth over us. Thank you for sharing the reminder of His glory!
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Agree 100%!!! Starting a new study called “Armor of God.” It’s timely!!! Thanks for saying this out loud!!!
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There’s an Orthodox woman I know up in northern Idaho by the name of Joy Corey, who wrote a book called “The Tools of Spiritual Warfare”. I have it somewhere, and I’ve always meant to read it, but life is crazy…
Goodreads link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23250196-the-tools-of-spiritual-warfare?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=wzmj7phwBs&rank=5
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Thank you! I’ve looked for one and haven’t found any…
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I know it was a Light & Life publishing title, and when they went out of business, their books got transferred to orthodoxmarketplace. I was hoping they’d keep things going, but it looks as though Light & Life is going to republish (do on demand) at bookbaby.com in the (fairly) near future.
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You’re welcome
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Amen. Many years ago a friend told me that when she hears those whispery voices spewing lies, she shouts, “Get behind me, evil ones!” I think that’s a great idea.
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It is! I may steal it 😉 I wrote this years ago in my journal but found it this week. I really needed it
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Thank you for posting this. Something I needed.
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I’m glad I followed the prompting to publish it. I originally wrote it in my journal years ago.
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