God desires to not only save you but to sustain you, shape you, and see you live supernaturally in your setting for the purpose of leading other people to encounter the God who saved you.

Faith becomes activated or devastated in this life's journey. What will you do, how will you respond when life gets tough on purpose because the enemy is trying to destroy you? Will you fight or will you fold?

There is deliberate irony in today's message as we consider the message of peace in the midst of spiritual warfare, especially during this Christmas season. The gospel of peace enables us to wage war against the forces of evil not just effectively, but confidently.

My hope is that we would wake up to the truth that we have an enemy who is after the very source of our lives, and that this awareness would push us to take serious the fight for righteousness and push us to suit up for war.

A life based in truth is a life that is tethered to truth, thus allowing every thought, belief, action to be filtered and applied in what is good, honorable and right.

God does not promise to deliver us FROM Spiritual Warfare, but THROUGH Spiritual Warfare!

We must recognize that the enemy has been using the same three lies for centuries leading unto destruction. Today, we will expose them and equip you to live not only in awareness of them, but in effectiveness in debunking them.

"There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan." C.S. Lewis

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Today's message on the "elder brother" gives insight that we may be externally compliant in obedience, but internally defiant in disobedience. Thus, causing us to realize that we don't work FOR acceptance from the Father, but we work FROM acceptance with the father.