1. Battlefield Of The Mind
Tuesday, March 4, 2008

2. Foundational Scriptures
Spiritual Warfare
Foundational Scriptures
Ephesians 6:12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

3. Spiritual Warfare
2 Corinthians 10:4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
2 Corinthians 10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ Spiritual Warfare

4. Spiritual Warfare The Invitation How important is it?
Could it be the lure that get you?
What does your mind think at the point of the attack?
Proverbs 27:3

5. Spiritual Warfare
Suppose we receive a package from an overnight carrier. After we open it, we stare at a beautiful, oversized envelope with our name written on it in exquisite calligraphy. Inside, the invitation starts with these words:
Proverbs 27:3

6. Spiritual Warfare
You are invited to enjoy a life filled with misery, worry, and confusion.
Which one of us would say yes to such an outrageous invitation?
Don’t we seek the kind of life that keeps us free from such pain and distractions?
Proverbs 27:3

7. Spiritual Warfare
Yet many of us make that choice – The bad choice, but we sometimes surrender—even temporarily—to Satan’s invitation. : His attack is ongoing and relentless—the devil is persistent!
Our enemy bombards our minds with every weapon at his disposal every
We are engaged in a warfare—a warfare that rages and never stops.
Proverbs 27:3

8. Spiritual Warfare
As long as we are alive, our minds remain Satan’s battlefield. Most of our problems are rooted in thinking patterns that produce the problems we experience.
Proverbs 27:3

9. Spiritual Warfare
This is where Satan triumphs—he offers wrong thinking to all off us. This isn’t a new trick devised for our generation
He began his deceptive ways in the Garden of Eden.
Let’s take a look
Proverbs 27:3

10. Spiritual Warfare The serpent asked the woman
Genesis 3:1 “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”
That was the first attack on the human mind.
Eve could have rebuked the tempter; instead, she told him God would let them eat from the trees, but not from one particular tree. They couldn’t even touch that tree, because if they did, they would die.
Proverbs 27:3

11. Spiritual Warfare Deception
Suppose he had said to the woman, “Eat of the fruit. You’ll bring misery, anger, hatred, bloodshed, poverty, and injustice into the world.”
Eve would have recoiled and run away. He tricked her because he lied and told her what would appeal to her.
Proverbs 27:3

12. Spiritual Warfare
Satan promised, “You will be like God. You’ll know good and evil.” What a marvelous appeal to the woman.
He wasn’t tempting Eve to do something bad—or at least he phrased it in such a way that what she heard sounded good.
Proverbs 27:3

13. Spiritual Warfare
That’s always the appeal of sin or Satanic enticement. The temptation is not to do evil or to cause harm or bring injustice. The lure is that we will gain something.
Proverbs 27:3