ARMOUR OF GOD
In his letter to the church at Ephesus Paul points to her high responsibility, her special place in the plan of God. She has been called to victorious life in her risen Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, victorious life in the spiritual warfare against invisible and perilous powers of Satan, continuously opposing her on her way to perfection.
In his letter to the church at Ephesus Paul points to her high
responsibility, her special place in the plan of God. She has been
called to victorious life in her risen Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
victorious life in the spiritual warfare against invisible and perilous
powers of Satan, continuously opposing her on her way to perfection.
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have need of it I isolate myself, so to speak; I create an enclosure<br />
around me, a room to pray, an inner room, and I put myself outside<br />
of the down-pulling powers of the world. Many people all over the<br />
world have declared to have received wonderful blessings in their<br />
lives with the Lord by this speaking in tongues. They have<br />
experienced this extraordinary powerful weapon in the fight against<br />
the evil powers, and it cannot be compared with any other. Satan is<br />
terrified of this weapon. He has obscured this truth in all circles of<br />
believers, setting God's people up against it He has sought mistakes<br />
and has overstressed these. His tactics, though, are quite clear; it is<br />
apparent he fears this weapon more than anything else. But every<br />
honest, Bible-believing Christian, wanting to follow his Saviour at<br />
all costs, will acknowledge that Jesus put these words in the centre of<br />
His great commission for the conversion of this world: 'In my name<br />
shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues' (Mark<br />
16: 17).<br />
When the Head of the church says to the believers that they<br />
shall speak with new tongues, we must not reject the Scripture. At<br />
the end of 1 Corinthians 14, the chapter that deals with the gifts of<br />
tongues and prophecy, Paul says: 'Let him acknowledge that the<br />
things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord'<br />
(1 Cor. 14: 37). 'But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant<br />
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with<br />
tongues' (1 Cor. 14: 38-39). Many believers experience that Satan<br />
yields to their praying in the Spirit A Stronger One, a Mightier One<br />
within us prays and fights along with us. 'Ye ... have overcome them<br />
(the evil spirits as mentioned in 1 John 4 : 1-3); because greater is<br />
He that is in you, than he that is in the world' (1 John 4 : 4). Hallelujah!<br />
He that is in us, the Holy Spirit of God in us, is greater and<br />
stronger than all powers of darkness, and Satan is defeated. 'Ye have<br />
overcome them.' So, the personal evil spirits of darkness have been<br />
overcome by the Greater One, the King, the Lord, to whom is given<br />
all power in heaven and on earth. In Him, Jesus Christ, we are more<br />
than conquerors! Hallelujah!<br />
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