Refresh Your Memory 7/28-31/20

28-31 July 2020 – Refresh Your Memory  

Manna by Dorothy & Tony Callies

Theme: Refresh Our Spiritual Weapons

0.  Introducing 12 Series on Spiritual weapons.

1.   Warfare with our Spiritual Weapons – 1

2.   Mind is a battleground - 2

3.   Nothing is hidden from God – 3

4.   Commitment to the Truth - 4

5.   Life of righteousness – 5

6.   Life of righteousness is in Christ – 6

7.   Proclamation of the Gospel – 7

8.   Faith in Christ – 8

9.   Love – 9

10. Hope of Salvation – 10

11. The Word of God – 11

12. Persevering prayer - 12

0.  Refresh Your Spiritual Weapons

Dorothy: It is good to be refreshed what our Spiritual weapons are. I pray that God helps us put on the whole armour of God (Ephesians 6:10-18) so that we would be able to fight against the wiles of the devil.  Wiles of the devil means his clever tricks to fight against us. 

What are the tricks that we should be alert and watch for?

1. Our spiritual weapons have power from God that destroy the enemy’s strong places. People’s arguments and every proud thing…. the carnal (flesh) or worldly warfare.
Satan’s trick: “How can you call yourself a Christian and still think wrong thoughts?”

2. Wrongly judged this man I didn’t even know who he was. “Judge not” (Matt.7:1).

Satan’s trick: “How can a man of God be so extra lovable to his wife?”

3. Nothing is hidden from God. God sees my secret thought of wrong judgment.

Satan’s trick: “God will not notice your wrong action. No one will know about it.”

4.  Paul tells us to make sure that God’s Word stays the same, no changes.

Satan’s trick: “God always changes His mind about things. Look what happened!”

5. God accepts their faith, and that makes them right with HIM” (Rom. 4:4-5).
Satan’s trick: “You cannot be righteous because you make so many mistakes.”

6. Hold on to this spiritual weapon, “our life of righteousness is in Christ” (Rom.3:22).

Satan’s trick: “You can change God’s Word to suit your needs, your own rights.”

7. Paul encouraged us to stay in one Gospel Truth which is the Lord Jesus Christ.

Satan’s trick: “There’s another gospel that are doing so much better!”

8. God spoke to Martin Luther, “The just (Christians) shall live by faith” (Romans 1:17).

Satan’s trick: “Join a church to save your soul.  Punish yourself to get saved.”

9. Being a Christian, we are to love one another.  Without love, we are nothing.

Satan’s trick: “This person is strange and different. Why should you love him or her?”

10. Our lively hope is that Jesus Christ arose from the grave and He is coming back!

Satan’s trick: “There is no heaven and hell. There’s no resurrection of Christ.”   

11. Our faith and love for Christ will keep us strong with Holy Spirit’s help.

Satan’s trick: “God’s Word cannot help you. Temptations are good to meet your needs.”

12. Paul never gave up in continuing his prayer for others and God helped him through.

Satan’s trick: Why waste your time pray for others? Many fall away from God anyway.”

Word of encouragement:  Paul’s persevering prayer was mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds against Satan so Paul could spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel of Jesus Christ has been proclaimed for 2,000 years. Thanks to Paul’s prayer that the Gospel of Jesus Christ are still around.

May the Lord strengthen you!

Dorothy

Song: Fight the Good Fight

Fight the good fight with all thy might!

Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right.

Lay hold on life, and it shall be

Thy joy and crown eternally.

(John Samuel Bewley Monsell, Sing His Praise)