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"Ordering your private world" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
Gordon Macdonald
Time must be properly budgeted for the gathering of inner strength and resolved in order to compensate of one's weakness when spiritual warfare begins
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"Territorial Spirits and World Evangelization?" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
In his book,Territorial Spirits and World Evangelization? (Mentor/OMF, 199),Chuck Lowe concludes that the strategic-level spiritual warfare advocated by the likes of C. Peter Wagner is unbiblical and the claims associated with it are unfounded. He points the way forward by exploring the experience of James Fraser, a pioneer missionary among the Lisu people in the far-western Chinese province of Yunnan in the early twentieth century. Fraser perceived spiritual warfare taking place through: 1)Attacks on new converts. The Lisu were bound to demon worship through fear of physical illness. When the family members of new converts fell ill there was strong pressure to return to demonic worship. 2)Public demonstrations of occult power in rituals. 3) Human opposition to the message, 4) Attacks on the missionaries (illness, fatigue, doubt, depression). He wrote: It is all if and when. I believer the devil is fond of those conjunctions... The Lord bids us work, watch and pray: but Satan suggests, wait until a good opportunity for working, watching and praying presents itself - and needless to say, this opportunity is always in the future. (Cited 134) Lowe himself comments: 'A small temptation, perhaps, but laziness leads progressively to life-long failure and was to be opposed earnestly in disciplined prayer.' (134)
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"Let the nations be glad" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
John Piper
Probably the most familiar passage on the warfare we live in daily is Ephesians 6:12-18 where Paul lists the pieces of the "whole armour of God". We must not miss the forest for the trees here. The simple assumption of this familiar passage is this: life is war. Paul simply assumes this, and then tells us what kind of war it is: "not against flesh and blood, but against the principlaities , against the powers, against the rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavnely places. Therefore take the whole armour of God" (vv12-13) Then all the precious blessings of life could be thought of in other contexts besides the war are drafted for battle. If we know truth, it is for the belt of armouyr. If we have righteousness, we must wear it as a breastplate. If we cherish the Gospel of peace, it must become the soldier's foorwear. If we love resting in the promises of God, that faith must be fastened on our left arm as a shield against flaming arrows. If we delight in our salvation, we must fit it securely on our head as a helmet. If we love the word of God as sweeter than honey, we must make the honey a sword. Virtually every "civilian" blessing in the Christian life is conscripted for the war. There is not a warfare part of life and a non-warfare part. Life is war.
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"The Screwtape letters" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
C.S.Lewis
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased with both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight. C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, p. ix.
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"Spiritual Depression" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
D Martyn Lloyd Jones
The main art of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address yourself, preach to yourself, question yourself.
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"Spiritual Depression" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
Martyn Lloyd Jones
The main art in the matter of spiritual living is to know how to handle yourself. You have to take yourself in hand, you have to address youraelf, preach to yourself, question yourself.
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"From Orphans to Heirs" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
Mark Stibbe
The key to our liberation as Christians is the biblical image of spiritual adoption. So often we continue to live as spiritual orphans, forgetting that thanks to the saving work of Jesus we have been made sons and daughters of God.
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"A call to Spiritual Reformation" Buy from www.amazon.co.uk or www.amazon.com
D.A. Carson
We do not drift into spiritual life. We do not drift into disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer, unless we plan to pray.
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John Piper
Many unbelievers have great abilities in teaching and in administration, for example. And these abilities are God-given, whether the people recognize this or not. But these would not be called "spiritual gifts" of teaching or administration because they are not expressions of faith and they are not aiming to strengthen faith. Our faith in the promises of God is the channel through which the Spirit flows on his way to strengthening the faith of others (Galatians 3:5). Therefore, no matter what abilities we have, if we are not relying on God and not aiming to help others rely on him, then our ability is not a "spiritual gift." It is not "spiritual" because the Holy Spirit is not flowing through it from faith to faith. This has tremendous implications for how we choose church staff and church officers and board members. It means that we will never simply ask, "Who has the skill to be efficient?" We will always go beyond that and ask, "Do they use their skill in such a way that you can tell it is an expression of their hearty reliance on the Lord? And do they exercise their skill with a view to strengthening the faith and joy of others?" A church where the Holy Spirit is alive and powerful will be a church very sensitive to the difference between natural abilities and spiritual gifts.
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Ephesians 1:3 Many years ago I was taught not to pass over verse three to quickly. It is profoundly rich as to the claim to where all spiritual blessings reside. They are not resident in Muhammad, Budda, Krishna, Moses, Father Divine, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles Russel or Joseph Smith. All the spiritual blessings of God are a matter of "location", and they are in none other than God’s Son--Jesus Christ!
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