Bible Verses for Spiritual Warfare!

Just wanted to share a few of these goodies with you. Take authority! God bless you.

~Luke 10:19
~Ephesians Chapter 6
~2 Corinthians 10:3-5
~1 Peter 5:8
~Psalms chapter 91
~1 John 5:4-5
~2 Corinthians 5:17
~Matthew 18:18-20

Prayer against ungodly thoughts:

"In the name of Jesus Christ I circumsize these thoughts and bring ever thought captive to the obedience of Christ!"

*Just a tip: I recently started to REJECT negative words or thoughts. As the bible says to take every thought captive to obey Christ, I started doing. We unknowingly can speak curses on ourselves or others. For example, someone may say "This is gonna be a long stressful day." God's word tells us the power of life or death is in the tongue. Don't speak a curse over yourself or others!

So if you catch yourself being negative you can say, "No, I reject this thought in the name of Jesus Christ." Simple as that :-)

Prayer before going to sleep:

"In the name of Jesus I cover myself, my family our home with the blood of Jesus. I take authority over all demons of the night, nightmares, dreams of perversion, and any spirit trying to attack me or my loved ones during the night in the name of Jesus Christ."

My favorite for peace: Psalms 4:8; "In peace I will lay down and sleep. For the Lord my God makes me dwell in safety."

Here I Am - Christian Poetry

Imperfect, impatient, unworthy...
Still, here I am.

Flawed, broken, scarred...
Still, here I am.

My good works like filthy rags...
Still, here I am.

Use me in spite of my weaknesses. Here I am.

You are known to mold broken things into beautiful things...
So, here I am.

How Powerful is MUSIC? The Importance of Music....

♬♬ MUSIC...How important is music?♬♬

†† God gave me a special revelation about music a few years ago, and showed me how powerful music really is on the human mind and soul. MUSIC has the power to mold your thinking pattern. MUSIC has the power to uplift you or bring you down. MUSIC has the power to TELL YOU what to think, and the message of every song is able to stay in your subconscious mind and in essence "tell you what you should think and do".

Satan is all too familiar with music, in Ezekiel 28:14 it says in regards to satan, “The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created,”. So music can be an instrument of good or evil. Be careful of what kind of music you allow yourself to listen to. Above all guard your soul and mind against the subtle attacks of the enemy.

As for me, I will continue to use the gifts God has given me to GLORIFY HIM in the earthly realm, and with the positive waves of music flowing, thwart off some of the negative sounds in this world.

Priorities As a Christian

I have been reading this book called, "God's Priorities for your life- For Women". Reading this book has opened my eyes to how much my priorities have been disorganized...

I'm realizing that I really need to slow down, and accept the fact that I CANNOT do it all on my own. And I shouldn't have to! God is here to help me if I allow Him to, and my husband. I have been trying to do way more than I can handle and letting the daily drudgery of life bring me much unneeded stress.

There's a quote in the book that says, "It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something that is totally insignificant in eternity."

How true that statement is! How foolish it is to make your focus on increasing your worldly supply, when you should be increasing in your relationship with God, and leading others to Him. THAT should be our main focus in life.

Now don't get me wrong, we all need to make a living to provide for our families and to still have enough to share with others; "And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work." -2 Cor 9:8

We are to have more than enough to abound in good works and be able to help Gods saints who are in need. But our priorities are to be in line with Gods will...That works by putting God first on a daily basis, and allowing Him to work out all other areas of our lives in the divine order that He has planned for us!

For me, that starts today...

God bless you!

Christian Poetry: Who Am I? By Jeannie Deal

I feel worthless, hopeless, lost...

I'm reminded of my past sins again.

Who am I?

I feel disgusted at who I used to be.

So foolish and immature was I...

Living for material things, living a lie.

My life was changed in just one day...

I knew at that point things would change.

The girl I was would never be the same.

But why then, do these bad memories remain?

Why after all this time am I feeling this bad?

Why am I downcast...why so sad?

Who am I?

You say I'm a new creation in You...

I must believe this to be true.

But still the past comes back to haunt me again.

Will these unworthy feelings ever end?

Who am I?

Am I that selfish, worldly person seeking after the flesh?

You say the old me has been put to death.

Remind me of the way You look at me Lord...

Not as a worthless sinner as I was before.

But as Your child, who's been cleansed.

Take me back to when it all began...

Take me back to when Your glory and peace shone.

Take me back to the joy of knowing I'm no longer alone.

Who am I?

I am Yours.

The Flesh is Against the Spirit - The Spirit Against the Flesh

"For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do." -Galatians 5:17

If you're a born again Christian you will have at some point had problems fighting the flesh. Whether it's anger rising up, selfishness, lust etc. For me it's usually selfishness of some type and irritability! 

I try to fast on a regular basis in order to bring my flesh into subjection. Kind of like a spiritual tune-up. I think it's important that every believer "checks themselves" frequently because we war daily with the desires of our flesh, which is contrary to what the Spirit wants to accomplish in us! 

As born again believers, this doesn't mean that we want to do evil, we are new creatures in Christ, so we want to do good! But many times the flesh hinders us from accomplishing the good that we want to do....

I heard a saying recently, "the body is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master!". How true that is! So brothers and sisters, I urge you to keep in touch with Christ daily by abiding in Him. Christ said if you abide in Him, He will abide in you. This means time spent in His word daily, prayer and fasting. 

"If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples." -John 15:7,8

God bless you

Fighting the Flesh Daily - I Do what I Hate

Why is it that no matter how bad we don't want to act a certain way, or say certain things, we end up doing exactly what we hate? 

I find that the most difficult struggles in my life are those small things about myself that I so want to change but I fail time and time again at changing them. It's the lack of patience, irritability that comes up at times, and as much as I hate that part of myself, it seems impossible to change.

God has shown me those small things that need work in my character not too long ago, and I want to work on improving in those areas. I want a gentle and quiet spirit. I want to be completely loving and patient 24/7, 365. Is that a goal that is even attainable? lol

I can relate so much with Paul in Romans 7 when he writes, "15 I do not understand myself. I want to do what is right but I do not do it. Instead, I do the very thing I hate. 16 When I do the thing I do not want to do, it shows me that the Law is right and good. 17 So I am not doing it. Sin living in me is doing it. 18 I know there is nothing good in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do good but I do not. 19 I do not do the good I want to do. Instead, I am always doing the sinful things I do not want to do. 20 If I am always doing the very thing I do not want to do, it means I am no longer the one who does it. It is sin that lives in me."

Well if Paul had this struggle, I must be doomed right? lol. No I don't believe so, because he finishes this chapter with these words, "25 God’s Law has power over my mind, but sin still has power over my sinful old self. I thank God I can be free through Jesus Christ our Lord!"

So we can gain freedom from these areas in our lives through Jesus Christ our Lord. I will keep getting up when I fall and fighting to become the person Christ wants me to be...I believe perfection only comes in the resurrection when God brings us home. But until then, I will keep fighting this flesh and sinful nature. I can't give up hope. "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength." (Philippians 4:13)