Our warfare

Today, 17th day of fasting prayer, Pastor Balraj preached from the Word. He was specifically preaching about 1. Our journey towards the promised Canan 2. How we can fight it out in this World.

Exodus 3:17 , Joshua 3:11
When God promised the land with honey and milk to Israel, God told about 7 enemies they need to face in their journey.They are Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

Ephesians 6:12
Similiarly, as new testament Israel, in our journey towards the promised land, we also need to fight out seven different enemies. But these enemies are not flesh and blodd or humans.

What is our armor?
For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds, pulling down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought into the obedience of Christ (2 Corinthians 10:4,5)

Ephesians 6:13-18

Seven enemies of every Christian believer

1. Lust of flesh

But each one is tempted by his lusts, being drawn away and seduced by them. Then when lust has conceived, it brings forth sin. And sin, when it is fully formed, brings forth death James 1:14,15

But every person who is on the journey to promised land mus crucify his flesh. As apostle Paul said
But those belonging to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts Galatians 5:24


2. Life without Love - Personal & Family life
Ephesians 5:22, 5:25, 6:9

If anyone says, I love God, and hates his brother, he is a liar. For if he does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen? (1 John 4:20)

3. Speaking Lies

2 Corinthians 2:11
Psalms 15:1-5
Psalms 119:163
Therefore putting away lying, let each man speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.(Ephe 4:25)

4. Our own ways
Proverbs 25:28
Proverbs 4:11,12

5. Fear
2 Timothi 1:7

6. Pride

7. Our own strength
Psalms 20:7-8
2 Corinthians 10:17,18