Do Not Hear The Enemy!

Thank you for the timely reminders 2f. It's good to know what the Scriptures say, but knowing what they say won't do us much good if we don't really believe them. Sometimes God will test us by a trial to teach us to rely on His word and what it says about Him and His character and how He works, and about other things, to show us whether we really believe His word. And if we don't believe it in the way we think we do, and in the way that we should, as that trial will bring out, we know that our faith is weak in that way and we must ask God to strengthen it.

God wants us to rely on what He says in His word and to be confident in it, even when things are difficult or the events in our lives seem to be contradicting what His word says about His character and how He works. But in order to declare, "It is written" with confidence, and to be able to use His word as a sword against the enemy when they attack us, we must be strengthened by God's grace to really believe it (faith).

This is why I believe Ephesians 6:18 tells us to pray at all times in the Spirit---because it is the grace of God received by that constant prayer that enables us to be strong in the Lord's power and to use the armor of God, which we can't do without God's support.