"And Let The Fight Begin"

Does it ever feel as if you are under a spiritual attack, or as if Satan has picked you out to pick on you? If you have ever asked this question, you deserve an answer. Sometimes we as people of God fail to realize how much power we have. We fail to recognize the level of threat we oppose on Satan and the Kingdom of Hell. The bible saids in Mark 16:17; "And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;". Verse 18 continues; "They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Do not be deceived my friend, you have more power than you think. If you have been born of water and of the Spirit, then you have been given a power. The Gates of Hell cannot prevail against you. There is no weapon that is formed against that will prosper.

The enemy of your soul has set out to destroy you. We are in a war, and you are under attack. Evidently, the eyes of the enemy has focused in on. You have become a serious threat. You may be a teenager striving to live for God, and it seems like everybody is against your decision. Friends and family may seem to be against you and turn their backs on you. You have to be strong and put on the whole armour of God. It's time to stand on Truth and fight. Ephesians 6:11; "Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. It is vital that you become strong in the faith and in the doctrine and in the gospel. Satan desires to sift you as wheat. He wants to shut you up. He wants to you to forget about your testimony and silence it. You must understand, that we overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. You can overcome these principalities and powers. You don't have to be defeated. Colossians 1:16 teaches us; "For by him were all things created, that are in heaaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or PRINCIPALITIES, or POWERS: all things were created by him, and for him:". Colossians 2:10; "And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all PRINCIPALITY and POWER:" As you have become a threat to the enemy and he desires to sift you, Jesus said, "I have prayed that your FAITH fail not."

If you are a new convert or not so new, you must be strong and settled. I encourage you, along with the apostle Paul, to stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of thw Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perserverance and supplication for all saints.

Finally, Colossians 1:23 I will tie in with Colossians 1:22. "If ye continue in the faith GROUNDED and SETTLED, and be NOT MOVED AWAY from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; you will be presented holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

God Bless.

Troyce D. Mack

ARC - United Pentecostal Church

7 Berkeley Street

Manning, SC 29102

David W. Gleason, Pastor