“in truthful
speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand
and in the left;”
II Corinthians
6:7
“The weapons we
fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine
power to demolish strongholds.”
II Corinthians
10:4
Whenever you
hear the word ‘weapon’ what do you
think of?
Do you think
first of a gun, knife or even a tank?
The weapons of
the church are quite different than those used by the world.
Paul describes
them as “…weapons of righteousness…” that are to be found in our ‘hands’!
These weapons
include prayer, fasting, His Word, the blood, the Name of Jesus Christ and the
Gifts and Fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Do you see how
different these are than the weapons we normally associate with battle?
As the Apostle
says: “…they have divine power to demolish strongholds.”
Jesus went to
the cross armed with these weapons and no greater victory has ever been won!
Listen to how
Colossians 2:14-16 describes that victory –
"having canceled
the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us;
he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public
spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.”
There is no army
in the earth or in hell that can claim any power greater than divine power.
That power doesn’t
eke out a victory by the skin of it’s teeth; it demolishes strongholds!
It is that power
that sustains the praying saint.
It is that power
empowers the man or woman of God who fasts.
It is that power
that strengthens the disciple who stands on the Word of God and its’ promises.
Those are the
weapons that are to be in our hands and in our mouth.
Let’s take a look
this week at the status of the ‘weaponry’ of the church.
Lord:
May we be
equipped for battle bearing the weapons, not of our own choosing, but according
to the Word of God that we might see the victories those weapons bring!
We pray this in
Jesus Name
Amen.
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