Tag Archive: Spiritual Warfare

Spiritual Warfare and our Enemy – Part 2, The Devil’s Schemes
Posted August 31st, 2012 by Mike Hubbard

in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes. – 2 Cor 2:11 (NIV)     [3:1] Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made.     He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat […]

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Spiritual Warfare and our Enemy – Part 1, Who is the Enemy?
Posted August 30th, 2012 by Mike Hubbard

    [10] Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. [11] Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. [12] For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over […]

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Spiritual Warfare – deliverance or discipline
Posted March 20th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

We like quick fixes.  It gets easy to blame our problems on a demon and hope for the magic prayer that will make our demons go away.  One of the amazing phenomena in American Christianity has been the growth of deliverance ministries, a litany of so called prophets and exorcists who can deliver you from […]

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Spiritual Warfare – Our enemies: The world
Posted March 14th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

1 John 2:15-16 (ESV) 15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the […]

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Spiritual warfare – battling the flesh
Posted March 6th, 2010 by Mike Hubbard

Followers of Jesus continually battle three enemies, the flesh, the world, and the devil.  We’ve looked at the Devil, and the fallen angelic beings that wage war against us.  The second enemy is something within that continually pushes back against the purpose of God and the new person that one becomes because of the indwelling […]

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