Bible verses: the power of God and prayers-part 2

We cannot defeat the devil in the flesh

Look in the book of:

2 Corinthians 10:4 

For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,

The only way we can win this battle is by using Spiritual Weapons such as Prayer and Fasting.

We cannot defeat the devil with our flesh because he is not flesh

When we were out in the world we used to think we were in control we could conquer everything

Using our own strength.

But I’ve got news for you now as a Christian this kind of thinking is wrong

We cannot defeat the devil with our flesh.

It is only by God’s strength and might that enables us to win the battles in our lives and others.

Ephesians 6:10 - 11

10.  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

11.  Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

There are a lot of Christians that are trying to win the battles in their lives and in others

Without the Armor of God.

This is the worst decision a Christian can make in their spiritual life.

Many Christians are spiritually streaking; they have no offense or defense against the powers of the devil.

Without the Armor of God it is easy for us to be defeated.

Think about this you have no protection you don’t have a weapon how are you going to fight?

All you will be able to do is run.

God did not intend for the Christian to run in battle

This is why the Bible says:

“Greater is he that is in me, than he that is in the world” It’s time for the church to get into the battle.

Deuteronomy 20:4  For the Lord your God is he that Goethe with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

Remember this, above all things you never go into the battle alone.

The battle, for a Christian is not won outside of your closet.

It is more likely for you to win the battles of this world from the inside of your closet.

This is why the Bible says:

Matthew 6:6

  But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

by Rev. Bruce Miller

Bible verses: the power of God and prayer-part 1

Deuteronomy 32:30

30.  How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had surrendered them?

31.For their rock is not like our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

God says: “one person can put 1000 demons to flight “ and with “two people he can put 10,000 devils to flight. In other words the evil we see in this world we can put it to flight.

We can win this war all we have to do is realize who we serve. He is our Rock and we are his Warriors.

Let’s look at another verse in the Bible:

Psalms 18:2  The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

The book of Psalms says:

The Lord is my Rock, my Fortress, My Deliver, my Strength, my Shield, and my Stronghold.

When we go into battle we are not going to left alone for God promises to always be there with us.

In a battle even a warrior needs a place to rest and to find refuge from the evil in this world

This is why God said in the book of Psalms

“He is our fortress, our deliver, and our shield”

God is everything to the warrior.

The greatest weapon of Spiritual Warfare is Prayer.

In the physical we cannot win the battle.

But in the spiritual we can tear down the strongholds of the enemy

This is one of the reasons the Bible says we need to pray.

The church has got to go back to fighting on their knees.

The church is the only hope the world.  And if you don’t fight for this world and the people in it

Who will?

Psalms 60:12  Through God we will do valiantly, For it is He who shall tread down our enemies.

God is the one that gives us the victory in the battle that is going on in this world

It is God that will defeat our enemy the devil and all of his works.

We have to remember what the Bible says in the book of:

2 Chronicles 20:15

And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the Lord unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

The battle is not ours but it is God’s

Only God can give us the victory nothing else.

God uses us as a tool when we pray down the strongholds of the enemy on this world.

We have to remember the Bible says: “whatever you ask you shall receive”

So because we have this promise, shouldn’t we pray for the lost and against the enemy that is the devil?

God will honor that prayer.

Audio bible: Joshua

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbsPU9e93gM&feature=related


the story of Joshua
Number 14: 30
Joshua 1-24

New International Version of Bible
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Cartoon video clip: Joshua part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKDhlkjPvn0&feature=fvwrel

part 2:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdjL1LSFt8&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL4205B784AD5DA515

part 3
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgDSR5AXyjs&feature=relmfu

part 4
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYpjE3fppcQ&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL1F3C3719CAD03914

part 5
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzKCcB4HTKs&feature=autoplay&list=PL1F3C3719CAD03914&playnext=2

Bible verses: casting all your care upon him

Bible reading: the work of God in Pisidian Antioch

<sup>Acts 13: 38-48

38</sup> “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. ³⁹ Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. ⁴⁰ Take care that what the prophets have said does not happen to you:

⁴¹ “‘Look, you scoffers,
    wonder and perish,
for I am going to do something in your days
    that you would never believe,
    even if someone told you.’^[e]”

⁴² As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people invited them to speak further about these things on the next Sabbath. ⁴³ When the congregation was dismissed, many of the Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue in the grace of God.

⁴⁴ On the next Sabbath almost the whole city gathered to hear the word of the Lord. ⁴⁵ When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. They began to contradict what Paul was saying and heaped abuse on him.
⁴⁶ Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “We had to speak the word of God to you first. Since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles. ⁴⁷ For this is what the Lord has commanded us:

“‘I have made you^[f] a light for the Gentiles,
    that you^[g] may bring salvation to the ends of the earth.’^[h]”

⁴⁸ When the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and honored the word of the Lord; and all who were appointed for eternal life believed.

Bible reading: Matthew 8: 4-51 (signs of the end time, like birth pains)

⁴ Jesus answered: “Watch out that no one deceives you. ⁵ For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah,’ and will deceive many. ⁶ You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. ⁷ Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. ⁸ All these are the beginning of birth pains.

⁹ “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. ¹⁰ At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, ¹¹ and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. ¹² Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, ¹³ but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved. ¹⁴ And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
¹⁵ “So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination that causes desolation,’^[a] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— ¹⁶ then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. ¹⁷ Let no one on the housetop go down to take anything out of the house. ¹⁸ Let no one in the field go back to get their cloak. ¹⁹ How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! ²⁰ Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. ²¹ For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again.

²² “If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. ²³ At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Messiah!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. ²⁴ For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. ²⁵ See, I have told you ahead of time.

²⁶ “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it. ²⁷ For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ²⁸ Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
²⁹ “Immediately after the distress of those days

“‘the sun will be darkened,
    and the moon will not give its light;
the stars will fall from the sky,
    and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’^[b]

³⁰ “Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. And then all the peoples of the earth^[c] will mourn when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.^{[d] 31} And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

³² “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. ³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it^[e] is near, right at the door. ³⁴ Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. ³⁵ Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

The Day and Hour Unknown

³⁶ “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,^[f] but only the Father. ³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ⁴⁰ Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.
⁴² “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. ⁴⁷ Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ ⁴⁹ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. ⁵⁰ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Bible reading: about witchcraft

Deuteronomy 18: 10-13
¹⁰ Let no one be found among you who sacrifices their son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, ¹¹ or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. ¹² Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you. ¹³ You must be blameless before the Lord your God.


Galatian 5: 19-21
¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.


Revelation 21: 8
⁸ But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars —they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Bible reading: Roman 1: 18-31 (people in the end time who live in sinfulness)

God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. ²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.
²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. ²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.