Have you ever watched someone doing resistance training? They get stronger every day as they press more and more weight. That\u2019s how to view the verse \u2018resist the devil\u2019. Satan is out to do three things: \u2018Kill, steal, and destroy\u2019 (see John 10:10). Destroy what? Everything God has given you! And he doesn\u2019t play fair. Using a whole arsenal of weapons, he\u2019ll attack your mind, your health, your marriage, your children, your finances, and your character. And if you\u2019re a spiritual weakling, he\u2019ll crush you! Satan studies you. He knows your quitting points, and he\u2019ll push you to the brink every chance he gets. So what should you do? Push back\u2014and keep pushing! Use every spiritual weapon God has given you\u2014prayer, praise, His Word and fellowship. It\u2019s time to turn the tables on the Enemy and start using him as your spiritual gym! <\/p>\n
The Amplified Bible talks about \u2018the sword that the Spirit wields, which is the Word of God.\u2019<\/i> (Ephesians 6:17 AMPC) When you\u2019re filled with God\u2019s Spirit, He will fight in you, through you, and for you. When that happens, Satan reaches the place where he knows he can\u2019t defeat you on a particular front, so what does he do? He attacks you on a different one! But with victory after victory being chalked up, you develop the boldness and strength to defeat him on that front too. With enough resistance training under your belt, you\u2019ll experience the joy of walking in the truth of this wonderful promise: \u2018The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet.\u2019<\/i> (Romans 16:20 NIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever watched someone doing resistance training? They get stronger every day as they press more and more weight. That\u2019s how to view the verse \u2018resist the devil\u2019. Satan is out to do three things: \u2018Kill, steal, and destroy\u2019 (see John 10:10). Destroy what? Everything God has given you! And he doesn\u2019t play fair. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}