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Ephesians chapter 6, verse 10.

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

What a simple, potent verse.

And I would submit a perfect verse to close out 2020. So if you're listening to

this later, it's not December 31st, 2020, but for those who are following along just each

day with when these podcast episodes come out, this is December 31st, 2020 at the end of a long, hard year in ways none of us

could have imagined a year ago. But that's why I just want to meditate on and pray according to

this verse in particular. be strong in the Lord and in the

strength of his might I don't know many people who are coming to the end of 2020 saying I feel

refreshed and invigorated and strong and ready to run into 2021.

I mean, maybe we're ready to run into the next year just because we want to run out of this last year.

But this is the beauty.

Like 2020 has put our weakness on display in so many ways.

Certainly the weakness of medicine, the weakness of

economies, the weakness of the world in so many different ways. And there have

been so many different struggles in the middle of it. But that's what's so

significant about this chapter because what happens right after this verse is we're

reminded by God and His Word that our struggles are not against flesh

and blood, against things we can see, but our struggles are against rulers, against authorities,

against cosmic powers of this present darkness, spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms,

is there's a real spiritual battle. I hope and pray that this verse and praying according to it is a reminder

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