Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, May 16.

We face unseen conflicts every day.

Today's podcast gives you a better understanding of the spiritual world

and helps you chart an effective strategy to be prepared for spiritual warfare.

I want us to look for just a moment and look at the nature of this battle that you and I face

because the truth is that we do face a battle when you wake up in the morning, you are into a battle.

The moment you trust the Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you are born again onto a battlefield

from which you will never leave until God calls you home.

You are born into a battle that will never cease.

It does not mean the intensity of it will always be the same, but the battle will always be there.

There will never be a time when the battle is over.

This is a spiritual battle because what Satan is after, he is after every part of us.

He wants to get us in our body, he wants to get us in our soul, our mind, our motion, our conscience, our consciousness.

He wants to deal with our spirit to do anything he can to tear us away in our thinking from Almighty God and our relationship to Him.

It is that personal relationship that you and I have with Jesus Christ, that is his ultimate target.

He is after our body, he will hit us in our motions, but what he is after most of all is our personal relationship with the Father,

knowing that he absolutely cannot tamper with our spirit.

That is, he cannot separate us from God, he cannot in any way reach down and take us and destroy anything about our return on the security.

We return the security because God in His love and grace has made that a reality.

So since he can't take our spirit, what he will do, he will harass us every way possible to make us miserable in life

and to keep us from enjoying the Lord and being the kind of witness God wants us to be.

We are soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ, we need to understand who the enemy is and how he works.

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