If you are in a battle, Jesus wants you to know he's already declared you winner.

Dr. Tony Evans says the fight may be fierce, but the outcome has already been decided.

You wrestle against principalities and powers, but you do not wrestle from defeat.

You wrestle from victory.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

There's more to life struggles than meets the eye. Dr. Evans says many of our battles are really spiritual in nature,

and the only way to win is to fight with spiritual weapons. Today, he'll explain how God's word equips us for victory in the invisible war

that shapes our visible reality.

Let's join him in Ephesians chapter 6.

He says in verse 17, and take up the helmet of salvation, and it is the second half of this

verse, and the sword of the spirit which

is the word of God the context of chapter six is about a spiritual battle he is

said in verse 12 for we struggle not against flesh and blood that's other people

but against rulers powers and world forces of this darkness,

against spiritual forces of wickedness in heavenly places.

He says that your battle in life is not against people,

it is against a whole other realm that influences people,

the spiritual realm, which he calls here, heavenly

places. Heavenly places simply means the spiritual realm, the invisible unseen realm that influences

and that causes what takes place in the visible realm in which you and I live.

His concern is that we do not miss this invisible realm,

this heavenly places realm where our blessings are located.

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