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Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Spiritual Warfare 201: How to Prepare Yourself for Spiritual Battle, Part 1

Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast

Living on the Edge

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Bible shows we're in a conflict, and Satan wants you to fail. Chip reveals how to be victorious over the Evil One by using the supernatural weapons God provides to protect you and your loved ones. Fight back!

Introduction: The South Pacific after WWII was won

  • The victory had been won, but battles continued and lives were lost; the bullets were real.
  • The same is true spiritually:
  1. Satan was defeated at the Cross.
  2. Sin’s penalty was paid for all people for all time.
  3. Sin’s power was broken.
  4. Yet, Satan and his host of fallen angels engage in guerilla warfare to discourage, deceive, divide, and destroy God’s people and God’s program.
  5. Believers are commanded to equip and prepare themselves in the strength of the Lord and in His mighty power to stand firm against the enemy’s schemes, repel his multi-faceted attacks, and engage and defeat him in specific battles.

Four keys to spiritual victory

  1. We must become AWARE of the Invisible War.
  2. We must learn to APPROPRIATE God’s protection for daily living.
  3. We must learn to ENGAGE the enemy with supernatural weapons.
  4. We must utilize God’s means of deliverance when spiritually attacked.

How can you prepare yourself for satanic attack?

  1. Having girded your loins with TRUTH
  2. Having put on the breastplate of RIGHTEOUSNESS
  3. Having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of PEACE

Application

  1. Know and understand the content of the Gospel. -1 Cor. 15:1–5; Eph. 2:1–9
  2. Know the basis for your eternal security and the assurance of your salvation. Security – Rom. 8:38–39; Eph. 1:13–14. Assurance – 1 Jn. 5:11-13
  3. Faith is based on facts, not feelings.
  4. Sharing your faith is one of the most powerful faith-builders available, often “the best defense is a good offense.”

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0:00.0

Before any soldier goes to war, he puts on his armor. He gets his weapon ready. He knows how to protect

0:08.9

himself, and he knows how to fight effectively. Here's my question. Do you have your spiritual armor on?

0:15.8

Do you even know what it is and how to use it? Today, I want to tell you about the protection and the weapons

0:24.0

that God has provided for you to win the spiritual battle that you face each and every day.

0:30.0

Stay with me.

0:34.9

Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

0:39.3

Our mission is to inspire Christians to be genuine followers of Jesus and to empower them to be active disciple makers in our world.

0:46.3

Thanks for joining us as we pick up in our series The Invisible War.

0:50.3

In the last couple of programs, Chip's been in Ephesians chapter 6, unpacking a basic foundation

0:56.0

for what believers need to know about spiritual warfare.

0:59.0

Today he'll begin in verse 13 with a lot of ground to cover, so get your Bible and notes ready

1:04.0

as we join Chip for his message, How to Prepare Yourself for Spiritual Battle.

1:10.0

My father was in the South Pacific Guam, Iwo Jima.

1:12.6

He had a purple heart.

1:14.6

When I get to be around fellow Marines, it is just exciting.

1:19.6

The camaraderie they have and the respect and the bond that they have.

1:24.6

I once accidentally said my dad was a former Marine, and a Marine came up to me and said,

1:30.4

there are no such thing as former Marines, and I have stand corrected.

1:35.2

But if you know anything about the South Pacific and World War II,

1:38.9

and it'll date some of you, but there was a treaty signed,

1:42.4

the bomb was dropped, the war was completely over. But on multiple

1:47.7

islands, there was guerrilla warfare. I have a friend, his name is Soturo. His grandfather actually

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