Spiritual Warfare 201: How to Prepare Yourself for Spiritual Battle, Part 2

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Condemnation. Doubt. Guilt. Is the enemy using these emotions to keep you from God’s love and power? How do you get rid of them? Chip explains how you can prepare yourself for spiritual battle and win!

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:

Satan was defeated at the Cross.
Sin’s penalty was paid for all people for all time.
Sin’s power was broken.
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.
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

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

How can you prepare yourself for satanic attack?

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

Application

Know and understand the content of the Gospel. -1 Cor. 15:1–5; Eph. 2:1–9
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
Faith is based on facts, not feelings.
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	condemnation, guilt, doubt.
0:05.0	Is it possible that the enemy of your soul is using these common emotions to keep you from experiencing God's love and God's power?
0:14.0	You know that feeling I have at times like I'm a terrible person, I'm worthless, no one could love me.
0:20.0	Those are not from God. Question, how do you get rid of them?
0:24.5	Let's tackle that one together today.
0:30.5	Thank you for being with us for this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.
0:35.9	Chip serves as our Bible teacher for this global teaching and discipleship ministry,
0:39.3	helping Christians develop an authentic faith.
0:42.3	Well, we're in the middle of our series, The Invisible War,
0:45.3	what every believer needs to know about Satan, demons, and spiritual warfare.
0:50.3	And quickly, if you've missed any part of this study,
0:53.3	catch up at living on theedge.org or wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:58.0	Well, with that here's Chip with part two of his talk, how to prepare yourself for spiritual battle.
1:03.0	Satan's attacks aren't merely deception, but accusation. He's the accuser of the brethren, guilt and condemnation of the believer.
1:13.0	This happens when we willfully turn away from what we know is God's will. We open ourselves
1:18.0	to satanic attack. And we all do this, right? We know what's right to do. I remember in,
1:26.5	I really think it was a great prayer in the tradition that I grew up in, we had a lot of wrote prayers, and one of the prayers went something like, you know, we forgive us for the things that we have done and forgive us those things which we should have done. I don't remember it very well, but, because there was a lot of ought to have done's and ought not to have done's,
1:44.8	and I can't remember the old English.
1:47.3	But when I know this is what God wants me to do, if the belt of truth is nothing more and nothing less of being honest with God and honest with yourself,
1:57.9	the breastplate of righteousness is the application of the truth to your life. You know
2:04.3	what's right. Are you obeying? When we don't, it opens you to demonic influence. And again,
2:14.9	when I use that word demonic influence, oh, that sounds so weird and out there.
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