This is a message from leading the way with Dr. Michael Youssef.

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I don't think that there is a doubt in anyone's mind that we are seeing the evil one

one beginning to unleash his most venomous attacks.

We are seeing this globally.

There's hardly a corner of the globe that has not been touched by threats and fears and devastations.

Locally, where there's evils of drugs and pornography, unfaithfulness in marriage, and this honesty and business, to mention just a few of the rampant spread

of his venomous attack, even among those who belong to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Some young and some old have surrendered to his vicious attack.

And my primary concern in this series of three messages entitled, taking authority, is to

show Christians both old and young how not to surrender to the confusion of the age and

be defeated. But take authority over the enemy. But I want to tell you,

right at the outset, 90% of the secret for victory is understanding that we are in a state of skirmishes in the war.

And the reason I say skirmishes, because the absolute truth is that the battle has already been won on the cross.

But we are in the skirmishes of war, of which the Apostle Paul said,

we're not against our war, it's not against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces in the heavenly places.

And that is the most important thing I could tell you.

Just remember that, that we are in a constant state of the skirmishes in war, that we do not have a peace treaty with the enemy of our soul, that we cannot let our God down. Not for a

moment, and once you get that, you got 90% of the way. And if I learned anything in the last 40

years of ministry, I learned this, that for most people, when they come under the enemy's attack,

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