Good morning everyone and welcome back to the messy masterpiece podcast which had in

Tory. She's dancing. And it's so distracting. It's money. Yeah, happy money, everyone. Welcome

back. We're excited to be devoting ourselves to the Lord with you daily. Tory and I are actually

doing a plan out of the Bible app again. Yeah. And so if you actually want to download it and

follow along with us, we're going to have a link in the description of this podcast. But it's called

the voices and the choices. And I'm going to read the scripture and then Tory's going to read the

devotional. Then we're just going to have at it. Let's do it. The scripture is 2 Corinthians 10

verses 3 through 5. We are human, but we don't wage war as humans do. We use God's mighty weapons,

not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. We

destroy every proud obstacle that keeps people from knowing God. We capture their rebellious thoughts

and teach them to obey Christ. I love that verse. The devotional day 1 is titled identifying the

battlefield. It says, do you know that there is a real daily battlefield going on in your life?

It is a battlefield of good versus evil. Some days it is totally obvious, but other days it is

subtle or not even noticeable. The word says that we are in a battle. It may not be the one that

we can see, but nonetheless it is real. The Bible also tells us how to arm ourselves to win the

battle. There are many fronts to the battlefield. Most of us engage in emotional battles, especially

dealing with love, pain, or disappointment. Then there are intellectual battles of the mind.

Also consider the physical battles of what we eat, how to eat, and how to stay healthy in such

an unhealthy world. Clearly the most significant is the spiritual battle. Ultimately this is an

eternal life or death battle. Christians find their security in Christ. However, there is a real

day-to-day battle of flesh versus spirit, which affects our peace of mind. Half the battle is the

awareness of the battle. This is not a one and done fight. It is an ongoing daily fight. We don't

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