A New Creature. . . an Apostolic Pentecostal blog

The Wrestling Match. . . The other day I was speaking to someone about our prayer walk and the looked for results from our walking up and down the streets of our city. I quoted the following verse: Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. I love preaching and teaching on this section of Ephesians at the jail. There is so much wisdom and practical advice for living a victorious life in these verses. Anyway I was explaining that by walking up and down the streets we are stepping out in our belief and exercising our faith. We are confronting the principalities and powers and rulers of darkness, on their doorstep, in their own dominion. The same prayers could surely be said from our Lazy-boy chairs at home or from upon our knees at the side of our beds, but by putting actual physical steps alongside of our prayers, we are putting flesh...

Reading the chronicles of the Old Testament and knowing some of the history of the Jewish people is in many ways like reading a real life fairy tale. To my knowledge no other people on earth can lay claim to such an intricately recorded history of their beginnings. The whole story is impossible to imagine without continual divine blessing and intervention: 1. Abraham called out of his homeland for parts unknown. . . 2. Sarah giving birth decades after menopause. . . 3. A tiny family group, maybe 70 persons, adding servants and slaves, maybe a couple of hundred in all, called into a completely foreign culture and country. After 400 years of servitude they not only have not been absorbed into the new culture, but they have maintained their traditions, wonderfully prospered, and have grown into several millions of people. Formerly slaves, this people is given days and weeks to prepare for their departure and are sent off, against the will of the Pharaoh, taking with them the great riches ...