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May 15, 2025

The song service last Sunday before I spoke was encouraging as well as convicting. The video clips were particularly inspiring. I could not help but feel underwhelmed with my approach toward Satan and God. Both women prayed as well as talked back to the Devil with real fire and passion. So I asked myself what makes the way they spoke different from the Christians. I decided not to speak on how to pray but to look at how we might be more spiritually minded.

Paul uses contrast throughout this Epistle to the Romans. He contrasts Adam-Christ; Salvation and Freedom; Jew and Gentile; Death and Life and, in this section, he contrasts the flesh and the Spirit. Repeatedly in chapter seven he refers to I, me, and mine. In chapter eight he refers to the Spirit nineteen times. Four times in the verses we will consider, he uses the word "mind" to help us know it is important to work on how we think. Our natural birth gives us the flesh. Our rebirth in Christ gives us God's Spirit. Our great struggle exists because the flesh doesn't die when the Spirit of God indwells us. Thus, we can become a follower of Christ and be baptized in His Spirit and yet be worldly and self-centered. When this occurs, we will not live with power and peace, thus, our worship, witness, walk and prayer life will be weak and lifeless.

Let's get both feet on the same side of the fence, so when we have to speak victory over the Devil, or when we have to call on God to move mightily, Heaven will be stirred and the earth will be shaken.

See you Sunday.

In Christ,
Pastor Todd