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Kay Arthur, As Silver Refined

The enemy's 3 strategies for weakening me before a major battle:

I. Distraction

II. Deception

III. Downward spiral
A. Disappointment
B. Discouragement
C. Depression
1. Dejection
2. Despair
3. Demoralization (apathy, numbness)

Romans 8:37

"But in all these Things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him Who loved us."

"Once the full arrowhead has penetrated into the underlying muscle, it can only be cut out or pushed on through" (18).

I must either learn to take thoughts captive, or the deceiver will take me captive with my thoughts (20).

"The reason so many Christians fail in spiritual warfare is that we've ignored the right of the Lord Jesus Christ to have supreme authority and rulership in our [lives]. His objectives for us--to conquer ungodliness, to be holy even as He is holy--are not our objectives" (22).

Father, bring these truths home and so pierce my heart that as more than conquerors I "will be able to stand against all the wiles and devices of the enemy, holding the ground of faith and not yielding" (24).