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Using a Prayer Strategy for Victory in Spiritual Warfare — Part 1
You Need a Battle Plan Using a Prayer Strategy for Victory in Spiritual Warfare — Part 1 Spiritual warfare requires spiritual weapons. Ephesians 6:12 tells us that we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers and spiritual forces of wickedness. This means one of the enemy’s greatest victories occurs when he…
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King Solomon’s Prayer — Part 5: Make Room for His Glory
WHEN THE FIRE FALLS King Solomon’s Prayer — Part 5: Make Room for His Glory Throughout this series, we have walked through Solomon’s extraordinary prayer at the dedication of the temple. We saw Solomon approach God with open hands and a surrendered heart. We heard his repeated cry: “Hear from heaven.” We discovered the importance…
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King Solomon’s Prayer — Part 4: The God of Mercy and Restoration
WHEN YOU’VE WANDERED, COME HOME King Solomon’s Prayer — Part 4: The God of Mercy and Restoration One of the most beautiful aspects of Solomon’s prayer in 2 Chronicles 6 is its honesty. Solomon does not pray as though God’s people will never fail. Instead, he anticipates times of sin, defeat, drought, hardship, and even…
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King Solomon’s Prayer — Part 3: The Power of Faith’s Confession
Solomon’s great prayer of dedication teaches us another powerful principle in 2 Chronicles 6:24. Solomon describes a future situation in which Israel has been defeated because of sin. He prays that when God’s people return, “confess Your name, and pray and make supplication” before God, the Lord would hear them from heaven. That word confess…
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King Solomon’s Prayer — Part 2: The God Who Hears
One phrase echoes throughout Solomon’s magnificent prayer in 2 Chronicles 6: “Hear from heaven.” Solomon knew Israel would face difficult days. There would be sin, enemies, drought, disease, war, captivity, failure, repentance, and restoration. So Solomon asked God to establish something that His people could always depend upon: when they turned toward God and prayed,…
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King Solomon’s Prayer — Part 1: The Posture of Powerful Prayer
When Solomon stood before Israel to dedicate the temple, Scripture gives us a powerful picture of prayer. Second Chronicles 6:13 tells us that the king knelt before God and spread his hands toward heaven. Think about the significance of that moment. Solomon possessed extraordinary wealth, authority, wisdom, and influence, yet before Almighty God he became…
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Living in Victory with Jesus — Part 3
Living in Victory with Jesus — Part 3 Throughout this series, we’ve discovered two foundational truths. First, Jesus has already won the victory. Second, Christians don’t fight for victory—we fight from the victory Christ has already secured. Now we come to the final question: How do we live that victory every day? Romans 8:37 declares:…
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Living in Victory with Jesus — Part 2
Living in Victory with Jesus — Part 2 Every Christian will face spiritual battles. The question isn’t whether opposition will come. The question is how we will respond when it does. In Part 1 of “Living in Victory with Jesus,” we established that Jesus has already won the decisive victory. Through His death and resurrection,…
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Living in Victory with Jesus — Part 1
There are moments in life when victory seems very far away. We pray, but the circumstances haven’t changed. We believe, but the battle continues. We stand on God’s promises, yet what we’re seeing with our natural eyes seems completely different from what we’ve been believing. This is where we must understand an important truth about…
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Faith Has the Final Word – Part 4
Fear vs. Faith — Part 4 The Daily Walk with Pastor Bill Zeltman “And David hurried and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.” — 1 Samuel 17:48 We’ve reached the final message in our three-part Fear vs. Faith series. In Part 1, we learned to choose faith over fear. In Part 2, we…