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Discover the factors that cause spiritual decline and learn strategies to stay spiritually fresh amidst spiritual warfare. Thanksgiving and humility play key roles in eradicating negative emotions and maintaining a strong faith. Explore the battleground of the mind and emotions in spiritual warfare.
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Spirituality Keeping Fresh Spiritually & Spiritual Warfare
What factors in going will have an impact on your spiritual freshness?
Thanksgiving Thanksgiving eradicates the negative emotions such as jealousy, anger, disappointment, bitterness, and a quarrelsome spirit which drag us down spiritually.
Humility “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves…Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus... who made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant… humbled himself and became obedient to death.” Philippians 2:3, 5b, 7a, 8a
Spiritual Warfare • Spiritual warfare is... • God’s provisions for spiritual warfare are... • Our strategies to combat spiritual warfare are...
Spiritual Warfare “Spiritual warfare begins in the heart and is waged in all of life.” Ken Williams “Being Effective in Spiritual Warfare”
Spiritual Warfare • The battleground is the mind and the emotions • When we neglect to bring these to the Lord, we go into a dangerous place, and wander down pathways where there is little nourishment for the soul