Urgent Prayer Request

Karen Herarra's granddaughter Gracie is hospitalized with the H1N1 flu. Please keep her in your prayers.

Announcements

There will be no early service and no Sunday School next week, November 1, due to the special missions emphasis in the regular service. See you there!

Fighting the Battle

Ephesians 6:10-11 tells us how to fight a spiritual battle. When we fight a spiritual battle, we must leave the worldly ways of warfare behind. Those methods will fail in a spiritual battle. And when we do fail, having used our own strength and our own weapons of warfare, we tend to blame God.

If you try to battle sin with human strength and human logic, you will fail. But it won't be God's fault! It wasn't that God abandoned you...it was because you abandoned what He has given you. He has provided spiritual tools for a spiritual battle, yet you chose earthly tools.

Think of it this way... You can't fix a diesel engine with a jeweler's tiny screwdriver.

So pick up God's tools He's given you the armor (described in Ephesians 6) and He's given you the strength. Once you put on the full armor of God, you will be strong, and you can win!

Be Strong

In Ephesian 6, Paul exhorts us to "be strong in the Lord." According to the construct of the sentence, the responsibility here is placed on us, not on God.

Be strong in "His mighty power." There is no place for weak, insipid, soft Christianity. We can tap into the source of strength: God's mighty power.

Leave your own strength behind so you can put on His. You can't be strong in the Lord and in yourself at the same time. To be strong in the Lord is to be weak in yourself. He is all-sufficient.