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Two Rivers Vineyard Church
A pastoral word for today
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Posted by: admin Thursday, September 18, 2008

For a post today, I thought I would include a couple paragraphs I sent out to our church via e-mail.  Maybe it will encourage you as well. 

In talking with people over the past few weeks, I've noticed a hightened sense of spiritual activity in and around many of your lives.  For a number of you, God has been bringing new freedom and new opportunities to you in ways that are both surprising and exciting.  I also know that there many people facing some pretty big battles right now.   In many cases - both of these things are happening to people at the very same time!!!  

I felt the nudge today to encourage you with the reminder that our ultimate battle is not of "flesh and blood", but a spiritual one, as the apostle Paul talks about in Ephesians 6 (great passage to look at if you haven't read it recently).  While we don't want to hyper-spiritualize situations, we also don't want under-spiritualize things we are going through either.  I particularly felt that regarding some things that God is doing as we've begun to talk about facing life's fear with faith this month.  Maybe a number of you have already felt a battle over that subject - God offering you real freedom and the enemy seeming to fight back with a whole host of things to keep you from that freedom.  In any case, I felt like God wanted to encourage you that He's in the battle with you - He's ready to see you through and to keep putting your full trust in Jesus' power and leadership in your life.
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