EVANGELISM AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE and Screwtape
EVANGELISM AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE and Screwtape
EVANGELISM AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE and Screwtape
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around
like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.”
1 Peter 5:8
EVANGELISM AND SPIRITUAL
WARFARE
D. Spiritual Gifts
“Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and
having done everything, to stand firm. Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist,
and put on the breastplate of righteousness. As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready
to proclaim the gospel of peace. With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to
quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit,
which is the word of God.
Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always
persevere in supplication for all the saints.”
Ephesians 6:13-18
OUR PROTECTION
“Never forget that when we are dealing with any pleasure in its
healthy and normal and satisfying form, we are, in a sense, on the
Enemy’s ground. I know we have won many a soul through pleasure.
All the same, it is His invention, not ours. He made the pleasures: all
our research so far has not enabled us to produce one. All we can do is
to encourage the humans to take the pleasures which our Enemy has
produced, at times, or in ways, or in degrees, which He has
forbidden.”
JUSTICE
“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God
has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 3:14
GOSPEL OF PEACE
"You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is
my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of
twenty-four hours...The man neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all
comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels"
OUR PROTECTION
E. Salvation
The word used for salvation means both physical as well as spiritual well being.
Satan will try to make you sick; make you and your GG fight; create
misunderstanding in your families; and, may even try to get you killed.
But we have God's protection.
8Before leaving your home, pray. Put on the "crash helmet" of salvation
OUR PROTECTION
F. Word of God
G. Prayers
The best thing, where it is possible, is to keep the patient from the serious intention
of praying altogether… (Ch. 4)
When the patient is an adult recently reconverted to the Enemy’s party, like your man, this is
best done by encouraging him to remember, or to think he remembers, the parrot-like
nature of his prayers in childhood. In reaction against that, he may be persuaded to aim
at something entirely spontaneous, inward, informal, and unregularised; and what this
will actually mean to a beginner will be an effort to produce in himself a vaguely
devotional mood in which real concentration of will and intelligence have no part. (Ch. 4)
PRAYER
“Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are
ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away
from Him towards themselves. Keep them watching their own minds and trying to
produce feelings there by the action of their own wills… (Ch. 4)
Teach them to estimate the value of each prayer by their success in producing the desired
feeling; and never let them suspect how much suc-cess or failure of that kind depends on
whether they are well or ill, fresh or tired, at the moment.” (Ch. 4)
PRAYER
“I have known cases where what the patient called his ‘God’ was
actually located—up and to the left at the corner of the bedroom
ceiling, or inside his own head, or in a crucifix on the wall. But
whatever the nature of the composite object, you must keep him
praying to it—to the thing that he has made, not to the Person
who has made him.“ (Ch. 4)
CONCLUSION
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this
world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” –
John 16:33