READ: JOB
1:6-9
The battles
of life must first be fought in the spiritual realm before you can experience
victory in the physical realm. Every believer should seek to understand the
secrets of victory in spiritual warfare. An understanding of all the components
which man is made of is crucial to the understanding of what it takes to
overcome the devil. Man is a trinity, made up of spirit, soul and body. Or,
better put, Man is spirit with soul, living inside a body. The body is just a
house inside which we live. Our souls can be called our minds or our reasoning
faculties. Our spirits are actual persons. We can take an analogy by using the
example of how football used to be like in the olden days. In those days,
football was made up of an outside jacket, with a tube inside it. When air is
pumped inside the tube, the leather is able to bounce. One can safely say the
air is the football. The moment you release the air, all the other components
are useless. Our spirit is like the air in the football. When someone dies, he
breathes the last breath and what we have left is a lump of flesh. The spirit
is surrounded by, as it were, the soul. Both of them are house in the body. The
spirit is mentioned first in our above Bible passage because the spiritual
controls the physical. Whatever happens in the physical has already been
settled in the spiritual. A good example in found in Job 1:6-19. There was a
discussion in the spiritual between God and the devil. God called Job a perfect
man, and the devil said Job was perfect because God had prospered him, and that
if all that he had were withdrawn, Job would change. God then permitted the
devil to try Job. It was after this that lightning began to fall, raiders began
to raid and walls of houses began to collapse. How then can we handle
spirituals attacks, you must locate the enemy’s hideout and attack the problem
from the root. If you win the war in the spiritual realm you will win it in the
physical realm.
MEMORIZE:
JOB 1:10 –Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and
around all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands,
and his possessions have increased in the land.
