The Good Fight of Faith

1st Timothy Chapter 6 verse 12: My opponent seeks to rob me of my faith in God's Word. Recognize that I am in an invisible wrestling match, but I must remember, Satan is a defeated foe. Jesus Christ, in His death, burial, and resurrection, overcame and defeated Satan. The fight that as a Christian, I am called upon to fight is the good fight of faith.

1st Peter Chapter 5 verses 8 thru 10: Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him steadfast in the faith knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. But may the God of all grace who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

1st John Chapter 4 verse 4: You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he [the devil] who is in the world.

Luke Chapter 10 verses 18 thru 20: And He [Jesus] said to them "I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven."

Mark Chapter 16, verses 16 thru 18: He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name [in Jesus's name] they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues: they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.

John Chapter 14, verses 13 and 14: And whatever you ask in My [Jesus'] name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My [Jesus'] name, I will do it.

John Chapter 15, verses 6 thru 14: If anyone does not abide in Me [Jesus], he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. As the Father loved Me [Jesus], I also have loved you, abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I [Jesus] command you.

Ephesians Chapter 6 verse 12: For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against power, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Ephesians Chapter 2 verses 5 thru 6: ... [God] ... made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved) and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace, you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God."

2 Corinthians Chapter 10 verses 4 and 5: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

James Chapter 4 verse 7: God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. Therefore submit to God, Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Matthew Chapter 21 verses 21 and 22: Assuredly, I [Jesus] say to you, if you have faith and do not doubt, you will not only do what was done to the fig tree, but also if you say to this mountain, "Be removed and be cast into the sea"; it will be done. And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.

Mark 11:22,23 And Jesus answered saying to them, 'Have faith in God.' Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says is going to happen, it will be granted him."

1st John 2:27 "But the anointing [of the Holy Spirit] which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him."

Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me."

Romans 1:17 "...as it is written, 'BUT THE RIGHTEOUS MAN SHALL LOVE BY FAITH.'"

2 Corinthians 5:7 "For we walk by faith not by sight."

Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

Matthew 9:21,22,27-29 "...Take courage. Your faith has made you well."

James 1:5-8 "If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind."

James 5:15 "and the prayer offered in faith will restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be forgiven him."

Hebrews 11:6 "...without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him."

Mark 9:23 "...All things are possible to him who believes."

Romans 10:17 "So faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ."

Romans 10:8,9,10,11 "But what does it say? 'THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART' - that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation. For the Scripture says, 'WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED.'