Spiritual Warfare

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Put into Practice:

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This week the practice is to create a prayer plan to engage in spiritual warfare and to be able to fight daily against temptation (Ephesians 6:10-20).

1. Find routine moments in your daily life that you can pray (walking across campus, driving to work, etc). Our goal is to not just to have a better life of prayer, but to have a life of prayer. (1 Thess 5:16-18)

2. Come up with a prayer plan for how you can use prayer to engage in spiritual warfare throughout your day.

3. Come up with a war cry to pray when the dominion of darkness attacks.

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With a Friend:

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What from the lesson stuck out to you?

• How often do you consider the spiritual war we find ourselves in every day?

• What situations in life, or emotions, or temptations have you experienced where you think you may be under spiritual attack?

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Read through Ephesians 6:10-20

• What does it look like to put on the armor of God in our daily life? How can we do that?

• If prayer is the way we fight, what areas do you need to be “fighting” for yourself and others?

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In what ways have you decided to live out the practice for the week?

• What daily routine do you want to add prayer to?

• What is your “war cry”?

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Family Group:

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Have you ever had an experience where you were being chased down by someone or something? (a sibling, a dog, the police, etc.)

• Even if it's just fun and games, being chased feels really scary and exhilarating!

• People usually run fastest when something is after them!

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Proverbs 28:1 “The wicked flee though no one pursues, but the righteous are as bold as a lion.”

• What areas of your life do you feel like you’re afraid of? What responsibilities or situations do you avoid or “run from”?

• Hard conversations, owning up to wrongdoing, etc.

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Eph 6:10-12

• How do we as humans experience the struggle against the spiritual forces of this world, aka spiritual warfare?

• How does that make you feel, that the Bible confirms there are things unseen going on, influencing the world around us?

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Eph 6:13-20

• We defend ourselves by putting on the armor of God

  • Truth, righteous living, peace, faith, and the Word of God

  • These things are our defenses against the darkness

  • How do we put those on?

• How do we fight? How can we go on the offensive against the dominion of darkness?

  • Prayer

  • “All occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests”

  • What do you pray or want to start praying about in order to fight the dominion of darkness?

• We should be bold as lions, not running in fear from the evil in this world!

  • Find a “prayer partner” for the week from this group, and try to fight together at least once this week.

  • Find a way to pray that you think takes the fight to the enemy.

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