In life, we often suffer from illnesses, misfortunes of families, difficulties at work, and disasters. Therefore, our hearts stray from God and we are unwilling to read the Bible, attend meetings, or take part in church life; we fall into Satan’s temptations, doubt and complain against God, and may even sever our relationship with God, and be carried off by Satan. So how can we see through Satan’s schemes in spiritual warfare and rely on God to overcome Satan’s temptations? Read the following Bible verses and related content about spiritual warfare to find the way.

1. The Truth Behind Spiritual Warfare

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour.

James 1:13-14

Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

Job 1:6-12

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said to Satan, From where come you? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. And the LORD said to Satan, Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that fears God, and eschews evil? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Does Job fear God for nothing? Have not you made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? you have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. But put forth your hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face. And the LORD said to Satan, Behold, all that he has is in your power; only on himself put not forth your hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

Satan Tempts Job for the First Time (His Livestock Is Stolen and Calamity Befalls His Children)

Satan Once More Tempts Job (Sore Boils Break Out Across Job’s Body) (Part 1)

What Inspiration Can Job’s Trials Bring to Us?

2. Rely on God to Defeat Satan

1 Corinthians 10:13

There has no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that you may be able to bear it.

Proverbs 15:29

The LORD is far from the wicked: but he hears the prayer of the righteous.

Psalm 50:14-15

Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the most High: And call on me in the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

Zechariah 4:6

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, said the LORD of hosts.

James 4:7

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 John 5:4

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

James 1:12

Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love him.

Relevant Words of God:

God does His work, God cares for a person, looks upon this person, and all the while Satan dogs His every step. Whomever God favors, Satan also watches, trailing along behind. If God wants this person, Satan would do everything in its power to obstruct God, using various evil ploys to tempt, disrupt and wreck the work God does, all in order to achieve its hidden objective. What is this objective? It does not want God to gain anyone; all those that God wants it wants for itself, it wants to occupy them, control them, to take charge of them so they worship it, so they join it in committing evil acts. Is this not Satan’s sinister motive? You often say that Satan is so evil, so bad, but have you seen it? You can only see how bad man is. You have not seen in reality how bad Satan actually is. But have you seen Satan’s evil in this issue concerning Job? (Yes.) This issue has made Satan’s hideous countenance and essence very clear. In warring with God, and trailing along behind Him, Satan’s objective is to demolish all the work God wants to do, to occupy and control those whom God wants to gain, to completely extinguish those whom God wants to gain. If they are not extinguished, then they come to Satan’s possession, to be used by it—this is its objective.

Excerpted from “God Himself, the Unique IV” in The Word Appears in the Flesh

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