{"id":11205,"date":"2013-04-17T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=11205"},"modified":"2013-04-16T22:05:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:05:46","slug":"girls-with-swords-the-battleground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/17\/girls-with-swords-the-battleground\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls With Swords: Chapter 4 – “The Battleground” (pgs 57-59)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often wonder why it seems as if life is a daily battle…. Why we have to fight for things that seem so basic, so common, as Lisa says, we don\u2019t have to fight for the words of Galatians 5:19-21.<\/p>\n

Galatians 5:19-21 (NKJV)<\/i><\/h3>\n

<\/i><\/b>Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,\u00a0fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,\u00a0<\/sup>idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, envy, murders,\u00a0drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.<\/i><\/b> <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

But we do have to fight for the words of Galatians 5:22-26.<\/p>\n

Galatians 5:22-26 (NKJV)<\/i><\/h3>\n

<\/i><\/b>But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ\u2019s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.\u00a0\u00a0<\/sup>If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.<\/i><\/b> <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Jesus fought a battle larger than any we could imagine.\u00a0\u00a0He died on the cross and won that battle.\u00a0\u00a0He won that battle so w could handle the battles He knew would follow. \u00a0\u201cThis means, that sometimes we must battle to become one.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d\u00a0 We must battle to become one with Him. We must battle to become the mothers He created us to be, to become the wives He designed us to be, and we must battle to become the women He designed us to be.\u00a0 He knew what we would be facing. \u00a0 He knew that our lives would seem like battlegrounds, that\u2019s why He gave us the tools we would need. \u00a0He placed the sword in our hands, and told us what to look out for, what to avoid.\u00a0 He told us what Satan would use to attack us, what weapons he would throw in our path.<\/p>\n

When I am counseling someone at work one of the things I tell them that they can use to their benefit is the knowledge of what may happen—knowing what may come down the road can help prepare them for it. We have a list printed up of some common reactions to their situation. \u00a0This list can be used as a tool when things arise. \u00a0It allows each person to develop the tools needed before the \u201cattack\u201d comes.<\/p>\n

The same has been done for us. \u00a0Listed above (Galatians 5:19-21)\u00a0are the attacks Satan uses on us and will continue to use on us, to try to divide us and separate us from our Heavenly Father.\u00a0 God has also created a list of tools (Galatians 5:22-26) we need to carry with us to fend off these attacks. \u00a0We would be wise to use these God-given tools each and every day in our lives!<\/p>\n

\"CampInHell\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t set up camp in hell\u2026you journey through it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Life was designed to be peaceful and pleasurable, but yes there are times where we have to hold up our swords to protect our joy and peace; times when we are walking through rough patches in our lives. As Lisa says, we journey through it.<\/p>\n

Ladies, keep this in your heart, \u201cThere are times you must battle to become one.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0So, let\u2019s pick up our swords and push forward.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s Pray:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lord, I pray Galatians 5:22-26 over our lives. I pray for love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control as we journey through our battlefield. I thank You for the tools we need to counter Satan’s attacks. \u00a0I thank You that no weapon formed against us will prosper.\u00a0In Jesus’ name we pray,\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often wonder why it seems as if life is a daily battle…. Why we have to fight for things that seem so basic, so common, as Lisa says, we don\u2019t have to fight for the words of Galatians 5:19-21. Galatians 5:19-21 (NKJV) Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery,\u00a0fornication, uncleanness, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":11207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[79,2281,144,147,2083,2082,218,2270,2087,2274,2278,2276,365,367,370,379,2264,394,2257,2258,2262,425,1985,436,2261,2269,2280,2275,2081,2267,2271,554,577,2260,2266,1986,2259,620,2277,723,746,879,2279,1617,2263,2273,2268,2282,2085,2084,1075,2265,1135,2272],"class_list":["post-11205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-womens","tag-adultery","tag-battleground","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-choice","tag-choose","tag-christianity","tag-contentions","tag-destroy","tag-dissensions","tag-drunkenness","tag-envy","tag-faith","tag-faithfulness","tag-family","tag-fellowship","tag-fornication","tag-friendship","tag-galatians-519-21","tag-galatians-522-26","tag-gentleness","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-girls-with-swords","tag-god","tag-goodness","tag-hatred","tag-hell","tag-heresies","tag-hero","tag-idolatry","tag-jealousies","tag-jesus","tag-joy","tag-kindness","tag-lewdness","tag-lisa-bevere","tag-long-suffering","tag-love","tag-murder","tag-online-bible-studies","tag-peace","tag-relationships","tag-revelries","tag-satan","tag-self-control","tag-selfishness","tag-sorcery","tag-spiritual-battleground","tag-steal","tag-target","tag-tonya-ellison","tag-uncleanness","tag-womens-bible-studies","tag-wrath","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/CampInHell.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-2UJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11205"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11210,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11205\/revisions\/11210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}