A Fight Worth Having - Conclusion

The videos for this series of posts have been removed from YouTube. My notes include all of the questions and scripture references from Beth's bible study.

My Notes Beginning with John 18:10

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant's name was Malchus.)

• Continued from Part 5 
• What are we to learn from this exchange?

Ephesians 6:17-18 

 17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.           (bold type is mine)

• We have a sword we can draw, the sword of the spirit, or the word of God
• The sword of the spirit is for battling principalities and powers.
• The sword of the spirit is to instruct or benefit the church and to build up, or uplift, God's people. It tells us who we are as God's people.
• In our religious pride, we pick fights with people we believe to be more carnal than we.
• We pull out our swords and instead of loving them because our sword tells us to love our enemies, we pull out our swords and slice of their ear until they want nothing to do with us.
• It would be a daunting, or dismaying,  conclusion to realize that WE are the biggest problem someone we want to come to Christ has, in coming to Christ.
• What if they are scared they are going to turn out like us? Is that not scary?
• But are we hateful with the word? 
• Sometimes the word is better stood upon, than preached upon in a fight with flesh and blood. All we are doing is cutting off their ear because we are using God against them instead of using God for them.
• It is our calling to love even our enemies.

2 Timothy 4:7

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 

• I want to learn how to have a good fight. 
• You want to know how to win a fight. 
• We have to keep the faith.
• Every relationship worth having is worth fighting for.
• Lay down the desire to be right. Lay down your pride and arrogance.
• We have to keep the faith. 
• Search for the unbelief, where is the enemy tempting you into unbelief?

I don't always fight like this, but when I want to have the most focused kind of war toward a situation this is what I do:

• Ask God to equip me with 5 or 10 scriptures that will reflect the situation. Then, I write or type them up and use the names of the persons involved in it. Then when I speak it, I am speaking straight to the situation. This is how to pull two sticks of dynamite together. When I begin to pray scripture, we are about to do some battle. This is a tool for battle!
• It is time to get mad. There is nothing wrong with getting mad as long as we focus it at the right enemy.
• Pick up the sword of the spirit and go straight to the enemy we really do have. You take up that energy and pick up the sword of the spirit and do not slice an ear off in the human realm. You go straight for the enemy that you really do have and start calling out the authority of God's word in prayer to your Father about your situation.
• You will feel your self begin to fill with faith. Fight with faith. 
• We have a God that is a warrior. The LORD is a WARRIOR. Exodus 15:3

A fight worth having is a fight for God. That's where our energy goes.

• Hold up that shield of faith and wield the sword of the spirit and God is with you, fighting for you.