{"id":242,"date":"2017-02-26T11:28:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-02-26T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T16:42:01","slug":"spiritual-warfare-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/02\/26\/spiritual-warfare-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Warfare Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the means by which Satan can defeat a believer is through a lack of understanding on the part of the believer. Jesus tells us that if we don&#8217;t understand the word, the enemy can come and steal it from our hearts.<\/p>\n<p>In general, the devil influences believers\u00a0in very subtle ways to try to convince them to operate outside of the Word of God<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>He&#8217;ll use the unbelieving world around us as well as the sinful desires of our own hearts.<\/li>\n<li>He will attempt to deceive us with worldly wisdom.<\/li>\n<li>He will distort the gospel and present it in a deceitful manner.<\/li>\n<li>He can afflict people with sickness and disease.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Key Scriptures<\/strong>: Mark 4:3-5; 15, Galatians 5:19-21, Galatians 1:6-9, Acts 10:38<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-242-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-17.mp3\">http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2-26-17.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the means by which Satan can defeat a believer is through a lack of understanding on the part of the believer. Jesus tells us that if we don&#8217;t understand the word, the enemy can come and steal it&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/2017\/02\/26\/spiritual-warfare-part-iii\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newhopeforlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}