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"This is how I fight my battles!"  Alright, how's that? "This is how I fight my battles." Yeah, how? "This is how I fight my battles." Okay, that's enough. "This is how I fight my battles." Please stop. This song doesn't say anything. And there's 8 minutes of this? Why is the consumer-driven church so taken in by commercially sold ambiguous praise and worship choruses that can mean whatever you want them to mean? (Okay, so I probably answered my own question there.) This is how I fight my battles, with God's word. Ephesians 6 starting in verse 11 says, "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For we do not wrestles against flesh and blood, but against the spiritual forces of evil." The Scripture goes on to describe the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shoes of readiness given by the gospel of peace. Take up the shield of f...

Have you ever been in a prayer group and someone prays for a hedge of protection? "Lord, we pray a hedge of protection around Lundeen and her family." A hedge of protection? Like bushes? Why not pray for a fortress with a moat around it and armed sentries? Is the devil allergic to certain shrubs? This phrase comes from the conversation between God and Satan over the Lord's servant, Job. In Job 1:8, "The Lord said to Satan, 'Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, who fears God and turns away from evil?' "Then Satan said, 'Does Job fear God for no reason? Have you not put a hedge around him and his house and all that he has, on every side?" Satan believed if Job was afflicted he would curse God, which didn't happen. But let's talk about this "hedge of protection." Now such a hedge wasn't supposed to defend against an army. It was meant to keep wild ...