Stealth Attack: The Reality of Spiritual Warfare

June 24, 2025

Host: Dr. Jamie Mitchell

Guest: Ray Pritchard

Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 6/24/25. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.

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Jamie Mitchell:

Well, thank you again for joining us on Stand of the Gap Today. I’m your host, Jamie Mitchell, director of church culture at the American Pastor’s Network. Back in the 1960s, there was a comedian named Flip Wilson and he would do a standup routine about a preacher’s wife, and during the bit she would do something wrong and she would use as an excuse this phrase, the devil made me do it. Now, people would laugh both by the way he would say it, but also from the seemingly illogical excuse for her bad behavior. Shortly after Wilson came on the scene, Hollywood produced a movie The Exorcist depicting a Catholic priest confronting a demon possessed girl. In one instance, the mention of the devil makes us laugh, and the reality of Satan and his power then causes terror, shock and fear. Sadly, many Christians think about demonic powers with a blend of that kind of thinking, either being so afraid that they don’t want to talk about it or they just laugh it off.

Well, both are wrong and can be spiritually devastating. Today on Stand In the Gap, we want to discuss spiritual warfare and gain a biblical perspective that hopefully leads us to be able to stand up against the powers of darkness. My guest today has written about it and taught extensively on the subject, Dr. Ray Pritchard, the teaching pastor with Keep Believing Ministries and the author of the book, Stealth Attack. Ray, thanks for being with us again on Stand In the Gap. We’re so grateful for you being willing to share about this book and the online course that you’ve produced, which we’re going to talk about later, but welcome back to Stand In the Gap.

Ray Pritchard:

Jamie, thank you so much. Great to be with you and with the wonderful audience that takes part in Standing the Gap, and I love this topic and thank you for the invitation.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well, Ray, we have a lot to cover, but I want to start by understanding the importance of the subject. Why should we study spiritual warfare and the ways that Satan attempts to attack Christ followers?

Ray Pritchard:

Jamie, let me begin with two vitally important verses of scripture. One is Ephesians chapter six, verse 12. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, and I stop right there to say that’s a word that’s really important for us as Christians to hear because we are living in anxious, dangerous, divided times. People, it’s easy, I suppose if you’re in one political party or one viewpoint to look at the other party, the other viewpoint and to say, well, if we could just get so-and-so in the White House or out of the White House, then all of our problems would be solved. It’s easy to demonize individual human beings, but Paul says a real battle is not against the terrorist. It’s not against the people who want to attack America and bring it down. It’s not against the abortionists, it’s not against the people who are pushing transgendered madness as evil and wrong as all of that is.

They are not our real enemies. Paul says, we wrestle against and he gives a list here, the rulers, the authorities, the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Well, we could talk for more than an hour just about that one verse, but let’s just say this much. There is a battle going on and it’s not a visible battle. It’s invisible, and that’s why it’s so important for us to take seriously what the Bible says. The other verse is one, Jamie, very well, one Peter chapter five, verse eight, be sober. Be vigilant, which just means wake up up people for your adversary, your enemy, the devil prowls about like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. So let me say to all of our listeners today, my friends, the devil is hungry and you are on the menu. It is my time for Christians to wake up and enter spiritual warfare using the armor that God has provided.

Jamie Mitchell:

Ray, I love how you said that wake up because as you were answering that question, that’s what I was thinking, that there needs to be an awakening of awareness of this subject, but I have watched both Christians and sadly so even clergy shy away from looking at this subject subject and probably you have as well. Why is it that we’re so hesitant to talk about spiritual warfare?

Ray Pritchard:

Jamie, I think in your introduction you said it very well. It’s so easy to laugh it off the flip, Wilson the devil made me do it or the Linda Blair The Exorcist. I mean that movie was such a big hit some years ago. I think people look at that particularly to say the movie The Exorcist, and they go, well, if that’s what this is all about, I want nothing to do with it. That is to say it’s easy I think to shy away from spiritual warfare because of certain, shall we say unfortunate excesses. Okay? Even if we make room for that, we still got to take seriously what the Bible says. So that’s one thing. Another thing, and maybe this probably bigger issue, Jamie, is we’ve become, as a church, we’ve become somewhat lethargic, indifferent, and maybe could I use that old fashioned word worldly. We’ve become so worldly, we have become so indifferent to the spiritual battle.

We don’t have to fight the devil because he’s already got us in the palm of his hands. And I think maybe the last reason that we shy away from this is we’re uncomfortable with the talk about warfare. We would rather live a life of comfort and ease, which I get that, but you’ll never get a life of comfort and ease if you read the New Testament and take it seriously because Jesus believed in the devil. The apostles believed in the devil, they understood the reality of spiritual warfare. So yes, it’s time for God’s people to wake up, pick up the armor of God and wade into the battle that is raging all around us.

Jamie Mitchell:

Ray, part of the problem too is our perspective as believers, we figure things out. We think we have this whole thing about the Christian life and the spiritual world and spiritual things, and we have it all figured out. We view Christianity so horizontally, which isn’t bad that there’s brothers and sisters in the church, but we forget that our dependence must be on God. And the reason why it must be on God is that our enemy, the devil has power, has authority, has the ability to mess with our lives, and our only answer and our only course of action is to look upward and ask God to intervene and step in and demonstrate his power in our lives. And so partly we minimize the devil’s effect in our lives because we think we got it all figured out and hopefully this hour we’ll make it clear we don’t have it figured out and we need God’s help.

Friends, the Bible’s clear, the devil is prowling looking for a way to devour us. He is real, he is active, and we need to be aware of it when we return from our break. Who is Lucifer? Who is Satan? Where did he come from? How does he operate? The only way to defeat the enemy, we better understand who and what he is about. Do not go anywhere. Stay with us. Well welcome back today our topic is stealth attack, the reality of spiritual warfare. My guest is my good friend, Ray Pritchard from Keep Believing Ministries, an author of a book by that same title, stealth Attack. Ray, here’s a question you probably didn’t get asked in church yesterday. Where did Satan come from? What’s his origin? What hole did he crawl out of? Somebody once said,

Ray Pritchard:

Look, that’s a wonderful question and let’s get to it this way. Just open your Bible and start reading the book of Genesis. Genesis chapter one. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Day one, day two, day three, day four, day five, day six, he made man and woman in his own image. And at the end of the sixth days of creation, God looked and said, it is very good. Then the seventh day God rested, okay, Genesis two, it is not good for the man to be alone. And he puts Adam to sleep and takes a rib from Adam and creates Eve and brings her to Adam, and Adam is blown away and for this call, shall a man leave his mother and father and the two shall become one flesh at the end of Genesis two said that they were naked and they were not ashamed.

In other words, Jamie, when you read the first two chapters, it’s just paradise. It’s one man, one woman together as God intended in the Garden of Eden. Okay, turn the page Genesis three. Now the serpent was more subtle, more crafty than any beast of the field. Where in the world where, what’s going on here? How did we get from perfection in the first two chapters to suddenly this hissing serpent and people have said the serpent, did he have legs back then or was he slithering around on the ground? Look, there are questions like that that the Bible doesn’t entirely answer, but suddenly the serpent who is the personification of the devil himself suddenly shows up in paradise. Now, Bible students, two other passages I want you to look at. I want you to look at Isaiah 14 and I want you to look at Ezekiel 28.

If you take the book of Genesis and those two chapters I just mentioned, you get a picture like this that in the beginning, in the beginning before creation, shall we say, when God was in heaven and here are the angels that he created. There was one who was supreme in power and beauty above all others called Lucifer. If you take Isaiah 14, literally basically he became lifted up, got the five I wills of Isaiah 14. I will I be exalted, I will be above the most high. And Jamie, there’s a part of the story here that’s hard for us to understand much less even to explain to anyone else that the great bright angel Lucifer led a rebellion in heaven and one third of the angels followed him. He kicked out of heaven. The angels who followed him in that rebellion were kicked out of heaven, and that Lucifer now becomes known in the Bible as the devil, as Satan himself.

So he started as an angel of light doing God’s will. He rebelled, he was cast out of heaven. But the last thing I’m going to say here about this is there’s a reason why with the apostle Paul and second Corinthians calls the devil an angel of light because that’s what he was in the beginning only now in our day he comes to us masquerading as a beautiful being, but he has come, Jesus said, to steal and to kill and to destroy. So that’s a quick short answer. Where did he come from? He came from the courts of God. He rebelled against God Almighty. He was kicked out and the angels who followed him were kicked out and they have become, we called them today the demons of hell.

Jamie Mitchell:

Ray, we know that Satan has power here on earth, obviously being a spiritual being as you’ve described, and he’s here to stir up a whole bunch of trouble. Is that power unlimited and what can he do and maybe even more important, why would God allow him to have any authority?

Ray Pritchard:

One question there that’s easiest to answer is the first one is power unlimited. No, there’s only one person whose power is unlimited omnipotent, if you will. That’s God the Father Almighty God in heaven. He has all power. Whatever else you want to say about Satan, sometimes we make the mistake of talking about Satan as if he is almost God, as if he is God Jr. He’s not quite God, but almost God. That’s the way we look at it. No, no, there’s only one God almighty. Remember what Martin Luther said, and by the way, Luther, if you want to get a little study on the devil, just read Martin Luther who had a vivid imagination and a very clear biblical understanding. He called the devil, God’s devil, the puritans called the devil, God’s lapdog. The devil cannot operate independently in the sense that he can only exist as long as God gives him freedom to exist.

So is his power unlimited? Thank God the answer is no. Well, why has God allowed him that authority? I think the biggest part of the answer is hidden inside the heart and mind of God, and that’s one of the things we’re going to understand as the song says, understand it better by and by. But God decreed to allow Satan to lead that rebellion and tar his havoc on the earth, knowing that one day he would send his son to the earth to be the savior of the world of all those who trust in him, so that in the death and resurrection of Jesus, the devil would be defeated, our sin would be forgiven and we would see the glories of the grace of God, not just in this age but in all the ages to come. So God permits Satan to wreak havoc knowing and intending he would display his grace through the death and resurrection of his son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jamie Mitchell:

You know Ray, a good friend of ours, a mutual friend, Rene Showers by dear professor in college and good friend now with the Lord used to describe how God loves to be worshiped. He is the king of the universe. He wants his subject to worship him, but not in an egotistical way, but Satan came along and wanted to steal that and that’s why worship is so important and why the devil does everything he can to twist us, to contort us, to manipulate and compromise us to worship him because he wants to receive the glory and the praise and the adoration that is only to be bestowed on God alone. He wants that. Ray, I will refer to you online course on spiritual warfare. It is so good. I watch some of it to prepare for this, but in that course you talk about how the Bible describes Satan. Can you share some of that? Because it gives understanding of both how powerful Satan is and how he works in the world,

Ray Pritchard:

Okay? In that course, the stealth of that course, there’s one point where I just give a list of some of the biblical descriptions of Satan and there are a lot of those descriptions. Here’s a few. He is a cunning deceiver. He is the adversary. He’s the father of all lies. He’s the slanderer, he’s the tempter, he’s the destroyer. He is a thief. He’s a murderer. He’s the serpent, he’s the dragon. He’s the son of destruction. Jesus called him the wicked one. He is the accuser of the brothers. Zechariah three, one says, he accuses us day and night. He’s the ruler of the darkness. He’s the prince of the power of the air. He’s the prince of this world. He’s the God of this world. He’s the lawless one. He masquerades as an angel of light. He hatches clever schemes out with us. He roars and then he devours, and that’s just the partial list.

He is evil through and through, but let no one take him lightly. That verse in Zechariah three, Jamie, I think about that he accuses me before the Father. He accuses us day and night. You know that fake, Richard? He’s no good. You know what he said? You know what he was thinking? You know where he went. You know what he would’ve done if he thought he could get away with it? And look, I give the devil enough to think about anyway, I just want to say we ought to take him very, very seriously. So two things real quick. Number one, by yourself, you are no match for Satan, but Satan is no match for the Lord Jesus Christ. God has given us everything we need to fight and win our battle against the devil. So we got to pick up the tools, we got to pick up the armor and we got to be ready, Jamie, to go into battle.

Jamie Mitchell:

Ray, as you were reading that list, I couldn’t help but to think why that is important for us to believers. We want to focus on the Lord and understand who Jesus is and the character of God. But when you were reading that list, it ever so quickened my heart of what we’re dealing against, the deception, his craftiness, how he hates us, all of that, friends, the bottom line is that we’re God’s creation. We’re God’s children. God has redeemed us, but the Satan, he hates us. And our next segment, how do we fight against this evil one? How do we do battle against him? Stay with us here on Stand in the Gap today. Well, today’s program is about spiritual warfare and how to fight against the schemes of the devil. Ray Pritchard from Keep Believing Ministries is our guest, Ray Satan is alive and well and moving throughout the earth to steal and kill and destroy and compromise. Christians, as I assess this whole issue, I think we have a choice we can give in and give up or we fight. Those are our two options and whether we like it or not, once we became a believer, we were thrusted into the battle. So we got to learn how to fight. So Ray, help us. How do we fight against the devil and what are some keys as we wage war against demonic powers,

Ray Pritchard:

Jamie? I think number one, we’ve got to adopt a warfare mentality. I think we’ve got to understand the Christian life is not a playground. The Christian life is a battleground. You read the letters of the Apostle Paul, he understood this so clearly, and I suppose if you want to use that metaphor of the battleground, this is not like World War II where we sent troops over to Europe or we sent troops to the Pacific and then there were millions of Americans here taking care of the home front. We thought the front lines were thousands of miles away. That’s not true today in an age of terror, what we understand today in terms of the war on terror is that we’re all now on the front lines. Every time you get in your car, every time you take a flight, every time you go to an airport, you never know.

You never know when an evil doer will strike around you. That’s a good way to think about it. Number one, adopt a warfare mentality. And number two, I think we’ve got to understand that you’re not going to make it. You’re not going to survive the battle if you try to do it alone. Jamie, I need you and you need me. We need each other. We need the fellowship of like-minded Christians. Let me tell you a quick story. Some years ago, Marlene and I, we were hosting a small gathering for some single Christians, maybe 10 or 15. It was a weekend get together. There was one young man there who I thought was maybe 18 years old at least when I was around. He hardly said anything the whole weekend. I didn’t know him and he was a really nice young man, but I just had no idea of his background.

Well, on Sunday morning we were sitting around the table and talking. It was our final session and one of the single girls talked about how difficult it was and how she felt so alone and all of a sudden this young man who I had somewhat taken for granted, turned out he wasn’t 18, he was 22 or 23 or 24, he’d finished a full tour with the United States Marine Corps and he had been involved in the fighting in the Gulf War and he had been involved with his unit in the fighting in Fallujah, in Iraq, scene of some of the bloodiest fighting. It was so difficult. It was house to house and sometimes hand to hand and sitting around the table, he said that. Then he said, every time we were going to go out on patrol, our sergeant would say the same thing to us.

Remember men two is one, one is none. If you’re by yourself, you’re done. Wow. Two is one, one is none. If you’re by yourself, you’re done. Too many lone range of Christians are out there and they’re getting picked off because they’ve withdrawn from Bible study, withdrawn from Sunday school, withdrawn from worship, and they wonder why they’re facing such attack and such discouragement. They have made themselves an eager, easy target for the devil. We need each other. So adopt the warfare mentality. Number two, understand, you can’t win this battle alone. You need your brothers and sisters. And number three, let me just say something in favor of scripture memory. I think 30 years ago I would not have included this on there, but I now understand it’s not just how much of the Bible we’ve read, but how much of the Bible has been tattooed on our heart.

So it becomes the very words of life to us. I still remember a young man, single man in the church I pastored in the Chicago area who came as a new fellow. I didn’t really know him. Came to me one day and said he was struggling with sexual temptation of a particular variety and could I help him? I didn’t know him very well, Jamie, but I said, I’m going to give you a challenge. He said, I’m ready. I said, do you want a hard one? He said, yeah, give it to me. I said, it’s scripture memory. He said, lay it on me. And I said, I want you to memorize Psalm 119. Check it out, folks. That’s the longest chapter of the Bible, 176 verses. I didn’t know whether he was serious or not. He said, I’ll do it. He started memorizing Psalm one 19, took him, I got to think it was about February of that year when he talked to me all during the spring.

He’d come see me on Sunday morning and say, I’m at verse 11, I’m at verse 22, I’m at verse 33. He had memorized about 70 verses before he had to go away for the summer and I wondered if I’d ever see him again. At the end of the summer, he came back and said, I’m at first 128, and then he saw me another Sunday and sat, I’m at verse 145 and somewhere in October that year, he finally said, pastor Ray, I’ve done it. I have memorized all of it. Psalm one 19. I said, do you mind coming by my office and reciting it to me? So that week he came by, I sat at my desk and he got up and walked around and he recited all 176 verses of Psalm one 19. I have never heard that before or since, but that young man did it.

He was so full of joy, so full of happiness at what God had done as he was leaving, I said, what about that problem you were having with temptation? He said, it’s gone. It’s gone. It’s gone. Why should that surprise us? The Bible says the entrance of thy word giveth light. It is now a quarter century later, that young man got married, raised up a family for the glory of God and is still following the So I say to you, scripture memory is not just something for kids in Awana or kids in Sunday School. It’s for all of us. We need to get the word of God inside us because the devil hates it when we memorize God’s word. So let me stop right there with those three because I think that’s a good place to begin in talking about the weapons of spiritual warfare.

Jamie Mitchell:

Ray, you mentioned about getting God’s word inside of you. I know one of the things that people probably are wanting us to answer or to address, and this might be the best time to do it, is the issue of possession. Can believers be possessed by Satan? Can someone be possessed? And if so, what can be done?

Ray Pritchard:

My simple quick answer would be there’s a huge difference between the believer and the unbeliever. The believer has the Holy Spirit. The believer is in dwelled by God’s eternal spirit. So Jamie, if we’re talking about true born again believers, I would say this unbelievers can be and often are possessed by evil spirits and possessed by demons. If you said to me, do you believe that can literally happen? And here’s the key phrase. In the same way to a believer, I would say, no, not in the same way, but listen, if we walk in the flesh, if we pursue the idols of this world, if we make money or sex or power, our God, if we turn to pornography, if we turn to sexual immorality as Christians, we can easily be and often are deeply oppressed, maybe not possessed, but oppressed by the devil to the point that it seems like he has set up in our hearts and has the controlling power within us.

What can be done? I think you and I have been involved in these situations. They’re not easy to deal with, but you need the help of godly Christian men, godly Christian women who can come alongside, who can love you enough to tell you the truth, who can answer your questions, who can pray with you. And I do believe if we can reorient the Christian away from the flesh toward a life filled with the spirit, eventually those the evil spirits that have oppressed Christians in so many terrible ways, they must leave when the Holy Spirit takes full control. There’s no room for the devil to do his oppressive business so possessed, no but oppressed. Yes, and we should use the weapons that God has given us to fight back and other thing, last thing I want to say, Jamie, is it can happen to any of us at any time. That’s why Peter said, wake up, be sober. Be vigilant because the devil is coming after you and me.

Jamie Mitchell:

Hey Ray, we got about a minute left. In your online course, you have a chapter that says, singing to Victory. What does that mean and what role does music and worship play in combating the devil?

Ray Pritchard:

Oh, I got this from dear old Martin Luther. This is something he really, really believed in. We ought to sing a hymn. We ought to sing a song Luther Said, and Bid the Devil goodbye. The devil hates God’s music. He hates Christian music. He hates it when we come together and sing the songs of Zion. So I tell Christians, if you want to walk in victory, you ought to not just turn on Christian music. You ought to turn it on and you ought to sing along with it. It will lift your spirits, it will orient you in the right direction. The devil hates it when we go to worship and sing. So my friends parents, sing with your kids grandparents, sing with your grandchildren, sing to the glory of God and watch the devil flee.

Jamie Mitchell:

Listen, victory is waiting to be claimed. We’re victors in Christ, not victims. We need to start living that way, use the weapons that God has given us. Listen, when we finish up, we want to consider how to see an attack coming our way. Don’t go away. We’re talking about spiritual warfare on standing the gap today. Well, the time has again evaporated away, and we’re in our last segment with Dr. Ray Pritchard, and I hope you have been educated, encouraged, enlightened as we have tried to whet your appetite in regards to spiritual warfare and how we need to stand firm in our faith not succumb to the devil’s schemes. The fact is we’ve just scratched the surface. Ray, I have mentioned a few times about the resources, specifically about your online course on spiritual warfare. Can you take a moment and share about Key Believing Ministries, your website and the resources available to our listeners?

Ray Pritchard:

Well, let me Jamie invite all of our listeners to Surf on Over to Keep Believing, keep believing.com. Back when the pandemic hit us in 20 20, 1 of the things I started doing was I went down to my office in the basement of my home, turned on the camera and started doing some live online teaching through different books of the Bible. Went through the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation and Book of Galatians and James and Ephesians, and those have been used by people all over the world. Well, a year ago I felt God telling me, impressing upon me this very topic that you and I have been talking about, stealth attack, spiritual warfare, arming yourself against Satan’s dirty warfare, and it is dirty warfare. We haven’t said this yet, so let me say it. He does not fight fair. He doesn’t fight fair, he doesn’t deal in truth, he deals only in falsehood and he’s going to come against you with everything you’ve got.

So I put together a 10 session online course called Stealth Attack, and it’s at keep believing.com. There’s a dropdown menu that says videos, and you click on videos and just kind of scroll down to the one. You’ll see the big emblem there. It says Stealth attack. You can click on that and it is available free online. It doesn’t cost you anything. You can watch it. You can watch it anytime it goes through in great detail. All the things, Jamie, that you and I have talked about, including how to Spot Satanic attack, there’s a whole evening about, I guess 45 minutes I talk about singing Your Way to Victory, which you and I talked about in the last segment. It’s free. Let me, perfect. I think for small groups, perfect for group of men who want to study, I will study group. You want to arm yourself, you want to be ready when the attack comes because friends, I don’t know how many times we can say it one hour, Satan is on the prowl. He’s hungry and you and I are on the menu, but God has given us everything we need to stand and fight in victory. So come see us@keepbelieving.com and go to the video section. Look for the stealth attack course and love to have you take part in that.

Jamie Mitchell:

Well, you mentioned it and I want to finish up our discussion and I want you to focus in Ray on what you taught on that video and specifically the marks of Satanic attacks and detecting spiritual attacks. Can you just review that list with us? There are some common things that we should be watching for if you believe that you are under assault from the devil and maybe even help you confirm that right now Satan is attacking me. What are some of those marks of a spiritual attack?

Ray Pritchard:

Okay, here’s a list and understand. Friends, this is a suggestive list. It’s not by any means exhaustive, but when Satan comes to us, he often comes to us this way. Number one, unusual or repeated temptations. When you face a struggle that you’ve never faced before or you face a struggle, a battle and you thought you’d want it, and bam, here it comes right around the corner again, select’s the first one, unusual or repeated temptations. Here’s another one, attacks from an unexpected quarter. A friend you thought would never turn against you, somebody you thought you trusted who has betrayed you? Somebody who made a promise and they suddenly broke it attacks from an unexpected quarter. Here’s another one, and this I think we can see clearly in the Book of Acts delays that hinder us from obeying God. Look at Acts 16. Paul says, I was going to go up into this region of Asia Minor, but suddenly I was hindered from going there.

You want to serve God, but the money hasn’t come in where you’ve had a sudden health problem or circumstances have suddenly changed and you plan to do this for God and now you can’t. Here’s another one, inducements to doubt God’s word. Go back to Genesis three. What was the very first thing the devil said to Eve? Did God really say so anything that causes us to doubt the true written word of God? You can bet that’s Satanic circumstances that produce unusual pressure. That is to say you find yourself in a, okay. You find yourself warming yourself late at night around a charcoal fire and a little servant girl comes up to you. Teenage girl probably comes up to you. Your name is Simon Peter and she says, weren’t you with him? In any other circumstance, Peter would’ve been bold as a lion, but no, because he wasn’t prepared and it was unusual to him and he was scared and tired, he denied the Lord temptations to sin in brand new areas.

It is easy to look at some people and go, well, look, I do sin, but I’ll never sin that way. Be careful. Don’t talk that way. You never know what you might do under the right circumstance, prolonged bouts of discouragement. I know many Christians are discouraged right now, worries that seem to consume us. We all have cares of this world. We all do, but worries that overwhelm us, that almost make it impossible for us to get out of bed. We can’t even think clearly. Here’s another one. Seductive appeals to sinful compromise. Wow, we see that all around us. Bitterness poured others. Jamie, we could take a whole hour and talk about how the devil uses anger and bitterness to destroy Christian friendship. Desires to give up on the Christian life, and here’s the last one, and we’ve all been here attempts to hide behavior from others. If you got to do it in secret, should you really be doing it at all? If you’re ashamed to talk about it, should you really be doing it at all? Those are Jamie, just some of the marks, the Satanic attack, and I think what they all have in common is they hit us when we least expect Satan’s good. He knows your weak point. He knows mine. He knows how to hit us when we’re looking in a different direction.

Jamie Mitchell:

Ray, I want to go back to my introduction and I said, flip Wilson’s character used to say, the devil made me do it. One of the things we don’t want to ever do is blame the devil for everything, but we can be co-conspirators with the devil by opening ourselves up for sin. And I guess that’s the final word. You got about 30 seconds. We need to just keep ourselves clean from sin and we remain steadfast with the Lord. Isn’t that the lesson of today?

Ray Pritchard:

Hey, let’s end where we started. Be sober. Be vigilant. Wake up my Christian friend. Wake up. God has given you everything you need to fight and win the battle, but as long as you’re asleep at the switch, the devil’s going to win Every time. We need the Lord and we need Him more than we know. If we hang on to Jesus, we will fight and win the battle every time.

Jamie Mitchell:

Amen. Hey Ray, thanks so much for sharing your insights, your resource. The army of God has already been promised the victory. We just need to show up for the fight And friends, make sure you build on what we have discussed today. Visit Keep Believing Ministries website, access those resources. Take Ray’s course on stealth attack and until tomorrow, beloved, remember that effective Christian must be a courageous Christian, so live and lead with courage. Have a great day. We’ll see you back here tomorrow.