There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

thousand believed (Acts 4:4). Today, those who claim the Christian faith are an estimated 1.8 to 2 billion around the globe. Alexander motivated his small army, and the Holy Spirit is the motivator for the individual believer to “wage the good warfare,” and “fight the good fight of faith” (1 Tim. 1:18; 6:12). Our battle motivation is maintained through the belief that with God nothing shall be impossible (Mark 10:27). A LEXANDER STUDIED THE WEAKNESSES OF HIS OPPOSITION . He would spend hours looking for a hole in the defenses of his enemies. When preparing to advance upon a city, he took notice of any unguarded walls that could be a weak place for his army to capitalize on. He was also a master of using any type of fear his enemy had against them. The enemy’s weakness became Alexander’s strength. The spiritual parallel When we are dealing with strong demonic forces, we often view this struggle as a tug of war, with God on one end and Satan on the other end of the rope. We often think that occasionally God gets the advantage, and at other times Satan drags God across the line. This is not the case. Jesus won the war , coming out of the grave swinging the keys of death and hell (Rev. 1:18), but we must win the mini-battles that are linked with being clothed in a human body and dealing with carnal people. The enemy has a weakness, and that weakness is that he can be resisted and rebuked through the authority of the name of Jesus Christ and can do nothing about it. If we submit to God and resist the devil, the enemy will flee from us (James