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“Take God at His Word – because winning the battle doesn't require
physical brawn, but spiritual brains!”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“The good is the Enemy of the best. Until you depart from the good, you cannot enter God's best for your life.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“In the global picture of God’s plan for your life, the good can be the Enemy of the better. And the better is the foe of the best. Until the good is cleared out of the way, you cannot receive that which is better, and you cannot receive the best until you are willing to let go of the better.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Whatever your station or position in life, there is always room for improvement, enhancement, and perfection. I say this with a great sense of humility. Regardless of what you are enjoying at the moment, the Lord says that he has something
better for you! No matter what you have achieved, attained, or accomplished
in this world, there are more challenges and blessings ahead. God says that you have stayed long enough on this mountain. It is time to press forward to take more territories and receive more trophies.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“The authority that God has given you over Satan is ample, wide-ranging, thorough, all embracing”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“God expects you to have the mentality of a conqueror. See yourself as a victor in Christ Jesus, and go about life with a holy swagger!”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“There is a difference between the fact and the truth. The fact is what you may be experiencing at any particular point in time in your life, the day-to-day reality of life, the struggles, the challenges, the issues and the problems that you face on a daily basis. On the other hand, the truth is what God’s Word says about the particular situation you are going through or the challenges you currently face...God expects you to confess and proclaim the truth of His Word, not the fact of your daily struggles!”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Spiritual warfare is very real. There is a furious, fierce, and ferocious battle raging in the realm of the spirit between the forces of God and the forces of evil. Warfare happens every day, all the time. Whether you believe it or not, you are in a battlefield. You are in warfare.”
― Pedro Okoro

“God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Without an understanding of purpose, misuse is inevitable; abuse unavoidable.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“To move into what God has in mind for you, it is necessary to discover your purpose, to know where you are going, and to understand the reason for your existence.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Purpose gives rise to discipline, restraint, and self-control, which are crucial, fundamental tools for success in the journey of life.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“It is not for you to determine your purpose, the reason for your existence. You discover your purpose by asking the Creator why he created you!”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“the reason why Christians do not make use of their entitlement in Christ Jesus is ignorance, or as the Bible puts it beautifully, 'lack of knowledge'!”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“For the Christian, ignorance is not bliss; it is negligence and carelessness.”
― Pedro Okoro

“Knowledge comes by revelation through the study of the Scriptures”
― Pedro Okoro

“The weapons of our warfare can only be exercised in the place of prayer.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“To effectively combat the devil, you need to pray.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“The sheer size, extent, and magnitude of the blood vessels tell us two things: the awesomeness of God’s work in man and the fact that as human beings, every one of us is a walking wonder, an amazing work of art.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“If you do not pray, you easily become a prey!”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“The devil is a bad devil.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Christians have no business playing around with ideas of the devil as a fun-loving, beer-swigging guy who just wants you to have a good time.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Fear is a scheme that the devil uses to great effect. From my personal study, the words “do not be afraid” or “fear thee not” (depending on the Bible translation) appear over one hundred times in the Bible! The message from God is quite clear: we need not be afraid!”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“By the anointing of the Holy Spirit, anybody who is afflicted by any phobia can be set free.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“There can be no substitute for a personal study of the Word of God! Daily devotionals, Bible commentaries, and recorded messages by anointed preachers and teachers are wonderful and useful. However, they cannot take the place of the Word of God. They must not replace a time of personal study of the Word. Every Christian individual must study and meditate upon the Word for him or herself. Nobody can do that for anyone else.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Music originated from God and was created solely for his worship, his glory, and his pleasure.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“Devil, you are fired
You could never ever have been required
For all the fiascos you inspire
I pour on you the Lord’s unquenchable fire
Now get thee behind me, devil
You scheming sneaky crafty cunning conniving embodiment of evil”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“The devil doesn’t really have any new schemes, ideas, or initiatives. He keeps on recycling and reusing the same old temptations, adorning them in different attires.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“As a believer, you have the authority to tell the devil what to do in the name of Jesus”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ

“When we are born into God’s family through our faith in Jesus, God gives us the capacity or capability to live as his children.”
― Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory In Christ