Victory in Spiritual Warfare Quotes

“You are not fighting for victory—you are fighting from victory. This battle has already been won!”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“The tragedy today is that many Christians think they are fighting flesh and blood in their marital and parenting issues, rather than realizing that Satan has an agenda to destroy their home. Whoever controls the family controls the future.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Simply defined, prayer is earthly permission for heavenly interference.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“If you don’t know the truth, or if you don’t act on the truth, the shield of faith is impotent. In order to have faith, you have to know and respond to truth. And as we saw earlier, truth is fundamentally God’s viewpoint on a matter.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“If all you see is what you see, you will never see all that there is to be seen. Since”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“If you align your thoughts and your desires underneath His comprehensive rule over every area of your life, you will walk in peace. He will calm your heart and your mind by giving you peace.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“When we allow our faith to be defined by our feelings, we will be confused. Faith must have an objective standard by which it is defined—truth. In fact, when faith operates by an objective standard of truth, it will eventually dictate our emotions rather than the reverse.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“faith is acting as if God is telling the truth.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Faith is acting as if God is telling the truth. It is acting as if something is true even when it doesn’t appear to be true in order that it might be shown to be true simply because God said it’s true.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Oftentimes, what is required on our part is taking a step, making the move, doing the thing that God has asked us to do without the accompanying emotions to go along with it. However, as you continue to walk by faith in the direction God has called you, your emotions are soon to follow.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“What is true outside of us in our actions, decisions, conversations, and choices ought to be true inside our spirit because it is within our spirit that God relates to us.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“The Greek word translated “peace” in the Scripture is eirene. This word is equivalent to the Hebrew word shalom. Essentially, eirene embodies completeness, wholeness, and an inner resting of the soul that does not fluctuate based on outside influences. A person who is at peace is someone who is stable, calm, orderly, and at rest within. The opposite of peace, of course, is inner chaos, anxiety, and worry. This”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“A carnal Christian makes his or her decisions based entirely on what can be seen, touched, tasted, smelled, or heard.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Keep in mind as you face Satan’s tricks of deception that you cannot fight him on your own, with your own methods, or even with your own thoughts. God’s Word—His truth—trumps Satan. You don’t. Satan has constitutional superiority over every man and woman because he is a spirit being.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“When they wake up in the morning, they don’t say, “Good morning, Lord.” Rather, they say, “Good Lord, it’s morning.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“The opposite of faith is not doubt. The opposite of faith is disobedience.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Faith means acting on what God says in spite of what you know, your background, your experience, or even your education. Faith is a recognition of your own finiteness in relation to God’s infiniteness.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Philippians 4:7: “And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Peace protects you.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace creates a stability that even Satan cannot undo.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Satan often tries to prevent you from taking the spiritual realm seriously. If he can divert your attention away from the spiritual realm, he can keep you away from the only place where your victory is found. If he can distract you with people or things you can see, taste, touch, hear, or smell, he can keep you from living a life of victory.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Paul tells us in 2 Corinthians 11:14, “Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.” This adds another dimension to the problems we face and fight in the spiritual realm because our problems do not exist only in the invisible spiritual realm; they also exist in the often unsuspecting vehicle Satan uses to get to you in the physical realm, which includes you—your mind, will, emotions, and body.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“A man once told me, “Tony, my wife is killing me.” I replied, “Well, you said you wanted to be more like Jesus, didn’t you?”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“One of the rules for understanding the Bible is called “the law of first mention.” This means that if you want to know what God says about something, study the first time He brings it up.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Faith is directly tied to an action done in response to a revealed truth.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

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― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“When Christ died, we died with him. When Christ arose, we arose with him. When Christ was seated at the right hand of the Father, we were seated with him. In other words, we were made to function in union with Christ.”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle

“Even when we were dead in our transgressions, [God] made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:5-6).”
― Tony Evans, Victory in Spiritual Warfare: Outfitting Yourself for the Battle