Philippians

-Philippians chapter 4 is called the peace chapter

-DECLARE: I Choose Peace

(1.) PEACE IS A CHOICE – John 15:16 and Eph 2:13-22

          (a.) The Lord made His choice

-the Lord wants every human being to experience peace

-the Lord did everything possible for humanity to be able to have peace

         (b.) Believers need to make their choice

-believers can choose to live in peace or be ruled by anxiety and fear

(2.) PEACE IS A PROMISE – Phil 4:6-7

-the promise of peace is for everyone who is a born again believer

***THE PROMISE – the peace of God will rule your heart and mind

guard – is a military term speaking of guarding against all enemies

-the Lord pushes away all anxiety and fear.  He fights our battles…

-Living in peace does not eliminate feeling anxiety and fear, But DO IT AFRAID..

-keep moving forward, and do it afraid……..

(3.) KNOW YOUR ENEMY – John 10:10

-the enemy is satan and his demons – hey exist and are real

-keep the enemy under your feet by WATCHING OUR MOUTHS…Is 50:4

   *** watch out what we say and declare – words produce life or death

-the enemy places wrong thoughts in our minds – REMEMBER – Fear is Faith in what the Enemy Says

-the enemy tries to wear us down and out, but we can declare the Word and defeat the enemy.

***our words are a weapon – the sword of the Spirit – use the sword against the enemy