Dear Friend,
I know many of you have experienced great pain at one point or another in your lives; some of you are in the midst of it even as you read this. I remember once going on a cruise with my wife Lois, and shortly after boarding the boat, I developed a terrible pain in my mouth. I took aspirin to deal with the pain, but that didn’t help. I took some higher-strength ibuprofen, but I found myself worse off, now bedridden and unable to move.
The ship’s medic prescribed codeine, but without really knowing what the source of the pain was, all we were doing was treating the symptoms. Finally, I called my dentist on the ship phone and explained the situation to him. He said, “Tony, you’ve been treating the wrong problem. Your pain is symptomatic of a much deeper problem. It sounds like you have an abscess. Only an antibiotic will get to the root of what you are experiencing.” Sure enough, antibiotics fixed me right up. A day later, I began to enjoy the rest of the cruise.
Behind every physical manifestation or “fruit” in your life, there is a spiritual root. We are all in a spiritual war, and it’s more grueling than any we’ve seen in human history. One of the reasons we suffer is that we are unaware that the pain we experience here in the physical realm finds its cause in the spiritual realm. The devil doesn’t want you to know that, hoping you will continue to treat the symptoms instead of going after the source.
I want to help you understand this spiritual battle that each of us is in and know that you are not fighting for victory—you are fighting from victory. Christ has already given us victory over Satan. If we will simply follow Him, we’ll start winning our own battles. I’m offering you one of my most requested CD series, Spiritual Warfare, Volume 1 to help you turn the tide in this war and begin to experience victory in the battles we face. With your gift of any amount this month, we would love to get this collection to you right away. Let’s join together in praying that the Lord will reveal the root of the fruit we are experiencing and give us the grace to live victoriously!
For the King,
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