Enemies of Faith

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Welcome back to our series on faith. Join us as Prophet Hari sheds light on the enemies of our faith and how we can manage them.

The bridge to anything in this kingdom is faith.

While those who are in the flesh cannot please God, faith is the quintessential property that pleases God. Without faith, it is impossible to please Him (Hebrews 11:6).

Faith is essential to prayer, holiness, giving, and every spiritual endeavor. Just as eyes are necessary for walking in the natural, faith is the sight for walking in the spiritual (2 Corinthians 5:7).

Man is an amphibious being with dual residency; he can dwell in the natural and function in the spiritual world. This is why Adam could have a conversation with God and also a serpent.

Adam needed faith not while God was present—he needed faith when God left, after walking with him in the cool of the day. It was in the absence of God’s immediacy that the serpent came to sow the seed of doubt. Sin in your soul corrupts and contaminates parts of you and you lose your capacity to interact with God.

The enemy cannot defeat you until it contaminates your faith.

By sight, Eve partook in death.She first gave it her sight and then her ears. Before the conversation with the serpent, the fruit, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, didn’t have a hold on Eve’s soul. But now it had her attention, her gaze; it is now her meditation.

Do you believe in the picture that God is giving you or what the enemy was promising of a so-called greater reality?

The righteous live by faith and not by sight. You fall by sight but rise by faith.

The number one enemy of your faith is your unredeemed senses or carnality.

What you hear or feel in the natural can be your greatest enemy in the life of faith.

Your natural sense roots you in your natural world, but faith is a declaration of war on what you see, hear, and feel in the natural.

You cannot be led by what you see and hear. You need to have an internal compass that allows you to believe beyond what you see and hear.

How do you manage these enemies?

1.⁠ ⁠Guard the gate of your eyes:

You manage what you feed your eyes. Your eyes are the gateway to your soul. He who has your eyes has your soul. Your soul is informed by what you see. Choose what you will behold, what you will give your gaze to—retrain your soul.

2.⁠ ⁠Guard the gate of your ears:

The quality of sound you hear is the quality of sound you will produce. We are more sensitive to sound than we are to sight: sound creates sight.

3.⁠ ⁠Renew your feelings:

What you feel is the product of what you see, hear, and dwell on. Don’t allow your unredeemed feelings to dictate your destiny; we lead our lives by faith and by conviction in the truth of God’s word. We are not limited by our feelings; we are carried by the Spirit.

Once you learn to master your natural senses and discern what is coming from your soul and what is coming from your spirit, you are no longer a slave to what you see, hear, or feel.

Now your senses are redeemed and used by God to empower you and become a prophetic instrument in the hands of the Holy Spirit. Because your body, soul, and spirit were all made for God.

Learn to discern, redeem, and be transformed.