The Shepherd's Fold Apostolic Church

2 Corinthians 2:11 : "lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devises."   The children of Israel were defeated many times because of sin. But we have the Holy Spirit to be victorious. The only way we are conquered is because we want to be! We are the one who gives up. We don't want to fight anymore. We don't want to listen to God. We become weary in the battle. But we are not ignorant of his (Satan's) devices.   We need to remind Satan and ourselves that certain things are under grace. Satan pulls out all the things we have done wrong and takes advantage of us. We need to be smart about it. He tries to get us off track even if it just a little. Just enough to through us off balance.   1 Corinthians 14:38: "But if anyone is ignorant, let  him be ignorant."   If we won't pay attention to Satan's devises we will be overcome- conquered. As long as we think we are okay, just did our duty- go to church then leav...

Acts 1:7-11 "And He said to them, 'It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, 'Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.'" ( NKJV)   Jesus had been with the disciples for three years. He had taught them all that He could at that time. Many things were a mystery to them for they did not have the ability to understand it all then. But, Jesus had now ascended back to the Father...

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Genesis 15 -  This text describes the covenant that God made with Abram later named Abraham. God told him that He was his shield and reward and promised him an heir and that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars in the sky. When Abram believed God's word- it was credited to him as righteousness. In verse 9 - God tells Abram what to do in order to bring about the blood-sacrifice covenant. After Abram placed the animal sacrifices as commanded by God- verse 11 -- "And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away."  The fowls of the air came and tried to steal what God had promised to Abram. Hagar was not a part of God's plan. The heir was to come through his wife Sarai- even though at this point they were unable to have any children. But God had promised.   How many times does God promise us something and almost immediately the "fowls of the air" begin to circle around and come in to steal away the promise. Abram stayed w...

Last time we looked at prayer as part of our strategy to defeat the enemy. It is crucial to our victory to pray and seek the Lord on the decisions that we make. During this time of seeking God and asking Him for direction- we must make sure that we take the time to LISTEN to what He actually has to say about it! If He instructs and teaches us and we don't listen and obey- it won't do us any good. 2. LISTEN and OBEY  In 2 Samuel 5:19-25 - David had just been anointed as King over Israel. The Philistines- the enemy- went after him. David heard about this and "inquired of the Lord" asking whether he should go after them- if the Lord would deliver them into his hand. The Lord responded: "Go up, for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into your hand." God gave David a strategy in verses 23 & 24 and verse 25 states: "And David did so, as the Lord commanded him; and he drove back the Philistines from Geba as far as Gezer." David not onl...

In Part 1 I spoke on the very fact that Satan is waging war on the Church and that Christians must be engaged in the battle. We can not be passive and simply hope for the best. We must prepare and we must fight the good fight of faith with the spiritual weapons that Christ has given us through the Holy Spirit.   Today I want to talk about what it takes to win these battles. We must have a "strategy". The business world will tell you that to be successful you must have a plan of action- a strategy. Even some churches make up strategy plans. And in our own individual lives- we must have a strategy to win over the enemy. But in that plan, in that strategy-- we must allow room for God to move. We can't put a box around the things we want to see happen and not allow God to move.     1. PRAYER First, part of our strategy has to include prayer. We can't live a day without it and we cannot be victorious in our fight against Satan without it. We must remember that...

Satan is waging an all out war against the church. He always has been, but this war has greatly intensified over the last decade or so. We are living in the "end times" and Satan doesn't want anyone to have the victory in Jesus Christ. The sooner we accept the fact that we are in a battle, the better off we will be. It is a time to FIGHT like never before- and I mean in the Spirit. It is a spiritual battle and we can only be victorious with our spiritual weapons. 2 Corinthians 10:4 tells us that "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God" . In order for us to not have a stronghold for the enemy to take hold of in our lives we must strive to live a pure life, being obedient to the Word of God.   The children of Israel were commanded by God to drive out all the inhabitants of the land. He would make them victorious if they were obedient to him. But throughout Israel's history we see where they did not do what they were told. They ...