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wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God,
so that you will be able to resist in the evil day, and having done
everything, to stand firm.

James 4:7
Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

II Corinthians 10:3-5
For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the
weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction
of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised
up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought
captive to the obedience of Christ...

We are told to resist the devil and he will flee from us. We are to resist him and stand
firm. After we have warred for a while he will give way. We must stand our ground
and not be moved. The battle will not last forever. When thoughts arise that are not
from God, we are to take them captive as we would a prisoner. We are not to allow
fear to roam freely in our minds. We must cut it off and replace it with thoughts of
faith. This is when we must return to those things we know God has spoken to us by
His Spirit. We must entertain these thoughts. We must spread a banqueting table in
our minds and lay out upon the table all of the things that God has spoken to us, and
we must feed upon them.

I have done this time and again when the enemy would come against me and try to
stir up fear in my members. I would command the fear to be gone and I would wrest
my mind free of the enemy’s control and turn it to the things that are in keeping with
a victorious and overcoming life. Sometimes this struggle is most severe, for the
enemy seems relentless, but as we stand firm and resist him he will ALWAYS give
way and we will know the victory.

We have lo0ked at the passage in Philippians where it states,

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with
thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which
surpasses all comprehension, will guard your hearts and your minds in Messiah
Yahshua.

Just a couple verses later Paul tells the Philippian believers:

Philippians 4:8