No Reserves No Retreat No Regrets

Session 1: No Reserves • 31

Welcome to theWar

Every Christian is a walking battlefield. Every believer carries deep within himself a terrible conflict. And most of us will gravitate to anything that will help us win the battle. Call it the battle between the flesh and the spirit. Call it the quest for the victorious Christian life. Call it what you want. But it’s a flat-out-knock-down-drag-out war. And when it’s over, you want to be among those who are still standing. The principles of war are taught in military academies all over the world. In most ways, spiritual warfare is no different than physical warfare. Every soldier who expects to not only survive but win must understand and employ these principles in his own daily battles “against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms” (Ephesians 6.12b NIV).

~ Stu Webber. Spirit Warriors . Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2001, p. 16.

As soldiers of Jesus Christ, called to Kingdom advance, we possess . . .

• No Reserves: we surrender all to Christ, without conditions • No Retreat: we stand our ground for Christ, no matter what • No Regrets: we lose everything for what really counts, without disappointment