BREAKING THROUGH THE STORM: DEFEATING THE SPIRIT OF HELPLESSNESS
by Randal Ross
Scripture: MATTHEW 8:23, MATTHEW 14:21
Breaking through the Storm: Defeating the Spirit of Helplessness
Randal Ross
Matthew 8:23-34; 14:21-34
January 26, 1992
Intro: There is an evil spirit loose upon America, that is robbing, discouraging, demoralizing many. He has a name; his name is helplessness!
A. The spirit of helplessness is actively and successfully at work in the hearts and minds of our nation.
1. His plan and purpose is to make you and I feel helpless in the face of life and its problems. To make us feel small, powerless and without hope.
2. Once he is allowed to stay in our life. He invites his cousins Fear, Hopelessness, Futility, Insecurity and Depression, and they come and weight down the life and break the heart.
B. Helplessness is vital to Satan's plan of destruction! For Satan must take away our hope, courage, and joy to defeat us.
1. If you have HOPE; then you will not give up. You press on.
2. If you have COURAGE; you are not intimidated by the largeness of the problem but you fight with your strength
3. If you have JOY; then Depression and Sorrow cannot rob you of your strength. For the Joy of the Lord is your strength.
C. For Satan to defeat us he knows he must plant in our mind doubt!
1. Doubt about God
2. Doubt about self
3. Doubt opens the door to helplessness!
D. It is important to remember that spiritual battles are most often fought out in the arena of the natural.
1. That means that there is most often a spiritual source behind the events of life.
2. Those events are orchestrated so that they seem without a source but behind the events are often forces at work to win the soul of mankind.
(Ephesians 6:12-13 NIV) (12) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (13) Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be abl ...
Randal Ross
Matthew 8:23-34; 14:21-34
January 26, 1992
Intro: There is an evil spirit loose upon America, that is robbing, discouraging, demoralizing many. He has a name; his name is helplessness!
A. The spirit of helplessness is actively and successfully at work in the hearts and minds of our nation.
1. His plan and purpose is to make you and I feel helpless in the face of life and its problems. To make us feel small, powerless and without hope.
2. Once he is allowed to stay in our life. He invites his cousins Fear, Hopelessness, Futility, Insecurity and Depression, and they come and weight down the life and break the heart.
B. Helplessness is vital to Satan's plan of destruction! For Satan must take away our hope, courage, and joy to defeat us.
1. If you have HOPE; then you will not give up. You press on.
2. If you have COURAGE; you are not intimidated by the largeness of the problem but you fight with your strength
3. If you have JOY; then Depression and Sorrow cannot rob you of your strength. For the Joy of the Lord is your strength.
C. For Satan to defeat us he knows he must plant in our mind doubt!
1. Doubt about God
2. Doubt about self
3. Doubt opens the door to helplessness!
D. It is important to remember that spiritual battles are most often fought out in the arena of the natural.
1. That means that there is most often a spiritual source behind the events of life.
2. Those events are orchestrated so that they seem without a source but behind the events are often forces at work to win the soul of mankind.
(Ephesians 6:12-13 NIV) (12) For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (13) Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be abl ...
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