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Fight for your Family PDF

Nehemiah 4:14 (KJV) ¹⁴ And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

Nehemiah 4:14 (CEV)14 Then I looked things over and told the leaders, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of your enemies! The Lord is great and fearsome. So think of him and fight for your relatives and children, your wives and homes!”

John 1:12-13 (ESV) ¹² But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, ¹³ who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.

1 John 3:9-10 (ESV) ⁹ No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God’s seed abides in him; and he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God. ¹⁰ By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

Remember the Lord, Who is great and fearsome.

1)      Remember that the great and fearsome God wants to save every member of your family.

·         Passages that prove that God wants to save our families.

Acts 16:25-34 (KJV)

Acts 11:7-18 (KJV)

2)      Remember that the great and fearsome God is able to save every member of your family.

·         Passages that prove that God is able to save our families.

2 Peter 3:9 (KJV) ⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

1 Timothy 2:3-5 (ESV) ³ This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴ who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 7:25 (KJV) ²⁵ Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

Hebrews 7:25 (HCSB) ²⁵ Therefore, He is always able to save those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

Matthew 19:23-26 (HCSB) ²³ Then Jesus said to His disciples, “ I assure you: It will be hard for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven! ²⁴ Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
²⁵ When the disciples heard this, they were utterly astonished and asked, “Then who can be saved?”
²⁶ But Jesus looked at them and said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Isaiah 63:1 (ESV) ¹ Who is this who comes from Edom, in crimsoned garments from Bozrah, he who is splendid in his apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, speaking in righteousness, mighty to save.”

Zephaniah 3:17 (KJV) ¹⁷ The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

Isaiah 49:25 (ESV) ²⁵ For thus says the LORD: “Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken, and the prey of the tyrant be rescued, for I will contend with those who contend with you, and I will save your children.

Proverbs 11:21 (ESV) ²¹ Be assured, an evil person will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.

Isaiah 61:1 (KJV) ¹ The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

2 Corinthians 4:3-6 (KJV) ³ But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: ⁴ In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. ⁵ For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. ⁶ For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

·         By what means is God able to save every member of our family?

2 Corinthians 4:1-2 (KJV) ¹ Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; ² But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

& Commend - (Olive Tree Enhanced Strong's Dictionary) to place together, to set one with another, to put together by way of combination, to teach by combining and comparing to show, prove, establish, exhibit.

1 Corinthians 1:20-21 (KJV) ²⁰ Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹ For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 1:23-25 (KJV) ²³ But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; ²⁴ But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God. ²⁵ Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

1 Corinthians 2:2-5 (KJV) ² For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: ⁵ That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

If you Fight for your Family, God will give you the Victory.

3)      We must fight for every family member in prayer. 

Nehemiah 4:14 (CEV)14 Then I looked things over and told the leaders, the officials, and the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of your enemies! The Lord is great and fearsome. So think of him and fight for your relatives and children, your wives and homes!”

4)      Fight in prayer against the devil who seeks to steal, kill, and destroy their souls.

Ephesians 6:11,13 (ESV) ¹¹ Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
¹³ Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.

Ephesians 6:16-18 (ESV) ¹⁶ In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; ¹⁷ and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, ¹⁸ praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

2 Corinthians 10:4-5 (KJV) ⁴ (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) ⁵ Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

5)      Fight in prayer for laborers to cross their path and bring them in.

Matthew 9:38 (ESV) ³⁸ therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

John 4:36-37 (NIV) ³⁶ Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. ³⁷ Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

6)      If we fight for every family member in prayer, God will give us the victory. 

2 Corinthians 2:14 (KJV) ¹⁴ Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

1 John 5:16 (NLT) ¹⁶ If you see a fellow believer sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it.

1 Timothy 2:1 (KJV) ¹ I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, BE MADE FOR ALL MEN;

1 Timothy 2:3-4 (KJV) ³ For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; ⁴ Who will have ALL MEN to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.