War Over the Word: How To Win the War You Are In
By Joe McIntyre
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engaged in. Find out what Satan uses to hinder our progress in the Lord. Armed with this knowledge
you will be enabled to allow the truth you hear to be fruitful in your life. Essential foundational teaching!
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book is a must-read for Christians who want to know the importance of God's word, the efficacy of the Word and how to perpetually overcome the enemy
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War Over the Word - Joe McIntyre
Copyright © 2009 by Joe McIntyre
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Empowering Grace Ministries
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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc., publishers. Used by permission.
Printed in the United States of America
ISBN: 978-0-9778338-2-5
ISBN: 9780991013661
DEDICATION
I would like to dedicate this book to the wonderful body of believers at Word of His Grace Church and Ministry Center. Their love and support has been a great encouragement to me. I also want to voice my appreciation for the Leadership Team at WOHG. You are a great team and I thank the Lord for you.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank my assistant Linda Boone for all her help on preparing this book for publication. She is a wonder! I would also like to thank Marilyn Ratto for editing the manuscript and May Ridaliste who did the beautiful cover. Great job, May! Many thanks to the many people who have consistently prayed for me. You are really appreciated.
CONTENTS
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One
The Parable
Chapter Two
The Word
Chapter Three
Why the War?
Chapter Four
Ears to Hear
Chapter Five
Mind Storms
Chapter Six
The Pressure of Circumstances
Chapter Seven
Hostility from People
Chapter Eight
Thorns
Chapter Nine
Deceit!
Chapter Ten
In the Ministry of Jesus
Chapter Eleven
Thirty, Sixty and a Hundredfold
INTRODUCTION
Some years ago, I heard a man teaching on the radio about the Parable of the Sower. He offered a series of tapes to further dig into the subject. I ordered the tapes and they proved to be lifechanging for me. As I have taught on this parable over the years the response has been similar to my own response. Lights go on and people find clarity in their walk with the Lord where before things were foggy.
How do we grow spiritually? Why and how do Satan and demon forces attack us? Where do trials come from? How do we protect our hearts and become fruitful? What is the foundational parable of the kingdom?
All these questions and many others were answered for me as I came to understand Jesus' teaching in the Parable of the Sower. I had thought the parable was just about the lost hearing the Gospel. I didn't see the Kingdom principles contained in the teaching. I didn't see that Jesus was giving us the key to understanding the warfare in our lives. I didn't understand that He was showing us how to recognize and overcome the enemy's subtle assaults and bring forth fruit.
It all began in the Garden of Eden. When God spoke, He released the Kingdom Seed of His Holy Word. It had within it the Divine Potential to empower Adam and Eve to expand the Rule of God to the rest of the world. Let them have dominion..
was both the command and the commission. Satan knew that if Adam and Eve placed themselves under the dominion of the Word, they would lack nothing necessary to accomplish it and thus overrule Satan's kingdom.
So his approach was, Has God said?
Getting Adam and Eve to doubt the authority of God's Word would both bring them into disobedience and bring them under Satan's domination. That War is still going on in every human life – believer or unbeliever. When we hear the Word and submit to it, the ability of God released by Him when He spoke becomes available to us. Coming under the authority of God's Word both protects and empowers us. The War is little understood by most believers.
Our destiny is to win this war.
Join me as we look into this parable and draw forth some of its riches.
Mark 4:3-20
3 "Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow.
4 And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and