Winning the Battle Within

Winning the Battle Within

Winning the Battle Within

James 4:1-3

What is the source of wars and fights among you? Don’t they come from the cravings that are at war within you? You desire and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and don’t receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.”

1. Recognize the reality of the battle

Verse 1

Isaiah 53:6-“All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way.” We are born with a sinful nature that is selfish.

Romans 7:18-20-“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.”

2. Be honest about the source of the battle

Verses 1-3

Matthew 11:29-30Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

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