Be Strong in the Lord: Rethinking your understanding of spiritual warfare. (Written on Your Heart) - Softcover

Howard, Bil

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798173275608

Publisher: Independently published, 2026

Synopsis

What if the defining battle of your life isn't the one you can see?

In Paul's letter to the Ephesians, he pulls back the curtain on an unseen war: your struggle is not against flesh and blood, but "against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places."

Your first line of defense is to "be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might." But strength requires a deeper understanding of who you are in Christ, and of the power He has placed within you.

Be Strong in the Lord takes a unique approach: it begins where Paul ended, at the battlefield, and works through the letter, shaping your understanding of the battle and the weapons you have to fight it. These eight studies dig deep, walking verse by verse through the text. Along the way, you'll trace God's ancient promise from Jeremiah 31 to write His law on human hearts, discover how that promise is fulfilled in the Holy Spirit dwelling in you, and step into first-century Ephesus to meet the very enemies that "lie in wait": the Judaizers, the Gnostics, and the Nicolaitans, whose tactics still plague the church in our day.

Prepare to take up each piece of the whole armor of God: truth, righteousness, faith, salvation, the Word, and prayer, not as metaphors, but as equipment you wear into battle.

Are you ready to move beyond a surface reading of Ephesians and confront the deeper conflict it describes?

NOTE: This book was previously published as A Study of Paul's Letter to the Ephesians

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798173275608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 118