A Meditation on Overcoming the Evil One by God’s Word Living in You from 1 John 2:14

This is Christian Meditation for A Bigger Life – a time for you to relax, refocus, and re-narrate your life. I’m Dave Cover. I want to help you with Christian meditation where you can break through all the distractions and experience God’s presence through biblically guided imagination. 


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Ephesians 6:11, 17 (NIV)

11 Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. …17 Take …the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.


John 6:63 (NIV)

“The Spirit gives life... The words I have spoken to you—they are full of the Spirit and life.”


Matthew 4:4 (NIV)

Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”


Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)

“For the word of God is alive and active.”


1 Thessalonians 2:13 (NIV)

“And we also thank God continually because, when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word, but as it actually is, the word of God, which is indeed at work in you who believe.”


1 Peter 1:23 (NIV)

“For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.”


1 John 2:14 (NIV)

“I write to you, young men, because you are strong, and the word of God lives in you, and you have overcome the evil one.”


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