Phil Hopper - The Weapons of Our Warfare: Using the Full Armor of God to Defeat the Enemy

ENDORSEMENTS

I love it when someone can take biblical truth and apply it to life experiences. Pastor Phil Hopper does a thorough exegesis of Ephesians 6, teaching us how to win the war over our enemy. Piece by piece and truth upon truth you can learn to win.

DR. JOHNNY M. HUNT
Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church Woodstock
Senior Vice President, Evangelism and Leadership for the North
American Mission Board

Pastor Phil has written the most practical book on spiritual warfare that I have read. Reflecting on his experience in physical warfare as a Kansas City Police Department officer and his time as a pastor experiencing every trick and lie of the enemy, Pastor Phil gives a very straightforward guide to understanding and applying the principles of war with the weapons of war as outlined in Scripture. Every Christian needs to have a copy of this book. I loved it.

WILLIAM G. (JERRY) BOYKIN, LTG
Retired, U.S. Army
Executive Vice President, Family Research Council

Victory in the Christian life is more talked about than lived. Satan is our real enemy, not people, situations, and circumstances. Phil Hopper ignites the vision and shares the path to walking in spiritual victory in this newest book, The Weapons of Our Warfare. Victory is possible!

DR. RONNIE FLOYD
President-CEO, Southern Baptist
Convention Executive Committee

The Weapons of Our Warfare by Pastor Phil is, quite simply, a MUST READ! The way the book blends real-world events with the spiritual battle with which we all struggle creates a tactical map for us to win. The book cant be describedit has to be experienced. Break open the cover, start reading, experience itand there are things in your spiritual world you will never approach the same way again!

ROBERT J. KUEHL
Deputy Chief, Metropolitan Police Department

Each and every Christian needs to understand that we have an enemy who wants to obliterate us. The Weapons of Our Warfare is a great read about putting on the armor of God and fighting from our position of victory poured out on the cross by our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

JOBY MARTIN
Lead Pastor, Church of Eleven22

In his first book, Defeating the Enemy, Phil Hopper showed us how Satan works behind the scenes, bent on destroying lives. In The Weapons of our Warfare, he helps us discover the weapons God provides us to battle this ever-present, unrelenting evil. Armed with the truth of the Bible, his real-life SWAT experiences and easy-to-read writing style, Hopper has again encouraged me to not only recognize the war that continually rages against us, but to arm, engage, and fight the enemy!

LES NORMAN
Former KC Royal and Syndicated Radio Host

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Defeating the Enemy

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to the congregation and Kingdom Warriors of Abundant Life. You are a beautiful bride and body of our Lord Jesus Christ. And its my overwhelming honor to be your pastor. I love you very much.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Nothing of significance is ever accomplished alone. I acknowledge my Executive Assistant, Lisa Deacy, for the many hours she personally invested behind the scenes to produce this book. Lisa, thank you for your labor for Jesus. I also acknowledge our amazing staff of men and women at Abundant Life. Thank you for your dedication. I acknowledge, too, the members of my Board. Gentlemen, thank you for your support these many years.

CONTENTS

My husband and I make our home just outside of Portland, Oregon. The Pacific Northwest is a wonderland of sorts, long known for its beautiful rivers, tall mountains, and majestic waterfalls. I spent my childhood growing up near the shadow of Mount Hood, but now this place I love has become famous for a different kind of shadowa spiritual one.

Like many places in the world today, the northwest has found itself at the center of a very real spiritual battle. Take a stroll through the streets of Portland, and you will quickly see the evidence of a city in moral and spiritual crisis. It is impossible to deny the effects of drugs and obvious demonic activity. Ask anyone and theyll tell you that something is going onbut you are not likely to find consensus as to what that something is.

Charles Spurgeon rightly noted what is really going on when he said, Consider how precious a soul must be when both God and the devil are after it. Hes right, of course. The apostle Paul taught us that we are in a very real spiritual war, and if were going to be victorious, we need to take our place on the battlefield. Its time we understand who we are as children of God and how to use the weapons God has given us to engage the enemy and defeat him.

As a child of God you really are armed and dangerous, yet the average Christian has no idea just how heavily armed they are! God has armed you supernaturally to win spiritually against a very powerful adversary. In fact, the Bible teaches that no weapon formed against you will prosper because ultimately, if you are on the Lords side, you are on the winning side.

If youre ready to get off the sidelines and take your place on the front lines, the book you are holding in your hand will be of immeasurable help.