09/18/2026
Playing tug-o-war in your thoughts? Some things you need to remember:
1. Meekness and gentleness (of Christ) should in no wise be mistaken for weakness. Rather, they are to be viewed as strength under control. Christ was and is our perfect Example.
2. Battles faced by children of God, while they seem physical, are spiritual and therefore call for the use of spiritual strategies and weaponry, such as the Word of God, fasting and prayer.
3. Confidence must always be in Christ and never in ourselves, for we have no strength of our own—“the foolishness of God is wiser than man, and the weakness of God is stronger than man” (I Corinthians 1:25). Please tune in to hear more on “The Struggle Is Real” from Rev. Guytrell Johnson this Sunday.
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2 Corinthians 10
1 Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!
2 I ask that when I am present I need not be bold with the confidence with which I intend to be courageous against some, who regard us as if we walked according to the flesh.
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not wage battle according to the flesh,
4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
5 We are destroying arguments and all arrogance raised against the knowledge of God,
6 and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.
7 You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, have him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so too are we.
