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The Lord’s Prayer is familiar, but our habits can make it shallow. We take a hard look at a surprising New Testament fact: after the resurrection, the Bible records many prayers in Acts, the Epistles, and Revelation, yet it never shows the church reciting the Lord’s Prayer word-for-word. So what happened and what should we do with that?

We walk through the major post-resurrection prayers and show how they keep Jesus’ original order and priorities: God as Father, the holiness of his name, the coming kingdom, and the doing of his will before requests for provision. Then we map each line of the Lord’s Prayer to the expanded language of apostolic prayer: the Father in heaven and bold access to the throne of grace, worship that sanctifies God’s name while honoring the name of Jesus, kingdom prayer as righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, and will-of-God prayer as sanctification, discernment, rejoicing, and thanksgiving.

We also get practical about the parts we tend to rush: daily needs that stay under “seek first the kingdom,” forgiveness that is openly grounded in the blood of the new covenant, and spiritual warfare prayers that ask for deliverance from temptation, the evil one, and the cravings of this present evil age. Finally, Romans 8:26 helps explain why fixed words cannot cover every situation and why the Holy Spirit helps us carry the burden when we do not know what to pray for as we ought.

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“Can a Christian have a demon?” sounds like a simple yes or no, but the moment we rush past definitions we end up mixing categories the Bible keeps distinct. We walk through the key idea that spiritual warfare is real for believers while demonic possession is described in Scripture with specific language, specific outcomes, and specific commands.

We begin in the Gospels with Jesus in the wilderness: full of the Holy Spirit, led by the Spirit, and directly confronted by Satan. It is an intense spiritual battle, yet Satan remains outside of him, and Jesus answers with Scripture and obedience. That contrast helps us untangle a modern assumption: if the fight feels internal, the enemy must be internal. We then define what people mean by “have a demon” and compare temptation, oppression, deception, accusation, and harassment with the concept of indwelling or habitation.

From there we look at the New Testament’s clearest “casting out” language. In the Gospels, to cast out a demon means expelling an unclean spirit described as being in a person, often with visible release and restoration. We also cover why authority matters more than theatrics, why “resist the devil” is not the same instruction as “come out,” and why repentance and personal responsibility cannot be swapped for a deliverance shortcut. We end with a careful, Scripture-first conclusion: believers can be attacked, but the text never clearly shows a Spirit-indwelt Christian as a dwelling place for an unclean spirit.

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A confident voice, a dramatic prophecy, a powerful feeling, none of that proves the source is God. We sit with the hard question Scripture itself raises: how do we test the spirit behind what someone says without shutting down the Holy Spirit or sliding into constant suspicion?

We work through three connected but distinct “tests” the Bible gives us. From 1 Thessalonians 5, we put “test everything” back in context: Paul is not giving permission to sample every religion for hidden truth, he is telling the church not to despise prophecy but to weigh it and hold fast to what is good. From 2 Corinthians 13, we take seriously Paul’s pushback: if we’re demanding proof that Christ is speaking through someone, we also need the humility to examine ourselves and our motives.

Then we slow down in 1 John 4, where the first and clearest test is a confession, Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. We connect that to John’s “water and blood,” Leviticus’ claim that life is in the blood, and Luke 24’s anchor that the risen Messiah is flesh and bone. Along the way we clarify why angelic appearances are not the same as incarnation, and why Matthew 12’s “dry places” language reinforces the Bible’s focus on embodiment.

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