3 Battles Every Christian Man Faces • The 3rd Will Shock You
Ye Must Be Born Again in the Spirit of God.
Brother,
Every born-again Christian man is fighting three wars at the same time. Most do not realize it. They think they are just struggling with lust or doubt or discipline.
But the truth is, you are not fighting one battle. You are fighting three battles, simultaneously.
And if you do not know which battle you are in at any given moment, you will lose all three.
Here are the three battles every born-again Christian man faces and the biblical strategy to win each one.
Most men lose these battles because they are using the wrong weapons.
¹ They are fighting a mental battle with physical discipline.
² They are fighting a spiritual battle with human willpower.
³ They are fighting a physical battle with prayer alone.
But scripture is clear. Different battles require different weapons.
Ephesians chapter 6 does not just say put on armour. It tells you exactly which piece of armour fights which attack.
The helmet guards your mind.
The sword strikes the enemy.
The shield blocks the lies.
So if you want to win, you need to know which battle you are in and which weapon to use.
Brother, Let us break it down.
The first battle every born again Christian man faces is the battle for his mind.
This is the war thoughts. The images that flash through your head. The fantasies that replay on loop. The lies that tell you, "you are not good enough." "You will never change." "You might as well give in."
This battle may happens in the shower, at your desk, while scrolling your phone at 11 p.m.
It is the war of intrusive thoughts, lustful imaginations, and mental spirals that pull you away from God and into shame.
And here is what most men do not realize. You cannot stop these thoughts from showing up, but you can stop them from staying.
The reason the mental battle feels impossible is because you think having a bad thought means you have already sinned.
But that's not what Jesus said. In Matthew 4, the devil attacks Jesus with three temptations. And those were not just external offers. They were mental suggestions, thoughts planted in Jesus' mind.
"If you are really the son of God, prove it. Turn these stones into bread. Jump off the temple. Worship me and l'll give you everything."
Jesus did not sin by hearing those thoughts. He sinned if he agreed with them.
The temptation was not sin. Acting on it would have been.
So when a lustful thought enters your mind, that's not sin. That is the enemy attacking.
Sin happens when you invite the thought to stay. When you entertain it, replay it, feed it.
The battlefield is not whether the thought shows up. The battlefield is what you do in the next 5 seconds.
So, how do you win?
Three weapons.
First, take every thought captive. 2 Corinthians 10:5 says,"We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ." That means the moment a lustful, shameful, or lying thought enters your mind. You grab it. You do not let it wander. You do not follow it down the rabbit hole. You capture it.
Practically this means you interrupt the thought, out loud if you have to. "No, that is not true. I reject that.!"
You do not debate it. You do not negotiate.
You capture it and throw it out. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Second, replace the lie with truth.
Philippians 4:8 says, "Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, think about such things.
You cannot just remove the bad thoughts. you have to replace it with a true one.
So when the thought says you will never be free, you immediately counter, "I am a new creation in Christ. The old has passed away."
When the thought says you have failed too many times, you counter, "God's mercies are new every morning. l am not defined by my past. "
Third, renew your mind daily.
Romans 12:2 says, "be transformed by the renewing of your mind."
You do not win the mental battle once. You win it every single day.
That means scripture memory, daily truth, speaking God's word over your thoughts before the lies even show up.
The battle for your mind is won in the first 5 seconds after a thought appears.
Capture it, replace it, renew daily.
That's how you guard your mind.
2. The second battle every born-again Christian man faces is the battle for his body.
This is the war of desires, the physical urges, the flesh cravings, the tension in your chest when you are triggered, the pull towards something you know you should not do.
This battle happens in your body before it ever reaches your mind.
It is the rush of adrenaline when you see something you should not. The restlessness when you are alone at night, the physical drive that feels stronger than your willpower.
And most men lose this battle because they think desire itself is sin. But desire is not sin.
What you do with desire determines whether you sin.
Apostle Paul talks about this in Romans 7. He says, "I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do, I do not do, but what I hate, that I do."
He is describing the war between spirit and flesh. Between what you know is right and what your body craves.
Your body was designed by God to feel desire.
Sexual desire is not evil. It is part of how God made you.
The problem is we live in a fallen world where that desire gets
