Schemes: Know What Your Fighting (Pastor Matt Butschek) 9/13/2026

if we don't allow ourselves to meditate on the word of God.

We have to allow the word of God to meditate in our hearts and in our spirits.

God wants us to have that peace.

He wants us to have that freedom.

But we won't get there if we don't have the word of God in us.

We have to have the word of God in us.

I feel like I say it every week, but what is one of our biggest struggles? Getting in the word of God.

It's powerful.

It's mighty.

It pulls down strongholds.

Today we're talking about schemes of the enemy.

And I'm going to get into that in a second.

But we have to know what we're fighting.

We have to know what we're fighting.

And we have to have the truth of God in us.

To destroy every accusation.

To destroy every scheme.

To destroy every attack of the enemy.

Because schemes are so present.

And prevalent.

Relevant.

And enemy wants nothing but to keep us from walking into our promised land.

Every one of us has a promised land.

Every one of us has a place that God is calling us to.

To walk in freedom.

To be rooted in Christ.

To be led by the spirit.

So that our lives can be transformed.

And yes we have flesh.

The flesh gets in the way.

But schemes of the enemy are real.

They are real because the enemy does not want any one of us to walk in freedom.

To walk in wholeness.

To walk in our promised land.

So I'm going to ask you today how many of you could raise your hands and say, you know what the scheme of the enemy is against your life.

Maybe not just the scheme, maybe multiple schemes.

I don't care if it's one scheme or 20 schemes.

The enemy will always use something to keep us from walking in our destiny, from walking in our calling.

He does not want us to do that because he knows when we're rooted and we're led and our life is transformed.

We won't only be a kingdom impacted person for ourselves, but we will be kingdom impactors for the world and for people around us.

Amen.

Let's pray.

Father, we just praise you today.

We thank you.

And God, I pray that you would go before me.

I pray, God, that these words would penetrate our hearts, that you would open our eyes to your truth.

And God, that we would be able to begin to see who we are in you.

And we would see the schemes of the enemy that the enemy constantly throws at us to destroy us and to keep us from walking in the truth.

Amen? Amen.

if we don't allow ourselves to meditate on the word of God.

We have to allow the word of God to meditate in our hearts and in our spirits.

God wants us to have that peace.

He wants us to have that freedom.

But we won't get there if we don't have the word of God in us.

We have to have the word of God in us.

I feel like I say it every week, but what is one of our biggest struggles? Getting in the word of God.

It's powerful.

It's mighty.

It pulls down strongholds.

Today we're talking about schemes of the enemy.

And I'm going to get into that in a second.

But we have to know what we're fighting.

We have to know what we're fighting.

And we have to have the truth of God in us.

To destroy every accusation.

To destroy every scheme.

To destroy every attack of the enemy.

Because schemes are so present.

And prevalent.

Relevant.

And enemy wants nothing but to keep us from walking into our promised land.

Every one of us has a promised land.

Every one of us has a place that God is calling us to.

To walk in freedom.

To be rooted in Christ.

To be led by the spirit.

So that our lives can be transformed.

And yes we have flesh.

The flesh gets in the way.

But schemes of the enemy are real.

They are real because the enemy does not want any one of us to walk in freedom.

To walk in wholeness.

To walk in our promised land.

So I'm going to ask you today how many of you could raise your hands and say, you know what the scheme of the enemy is against your life.

Maybe not just the scheme, maybe multiple schemes.

I don't care if it's one scheme or 20 schemes.

The enemy will always use something to keep us from walking in our destiny, from walking in our calling.

He does not want us to do that because he knows when we're rooted and we're led and our life is transformed.

We won't only be a kingdom impacted person for ourselves, but we will be kingdom impactors for the world and for people around us.

Amen.

Let's pray.

Father, we just praise you today.

We thank you.

And God, I pray that you would go before me.

I pray, God, that these words would penetrate our hearts, that you would open our eyes to your truth.

And God, that we would be able to begin to see who we are in you.

And we would see the schemes of the enemy that the enemy constantly throws at us to destroy us and to keep us from walking in the truth.

Amen? Amen.