Scriptures for Spiritual Victory #7

Romans 8 is full of spiritual battles: The enemy uses the sins of our past to haunt our minds with guilt; our flesh keeps trying to pull us back into sin; the struggles of life in this fallen world seek to weigh us down; sometimes we even struggle to know how to talk with God.  In each of these attacks and attempts, Paul reminds us that the Holy Spirit is at work within us to help us. He then summarizes in the last paragraph:

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of
God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,
“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

Paul points us not only to the work of the Holy Spirit presently, but back to the work of Christ, past and present. He is standing next to the Father testifying on our behalf as Satan accuses us in our minds and interceding for us as we struggle. God's love still holds us strong, and He is much more powerful than the enemy. What we are going through is not unique - as the Old Testament quote reminds us, God's people have always faced such things. But God is unique and will make us super conquerors in the spiritual battles.