We may like to think that words can never hurt us, but in fact, Proverbs tells us that “death and life are in the power of the tongue.”

Paul says we all were dead apart from Christ, but he also says we died when we were united to Christ. In what sense, then, do dead men die?

Satan will try to put us to sleep in prayer. And he does so, most commonly, by tricking us into staying up too late the night before.