Mark 1-3 How to survive in Enemy Territory

Mark 1:23-28

1. “You young people are being raised in enemy territory.  We know from the scriptures that there was a war in heaven and that Lucifer rebelled and, with his followers, ‘was cast out into the earth’ [Rev. 12:9].  He is determined to disrupt our Heavenly Father’s plan and seeks to control the minds and actions of all.”

President Boyd K. Packer

(Ensign, Nov. 2011)

2. We need not become paralyzed with fear of Satan’s power. He can have no power over us unless we permit it. He is really a coward, and if we stand firm, he will retreat.

 James E. Faust, Oct. 1987 

3. “[Joseph Smith] stated, ‘Wicked spirits have their bounds, limits, and laws by which they are governed.’ So Satan and his angels are not all-powerful. … Satan’s efforts can be thwarted by all who come unto Christ by obedience to the covenants and ordinances of the gospel.”

President James E. Faust

(Ensign, September 1995)