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listen with an eager spirit, through which we may also be unburdened of the works of Satan and darkness, as well as the evil desires of the flesh, and may become increasingly partakers of the benefit of Christ with true feeling in the Holy Spirit.
All this is often given and bestowed by the merciful GOD through Christ in the prayer of faith (just as it is also a powerful weapon against the evil spirit and against all Satanic seductions), for through it we receive power and might to fight chivalrously original: "ritterlich" — the author uses the metaphor of a knight to describe the spiritual struggle of the believer. against the sin that clings to us and against all enmity toward GOD, and to overcome the world with all its luxury original: "Ueppigkeit" — can mean physical luxury, opulence, or spiritual pride/excess. and the temptation of frivolity, as well as all other adversity, boldly and with a strong spirit. Thereupon the human heart becomes joyful in GOD, and the conscience is pacified and quieted—all through the working of the grace of Christ our Lord. In this grace, the faithful person also grows and increases daily in all righteousness, in all godliness Gottseligkeit: a central Pietist concept meaning a life devoted to God that results in inner blessedness, and upright truth, provided they remain and persevere steadfastly through faith in Christ.