Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Spiritual Warfare

Let me preface this blog by saying that I’m not one of those people who goes around looking for demons.  Sometimes we experience bad things because we live in a fallen world, and sometimes we bring things on ourselves because of our own neglect, or (to borrow a phrase from a preacher many years ago) because of our own “pieces of stupid”, which we all do.

But there are times that we find ourselves under spiritual attack.  As the Apostle Paul said, we are not “ignorant” of the schemes of the enemy (2 Cor. 2:11).
When you find yourself under spiritual attack, remember these things:

1.    Our weapons are not carnal.  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses” (1 Cor. 10:3,4 NASB).  In other words, although we’re in this physical world, we battle through a higher power.

2.    The thing you focus on, you empower.  This gets really deep and sounds very “New-Age”, but molecular physicists have discovered that a molecule will STAND at attention when it is in the focus of the human eye.  Nature Physics 5, 253 - 254 (2009).  We are a culture that loves to raise awareness; how about raising some Holy Spirit awareness?

3.    Greater is He that is in you than He that is in the world (1 Jn. 4:4).  I had a dream just a few nights ago that there was a ferocious beast in our house.  We could hear it roaring, and we were afraid for our lives.  There was also a beast who was with us – it was a gentle beast.  I remember telling the gentle beast “well, do your best,” but I had no expectation that we would come out of the situation alive.  What I realized after waking was 1) I had not seen the ferocious beast, but in my mind it was huge; and 2) the gentle beast was a familiar friend, but I had no faith in His power.  We must realize that who we have inside of us is greater than the one who wishes to destroy us.  As one friend of mine says, “The snake is dead, powerless; why are we afraid of a dead snake?!
Don’t give up.  Your breakthrough may be just around the corner!

Peace.


Davina

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