What is
Spiritual Warfare, why do we need it? Why would Jesus tell us to bind
and loose if He took care of it all at the cross? I'll be sharing the
importance of the application... the appropriation for what Jesus did
here on this episode of hearingGod.
Spiritual warfare is the
next step for a spirit-filled, born again overcomer. It is one thing to
believe the promises of God, but an overcomer steps into the ministry
of Jesus... doing what He did, and even 'greater works than these'.
Spiritual warfare is simply
the implementation or the applying of the blood of Jesus, and the
application, with authority, regarding of the word of God. It is you
saying 'I only do what I see the Father doing'. It is NOT in running
around picking fights with the devil... which is a dangerous contrivance
of the flesh. If God doesn't lead, you will not succeed!
A spiritual warrior
realizes what this statement means: "Forgive them Father, for they know
not what they do". That we war not against flesh and blood, but
powers and principalities... that evil spirits influence people, cities
and nations... and that we, in the power of His blood, have His
authority to bind the demonic from operating, and loose the things that
align with the Spirit of God here on earth.
When a person can
understand that humans are influenced by spirits, fear can be overcome.
"What can man do to me?" (Psa 56:11, Psa 118:6) This of course does
not make us 'above the law' of common sense... If we stray away from
seeking His will and in doing only what we see the Father doing... we
will reap the consequences of presumption.
I have an experience to share...
I don't have the luxury of
getting out much, so when a co-worker of my husband offered to babysit
and paid for our dinner, we were elated. We went out & had a
blast. The next day my younger son was telling me how the co-worker
kept badgering my older son about getting a girlfriend.
Whoops! Maybe we were a
little too excited to get out of the house in that we forgot to do some
spiritual house-cleaning before we left the kids with this co-worker.
And this is part of spiritual warfare... realizing that we cannot allow
presumption to reign over our actions. True, the person isn't like a
child molester or anything... but all people are eligible to be
influenced by spirits. Presumption was to let this guy watch our kids
and trust that everything would just turn out fine, but as a spiritual
warrior we must 'know better'-- we have to first seek God's plan... not
our selfish desire to get out of the house and have a nice dinner.
So in seeking God about it,
I was led into a teaching moment with our children. I was able to
instruct them about what the bible says, and then set that next to the
visible behavior of the co-worker, the inordinate fascination with women
or a spirit of 'lust', so they could see that it was a spiritual
issue. I was able to explain the difference between being able to cast a
spirit out vs. binding the spirit, because if a spirit is welcome...
it's their choice.... we cannot make it for them. BUT, we do have
authority to bind and loose! So I was able to equip my kids that if in a
situation where they recognize a spirit beginning to manifest... how
they can deal with it, by binding it from operation.
Think of the foreign
countries that hand the kids a rifle and put them on the line... on the
same token, don't you dismiss the power of a praying child for one
moment... you need to teach them how to overcome-- how to be that arrow
in your quiver. This is important... Mom & Dad aren't always going
to catch everything.
So can you see the
spiritual warfare in all of this? We can't bury our heads in the sand
and go into fear living in the world... we have to believe that we are
above only and never beneath. (Deu 28:13)
What about things bigger
than spiritual influences on people? Do you cry out over the
abominations in the land? (Eze 9:4 ) Do you know you can make a
difference?
Deu 11:24 "Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours..."
When you see areas of depravity in your city or neighborhood, it is the physical sign of a spiritual problem.
And, I want to give some
credence to the term "territorial spirits"....Even in the Word we see
clearly that the demonic can set in some tent pegs in a locale and reek
all sorts of havoc. In Daniel 10:13 we see that principalities rule
territorially, because of the tell-tale kingship title: "But the prince
of the Persian kingdom resisted me twenty-one days. Then Michael, one
of the chief princes, came to help me, because I was detained there with
the king of Persia."
What gives that prince and
power of the air more authority to hold the people in bondage even
more?....What people welcome, is welcomed...if they dive into sin, and
lose their conscience and openly embrace evil... evil is what will
reign. But God raises a standard. (“When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall raise a standard against him”
Isaiah 59:19.)
Again, if you are sighing
& crying... it's perhaps because God is raising you up. So let's
talk strategy. Prayer walking, or prayer driving is a way to bring in
the Spirit of God to (Psa 110:1)"...make thine enemies thy footstool."
Again, this is taking the Word of God to heart... believing it and
implementing it. Does this mean to abandon all common sense and go
walking in the darkest part of town? No, again... if you ask, Yeshua
you'll find out what to do.
My husband and I have
amazing testimony of psychic shops and hidden prostitution rings
shutting down because of the burden we had in our locale. We've
prayer-walked New Age fairs and witchcraft purveyors finding their hocus
pocus to naught for the day, including tibetan 'art' ceremonies that
openly boast that they invoke a deity or deities----hmmm, a 'gate of
hell', perhaps?
Even my young son can
praise Jesus because one day he and Dad were led to prayer walk a
different area (at my son's leading) and they found out the next day,
that in that area they walked, a child on a bike was hit with a car, but
no bad came of it. My son marveled... in that the enemy desired to
shed innocent blood, but by the simple prayer of this little one HE
heard and dispatched His angels!
Binding and loosing... you
betcha.... you are the living ark of the covenant, the Holy fire-bottle
of the presence of God. You are all about what the 'gap' needs to be
filled with to bridge the Spirit of God across. (Eze 22:30 And I sought
for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the
gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found
none.)
What about things even
bigger than what I'd call 'territorial deliverance'? What about 'the
nation' or nations, or people groups that need to be free? If the Lord
puts a burden on your heart... go to your prayer closet and pray and ask
God. I believe there are a great many of intercessors and prophets out
there that aren't blossoming their gift because they are waiting on
their church or prayer circle of friends to feel that burden or because
of that burden are ignored or chastised. I tell you to go to that place
in secret and pray, and be obedient. Do as the Father leads because
those around you may never 'get it'.
We are not in happy
club-mode people... to serve Him is not the popular thing because man
likes to get the credit. God is looking for warriors with hearts
completely sold out to Him... ones that sigh and cry, ones that care for
all mankind... not just the ones that we like. We need to be in
get-as-close-to-Elohim-as-possible, mode!
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