On Spiritual Warfare

 In the fall of 2022, I underwent the most severe spiritual warfare of my life.  As a college student, I had played around some with tarot cards which I believe had left me chinked with a spirit of fear.  This gained more of a hold over me through later decisions with abortion and an abusive marriage.  In August 2022, I prayed that the Lord would be so preeminent over my life that any strongholds would be demolished.  He answered this prayer in September, by allowing my daughters minor surgery to prompt a series of panic attacks and battles against demonic strongholds to manifest in my life.  In the moment, these were the most terrifying of days.  In hindsight, I see God's goodness in it, because it was the path to freedom.  Ultimately, I learned that according to Ephesians, I am already seated in the heavenly places with Christ and I have every spiritual blessing needed to cast down all these powers and dominions that seek to erect themselves in my life.  Whereas prior, I felt like I was helpless against the attacks of the enemy, now I realized I have every power through the blood of Christ to cast these down.  I began to play an offensive game.

As I began truly praying and interceding in the offensive, I began to get rather passionate about the power we have in Christ.  So many Christians lament the problems we see all around us in the world, never realizing that we have Everything We Need in Christ to address these problems.  Do you see a problem of deceit at all levels of the government?  Pray in the Spirit and cast down that demonic stronghold?  Are you broken over the culture of death taking out our children left and right?  Pray in the Spirit and demolish the arguments of death in the spiritual realms.  (Note: I am not saying we don't do things in the physical realm.  That is another post for another time.)  So often people feel helpless, but they need not.  If you are in Christ you are seated in heaven with him far above all these things trying to manifest in our country.  Cast them down in the name of Jesus!

But as important as it is to do these things on an individual level, it is even more important to do these things at the corporate level.  Our pastors need to be leading the charge praying against these powers and principalities.  I don't think there is any pastor out there who doesn't look at our country and acknowledge that demonic forces are at work.  So why is it even corporately so many (not all) are leading congregations in mediocre, weak prayers.  Why are we not storming the demonic castles when we come together and declaring them null and void in the name of Jesus when we come together.  We could accomplish so much if we came together to worship and read the Word but also pray pray pray pray pray.  I personally am praying that the Church awakens to its power in the spirit realm and that we will in prayer begin to take back this ground we are losing.  We have not because we ask not.