What is Spiritual Warfare

This really nailed it when it comes to Spiritual Warfare.

Norman DoyleGospel Of Grace - Rightly Divided
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UNDERSTANDING SPIRITUAL WARFARE.
For the devil to keep believers TIRED, WEAK, DEFEATED and UNPRODUCTIVE, all he has to do is to blind them from seeing and knowing the TRUTH- the weapon of their warfare. You wouldn't believe it if I tell you this is exactly what the devil has been doing since the time of Adam. In fact, the devil is a professor when it comes to blinding Christians and engaging them in useless and unproductive extra-Biblical activities.

"What are you talking about?" I've not yet started. I am about to. It's about spiritual warfare.

I want to touch on spiritual warfare. Is there anything called spiritual warfare? If there is, what is it and what is it not? How can we war in the spirit? These are some of the issues I will address this year.

"What then is spiritual warfare?"
Spiritual warfare is simply a way of FRUSTRATING the LIES of the devil by establishing yourself in the TRUTH- which is God's will for all believers. Spiritual warfare is not fighting devils!

Before I continue, I want you to understand that spiritual warfare is not what so many believers call spiritual warfare today. I have seen men and women binding the devil, whipping him, shooting him, casting and stoning him. Some even sit on the floor screaming and others stepping on the devil. And I always ask myself, "Who has bewitched these people?"

Listen to me, that is not how to fight. All those things most believers do are carnal and unbiblical! They have nothing to do with spiritual warfare! You can finish jumping around and the devil will still torment you through your mind because you are operating CARNALLY. The battle is in the MIND, not out there. The battlefield of the enemy is your MIND. That is where he is fighting from. He is not out there trying to attack you. He is attacking your MIND by feeding you with LIES and wrong doctrines. All those LIES and FALSE DOCTRINES are the strongholds that you need to pull down . Strongholds are processes of the MIND like IMAGINATIONS, KNOWLEDGE, THOUGHTS etc. The LIES that you grew up learning in church are STRONGHOLDS. These strongholds are not pulled down by binding devils.They are pulled down by learning the TRUTH. The TRUTH is your weapon against this fight.

"4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of STRONGHOLDS;
5 Casting down IMAGINATIONS, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the KNOWLEDGE of God, and bringing into captivity every THOUGHT to the obedience of Christ;" (2 Corinthians 10:4-5 KJB)
So how do we fight in this battle? Do we bind devils? Do we tell the devil to back off? Do we shout and scream? A thousands times no! Christ HAS ALREADY DEFEATED the devil on our behalf. The devil is powerless. You give him power when you believe his LIES like generational curses, spiritual marriages etc. So we must cast down any FALSE INFORMATION that is in our MINDS: wrong IMAGINATIONS, false KNOWLEDGE, wrong THOUGHTS. This battle is fought by knowing the TRUTH.
All the jumping up and down is just an exercise in futility. You are binding the devil every Sunday. Who LOOSES him when you BIND him? Understand that the devil uses DECEPTIONS, FALSEHOODS and TRICKS in fighting and winning every fight he fights the believer. So if you don't understand how he fights, you will not be able to live and enjoy the overcoming life that you have in Christ. That's why I said spiritual warfare is an act of frustrating the LIES of the devil by establishing yourself in the truth. Remember Jesus said,
"And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the TRUTH shall make you free"

 (John:8:32).
Its the TRUTH you know that will make you free. It's not all those GYMNASTICS of jumping up and down, lifting chairs and banging them on the floor. You CANNOT be made free by binding the devil and his cohorts!
I know Satan does not like what I post on this page because I am exposing his LIES. I am indefatigable when it comes to this.

By Kalonga Chansa ... — feeling blessed.

Much Deception within the Church

The deception of the Nephilim as fallen angels impregnating human women is one of the end times deceptions. The devil wanted mankind to believe that devils could do what only God the Father could do when He impregnated Mary with Jesus Christ supernaturally in the womb.

The devil wanted to be like God and attempted to influence Eve to try to be like God too. He is using every deception possible to turn people away from Christ and focus on the worldly deceptions and lies that the devil has concocted.

One of the ways he deceives Christians it to make the Bible say the opposite of what God says and sound like it came from God.

Devils are spirits, and humans are flesh they are two different species that cannot mate. The angels have no gender and do not procreate, therefore they have no seed to mix with the human woman's seed. God said; "each after its own kind", an elephant cannot mate with a dog and they are flesh, therefore we can deduce that spirit cannot mate with flesh. This devilish belief that the giants were giants as a result of human and demon interaction is silly at best but blasphemous at worst.

The Nephilim idea of devils mating with humans came from the wicked book of Enoch that is full of blasphemous claims. It only takes a little discernment to realize devils who are spirits cannot mate with women who are flesh. This thinking appeals to those who want to seem to have "special knowledge" also known as Gnosticism.

Genesis 1:24-25 "24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.…"

There are many deceptions in the church as well as the world now since the world has entered the church as pretenders bringing with them their worldly and even devilish ideas influencing those who do not know their Bibles or do not know it well enough to discern simple matters.

Distractions that sound good using some Biblical language is one very common way the devil uses to deter people from the worship of God. If he can get the believers and pretenders fighting against one another over silly things he has done his job.

1 Peter 5:8 "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Be sober - serious about the fact that you have an enemy who wants to devour you and that is nothing to be nonchalant about! Be vigilant - That means to be on guard."

I would encourage anyone reading this to get to know your Bible so well and communicate with the Holy Spirit in you so often that when a deception waltzes in front of you it will be clear immediately to you that something is off.

2 Timothy 2:15

"15 Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

1 Thessalonians 5:21

"21 Test all things; hold fast what is good."

Above all, never base your beliefs on what others want you to believe or out of fear of the loss of a relationship. We must be kind when sharing God's word but we must never hold back merely to hold onto a friendship.

We know that true friends will allow us to stand firm in our beliefs and will even listen to perhaps evaluating what they know in terms of God's Word. We listen to others to evaluate according to the scriptures, we do not listen necessarily to accept things to be friendly.

Tommy Ice on the Rapture

God's Word More Powerful than any two-edged Sword

A sister shared with me this morning that her ungodly father saw a scripture on the wall in her house and backed up as though frightened by it. I told her my thoughts about the presence of the Holy Spirit, and those thoughts are as follows:

It's possible the Holy Spirit is evident in His Own scriptures and it frightens those who are not born again.

In other words, they know there is a God and that He is all-powerful, but refuse to confess their sinfulness and trust in Christ.

Hebrews 4:12-13 "12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.…"

I have had people back up from me while I was being friendly and kind, even ladies pulling their tops together that were too revealing even though I was kind and friendly, saying nothing about their clothing.

Unbelievers can sense the presence of the Holy Spirit. They think something about us makes them uneasy, but it's not us.

John the Baptist was in his mother's womb when he sensed the Holy Spirit in Jesus Christ in his mother's womb when he lept for joy at the presence of Jesus Christ.

The Holy Spirit is very powerful, when He is removed from the world all hell will break loose like nothing anyone has ever seen. The Holy Spirit is called "The Restrainer", He restrains evil which is why the world cannot touch the believer, our bodies can be attacked but our Spirit cannot be touched. Evil will not become full-blown while the Holy Spirit remains on the earth in the born-again believer.

We are only seeing a taste of what is coming when the rapture occurs. We see the world growing darker every day fulling the earth with evil.

Evil men will lie and say the terrible people were removed when the believers disappear in the rapture. The world will become terrified at the disappearance of millions of believers. But more terrifying than that is when the restrainer is removed evil will explode leaving the world completely unprotected.

2 Thessalonians 2:6–7

"6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way."

Imagine a world in which evil is full bore against everyone and everything. Where there are no "friendly" people left to help others. Where everyone is out for themselves without empathy and mercy toward anyone else.

The world will explode with natural disasters more powerful than the world has ever seen before.

Luke 23:29-31 "…29 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’ 30At that time ‘ they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ 31 For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”…"

Revelation 6:16

"And they said to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb."

The tribulation is the time of the wrath of God. The final time in which God will punish evil and give mankind one last chance to repent and trust in Christ.

Isaiah 2:19

"And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth."

Now is the time of repentance and salvation, there isn't much time left before believers are removed and those left will suffer things they never thought could happen.

2 Corinthians 6:1-2 "1 As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. 2 For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation! "

Trust Christ Before it is too Late!

One day soon the world will experience one of the most frightening events the world has ever seen.

Millions of people around the world will disappear without a trace, without a clue as to where they went. It will send the people of the world into a panic unrivaled by any other disaster.

The media will explain it by saying "aliens from outer space took the bad people out." The people the media perceives as the ones holding back all the evil agendas and restraining the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:7 "For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is removed."

When the born-again believers have been removed all hell will literally break loose, and there will be no protection for the unbelievers who are left.

All 7 years of tribulation will be full of heartache and misery when natural disasters hit without warning.

Trust in Christ today if you have not already so that you will be taken out before all this mess begins.

The Born Again Experience

Before I was born again I leaned into my feelings instead of turning to Jesus Christ, it got me into trouble, even making things worse.

After I became born again my trials didn't go away but I didn't bring more trouble on myself, I was at peace without companionship and godly love from another human being.

After I became born again my perspective changed about my trials giving me the strength and resolve to trust Christ through them. The joy of the Lord remained through the trials and contact with wicked people who wanted to deter me from following Christ.

Make no mistake, when you have become a new creation and no longer think the way you used to think be sure that the devil will double down on the hatred against you. He will attempt to cause people to accuse you of past forgiven sins. He will attempt to discourage you from moving forward hoping you will become lame and broken over sins that no longer exist and that God has done away with.

In the garden, the devil convinced Eve that God had withheld the truth from her and that she need not listen to Him.

After becoming born again the devil will attempt to use feelings to convince you that your sins of the past were never forgiven, that they were too big to ever be forgiven.

When the devil does this quote scripture in his face, tell him that the thief on the cross knew he was wicked but defended Christ and was saved, even without any works to help himself, He was on His way that very day to paradise with Christ.

No sin is too big to be forgiven when we confess it and desire to be cleansed by Christ. Anyone who attempts to make you feel "less than" or "guilty" over past forgiven sins is being used of the devil and must be disregarded as an enemy. Sadly some of these people will be in the church, they are pretenders and haters without love and without compassion toward you because they have never been born again.

If you want to maintain your peace and joy you must remove the haters from your life, perhaps after you speak the gospel to them and leave their own fate with them.

Never worry about defending yourself, simply agree that you were a sinner and praise God for His forgiveness and cleansing. Leave it at that, no excuses, no justification, no groveling over what God has cleansed permanently. Using Scripture is always good,

Luke 7:47 "For this reason I say to you, her sins, which are many, have been forgiven, for she loved much; but the one who is forgiven little, loves little.”

The greater our sins were the more grateful to God for His forgiveness. We know that we deserved death, but the one who thinks their sins were not so big, are still worthy of death.

Until we have a proper perspective of our sinful nature we cannot be humbled enough to come with a contrite heart. That is a crushed heart over our sinfulness, the only way God will forgive and cleanse us from sin is through our crushed heart.

We must have a lowly view of ourselves to be saved. The more a person "prides" themselves on themselves the less likely they are to become born again.

The Lion of Judah

Recently I have enjoyed short videos about the lions and the man who trains them, Oleg in Crimea.

One of the things that impress me is that Oleg uses kindness and mild threats to train the lions. He loves them, and interacts with them in very friendly and kind ways but also shows leadership over them with a slipper.

He slaps them on the nose with the slipper from his foot when they are only slightly showing disobedience. From a young age, the lions learned that the slipper meant power and the one behind the slipper was the one with the power.

I can't help but think of "The Lion of Judah" when I see these lions. The lions are powerful and fearful but also loving and affectionate toward the one they love, that is Oleg. The lions will accept and love anyone who is with Oleg.

It often amazes me when I can look into God's creation and see the lessons there for us.

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?"

When we trust in Christ, "The Lion of Judah" which is Jesus Christ, lives in us we know we can know His desires for us and enjoy loving Him as He loves us.

When Christ comes to dwell in us we have continual peace and hope in all circumstances. If we learn to ignore the feelings manipulated by the devil we can have victory over every difficult matter. We need not allow our feelings to drive us to sin as is the hope of the devil in his manipulations.

When Christ lives in us He loves us so much that He will not allow us to continue in sin that will destroy us and our witness of Him.

Our greatest strength is Christ and His Truth. When we focus on truth the feelings dissipate and have no control over us.

I remember many years ago in high school when the psychologists were teaching us to lean into our feelings, pay attention to them and operate according to them. This teaching was devilish and the opposite of what God teaches. If someone says to you; "follow your heart" you know you are speaking to a worldly person who does not understand the ways of God. In short, it is very bad advice to follow our own hearts, we are to follow the Mind of Christ.

Romans 8:4-6 "…4 so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 The mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace,"

Feelings are responses to stimuli, they do not contain truth, often leading us away from rational and reasonable responses to life. Feelings should never take priority over facts, they lie to us, they tell us things are good when they are sinful and they tell us things are bad when they are good and righteous.

Anything we hear in the modern churches today ought to be vetted through the Bible and prayer. Much of what is going on in the modern apostate church is the opposite of what Christ teaches in His Word. Those who do not question what is being taught are lazy and foolish.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

"21 but examine everything; hold firmly to that which is good,"

Just what it says; examine everything all the time and remain staunch in what is true. In order to do this we must be willing to be rejected, ignored and even mocked. Jesus Christ was murdered and so were the apostles for their resolve to remain faithful to the truth. Christ can give joy when we have to be rejected for standing strong in Christ.

James 1:2-18 "2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

4 But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.

6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

7 For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord;

8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."

Hallelujah!!!!