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Definition of spiritual warfare: When fallen angels are attacking. Or when a person tries to place a curse upon you.
Real spiritual warfare happens often in this world. But many people falsely accuse everything on “spiritual warfare” or Satan or demons, when often it’s actually only coincidence, the fruit of bad decisions, the fruit of human actions, or the result of emotions; often fear.
When it’s real spiritual warfare:
-Find chicken guts/intestines on property (common method of curse), without other parts, mysteriously without any logical explanation for what happened to the other parts of the animal.
-When a witch (or other enemy) calls you, knowing already that you are a pastor or a Christian.
-When we recorded a sermon on 3 different devices at the same time, and none of them worked.
-When it absolutely can’t be coincidence or our own doing/actions/emotions. (Problem is, many people think that it can’t be us/our doing, when it can be.)
-Unexplained bad events that could not possibly have been because of your own actions. However, it could be just only life, or people, without any demons involved.
-Temptation to sin or to fall away. Although this also could be just self, or other humans.
-Previous sins, which are repented of, are blamed on you again.
When it’s not real spiritual warfare:
-Emotional reaction or fear: When it’s an immediate feeling, immediately upon seeing a person/thing of the same kind/type every time. Such as you have the feeling every time that you see a Muslim, etc. That’s a reaction. That’s not a person/spirit attacking you.
-”Spiritual attack” stops quickly with silent prayer, without strong verbal rebuke aloud.
Demons are not that polite, that weak, or that obedient!
James 4:7 (Click to read.) “Submit to God and resist the devil” is much misunderstood.
It’s not talking about silently in your head submitting to God and silently in your head resisting the devil. In real spiritual warfare, you got to fight! You are going to be screaming & yelling to both God and the devils!
-Dreams of your own imagination/fears/anxiety:
Dreams don’t always confirm a spiritual attack, because many dreams will be “prophetically” fulfilled just only by the fact that we fulfill the dream ourselves by our own actions.
However, if a demon sees that you are in fear, the demon could take advantage of the situation and step into the situation and turn it into a spiritual war, when it wasn’t at the start.
2 Corinthians 10:3-5 Weapons of warfare not fleshly, destruction of fortresses.
Nevertheless, we must turn all of these things INTO Spiritual warfare by fighting spiritually against them.
Bringing every thought to captivity to God.
If you are truly in spiritual war, you better get in the control mode and defeat it quickly.
To stay in spiritual warfare with the same battle, same enemies, same situation, long term, is not healthy and not a winning situation. It’s a dangerous situation, that you better get control of! Either by withdrawing from that particular battle field, or by defeating the enemy or their tactics.
Philippians 1:27-28 Don’t be alarmed by your opponents/enemies. That fact of being at peace in the midst of your enemies, shows them that they are going to be destroyed, but you saved!
(Miracle: Bible verse given to me divinely through brother Jared.)
Ephesian 6:10-19 Wrestle not against flesh & blood. (Not always true! Sometimes it’s you or a human, etc.)
Be strong. Get mentally dressed/fit/strong/protected, and then fight! Armor isn’t any good to just only wear and look the part.
When the SHTF (trouble comes), look for the guy that looks the most calm (in control). Look for the guy wearing the spiritual armor, and then get behind him!
Rejoice
Let your calmness be known to all mankind.
Be not overly anxious/concerned.
Peace of God that surpasses all comprehension will guard your hearts & minds.
Think upon the good things!
Earlier in the same day as preparing this sermon, brother Jared and I had talked about how Alex Jones causes people to focus way too much on fearful things and negative things. It’s a tactic of the enemy/NWO/devil.
Aliens, demons/ghosts, UFO’s, etc. like the attention/idolization. It feeds the enemy.
It gives people false hope, while keeping people angry and upset and emotional, and turns people totally into being anti authority and anti government. It’s mental/emotional warfare.
I could not possibly find any articles on the internet explaining the difference between spiritual warfare and when it’s just fear or emotions. I even used 3 different search engines. But other ministries, churches, pastors don’t and can’t talk about something that they have no understanding of! They themselves think that everything is directly from God or Satan. Nothing of their own fault/fruits/fears.
Note after the sermon: The same is true for “God said”. Everyone thinking that God says everything to them. They rarely admit that it’s really just only their own thoughts. Never their own body/flesh or mind or just life. They think that everything has to be spiritual, either God or Satan, one or the other! This is a horrible and huge problem among almost all “Christians”.
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