Week of Spiritual warfare

        Hey guys, I am sorry I haven’t written anything in my blog recently. You guys have missed some of the awesome things that have happened here.
Week before this week, we had a very neccessary topic. A guy from Germany who lives here came to talk about spiritual Warfare!

First of all half of our school, Rescue Ops, left us to go and do their week of camp in Arkansas - so the beginning of our week was so different, like waking up without being woken up by some of the girls for work-out or not having to run in order to get your breakfest before it’s gone, or class being half empty, just little things that were missing but they were noticeable.

So let‘s get to the topic and what I learned this week.
I don’t know how about you but I didn’t know much about spiritual warfare before I came here. I don’t really remember that we had talked about this in my church or online churches. If they did then I just missed it and I feel bad because it is a very powerful topic and every church should look into it more.

During this week I learned that I should be careful when accusing God in everything or saying that he is behind everything that happens, that it is His will for this to come into my life. Not everything that happens is from evil, but they don’t go by Bible, we need to through them out. So like if there is a lie in your head and it is something that God hasn’t promised, or Bible says differently about it, you should consider taking that as a lie in your life and getting rid of it.

There are 4 areas in us, we should protect:

·      Mind

If you have thought of lies, it’s gonna effect your everyday life

Thoughts of fear are really strong – they can keep you from doing what you need to do.

*      Thoughts of condimnation – you are not pleasing to God; you are not

being spiritual enough? Wrong. We want to get rid of it, Go to God with it.

You think about others all the time, but what is it for you?

*      Interiority – under-dog; doupt of everything you ought to be. You always

compare yourself to others. You won’t step up for what you are meant to do.

What are some areas you feel insecure about? What are some areas in your life where enemy wants to have power over you?

Ask the lord, pray&don’t be afraid to step up!!

2 Corinthians 10: 3-5

For though we live as human beings, we do not wage war according to human standards, for the weapons of our warfare are not human weapons, bt are made powerful by God for tearing down strongholds. We tear down arguments and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.

·      Heart/emotions

     Proverbs 4:23

Above else guard your heart, for i tis the wellspring of life.

     Ephesians 4:26-27

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger. Do not give the devil an opportunity.

   2Corinthians 2:10-11

if you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him – for indeed what I have forgiven (if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ, so that we may not be exploited by Satan (for we are not ignorant of his schemes).

·      Mouth

Be careful of what you say. Encourage one another when you truly see it is needed. Don’t just say whatever but think before you say anything. A lot of times we just want to speak out encouragement not because we want to encourage that person but because we want to speak out words.
Speak out the truth so it would be fruitful.

Psalm 141:3

Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.

·      Relationships

Forgiveness

This week I learned that spiritual warfare is not a magic thing. We wrestle not with flesh and blood. People are not the enemy. The power behind all the people who do wrong things is the enemy, the spirit behind them. So be aware of the enemy and not impressed with him.

How did Jesus deal with people in sin?
He never converted the ones stuck in sin, he showed kindness, love and mercy.

We cannot win battles by arguing with people, but in our innersession we can pray for them.

Ephesians 6:11

Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.

So learn to recognize the strategies of the enemy, refusing to co-operate with them, agressivly cutting them off in the name of Jesus.

Ask yourself „ What would I do to me if I was the enemy? “

Know the nature of the enemy

Look at statistics&conditions (areas where a lot of something happens)

Ask the Lord for stratégy against the evil

Live by Spirit –

Galatians 5:16

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature

1Corinthians 2:10-13

God has revealed these to us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the things of  a man except the men’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God. And we speak about these things, not with words taught us by human wisdom, but with those taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual things to spiritual people.

How do you live by the Spirit?

Remove the hindrances

1Thessalonians 5:19

Do not extinguish the Spirit

Stronghold

Not just know and talk about it

God shows this to us so we could avoid it’s influence

God shows us what the strongholds are in a place so we could pray more specifically

Live the opposite (give up something that to you is normal, but the community has problems with)

Without God, man cannot do it, but without man, God will not do it.

Have Authority

It is an actual legal reality.

It is not a feeling, or how long I have been a christian, or my personality.

My authority is based on what Jesus did to Satan

Colossians 2:15

And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.

1John 3:8

He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work

God gives you power to continue.

1John 4:4

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

I hope that this will help you to realize the reality of Spiritual Warfare and the fact that we are able to overcome the enemy in the name of Jesus and what he did for us on the cross!