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Spirit Wars
Intro
Today we are continuing our series on Spiritual warfare.
Last week I spoke on the armour of God
Focusing on the defense God has provided in our spiritual war against the enemy
Today I want to focus on the offensive weapons God has provided.
Pray
Since we are in a spiritual battle, we need spiritual weapons.
That is exactly what God has supplied us with—“weapons
… mighty in God for pulling down strongholds,
casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.”
Weapons mighty in God!
The word mighty can be translated “dynamically powerful.”
God has supplied us with more than we need for victory.
We just have to tap into that which is already available to us.
Our God-Given Weapons
What are the “weapons” God has given us?
The common weapons are:
A- prayer
B- Bible
C- Worship
We must be thoroughly immersed in these if we are going to successfully fight the “good fight of faith.”
But that’s not all our weapons are limited to.
There is also
D- Decree & Declare
E- Fasting
Prayer
But notice that we don’t just grab our prayer list and start working through it,
“God I need…..and I need….and
would You please…..and bless……”
It says, “prayer and petition in the Spirit“.
Prayer as a Spiritual weapon means
We aren’t just praying with our mind, with our own intelligence.
Instead We are allowing the Holy Spirit to pray through us the will of the Father.
Sometimes, we already know the will of the Father.
If we are earnestly battling for the soul of a lost loved one, we know what the will of the Father is already because the
Bible tells us that the will of the Father
But there are times when we are not certain.
When there is no chapter and verse that clearly tells us what the will of the Father is.
Tongues
It is in these times that we need to allow the Holy Spirit to pray through us the will of the Father.
He may choose to reveal it to us so we can pray in our human language,
or He may choose to pray through us with the gift of tongues.
don’t have the gift of tongues…ask for it!
Agreement
The Bible says in Ephesians 6:18 that we should pray in the Spirit at all times with all prayer.
Prayer of agreement is two or more persons coming together to pray concerning anything.
Bible
I covered this last week but its worth looking at again.
When Jesus was tempted by satan in the desert.
Jesus fought the devil using scripture
Satan, at times using Scripture to tempt Jesus, twisted the meaning
but Jesus came back at him each time using Scripture in its proper context to defeat him and eventually satan left.
We will not defeat satan by reasoning with him.
We will not defeat satan by negotiating with him.
We will not defeat satan by just telling him to get out.
We defeat satan by using the weapons of our warfare that are mighty through God,
and one of the most powerful weapons is the Word of God.
The Bible is the foundation of all our weapons.
Read it, memorize it, meditate on it, allow it to read you!
Worship
some of you may have never thought of worship as a weapon.
Many of us don’t think of worship as a weapon.
Instead, we think of it as the music that sets the mood for a church service.
But the fact is that we’re wielding a very dangerous weapon when we worship God
David’s Harp
The children of Israel crossed the Jordan and we’re instructected by the Lord to take Jericho
Yes the children of Israel has a substantial military army.
but the strategy God gave them was a little unorthordox
Shout of Praise
If Joshua had met with his military advisors, no one would have come up with this plan.
To knock down the walls lift up a shout of praise
Singing
Jehoshaphat Defeats Moab and Ammon
in 2 chronicles we are told
then a few verses later we are told what God told them to do
Decree & Declare
By definition, a decree is an official order issued by a legal authority.
The key part of this definition is the legal authority.
You cannot decree somthing you don’t have authority over
and you don’t have authority over anything you don’t love.
In order for a decree to have meaning it must be in agreement with the one who holds authority.
You can’t decree something God doesn’t what to happen
but by all means you can decree something God wants and has given you authority over.
To declare means to make something known formally, officially, or explicitly.
A declaration is simply an acknowledgment of something that is.
You can declare the goodness of God, because He is good
You can declare God Loves the whole world.....because
He told us He does.
Declaring God is going to put a millions dollars in your bank account....well
He better be the one telling you that.
Calls into being that which doen not exist
By hearing God you can be the voice that partners with Him in doing that!
Fasting
When you understand that the unseen world around us is spiritual, prayer becomes absolutely vital.
When you come to the realization that there is a spiritual conflict going on constantly, fasting must become a regular habit.
The spiritual enemy is always seeking ways to “steal, kill or destroy” your God-given joy in life (John 10:10).
Fasting and prayer are vital weapons you must use to acquire victories.
What is fasting?
On the surface, fasting is abstinence from food and drink.
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