Spiritual warfare strategy and discipline 

1) Identifying the physical vs spiritual and discerning how they show up in our minds, bodies, the church, and the world.

2) Know your identity in Jesus (who he says you are and the authority he gave you). This comes from God’s word and building a relationship with the Lord in the secret place! (Galatians 3:26, Luke 10:19.)

3) Understand scripture about spiritual warfare, know that it’s real whether you believe, ignore it, or not. (Ephesians 6:10-18, Ephesians 2:2)

4) Familiarize yourself with your best friend, the Holy Spirit (The advantage, Spirit of all truth, wisdom, comforter, teacher, advocate, and intercessor).

5) Deepen prayer life, know how to pray scripture. This is putting what you learn into action with the power of your tongue. 

This can look like praying in the secret place (using affirmations, praying in the spirit (Ephesians 6:18), “binding/loosing”(Matthew 16:19), rebuking (1 Timothy 5:20,  2 Timothy 4:2, Titus 2:15) in Bible study, anointing yourself and home, intercession and confession in community (with a trusted leader/elder in faith (not requirement of age), family, friend), and taking the Eucharist.

 Communion isn’t just a symbol of remembrance in spirit but a tool to connect with the living God and receive his spirit and eternal life, which the Father has enabled through Jesus. This is a trinitarian faith; you can’t accept one without the other; therefore, there is no salvation through the Holy Spirit’s justification and sanctification if  Jesus and the Holy Spirit aren’t accepted. This separates other religions from Christianity and from the Abrahamic religions. Even demons believe and know the word of God, but what separates us from them is doing what the word says, living in the Holy Spirit with truth and love, the greatest of them all. 

This is where the discipline comes in. Obedience is your sacrifice (1 Samuel 15:22-23, Ecclesiastes 12:13). You cannot receive any blessings and expect to bear fruit if you’re disobedient to God and have no relationship with him (Deuteronomy 28). Religion and doing good deeds without faith, and faith without works, are futile (Ecclesiastes 2:11, James 2:17, James  2:26, Ephesians 2:8-10). The enemy who prowls wants you to be blind, deaf, and ignorant, to believe that there’s no such thing as spiritual warfare. Society says, ‘Don’t overspiritualize; it’s just hormones, emotions, trauma, music, or just bad luck.’ The Lord says, “Wake up, sleeper!” (2 Corinthians 11:14, Ephesians 5:14)

Repent, pray, word study, praise/thanksgiving, communion, fellowship, fast, and loving others should not be casual things in your faith life.  It’s a lifestyle of daily nourishment on God’s word, reflection, and surrender to die to your flesh to be made new! These things, no matter how busy, are how you keep a relationship with the Lord; it isn’t knowing how many verses and showing up in nice clothes on Sunday, praying for a spouse, saying the salvation prayer, and returning to life as normal. This is the downfall of many Western churches. This is discipline and strategy; it’s to be discerning of all these things while having fear and reverence of the Lord! That’s how you walk boldly in your authority, walking with an unquenchable love and holy fire that makes the atmosphere tremble because of your love, faith, and wisdom of the Lord.

Don’t lose the love for Jesus,  and be consumed with the works of the Lord only. Honor and love the heart and center of your life, God is the brain, Jesus is the servant heart, and the wiring of it all, the nervous system, flowing in you is the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit. This means that everything was created for him and by him (Colossians 1:16). God has a plan for your life, and in and of the world is the Antichrist, the mocker, masquerader, who has craft and determination to oppose the kingdom of heaven and work for it (2 Corinthians 4:4). Understand that there are things that we cannot see. Things naked to the human eye without the Holy Spirit, and some mysteries are only to be revealed once in our glorified bodies (1 Corinthians 2:9,14).

Go in peace and love and use the tools the Lord gave you, be discerning, test all things, don’t lose focus, and be always ready for his return. Don’t be afraid, the battle belongs to the Lord; it is finished, it’s already won! In all these things, you’ll sense and see the fruit in your life, you’ll experience a shift in your life, and every room you walk into, demons will flee and tremble because of your love, light, and obedience to the Lord, because you are His. 

These teachings are not a replacement for God’s Word (Logos) and/or the church. If you haven’t already today, go spend time with our Father, read and test the spirit behind all things!

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