Your Spiritual Warfare Must Be Strategic
I recognize that this world has been conditioning us all to be two things. (well more than two but lets focus on these for now)
PASSIVE
and
DISTRACTED
There are common sayings you will hear in many circles now: I’m not judging…Jesus didn’t judge….You do you boo…no one is perfect.
These sayings are highly detrimental as It cancels discernment, blinds our eyes are and water downs our awareness.. all for the sake of like ability and blending in.
Question - If you were in a war and you’re preparing for battle would you:
A: Want your army men lacking awareness …more worried about being liked…and not judging anything?
or
B: Want your army men with the most keen awareness (able to see even in the dark) and can sense what’s about to happen all while not being fooled by the opposing army to drop their weapons
I can assume everyone would choose B.
But are you aware that our culture has been training us all to be A.
We are more concerned with not offending people than we are in speaking unshakeable truth.
We are trained to be copycats. Tik Tok challenges and reel culture has us mindlessly following others and mimicking others to form our identity
We let culture shape our morals and truth instead of looking to the the CREATOR for our truth.
We spend most of our years in school pre-k - college (for most) being indoctrinated in lies and focusing on learning things that keep us blind from knowing that we are being manipulated and controlled. We now have a plethora of fancy words to intellectualize the warfare. We throw a label on it and keep it moving. So we can get the job or the next degree
So, it’s no surprise that we are not prepared for spiritual Warfare. Yet we are prepared for the next iphone coming out and all of its new features. We are prepared for the new season of our favorite series. We are prepared for whatever nonsense the culture has created to keep us highly distracted and highly controlled.
Which makes it no surprise that when most are dealing with spiritual warfare they only see it through the lens of
A mental illness. They will just throw the label of anxiety on it and begin to identify as an anxious person
A pill. They will get a prescription pill to basically feed the demon that’s oppressing them.
Therapy. They will pay another person to help them negotiate with the demon oppressing them.
Instead of trampling serpents as said in Luke 10:19 “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you.”
We have been taught to honor them as our identity and have normalized learning to live with them hence the popular push for therapy. Therapy doesn’t typically teach anyone to tread on serpents. Instead they teach them how to understand serpents and learn to live with them and to teach others in their lives how to respect their serpents when in reality we should be DESTROYING them.
You might say….how else are we supposed to deal with our emotional heaviness?
Well…spiritual things are meant to be dealt with in the spirit! Not with fleshly weapons yet with spiritual weapons.
Read further as I break down the strategy of spiritual warfare.
