TRAIN YOUR FAMILY IN SPIRITUAL WARFARE

We must train both ourselves and our children in spiritual warfare.

Our God is a Man of War (Exodus 15:3).

Our Lord Jesus Christ is also a Man of War (Revelation 19:11-16).

Considering this truth, it is obvious that we who are His followers should also be men of war. We should also be training our families to be committed to fight in the Lord’s battles. And currently we are in a huge battle in our nation. It needs all spiritual warriors on deck.

However, our warfare is not against flesh and blood. Ephesians 6:12, 18: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places . . . Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.”

Behind all physical evil is the driving and motivating force of demonic powers. These are the real giants that no physical weapon can touch, let alone destroy. In Matthew 16:23: Jesus rebuked Peter for trying to turn Jesus away from the cross: “Jesus turned, and said unto Peter, GET THEE BEHIND ME, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savorest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.” Do you notice that we must now allow Satan in front of us. We must put him BEHIND US! (Luke 22:31, 32 and Acts 5:3).

The Second Amendment of our Constitution gives us the right to bear arms. However, none of these weapons, no matter how powerful, can cause even the slightest alarm to the real giants that are in the spiritual realm. When it comes to fighting and praying against political enemies, etc. we have no right to use physical weapons for we wrestle not against flesh and blood (Ephesians 6;12).

The New Testament exhorts us to arm ourselves with spiritual weapons (Ephesians 6;10-18). I think that most Christian men are more familiar with physical weapons than spiritual weapons. In this critical time, we must learn more about the use of our spiritual weapons. This is the only way to bind the powers of darkness that are over this nation and the nations of this world and lose the multitudes that are bowed down by the enmy.

Evil, dark, and sinister forces bind the multitudes in North Korea and Middle Eastern countries including Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran, etc. The only way to ultimate victory and to bring righteous peace amongst the nations is through the use and skill of the spiritual weapons God has provided for us in Christ Jesus.

In Numbers 14:9 Caleb and Joshua tried to calm the people of Israel when they feared the giants and the high, thick walls of the cities they had to conquer: “Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defense is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.”

What do the words “their defense is departed from them” mean? Joshua and Caleb had spiritual insight to know that God had bound the demonic spiritual forces that were behind their physical enemies.

Even the harlot, Rahab had more spiritual insight than the heads of the tribes of Israel (Numbers 13:2, 3). Forty-five years after the Israelites left Egypt to come into the land, she said to the spies: “I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you” (Joshua 2:9).

We must exercise our God-given authority over the powers of darkness for He has given us the power to bind and loose. Matthew 18:18: “Verily I say unto you, whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Psalm 2:8: “Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.”

Psalm 149:6-9: “Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise the Lord.”

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

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