Winning The Spiritual War Behind Your Setbacks

 Stay focused on what you've decided to accomplish today and, by extension, on your future goals and
desires. The spirits of distraction, delay, frustration, setback, limitation, and restriction have received specific orders from their master, whom we know to be Satan, to frustrate your efforts in getting things done today.

A spirit is behind whoever or whatever is blocking, delaying, or frustrating your efforts. Begin to pray every time you recognize the spirits of delay, frustration, limitation, and restriction operating behind that person, place, or thing.

Flesh and blood, meaning people, places, and things, are simply the tools the kingdom of darkness uses to achieve its objectives on the earth and to retard the purposes God has assigned to His children. Every setback you're facing has a face you can see and a spirit you cannot. Learn to fight the one you cannot see.

Rule One: Your Battle Is Not With People

The first rule of spiritual warfare is stated clearly in Ephesians 6:12. Please cement this into your understanding:

"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." (Ephesians 6:12)

Notice that Paul names the opposition specifically: principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, spiritual wickedness in high places. None of them wear a face you can confront in the break room or the driveway. If your battle plan targets a person, you are fighting the wrong enemy with the wrong weapon on the wrong battlefield.

Rule Two: Your Weapons Are Not Physical

The second rule of spiritual warfare concerns the weapons available to us in this fight:

"For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." (2 Corinthians 10:4-5)

Cursing, fighting physically, or seeking revenge are not the weapons of spiritual warfare. Instead, we fight with the Word of God, the Holy Scriptures, against the spirits of delay, setback, frustration, limitation, and restriction.

The Sword You've Been Given

Paul does not leave us to guess what weapon he means. A few verses after naming our real enemy, he names our real weapon:

"And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." (Ephesians 6:17)

A sword is not carried for decoration. It is carried to be used. Every delay you're facing has a matching scripture that dismantles it, if you'll take the time to find it, speak it, and stand on it.

Stop Fighting the Person, Start Fighting the Spirit

Were you passed over for a promotion today, or in the past? Don't go after your boss or that conniving, manipulative coworker. Instead, grab hold of the rulebook, your Bible, and pray the relevant scriptures against the spirits sent to hinder your progress in whatever area you're being challenged.

Your tears or your self-pity don't make the spirit realm feel sorry for you. The spirit world responds to law, not emotion. Its rules and protocols answer to your spiritual commands, and those commands will always be found in the Holy Bible.

Resist, and He Will Flee

Too many believers enter spiritual battles utterly ignorant of spiritual laws, principles, and protocols, fighting instead from anger, frustration, hate, and the flesh. Scripture gives us a simpler, more effective strategy:

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." (James 4:7)

Let's be clear: being a child of God does not automatically make you a winner in this spiritual war. It is being a child of God who respects His laws and rules of spiritual engagement that makes you a winner. You must learn and adhere to the spiritual rules of engagement, and I repeat, that rulebook is your Bible.

You are not at the mercy of whatever is standing in your way today. You are, as Scripture declares, "more than conquerors through him that loved us" (Romans 8:37). Pick up the sword. Stay focused. Finish what you set out to do.

Kevin L A Ewing
ewinglakevin@icloud.com
kevinlaewing.blogspot.com
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Evidence You're Being Fought Spiritually

If you are having difficulty recalling your dreams and visions, be aware that there is a significant spiritual attack against you. Such an attack's primary focus is to keep you ignorant of what is being concocted against you spiritually.

As previously mentioned, our dreams act as the intelligence branch of spiritual warfare. They frequently reveal glimpses of the spiritual world and disclose what awaits us, whether positive or negative, in the spiritual realm.

Do you remember when I mentioned that the spirit realm is the parent world of our natural world? For anything from the spirit world to manifest in our physical world, there must be an agreement between the two realms. Those involved in the occult and secret societies are aware of this fundamental law of physical manifestation. They perform rituals, take oaths, and enter into evil covenants with unseen entities to help them carry out malevolent deeds on Earth and in the lives of others. If you find it difficult to remember your spiritual dreams, it could be a sign that you are being spiritually erased by evil spirits.

It's essential to recognize that the issues you're experiencing may not be physical, but rather stem from a spiritual origin. How you feel physically is simply a manifestation of what's happening spiritually. Unfortunately, many followers of Jesus Christ are conditioned to fight against what they can see. However, this only plays into the enemy's hands, as they'll subliminally engage you in a physical fight to cause you to violate the spiritual law outlined in Ephesians 6:12. As a Christian, you should remember that your battles are fought against spirits, not people. The hierarchy of these evil entities includes principalities, powers, rulers of darkness, and spiritual wickedness in high places.

Therefore, our dreams become our spiritual monitors, revealing spiritual intelligence from the spirit realm, so that we can take our fight to the spirit realm to prevent evil from manifesting in our natural lives. So, you are regularly not able to recall your dreams. In that case, Satan and his agents have disabled the spiritual intelligence branch of your warfare to keep you ignorant of the spiritual snare, evil devices, and pending plots for your life!

As a helpful reminder, Proverbs 11:9b says that "Through Knowledge shall the just be delivered" according to spiritual law. With this in mind, I suggest fasting and seeking God's guidance to better understand the spiritual meaning of your dreams. This can help you remember and interpret their messages with clarity.

Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of your son, Jesus Christ. Please remove any spiritual forces that prevent me from remembering and comprehending my dreams. I am grateful for the gift of dreaming and believe in your promise, as stated in Joel 2:28, that all people will dream and see visions. I declare that I will remember and understand every dream going forward, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. Thank you. Amen.

Kevin L A Ewing

ewinglakevin@icloud.com

kevinlaewing.blogspot.com

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Your attacks will determine if the word of God truly resides in you

Every attack against a Believer of Jesus Christ, is never an attack against the actual person, instead it

will always be an attack against their FAITH!

The faith of a Believer is the actual word of God that resides in them. Make no mistake, the enemy is not interested in you the individual; instead he's after the word of God which is FAITH!

I am convinced that whenever our faith is tried/tested it is an indicator that we lack patience in the area in which our faith is being tested. As usual let's seek scriptural support in an effort to validate this spiritual understanding:

"Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing" James 1:3-4.

In the passage of scripture that I have provided below; if you read it from a spiritual perspective you will quickly discover that when the word of God has been retain by a Believer of Jesus Christ, immediately the enemy moves in by any means necessary to hijack the word of God from the possession of that person. However, this same Devil who is primarily after the word of God in you will covertly make the attack appear as if it's against the individual.

The reasoning behind Satan's plan is, he understands spiritual law. He understands that the law clearly says that we wrestle not against flesh and blood (fellow human beings), according to Ephesians 6:12. He also understands that the moment he convinces us that the attack against us is human based, he also knows that we are in direct violation of that spiritual law and rather than channeling our faith against him, we instead use all physical means necessary to challenge the person or what we think to be the physical source attacking us. This is why folks give up on their faith in God. They believe that once the enemy comes at them, then God should automatically come up against the enemy. The reality is we must engage God through prayer and his word. At the same time we must cement into our understanding that there is always a spirit behind our physical attacks.

the scriptures says, "This is the meaning of the parable: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those along the path are the ones who hear, and then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. 13 Those on the rocky ground are the ones who receive the word with joy when they hear it, but they have no root. They believe for a while, but in the time of testing they fall away. 14 The seed that fell among thorns stands for those who hear, but as they go on their way they are choked by life’s worries, riches and pleasures, and they do not mature. 15 But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop" Luke 8:11-15

Again, read the above scripture with spiritual understanding, understanding that Satan is after the WORD OF GOD AND NOT THE INDIVIDUAL, the individual is just a part of the war because he or she is a possessor of the word of God. In other words, if you're not being attacked by Satan and his agents then I strongly suggest you revisit if the word of God truly resides in you!

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

kevinewing@coralwave.com

kevinlaewing.blogspot.com