Weapons of Warfare

We all fight different things in life and we spend a lot of energy doing it. For you it might be a person who opposes you, an impossible situation, or a lingering feeling (depression, emptiness, fear...). Everyday we try to pull together enough strength to fight the battle that day. But by the end of the day we probably feel beaten up, destroyed and near death (hopefully only figuratively).

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12 ESV

Consider the verses in Ephesians, have you ever thought that you may be fighting your battles in the wrong place? Try fighting your battle in a new arena.

Ephesians says you are not fighting those people or circumstances but powers in heavenly places, spiritual forces of evil. Those comic powers shroud themselves in our circumstances, family/friends, and even pit our emotions against us. So whatever you see in the natural is only the result of the activity in the spiritual.

"For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds." 2 Corinthians 10:4 ESV

The place of prayer is sometimes a very underutilized place of battle. From the place of prayer we have access to power to destroy spiritual strongholds in our lives, families, workplaces, and cities.

My encouragement is do not be on the defensive today, but in prayer be on the offensive. See your battles for what they really are, spiritual forces that seek to oppose you, slow you down, distract you. You my friend, in Christ, are a child of God, you are seated in a place of victory with him. You have authority in Christ to speak life and destroy darkness!

"But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere." 2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV