My life to put it nicely was basically a dumpster fire on wheels for many years and I didn’t understand why and then I realized what was really happening in the world and the things that affect our lives and suddenly it all made sense. I came to the revelation that there was an unseen realm that few think about with spiritual enemies that intended to kill, steal, and destroy our lives.
Paul warns us in 2 Corinthians 2:11 not to be ignorant of Satan’s strategies. “ that no advantage may be gained over us by satan, for we are not ignorant of his schemes.” We need to know our enemy, know our God, and know who we are in Him, but we also need to equip ourselves with revelation on how to defeat satan and his minions of our souls.
If we ignore Satan, the warfare doesn’t stop. If we focus solely on Jesus, it does not make us immune from warfare. We should absolutely be more focused on God, than on Satan. If Paul the Apostle wrestled principalities and powers, who are we to think ignoring this reality will stop Satan’s attacks.
Havoc on the earth – sickness, disease, murders, immortality and the like is not God’s will. Jesus spoilt, principalities, and powers. But the word spoiled doesn’t mean neutered or made powerless. Jesus plundered the kingdom of darkness. The kingdom of darkness and all the principalities and powers that call earth lost authority over the followers of Jesus. But we still have to enforce the kingdom rule of law on earth.
It is not enough to be baptized in water and Holy Spirit one time. We have to stay filled with the Holy Spirit. As followers of Jesus, it seems that we spring leaks. In the Book of Acts, we can see that the Apostles weren’t just filled with the Holy Spirit once on the day of Pentecost, there were two more accounts of them being filled with the Holy Spirit. If the apostles who were witnesses of Jesus’s ministry on earth, death, and resurrection had to be filled with the Spirit over and over again, how much more do we?
We need to constantly pray to be filled with the Holy Spirit. We need a fresh infilling. I for one know a little dab won’t do me.
When Satan works to bring death and destruction in our lives, we have to remind ourselves that the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead can live in us. When Satan comes to frustrate God’s purpose for our lives, we need to remember God gives us grace and we need to ask Him for it many times over.
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