Anthony (4 Mar 2005)
"Spiritual Warfare - I Cor 10:31's March 3, 2005 Post"


Hi I Cor 10:31!,
 
  I don't know if you mean by your post that you are being attacked by Satan in your body OR you are experiencing pain now in your body and it equate it with the gift of the Discernment of Spirits (Spiritual Warfare), because I have never been hurt by my spiritual gift to detect Spiritual Warfare. However, I have experienced back pain for the last 6 weeks.  I don't consider this an attack of Satan or equate it with Spiritual Warfare per say, but it could be the first time I've been attacked I guess, but 2 days ago the Lord has healed about 95% of the pain and is progressively healing it during my quiet times at night.
 
  I usually sense SW, as pricklings on my shoulders. I have felt in my spirit certain things that occur with this warfare, whether in my personal life or in the news, and it usually plays itself out.  It's easier to isolate sporadic, but intense Spiritual Warfare, than to have a dull and constant Spiritual Warfare going on in your life because of some situation at work or something that is new or unknown in your life or meeting specific people and wondering why you experiencing warfare around that individual aside from noticing a person's continence.  When I sense warfare, I start asking the Lord questions as to what is this about repeatedly and more so if it intensifies.  If it is really intense, then I suspect something outside of my life and in the World is going on that will manifest itself in the physical realm soon. If it's my world, and dull and persistent, I usually take notice of the time of day, what I'm doing or what is happening around me, the days that it has persisted, and if I'm watching the news or hearing something on the radio, it helps to clear up if it's me or something in the world, after all these years, it's easy to ignore this, because it's so constant, that you would never get anything done if you spent your time wondering why all this warfare is going on, yet, I should repent of that, and pay more attention to this gift and really look at it as an awesome gift of God to protect me and as insider information, that God is giving me, it's a pretty awesome gift when you think about it, a real awesome gift. 
 
 I have to remind myself, that  Spiritual Warfare implies by its very nature, that there are opposing forces at work in the spirit realm, and that eventually it will manifest itself into the physical. I've seen this happen time and time again, it's not just evil at work doing whatever it wants, there is an opposite force at work, and we know that God is in ultimate control.
 
  I'd be curious as to what other believers are experiencing recently or how they experience Spiritual War and the last 5 to 6 years in the body of Christ. Is it me or is it kind of scary how Christians seem so deliberately disconnected and disinterested in fellowship, and so forth, so much nastiness and not living to the precepts or even striving to be Christ-like, maybe it's just my life experience, and different for others... 
 
 Peace,
 Anthony