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