Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Day 9 – Attacks and Aggravations!



Today is proving to be challenging.  The devil always gets real mad when we go into warfare.  He tries to throw problems and obstacles into our paths to stop us.  He has certainly done that today, so today I am asking you to pray for me.

The insomnia continues to be a problem, as are the chronic headaches, but I can live with that, for now.  I’m having a lot of trouble with the headache, mental confusion and procrastination today.  That battle ebbs and flows, according to how strong my Princess Warrior is feeling.  She feels a little weak today. 

However – I am a nervous wreck because of my deadline on my IRS issue. It is a very huge, very complicated mess that I have let grow into a monster because I just did not know what to DO with it!!!  PLEASE pray with me this will all get sorted out without causing a huge financial crisis for me.  I had rather get a root canal with no anesthesia than deal with an issue like this.  Resolving this will be a huge monkey off my back! 

On top of that, my prayer partner got very  SICK.  She couldn’t make it this morning, and I suspect she won’t be able to make it tomorrow either.  The devil is attacking her, too.  That is the crazy thing ….. when things start happening in the spirit world, you get attacked…. and attacked….  Every morning before we start our warfare, we pray protection over ourselves and our families, our pets, and our property!!!  No telling WHAT would happen if we didn’t pray that.  One of my prayer partner moms started some strong intercession for one of her kids yesterday……….and last night, their CAR got burglarized. However, she did pray protection before she prayed for her child.  The burgling perpetrators were actually caught! I thought that was just great.

The devil hates it when we go to war.  We have demonic tormenters assigned to each of us, just like we have guardian angels assigned by God.  Our dark angels have been watching man ever since man was created.  They are very ancient, and fearsomely intelligent.  They have seen every sin, and they have sent temptation for every sin.  Each one of them has personally wrecked multiple thousands of lives.  They cannot read our minds, but they sure can read our actions, body language/facial expressions, hear every word we say, watch us even while we sleep, and they can certainly speak to us.  They affect the behaviors of others toward us by working through others, using their voices, their hands, and their feet.  (Anyone with young adult children knows this very well --- when those offspring hit the supernaturally inspired rebellion stage, which can last for years, dealing with them can be like dealing with the most contrary, perverse demon this side of hell……which is EXACTLY what you ARE dealing with!) Demons are EXPERTS on the behaviors of man.  They have established strongholds for individual weaknesses within each family.  Therefore, they know where to strike the children, because the stronghold was already built up with the father, or even beyond.  The Word says that the sins of the fathers can be passed down for 10 generations.  This is why you often find that grandpa is alcoholic, then son, then grandson. 

When dark angels see their established kingdoms begin to fall because a Christian who has discovered their authority in Jesus Christ goes into battle against them, they are infuriated.  They will do everything possible to maintain the evil structure they have built.  Their sole purpose for even being is to STEAL, KILL, and DESTROY.  Compassion or mercy is not part of their make-up.  They possess only hate.   In retaliation against Christians who fight against them and try to prevent them stealing, killing and destroying, they attack the family, the finances/resources, and the health.  If you think you can prevail against a dark angel without the help of Jesus Christ, you are sadly mistaken.  Such a powerful being will ANNIHILATE you!!   

HOWEVER…. when you, as a Christian, learn how to use the authority Jesus Christ bequeathed you when He died on the cross, you can utilize that authority through your actions and prayers, and make those dark kingdoms fall like a house of cards!!   THAT is why they will do everything in their power to prevent your learning about how to successfully wage war.  Their favorite ploy to prevent Christians learning how to war is to tell people that SPIRIT WARRIORS ARE CRAZY!!! Don't deny it... if you come from any background other than Pentecostal, that is probably what you currently believe, or what you DID believe!  However, the truths of spiritual warfare are now slowly creeping into nearly EVERY denomination.  You may be unknowingly sitting in the pew next to a Spirit Warrior this Sunday morning.  One of the most powerful Princess Spirit Warriors I know is a Lutheran over at Lamb of God.  A few years ago, such a thing would have been unheard of within a Lutheran denomination.  I know another warrior who is Anglican, and he's a Spirit Warrior beyond comparison!  The very first Spirit Warrior I ever met, about 25 years ago, was a conservative Baptist minister who was about 80 years old!!

There is a Christian based recovery group out there meeting in churches all over town, called Celebrate Recovery, which many of people of faith prefer over AA because you are allowed to say "Jesus" there without being thrown out.  During the time I regularly attended for a year to over come my grief issues, I made an interesting discovery. Many CR (Celebrate Recovery) groups have a high number of Spirit Warriors in attendance.  You might prefer to call them freedom fighters. Many of them have grown to realize that they cannot kick their addiction or overcome their issue without actively warring in the supernatural realms. You generally find them by asking around, because they don't wear gold name tags labeled "Spirit Warrior".

The WORD says “Resist the devil and he will FLEE from you!”  However, he usually creates a big stink in your personal dimension before he flees.  One must persevere, and not give up, in order to receive the breakthrough.  One very effective strategy when dealing with dark angels messing with your mind and trifling with your thought life and feelings by lying to you is to pick up your Bible and read OUT LOUD Ezekiel 28 and Isaiah 14.  These chapters address Satan’s downfall.  You may need to read for several minutes.  You may need to read the chapter twice.  It is far more effective when you read the words aloud.  They cannot read your mind, but they can certainly HEAR you.  Their ears are very sharp!!!  They hear every word you say, especially the words you say which give them legal rights to establish access to your life.  They certainly hear the Biblical words that talk about their downfall and ultimate fate.  Hearing those words is like torture to them.  It’s like pouring salt on a slug…..  This may sound twisted..... but I LOVE TO SENSE OR WATCH THEM WRITHE.  They have caused me so much pain and destruction, their writhing gives me immense satisfaction!!!!  I glory in their writhing!!

Almost 100% of the time, when you read these chapters out loud, you will experience almost immediate relief from the oppression they are bringing against your mind.  Try it. Remember, when we were kids, and we watched the old black and white Dracula movies? When someone pulled out a cross, he recoiled in horror and backed off his victim.  That's how demons behave when you read these Biblical passages aloud to them.  Email me.  Let me know how it works for you.  It is one of my favorite strategies.

I must share a little bit of humor with you.  Some of you enjoy reading my casual Facebook posts about the silly anecdotes of my adult children.  If you do, you know I have a somewhat warped and weird sense of humor.  I have enough stories to write volumes, if I’d just harness my memories and document it all.  My 28 year old daughter and 9 year old grand daughter live with me.  My daughter is not where she ought to be with the Lord right now, so I am doing a lot of intercession for her.  She seldom attends church with me.  She gets a little freaked out when I start talking about demonic, supernatural activity, but she totally BELIEVES because she’s SEEN!!   However, she prefers not to discuss it or delve into it.  She gets a little scared, because she well knows she is not in the spiritually protected place under the Lord's wing, where she needs to be.  

She once had a horrifying encounter with the spirit world when she was about 16, playing with her friends experimenting with witchcraft rituals using rocks and candles.  Let us say, when a huge, ugly, gray, scaley,  demonic entity appeared, filling up the entire corner of the room, snarling "You called?"  she immediately realized it was NOT play!  I had to do a lot of praying with her over that one!  I also had to cast him out of my house.  He hung around for quite awhile before I knew about it, apparently terrorizing her the whole time. To this day, 10 years later, she still won't go into that particular bedroom, which used to be her old room. I asked her "Well, if you invited him into the house, ya really think he's gonna just hang out only in the bedroom, girlie, he probably had the run of the whole house when he was here!!!"

I often experience insomnia.  Some of this has been caused by spiritual phenomena, some not.  It was especially bad after the death of my husband.  Also, I’ve  been  battling with the ornery antics of my wayward children for years.  Let us be very diplomatic and say they are plagued with many of the same evil entities that caused their biological father so many issues.  Breakthrough for them is part of why I have been called to 30 days of warfare.  
 
Sometimes when I cannot sleep at night, if the issue is spiritual (You would not believe some of the horrible lies I hear – well you actually might, if you hear the same ones) I pull out the Bible and start striding back and forth through my house in the wee hours, reading Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 out loud.  Sometimes, very loud.  Occasionally, this wakes my daughter up.  She used to come out of her room, hunt me down, stare at me in shock and awe as I emphatically strode back and forth over the carpet reading in a loud voice,"Thou wast PERFECT in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till INIQUITY was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I WILL CAST THEE AS PROFANE out of the mountain of God: and I will DESTROY THEE, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of FIIIIIRRREE!!!!!!"  

I love this stuff, I really get into it, if you can't tell.  I guess it COULD be a disturbing sight, seeing your Mom in her leopard nightgown with hair all wild, carrying the big, coffee table version of the Bible through the house reading aloud with great vehemence about destruction of Satan with the interesting verses about pits and fires and maggots and worms and whatnot.  The coffee table Bible is the one I like to carry through the house reading aloud, because the passages sound so much more threatening when read aloud from the coffee table King James.  With eyes getting rounder by the second, she'd blurt out "Moootherrrrrr, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?? Have you lost your mind?  WHY??  WHY are you doing THAT??”

 It used to freak her out some. She’d stare at me with very round eyes for several minutes, then walk off to bed, shaking her head.  Then she got used to it.  Now, she’ll just stick her head out of her room and crisply shout “MOM!!  Can you read a little quieter to those demons, please??”

The other day, she was acting really ugly toward me.  This is the daughter who was molested by her biological father, so she is still struggling with emotional issues which often manifest inappropriately toward me. She has no contact with him, so with whom shall she be angry but me??   I was cooking at the stove, and she was just being flat out rude and hateful.  So instead of getting on her case, because I knew right where the garbage was coming from, I started binding the spirits using her voice to speak so hatefully to me.  I was doing it under my breath, so as to not make waves with her.  I suppose she heard me anyhow.  She spun around suspiciously and snapped “MOTHERRRRRR!!  What are you doing? You are over there talking to yourself like a crazy person, WHY?” Pause. “OH!!! WELL!!  Yeah, I GUESS I KNOW WHY!”  

She KNEW why, because it’s a thing I do fairly regularly!! So she angrily flounced off…. not saying another WORD.  She might have been in a MIFF, but it WORKED!!!!  The ugly talk was over, and she later apologized.  For some reason, I found a lot of humor in that particular situation.  It was like a zipper just passed right across her lips when I started binding that stuff.  She is a sweet girl at heart, and that stuff really isn’t her.  Every time she is dealing with an issue, she asks me to pray for her. The occasional progress I see in her life is the reason I tolerate her shenanigans in my home.  I have faith that ONE DAY she will completely surrender to the Lord.  She is far more open to His leading that any of my other children.

My son isn’t speaking to me right now.  He’s been angry since Christmas.  He is in the middle of a serious battle with alcohol and other things.  But, sometimes he calls his sisters, and tells them “Hey, tell MOM to pray some of her crazy prayers for me, OK, cuz I think when she prays them, they are working!”

Do you hear that?  They think my prayers are crazy, and they think I am a little nuts for all my dealings with the supernatural spirit world…. BUT THEY KNOW WHO TO CALL WHEN THEY NEED TO GET PRAYED FOR.  And they doggone well don’t hesitate!!  Anytime they are going on a job interview (which is pretty often) or going to COURT (which is even more often) they ask crazy MOM for prayer!!

Yeeeessssss.......  I well understand how weird and crazy this all sounds!  I was raised Baptist, remember??? Craziness like this wasn't DONE.  Period.  They would have hauled a person like me out the doors in a strait jacket from the church I grew up in. No matter how weird or crazy many people find this topic, I am in excellent company.  There are MORE of  US Spirit Warriors out here than you'd ever dream. And, when you read through your Bible, there is an incident in the New Testament where Jesus's own family wanted to lock him up because they thought HE was crazy!!  Crazy doesn't bother me at all. 

You are in a WAR.  It’s not a battle.  If you have to get crazy to win, GET CRAZY.  When it comes to your LIFE failing or succeeding, your kids living or dying, do you REALLY care what people who disagree with you think?  I have ceased to care altogether.  The freedom of myself and family is worth whatever it costs me in the way of outside relationships and worldly opinion!  You’ll win some battles, and you’ll lose some.  The closer to Jesus you get, the more battles you’ll win.  However, even though you sometimes lose, the ultimate goal is to WIN THE WAR.  Go to war to GET YOUR KIDS BACK.   Go to war to GET YOUR MARRIAGE BACK.  Go to war to GET MARRIAGE, PERIOD.   Go to war to GET YOUR FINANCES BACK.  Go to war to GET YOUR HEALTH BACK.  Go to war to GET WHATEVER WAS STOLEN BACK!  If you don't think you can, I assure you, YOU CAN.  If I can do it, anybody can.

Welcome to war, fellow pilgrims.  There is strength in numbers.  Get crazy, rouse your Warrior Spirit and fight alongside me.  Prepare yourself with knowledge of how to acquire freedom and the strategies of spiritual warfare.  God is getting ready to do great and marvelous things.   

The first thing I have to do is to successfully make it through the rest of this day…..  However, all is not lost.  As I sit up here in the computer room, dealing with all these boxes of files trying to sort out this tax mess.....with a sweet doggie snuggled up in the dog bed at my feet, KLOVE ONLINE is playing.  Before he passed away, my sweet hubby bought me a great set of speakers for my computer.  All corners of this room are permeated with praise music..... they are playing great stuff today. So sometimes, I just stop and get into my praise.  PRAISE BROUGHT DOWN THE WALLS OF JERICHO.  Twyla-Jericho-Wall, YOU ARE COMING DOWN!! In Jesus' name, you're DONE!!!!!

MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

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