Spiritual Warfare

You may imagine one person yelling at another person who may "have a demon." You may think of when Jesus in the Bible would command unclean spirits to leave someone. In all reality, these are, you could say, the "highlight reels" of spiritual warfare. On the other hand, you have people living their best life just making it another day trying to make any type of sense of a particular situation they just can't seem to shake. Well... welcome to spiritual warfare!

You see, things are almost always not as they seem - in the light of intent, perception, purpose, and motive. We must seek to find the truth in any given situation if we desire to respond properly.

In each step of our journey through this experience we call "life," the Holy Spirit (referred to as the Comforter, Counselor, Helper, Teacher, or Advocate in the Bible) is right beside us, well, helping us.

So, what can we do this very moment to engage in this, "Spiritual Warfare" in a healthy AND effective way? Well, ask yourself these questions:

What do I want out of life?

What is my purpose?

Am I "saved?" (we'll get into that later)

How willing am I to allow my perception on things to change if it were for the better?

Who am I? (boy, is that a big one!)

These are just a few of the things we must ask ourselves, and have at least a general understanding of in order to engage in and be effective in spiritual warfare.

Let's do this!