On the issue of Spiritual Warfare, and the only two things you need to overcome it:

I’m going to be very cautious with what I write in this article, and how it is written as I am able to remain on solid ground that is incontrovertible, given the controversial and hyperbolic topic. 

Part of that caution is in me telling you, that this article is not for everyone in the least. And it damn sure isn’t for people who scoff at God and the Bible. 

I am a Child of God and you would best respect that. 

If you are a democrat, get out of this article. If you are someone that rejects the premise of Rights endowed only by God alone…. Get out

Not only do I know God, He knows me and has gifted me names that have called me out of my past shames and confusions to His knee by my spirit no different than through the ways of my ancestors to The First People. You would be wise to fear Him and anything that He gifts me to do and say.

However, if you are among the growing people I notice that are having or involved in conversations about Evil…and going so far as to be aware our nation appears to be involved in Spiritual Warfare. Welcome to the table. But if you have any type of military background, the words DANGER CLOSE should be vibrating your bones. Because the ground zero for the incoming is in the Heart and the Mind.

I am not going to fill this article with personal experiences… I can’t without turning this into a book. Which I already kinda did and have made it into a running series that I watered down through fiction and fantasy seasoned as an Action Thriller and gave it a cover illustration that is a personal invitation to what you have likely already survived if it reaches the target audience reader. 

Someone that has seen evil, been tempted, and walked away by the grace of God alone to be scarred and changed by it in ways that give any Christion their Testimony and reason why there is nothing you can take from us or do to us that will make us turn from Jesus our Savior. 

Spiritual Warfare and what it is may… begin… to best be understood by asking and understanding other types of warfare you are familiar with. Such as, what is physical warfare? Well that is where anything that can be thrown at you is used to make you surrender or die. Chemical radiological etc, doesn’t matter because it is material and can get flung at you with varying degrees of someone flinging a rock at your head or a child throwing a punch at your nose in grade school sandboxes. 

What is psychological warfare? Ahh, same thing where anything material or non is used to break your mind or make you surrender. 

Spiritual Warfare is little different in operations except who may be the Spirit in the Operator's seat and what weapons they are using to convert your nature into either an image of the beast…. Or an image of God. 

All you need is the bible, and Jesus. That is it. And anyone telling you otherwise is a liar. If you are telling yourself, “No I need something more to fight demons with” No, you are the liar.

“If you would prepare your heart, And stretch out your hands toward Him; ‭‭Job‬ ‭11:13‬ ‭ 

When they had come, they said to Him, “Teacher, we know that You are true, and care about no one; for You do not regard the person of men, but teach the way of God in truth. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not? ‭‭Mark‬ ‭12:14‬ 

say to those who plaster it with untempered mortar, that it will fall. There will be flooding rain, and you, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall tear it down. ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭13:11 

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭14:12

Operational Standards are spelled out in the bible. If you think there is any other magic book out there that has spells and stories that will help you defeat demons, you can’t be more wrong. And I don’t care who the writer is if it involves some other religion… non Christian or even written by your most highly acclaimed TBN televangelist or any priest or prophet or “prayer warrior” you can shake a stick at asking you for your money for prayer oils beads and prayers. Don’t take the baits to forsake God’s Word and His Son for any man or church or dumbo magic feather out there.

The best we can do as authors is….tell you a story as an artistic impression that may have some related events that might help you if you are lost from The Straight Way’s of The Lord. Or worse we can do, mislead you by appealing to your appetites and temptations into taking a broad and twisted path elsewhere. 

There are only two gifts that God gave you to overcome evil with your life. One is the bible. And the fingerprints and sovereignty of God is spelled out through every image, letter, and number to reach people seeking Him and guide and teach them. 

The other is His Son, Jesus. Who makes it a rather academic and easy process to win every engagement of Spiritual Warfare that can be flung at you. Because first of all, He already defeated satan and every enemy against you. Any claim otherwise is a lie designed to get you engaged in play fighting with evil and raise them from the dead. 

Because, the easy way to win every battle against you is simply focus on Jesus, never turn away from Him to engage in playtime with your enemies and play by their rules to have fun with them. 

So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says the Lord who does all these things.’ ‭‭‭‭Acts‬ ‭15:17‬ 

‭And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭16:18‬   ‭

‭‭As for me, I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I awake in Your likeness. Psalms‬ ‭17:15‬ 

But Jesus called them to Him and said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of God.  ‭‭Luke‬ ‭18:16‬ ‭ 

I have to wonder how many people can spot deep fakes. To know AI program generated images in difference from a gifted personal artist creator. 

I recently heard that the main reason for the writer and artist strike in hollywood is over the right to deep fake actors onto AI scripted CGI films 

“What’s that got to do with anything important and who the hell cares about hollywierd and the left coast” …I hear ya.

But what's that, “I’m neither left nor right” political answer when it comes to porn in your house? 

Ok not just porn, but child abuse porn…. Oh now we have a different animal hopefully. If you have a moral compass that functions at all well enough to know your left and right from. 

How about……. Porn that someone in your neighborhood swiped the image of a kid you know, or especially your child, deep faked into cgi and made themselves into the “star” of?

Yeah, I escalated that quick, and maybe you better start thinking about the whole issue of God involved in our politics here and what kind of morality we want promoted into our streets. Especially while your favorite political voice is whispering to your mind “What happens in someone elses bedroom isn’t your business” and “it isn’t evil if no one is hurt by it.”

Recreational drug abuse at home isn’t going to cause any harm in the streets, right? We just need to make it legal. 

You think the enemy does not want you confused, and operating with impaired moral judgement and critical thinking skills?

My most recent medical emergency was as bad as it gets. And excuse me if I make the note for your attention, not to brag that my experience in the emergency field that spans over two decades and involves me having worn hats for the military, fire, law enforcement, and EMS. I consider myself on the sweet and spicy side of seasoned at this point where, again not bragging, academic PHD’s in ER’s are my peers by my experience which also includes running in ER’s for over six years in addition to nearly all of the other in the field. If you have been in the field more than a decade, you aren't there by accident and stupidity when five years is an average length that emergency responders experience PTSD...and burn out. And very very few of us can say they been there and back and keep going. 

You should get the picture that when I say I was dealing with a critical patient, I’m not exaggerating. However, I was the patient in this case. I avoided the ER, which would be against any Medical Advice I would give to any patient and no doctor would ever give to anyone with what I had. 

Which appears was brought on by Toxic Food ingestion. However, it may have been something slightly less likely, or aided by the unlikely. Either way… I was a very sick and very hurt pup recently. 

And as much as I would love to tell you the story of how I prayed to God and angels showed up and satan was cast out of my body and I instantly stood up and walked off my near death bed…. Not so much. 

Did I shove things down my throat I didn’t want? You bet. And I don’t mean chems or drugs either. I induced vomiting among other treatments to get the job done that had to be done for my survival. 

I straight out went to war against myself.

Now don’t take all that to mean I was not healed by faith, nor necessarily that I was not experiencing Spiritual Warfare. But maybe I wasn’t?

If you think I was not in a place of vulnerability, doubt, and temptation…pain. I envy the shelter you have enjoyed. Because for about 20 hours I was in the worst physical shape I have experienced… with family friends and 911 and all of that a call away. While also very aware of how risky my choices were to my health and not letting professionals make me better. 

All of what was going on with my body though is between me and a doctor to judge. And no doubt, any doctor with a brain would be wagging their finger at me through a lowered brow. Also…everything going through my mind, is between me and God. My medical advice, do not follow my example unless you exactly know what you are doing. Which means you will know what treatments are needed and unnecessary based on the Correct Diagnoses. 

So I won't share all of those details with the public, but I will share just this much about it. 

I did confront the question of why we don’t seem to see many miracles in a world full of evil. Why God doesn’t seem to answer prayers. And I faced those challenges from the enemy from a position of despair and suffering at my weakest.

And the obvious to me answers, were validated and proven true. 

God made US to be the miracles He Created and the answer to prayers. He gave us the power of critical thinking skills, and moral judgment to settle problems we face, and prevent them from happening. And this same God… gave the Bible and His Son to perform those same functions in our life. Anything that takes any of that from you is from the evil to steal, kill….and destroy you.

That does not mean that bad stuff is never going to happen to us…God knows we are far from perfect or we would need no Grace from Him to beg His pardon by.  But it does mean following Him is the only path to overcoming any…thing this world can and will use that can be said and done against you to make you surrender or die.

Oh… but you want to fight back?

Learn from the Master and take your orders from Him. Otherwise, you won't have a clue when to use the gifts from God much less how to use them.

Sic Vis Pacem Para Bellum. If you aren't in His Word every chance you have, you are robbing yourself the preparation you need for your next challenge. And people depend on you to succeed. 

And he said to him, “See, I have favored you concerning this thing also, in that I will not overthrow this city for which you have spoken. ‭‭Genesis‬ ‭19:21‬ ‭  

‭‭And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. John‬ ‭20:22‬ ‭ 

‭then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city. ‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭21:19‬ ‭ 

He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! ‭Revelation‬ ‭22:20‬

Now, the real question you need to face is, who’s image is on you?

Who is the abomination of desolation in your holy place?

Do you even know what your holy place is, child? Or are you the child of God that can rise, kill, and eat under the battle cry. 

HAIL HAIL THE LION OF JUDAH WHO REIGNS SUPREME AS THE CHOSEN LAMB OF GOD OF ISRAEL WHO BLESSES OUR GREAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!

It’s funny how to my ears the words Hallelujah can sound so much like Hail Hail. 

And it is not surprising to me at all that an enemy of God has no clue if it is facing a lamb or lion until it’s too late and too close. 

‭‭Job‬ ‭11:13‬ ‭‭Mark‬ ‭12:14‬ ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭13:11 ‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭14:12‬ 

‭‭‭Acts‬ ‭15:17‬ ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭16:18‬  ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭17:15‬ ‭‭Luke‬ ‭18:16‬ 

‭‭‭Genesis‬ ‭19:21‬ ‭‭‭John‬ ‭20:22‬ ‭‭‭Deuteronomy‬ ‭21:19‬ ‭‭Revelation‬ ‭22:20‬ ‭