This week I entered into a battle zone and got hit from behind. I was minding my own business, attending to details for a family celebration when the attack came suddenly and unexpectedly.
I wasn't willing to surrender to the accusations attempting to control and derail my faith, yet it still took sometime to sort through the confusion from the blow. I searched my heart, laying it bear before the Lord in case I was guilty of offense. When the Lord identified a week area I had negligent to guard in my wall of defense, I began to fortify through prayer.
It didn’t take long to realize that the confusion and intangible muck whirling around all pointed back to an element that couldn’t be identified with the eye. There was an invisible enemy (fear and unbelief) who had entered through an opening in the wall. And because fear produces the feeling of being out of control it in sighted the need to grasp for control in the one being attacked.
Later that day when a friend called to share the same onslaught transpiring in her life, we knew that like Debra and Jael in the book of Judges, Chapter 4, God had given us a strategy and the weapon to overtake this enemy.
It was time to turn back the battle at the gate. After perceiving the enemy we proceeded like Jael to put a tent peg through the enemies temple, (a tent peg of prayer that is) to slay the lies attacking the victims in their mind.
We prayerfully battled to release faith where fear had illegally encroached. In place of the disparaging whirlwind, we prayed that the Holy Spirit would send a wind of liberty to loose the yokes of control. Soon the confusion and oppression began to lift and liberty was able to dance back in. Now we must be faithful to continue to man our post, so the spirit of fear has no entrance in ourselves or the lives of those we love.
When we unexpectedly get hit from behind we need to remember the words of Paul in Galatians 5:1, “Stand strong therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of slavery.”
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses." 2 Corinthians 10:3-4