The Nature of Spiritual Warfare

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by Melissa Yong

Posted on 8/07/09.
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A deeper look at spiritual warfare and its workings.

If you were a boss of a company and hated the boss of the rival company next door, what sort of things would you do? Think of all the movies and stories you know and make a list eg. sabotage, turn people against the other boss, make his company look bad.

Satan would do these things against God and His kingdom.
Can you identify any of Satan's strategies at work in your life/your family/school/workplace?

God loves people and wants them to spend eternity with Him. Satan therefore HATES people, especially the Church, who has been given power over him.

Read John 3:16 & 2 Peter 3:9.

Application: Think about this love of God and respond to that love with prayer and praise, then ask God to reveal the urgency of the following to you: every spiritual battle is fought over WHICH KINGDOM will rule PEOPLE and their ETERNAL DESTINY.

Post Script:

Many times, a spiritual battle is hard to identify, just like it was difficult for the crew of the Nebuchadnezzer (The Matrix) to realise that their plans and positions were being revealed to the enemy by one of their own. There were obvious battles when the enemy turned up, but the subtler plays of the enemy were missed until the traitor Cypher was uncovered.

Notice how the physical troubles seemed unrelated to the spiritual until God revealed it.
What lessons can we learn from this story?

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