Christainity, particularly in America has become a place of passivity and complacency. We see the world, and culture coming and dominating the faith and the church, we are focusing more and more on how we can defend ourselves and keep our ways, and I look and I see this, and I cannot help but feel like we are missing something.

I think of the early church, of the great heroes of the old testament, and I wonder to myself and cannot help but ask myself, where did we go wrong, how did we lose ourselves so much? We have moved past turn the other cheek, and rather we have rolled over and given away ground, ground that so many have fought and died for… but this is not who we are called to be.

Christianity was never called to a place of appeasement, Jesus never cared if he offended or overstepped on cultural norms, we are called after a lineage of warriors, whom would charge through the enemy lines to get their king a sip of water from a well, we are from a line of people who smiled as they were stoned to death and crucified upside down for their RADICAL faith in the Most High God.

We must retake our place as men and women who are willing to fight darkness, not only to defend what we have, but we must go into the enemy’s camp, we must take back the lands that have been lost to us. We are called to be conquerors, but we act not like conquerors, but as one conquered. We give and give and are brought to a place of spiritual submission and bondage, but this is not who we are.

We must become roaring lions of the Christian faith, taking the spiritual fight to our enemy, the principalities, the powers and the spiritual hosts of wickedness that permeate our world, learning to engage in spiritual warfare at all levels, until we are able to finally advance the kingdom and save our neighbors, and hopefully our nation.

Let us seek God, and turn to HIM in all our ways, that we may glorify and exalt HIM always, and pray that He raise up a generation of spiritual warriors ready to take back what the enemy stole.

Amen.