This is the Prologue excerp from my book on spiritual warfare I hope to have published this year.

The LORD our GOD had set the writing of this down upon my heart in order that I may be able to attempt to shine some light on a topic that I believe is of the utmost importance and yet is relatively ignored by the church abroad, and there is a certain level of misunderstanding and at times fear of discussing it, particularly amongst college age Christians who face some of the largest attacks from the enemy, as such I hope purely to create a source of information designed to clarify these misgivings. It is not my wish that any individual should think that they should go seeking after spiritual battles, for it is not wise for any man to go seeking for battles and wars neither of the physical nor of the spiritual type, but it is important that we should be educated about these spiritual battles because we will find ourselves engaged in warfare at many times in our lives. There is nothing wrong with educating ourselves about spiritual warfare; in fact it is only by ensuring that we have a clear biblical understanding that we will be able to see victories in our lives over the strongholds of our enemy. In this book I look to discuss the three keys of engaging in spiritual warfare, the first being a strong biblical foundation, the next how we are to defend ourselves and finally how we are to finally become offensive and take back what the enemy has captured and put in bounds, it is our responsibility to offer the freedom of God to those who are kept in bonds.

When the people of God were returning home and rebuilding Jerusalem after their time in captivity, the enemies of the people of God turned to the king, the high court, and used it to the disadvantage of the people of God. They knew what to say and how to say it in order to get their way, how often in today’s day and age we see the wicked using the American judicial system to attack the Church, we must not be afraid to fight back, to educate and raise up our own judicial warrios to learn the law and how to defend it and our nation.

In Ezra we read how the coalition against Jerusalem, lead by Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, Rehum, Shimshai, and all their companions, had sent a letter to the new king in the first year of his reign, to the end that they may prevent this righteous act from being accomplished. They went on about the past of the city, and how powerful the jews were, and convinced the king that their work must be stopped.

This story should resonate with us and how the modern day court systems is being used to attack conservative values at all levels, especially those from a Christian background, this malicious assault on the church can only be prevented if we fight back, no longer the people who turn the other cheek when wronged, if we want to survive we must learn to fight back in the same way our enemies have been, not fighting dirty or illegally, but using the justice system, and the law to defend ourselves and our rights, that Godliness can abound.

Amen.

I refuse to be united to violence, I refuse to be united to hate, I refuse to be united to the murder of babies, I refuse to be united to socialism, I refuse to be united to communism, I refuse to be united to sin, I refuse to be united to a lack of morality, I refuse to be united to the corruption of our nation, I refuse to be united to hypocrisy, I refuse to be united to rioters and looters, I refuse to be united with those who only accept their view, I refuse to be united with those who will seek further infringements upon the 2nd amendment, I refuse to be united with those who call that which is good bad and that which is bad good.

Dear Father in heaven,

Raise up a combative Spirit in your people stir our spirits to fight the good fight Lord. Breathe life into our bones, and raise an army that will give a shout, a shout of triumph that breaks walls and causes armies to fall. Raise an army of your people oh God, an army of conquerors, who will shout to the LORD of hosts! Raise an army who will take our faith out into the streets and spread your word God, that we may take your sword and spread your Gospel to all the nations.

Amen!

God is going through a refining process, seperating those who are seeking to serve Him, and those who are serving with lip service, and are vain glorious man pleasers. In the book of Leviticus we see the teaching of seperating, seperating the sick, and the sinners from the healthy and the righteous, the idea of this was to prevent the spread of sickness from the rest of the people, not by seperating the healthy, but by seperating the sick that they may recover, and to seperate the unrighteous from the righteous that their unrighteousness would not spread, so too we must not look to seperate our healthy, but the sick only that they may recover and come back into the camp.

So many want to seperate all people right now, the sick and the healthy, and to treat all people as sick, to live in fear of diseases and death, but we are called not to live in fear, but to always serve the LORD our God, the God of the living to whom all creation sings praises.

The unrighteous and the deniers of God want to push God out of our nation, these individuals serve their masters of wickedness and push their dark agendas, but we must stand strong and stand in the gap, working for God towards righteousness.

God is seperating those who will allow governments and men to tell them when they can worship together and join in fellowship, how many believers can be together and where they can gather, from those who refuse to live in fear, but will say enough is enough I know who my God is, He is the Lord mighty and strong, the Lord dressed for battle, to whom all victory belongs.

God is using this time to seperate His people from those who only call themselves by his name. God’s people are becoming bolder in the face of these times, and stand on the verge of a great spiritual awakening. God is helping His people to not live in fear, but to say in the face of adversity and persecution we will serve our God always.

Amen.

We have not been called into a spirit of fear, we have the spirit of a conqueror deep within our breast. We have the strength to throw down strongholds, we can tear down demonic fortresses, we can withstand any assaults, but you must know how to fight, you must be ready to defend yourself and your family. Wolves are creatures that develop packs and ancestral homes, they find a den and make their homes there. Wolves will defend their territory to the death against rival packs that try to move into their hunting grounds, we too must stand to defend our homes unto death, this is a part of our responsibility. Knowing when the enemy is coming after and attacking our friends and family should stir up such anger and righteous wrath within us that we stand strong in our calling to tear down these oppressions. We must grit our teeth and show our strength, we must show our tenacity and our passion to defend our loved ones, these are our tribes, our people the ones we are called to love and defend, our fellow men and women, our neighbors and it is they who we must fight for, the more that they deny our beliefs the more we must fight for them, the more power the enemy seems to have in their life the more we must speak God’s word into their lives. I’ve seen countless times in which the enemy has tried to break Christians down as well as their families, but I’ve seen as many instances in which Christians defend themselves with God’s word. Read it, learn it and study it that you might be able to stand firm in your faith and your knowledge of God.

Amen.

Our world is in dire straits, from a year of governments shutting down our lives, to civil unrest, to questionable election activity, to now a quickly escalating military crisis on the Eastern European front that some speculate could set the stage to WW3.

In the U.S. there has become more division and animosity amongst the citizens that some feel another civil war could be lurking around the corner, and if American history truly is mirroring the history of the Roman Empire, then those speculations might just be correct.

With everything going on, it is easy to become discouraged, to feel overwhelmed and hopeless, but we do not need to feel this way. Our hope is not in this world, but is in and of a better, eternal paradise in which the chaos and turmoil of this age will no longer be.

Beyond even that however, we have another hope, a hope that the chaos and evil that has become so rampant on our world, the wickedness that has dug its claws in so deep that we ponder if the wounds will ever be able to heal, and even if they should how could the scars ever give way to something beautiful again, will surely lose.

We know that evil will not, does not and cannot win nor endure forever. Right now when the chaos and darkness seem to be thriving that we wonder, in the words of Tolkien…

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien.

There is a hope of a brighter day, but it won’t come on it’s own. Our enemy is tireless, sleepless and spends every second of every day fighting to tear down this good and beautiful world, but we cannot allow that. We must cling to hope, and be willing to stand up when the call comes. We must be ready, even when fear, anxiety and despair want to drown us, ready to cry out in hope to our God, knowing His plans of redemption and victory and peace cannot be undone nor overcome, no matter how dark the night is, but the night is always darkest before the dawn.

Stand strong brother and sisters, and do not lose hope.

Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord Jesus Christ, mercy and peace to all. I write now this letter as an urgent call to any and all that read it, that we may take up our arms and fight against wickedness in all places. Our world is under siege, and the walls are nearly down, but the fight is not yet over, we can still push through to victory. I must urge each and every Christian to fight back, Fight back from the prayer closets, lifting our voices in a unified cry for help from God, knowing that He will hear us. Fight back in the streets, fight back in ardent faithfulness and urnest desire to serve God, lifting up a battle cry.

Let us all pray, a prayer that touches on the most important aspects of our current fight, let us each lift up in unified prayer the following:

Oh God whose habitation is in the holiest of holies, who dwells in the sacred places, God who is beyond all mortal understanding and who deserves to be glorified and praised all day and all night by all of creation, glory to the Holy One. God what is man that you would do so much for those who do so little, those of such little faith, how truly great our God must be, greater than any other being, for His mercy endures and is renewed everyday for us. Praise and honor to the Lord our God.

God, forgive us, for we have sinned. As a people we have turned our backs on you, chasing after vain imaginations and focusing our hearts on the things of this world. Your people have turned to chase after the gods of this world, and we no longer look any different from those who are of this world. God forgive us through your son, and look on us in mercy, drive your anger from us and repent of your anger toward us oh Lord. God strengthen our hearts and our wills, help us to look toward you and seek your face.

God, hold back thine hand and judgements for a season more, rather raise up more workers. Raise up a spirit in your people that we would be willing to do your work and your will. Raise up an army of spiritual warriors who love not their lives, but you above all else. Put it into our hearts that we would go into the streets, the cities, the nations and preach the message of Christ.

We pray that you will soften the hearts of the nonbelievers that they might be ready and willing to receive your word and be saved.

All this we pray in Jesus name, let it be according to your will Father.

Amen.