Why We Fight
Since the beginning of time, God has ordained seasons in our life. There is a time for love, and hate, a time for peace and a time for war. A time to plant and a time to gather what was planted. Just as the seasons change in nature, we experience a changing of seasons in our natural lives. After the season of crushing that all Christians will go through comes a time of renewal and refreshing from the Most High God. Often times we miss out on the season of refreshing because Satan attempts through various means to extend the times of crushing. Just like how the Israelites had to fight to gain their promised land so must we secure spiritual victory in order to see it manifested in the physical realm.
God has already blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 1:1). God always declares the end from the beginning, calling those things that be not as though they were. When God says that as believers in Christ we already have every spiritual blessing and that He has given us all things pertaining to life in godliness, then our job is to know that this is so. However, the enemy of our souls will not just let us possess the promise without a fight. Better yet Satan will love nothing more than to keep us trapped into thinking that this is just how life is. If you find yourself stuck in an endless loop of setbacks, always on the brink of a breakthrough but never attaining the victory, this is a sure sign that Satan has you trapped. The good news is that God has given us the tools we need to change the narrative of our life. Let's dive into the weapons of our warfare!
The Armor of God
No country waging war will send soldiers into the field without equipping them for battle first. The apostle Paul first identifies who the true enemy is (intel) in Ephesians 6:11-12. Our true enemy in life are spirits operating under the kingdom of darkness and their willing human agents. These human agents act as a flow through for demonic spirits to operate in our realm. Just like the church prays for God's will to be done on Earth so to do Satan's children pray, levy curses and facilitate for Satan's will to be done on Earth. The human agents are the puppets masking the true spiritual enemy identified in Ephesians 6:11-12. Our true focus must be on the spiritual puppet masters behind the scenes and to that end God has given us spiritual armor.
Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 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. Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand, stand. Therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace, above all taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
The armor of God is designed for offense and defense for the child of God. For some Christians the thought of fighting spiritual entities is illogical. To that end I would question why do they serve an invisible God and assume that there isn't an invisible enemy diligently working to thwart Gods' purpose on Earth. The armor of God is actual spiritual equipment that must be put on each day. Especially at night or before you go to sleep. When we sleep is when we are most vulnerable and it is also when the curtain between the spirit world and the physical world is fluid. In our sleep is when we often engage our spirit enemies. I'll write on that in a different article, on another day.
The armor of God was not made for the child of God to retreat. From the sword of the Spirit to the shield of faith every article was made to help the believer to stand their ground and fight the enemy. Our orders are to either go on the offense and take ground or defend the hard-fought position that was already won.
