I left that dinner so troubled, so confused. I said, “Lord, I don’t want to even try to believe this.” It removes all my confidence and security.<\/p>\n
When I went to seek the Lord, it was ten days, the Lord did two things. He did not only confirm the things I had heard, He opened my mind to see a lot more that this man could not tell us of what happens in the spiritual realm.<\/p>\n
And two, He led me to see what we are supposed to do as the things are happening so that we are not overcome but that we can overcome.\u00a0And we need to know three things and really come to terms with these three things.<\/p>\n
1) How to operate with the weapons of our warfare. The Bible calls them the armor of God.<\/p>\n
It is not our armor; it is God’s armor.\u00a0When we use it, we allow God to fight on our behalf.\u00a0He will fight for us to the extent we allow him to do so.<\/p>\n
2) Understand the relationship of the ministering spirits-the angels-to our spiritual lives. And to be sensitive to what is happening in our hearts as a leading to what needs to be happening in the spirit concerning us.<\/p>\n
3) The Holy Spirit is not supposed to come as our servant, serving us, and bringing things to us.<\/p>\n
He does not run to and fro to the Father to tell Him what we need. That is the work of angels. But He stands by our side. Doing what? Guiding us, teaching us, empowering us, leading us, helping us to pray the right way.<\/p>\n
And when these things are happening in the spiritual realm, He tells us, sometimes He wakes you up in the night and says, “Pray.” You say, “No! My time is not yet come.” And He says, “Pray now!” Why? He sees what is happening in the spirit.\u00a0 Sometimes He says, “Tomorrow-fasting!” You say, “Oh, no, I’ll start on Monday!”<\/p>\n
But He understands what is happening in the spiritual realm. We should learn to be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. He guides us in the paths of righteousness.<\/p>\n
Beloved, we’ve got to stop here. Maybe tomorrow morning, we can talk about how we can pray through, knowing the battles in the spirit and how we can break through.<\/p>\n
How we can maintain our breakthrough once we have scored it.\u00a0And once we learn this, it becomes enjoyable.\u00a0Then we learn one thing: the battle is not ours; the battle is of the Lord! Hallelujah!<\/p>\n
Ministering Spirits<\/p>\n
This man said that every Christian has got an angel serving that Christian. Now, we know the Bible says angels are ministering spirits to us.<\/p>\n
He said that when people pray, the answer comes in the hands of the angel. The angel brings the answer like we can read it in the book of Daniel.<\/p>\n
Then he said something really tough; if the one who prays knows the spiritual armors and is clothed with them, the answer comes by an angel who is also clothed in full armor.<\/p>\n
If the one who prays doesn’t care about spiritual armory, their angels come without spiritual armor.<\/p>\n
Christians who don’t care about what kind of thoughts come into their minds. They don’t fight the battle of their minds. Their angels come without the helmet.<\/p>\n
Whatever spiritual weapon you ignore on earth, the angel doesn’t have it as he serves you. In other words, our spiritual armor is not protecting our physical bodies; it’s protecting our spiritual exploits.<\/p>\n
This man said, when the angel is coming, they would focus and look at him and notice the areas which are not covered, and those are the areas they would attack.<\/p>\n
If he has no helmet, they would shoot at his head. If he has no breastplate, they would shoot at his chest. If he has no shoes, they would make a fire that he is walking in the fire.<\/p>\n
Now, I am just repeating what this man said.\u00a0 Actually, we asked him, “Can angels feel fire?” And you know what he said to us? Remember this is a spiritual realm. These are spirits dealing with spirits.<\/p>\n
The battle is intensive, and when they overpower an angel of God, the first thing they target is the answer he is carrying, and they get that from him, that is what they give through the cults, the witchcraft, and people say, “I got this because of witchcraft.”<\/p>\n
Answer<\/p>\n
If it is in the temptation to sexuality, the enemy will prepare people, events, something that will suddenly draw out that passion to go towards that temptation.<\/p>\n
And if that man yields to this temptation and opens up his mind to receive these thoughts, entertains them, when he is through with everything and wants to move again in the anointing, he just discovers it is no longer there.<\/p>\n
Maybe you say, “That’s not fair.” Just remember what the Bible says, “Put on the helmet of salvation.\u00a0Put on the breastplate of righteousness.”<\/p>\n
We normally do not see the position, the place of these weapons of warfare. But remember what Jesus told us to pray towards the end of the Lord’s prayer, “Take us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”<\/p>\n
Every time you have a breakthrough in prayer, as you come to the end, remember you are still a weak human being.\u00a0Remember you have not yet been perfected.<\/p>\n
Ask the Lord, say “Lord, I’ve enjoyed this time of prayer, but when I walk out into this world, lead me not into temptation.\u00a0 Don’t allow me to walk into the devil’s trap.<\/p>\n
I know the enemy is setting a trap out there. I don’t know what form it is going to take.\u00a0And I know I am still weak in certain areas.<\/p>\n
If I am just put in the right place, I will not yield to that.\u00a0Protect me, Lord.\u00a0When you see me turning that corner where the trap is, just cause me to turn to the other side.\u00a0 Intervene, O Lord.\u00a0Don’t allow me to move by just my own personal ambition, strength, and ability.\u00a0Deliver me from the evil one.<\/p>\n
God is able to do that.\u00a0He is able.\u00a0That is why sometimes things happen, all you need to say is, “Thank you, Jesus.”<\/p>\n
That’s why Apostle Paul wrote in the book of Thessalonians and said, “Thank God in everything for that is the will of God in Christ for you.”<\/p>\n
Some things are not good.\u00a0They are painful, and we wonder why God would allow it.\u00a0But if only we knew what He is saving us from, we would thank Him.\u00a0 When we learn to trust the Lord, we just thank Him in everything.<\/p>\n
Beloved, I don’t know whether to go deeper because I do not want to start something I cannot finish.<\/p>\n
Let me just try to take one step forward.\u00a0 And this man said that when prayer breaks through like that, the answer will always come.<\/p>\n
He said that he does not know a case where prayer broke through and the answer did not come.\u00a0He said the answer always came, but in most cases, it would never get to the person who asked.<\/p>\n
Why? Battle in the heavenlies.\u00a0He says as long as they succeed in cutting off the open heavens and the rock is restored, they watch this person, they are waiting because they know the answer is definitely coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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