I have and was just wondering what other people have wittnessed.I `m kinda afraid to say what,because people may think I`m crazy!
2006-12-01 13:00:49 · 19 answers · asked by pumpkin 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Ephesians 6:12
All followers of Christ experience various types of warfare. Try going on a short term mission trip. I´ve seen people loose jobs, have family members become ill, and anything else you can think of before and after they go.
Serving as a missionary I see spiritual warfare on a daily basis. It´s not always as intense as a demon possed women running up to you with a knife in her hand, but it is still warfare. For everyone it is different. Rumers are very bad where I live. You would be suprised at some of the things the people here come up with.
Satan has a hierarchy (fallen angels that work for Satan).
We are at war with three things: rulers, principalites, and powers.
rulers - The bible uses words such as thrones, dominions, and authorites. The enemy often uses leaders to work for him. That´s why it is important to pray for your leaders
principalities - "territorial spirits" these pick specific regions to focus on. Haiti is an example. The poorest area in the western hemosphere. There is no geographical reason for this. The Domincan Republic is on the same island. You can cross the border and it looks like a nuclear bomb has went off there. Haitians dedicated thier country to Satan when it was founded.
powers - "strongholds" these are particular sins that plague specific individuals and can be generational curses
So to answer the question simply. The answer is yes and on a daily basis.
2006-12-01 13:33:59 · answer #1 · answered by alphaomega1272 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Dean Sherman Spiritual Warfare
2016-12-14 19:14:50 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The term "spiritual warfare" is a recent one born of a trend in 'flashy sermons' and a need to draw attention. It is nothing the ancients wrote about in the Torah, Bible, or Koran.
The actual incident could have been any number of things and since I don't know what you experienced I cant answer for you.
What I can say is that I have seen, witnessed, and experienced what I would term 'spiritual warfare'. But is probably not what you would think of in your description. My definition is two people each praying to their God(s) in the hopes that the other one would suffer a horrible fate.
As to the current Christian belief of fighting and vanquishing 'demons'... As far as I am concerned it would take an Angel to defeat a Demon..... no mortal with a plastic covered book would fare well versus a timeless old dude with leathery wings. After all, they don't have to touch the book to get to you.
That being said, why would they waste their time?
These days, there are so many people that practice the seven deadly sins HOURLY.... that no Demon would waste their time going after one solitary confused soul with their hotel bible clutched tightly in the hands.
They're probably lined up with baseball mitts trying to catch all the souls of the damned coming through the gates of hell in a blizzard.
2006-12-01 13:12:53 · answer #3 · answered by wolf560 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Have you been reading the questions and answers here? What more evidence do you need? Feel free to say what you have seen or experienced. I don't think it matters what people think of you. Obviously nothing you say could be thought any more "crazy" than some of the things said here.
2006-12-01 13:06:03 · answer #4 · answered by neptune 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some crazy **** just happened to me today. i have been running from god's way and didnt know why. I realized spiritual warfare is happening when my uncle (out of nowhere with the helping hand of god) contacted me and gave me some articles. An hour later I was giving someone whom I suspected was under satans spell a ride to the store. when i stopped to let him out he kept asking me whats wrong even though there was nothing wrong. I eventually told him i was recently thinking about spiritual stuff about god and satans deception and pulled out the articles which were on my back seat. It took about 3 seconds for his face to transform at which point he flipped out on me, cussing me out like a mad man and the demon in him was obviously frightened because his body wanted to get out of the car fast. When he got out he started screaming "give me those papers, give me those papers!" the demon didnt want me to have those righteous weapons. He threatened to come after me and I was very rattled by the experience. I hadn't even read them yet. Idrove away frightened but got home and used the protection prayers in the literature and instantly felt better on many levels. It's real folks! When you first delve in to it the demons will really try to come after you
2013-11-20 20:04:17 · answer #5 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I have. I have seen in Vancouver, BC a squadron full of UBC students doing Reiki attunements on the street. I saw several of them on Commercial Drive doing hundreds of Reiki attunements. Many people loved it, as they were hippies, but some lukewarm Christians were being taken in also. I noticed that some of the members at my Church are now talking of taking up Buddhist meditation practice with SN Goenka's 10 day vipassana meditation retreat because some man named Yutaka proselytizes Buddhism and Reiki all over downtown with his gang of UBC students.
These folks are well disciplined. I thought that they enlisted Hare Krishnas into their ranks initially. But their friendliness is a draw for their winning over Christian souls into eastern spiritual practices by the truckloads. It takes hard work to win a Christian soul, and we are loosing them way faster than they are coming in.
2006-12-01 13:16:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my flesh wars and tries to overcome who I am spiritually. My flesh is dying and is desparate to win, my spirit is alive and is relaxed, knowing that it will never die.
Most spiritual warfare happens in temples or churches made with men's hands where they teach that we can do something to become a child of God. Silly, children don't do something to become a child, the parents do. We are the children of God by what he did, not what we do.
Yet the flesh is always trying to prove itself that it made itself a child of God, it is called unbelief.
The unbelief of the flesh wars against the knowledge of the spirit that is within us that testifies that God made us who we are. And that is, we are his beloved children no matter if we don't know it and act like the devil.
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2006-12-01 13:13:13 · answer #7 · answered by t 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is not a person on this earth who does not experience it every day of their life. It is spiritual warfare every time anyone is tempted to do wrong. The forces of evil are constantly bombarding our mind with subtle messages we encounter everywhere we turn.
2006-12-01 13:14:07 · answer #8 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I always understood the term "spiritual warfare" to refer to those daily conflicts of conscience we all experience. It's the inner struggle to decide what is right and what is wrong, and then the striving to act appropriately on the conclusions we come to; the life-and-death tussle between our better and baser natures. Sorry, that was wordy...
2006-12-01 13:09:30 · answer #9 · answered by k54321w 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
sure countless, the perfect properly-known having been 17 october 1989 even as there became a substantial earthquake in California in the time of a "international sequence" baseball (everyday time period). Had it no longer occured my brother woulda been on Nightline with Ted Koppel afterwards.
2016-11-30 01:01:21 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋