Warrior: Part II

Just wanted to share a progress report about what I've been learning lately. About a week after I wrote my last blog I got to pray with my friend Roman Seppala and he started to pray, actually prophecy, about me being a person who is to fight for what is right and to fight for the ones I love. He basically prayed my last blog entry without even reading it before. It was amazing and I was so glad that this urge to fight (spiritually) wasn't just something that was coming out of my flesh. So I've continued to seek God about how to wage war His way and here's a few things I'm learning.
One is that God wants us to fight from a place of peace and with an understanding of His authority. I don't have to produce anything but instead I represent Christ and what He accomplished on the cross. I'm also learning to allow myself to be filled with continual rivers of joy, laughing in the face of my enemies. I've found that when I become intoxicated with God and then go to battle it is much more effective. We can be happy intercessors, that's such a relief (God's ways are not man's ways). Here is an excerpt from Dutch Sheets book "Intercessory Prayer" (p.73):

Both the Hebrew and Greek words used for "tread,"darak (Hebrew) and pateo (Greek), involves the concept of violence or war. The Hebrew word darak actually came to be used for bending the bow when about to shoot an arrow and is still used today in Israel for the command , Load your weapons." . . ."Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I spoke to Moses." The word "tread," of course is darak. God wasn't telling Israel that everywhere they walked or stepped was theirs. He had already marked off the perimeters of the inheritance. He was saying symbolically , "Every place that you are willing to load your weapons and take, I'm going to give to you."

So even though the promised land is before us we still have battles to fight. I want to learn how to be an effective warrior and I know I will because I have the best teacher, God's very own Spirit. The same God who led Israel to victory is our God today. The God of David is our God and His strategies for victory are available to us. He will teach us how to be skilled swordsmen in the spirit. As our spirits are fed and nourished and promoted above our souls we will learn how to walk this path of victory. We will no longer be carried off by emotions and circumstance but we will be carried wherever the wind of God blows. The word spirit also means breath and we need the breath of God to come and blow on our spirits to stir up the fire within.
We will learn to wait on God until we are so empowered that our enemies wont even know what hit them. I pray God will awake the warriors in His church and lead us into battle under His banner of love. Love never fails and violent, stubborn, persistent love always wins.