Scriptures you should read when facing Spiritual Warfare.

Scriptures to read when facing Spiritual Warfare

If I could say anything to anyone about the topic of Spiritual Warfare, I think I would tell them something to the lines of:

“Do not be ashamed of facing Spiritual Warfare.”

“You are not alone.”

“Spiritual Warfare is part of our faith, it is not something to be hidden in our spiritual walk.”

 

I personally believe the two main components of why some people don’t recognize when they are in spiritual warfare is because:

• Little knowledge of the topic.

• Not something they are willing to admit they are battling.

 

Explaining it as, we are just having a bad day, bad week, or a hard season can feel easier to say then to be ready to fight in Spiritual Warfare.

 

Because truth is; once there is recognition of what we are facing is said out loud and affirmed with God, it means we will need to take place on the battlefield.

 

Taking our place in Spiritual Warfare is not just putting on the armor of God (Ephesians 8:6-10). It takes diligent work.

 

It’s taking full instruction and completing it effectively step by step.

 

Truthfully, this can be the hardest part of conquering Spiritual Warfare.

 

First we have to come to the fact that we are facing Spiritual Warfare.

 

Then we adjust ourselves so we may wholeheartedly put on the armor.

 

We seek after God for instruction.

 

Then we must conduct every step in full faith. Not allowing fear to take over but to stand with full confidence that we are capable to fight.

 

I mean, think about it…..that is hard.

 

We are not talking about sitting down, listening to an experienced person that has advice to freely give us about our difficulties then to take time to make a nonchalant decision.

 

No, we are speaking of battles that is not of the natural! Time is of the essence in warfare. We are to seek for wisdom from God, chose immediately to put full trust in Him. Be fully receptive to completing every tedious thing He tells us to do.

 

This may include us sitting still even when we may feel like we are full force ready to punch the devil in the face.

 

Our war may be of us just sitting still.

 

Let’s think about this for a moment. When you are having troublesome coming at you from the north to the south, from the east to the west and the day finally comes when you are just bluntly fed up with it. Your inner spirit and natural flesh wants to charge at the devil and just be done with it but God….

 

But God whispers, “Be Still.”

 

Do you have enough in you to fight like this?

 

Do you have enough in you to fight with praise instead of temper?

 

Do you have enough in you to fight with peace even though the courage in you is flaming like a forest fire?

 

Do you have enough trust in God to know the key to defeat is not always attack?

 

This is all part of Spiritual Warfare.

 

How?

 

Because God says so.

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The bible is full of stories that speak of battles, of war zones, of soldiers in the natural and in the spiritual, and of how to let praise go first. (2 Chronicles 20)

 

His word is constant with teaching us how to war.

 

Sometimes that includes us going out to fight physically and other times it’s of us sitting still in His presence as He defeats the war for us.

 

We have to learn to look deeper than just a physical battle.

 

The stories in the bible about war is not just a story of how Joshua and His people physically watched a six foot thick, almost 30 ft high wall come tumbling down by the sound of a trumpet.

 

Nope, it was about an army following instructions.

 

It was about how God called that ground holy ground to Joshua just verses before and told him to win back the territory by the sound of His voice.

 

You think all those priest (which of whom back then were treated with the most high respect), wanted to circle more than a half mile long wall seven times every night for seven days with carrying their garments and ark?

You think every woman and man truly believed in Joshua at first or that praising God for a battle before even fighting seemed reasonable to them?

 

Probably not, but the reverence for a prophet was out of obedience and the obedience allowed them to see a supernatural act tear down a wall that not even if a thousand men with a fierce demeanor charged at it, would ever be able to tear down.

 

We have to stop seeing Spiritual War as just a demon possessed situation. Do those exist? Absolutely!

But you know what is a top reason that causes that to become….

Disobedience to the instruction of the Lord.

 

The battles are won over and over by the enemy each time disobedience takes place. It allows the enemy to get closer and closer, to the point that now you are no longer looking at battles to conquer but now you are in a war right in the middle of a flaming fire that is ready to consume you.

 

I will never sit here and type words out to you proclaiming I know every bit of battle, how precisely spiritual warfare happens, or even confess that I am a perfect Christian. News flash, no one is but as an ambassador for Christ, just as YOU are, as a woman or man of God, it is our responsibility to speak of God’s truth and to obey his leading in every writing, teaching, and speaking He gives unto us.

 

In my spirit, I know God is telling me we are facing war. We are facing it more than we have before and even more than the last time we thought were facing it hard.

 

According to God’s word, that is what to come.

It will not get easier physically but it can get easier for us spiritually….. Not better….. But easier by doing it with Him.

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Here’s why…

 

Knowledge gives us understanding, Understanding surpasses knowledge and gives us wisdom.

Wisdom leads us through experience and experience gives us endurance.

Endurance builds us up with walking through in peace and confidence.

 

Gain knowledge of what Spiritual Warfare is.

 

This is so important to being able to recognize it; sometimes even before it is about to come towards you.

 

When you are so in tune with God’s leading, there will be times the Lord may unction you to start praying before the storm comes. Those prayers may even be able to prevent things from happening because of Your obedience to His voice.

 

Gaining knowledge in this area will also teach you how to battle, give you a better understanding when and how God is speaking to you, and most of all….

Knowledge will teach you how to conquer.

 

Best way to gain knowledge and understanding is to:

-Study your Bible

-Prayer

-Communion with God through fasting

-And reading. Pick up some books that will encourage you to grow in this area.

 

A few books at the top of my mind right now that I have personally read and I would recommend to you:

• The Armor of God – Priscilla Schirer
• Purpose of Prayer – Dr. Myles Munroe
• Lead me, Holy Spirit – Stormie OMartian
• Any thing from Frank Perreti, the best selling fictional Christian Author. Reading his books has opened my perception in so many ways. His books has taught me to not ignore spiritual warfare. 

This is just a few but know there are many authors anointed by God you can gain perceptive, knowledge, and encouragement from to continue the battle. 

Not all of these books are specifically about spiritual warfare but they will give you a new understanding to many things that are in accordance to it.

 

I also find it to be beneficial to write your prayers, dreams, visions, and conversations you have with the Lord in a journal. This brings intimacy to you and our Father. Writing will help encourage you to keep hearing from the Lord which is ultimately a foundation to defeating the enemy.

 

Obedience to His command.

 

Just to see how real warfare is and how true listening to God’s command is to defeating the enemy I highly encourage you to read these scriptures then to read the stories with the scriptures.

The stories will give you more insight, knowledge, and understanding to all that God was doing and how He was actually leading each situation thoroughly.

Gaining knowledge in this area will also teach you how to battle, give you a better understanding when and how God is speaking you, and most of all….Knowledge will teach you how to conquer. Share on X

Here is over 25 Scripture about Spiritual Warfare:

 

• A time to love, a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace. Ecclesiastes 3:8

 

• “When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt. So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people. And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them; for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’ Deuteronomy 20:1-4

 

• And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. Matthew 24:6

 

• For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 2 Corinthians 10:4

 

• Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. Ephesians 6:11

 

• 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. Ephesians 6:12-13

 

• Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine. I will repay,” says the Lord. Romans 12:19

 

• They shall be like mighty men, Who tread down their enemies In the mire of the streets in the battle. They shall fight because the Lord is with them, And the riders on horses shall be put to shame. Zechariah 10:5

 

• Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 2 Timothy 2:3

 

• Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7

 

• Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. 1 Peter 5:8

 

• These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

 

• But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels? Matthew 26:52-53

 

• Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Wake up the mighty men, Let all the men of war draw near, Let them come up. Joel 3:9

 

• Do not rejoice over me, my enemy; When I fall, I will arise; When I sit in darkness, The Lord will be a light to me. Micah 7:8

 

• This charge I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies previously made concerning you, that by them you may wage the good warfare, 1 Timothy 1:18

 

• Of David. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle Psalm 144:1

 

• For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men; but the Lord delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash. 2 Chronicles 24:24

 

• To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. Revelations 3:21

 

• Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9

 

• It happened on the same night that the Lord said to him, “Arise, go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand. Judges 7:9

 

• Casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 2 Corinthians 10:5

 

• The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But deliverance is of the Lord. Proverbs 21:31

 

• He teaches my hands to make war, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 2 Samuel 22:35

 

• Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;  and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

 

• For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. Psalm 18:39

 

• And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. To Him be glory forever and ever. Amen! 2 Timothy 4:18

 

• For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory. Proverbs 24:6

 

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