We know that the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. As Christians, hopefully we understand that there is a real spiritual battle going on around us. I have felt for a while like I needed to write a blog about spiritual warfare from the perspective that I have experienced it around the world. Now, the Lord has given me a route to explain it and thoughts to give a little closure as to what I have been learning.
My knowledge of the spiritual has grown in width and depth in the past 2 years of my life. As I get closer to God’s heart, he shows me more and more about who he is and who that makes me.
When I first realized my role in the Kingdom of God and the authority I carried as a daughter, I thought the best way to fight the kingdom of darkness was by aggressively using my authority. I bound, I loosed, I rebuked, I commanded…and I knew I could because the Lord told us to. And while I’m sure things happened in the spiritual that I couldn’t see, it often felt like I was spinning my wheels super fast and revving my engine to only gain about 2 inches.
In the last month the Lord has been showing me something profound. And at first, all the religion and tradition in me showed his ugly head and I couldn’t understand all that the Lord was trying to tell me. But at the same time there was something in my spirit that was yearning for it and crying out for this truth:
The most powerful weapon that we have for spiritual warfare is….LOVE.
All of my life I have been looking for formulas. Ways to encounter God, ways to pray for healing and see it happen, ways to pray for deliverance. Why doesn’t it say somewhere in the Bible, “If you say this (fill in the blank), it will work every time!” Probably because then I would have more faith in that little ‘trick’ than my God. And I am pretty sure that it all flows from a relationship with the ONE who heals and delivers and encounters.
I watched a movie that challenged EVERY formula inside of me. Furious Love.
And that is exactly what it is about. God’s furious, passionate, relentless LOVE.
His LOVE is the most powerful thing in the world. It will stop at nothing! It will fight the darkest darkness! There is nothing and no one who can stand against the fullness of God’s furious love. And the enemy hates the LOVE of GOD. He doesn’t want to be around it. Fear is cast out in the very presence of his love. Evil and darkness have no weapon strong enough to combat his perfect LOVE.
LOVE bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
LOVE never ends.
So, I’ve found, again, that it’s not a formula. It is the powerful LOVE of God flowing out of me and spilling onto those around me. It is choosing others before myself. It is laying down my life for the broken, hurting and abandoned. In my next blog, I will share a story of what this looks like lived out. I have been privileged to watch this story of a man who truly lives from love…fighting with love and only love.
SO…stay tuned!
