Episode 09: How to Make Spiritual Warfare Less Scary!
Have you ever wandered through a haunted house?
Yeah… MEAN EITHER! I don’t know about you, but I keep a long distance between myself and all things scary. But, what if I told you that the applied principles of a haunted house could actually help us overcome some of the fears we hold about spiritual warfare?
Many times, people who find themselves visiting these creepy quarters have an option to sign a waiver. This waiver gives the spook-ers permission to touch the guest, and if the person chooses not to sign, all the characters can do at that point is tune-up their intimidation and fear. In the same way, God has removed His children from the authority of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, and our enemy no longer has the right to touch us. Darkness uses the same tactics of threat and alarm to keep us frozen in our steps, afraid to move forward into God’s purpose for our lives.
This is the last week of October, so let’s get into it before the clock strikes 12!
In this episode, we’ll chat about:
Our authority as believers, and darkness’ lack there-of…
Keeping our eyes on our destiny and the ultimate victory
Removing the shame around our fears, and turning back to our father
Lots of NARNIA!
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Scriptures mentioned:
Colossians 1:13 ESV
Ephesians 2:6 ESV
Proverbs 15:22
2 Corinthians 10:3-5
Jeremiah 29:11
Quotes mentioned:
“And as He spoke, He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this the end of all the stories, and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.”
C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle