Advanced Spiritual Warfare: Knowing Thy Enemy Part 1

Before I get into "Advanced Spiritual Warfare" we need a definition of Faith. Some people didn't pass basic Christianity, and they do not know what Spiritual Warfare is.

Faith is different than belief. Even Satan believes God exists. Satan may have been like a theologian with lots of knowledge about the Bible and Church history. He may have known God existed. He chose something else. Satan did not have Faith. Faith would be a relationship.

Bible Concordance: "To Cleave"

A man is cleaved unto his wife. A man is cleaved unto God. He holds tight to. Faith with God is a relationship. God is love. Did a lot of Christians get "No Fault Divorces" or were in sin? They may have blind to God's love. God's love is forever. Once someone is cleaved unto God, they have a relationship with him, it is forever. People getting divorces, or being in sin, may have had a variety of false perspectives that hurt them from seeing God and growing in Faith.

Faith is a relationship. Who is God? What is God's character? How does God work in the world? How does someone lean on him? Someone growing in Faith with God has a knowledgeable dependence. What is a knowledgeable dependence? A man gets married. He may not have known his wife very well. He has the rest of his life to get to know her, and to grow in a relationship, a knowledgeable dependence. Man goes to work, and he grew in trust of his wife. He knows that when he gets home, the house is clean, and dinner is on the table. In answering questions about God, and how he works in the world, and how someone leans on him, in a similar way, someone is growing in a knowledgeable dependence.

Doubt and Fear kill Faith. Do you have some doubt or fear? That hurts faith. Fear of God is a good thing. Fear of God takes away Fear of Man and other things. You are doing the right things? What do you have to fear?

Proverbs

Miracles happen at the intersection of Faith and Reason. The more Faith someone has, the more God becomes their Reason. Faith is a knowledgeable dependence. A man studies his Bible, and goes through trials. He grows in Faith and in Trust of God.

Don't Look Down. Jesus is walking on water. He takes Peter's hand, and Peter is now walking on water. Peter's senses tell him that this should not be happening or he is in shock and awe. He may have some fear or doubt. Peter looks down. Peter sinks. Doubt and Fear kill Faith. Going into the Spiritual and growing in Faith may take some conditioning. You condition your mind and will against doubt or fear. Don't look down. What kind of conditioning or faith did Jonah and Jesus have that they could sleep through a storm and not care while everyone else is panicking? (Jonah 1:5,6)(Matthew 8:23-27)

Don't look back. Don't look back is like Lot and his family leaving Sodom. You had a life as an individual and had sin. You are starting a new life in Christ to build God's Kingdom. Don't look back to your old life. Given you picked up the plow and looked back you are not worthy. Don't look back could be like Lot's wife. She may have sensed some heat behind her. She may have heard sounds. She was instructed to not look back. Curiosity killed the cat?

Don't look back is an important element of growing in Faith. I YouTube searched it one day, and found "Won't Look Back" by Duke Dumont. As to what how I break down the video: The Post Modern World is like a Masquerade. What Spirit is someone of? Spirits affect motivation. Sometimes God hides his prophets. Who serves God and who is serving themselves or something else? The video is prophetic.

God has good plans for you. God knows you. God created you. God is love. His love is fatherly. Given you end up being able to talk to God, you may end up seeing or hearing spirits and other things. (Possible, but not necessary to have Faith.) God has a plan and he has good plans for you. If you are not centered on God, being able to see these or hear these things could throw you off. God will not ask you to do more than you are capable of handling.

Walk The Line. 1 Kings 13. God's way is a path. There may be liars or deceivers or distractions. Walk the line. Don't trust man. Trust God.

Has someone been promoting "No Fault Divorce" while believing "all religion is basically equal," while looking to marginalize Christians?

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? (Matthew 7:16)

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That person may have been engaging in a form of spiritual warfare, a war of words or a war of thoughts, and he had particular fruit. The root of the problem may have been someone more similar to Nietzsche or even Descartes, or various Philosophers and false teachers, and theologians around University working to shape how people think. They may have been doing filthy things. How do we know? By their fruit? Perceiving through the Spirit of God, taking every case individually.

Question: What does it mean to perceive through The Spirit of God?

A man graduates a Police Academy. At first, he had books smarts. He was educated in how to be a police officer. After some trials, and being on the job, he may have got a feel for the job. (James 1:2-4) Were his professor full of ideological nonsense, who taught him little worthwhile? After some month on the job, he may figure it out. With trials, overtime, he may have learned to be intuitive. He went with his gut. Perceiving through God's Spirit may start for the believing Christian who has been seeking God, by them going with their gut. Someone who had a history of going to Church, and going with his gut, may have been listening to God on some level, and didn't 100% know or realize it. That may have been the start. Not the end. Faith is a journey.

Jesus goes on a long walk. It was getting late, and he had walked far. He was tired some, so he sits near a well. A Samaritan woman start to talk to him.

Some questions or things to consider:

• Was she pretty? A lustful man may have looked at a pretty woman and allowed his mind to go to the wrong places. Given a man was a "self-centered seeker of pleasure" he was blind to God and God's fatherly love. Someone seeing how the woman looked on the outside may have been blind to her heart. Jesus knew her heart, and knew things of her past. How? Through perceiving through God's Holy Spirit.
  
  
• I am looking at question now, but over thinking is contrary to being in Faith. Just by looking at said woman, and in the moment of conversation, Jesus may have been receiving and/or perceiving things about said woman. Jesus was in "The Moment." He was not overthinking. Overthinking may lead to doubt? A 16 year old young man at prom may have had doubts or fears about asking a young woman to dance. He didn't have much faith in himself? Getting over that may take some trials and tests? (James 1:2-4) His intentions are good and honorable?

• On the spot, Jesus gave information that was true about said woman, to the woman with no doubt or fear. Jesus had a relationship with the father. He grew in Faith through trials. (James 1:2-4)