SPIRITUAL WARFARE NEEDED T0 BE TAKEN BY THE BODY OF CHRIST!IT HAS BEEN DECLARED BY METEOROLOGISTS THAT THE POWERFUL AND DEADLY HURRICANE 5 STATUS IRMA IS FAST APPROACHING THE COAST OF FLORIDA AND ITS DIRECTION
AT THIS MOMENT HAS NOT BEEN DETERMINED -
REGARDLESS, IT HAS BEEN DECLARED DEADLY! INCREDIBLE THAT THIS NATION IS STILL IN THE MIDST OF THE ATTACK BY
HURRICANE HARVEY, AND HERE COMES ANOTHER ATTACK!
REMEMBER, IT DECLARES IN EPHESIANS 6:12 "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."
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WHAT ARE WE AS BELIEVERS TO DO IN ORDER TO DECIMATE THIS HORRIFIC HURRICANE IS THE THRUST OF THIS BLOG!
I REFER YOU TO MATTHEW 11:12 WHICH DECLARES "AND FROM THE DAYS OF JOHN THE BAPTIST UNTIL NOW THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN SUFFERS VIOLENCE, AND THE VIOLENT TAKE IT BY FORCE" MEANING THAT SPIRIT-FILLED BELIEVERS HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE AUTHORITY BY GOD ALMIGHTY THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SPEAK TO THE "STORMS" IN OUR LIVES, VIOLENTLY, NOT WIMPISHLY!
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN LOYAL FOLLOWERS OF MY BLOGS, YOU MIGHT RECALL THAT IN MAY OF 2015, I POSTED A BLOG DEALING WITH SPIRITUAL WARFARE, ESPECIALLY FOCUSING ON MARK 4:35-41WHICH DEALS WITH THE WIND AND THE WAVES OBEYING JESUS!
"ON THE SAME DAY, WHEN EVENING HAD COME, HE SAID
TO THEM, 'LET'S CROSS OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE.' NOW
WHEN THEY HAD LEFT THE MULTITUDE, THEY TOOK HIM
ALONG IN THE BOAT AS HE WAS. AND OTHER LITTLE BOATS
WERE ALSO WITH HIM. AND A GREAT WINDSTORM
AROSE AND THE WAVES BEAT INTO THE BOAT, SO THAT IT
WAS ALREADY FILLING. BUT HE WAS IN THE STERN,
ASLEEP ON A PILLOW. AND THEY AWOKE HIM AND SAID TO
HIM, 'TEACHER, DO YOU NOT CARE THAT WE ARE PERIS-
ING'? THEN HE AROSE AND REBUKED THE WIND, AND
SAID TO THE SEA, 'PEACE BE STILL!' AND THE WIND CEASED
AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM. BUT HE SAID TO THEM,
'WHY ARE YOU SO FEARFUL? HOW IS IT THAT YOU HAVE NO
FAITH?' AND THEY FEARED EXCEEDINGLY AND SAID TO
ONE ANOTHER, 'WHO CAN THIS BE THAT EVEN THE WIND
AND THE SEA OBEY HIM!"
SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ME, YOU ASK? AGAIN, CONSIDER THE STATEMENT I MADE ABOVE, THAT WE SPIRIT-FILLED BELIEVERS HAVE THE SAME AUTHORITY/POWER THAT JESUS AS MAN HAD IN THE BOAT!
WE MUST KEEP IN MIND WHAT IT DECLARES IN JAMES 1:22 " BUT BE DOERS OF THE WORD, NOT HEARERS ONLY, DECEIVING YOURSELVES."
AGAIN, HOW DOES THIS AFFECT ME...I AM NOT JESUS! AH, BUT IF WE ARE BELIEVERS, JESUS ABIDES WITHIN US AND AS HE WAS EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO SPEAK TO THE STORM, WE TOO ARE EMPOWERED TO WIELD THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT AGAINST ANY/ALL ENEMIES AS FOUND IN EPHESIANS 6:16 WHICH STATES THAT WE ARE TO TAKE "THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD....". AND THE MEANING OF "WORD OF GOD" IN THIS SCRIPTURE IS THE "RHEMA" WORD OF GOD WHICH IS THE "SPOKEN (POWER) WORD OF GOD AND NOT THE WRITTEN WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE LOGOS.
DR. BOB, ARE YOU SERIOUS? INDEED, I AM! LET ME SHARE A PERSONAL EVENT CONCERNING TAKING MY AUTHORITY OVER 5 TORNADOES! SOME OF YOU MIGHT REMEMBER MY SHARING THIS IN AN EARLIER BLOG: SEVERAL YEARS AGO, MY WIFE AND I WERE VISITING OUR DAUGHTER AND FAMILY IN A KANSAS CITY, KANSAS SUBURB. IT WAS LATE IN THE AFTERNOON AND IT BECAME UNUSUALLY DARK! ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS A NEWS FLASH ON THE TELEVISION ANNOUNCING THAT FIVE TORNADOES WERE HEADING OUR WAY. OBVIOUSLY, THAT WAS AN ATTENTION GETTER, TO BE SURE! IT WAS GETTING CLOSE TO DINNER TIME, AND OUR SON-IN-LAW HAD ORDERED "TAKE OUT" AND ASKED ME WHAT I THOUGHT ABOUT OUR GOING TO PICK IT UP! I WAS TRULY DUMBFOUNDED BY HIS QUESTION, THINKING "THERE IS NO WAY WE NEED TO VENTURE OUT IN THE MIDST OF WHAT WAS HEADING OUR WAY!" THEN I HEARD MYSELF DECLARING "YES, LET'S GO FOR IT"!! OUT WE WENT AND NOT LONG AFTER WE HAD BEEN ON THE HIGHWAY, I SAID TO MY SON-IN-LAW, "THIS IS GOING TO SOUND VERY STRANGE TO YOU, BUT I AM GOING TO PRAY AGAINST THESE FIVE TORNADOES HEADING STRAIGHT FOR US AND I AM GOING TO USE A WORD IN MY PRAYER THAT IS NOT A WORD I USE VERY OFTEN, IF AT ALL, AND THE WORD IS "DISSIPATE". I RELATED TO HIM, THE STORY OF JESUS IN THE BOAT WITH HIS DISCIPLES AND HIS DECLARING TO THE STORM "PEACE BE STILL" AND THE STORM CEASED! I PRAYED OUT LOUD, TAKING MY AUTHORITY OVER THE STORM AND DECLARED "PEACE BE STILL" TO THE STORM! WE CONTINUED ON, ARRIVING AT THE RESTAURANT. WE HAD TO GO INTO THE BAR AREA WHERE THE "TAKE OUT" WAS LOCATED...AS WE WALKED IN, THERE WERE SEVERAL TELEVISION MONITORS ABOVE THE BAR AND WE SAW/HEARD A METEOROLOGIST DECLARING: "FOLKS, WE DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS, BUT THE FIVE TORNADOES HAVE DISSIPATED AND ARE NO LONGER A DANGER!" ONE COULD HEAR SUCH A SIGH OF RELIEF FROM THOSE SEATED AT THE BAR. OBVIOUSLY, WE DROVE HOME MUCH RELIEVED, AND I WITNESSED THE EMPOWERMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING THROUGH ME, AS HE WILL WORK THROUGH YOU!
I AM COMING TO THE PART WHERE YOU BECOME A PARTICIPANT IN TAKING AUTHORITY AS A CHILD OF THE LIVING GOD EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO PRAY AGAINST HURRICANE IRMA. KEEP IN MIND WHAT JESUS DECLARES IN MATTHEW 18:19 "AGAIN I SAY TO YOU THAT IF TWO OF YOU AGREE ON EARTH CONCERNING ANYTHING THAT THEY ASK, IT WILL BE DONE FOR THEM BY MY FATHER IN HEAVEN."
EPHESIANS 6 IS OUR FOUNDATION FOR TAKING SUCH AUTHORITY AGAINST HURRICANE IRMA, AND IT IS WORTH REPEATING THAT WHICH IS FOUND IN VERSE 7 "...AND TAKE THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT (OUR WEAPON WITH WHICH WE DO SPIRITUAL WARFARE) WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD, AND IN THIS VERSE THE MEANING OF WORD IN THE GREEK IS RHEMA, I.E. THE SPOKEN /ACTION WORD OF GOD...JESUS SPOKE THE RHEMA WORD "PEACE BE STILL TO THE STORM"! THEN THERE IS THE WORD OR LOGOS WHICH IS THE WRITTEN WORD IN THE SCRIPTURES - FROM THE LOGOS, WE FIND THE RHEMA WORD...FOR WITHOUT THE LOGOS, THERE IS NO RHEMA WORD!
TO CONCLUDE, I AM WRITING OUT A PRAYER THAT I ENCOURAGE ALL OF US IN ONE ACCORD TO PRAY OUT LOUD AGAINST HURRICANE IRMA:
"HEAVENLY FATHER, WE COME TO YOU IN THAT POWERFUL
NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES, JESUS THE CHRIST, THANKING
YOU FOR THE AUTHORITY/POWER GIVEN TO US BY YOU HOLY SPIRIT IN TAKING OUR DOMINION RIGHTS IN COMING AGAINST
HURRICANE IRMA. WE SPEAK 'PEACE BE STILL' TO YOU, IRMA
AND COMMAND YOU TO 'CEASE AND DESIST AND DISSIPATE AND
BE OF NO ACCOUNT' IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST OUR SAVIOR
AND LORD. AMEN AND AMEN."
SAINTS, IN ADDITION, WE ARE TOLD IN SCRIPTURE THAT "IF YOU HAVE THE FAITH AS A MUSTARD SEED, YOU WILL SAY TO THIS MOUNTAIN, MOVE FROM HERE TO THERE AND IT WILL MOVE AND NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU"...THUS WE ARE SPEAKING TO THAT MOUNTAIN 'HURRICANE IRMA' AND COMMAND IT TO BE CAST INTO THE SEA TO BE REMEMBERED NO MORE! MATTHEW 17:20
BE GLORIFIED ALMIGHTY GOD, BE GLORIFIED
