Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. It was a restless and sleepless night, and it felt like the morning would never come. My body needed rest, but there was a Spiritual War taking place in the heavenly realms with lots of fiery darts set out to discourage and devour me. I tossed and I turned. I tried to read but I failed. I tried to pray but I couldn’t concentrate. I even went out for a walk around the farm before the sun came up in an attempt to settle my soul. Thankfully, I recognize the schemes of my enemy, and I refuse to surrender to them…ever. So, instead of fretting over a little lost sleep, I set out to battling of my own. I wrestled and wrestled to control my thoughts, and I fought back with audible Words that have the Power to stop my enemy in his tracks. I fought a Spiritual War last night, and although I’m tired at sunrise; I won…and I always will as long as I know what weapons to use in the War. Isn’t that the way it is for you when you do battle too?

There’s a Spiritual War taking place in the “heavenly realms” 24 hours a day; but not everybody is subject to it. Although there are plenty of people that will comment on the schemes of the enemy when obstacles cross their path; serious Spiritual War…the kind where the enemy is consumed with destruction and trying so hard to devour; is foreign to most people of Faith. There have been fiery darts thrown around in the “heavenly realms” since the beginning of all time, but not everybody gets “hit” with them. There are plenty of people that will credit the enemy for their temptations and their wrongs, as if he’s to blame for their choices. But the enemy doesn’t have the power to make anybody do anything…if they’re on the Right Team and they know how to Fight, that is. The enemy I battle against doesn’t bother with “innocent bystanders”, because they are no threat to him and his war plans at all. So, the “innocent bystanders” don’t suffer the “casualty” of war like some of us do. After all, why would ANY enemy bother with anybody that isn’t considered a threat in the first place?

It’s only when we become a real threat…when we are in relentless Recruiting-mode…when we’re unstoppable…when we speak up no matter who’s listening and no matter the consequences…when we take a stand for our Commander in Chief for all the world to see and hear no matter how many enemies we make in the process…when we have Unlimited Potential to make our Army bigger…THEN the Spiritual War takes on an entirely new shape, and the enemy goes into rage-mode…stopping at nothing as he sets out to devour. This kind of war isn’t for wussies, so most people don’t “sign up” to be Warriors. And as long as they sit quietly on the sidelines while the rest of us do Battle, they have nothing to worry about at all. They’re just “innocent bystanders” sitting-out the most Significant War of all time.

I’m a force to reckon with in the Spiritual world, and I do some serious Battling because of it. I’m Fearless when I go to War on behalf of ALL that is Good, because the biggest price I’ll ever pay is just a little lost sleep. I can’t be devoured because I belong to Him, and fiery darts can’t wound me no matter how many fly around in “my space”, because I have on my Full Armor and nothing can penetrate it. With so many people sitting-out this War as “innocent bystanders”, I guess I’m taking one for the (Spiritual) team; and that’s okay with me. Because all that I do I do FOR Him; and that makes the War worth Fighting day after day…and night after night.

How about you?