Spiritual Warfare

These days I have been experiencing a great deal of spiritual warfare. Many unprecedented things have happened and the tide of life was jolted by a spiritual tsunami. Personally and corporately I felt a strong spiritual tremor in the like of the recent Nepal earthquake, save for the physical destruction by the quake and the aftermath. 

One obvious matter is the attack of Satan upon two brothers who accused each other, standing in their own view point and attacking and not seeing who they were in themselves. Generally, only one who is in the dark sees the one who is in the light, especially, this kind of seeing is mostly negative. Such was the case, recently. Like it or not, I had to be in the meeting with these brothers; patiently listening to each ones' version. In meeting like this, no one admits his fault but present the facts of his "justification." 

After all the humdrum, I finally spoke up to tell the brothers that it was not a matter of who was right or who was wrong, but it was Satan trying to create a scene, to destroy all and divide the oneness of the brothers. My fellowship was, to identify who was behind all these, not a brother, but Satan as a roaring Lion seeking whom he may devour! Once the enemy was identified, fight against him, not the brother. In terms of right, no one is right, all are wrong for we are not only sinful, but sin itself. So all need the blood of Jesus Christ to wash us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

After this fellowship, the two brothers  exercised their spirit and calmed down. They both confessed their own mistakes and forgave one another. Then we all prayed together for the Lord's forgiveness and covering from the attack of the enemy. In fact, even with tears. 

This is a spiritual warfare; we are engaging in it day by day, especially these days, in Gurgaon. I felt it very strongly. As I prayed for the saints and the new ones, name by name, each one has different situation, and all are going through some kind of "attacks" from the enemy in many ways; some financial, some relationship, some health and yet some are just misunderstanding. This prompted me to pray more and encourage the saints to exercise their spirit more to be normal Christians in a normal church-life. 

Despite all that the enemy does to engage us in warfare, the Lord sovereignly allows it for our own learning, training, perfecting and maturing. And the spiritual fact is, "Christ is Victor, and Jesus is Lord!" Come what may, Chris is Victor! In all our spiritual warfare, we are already the Victor, for the Victor, Christ, is in us! Hallelujah!