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Learn the Art of War for Spiritual Battle - "Prepare for battle!by Cindy Trimm
"Prepare for battle! Soldiers at attention! Present arms! Advance! Turn your
shovels into swords; turn your hoes into spears. Let the weak one throw out his
chest and say, 'I'm tough, I'm a fighter.'" Joel 3:9-10 MSG
The call to arms to pray has never changed since the prophet Joel wrote these
words. Today, with all the turmoil in the world and in our lives, I want to
share some thoughts from The
Art of War for Spiritual Battle—a powerful prayer strategy book that is very
close to my heart.
Although prayer is the simplest of practices, it is also the most
mysterious of spiritual disciplines.
Within prayer lies the master key to everything God wants for you and those
you love, and yet no other aspect of following God seems more difficult to
fathom. While bowing your head and turning your thoughts and words toward God is
as easy as sitting down to coffee with a friend, what transpires is the most
multifaceted and mystifying journey in the universe.
Prayer is a quest surpassing anything you'll ever read about in an
epic novel or adventure story.
It is in prayer that we probe spiritual realities, communicate with God,
access the arsenal of Heaven, and expand God's Kingdom on the earth. It is as
simple as pulling aside to a quiet place and opening your heart to God, and as
dynamic as tapping into the power and imagination that created the cosmos.
As with God, nothing is impossible, so it is that through prayer,
nothing is implausible.
Prayer gives Heaven permission to invade earth. Through this discipline, we
are able to pray Heaven down to keep Hell from rising. You must fully embrace
that God will never abandon you but is ever-present wanting to work His will in
your life. As Theresa of Avila said: "All difficulties in prayer can be traced
to one cause: praying as if God were absent." God is right here with you, living
inside of you, ready to release His Kingdom through you, because "the Kingdom of
God is within you" (Luke 17:21).
Every Believer is equipped with an arsenal of incredible
life-altering and world-changing power.
For those who rightly esteem the privilege of accessing God's armory of
possibilities, each word spoken through or by that person holds enormous,
innovative potential and creative power. The Father has entreated each one of us
to be involved in a dialogue that marshals angels and sets forth the weaponry of
war—weaponry that impacts the spiritual realm and affects how events unfold in
the natural world.
God is waiting for those who have the courage to step up and take
their place in the highest ranks of His army.
God has enough privates; what He desires today are generals who will pay the
price of dedication and discipline to hear His divine strategies and implement
them upon the earth. By going into prayer, rather than striving with those
around you—using worldly tactics hampered and confused by human motives—you
signal your dependence on God and your trust in Him as the source of all real
hope. You acknowledge that the only things that will last are those born in the
strategic command center of His throne room.
Communicating with God declares your commitment to seek His
strategies and care for the objects of His affection.
God's communication with you marks the anticipated change of regime as "The
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ"
(Revelation 11:15). It shows your intention as a Believer to annihilate barriers
and hindrances—those things that divide the army of God into factions and
divisions the devil can manipulate and keep ineffective—refusing to erect your
own throne and kingdom where only His is intended to be.
Your times of intense prayer will not only affect present circumstances and
conditions, it will also give you a future hope.
Whatever God births through you in prayer, He is also required to
sustain.
You see, it doesn't matter what human beings formulate, plan, and strategize
upon the earth, for all of it will ultimately come to nothing. Your heavenly
Father is a big God who created a big world for you to do something big in. He
is always trying to communicate with you. Prayer is the means by which you
engage Him in the affairs of your life and of this world.
There is a big conversation going on. God is sharing some big
ideas.
What you need is to get in on the big conversation going on in Heaven's war
room right now. According to Jeremiah 7:13, God is always speaking. Are you
listening?
If you participate in prayer correctly, consistently, faithfully, and
persistently, God will let you listen in on that conversation and overhear
exactly what it is you need to do to continually advance in your life, fulfill
your purpose, and maximize your potential. The problem is, as with any form of
communication, correctly interpreting what you are hearing can be tricky.
The communication of Heaven is seamless and eternal.
Yet Heaven's communication is easily lost here where we live in the massive
stream of constant stimuli and static. This is why you must consistently clear
your calendar and reconfigure your daily agenda so that you can learn the art of
strategic prayer. This will allow you to plumb the depths of the Spirit, to
navigate new spiritual terrain, and to conquer old enemies of your soul.
Develop within you the "knowing" that you have received the messages
sent.
Prayer creates hedges of protection that keep you and your loved ones safe,
provides the strategies of Heaven that will give you victory, knits you together
with others of like precious faith to form the army of God, and builds within
you the strength of character to see the battles through to their victorious
end.
Without these principles and practices, you can argue with people until you
are blue in the face about the truths of God, and all they will do is laugh—but
by utilizing your prayer arsenal you grant God permission to intervene so that
even the most hard-hearted will topple to their knees before His throne.
There is a war being waged for the souls of the earth, and if you haven't
stopped to look lately, the good guys aren't gaining much ground.
The only way to turn that tide is to fight again like the evangelists
and revivalists of old did.
I'm not saying we need to go back to their methods necessarily, but we do
need to get God's strategic directives for our time just as they did for theirs.
God is looking for leaders, for generals, to organize and lead that charge, but
He first needs to know that they are skilled and disciplined in the art of
spiritual war.
Are you willing to do what it takes to be among them?
I believe that we are in a generation that will again see great generals of
prayer—but it will not come easily. Like the five virgins who ran out of oil
waiting for the bridegroom to come and thus missed the wedding celebration, this
call will pass over those who are not filled with the Spirit to the point of
having more than enough.
Will you be one who grabs hold of the strategic concepts of spiritual
war to change your city, your state, your nation, and your world?
Or, when Christ calls, will you be caught ignorant, unprepared, and
lacking?
God is waiting for you to step up and become a disciplined leader in His
army—a leader who knows how to employ His tactics with precision and unleash His
cosmic weapons of mass salvation.
Are you ready to enlist in the ranks of God's generals of prayer?
Training begins now.
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling
down of strongholds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled." 2 Corinthians 10:3-6
Cindy Trimm Cindy Trimm Ministries
International Email: click
here Website: cindytrimmministries.org
Dr. Cindy Trimm is the Founder and CEO of Cindy Trimm
Ministries International and is a sought-after empowerment specialist,
revolutionary thinker, and transformational leader. She has earned a
distinguished reputation as a catalyst of change and voice of hope to the
nations. As a speaker, seasoned with humor, compassion, revelatory insight, and
personal candor, Dr. Trimm translates hard-hitting spiritual insights into
everyday language that empowers individuals to activate purpose and maximize
potential. She frequently appears on popular TV and radio programs, as well as
keynotes on international platforms that touch millions with the Gospel. As an
author, Dr. Trimm has repeatedly topped best-sellers lists with what have become
renowned classics, such as: Commanding
Your Morning, The
40 Day Soul Fast, The Rules of Engagement for Overcoming Your Past,
and Prevail:
Discover Your Strength in Hard Places.
And reaching beyond the pulpit, Dr. Trimm’s ministry extends to the global
mission field. By joining forces with partners around the world, Cindy Trimm
Ministries International engages in medical missions, food relief, and providing
resources for those in need with tools that will change the trajectory of their
lives and communities. *************************************
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Edited by Ron McGatlin on 02/13/2016 at 5:11pm
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