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The Five Theaters of Spiritual Warfare

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The Theaters of War

• Heart & Mind
• Deliverance
• Intercession
• Assignments & Schemes
• Kingdom Warfare

Heart & Mind

Pro 4:23 Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

Mar 7:21-23 “…out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts…these evil things proceed from within and defile the man."

Joyce Myers calls this theater, The Battlefield of the Mind

One very crucial element of the heart and mind is the creation of legal grounds and permissions.

Choices for Good or Evil

Legal grounds and permissions are created through a choice to step out from under the protection of God’s law.

God gave us the Helmet of Salvation to protect the mind and the Breastplate of Righteousness to protect the heart.


Deliverance

Isa 61:1 …He has sent me to… proclaim liberty to captives And freedom to prisoners;

Ministering deliverance is guiding a person to freedom from the oppressive control of demonic spirits and curses.

Brute Force

Like a SWAT team evicting a tenant from his apartment, brute force deliverance uses overwhelming force to cast out or expel an oppressive spirit.

Cancel Legal Grounds

Like a lawyer exercising the authority of the law, cancelling legal grounds removes an oppressive spirit’s permission under God’s law to operate in a person’s life.


Assignments & Schemes

Isa 32:7 - …his weapons are evil; He devises wicked schemes To destroy the afflicted with slander…

Lam 3:59-60 - O LORD, You have seen my oppression; You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

Assignments

Assignments and schemes are calculated plans to manipulate and control your life into a continuous state of bondage.

Assignments tend to be short-term or carried out with a specific objective.

Schemes

Schemes come in many varieties, but they all have one purpose – to keep you living in bondage.

Schemes tend to be long-term, repeating themselves again and again throughout a person’s life.


Intercession

Prayer Warriors

The dictionary defines intercession as “a prayer to God on behalf of another person.”

Prayers are directed toward God and often ask Him to intervene on another person’s behalf in answer to the offered prayer.


Intercessory Warriors

Intercessory warriors will wrestle and battle with dark spirits on another person’s behalf.

The intercessory warrior will become a shield protecting another person from attack while clearing the way for the Holy Spirit to minister.

Intercessory warriors and prayer warriors can work together.


Kingdom Warfare

Eph 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.


Principalities

Dan 10:20 “But I shall now return to fight against the prince of Persia; so I am going forth, and behold, the prince of Greece is about to come.”

City Spirits

This hand drawing (see video) is titled The Spirit of New Orleans.

Notice how the artist filled the inside of the robe with figures and faces.

City of Magic

Orlando is known as the home of the Orlando Magic basketball team and Disney’s Magic Kingdom.

Avatar displays God through Pantheism.

Harry Potter is based on magic and sorcery.


Out of Body

The out-of-body experience is a practice in mysticism and a core principle in Hinduism. It is a form of the occult and it is a counterfeit of God’s truth in the same way that a fortuneteller is a counterfeit of a prophetic word.


Kingdom Warfare

It is in the theater of Kingdom Warfare that we, the body of Christ, must learn to come together under the Spirit of Truth and present a united front alongside God’s warrior angels to defeat Satan and his dark kingdom.

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