It seems God wants me to continue my Spiritual War posts based on firsthand experience. Focused strictly on the war itself, I forgot the truth of any war. Spiritual or otherwise, there are always casualties. For instance, my brothers.

The devil is a coward. You cannot win without knowing this important truth. Don’t go into the battle thinking at any point he will face you or even make an indirect attack on you. He is a COWARD. Instead, he will go after the ones you love. The ones who have had no hand in the war you’ve declared on him and his realm. Cowards go after the innocent. The ones so far removed from the battle they never see the attack coming.

Each battle has its own casualties, warriors and principalities (Eph 6:12). Instead of telling me he didn’t want me to help, my dad went on a tirade, yelling at my 26-year-old brother who had no idea what I was doing. He had a general idea I was going to do studies with him and our younger brother, but nothing beyond that.

As a prayer warrior, I was pushed over the edge by this information. In private, I called the devil out on his cowardice. I told him, he is defeated, that I can’t wait to see God cast him into hell after the final battle and that he has already lost. These little ‘victories’, like the attack on my brother are no victories at all. They are proof of his cowardice and his foretold failure.

I made a mistake when I started this war. That mistake was forgetting the devil is a coward and that he would never face me on the battlefield. I believed I was making a target of myself. I was wrong. I don’t dwell on my mistake, but I have learned from it.

I’m not backing down from my battle. Nor do I encourage anyone else to. I am going to fight until my last breath, but I cannot and will not leave those around me (the innocent) unprotected. I will pray harder, I will study more, I will continue falling in love with God until He brings me home and I will not stop fighting for those I love. I can’t save them, but God can.

Belinda
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