Spiritual Warfare: The Invisible Invasion by Thomas Horn

Author:Thomas Horn
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Spiritual Warfare, Angelology & Demonology, Religion, Christianity and Culture, Christian Life, Devotional, United States, Spirituality, Sociology of Religion, Christian Theology, Social Science
ISBN: 9781563841293
Publisher: Vital Issues Pr
Published: 1998-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

Victors’ Master Weapons

One of the most engaging verses in the Old Testament is Psalm 78:41, where we read, “Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.” This verse represents an interesting notion—that men can limit God. How so? Can we enter heaven and tie God's arms so that He cannot arise from His throne? There is only one way to limit God—in our minds; in our concept of Him. In Proverbs 23:7 we read of the enormous ability of the mind, “As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”

When the spies returned from Canaan, they said, “The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof.... And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants, and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight” (Num. 13:32-33). When the skeptical report of the spies was delivered, “All the congregation lifted up their voice, and

cried; and the people wept that night” (Num. 14:1). Their concept of God’s power to bring them into the promise land had been diminished. God had not changed, nor was He unprepared at that moment to bring Israel's opponents to their knees. But, Israel limited God conceptually. God had become so small in the mind of Israel, that He became the God of the grasshopper people.

The quality of believers’ relationship with God is determined by their concept of Him. If people have a limited concept of the power and nature of God, they will thereby limit God's activity in their lives. When I was a pastor, I would leave the hospital and one of the nurses would say, “Good bye, chaplain.” That was their concept of me. But, when I went home, my wife referred to me as “honey,” and received me as her husband. My staff just called me “boss.” Although I never changed, I became separate things to different people. Consequently, my relationship with each individual was determined by his or her concept of me.

In matters of spiritual warfare, we need a concept of God based on Exodus 15:3, where we read, “The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.” Truly, God is militant, and we need to perceive Him as such. Upon the extermination of Amalek, God revealed Himself to Moses as Jehovah-Nissi, the Lord our Banner (Exod. 17:15). He is our banner—the One who goes before us into battle.

For a believer to have an effective, militant prayer life, we must perceive God as a “man of war.” If the United States will see her cities delivered from spiritual bondage, we must understand and join the battle-ready side of God. Our nation cannot afford modern believers who, like ancient Israel, “turned back... and limited the Holy One” (Ps. 78:41).

Erwin Lutzer in The Rebirth of America, notes, “Only the people of God can arrest our slide into the cesspool of sensuality. But the

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