Shifting Atmospheres_A Strategy for Victorious Spiritual Warfare by Dawna DeSilva

Author:Dawna DeSilva [DeSilva, Dawna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Christian Life, Spiritual Growth, Christianity, Pentecostal & Charismatic, Spiritual Warfare
ISBN: 9780768415667
Google: YCgzMQAACAAJ
Amazon: 0768415667
Goodreads: 33596724
Publisher: Destiny Image
Published: 2017-07-15T15:41:56+00:00

Another way to understand atmospheres and how they shift in our lives is to look at our relationships with movies. I remember as a teenager sneaking into films like Jaws and Friday the Thirteenth. I taunted my friends with phrases like I’m not scared and I’m braver than you making the movie-going experience somewhat a competition. We would see who could stay in their seats the longest and avoid succumbing to the terror. Unfortunately, I never made it long enough to collect any prizes.

Like atmospheres, films naturally affect/shift the hearts and minds of the audience. When we enter a theater, our thoughts, feelings, and moods change as we undergo the process of entertainment. As the story unfolds, our willing suspension of disbelief (our agreement with the story as reality to better engage with its emotions) kicks in. We experience the tonal shifts of the film and adjust our empathy accordingly.

When we watch films like Raiders of the Lost Ark, our personal atmospheres shift from excitement to thrills and adventure. If it is a romantic tragedy like Titanic, our atmospheres morph from hope to sadness. Each of these shifts is predetermined by the author who structured the story. As long as we continue to “buy into” these created realities, our hearts and minds will follow the movie’s currents.

This process is no different from how we buy into and cooperate with spiritual atmospheres. When we “buy into” their broadcasts, whether good or bad, we give them authority over us. For instance, if we walk into a store feeling depressed but suddenly encounter a sense or feeling that God is good, we can either agree with that statement and live under its influence or shrug it off and lose its heavenly impact. Hopefully, we will partner with our willful suspension of disbelief (our acceptance of something as reality) and accept that virtue as reality. We can then walk through the rest of our day believing that God is good and stewarding this truth into our lives.

This is why you can leave your house in the best of moods only to have it fluctuate into a range of emotions. Let’s say you leave your house joyful; yet, when you arrive at the grocery store, you experience anxiety. Moments before you were in the best of moods yet now you are doused in stress and anxiety. What happened? Chances are you “picked up” an ungodly atmosphere’s message and started partnering with it and took it on as your own.

As we learn to identify the atmospheres and broadcasts pervading our area, we grow in understanding how to defend or adopt them as truth. In this following example, a former client, Julie, discovered the power of rejecting negative atmospheres and renouncing their broadcasts.

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