!!!You can't escape This War!!!!

Remember, when Jesus boiled His whole mission down to healing the brokenhearted and setting prisoners free from darkness, He was referring to all of us. our modern, scientific, worldview has simply removed spiritual warfare as a practical category, and so it shouldn't surprise us that we can't see spiritual strongholds after we say they don't really exist.
If we deny the battle raging against our hearts ,well,then,the thief just gets to steal and kill and destroy. There is no war is the subtle --but pervasive-- lie sown by an Enemy so familiar to us we don't even see him. For to long he has infiltrated the ranks of the church,and we haven't even recognized him...Any movement toward freedom and life, any movement toward God or others will be opposed. Marriage,friendship,beauty,rest----the thief wants it all.
So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christians spirit imprisoned. He knows we have been raised up out of the grave of his sins and trespasses. From that point on, satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged. He knows that if he can keep us in this kind of bondage .... we are no better off than when we were spiritually dead.
We can end this agony if we will treat it for what it is----Warfare---break free and send the enemy packing!
Hebrews 12:2-3
PaulP