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What should I do when someone is under spiritual warfare?

Jill Briscoe is executive editor of Just Between Us magazine and minister-at-large of Elmbrook Church in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

Leadership Journal October 24, 2007

Everyone in the world is under spiritual warfare. We are on a battleground, not a playground (Ephesians 6). We need a solid theology of God and Satan, of good and evil. Along the pathway of everyday, we need to be in tune with God and the work he has to do in and through us. Interruptions should be regarded as his appointments for he will send us people to help in the battle. Believers are soldiers of the cross, while the lost are to be rescued through the gospel of grace and freedom.

This will mean we meet with the Lord early—remembering "sleep deprivation is better than God deprivation" (Isaiah 50:4 f)—the picture of God's perfect servant who rises early to be instructed by the Master Teacher. In my Bible I have put these words: "I am His servant. Get up and listen to Him so you can go out and listen to them, and match the word received in the morning with the need of the one who is weary along the way."

We can pray for them, with them, and encourage them to pray for themselves when under attack, claiming their birthright in Jesus, using the words of scripture. We can ever-learn to be a better soldier for our Savior and Lord (2 Timothy) and we can appropriate the Spirit's power over all Satan's attacks that come our way.

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