Fight Back!

1. The Full Surrender

The first thing you must be willing to do before you can even begin to get God to protect you and fight some of your personal battles for you is that you have to be willing to fully surrender every part of your life over to God the Father for His direction and handling.You must be fully submitted to the Lord before you can even begin to do battle with Satan, any of his demons, or any human enemy in the natural realm.

Here is the very first verse each Christian must get under their belt before they can even begin to enter into any kind of true, spiritual warfare in the Lord. This verse is only one sentence long, but a lot is being said in this one sentence.

This is absolutely the number one foundational verse in which all true spiritual warfare in the Lord will be based on.

Here it is:

“Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7)

Most people skip the first part of this verse and jump right into the second part of it. However, the first part of this verse gives you the secret in which you will be able to engage with the devil.

The first part is to “submit to God.” Submitting to God means you are in a full submission with God. To be in a full submission with God means you are in a full surrender with Him.

This lack of a full surrender to the Lord in a believer’s life is the main reason why so many of His people are coming under such serious and heavy attacks from demons and the other bad and evil people in this life. It’s “your all for God’s all.” If you want God’s maximum protection on you and your life – then you will have to be willing to give Him your all. And your all is a full and complete surrender of your body, soul, spirit and your entire life over to God the Father.

If you are not willing to fully surrender every part of your being and every part of your life over to the Lord – then you simply will not be getting God’s full protection on you and your life, and you will thus be subject to various types of storm clouds being able to come against you.

2. Going On the Offensive Against Your Enemies

The second part of this verse then gives you secret #2 to spiritual warfare – and that secret is to “resist the devil.” Notice the verse says to first resist the devil, and then he will flee. Resist means you fight, you engage, you take your enemy head on. You do not sit passively by while he continues to attack and beat you down.

If there is one major secret I feel the Lord has given me in the area of spiritual warfare – it is the strategy of going on the offensive against whatever enemy is coming against you – just like David did with Goliath.

3. Walk in All of God’s Ways – Keep All of God’s Commandments!

As you will see in the next two verses, the second thing you must do after making a full surrender with the Lord is that you have to seek to walk in all of God’s way’s and keep all of God's commandments.

If you are out cheating on your wife and committing adultery behind her back, then you will not be getting God’s full protection on you or His power to help deliver you from any attacks that may be coming against you from your enemies.This is another main reason why many of God’s children are coming under such serious and heavy attacks from the enemy. They have “holes in their hedges” as result of operating in some of these heavier sins. If you are operating in any of these heavier sin areas – then you will need to get it all worked out with Lord before you can even begin to step out onto the battlefield to do spiritual battle with your enemies.

1. “If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them … you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land. You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.” (Leviticus 26:3)
    
2. “For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you.” (Deuteronomy 23:14)

Notice in the second verse that God will walk in the midst of your camp, which is your life, and He will deliver you and keep your enemies from overtaking you – but only if your camp is “holy.” If it is not, then He will turn away from you, and you will then have no protection from your enemies!

The first verse is literally telling you that if you keep all of God’s commandments and do them and stay out of any serious sin – then He will give you safe dwelling in your present set of circumstances, and also give you the power and the ability to engage and chase your enemies away from you should they even try to launch an attack against you.

Notice the last part of this verse says that a hundred shall put ten thousand to flight. What I believe God is trying to tell us with this last sentence is that no enemy, no matter how big, will be any match for you as long as you are living under God’s wing and protection.