Which battleground do you fight on?
The battlefield of the mind or the battlefield in the heavenlies?

Have you taken notice of the same confrontation from the devil in your mind never seems to go away even after maybe 12 years and you always do the same routine in fighting against the devil but it never seems to conquer or defeat the stronghold in your life.. Guess what you have been tricked into thinking this is where the real spiritual war is. The devil loves it more than anything that we stay in are little itty bitty minds when we do warfare against him, you know why? Because the devil knows if he can keep you fighting a winless fight in your mind where he will attack you with doubt,fear etc. and then you try to counteract in your mind in fighting against him you have lost no matter what you do. Your mind is flesh and your weapons that you use there will not work. For when you try to fight in the mind you are using your mind to try and release spiritual weapons which will not work.

Your spiritual weapons were created to work and operate in the spirit in the heavenlies where the real and true battleground is. We are to be fighting spiritual warfare in the heavenlies instead of are minds.. Read Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh (which can translate into the mind which is flesh) and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.(are fight is in the where? The Heavenly realms not the mind..)

Wow how I am embarressed to have been trying to fight with spiritual weapons in the mind to release in the spirit realm, when I was suppossed to be using them in the heavenly realm when confronted with temptations or attacks from the devil. If we confront the devil on his own turf in are minds which is flesh and he is a flesh devil we will loose, for we didnt take the spiritual fight into the heavenlies where we were supposed to confront him at with are spiritual weapons of our warfare which are not carnel, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds." I Cor. 10:4

Those who continue to fight any battle in your mind will only be shadow boxing in thin air against the devil just as he wants you too.. Begin to get out of your mind and into your spirit and enter into the heavenlies and use your spiritual weapons there, and as you do watch at how fast bondages you have been fighting for 12 years fall right before your eyes.. And as you are fighting in the spirit in the heavenlies dont be sidetracked in letting the devil try to take you back where you used to fight spiritually in your mind where he wants you to go. STAND your ground in the heavenlies where you will see your spiritual weapons manifest powerfully against him and you will win and overcome the devil whenever any sort of attack will come against you.. Those who get this revelation in there spirit from the Holy Spirit will be changed in how you confront the devil when he comes at you.. I have been immediately praising and worshipping God in the heavenlies right when an attack comes against me no matter what it is and when I do the attack stops immediately and there comes into my being a mighty flood of Gods peace and his presence.. You see as when we are confronted in are minds from the devil with any kind of attack and we then proceed to take the fight into the heavenlies, we are then lifted up above the attacks the devil is bringing at us and we can then see through Gods perspective from taking the fight into the heavenlies and not are minds and then we can proceed to do warfare in the spirit with are weapons that are not carnel but mighty in the pulling down of strongholds..(And when you fight in the heavenlies in the spirit you wont get tired or weary for your spirit is abiding in Jesus and his strength instead of how you used to fight with your mind in warfare and then get tired and all defeated.) This is why Christians are walking around all powerless and defeated they have been fighting on the wrong battlefield in there mind instead of the heavenlies.. We have been shadow boxing the devil in are minds instead of rising above him into the heavenlies and then from there to overtake him in all he does..

Ephesians 2:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus..

This is a great word. I understand the concept but aren't our weapons prayer, praise and the Word? Please explain further
Jo

Yes amen two of the greatest but some Christians including me have been using these weapons to fight on the wrong battlefield in the mind instead of in the heavenlies where we are supposed to be using these spiritual weapons. For to long I have gone around and around in circles in my mind trying to fight there against the devil with spiritual weapons and really all I have been doing is shadow boxing him,for the true battlefield is in the heavenlies.. Full release of are spiritual weapons will be displayed when we use them on the correct battlefield which is in the heavenlies.. When looking from the eyes of are heart into the heavenlies as we use these spiritual weapons, we will see Gods glory as we do warfare as never before seen.. In other words when a confrontation comes from the devil I am not to go to my mind and enter there to do war with him which in result will only lead me into more bondage and confusion of wondering why my weapons of warfare are not truely being effective.. So the next time when I am confronted by the devil in my mind or emotions this time I immediately take my weapons of warfare into the spirit realm into the heavenlies not in the carnel realm in my mind...

Hope this helps explain a little better..

Like today, when I was questioning God (my mind and flesh) as to "Why?" regarding falling and now my shoulder is stiff and sore.... Well, all of a sudden, I had a revelation. Usually, when this happens, I can't work. My shoulder stiffens to unmovable, I can't lift my arm, it just hangs useless.... This time (and I really believe it's the prayers of you guys on anointed.net), I was able to go to work and do my job fairly well. I lifted and moved a LOT of stuff from old apartment to new. I managed to get many boxes of stuff upstairs. I did a lot of scrubbing on old apartment. I was able to cook. Used to be I just sat and did nothing or tried to sleep, because the pain was so great and the shoulder so "frozen." So, you see, even though I fell, there was all this stuff to praise God for. When I began praising and thanking God for all the good stuff, a prayer request I put up for a better attitude was immediately answered. It seemed like it wasn't enough to THINK of these good points; once I started speaking them out, my attitude totally shifted. I was seeing that God WAS in my life and that He had not forgotten me and that He did care.... I saw the goodness of God, not what my mind was trying to tell me was His lack of concern. Before, I was trying to THINK it out. You'll lose every time. When I SPOKE what my spirit KNEW -- whoohoo!!! -- then I had the victory.

My shoulder has been loosening up ever since that time and is much, much better now. I am on here typing much more easily than when I tried to earlier. It still hurts some, but is so much improved.

~JeriRose~
Finding HIM in 2004

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