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Prophetic Spiritual Warfare

Pr James Kawalya

What is deliverance?

Deliverance is not an event but a process of discipleship for transformation. (2 Corinthians 3:16-18)

Deliverance involves renouncing the past, renewing the mind and embracing the whole counsel of God to serve the purpose of God. (Luke 1:74-75)

Deliverance involves identifying bloodline covenants, seeking forgiveness from bloodshed, opening the prison with the keys of the kingdom, asking the soul to be born and match the body, spirit and age.

Deliverance is complete through acts of righteousness to draw the glory of God to our souls, family, workplace and all the other aspects of our lives. When our soul is healed, we can host the glory of God. God wants us to be delivered so that we can carry the light. The Word of God in us produces light.

Acts of righteousness include:
1) Prayer lifestyle

2) Consecration fasting

3) Giving from the heart

Fasting, the power to deliver

Fasting is a form of worship that humbles us and reminds us of our dependent on God, and brings us back to our first love.

Fasting causes the roots of our relationship with Jesus to go deeper.

Fasting is a proclamation that God is greater than our appetites and situations. in this we magnify Him as He enlarges our spiritual coverage.

Fasting is the secret key that unlocks heaven's door and slams shut the gates of hell.
Introduction to Prophetic Spiritual Warfare



Spiritual warfare is a demonstration of power, through the victory of the Cross (resurrection power).

Deliverance is the demonstration of authority. (2 Corinthians 4)

Before resurrection, the disciples mostly did deliverance because Jesus had given them authority but they had not received power.

Power came after the resurrection when He descended to the deeper parts of the earth and disarmed Satan. (Matthew 28:18)

The church is called to battle and dislodge forces of the kingdom of darkness.

Ephesians 3:9 New King James Version (NKJV)
and to make all see what is the [a]fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things [b]through Jesus Christ;

Spiritual warfare started in heaven. (Revelation 10)

Traditional vs Prophetic Warfare

Traditional spiritual warfare focuses on binding spirits and pulling down strongholds. Prophetic spiritual warfare focuses on dislodging satanic infrastructures and systems, and establishes nations and communities into their destinies.

Prophetic spiritual warfare centres on bringing nations into their God ordained destinies. Traditional warfare is more of pushing back powers of darkness and their agendas.

Prophetic deliverance is introducing the presence of God into communities and nations. Traditional warfare deals with strongmen, strongholds and powers. Prophetic deliverances deal with waves, currents, storms and elements.

Both approaches must understand the operation of the three venues of spiritual power and influence.

1) Altars
2) Gates
3) Thrones

Purposes:
1) Establish the Kingdom of God on earth.
2) Bring nations, tribes, people into their destiny.
3) Set at liberty those oppressed.
4) Manifest the reason of the appearing of the sons of God.
5) Reclaim inheritance surrendered to the devil.

Requirements:
1) Spiritual sensitivity and spiritual intelligence.
2) Spiritual skills and disciplines.
3) Endued with power.
4) Angelic engagement.
5) The status of our spirit through exercise.

The Stand of the Church
Jesus destroyed the devil’s empire and gave us authority. Jesus did not only conquer demons that inhabit people but also demons that operate outside human bodies. (Matthew 28:18)

Establishing the Kingdom of God implies entering territories that are terribly occupied by forces of darkness. The power to destroy such forces has been given to the Church.

Matthew 12:28-29 New King James Version (NKJV)
28 But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. 29 Or how can one enter a strong man’s house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.

Ephesians 1:19-23 New King James Version (NKJV)
19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all principality[a] and [b]power and [c]might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
22 And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Matthew 16:18-19 New King James Version (NKJV)
18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not [a]prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth [b]will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Luke 10:19 New King James Version (NKJV)
19 Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

An army chosen by God. The Lord desires to raise generals of faith in the Church. Through constant engagement, the Church will rise as the latter army of the Lord. We are soldiers of the Cross.

War Against Evil Altars
Altars are gates into the spiritual realm.

Deuteronomy 12:2-3 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their [a]wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place.

1) Destroy the Horns

Psalm 75:10 New King James Version (NKJV)
10 “All the [a]horns of the wicked I will also cut off,
But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.”

Oh carpenter of God, break the horns of darkness to irreparable pieces in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Every power causing stagnant in my life be disgraced forever in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Evil counsel against my breakthrough turn into foolishness in the name of Jesus. Amen.

Every hunter looking for my destiny be blinded in the name of Jesus. Amen.

2) Nullify Sacrifices

Ask God to reject all petitions and sacrifices of evil altars in your territory and your bloodline.

Eg. Elijah and Baal prophets. (1 Kings 18)

2.1) Activate the Sacrifice of Calvary.

I acknowledge that there can be no greater or more potent sacrifice than the blood of Jesus Christ. Amen.

2.2) Charge the Blood of Jesus against evil sacrifices.

I raise the blood of Jesus Christ against any evil sacrifice offered on evil altars around my territory. Amen.

2.3) Petition God to Nullify Covenants of evil sacrifices.

I cause the voice of the blood of Jesus Christ to speak a better covenant. Amen.

3) Retrench Evil Priesthood.

Declare that you are a holy priesthood, a chosen nation. A people belonging to God. (1 Peter 2:9)

Ask God to wipe out every form of evil priesthood in the bloodline and your territory.

Evict evil priests from their offices and positions and cancel all their decrees and petitions.

Desecrate and paralyse every tool and skill they use in their duties.

Forces, Powers, Personalities and Systems

Ephesians 6:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of [a]the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

We are dealing with forces, powers, personalities and systems.

Most of our battles are against personalities.

But wars are against systems. For example, communism against capitalism, the Cold War [geopolitical tensions after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (United States and its allies)].

Also in spiritual warfare, there are times that it is not against demons but against a system or a culture in the city, tribe or nation. 

For example, how are you going to battle against a political system that promotes wickedness and injustice?

It is a system, a doctrine or a belief that you are fighting against.

How do you deal with materialism? 

How do you deal with a religious system that is holding people captive or an idealogy that is hindering the purposes of God?

How did Paul battle the Greeks? What did he do in Athens? He went around the city and preached to the altars of the city before he went before the council to present the gospel to the Greeks. (Acts 17:16–34) Because he knew it was a system supported by a force and promoted by personalities. There was a personality behind the force. And there was a network that Paul had to preach to until their minds were cleared.

The war against terrorism is not against the terrorists. You remove one suicide bomber and another would appear. You arrest one and another ten would appear. There is an ideology behind them. Behind them, there is a system. Eg, how explosives are made, etc. Dealing with the person and the personality may not break terrorism in a nation. Behind them, there is also the force. When they attack, they target the personality and the system of a city or a nation. Break the system and the nation becomes a failed nation. Manipulate the system and they can possess an entire city.

When the enemy attacks the church, the pastor is targeted. The enemy assassinates the character of the pastor. Break the person or destroy the personality, interfere with the system or fail the system and cause the people to support the new system or agenda.

Signs, Wonders and Miracles

1 Kings 18:15-40 New Century Version (NCV)
15 Elijah answered, “As surely as the Lord All-Powerful lives, whom I serve, I will be seen by Ahab today.”
16 So Obadiah went to Ahab and told him where Elijah was. Then Ahab went to meet Elijah.
17 When he saw Elijah, he asked, “Is it you—the biggest troublemaker in Israel?”
18 Elijah answered, “I have not made trouble in Israel. You and your father’s family have made all this trouble by not obeying the Lord’s commands. You have gone after the Baals. 19 Now tell all Israel to meet me at Mount Carmel. Also bring the four hundred fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”
20 So Ahab called all the Israelites and those prophets to Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah approached the people and said, “How long will you not decide between two choices? If the Lord is the true God, follow him, but if Baal is the true God, follow him!” But the people said nothing.
22 Elijah said, “I am the only prophet of the Lord here, but there are four hundred fifty prophets of Baal. 23 Bring two bulls. Let the prophets of Baal choose one bull and kill it and cut it into pieces. Then let them put the meat on the wood, but they are not to set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull, putting the meat on the wood but not setting fire to it. 24 You prophets of Baal, pray to your god, and I will pray to the Lord. The god who answers by setting fire to his wood is the true God.”
All the people agreed that this was a good idea.
25 Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “There are many of you, so you go first. Choose a bull and prepare it. Pray to your god, but don’t start the fire.”
26 So they took the bull that was given to them and prepared it. They prayed to Baal from morning until noon, shouting “Baal, answer us!” But there was no sound, and no one answered. They danced around the altar they had built.
27 At noon Elijah began to make fun of them. “Pray louder!” he said. “If Baal really is a god, maybe he is thinking, or busy, or traveling! Maybe he is sleeping so you will have to wake him!” 28 The prophets prayed louder, cutting themselves with swords and spears until their blood flowed, which was the way they worshiped. 29 The afternoon passed, and the prophets continued to act like this until it was time for the evening sacrifice. But no voice was heard; Baal did not answer, and no one paid attention.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Now come to me.” So they gathered around him, and Elijah rebuilt the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. 31 He took twelve stones, one stone for each of the twelve tribes, the number of Jacob’s sons. (The Lord changed Jacob’s name to Israel.) 32 Elijah used these stones to rebuild the altar in honor of the Lord. Then he dug a ditch around the altar that was big enough to hold about thirteen quarts of seed. 33 Elijah put the wood on the altar, cut the bull into pieces, and laid the pieces on the wood. 34 Then he said, “Fill four jars with water, and pour it on the meat and on the wood.” Then Elijah said, “Do it again,” and they did it again. Then he said, “Do it a third time,” and they did it the third time. 35 So the water ran off the altar and filled the ditch.
36 At the time for the evening sacrifice, the prophet Elijah went near the altar. “Lord, you are the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel,” he prayed. “Prove that you are the God of Israel and that I am your servant. Show these people that you commanded me to do all these things. 37 Lord, answer my prayer so these people will know that you, Lord, are God and that you will change their minds.”
38 Then fire from the Lord came down and burned the sacrifice, the wood, the stones, and the ground around the altar. It also dried up the water in the ditch. 39 When all the people saw this, they fell down to the ground, crying, “The Lord is God! The Lord is God!”
40 Then Elijah said, “Capture the prophets of Baal! Don’t let any of them run away!” The people captured all the prophets. Then Elijah led them down to the Kishon Valley, where he killed them.

How did Elijah break the stronghold of Baal in the entire Israel?

At that time, Baal was the official god of Israel. King Ahab’s wife, Queen Jezebel, was also a prophetess of Baal and she had 500 prophets.

Elijah appeared and said, “I serve the living LORD, the God of Israel. And it will not rain until I say so.” (1 Kings 17:1)

It was a prophetic declaration. It was a prophetic proclamation.

Then he went into hiding and later reappeared and said, “The God who answers by fire, He is God.” (1 Kings 18:24)

The miracle of fire from heaven was the answer to the prayer of Elijah.

Then Elijah prayed for rain and it did. When it rained, the nation knew that the God of Elijah is a true God. The people’s minds changed. Demons had to leave. Strongholds are in the minds.

God wants you to go to your community and people will see a demonstration of signs, wonders and miracles.

Filled with the Holy Spirit, we are able to operate in the miracle working power of God; we are able to do warfare through signs and wonders.

Through prophetic warfare, Jesus encountered a Samaritan woman at the well, told her all that she ever did, and an entire city was saved. (John 4:1-42)

Are you that one person whom God will use to save an entire city?

Rules for Effective Spiritual Warfare:

1) Rule of Alliance

1.1) Break all alliances in the soul with the strongman.

In every warfare, the personality that we are dealing with is a strongman.

1.2) Study the characteristics of the strongman and decide if his character traits are in your soul.

When the devil came to Jesus, Jesus said He has nothing in common with the devil. (Matthew 4:1-11)

Check if there is pride, arrogance, anger or rebellion in you or your team members. Check if there is immorality or fornication in your soul. Make sure there is no covenants with the strongman.

God is ready and willing to do miracles.

But miracles do not happen because you still have alliances, attachments or connections with the evil strongman. There is still deception in your soul. How do you expect to fight the devil who is the father of lies when your own life is full of lies?

The devil only needs a foothold to build a stronghold.

Always check your soul. Iniquity in the soul is an alliance with the evil one.

Ephesians 5:11 New King James Version (NKJV)
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather [a]expose them.

2) Rule of Authority

2.1) The level in which we can attack and do warfare is directly related to the level of our authority and the level of our relationship with the Lord.

The deeper our relationship with God, the higher the level we can do warfare.

How is your relationship with the Lord? How close and intimate are you with the Lord?

Are you friends with Jesus? Do you love Him or do you love His power?

Do you know His voice?

Is Jesus more precious to you than the victory that you want in this battle, that even if you lose the battle you’ll still have Jesus? Are you going for the battle for fame and money or for the love of Jesus? Is it because you going for the battle to live a life of freedom and prosperity or is it because you love the Lord so much that you are ready to lay down your life, even if you are to die in the battle? There are times that you have to put aside your ambition and desires because you love Jesus.

3) Rule of Silence

Power in silence.

Every spiritual man’s power is in his ability to spend enough time in silence in the quiet time.

3.1) The power of the spirit is in the clear communication of the spirit which comes from the renewal we get every day from silence.

The power of Jesus was in His routine. Every day He would look for a place and spend time alone in silence.

Elijah was in silence for three and a half years before he came to deal with Baal.

Power is quiet time. Let God minister to you.

If you are a person who performs miracles and does spiritual warfare, you must be a person who practices silence.

Silence is a way of renewing the spirit and healing the spirit so that you are able to fight.

3.2) The practice of silence enables a man to reach a high state of stillness.

“Be still, and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)

Just stand and see the punishment of the wicked.

In stillness and quietness, we have the confidence and power.

In stillness and quietness, your spirit commands the angels.

There are times God will tell you not to do anything. Just go to the corner of the street and stand there.

Stillness means letting the Holy Spirit minister to your mind as you forget what is surrounding you.

In your heart and in your mind, you are active.

What you are doing is that you are making the other faculties of your body to be quiet in order to concentrate on the ministry of the Holy Spirit to you.

3.3) Stillness sharpens a man’s sensitivity and discernment.

Many people in the church have not been baptised in the Holy Spirit. It is a process.

A spirit cannot enter you without a point of contact in you because the gates of your spirit and the gates of your soul are guarded by what you are covenanted with. It has to go through different phases, different layers, different membranes in the spirit, different gates and different doors in order to establish itself into your spirit.

Demons enter through your will. That’s why they come through the power of suggestion. They will suggest something and if you agree, they will come into you.

The gates of the body, mind, soul, heart and the seven gates of the spirit must open for a spirit to enter you.

Meditate on the Word of God. Go through the Bible as you are still and quiet.

Battles are easy if you are discerned and sensitive.

3.4) Silence every morning helps the spirit to heal from the bruises of the previous day’s spiritual battle. This means that every day we are being renewed inwardly by silence.

When the spirit is bruised and wounded and you keep going to battle, it will begin to wound and hurt the soul. Before you know it, the body becomes sick.

All sicknesses and diseases begin in the spirit that is bruised and wounded.

Every morning you need to heal and take away all the wounds and bruises of the previous day before you start to battle again.

Spiritual warfare is done by your spirit, not your soul. It is your spirit that is in combat. It is your spirit that is tapping into heaven to draw power from the heart of God and to bring down the power to release the power and cause the miracle. It is a spiritual transaction.


Ephesians 6:13-18 New King James Version (NKJV)
13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints—

The Table of the Full Armour of God

ARMOUR
MEANING
APPLICATION
Belt
Revelation of our freedom from captivity
Guard the heart and mind not to doubt your confession
Breastplate
The confidence of our righteousness in Christ Jesus
Walk by faith in the finished work of Calvary
Gospel
Rest that comes from making peace with God
Stand firm as a witness of His resurrection
Shield
Assurance of the power in the name of Jesus
Obeying His commands
Helmet
The joy of eternal life and preservation
Living with the hope of eternal life
Sword
The victory in the Word of Christ
Teaching, praying and living by the Word

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