Is this Spiritual Warfare?

HiI don't have any major insight as in 'is it warfare' but when I first came back to the Lord I had continuous blasphemous thoughts about God in my head from the moment I woke up to the moment I went to bed every day for quite a long time. I used to try to control these by retracting them all or repeating truth over and over in my head to try to stop this from happening as I felt that if I didn't keep doing this then it would be like I meant them but I really didn't want or mean them. In the end I completely gave up trying to stop or fight them but got to a place where I just let go but in the right sense and said a very simple prayer that Jesus would keep me through it and not let them defile or confuse me and they just dissapeared and one day I reallised I didn't have them any more. I think I have always had a slight tendency towards obsessive behaviour right from when I was little as I remember going through a stage when I was quite little going through a phase where I had to say a collection of words before my parents went out as I was scared that if I didn't say them then they might not come back. I knew it was silly but didn't seem to be able to stop doing it. I think that the devil knows our weaknesses and one of mine is a tendency towards obsessive thoughts and quite an overactive imagination. I am a terrible 'what if' person. He will use these things to try to throw me from time to time but God has always just brought peace and sanity to my mind when I have really just stopped trying to fight them and really just given it all over to Him to sort out. It sometimes has taken me a while but hopefully as time goes on I learn how to do this better.Don't know if this helps at all.

That's ok, I always find it encouraging to know that other people experience similar things as it can be really isolating and lonely otherwise. Anyway - I would not really think myself qualified to give any proper advice but just can relate it to my own experience. :-)

I think everyone who follows Christ has experienced wicked thoughts , impressions or dreams projected upon them by the wicked demons. I would consider your[s] a little further down the line, having entered into the realm of being tormented.

The Bible speaks of "perfect love" casting away all fear, in which this torment would fall under. Perfect love , perfect Peace.

Isaiah 26:3
"You will keep him in perfect peace, Whose mind is stayed on You,Because he trusts in You."

1. Wash your mind continually with the "water of the Word".
Read the Psalms and Scriptures in a meditative, worshipping way, until His Peace begins to envelop you. Do this often, and each morning...and throughout the day.

2. Refuse the spirit of condemnation. We have the power to:
"cast down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ." This power is given to every believer, not just super apostles.

3.Enter into into a prayer group with trusted and mature friends who can minister to you, and you can be transparent with. This is quite beatable, and can be overcome, but not without a fight.
As these thoughts and entities are continually exposed and brought before the holy light of Jesus, they will loosen their grip, and flee.

When this occurs, fill up your "house" with God, lest finding it swept and clean, more wickedness returns and your end is worse. Otherwise, keep yourself clean, and sin no more.

As far as how this began; who knows? There are recorded instances in the Bible of children who were violated by demons. It probably wasn't your fault, and even if it was...you are free in Jesus. Attack this thing with violence, and don't stop until you overcome it.

Have spiritual men lay hands on you, and pray for healing often; until you win. You can do this. Don't think you cannot.

Some thoughts.

In the end I completely gave up trying to stop or fight them but got to a place where I just let go but in the right sense and said a very simple prayer that Jesus would keep me through it and not let them defile or confuse me and they just dissapeared and one day I reallised I didn't have them any more.

Sometimes the crescendo increases despite having handed over something, but most important is to keep looking to the Lord, Who is Faithful.

I used to have nightmares (every night), and was advised to pray every night until one night I forgot - because I'd stopped having nightmares almost as soon as I began the prayer routine. It took about six weeks for it to dawn on me that actually, I didn't have a nightmare 'problem' any more. Praise God.

ginnyrose said

These items may include books, music, artwork, plus other objects that symbolize rebellion,evil, etc.

If you recall, Acts 19:19 records a similar incident.

Brothertom said

I would consider your[s] a little further down the line, having entered into the realm of being tormented.

Any suggestions?
Scriptures?

Hebrews 4: 9
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God... 11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest,

Hebrews 7:24 But this [man], because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. 25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

26 For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; 27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Hebrews 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. 15 [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, 16 This [is] the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

James 4:7 Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [you] double-minded.

Romans 6:13 Neither yield ye your members [as] instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members [as] instruments of righteousness unto God.

Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. 3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it].

28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength. 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint.

John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 [Even] the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

1 Peter 5
be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting ALL your care upon him; for he careth for you.