Posts Tagged ‘spiritual warfare’

Enemy

// May 12th, 2010 // 1 Comment » // My Life, My Thoughts

There is a lot going on this week!   Many of my close friends, family, and brothers and sisters in Christ are most definitely enduring heavy spiritual oppression and attack.   As I have been meditating and praying… trying to discern and see “by faith and not by sight”  I was moved to begin writing this letter to the enemy… I believe that we should all live as spiritual warriors and take the battle to the enemy… oh and just  so you know… all my fellow spiritual warriors out there… the enemy is not each other! :)  we are on the same team!

Enemy,

I feel your hot breath on my neck,
you press down on my shoulders crushing my chest
my breath comes quick and shallow,
I feel your shadow clouding my vision
your fog obscuring my perceptions
you dangle fear in front of me hoping to weaken my resolve
you promise destruction, abandonment, heartbreak
you whisper lies and deceptive thoughts

Enemy,

Your friends are near
they smell the blood of saints ready to be spilled
they come close spoiling for an unfair fight
they hop from one foot to the other
waiting to watch the struggle
they click their tongues… leer… and kick
hoping to incite a reaction…
they savor every ounce of struggle

Enemy,

you’ve made a grave mistake…
you have missed my smile.
your feet may be on my shoulders
but my soul rests in the hand of God
his crushing grip will take you at the last
and it will cradle me like a baby…
Then I will rise in his strength
my sword will cleave the last of you
you will see the rage of the Almighty
as it courses through the veins of his warrior

Enemy,

You might want to think twice next time…

copyright   2010  jason carroll
jasonthebaldguy.com
Tags: poem, poetry, spiritual warfare

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Good Question (part 2) My answer

// March 25th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // My Thoughts

I got this question posed to me recently by a young… on-fire christian and I figured it would be great if you answered it… I will post my answer afterward.

I am so depressed… why does it make a difference what people think? I am sick of caring, and I am sick of everyone acting like there is so much time…and making everything funny or light hearted. Like people that take being a christian seriously are so looked down on… I am sick of it! what do I do.

so what do we say to this?

My answer:

Love them.  Take your walk with God seriously, take yourself not so
seriously and let others take resposibility for themselves. Ultimately
you cannot hold someone accountable unless they give you the ability to
do that. It is earned by just loving and caring sometimes for years…

I was answering in a text message so it is a pretty short answer… but the truth is … we cannot cannot make others take responsibility for their lives only God can… and we can make as much of a fuss as we want and it will make hardly a difference in their life…unless we have earned the right as someone that loves them.  It is tough to love people… Love hurts… it hurts more when they act like they don’t love you or they don’t love the things you love… but the sacrifice of love is the only thing that ultimately redeemed us.  Feeling sick with frustration is the sacrifice of love… Solomon said it best “Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.”  Hope deferred… drawn out…seemingly forever!  love that continues to believe that there is hope… even though the time grows long…and it is over and over ignored… can you imagine how sick God is?!!!   Paul says in Romans 8:22-23 “For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”  If all creation groans and labors together… and even we do… can you imagine the Love-sickness and long-suffering of God as he waits for us to “Get it”?

Anyways.. that was my answer… feel free to expound further!

Tags: Christianity, depression, Love, spiritual leadership, spiritual warfare

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Good Question

// March 21st, 2010 // 10 Comments » // My Thoughts

I got this question posed to me recently by a young… on-fire christian and I figured it would be great if you answered it… I will post my answer afterward.

I am so depressed… why does it make a difference what people think? I am sick of caring, and I am sick of everyone acting like there is so much time…and making everything funny or light hearted. Like people that take being a christian seriously are so looked down on… I am sick of it! what do I do.

so what do we say to this?

Tags: Christianity, depression, Love, spiritual leadership, spiritual warfare

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The Warrior

// March 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // My Thoughts

I originally wrote this letter about 2 years ago… I figured as this email was the original inspiration for my blog and 2 years later resonates just as strongly I would share it with you…

So many of my friends have been under intense pressure lately. Financial stress, loneliness, anger, frustration, spiritual dryness, and fear, are crippling their efforts as they fight just to keep their heads above water. All of these friends have stood by me in my hard times and have cried out for me and assisted where they could.

As I think of the spiritual battle raging around me for the souls of men, I see my friends wounded and battle scarred, some despairing as we continue the fight surrounded and separated from our battle group. This is truly war! Something inside me thrills though.. a clarity that I have never had before. I had fought my own battles until now, but this battle… this is THE battle. The warriors by my side are my friends, the wounded are my friends, the fallen… are my friends.

Almost a year ago the Lord gave me the image of a warrior planting his foot in the city of Gardner, the dust rushed away from his foot like a shock-wave, and the ground shook.

Today I planted my foot and roared to the enemy! “You will advance no further! I will no longer defend my position but will advance on you with a swiftness and fury that causes you to freeze in terror! I… WILL… NO… LONGER…FEAR! I will mow you down like a sickle that clears a field and there will be none standing my path that will not fall! your fallen will outnumber ours by ten-thousand to one!”

I plead with you today, Plant your foot, roar to the enemy! Let us bring to him the battle that he has for so long brought to us! let his forces feel the weakness of defeat as the Army of the KING OF GLORY rises to defeat him!
~blessings

JASONTHEBALDGUY

Tags: Christianity, Fighting, spiritual warfare

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The Matrix… Yes Again

// September 21st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // My Thoughts

At the end of the first Matrix movie Neo makes a phone call intended for the creators of the matrix.

“I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid. You’re afraid of us. You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world … without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”


I can identify with this quote very strongly. For me this statement can be directed at the powers and principalities that seek to govern and put us in bondage.  No one can be “told” about the matrix… they have to see it.  I can only show you the door. you have to walk through it…
Tags: Apple, choice, Family, spiritual warfare

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