The Art of
 Self-Defense

You do not have to succumb to what the enemy, the devil, tries to do to your life.  You can be an aware, vibrant, and strong person who relies on God.  You  acquire the skill so that you put yourself in a position where you are defended.  Knowledge and ability can be sent your way as you allow God to teach you the art of self-defense.
I.    Go After Knowledge.
II.   Use Your Connections.
III.  Don’t Imagine the Worst. 
IV.  Go on the Offense. 
V.   Don’t Be Caught Unawares.

   You're
 Not Prey
     for
Whatever
 Comes!

   There are certain species of animals that are called the prey species.  They’re the ones that become victims for carnivores—the animals who eat other animals.  For instance, leopards, cheetahs, and lions are carnivores.  They’re going to eat other animals, so the ones they attack are called the prey species.  They are prey or victims for the attackers.    

   There is a spiritual carnivore that comes after us.  The devil and all his forces.  But there’s a big difference.  As believers, we are not part of the prey species.  We must decide we’re not going to fall into the role of being prey to what comes against us.

   Don’t let yourself become a prey.  Go on the offense against what is being aggressive against your life.  Your best defense is a good offense.  God gives you all the equipment to do it.

   When you’re under attack, you need to do the same thing a porcupine does.  On the surface, the porcupine has nice soft hair and appears to be so cute.  It minds its own business.  That is until something threatens it.  Then it shows under its soft cute hair how it has sharp terrible quills.  So when an animal gets too near it and the porcupine is threatened, it goes on the offense.  It gives its predator a snoot full of very painful needles.  That causes it to back off and go away.

   Be as the porcupine.  Give the devil a snoot full of painful and powerful quills that will cause him to back away.   Show your sharp and powerful weapons to those spirit forces coming at you: the Word of God, the name of Jesus, the power of the Holy Spirit, the anointing.  Don’t sit there and be a prey; don’t be a victim for what he wants to do.  Go on the offense.

   I had to do that at a time when John was not feeling well because of an infection, and it was being persistent.  But because he had so many responsibilities, he couldn’t get much rest.  You know how that is.  It’s hard to take time to be sick.  But when your body is fighting something, you have to take it easy.  So that weekend, he decided to rest a short time, and I was sitting nearby him being sorry for him that he was not feeling well.

   As I sat there praying, an anointing came on me.  I felt compassion and power sweeping over me.  I jumped up and told John I was going to start praying.  I warned him that I was going to get loud, because I felt God’s Spirit in me in such a strong way.

   In the name of Jesus, I began to command sickness and fatigue and infection to get out.  Get out of John’s body and out of our household and away from us.  As the power of God took over and I continued to come against this attack, ohhhh, that sickness did not want to be in my way.  I was going on the offense.

   It was not I, but it was what God would do if He had been there in person.  In a way, He was there in person, because He’s in me.  He’s in you.  When you pray under the anointing, it’s as if God Himself is there.

   By the time I was finished praying, I felt as if I’d been in a fight.  And I was.  I was fighting a spiritual fight.  Then John prayed with me, and we got victory.  He became well and bounced back in a quick way.

   This is why God wants to teach us self-defense.  There is no sense in taking what is being sent to harm us in some way when He has given us what we need to stop it.  So we must be proactive.

   I could’ve sat there that day and felt sorry for John and maybe said a prayer and just tried to wait it out.  But why do that?  John and I fight for each other.  If one of us has a need, the other is going on the offense.  That’s what we also do for our family and the Partners of this ministry.

   We know how to charge the forces that try to take from them what God has for them.  We get down to business.  You have to, don’t you?  There’s too much the devil will try to do to us if we don’t defend ourselves by going on the offense with God.

   In Deuteronomy 3 when Moses and the Israelites had been through so much trying to get to the territory God had promised them, another problem came.  The King of Bashan decided to come against them to defeat them.  As they encamped against the Israelites, Moses went to God and asked Him what to do.  The answer was, Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand.  Moses and the Israelites went on the offense and had a great victory.

   Don’t fear what comes against you because you have the power to go on the spiritual offense and have a great victory.
 

Spiritual powerline to say out loud:

“I’M GOING ON THE OFFENSE!”

Here is a powerful prayer to say out loud:

Lord, thank You for the power that You have placed within me and the powerful weapons You have given me to stop what comes against my life and family.  In the name of Jesus, I see the problems defeated and a great victory is mine.  Amen and amen.

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