The great news is there is a solution to our problem. Both the problem and solution are found here:
Eph 6:12
For our struggle is not against 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.
and
2 Cor 10
3For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
So, instead of doing a frontal assault on flesh and blood (the things we see), that effort needs to be redirected against "the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." People are looking around at the evil that surrounds us and asking "what can I do?" This ^^ is what each one of us and us as a collective can do. The Spirit of the Lord God Almighty has provided a root cause analysis of our problem and the solution to the problem right up above. We need to pray.
If we destroy the root, the rest of the plant will wither. We need to be on our knees praying, standing in agreement with each other and praying back the Lord's own Word to Him that we will be delivered from the great evil that faces humanity today. This is the answer, we already know the problems. Since the Lord God has been gracious enough to do the "real" problem identification for us and put the solution in our face since some of us can walk all over it for awhile without "getting it" (talking about the servant who writes to you today), lets get to work.
We have alot of work to do. There is so much prayer that needs to be done in fact that this servant suggests praying with a spreadsheet. When we pray let us start by addressing the root cause of our problems which are spiritual strongholds. Then we work our prayer out from the root all the way up to the tippy top of the leaves, addressing the full demilitarization of th enemy's war machine against us.
Pray about everything, all the time. If you see something you dont like in the world, pray something about it (if you see something, pray something). In addition to praying over our ever growing prayer list, we need to pay attention to the Word of God to both feed ourselves and to dig out each and every promise that addresses in any way the problems we face so we can use those promises as combat multipliers against the enemy. And last, whatever else in addition to prayer and fasting that the Spirit of the Lord tells us to do, we need to do that as well.
We are at war. We did not want this war or ask for this war but the enemy brought it to our doorstep. For the sake of our families, our children, ourselves, all of humanity-take your pick-we must fast and pray and do everything else the Lord God directs us to as if we are at war. We must do away with peacetime complacency that go us into this mess in the first place.
It is time to do what we were put on this earth to do. It is time to work.
Glory to God
grace and peace
