The Importance Of Spiritual Warfare In My Life

Once we become children of Christ, we will have to deal with spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare is something that target us from our moment of conversion up until either Jesus comes again or until we experience a physical death. Depending on where we are in our walk, we will lose some battles and we will win some. Whether we win or lose, there will be other battles to follow. In the beginning of my spiritual walk, I had two major battles—one I lost, and the other I won. Also, I am currently fighting to major spiritual battles—one I seem to be losing and the other I am winning. I will address each of these battles.

Past spiritual battle that was lost

Thirteen years ago I felt like there was a void in my life. I had a husband, children, a home and a nice job, but something was missing. So one day I decided to start attending church. I visited a different church every Sunday until I visited one church that I felt comfortable with. I started attending that church every Sunday and eventually gave my life to Jesus and join the church. After about a year, I was very active in the Church. I was on the ushers, evangelism, and finance ministries. I started making friends and associating certain members in the Church. In hindsight, I know that this is when the battle began. I am not even sure if it was a battle for a

In retrospect, I realize it was spiritual warfare. I had started growing in Christ. The Lord was using me to help further the vision of the Church. I am not sure if the person who fed me the negative information was jealous of my growth or if it was just a byproduct of where she was in her relationship with Christ, either way, I believed she was used to stunt my spiritual growth. I did not fight back I was too new in the faith to discern what was actually happening. Hence I lost the battle.

Is the spiritual attack over and done, or is it presently an ongoing