Daily Devotional for Saturday March 2, 2002

Spiritual Warfare - Part I - The Enemy is Attacking

(Ephesians 6:12)

So many of the emails I receive every day are from good Christian people who are looking for God to help them and wondering why they are going through the difficulties they are. Unfortunately, there is not always an explanation. I try to encourage and challenge you each day to do your part, because in all honesty, we cause a lot of the problems in our lives ourselves by not following God's plan and ignoring the warnings that He has clearly laid out in His Word. But for those living a holy and Godly life, who are still experiencing major battles, you have to understand that there is an enemy, satan, who is very real and very actively trying to disrupt the work of God.

The Bible clearly tells us that our battle isn't against flesh and blood, but that it is a spiritual battle. Over the next 3 days, I am going to try to help you fight these battles. The most important thing you have to understand, no matter how intense the attacks may be on you right now, you have already won if you know Jesus as your personal Savior! The most important battle is the one for your soul. Knowing Jesus insures you have won that battle, and that knowledge alone should give you the confidence to wage the battles of this life knowing that in the end, YOU WIN!!! The lesson for today is that as a person who has put their faith and trust in Christ, no matter what you may be facing, in the end YOU WIN!!!!

The reason for these next 3 daily devotional on Spiritual Warfare comes out of he attacks this ministry, Liveprayer.com has been under since we started 30 onths ago. God told me when He gave me the vision for this Internet ministry that it was going to be a major battle since the Internet has basically been Satan's domain and to a large extent still is. For whatever the benefits of the Internet have been, they are far outweighed currently by the ungodly content that dominates cyber world. You would be amazed at the numbers of lives destroyed over the last years by the Internet. Men and women in total bondage to Internet porn, gambling, marriages destroyed by on-line romances that became real, people lured by the greed of on-line trading and losing everything they had in this world, every kind of evil and destructive thing has found a place of prominence here on the Internet. I had no illusions that this would be easy work trying to take back this world for the Kingdom of God.

Many of you on our daily devotional list that we send free of charge to over 900,000 people worldwide, either signed up on our website or were added by a friend or family member from our site. The night before Halloween in 1999, just 3 months after we started Liveprayer, someone trying to sabotage our site and mailing list, added approximately 100 people who were known witches, warlocks, anti-Christians, and anti-spam advocates to start receiving our daily devotional message. Needless to say these people were incensed when they started to receive the devotional. Rather than just following the simple delete instructions in every email we send out, they began (especially the anti-spam advocates) a very concise and calculated campaign to eliminate Liveprayer.com from the Internet.

Our chat room is invaded regularly by ungodly people trying to disrupt the spiritual flow there. Attempts to hack into our site happen all the time, much of the time trying to disrupt our live video feed and lock our site up so people can't send prayer requests. We receive every kind of virus known to man in our mail system. I personally get an average of 3 death threats each month. The enemy has tried to slow down this work by keeping us in a financial position where we couldn't expand the work.

I tell you this to let you know something I learned a long time ago in inistry. If you are not doing anything that is a threat to satan, he won't bother you. If you live for a while and aren't being attacked, you probably aren't doing anything that satan sees as a threat. Rejoice in the attacks because it is confirmation you are being effective!!! Over 900,000 people worldwide get our daily devotional each day, over 15,000 people visit the website, many in their hour of need looking for God to help them, and our live prayer partner is able to pray with them and give them hope on the spot.

I have already won the biggest battle, the battle for my soul, thanks to the faith I have in Christ Jesus. I have nothing to lose so I am not slowing down but am fighting harder every day to kick the devil's butt. In your life, don't get down when you are attacked. Be encouraged and fight even harder!!! Despite the attacks, Liveprayer is still here after 30 months, still the only non-adult website literally broadcasting LIVE 24/7 and praying for people worldwide daily, our Daily Devotional continues to go out each morning, we have state-of the-art filters that protect us from viruses, people are saved and miracles happen each day in our chat room, and we are seeing our financial needs and goals being met. We have chosen to walk in the victory Jesus Christ won on Calvary 2000 years ago!!!

Never forget, "Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world." God is still on the throne, still in control. Liveprayer.com is going to keep ministering to over 1 million people worldwide daily, we are going to keep growing, we are not going to stop until we have such a presence on the Internet that every adult site, every gambling site, every site that is putting people's lives in bondage have to shut down because no one wants to go there anymore. Impossible? Nothing is impossible with God!

I love you and care about you. I am praying for you daily. I can't do this alone, nor did God tell me to try. You are just as much part of what we are doing in the lives of people as I am. Together, we can see lives touched, souls saved, miracles occur, and the Kingdom of God shining brightly in this sin-filled world we live in. Thanks you for your love, prayers, gifts and may is richest blessings be with you today as we work together, and walk in HIS victory EVERY DAY!!!