206. How To Recover From Spiritual Attack.

[00:00:09] Hello friends welcome to another episode of Making Disciples the podcast that explores different topics on

[00:00:15] Personal Discipleship my name is Chris and I am your host

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[00:00:50] and today's topic is around spiritual warfare and

[00:00:56] One of the listeners I'm paraphrasing the question here really and one of those is writing just talking about some of their

[00:01:02] Experiences around spiritual attack and how they felt in particularly

[00:01:06] Exhausted afterwards and they basically said you know, how do I recover?

[00:01:10] After spiritual attack, how do I recover after spiritual attack? I thought it's a great question

[00:01:16] So I have sat through talks and seminars in the past about spiritual attack

[00:01:20] I want to do I've never actually

[00:01:22] Talked or heard anybody talk around how do you recover?

[00:01:27] You know, how do you build back? How do you build yourself back up after spiritual attack? That's a great question

[00:01:34] So I thought we would delve into that one today and just explore

[00:01:39] How might we go about building ourselves back up after spiritual attack now to answer that question?

[00:01:44] I think we just need to maybe unpack a little bit about what is spiritual attack

[00:01:50] You know, what what is it that we're talking about when we talk about spiritual attack?

[00:01:56] And the reality is friends there

[00:01:58] I would say that I could say like three levels of spiritual attack, you know

[00:02:03] There's the low level spiritual attack the things that tend to be feel more like irritations than anything else

[00:02:10] Then you have that kind of medium level attack where it's it's significant

[00:02:15] But you're not it's not knocking you under and then then there's the significant spiritual attack

[00:02:22] Which is that the the serious level stuff and I would kind of allude to that in the in the podcast today

[00:02:30] And what I would say is that kind of up front is this

[00:02:34] You you need to talk to your local church with regard to how

[00:02:40] They might want to deal with some of the spiritual attack that we kind of might talk about in the podcast today

[00:02:47] There are certain kinds of attack that need to be

[00:02:51] Worked out and work worked through in the local church and every church will approach these things slightly differently

[00:02:59] Different traditions of church will be sensitive to different areas of this stuff

[00:03:04] So I would really love to encourage you if there's anything in the episode today that leaves you with questions

[00:03:09] You can approach your church leader

[00:03:11] If there is anything that you want clarification on

[00:03:16] Approach your church leader. Don't just Google this stuff and

[00:03:20] If when we talk about some of the kind of high level

[00:03:25] Spiritual attack if you listen to this go, maybe maybe that's what I've experienced or experiencing

[00:03:31] then I would say definitely go and talk to an elder or

[00:03:35] Talk to a church leader about it because

[00:03:39] It's serious, but you know this stuff is serious and I've I've seen it at work in people's lives and

[00:03:45] You know really privileged also see people set free from

[00:03:49] Spiritual attack in their lives. So although I'm not going to give us a definition today

[00:03:53] I think I will I will just kind of give broad brush strokes about what we were talking about

[00:03:58] So we can get on to how we might recover from that kind of level of attack. So there you go

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[00:04:32] So here we go. How do I recover from?

[00:04:37] Spiritual talk or how to recover from spiritual attack and we'll talk about what is spiritual attack?

[00:04:42] Let's jump in as we explore this topic together right now

[00:04:46] So as we jump in to talk about spiritual attack, I'm going to start by praying

[00:04:59] Praying for us that we might know God's peace because whenever we talk about this kind of stuff

[00:05:04] I

[00:05:06] Would not be surprised if you didn't feel

[00:05:10] Sensitive to it in some shape or form or not at peace

[00:05:16] In in some shape or form. So let me just pray, you know pray that the king of peace

[00:05:21] Would come minister to us and

[00:05:24] That this prince of peace is king of peace

[00:05:27] Would minister to us in such a way that this stuff doesn't scare us bring fear to us

[00:05:32] Just brings clarity and then with clarity comes wisdom and with wisdom

[00:05:36] We know how to respond and how to put things in place that means we can be hell healthy and well

[00:05:42] So let me just pray Father God we thank you for Jesus

[00:05:45] We thank you for the way that he walked into that upper room and says to the disciples my peace

[00:05:48] I live with you my peace. I give to you not as the world gives

[00:05:52] Lord, we thank you that the peace of Jesus is not a worldly peace

[00:05:56] It's not based upon how we are doing in worldly terms

[00:06:00] It's based upon a supernatural encounter with you

[00:06:03] So we want to pray your peace and protection over our lives particularly orders

[00:06:07] We look at this topic now spiritual attack father protect us

[00:06:12] send your angels to protect us and

[00:06:14] Surround us with your presence that that in no way may we be disturbed or

[00:06:22] Feel under pressure or threatened by anything that is said in this podcast Lord would we just know

[00:06:29] That we trained a bit more. We're aware of it more, but we're also covered by you

[00:06:35] We pray that in the name of Jesus Christ

[00:06:39] Man so let's dive in friends. So I want to talk about what is spiritual attack

[00:06:45] I'm gonna talk about what isn't supposed to talk as well

[00:06:48] I do want to talk about how do we fight spiritual attack?

[00:06:50] But then I really want to get into what I've called here is I'm gonna call it the six ways to heal yours

[00:06:55] From your spiritual attack your spiritual wins

[00:06:58] So I'm gonna give us a bunch of things that you could do to recover if you feel like you've been through a season of

[00:07:05] Attack so what is a spiritual attack?

[00:07:07] Well, let's head to scripture

[00:07:09] So Ephesians 6 12 says this before we do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against the rulers against the authorities against the cosmic powers

[00:07:16] Over this present darkness against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places

[00:07:21] so for Paul spiritual attack was a clear battle that we were living and it wasn't about flesh and blood it was about the

[00:07:30] supernatural it was about

[00:07:32] the the activity the evil activity of

[00:07:36] The devil at work in the world and he

[00:07:40] Recognizes that there is a spiritual battle going on

[00:07:43] And what does Paul tell us in the spiritual battle to put on the armor of God?

[00:07:47] You know the armor of God the shield of faith the helmet of salvation their breastplate

[00:07:53] of

[00:07:54] righteousness the belt of truth

[00:07:57] I have our feet ready with the peace

[00:08:02] Sword of the spirit, you know wearing this stuff and

[00:08:05] Supporting it says yes, we're in a battle

[00:08:07] Make sure you are robed and you are wearing spiritual armor because we are in a battle

[00:08:13] So what is spiritual attack a spiritual battle? Well, it's something we're in it's a it's happening in the spiritual realms

[00:08:20] And it's very much at work in the world around us

[00:08:22] You know I get to deal with people all the time who are

[00:08:26] Experiencing this battle and as people come to faith as they start to become aware of this battle

[00:08:31] Sometimes they do experience this battle at work in their life suddenly in the workplace

[00:08:35] There could be things going on where they're going wow

[00:08:37] I really feel like I'm under some

[00:08:40] Spiritual oppression right now. There's something going on. There's more than just a physical thing

[00:08:45] Where I actually feel like I'm under pressure

[00:08:47] John 1010 says this the thief comes to steal and kill and destroy I've come that they may have life and life

[00:08:56] abundantly or life in the overflow so Jesus talks about a thief

[00:09:00] See the thief who is the devil who's coming to steal kill and destroy you know the devil wants to come and meddle

[00:09:06] So spiritual attack is when the devil is meddling and he's causing destruction

[00:09:12] And he's causing confusion is causing fear is causing worry. So spiritual attack

[00:09:18] can be

[00:09:20] experiencing seasons of worry

[00:09:24] Experiencing seasons of anxiety

[00:09:28] Seasons of what you would just describe as I feel under some level of oppression under some level of darkness now friends

[00:09:34] There is a difference there between depression

[00:09:36] Medical depression and the schemes of the evil one. We have to be really careful

[00:09:40] It's separating the two out and so any doubt always talk to an elder always talk to a church leader talk to somebody

[00:09:47] About what you're experiencing and saying this is what I'm experiencing

[00:09:50] What do you think and be ready and prepared for them to turn around and say no, this isn't spiritual attack

[00:09:55] This is you needing to go and get some support and care from a medical practitioner

[00:10:01] So all the way through this episode of them saying well, this is what spiritual attack is

[00:10:05] But be aware that this thing you're experiencing could well be just something else

[00:10:12] So spiritual attack is something that is happening. It's at work in the world

[00:10:17] It's something where the evil one is at work and we experience it in our lives

[00:10:23] Sometimes through our well-being not being as well our well-being or just being under a

[00:10:31] season of persistent

[00:10:34] Behaviors from somewhere that is just you know wearing you down

[00:10:39] Just wearing you down. It's the evil one who's just knocking you from all the different sides now every tribe and

[00:10:47] Denomination will approach this stuff very differently. So I know that

[00:10:52] Friends of mine from different traditions

[00:10:55] Some will underplay this stuff or some will overplay this stuff

[00:10:58] Well, I get out there go beyond what I think is a normal like that normal level of approaching this stuff

[00:11:05] So you gotta be careful really because there are some denominations that will kind of go overboard on this stuff

[00:11:10] But I just thought this was interesting

[00:11:11] Let me read this to you the concept of spiritual attack varies among different belief systems and spiritual traditions

[00:11:17] Some people may experience spiritual attack as the influence of negative entities or energies

[00:11:24] Well, others may view it as a manifestation of internal external negative influences

[00:11:29] So, you know, in other words some traditions will say that that is an internal thing

[00:11:35] You are you know, there's that's that's going on inside of you

[00:11:38] Well, this would say this is something that's going up, you know in the world external

[00:11:42] So different people approach spiritual like in different ways

[00:11:45] I would say spiritual attack predominantly is when it's something from the outside

[00:11:50] That's that's coming towards you. It's something from somewhere else that's coming towards you

[00:11:57] Anything that's kind of inside of you that's welling up

[00:11:59] I mean apart from anxiety the evil one loves to

[00:12:04] Become makers anxious and fearful. So that's an internal thing, I guess

[00:12:08] But you know often the stuff that's going internally

[00:12:11] It tends to be one, you know often tends to be more medical and the things that come from external

[00:12:18] Attacking those tend to be more spiritual attack

[00:12:20] So I hope this is the internals the externals are different, but you would approach that depending on your tradition

[00:12:26] Now what I want to say is, you know, what isn't spiritual attack?

[00:12:30] spiritual attack is not when you have made a silly

[00:12:36] Decision spiritual attack is not when you made a silly decision

[00:12:38] You may make silly decisions that you are now living with the consequences of and

[00:12:44] You are just now living in the consequences of those silly decisions. That is not spiritual attack

[00:12:49] That's just our own personal stupidity

[00:12:52] saying with sin

[00:12:54] You may have made a sinful choice and now you're living the consequences of that sinful choice

[00:13:00] That is not spiritual attack. That's just you living with consequences

[00:13:04] So I've had bunch of friends who've come to me in the past and said

[00:13:06] I know I'm being spiritual attack right now and they've told me about what's going on

[00:13:10] I've said actually I don't think that is spiritual attack

[00:13:12] I think that's you living with the consequences of sinful decisions that you've made

[00:13:16] You've made stupid decisions about who you wanted to move in and live with and now you're living with the fruit of that

[00:13:23] It's not spiritual attack. It's just you living with the fruit of the decision you made

[00:13:28] So spiritual attack is not

[00:13:31] When general life events become too much for you life can be

[00:13:36] overwhelming work can be overwhelming family can become overwhelming

[00:13:41] living in a society that's high-pressured

[00:13:46] social media driven and

[00:13:48] Very much focused on work work work work work work

[00:13:51] And that has a effect on your life. You might become burnout exhausted weary

[00:13:57] Frustrated that is not a spiritual attack

[00:14:00] It's just the consequences of living in a society that is hardwired around things that are not fruitful

[00:14:07] So general life events become too much friends. That is not spiritual attack

[00:14:13] That is life that is the kind of stuff where we are living in a world where it's pushing us to go too fast

[00:14:21] It's not spiritual attack. It's just having bad rhythms in our lives. So I'm gonna take a sip of my coffee

[00:14:26] But it's so throaty day. So it's it's not silly decisions. It's not sin. It's not general life events. I would say

[00:14:37] The lowest level of spiritual attack is where there's a

[00:14:41] Persistent presence of something not of God involved with your life

[00:14:47] Something that is there prowling around

[00:14:51] Trying to knock you off kilter. That's what spiritual attack is

[00:14:56] And that's where you know, I love I love I'm quite the right word

[00:15:01] I prefer to talk about the evil one the evil one is at work and the evil one in my definition

[00:15:07] Yes, is the devil

[00:15:08] But it's also the work of the evil one through his minions whatever where you want to approach

[00:15:13] Your understanding of those minions. Do I believe we live in a spiritual battle totally?

[00:15:18] I have to deal with this stuff every single day. I have to deal with it in people's lives

[00:15:22] I have to deal with it in people's homes. I have to deal with it sometimes very clearly like wow

[00:15:28] This is very clear

[00:15:30] spiritual attack in somebody's life

[00:15:33] Sometimes it's really subtle. It's like hmm. Is this a bad decision or is it actually something?

[00:15:39] Different was there something else going on

[00:15:42] so spiritual attack can be anything from the devil is

[00:15:47] Clearly out attacking you attacking your family attacking your marriage trying to undermine good things in your life

[00:15:54] That's like the highest level on the lowest level

[00:15:57] It can it can just be where the the the devil evil one is trying to just make you get run down

[00:16:06] spiritually run down and he does this by the small little things that are there to try and trip you up

[00:16:15] And the way you work it out

[00:16:18] is when

[00:16:20] it's a

[00:16:21] persistent

[00:16:23] ongoing something

[00:16:25] That is involved with your life. I think it's the persistence that makes you go hang on. This is more than just

[00:16:32] a bad decision here. It's when there is a regular

[00:16:37] something going on

[00:16:39] That's over a period of time where you start to go actually

[00:16:42] I can see it there. I can see it here. I can see it here. I can see it here

[00:16:47] That this has got this is something more than just

[00:16:50] Life this is more than just the events of life. There's something else here

[00:16:56] So the lowest level it's like these little trip ups these little trip ups these little trip ups

[00:17:00] That eventually kind of like I just i'm exhausted because I just feel like i'm being hit on every side

[00:17:05] In my workplace when I come home from work there's stuff going on

[00:17:10] You know, there's things happening in my family's life

[00:17:12] And you're like wow I just feel like on every side

[00:17:15] There's something just at me

[00:17:18] And and that's when you say actually it's the persistence where you start to go. Okay

[00:17:22] This isn't just a one-off event here that could be a bad decision played out

[00:17:28] It could be a health problem that's just playing out

[00:17:31] But actually there's a persistence of this stuff and you go this is where you start to go

[00:17:34] This actually now feels like a spiritual attack. This now feels like there's something else going on

[00:17:40] Here and that's the lowest level of spell attack up from that point. There are whole strings of different things that can look like

[00:17:47] uh around

[00:17:51] Yeah, I'm going to put down to entities

[00:17:54] And down to curses

[00:17:56] Down to demonic activities and that kind of stuff

[00:17:58] And I would definitely say go talk to your church leader if you want to know more about some of that stuff

[00:18:02] I don't want to delve into that too much

[00:18:05] so

[00:18:06] First what do we do if we think we're under a spiritual attack?

[00:18:10] What did what do we do definitely go talk to a wise christian about what you're experiencing get their discernment on it

[00:18:18] It's number one number two

[00:18:20] friends we stand on scripture the word of god when the devil comes to attack

[00:18:25] Jesus what does he do he turns to scripture

[00:18:28] As the way of defeating the devil to use a scripture to counteract the lies of the evil one

[00:18:35] So when we're being attacked we stand on scripture the truth of scripture

[00:18:38] The second thing is we pray we're in a battle. So we pray prayer is our weapon

[00:18:42] So we pray against those things and we actually you know, I've been known to pray, you know

[00:18:47] This particular thing that's going on

[00:18:48] I'm going to say no to the schemes of the evil one here that I can see what you're doing

[00:18:52] I'm not having this in my life and I'm saying be gone in the name of Jesus Christ

[00:18:57] So I'll use prayer as a weapon to pray against the schemes of the evil one

[00:19:01] And the third thing I was well, I suppose it's the fourth thing

[00:19:06] Telepasta stand on scripture pray the fourth thing then I would say is worship worship is

[00:19:12] One of those weapons against evil and we praise our way through

[00:19:18] The storm

[00:19:19] We praise our way. I think this is where I absolutely adore the Pentecostal tradition

[00:19:24] Where they will praise and worship with joy through the attack

[00:19:30] Uh, and I love that in my brothers and sisters from the Pentecostal tradition

[00:19:34] They'll just praise and praise and worship

[00:19:38] Singing hallelujah in the face

[00:19:41] Of attack and they will do that

[00:19:44] With such passion

[00:19:46] You know, I just want to honor those guys for the way that they do

[00:19:48] I just think it's beautiful the way that they are able to worship through

[00:19:52] The warfare

[00:19:54] And so I love the song. This is how I fight my battles

[00:19:57] You know, we will fight our battles against the schemes of the evil one in prayer and in worship

[00:20:02] So in community tell somebody else standing on scripture

[00:20:06] Prayer and worship they are the ways in which we will fight against

[00:20:11] spiritual warfare or spiritual attack

[00:20:15] So therefore leads us onto this, you know, if you've gone through a season

[00:20:19] Where you have just felt like you've been under the boot of some

[00:20:23] Spiritual thing and it's come at you from every single side

[00:20:28] And you are worn down and you have spoke to somebody else. They've been praying with you

[00:20:33] You've been standing on scripture. You've been worshiping and praying

[00:20:36] You kind of you know, you're through that now

[00:20:39] So, you know, you you recognize that actually that season is over

[00:20:44] What do you then do and this is where I've not heard much teaching on what to do on the other side

[00:20:52] Of spiritual warfare. What do you do on the other side of spiritual attack?

[00:20:58] So I'm going to share with you six

[00:21:01] things

[00:21:02] Six things

[00:21:04] That you can do

[00:21:06] To heal

[00:21:08] After some season of spiritual attack where you've been spiritually

[00:21:14] Beat down

[00:21:15] So number one

[00:21:18] Friends we find healing in God's presence when you are coming back to becoming restored

[00:21:27] After a season of attack we find healing in God's presence

[00:21:32] Getting in the room where we know God's presence is and I I appreciate so I'm going to use the bible throughout this

[00:21:38] To kind of keep it back to the bible why because we stand on scripture

[00:21:43] Psalm 73 28 says this but as for me it is good to be near God

[00:21:51] But as for me it is good to be near God. I have made the sovereign lord my refuge

[00:21:56] I will tell of all your deeds. I love this

[00:22:01] And it is good to be with the Lord. I have made God my safe place

[00:22:06] And I I love God's deeds

[00:22:10] So what a beautiful image, you know, it's good to be near the Lord and then making God the safe place

[00:22:19] When we've been under attack to get back in the room with the one

[00:22:23] That is the safe one to be with I know when I've been and I've done something

[00:22:28] And uh, you know, it's been a heavy weekend. I've been off busy dealing with either a conference

[00:22:35] I've been speaking somewhere or I or I just felt like

[00:22:38] I've been through the middle of it to get back in the room with people that love the Lord

[00:22:43] And actually get back in the room with with where God's presence is

[00:22:46] That's what brings healing because God's presence is like this balm

[00:22:50] That soothes our weary soul

[00:22:54] So how to heal after spiritual attack one find healing in God's presence make him our refuge

[00:23:01] to

[00:23:02] Find healing in your position

[00:23:06] Galatians 4 7 says this abba father

[00:23:08] So you are no longer a slave, but God's child and since you're his child God has made you his air

[00:23:17] So we find healing in our position

[00:23:21] Uh, so what is our position? Our position is that we are saved by christ

[00:23:28] We are with christ in christ for christ

[00:23:33] So what is our position? Our position is that we are in christ and with christ

[00:23:38] Because we are his child. We are an heir to the king. We have this position

[00:23:45] To access king jesus

[00:23:48] As a child of his uh, so we have this position

[00:23:53] Where we are within

[00:23:55] The presence of God

[00:23:57] We are in and amongst his presence. We stand with his presence. So we have this amazing position

[00:24:03] With our heavenly father. We are his children. We're adopted into his family and we know it airs

[00:24:09] so

[00:24:10] Where are you positioned? You are positioned in the heavenly realms as an heir to the king

[00:24:17] And uh, it's like spiritually and supernaturally we are not only on planet earth

[00:24:23] Whilst at the same time we are also in the throne room of heaven. We're in these two places

[00:24:30] And we we therefore find healing in the fact that we are positioned with God

[00:24:34] In the heavenly realms

[00:24:37] We are now his heirs and somehow supernaturally

[00:24:41] We are not just here on earth. We're somehow caught up in

[00:24:45] his heavenly realms

[00:24:46] So

[00:24:47] How do we go after spiritual attack one healing in his presence

[00:24:51] Two we find healing in our position

[00:24:54] Three we find healing in our prayers, which is kind of what i've just been talking about earlier

[00:24:59] It's in that place of prayer that we do battle. It's in that place of prayer. There's intimacy

[00:25:04] There's power when we pray

[00:25:06] So it's in prayer that we actually find healing as we when we pray

[00:25:10] It's a two-way conversation between us and God and God comes to minister and comes to

[00:25:16] Heal and restore us in prayer

[00:25:19] I've taken times on retreat after I have gone through particularly difficult seasons

[00:25:25] You know, it's just been a high pressured season

[00:25:27] I just sense that this has been high pressure

[00:25:29] But also there's been something else going on and I'll go and retreat

[00:25:32] I'll go on a day somewhere

[00:25:35] Where I can go and pray and i'm just saying look

[00:25:37] I'm setting this apart lord to be with you and in that place of prayer and being with God

[00:25:42] We find this healing because he you know where there is his presence

[00:25:46] Where there is him in prayer with us. There is this sense of God coming to restore

[00:25:53] To rebuild and to sustain us

[00:25:57] So we heal by uh his presence. We heal by our position. We heal by our prayers

[00:26:04] We also find healing in his promises

[00:26:07] So I want to read a couple of promises out to you now

[00:26:11] And I want I'd love to do is you know

[00:26:15] When we've been through a battle we go back to his promises. This is what he says is true

[00:26:20] About him. So let me just read some of these truths out. Deuteronomy 31a the Lord himself goes before you

[00:26:26] And he will be with you. He will never leave you off a sake you do not be afraid

[00:26:30] Do not be discouraged

[00:26:32] We find healing in these words don't we because we recognize that God's never going to leave us

[00:26:36] He's never gonna forsake us

[00:26:38] We recognize that there's no need to be afraid and there's no need to be discouraged because he is always there

[00:26:44] So we hold on to this promise of his presence

[00:26:48] Matthew 11 28 come to me all who are weary and burdened and I will give you

[00:26:53] Rest so we find healing in the promise that God is

[00:26:57] giving us his rest

[00:26:59] As we spend time with him. We are being rebuilt. We're being restored

[00:27:05] by resting

[00:27:07] with him

[00:27:08] We are being recuperated

[00:27:11] As I afford to untend fear not for I am with you do not be dismayed for I am your

[00:27:16] Your god, I will strengthen you. I will keep you. I will hold you with my righteous right hand

[00:27:22] God's promise here for us that he is the one that's going to strengthen us and help us

[00:27:26] You know, it's you know, you don't need to worry about the striving because he is the one

[00:27:32] That is going to hold you up. He is the one that's going to strengthen you

[00:27:36] Encourage you and help you and the final promise I want to read out. There's many in scripture. I'm just picking some here, aren't I?

[00:27:43] Philippians 4 19 says this

[00:27:45] And my god will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Jesus Christ

[00:27:50] The promise that God is going to meet us in our needs

[00:27:55] So what an amazing way of being restored after attack by going back to God's promises

[00:28:02] Knowing that he's never going to forsake us

[00:28:05] Knowing that through him we're going to get rest

[00:28:08] It's with him. We know that we'll get strength and help

[00:28:12] And it's through him that he meets all of our needs

[00:28:16] So we cling on to these promises. We sit with these promises

[00:28:20] And I know there are certain times when I've maybe chosen just a couple of promises of God

[00:28:25] And I've chosen to let them sit with me

[00:28:28] Like chewing on them for a little while. What is God saying to me through this promise?

[00:28:34] So we heal through his presence. We heal through our position

[00:28:38] We heal through our prayers. We heal through these promises of God

[00:28:42] Five we heal through prayer and worship as we pray and worship

[00:28:46] In and through that battlefield, you know

[00:28:49] Even at the other side of the battle when you're like, actually I feel like I've been through the mill

[00:28:53] I feel like I've been attacked on every side

[00:28:56] I'm on the other side of it now. I feel like things are getting back to normal

[00:29:00] Well, actually prayer and worship still continues. It's choosing

[00:29:05] To surround ourselves with prayer and worship by being in the place where that stuff is being stoked

[00:29:13] Where the fire for prayer and worship is that's how we recover after that sense of spiritual attack

[00:29:19] Is by continuing to press into God through prayer and worship. What do I mean? Press into what a spiritual jargon?

[00:29:26] It's like leaning in isn't it? It's choosing to lean in. I'm going to choose to lean in

[00:29:31] In prayer and worship

[00:29:33] Because I know there's more for me than what I've encountered so far

[00:29:36] So I'm going to just lean in a little bit more because I think there's just some more for me

[00:29:42] So prayer and worship

[00:29:43] As we have been through the battlefield even on the other side of it prayer and worship is restorative

[00:29:48] And the final sixth point is this

[00:29:50] I would say if you've been through a season of spiritual attack treat yourself with extra kindness

[00:29:58] After that attack

[00:30:00] Make sure you find rest

[00:30:03] You find retreat and you find recovery

[00:30:08] Treating yourself with extra kindness after attack

[00:30:12] And I would say just eating more sugar does not necessarily help treating yourself with extra kindness does not mean eating more cake

[00:30:22] You know sometimes treating yourself with kindness

[00:30:26] means actually eating healthily

[00:30:29] sleeping well

[00:30:31] resting well

[00:30:33] Not watching Netflix not doom scrolling through your phone

[00:30:38] But actually treating yourself to healthy things

[00:30:42] Where you recover where you go for walks you spend time with friends

[00:30:47] You go at a slower pace

[00:30:50] You put yourself in places that are restorative

[00:30:53] Rather than exhausting

[00:30:56] So how do we heal from spiritual attack or having spiritual warfare?

[00:31:03] On the other side of that how do we heal? We heal friends by getting in God's presence

[00:31:08] We heal by recognizing that we are positioned with him

[00:31:12] We do it by recognizing

[00:31:15] That we can find healing through prayer

[00:31:18] We find healing through his promises

[00:31:22] We find healing through prayer and worship getting

[00:31:26] Into a place and posture of prayer and worship

[00:31:29] and six

[00:31:31] Treating yourself with extra kindness

[00:31:34] After attack after responsibility if you go through a month of just feeling battered on every side

[00:31:40] Treat yourself with kindness. You're probably exhausted

[00:31:43] and tired

[00:31:44] And actually getting some good night's sleep by eating well getting some exercise

[00:31:50] Treating yourself well after that attack can really help you to be restored

[00:31:57] So there you go an episode on spiritual attack and just how to

[00:32:02] Get recovery on the other side of that stuff. And I would definitely definitely say

[00:32:08] You may want to talk further with your church leader about their specific

[00:32:13] Interests or awareness of this stuff because different church leaders deal with this all in very different ways

[00:32:19] You might want to say to church leader

[00:32:20] Hey, I've visited a podcast the opposite podcast on spiritual attack and how to recover after we might have been spiritually attacked

[00:32:27] Um, like what do you make of that? I will you know, what's your understanding of spiritual attack?

[00:32:33] How would you recover?

[00:32:35] After having a season of spiritual attack ask them that question see what they think

[00:32:39] Because it's always interesting to know what others think on this stuff

[00:32:43] So friends, I pray that that has been helpful for you

[00:32:47] And it's been a bit of an encouragement a bit of a training session

[00:32:51] on this stuff

[00:32:52] Be aware that those six things that I just shared about how to recover from spiritual attack. They are great

[00:33:00] Uh, they're the same six points. I would give

[00:33:04] To if you are just weary with life. They're the same six things

[00:33:08] I would say if you are exhausted by work

[00:33:10] They're all great principles for recovery when we're at the end of our rope. So we all can find

[00:33:19] encouragement with them

[00:33:20] And so friends until next time grace

[00:33:24] and peace and we'll speak soon