Spiritual Warfare

Copyright 2008 By Kirby Robinson

Recently my inbox has been flooded with messages from people who have been asking me about an experience I’ll refer to as “repeat cleansings.” What’s this? Well, it seems as though people have had their property, businesses, or the physical body cleansed of demons/dark spirits. Yet the spirit often returns after only a few months requiring another cleansing? And many find that this turns into an endless cycle of cleansing, returns, cleansing, and returns, over and over again.

Why is this, asks one concerned person. “I only thought it took one exorcism or cleansing to get rid of the spirit and then they were gone for good.” And my response is:

1. The person doing the spiritual extraction may not really know what they’re doing. Or sadly, they may be conning the client of hundreds of dollars, and not have any spiritual ability whatsoever. And the demon itself may be participating in the con because it allows them to stay there even longer, getting their hooks into the person or property, even deeper. So the demon acts like it’s gone, but in reality it’s never left.
2. The demon’s return may be due to a failure to engage in effective spiritual warfare. We who are believers in the light of truth, love, compassion, and service found that any pathway one may choose to attain their spiritual rewards must be on guard constantly to monitor our spiritual armor and protection. Not to do so opens doors to allow the dark forces to draw near.

Spiritual warfare is not only fought on the spiritual front but must be fought on three fronts 24/7. We must fight it on the level of the flesh, the world, and Lucifer with his demons.

Our bodies, the flesh, made up of not only blood and bones but also brain and mind. The mind located within our brain allows the spirit and the soul located in all of us to connect to the physical world.

And it’s due to this that our ego, located in the mind, which allows our flesh when left unguarded to permit evil to draw closer through the following misdeeds:

1. Immorality: nothing is wrong for us to do if it feels good, so then do it. If it feels so good it can’t be bad, we tell ourselves.
2. Impurity: it’s all right to lie with “proper” motivation behind the lie.
3. Sensuality: I must make my body happy, what it wants I must get.
4. Anger & jealousy: letting uncontrolled outbursts of anger and jealousy hurt others and ourselves.

Any of the above actions of the flesh, if engaged in, may allow evil forces to cross the gate and into our lives. The gate can be slammed shut on two levels. 1. If one is walking a spiritual path governed by the promise of protection and salvation through a savior, then his/her name must be called on and prayers made to their god. 2. Those who walk with the path of “self” regulation, Buddhism for example, must put forth meditation, chanting, prostrations, empowerments, and tantric practices.

The world, this physical plane that we live in has a philosophy that desires to tie the flesh to it via many different systems. Commercialism, consumerism, capitalism, fascism, communism, and humanism are all tools that makes us think that the rewards are here, outside of us forcing our energies away from what we nee to focus on. Throughout the long history of this world we see Lucifer and his demonic forces manifesting evil organizations and governments in every period of its history and serving atop them are men and women bent on breaking the good in all. We see ideas borne in this world that reject spirituality altogether or seek to destroy it. This is a selfish world we are in, if we begin to serve what the world tells us is important then our spirit cannot focus on our own spiritual needs, and it doesn’t allow us to focus on the spiritual needs of others.

Tools to overcome this world.

1. If your path is one of salvation and redemption it is like what the Bible says: “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s.” Matthew 22:21
2. Self-regulation path will include: meditation, chanting, prayers, prostrations, tantric practices, and for the Buddhists, focus on the Four Noble Truths.

Lucifer and his demons.

They are there along with other dark forces. We must have knowledge about their power, and we must not be afraid. I’ve written about their power and structure in a previous blog entitled “The World of Fallen Angels” but will focus on the tools that they use in their spiritual warfare against the people who follow the Light.

1. Demons seek to oppose the truth, they seek to halt our understanding of it, blind our minds, close our ears, and hinder spiritual practices.
2. Demons engage in direct hand-to-hand combat with each one of us.
3. Demons will accuse and slander others to us as well to ourselves.
4. Demons will sell us on defeat as our only choice in life.
5. Demons seek to tell us it is better to rebel and not work as one.
6. Demons will focus on getting us to violate, as often as they can, the 10 Commandments.
7. Demons will incite prejudice, racism, and persecution.
8. Demons will seek to build walls of legalism amongst the paths of salvation and liberation.

How can we defeat evil? No matter what path we walk, here are three effective ways:

1. Seek spiritual teaching.
2. Apply that teaching to practices of our path.
3. Resist evil boldly.

In closing, I would like to leave you with one of my favorite quotes from the film, “Kundun.” This is from the scene where the young 14th Dalai Lama is about to escape from religious persecution from the communists. As he is about to leave his home, one of his friends and employees, Norbu, wisely says to the Dalai Lama: “The gods will win, the devils will lose.”