Spiritual warfare

This subject is something I would like to get some discussion going around. I have a confirmed gift of discerning spirits. Does someone here have the gift and how does it manifest?

Through the gift of discerning, I have seen things in spirit. I have seen people's eyes turning in white or yellow. I have sometimes been able to tell if a person's actions are affected by spirits. And I am able to feel the presence of the enemy and the Holy Ghost as well. There seems to be a season when this gift is more active.

I post this blog post to get discussion going and to share experiences with others who have this gift. I post this under the title of spiritual warfare because this gift goes under that topic, and I would like to discuss spiritual warfare as a wider topic as well.

What comes to spiritual warfare, I have seen dreams where I fight demons. Usually, they are in the form of a person or shadowy figure, and I have driven them away in the name of Jesus.

Another kind of dream that has occurred multiple times is this: I wake up or feel like that I am awake, but I am in a dream. I try to snap the lights on, but I can't light them, and my house remains dark. Then I start to panic as I can't get the lights on. Then I try to go out, but I can't go out since doors are locked, and I can't get them open. I start to feel heavy like darkness trying to suffocate me, and then I say, "In Jesus' name, lights back on now, and begone darkness." I repeat this three times and wake up. This dream has repeated a few times.

After I moved into my new house, I saw a dream on the first night in the house. In the dream, a big shadowy figure attacked me, but I drove it out in Jesus' name. After this dream in my new flat, there have been no dreams where darkness invades my house, and I can't get out or put lights on.

There have been many other kinds of dreams I have seen, and things that the gift of discernment has allowed me to see. But I share them later if the Lord so allows.

Please start a discussion and share your experiences on the subject. I want to learn more about this.

 

[Namelesservant]

Well then some of my thoughts on spiritual warfare. Like in all things in spiritual warfare, we must have order. And we must have goals.

Let me give one example. Using my own family here. There are a lot of problems in my parents' lives, and all those areas are something that need prayer. But praying over those problems is not a priority; the first priority is to pray that they come to know God. Just like Matthew 6 teaches us, seek first the kingdom of God. Unless this is the number one priority in our spiritual warfare, it is useless, and we waste our ammo, so to speak.

And as prayer and the word of God are our weapons in the warfare, we must know where to focus them and how to use them. Do we use them to combat single problems like some specific sin, or do we use them to know God more and keep His ways? And when we pray for others, do we first pray for them to know the Lord more?

The Bible teaches us to worship and pray in spirit and truth (1 Cor. 14:15, John 4:24).

So, order in warfare. 2 Cor. 10:4 We use God’s mighty weapons, not worldly weapons, to knock down the strongholds of human reasoning and to destroy false arguments. (NLT)

Let me ask a few questions:
What is the goal of spiritual warfare? And why do we experience it?
What are our weapons?

Please reply with what you think and what you would answer to those questions. I will read my own answers later, but first, I want to see what you think, people.