God calls us to be strong in Him. We cannot fight a spiritual battle on our own or in human strength. In our weakness, Jesus is strong for us. We need to be less reliant on our strength and more resilient to standing in the Lord’s power. The youth eventually tire and grow weary, we see and know this for ourselves. The prophet Isaiah reminds us too.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall.

– Isaiah 40:30

Still yet, God reminds us that we can have endurance with Him in verses 29 and 31:

He giveth power to the faint and; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

– Vs 29

but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings of eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

– Vs 31

Do not go into any situation with boxing gloves up ready to start the fight. There is no need, in my experience entering in peace where you are sent, the dynamics of the environment and the situations being presented will have one utilizing  the ‘Armour of God in no time, as Satan will always have a messenger ready to buffet one of God’s own. Be prepared to turn the other cheek and let the aggressor hit that too. Do not return assault with physical assault. Come in peace and always be ready to bring the Sword of the Spirit into play and stand against the wiles of the devil. Learn to stand your ground and be strong against every spiritual assault that is thrown at you. Often I tolerate these assaults for too long based on my compassionate heart. When one is fighting and resisting assaults of a spiritual nature, one must use spiritual authority and disciplines to win the battle. In one’s humanness one grows weak, one gets tired, and the body gets ill. God calls His followers to continually renew their strength in Him for each new battle and recovery from the present one. For the battle belongs to the Lord; Jesus must be called upon and the assaults handed over to Him. One should continually request to be strengthened and to overcome in Jesus power, authority and equipping. Therefore one needs to deal with today, today, and let tomorrow worry about tomorrow.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

– Matthew 6:34

Therefore in Jesus power and authority rebuke the situation and stop taking the bullying. Stand strong on the ground you have been placed in, in the authority of Jesus power, authority and strength.

In my experience, treat the assaults in one’s working environment in the two playing fields: worldly and spiritual. Don’t waste one’s times with giving them worldly verbal warnings to stop assaulting one spiritually.  For the aggressors will use the spiritual to come at one in the worldly.

In the ‘spiritual playing field’, go straight into speaking a quiet ‘rebuke this situation in Jesus name’ and let God do the rest. I have found that God speaks directly to the antagonist. One does not even have to be facing the person to speak a rebuke into the situation. The antagonist does not even have to know one has spoken it. But one can be assured that if the antagonist is playing with spiritual filth and assaulting another, then the antagonist will get the message from God and it is usually revealed in their actions that they heard it loud and clear; one can see the signs that God has disciplined them.  Rebuking brings in the ‘Power of Jesus Might’, who holds everything under His authority.

Brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ do not be afraid to speak these words, “Rebuke this situation in the authority of Jesus Christ,” for many of our pains and troubles come from those who play with the Devil’s Black Arts. I am so used to coming under spiritual assault that I speak these words often.

Depending on the strength of the one coming at me, the rebuke will be instantaneous and the assault will immediately stop as soon as the words are spoken. Other times, I must rebuke, sing, pray and continue to speak rebukes into the situation until it has finally stopped. The battle for ground; usually my body, therefore my ground.

In the ‘worldly playing field’, if the antagonist is not acting in ways that are appropriate with workplace code of conducts then write your complaints in a letter and hand it to management, preferable before the antagonist starts to set one up and states to management that the true victim has offended them. I have witnessed this personally time and time again. I am now starting to read in the media about others experiencing similar set ups by the perpetrators.

Diary everything in the worldly as the perpetrators come at you so that one has the transcripts of the truth of the victimising along with the dates and times.

Remain strong by continually asking the Holy Spirit for empowerment and renewal, for the right words and actions to speak into the situation. For boldness of spirit so that one is not afraid and know that one who is focused will be given the right words to speak and the right helpers will be sent whenever it is necessary. The Holy Spirit will equip one to stand through that which constantly assails them, as our prayers are joined with Jesus Christ to overcome the battle. One must remain disciplined in God’s word and the practice of utilizing spiritual rebukes to ensure one is always ready with spiritual words of authority, whenever one is under the slightest assault to assist them in remaining to stand and endure. It is better to repel the assault as it begins, then to allow it to grow and take a stronghold. For the enemy will consistently come at you if one is taking ground for God’s kingdom. The enemy will attempt to harm and shut a follower down in an attempt to slow one down or remove them from the battlefield altogether. And harm the enemy does, but the enemy cannot take the soul that belongs to Jesus. One can also recover quickly if one is focused on Jesus their physician.

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul…

– Matthew 10:28

Daily renewing my strength became a matter of survival for me. I would not have been able to continue in the war zone at work and that which was sent to my home and family without remaining constantly focused on the Lord Jesus and supplication to the Heavenly Father. It was a necessity to give time to God to renew me emotionally, spiritually and my failing body. These battles or more aptly these assaults upon my person and those that I loved did not come without injuries or loss. Though the strike against my body and those that I loved, I reflected, God allowed to occur for possibly two reasons:

• One : how can a Father discipline the aggressor if no wrongdoing took place, therefore enabling further through action to sort out the chaff from the wheat for that final judgement day.

• Two : as witness to victory, for every time they attempted to lay me down, I got back up in victory. God has equipped all with what is required to stand and overcome. I am reminded of this statement from a fictional book titled ‘Credo’ written by Melvyn Bragg

Cuthbert says, “There is only one thing that I have seen which convicts people more than a miracle and that is an unexpected victory in battle under the protection of the Lord of Hosts.”

One is continually worn down by these assaults. It becomes a necessity to continually spend quite renewal time with God to deal with the next daily onslaught.

Note if one finds oneself in such excruciating pain and the medications aren’t working; persistence in prayer and quiet song or humming (if that is all one can manage) giving praise to the Lord helps to eliminate the pain especially if it is from a spiritual assault. If one is getting pain at around the same time each day and one finds singing is softening the pain, it is certain to be a spiritual assault, keep going with your praise and prayers of deliverance to the Lord Jesus. It does work. The devils doing harm to our bodies hate hearing praises to God. They will weaken and leave. Might be five minutes, might be two hours, but you will win.

Perhaps if musicians Michael Jackson, Prince and George Michael, the artists who provided great song and music of my youth, had read of what I share in these writings and put them into practice, perhaps the battle for a more painless life and survival against their personal demons and their conflict could have been overcome without the abuse of drugs and they would still be here sharing their beautiful music. Only God knows.

Being disciplined and well prepared to ask God into every situation takes sacrificial personal time. Seeking and asking for the Lord to provide the right words and actions that He has equipped one with to bring forth in each situation. Trusting and knowing full well Jesus will uphold one to be strong and empowered in Him as one steps into positioning to do His work to which one has been sent or perhaps even thrown into. This does not happen on its own; one must seek to use that which God has equipped one with. Disciplining oneself in spending time with the Lord and standing strong on His promises and authority as one waits for His renewal and strengthening.

I achieved this ‘time out with God’ through many spiritual disciplines:

• Meditation
• Sacraments
• Singing Praise & Adoration
• Study of the Written word
• Supplication and Thanksgiving in Prayer

• The discipline of meditation on the Lord and the Holy Trinity. I never empty my mind as some meditation practices insist. I focus continually on a praise verse to the Lord. Bringing my mind constantly back to Him with this verse, ‘Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of power and might, heaven and earth are full of your glory, Hosanna in the highest.’ I would seek His peace and renewal of strength as I silently reiterated the phrase as my acknowledgment to Him that ‘He is my God in whom I worship.’ A Christian meditation group (that I frequented for many years, as I began to learn and grasps the tasks of meditation), would encourage the focus on these words, ‘Maranatha, come Lord Jesus’. I always felt most comfortable with the words that I had chosen from a prayer book used in the church services. When one’s thoughts strayed or the devil was trying to assault the time with the Lord with false distractive thoughts or I could feel an unseen spiritual entity assaulting my person, I came back to greater concentration on the phrase of my focus to God, as well as, seeking the Lord in what was going on at present in the distraction of the situation.

Meditation helped discipline me to spend more time in listening to God and waiting on Him, as well as I received the extra benefits of healing and renewal. I found during the years that often ten to fifteen minutes daily with the Lord in meditation would revive me as if I had a good solid two hours sleep. I do advise one to be weary during meditation in groups, for there are some out there who help themselves spiritually to other meditators and what they have to offer as the offender also offloads spiritual filth upon unsuspecting victims. These deceivers are sent in to steal, assault and deceive other unsuspecting meditators.  One must learn to discern the spirits. What is of God and what is not?

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

– 1 John 4:1

• The sacraments of the bread and wine in that which Jesus states, “Do this in remembrance of me.” Sometimes four times a week when under strong spiritual assaults and onslaughts was a necessity for me. I found that more communion during the week, then just the once on a Sunday would block the evil wind spirits that were sent my way, from entering my mouth. I discovered that during the night as they tried to enter, these spiritual entities deflected straight out as if they were blocked from entering.

I found the blessed sacraments of communion would heal, renew and strengthen my body and soul quickly when I had not given God enough worship time in waiting on Him. It reduces the weariness experienced by the Soul from the wearying down and theft from the world. Regular communion practice keeps one topped up to be ready to undergo the onslaughts that the world throws at Jesus followers.  Like a fire that weakens without fuel to flame it, so too does a body in Christ become warm and eventually cold and dies out if one is not conscientiously strengthening in all that the Lord Jesus provides.

I am continually drained from walking into environments with strong opposing spiritual strongholds. I fully understand when one says their workplace makes them sick. I also have new understanding for the stated medical condition ‘chronic fatigue syndrome’, shedding greater light to the possibilities of the causes of the symptoms. I continually require God’s topping up of strength, renewal and healing. If I have not spent enough time at home in my discipline practices of adoration and worship to the Lord then I have left myself open to emotional and spiritual weakness. I struggle to stand with what is still being thrown at me. I become weepy too drained for everyday living and struggle some days to get out of bed. The medical world would classify this as depression. I know it is my soul being worn down from the onslaught of assaults and theft against my body. Communion will top me up with my lack of discipline and my shortfall, or just too many assaults and theft in one day’s hit against my person. Through the cup Jesus is able and as He chooses to share with us at each Blessed Sacrament, Jesus renews our strengths.

One period of time where I was under excessive spiritual warfare and was being hammered by those at work who play in the dark arts and one guesses the powers and principalities who were attempting to shut God’s servant down, I knew I was being spiritually disempowered due to lack of discipline and or over tiredness by the artillery firing at me. I knew I needed communion to get this body of mine, a vessel for God, at least somewhat back up to half full. Presently it was operating way under the line and in the red danger zone of being too worn down a vessel to be effective.

It was not until I got up to receive communion at St John’s Cathedral, that the closer I got to the alter rail, the weaker I seemed to become. I could not contain the emotion or tears that started to flow out from me. It had been an extremely trialing week. As the emotion pouring out got stronger, I noticed a priest in the congregation that I spoke to on odd occasions. The priest appeared to be witnessing this distress in me and appeared to be about to come and offer me assistance and comfort. I sensed God held the priest back as if to say, “Wait and Watch.” By the time I kneeled at the altar, the tears were flowing and from memory there was sobbing. As soon as I drank from the cup of my Lord Jesus Christ, and a safe hand placed upon me, I was strengthened and renewed to sufficient level that the tears and emotion that was rushing out of me was ceased immediately. The Lord had renewed and strengthened me there and then. I began to realize how important it is too receive communion more than once a week when under strong spiritual assault.

Study of the written word that is God’s living word breathed and inspired by Him. Through my Lord’s direction and guidance He started to reveal the truths in His word and the similarities of events in my life and those as written about in this historical account of past lives and events. It may be a two thousand year old book, but its relevance then is the same as today. A continual historical pattern over and over again of obedience and disobedience of the trappings of not following in the way, the truth and the one who gives life. It continually reveals the rollercoaster highs and lows of life (then and now) and how ancient practices still harm the people of today as it is stated and occurred in the Old Testament and Gospels. I am a living breathing inherent way of life, an expression of my Lord’s living word. My life lived so far to date is in that book in so many similarities of lived experiences. Much so, that I have often spent this lifetime questioning the parallelness of historical events and my present day lived life.

• Singing praise and adoration seems to awaken the soul and strengthen it. It is like our voices have cords that link us all together and with the angels joining us in song to worship our God and seek His presence, blessings and goodness upon us. We are enriched and empowered and united. These lyrics from ‘The Servant Song’ by Richard Gillard come to mind:

‘When we sing to God in heaven we shall find such harmony’.

As well as the verse from the Book of Isaiah:

Sing to the Lord a new song. His praise from the ends of the earth…

– Isaiah 42:10

For I know and through circumstances and experiences I became aware my voice carries to the ends of the earth.

I found ‘singing songs of praise and adoration’ helped lift sickness from my body. Song delivers and strengthens my body continually. I may sing out of tune and may not sound the greatest, but I know God will filter my song as it floats up to heaven, so I continue in the practice despite how awful I may think I sound. Many songs in the disciplined lesson may have the same tune because I am too lazy to read music, but the effect is the same, I am constantly delivered from spiritual afflictions. Black stars leave my throat and the tight constrictions being felt are released as I sing up and out and conscious of ‘belly breathing’ (the in and out of the stomach movement as if one is wearing a firm to tight belt) from the depths of my stomach and a straight back, bad wind spirits are purged from my body. Spiritual ear worms are popped from my ears. Shadows are ripped from my back, spiritual bands are lifted off my head and much other deliverance occurs as well as strengthening and empowering as God sends His ministering angels to heal and deliver as the power of Jesus works upon and within my body.(Refer my basic spiritual descriptives in the chapter Spiritual Phenomena Descriptives page 148-206 in my free eBook ‘Called to Stand’) Often when I mix a two hour prayer time with song, I am given and helped with the words to speak into situations in prayer. Being able to recall song lyrics and verses assisted me in staying strong and focused on the Lord during many trials that came at me in the wee hours of the morning as I lay on my bed or when I was being continually antagonized at work. Once when there was a spiritual drama going on outside my bedroom window, I sat up in bed as I propped myself on my pillow and silently sang. (Refer my lyrics of my song titled ‘Moments in Time’ (page 128) or found on my blogsites: www.lyricleeblog.wordpress.com or www.GoyaTheChurchand.Me

If I felt under spiritual assault, I sang until I experienced deliverance. If I heard worldly troubles outside such as people arguing, I prayed and sang. If I am afraid, I sing. Conquer fear and death with the power of adoration to your God and Saviour Jesus Christ. Sing Praise to God and the devil flees.

Singing cleans and sanctifies the house as the Holy Spirit and presence of the Lord is called into being, and the filth of this world leaves.

Consider that one will push or swipe with a cloth the crumbs off the bench from the morning’s breakfast toast to keep it clean. The same with singing, it helps to swipe and push away the dark clouds and presence that come at God’s people. Keep one’s sanctuary clean. This will help one recover and be delivered more quickly too when being slugged with a spiritual hit.

’King of King and Lord of Lords’ written by Nomi Yah and Sophie Conty is a good song for this. I say this because it was a common and easy theme song for me to recall easily, and sing it often. On this particular night as I was giving God adoration time before I dozed off to sleep, this was the song I was silently singing repeatedly in my thoughts as I increased the speed of verses at the end of each round. Whatever entered my room, approached me and then turned and left with an annoyance factor groan, as if to say she is singing that song again. Praise to God it is offensive to their ears, and the entity could not stay. Praise be to God for Worship.

I became more aware of God’s glory falling upon me and the deliverance of these black stars and veils placed upon and within me as I sang. I have some level of spiritual sight, being able to see some of the unseen things to the natural eye in the seen. When I sing I am often reading songs printed on white sheets of paper. These sheets that are held before me so that I can read from them would often display white sparkly stars that caught my eyes and I would ponder on this. The white paper would also capture a black star that appeared to fly out my mouth or from upon my person. I would find that during my singing I would have more clearing from the throat as if it no longer had an obstruction no matter how small the irritation. The veils placed upon my head and eyes (that I have witnessed before) I am guessing were being broken down and falling to pieces like moth eaten black lace. As the piece fell away the shadowed fragment would reflect on the white paper. If you have any form of spiritual sight as gifted by God, try it. I love watching the Tinkerbelle like glittering stars as the Lords glory falls upon me. It reveals to me that His glory is falling and He is near.

Song Titles I can call upon at a drop of a hat:

–   Give thanks with a grateful heart by Henry Smith

–   King of Kings and Lord of Lords by Naomi Batya and Sophie Conty 

–   Father we love you by Donna Adkins

–   Father God we worship you by Graham Kendrick    

–   O Let the Son of God enfold you by John Wimber     

If my memory is tired and flagging me then I would ask the Holy Spirit to come and fill me with song so that I may sing on my bed as I slept.

And when my heart and weariness is failing and I don’t want to sing. Then I am reminded of the song lyrics by Travis in his song titled SING to spur me into action and to stop being lazy. For I know when I sing I always ask God for deliverance of others and I know He acknowledges and honours this time of sacrifice in song for the benefits of others. For I hate them suffering, so the thought of suffering spurs me into action. So I hear the lyrics of musician ‘Travis’:

sing sing sing for the love you bring

• My heart and mind is silently in constant supplication and thanksgiving in prayer during the everyday witnessing of events, and as the spirit syncs.

As Jesus had to constantly renew himself in the Father’s presence, so do we need to constantly top up, for the world is consistently draining us. Many times I found during these continual onslaughts of battles other people would be sent to me on the proviso of helping me achieve some task, but often I found they were sent to help to wear me down at a greater speed. For as thankful as I was for a man in my church congregation who helped and showed me how to render my back wall. The more times he visited, the more drained I seemed to become and get less work done than if he hadn’t visited at all. I soon found he visited a Masonic hall. I never seemed to be able to recover as quickly from these visits, like I usually do when I spend time with the Lord. It was taking its toll on me to a detrimental level. I realised there was an imbalance. There was too much of the world operating around me, from my immediate family that I visited, from working in a place of employment where witchcraft was prevalent, those in the church congregation who were cold in their practices and this man who appeared to have associations with the Masonic Chapters. The scales toppled too much in the wrong balance and the leeching of God’s good empowerment and spirit was of too great affect for me to maintain a healthy energy balance and body and clarity of thinking to get anything done. This also occurred at a detrimental time in my journey where I needed to be at the top of my game in prayer for others during this season. The continual veils and spiritual bands being placed on me  at this time I could not remove quick enough and my prayer life suffered and those around me who I had been upholding in prayer did too. Many Christians don’t understand how detrimental their other worldly friends or even their own wrong spiritual practices can have negative effects on themselves and those around them. 

Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not…

– Hosea 7:9

I find once the glass falls below the half way marker, we as Christ’s own start to falter and become emotional and weak. We struggle to get out of bed some mornings, (even for days on end) as we are stripped of all we have whilst the energy vampires and off-loaders of spiritual filth use their practices to bring us down. We stop thinking with clarity, solutions and one’s general ease of structure to tackle the days tasks ahead seem to fly out the window. We struggle to complete the tasks assigned to us. Much of this is because of the spiritual leeching and the spiritual oppressive chains and bondage placed upon the body. Remain above the line; it becomes a matter of survival. This is where discipline of the above listed practices and self-control help one to survive this trying, tiring and draining world. Remain where you are planted and stay standing.