Christian's Bible Short Course in Spiritual Weapons

By Martin Allan Jackson

Don't go unarmed into a war you can't avoid. Don't even go armed but unaware of how to use the weapons. The devil and all his allies really are at war with Christians, so you can't hide. You probably already feel attacked. Read this field manual and prepare for the war. Guided by God's Holy Spirit, you may attack evil, prevent attacks, and protect yourself and others. Train in the weapons and tactics God has provided. Righteousness, forgiving and blessing don't sound like weapons, but they are really very powerful. So are the sword of the Spirit, exorcism and many others. Martin Jackson is your armorer and ordnance technician. Destroying enemy ambushes, derailing enemy offensives, and releasing enemy captives are covered in detail.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Four Craftsmen Publishing
• Release date: Mar 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9780963964465

Martin Allan Jackson

Martin is an Arizona native, born in Jerome. His father was a National Park Service area administrator and the family lived at national monuments until Martin enrolled at Pomona College. There he met Cecelia Calkin. They married after Martin was working as news editor of the Arroyo Grande, CA, Herald Recorder. Following military service he worked at several California and Arizona newspapers. The couple relocated to Pinetop-Lakeside Arizona after he resigned a news editor position in Hemet, CA. Martin launched a new careers as a school bus driver, electrician, computer and telephone technician and rescue emergency medical technician. Approaching retirement, the couple formed Four Craftsmen Publishing.Martin and Cecelia Jackson have been married well over 60 years. They split the duties in publishing books and magazines. CeCe, the short form of her name, is chief editor. Martin is titled publisher, which gives him responsibility for anything someone else doesn't get done in the organization.CeCe is an Oregon native. She grew up in the Portland region. Her father, an engineer and model airplane engine manufacturer, moved the family to Santa Monica, California just before CeCe started studies at Pmona College in Claremont, CA.

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Christian’s Short Course in Spiritual Weapons, Second Edition

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This study will equip you with skills, techniques and weapons for destroying strongholds and schemes of the devil and his servants, the demons. Drills will launch you into applying many of the concepts. The men of Grace Church, Show Low, Arizona, have studied, tested, questioned and even criticized drafts of this material. As a whetstone sharpens a blade, they have sharpened the thinking and scholarship represented here.

Please study this course with an electronic or printed Bible open. Some essential Bible references are allowed to interrupt the text, but many paragraphs are followed by specific Bible addresses, in a smaller and italic type face, if your ebook reader supports this. Check for yourself whether what I teach agrees with Scripture. In case of conflict, choose Scripture. Drills are set apart in a bold italic face and are repeated at the end of the book.

This book is available in print directly from Four Craftsmen Publishing’s web site, http://www.fourcraftsmen.com

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Table of Contents

Part 1: What's This About?

From Failure to Success

The Real Objective

That Didn't Work

The Primary Attack

Whose Righteousness?

Offensive Weapons

Part 2: Our Standing Orders

Confession and Repentance

Taking Blame

From Confession to Repentance

Drill: Repentance

Forgiving

Don’t Delay

Demolish the Ambush

Releasing Rights

The Power of Pain

Power for Need

Drill: Forgive

Blessing and Generosity

Supernatural

Permitted Curses

Giving

Drill: Blessing

Praise, Worship and Thanksgiving

Identifying Good

How to Praise

Drill: Praise God

Speak Revealed Truth

Unchanging Hearts

Drill: Share the Good News

Prayer

Drill: Pray

Part 3: Multipurpose Weapons

Blood of the Lamb

Drill: Apply Jesus' Blood

Testimony and Truth

Drill: Testify

Not Loving Life

Drill: Repent of Wrong Priorities

Part 4: Offensive Weapons

Jesus' Name

Interceding

Fasting

Drill: Pray for Your Pastor

Binding and Loosing

Applying God's Power

Drill: Pray for Loosing

Spirituals = Holy Spirit Dynamite

Powerful Collection

Word of Wisdom

Word of Knowledge

Faith

Gifts of Healings

Miracles

Prophecy

Identifying Spirits

Tongues

Interpretation

Drill: Invite the Holy Spirit to give a Spiritual

Exorcism

Showing Off

Depend on the Holy Spirit

Ask God!

Are Demons That Stupid?

Simple Command

Further Conclusions

Following Up Exorcism!

Emotions, Joy and Anger

Drill: Handling Anger

Silence Can Terrify

Drill: Be Silent

Part 5: Defensive Weapons

Vigilance and Truth

Drill: Blood of Jesus

Right Submission

Forgiveness Again

Ephesians 6 Armor

Girded With Truth

Breastplate of Righteousness

Feet Shod With Gospel of Peace

Shield of Faith

Helmet of Salvation

Sword of the Spirit

Prayer

Heavenly Tactics

Bearing Good News

Ask For Assignment

Unity

Appendix A - Become A Disciple

Appendix B- In Step With the Holy Spirit

Ask And You Will Receive

Appendix C - Love Slave

Drill Collection

Part 1: What's This About?

Question: Why should you and I study spiritual weapons?

Answer: We're already in a spiritual war, whether we see it or not. Going unarmed is unwise, and carrying weapons you don't know how to use can make you a casualty.

Only Christians can possibly see the war clearly. Without Biblical teaching they may still live as if blind. If you don’t know Jesus yet, please turn to the first appendix. Because Christ dwells in Christians the war will not destroy us. We need to know that we are Christians, redeemed of the Lord. The sons of Sceva in Ephesus neglected this as described in Acts 19:13-16.

Certainly an enemy is trying to destroy us! The attack includes diseases, abuse and drugs. Violence is our leading form of entertainment. Hatred in many places produces terrorism, murder and torture. Greed and various forms of lust dominate human thinking. A real but usually invisible spiritual enemy called Satan helps make our world a lot like hell.

We’re constantly tempted to set ourselves up as gods, with our own definitions of truth and lies, good and evil, pretending nothing is wrong we can’t fix by ourselves. It never works.

From Failure to Success

On your own you can never succeed against this enemy. After Father God adopts you into His Kingdom, His power can make you a warrior fit for every battle. You and I have what it takes to join His human army and do it His way: God’s strength, ourselves, our brokenness, our failures and our weaknesses. The enemy tells us our weakness, failures and brokenness disqualify us, but that's a lie, and we can reject it.

Father God lets this be real war. He gives us a part in real victories, real celebrations, real disappointments and real losses. Even in disappointments and losses we have His companionship. Jesus Christ is our commander in chief, and final victory is certain. (2 Corinthians. 12:7-10; Revelation 22:10-17)

When Jesus said, The kingdom of God is at hand, He declared war on other kingdoms. Competing kings, emperors, and dictators are swift to recognize this. Martyrs and persecuted Christians constantly pay the price of this recognition, but Father God keeps score and promises justice in the end. (Matthew 2:1-3, 13-18; 4:17; 10:16-23; John 15:18-22; Revelation 21:4)

Colossians 2:13-15 describes Christ disarming all rulers, authorities, powers and principalities. These are spiritual enemies, not flesh and blood. They still use accusation, deception, distraction and enough other power to spread the evil we see in the world.

This war resembles