Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin Zadai 08-08-2021
How to Wage Local Warfare
DISCUSSION:
A transference from what God is doing in the realm of Heaven to this realm is possible. It may come as a thought, but it’s the voice of the spirit in your spirit. When you concern yourself with Jesus and what the Spirit of God is doing, you bring that forth, and you can wage war locally. It’s not a physical war but a spiritual one that comes through your giving. It’s not just monetary giving but giving in all forms and facets.
When you give to your local body of believers, by praying for somebody, imparting healing, or providing food, money, or love to someone, you’re waging war locally. If you receive a word through a teaching in Warrior Fellowships, and then you go and share that word with people in your church body, you’re affecting your local area by sending it out. You now have become a minister of the Gospel or an ambassador of God just by sharing that word. What happens is a transition has occurred from the spiritual realm into the physical through giving. It is an impartation from you to other people so that they may receive healing or encouragement.
THE GODLY ARE GENEROUS GIVERS
Psalm 37:21 NLT: The wicked borrow and never repay, but the godly are generous givers.
Godly people are givers, and they don't have to borrow, but they would repay it if they did borrow. Being a giver as a Christian is waging war. As you give selflessly and unselfishly, you are investing in someone else. What you are doing when you transfer what you have to give to someone else is you cause lack to disappear. That’s warfare. In your group, there is most likely one or two of you in lack. The body of Christ is supposed to minister to each other to cancel out that lack. God gives to people, so there is equality. If somebody is having a good time, then you can minister or share what you have to offer to someone who is having a hard time and make it equal.
In Matthew 10:8 NKJV, Jesus commanded us to, “Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.” It was a command, not a request, and Jesus gave us the authority to do it all. It’s not something you can pick and choose which of these you want to do. One isn’t easier than the other. They are all to be done in the same strength. It’s like a test or an audit to see where you are, and you should have no problem with believing God to raise the dead as you would healing the sick. If we pray for someone and these things don’t happen, it doesn’t mean we back off and stop believing or quit. It’s in the Bible, so we have the authority to wage local warfare in these ways.
o What can you do to wage local warfare in your community? Even if people don’t recover or aren’t raised from the dead, how will you keep going forward in the mission?
o What kind of resistance do people put up when you are witnessing to them? What are their most significant sticking points about accepting Jesus?
Warrior Church Home Fellowship Study
Dr. Kevin Zadai 08-08-2021
OPPORTUNITIES FOR WITNESSING
Think outside of the box for creative ways to reach people. It can be as local as somebody coming to your house door. It’s a perfect opportunity to share the Gospel and pray for someone. We don’t have to witness only to our local body were a part of; we can go to war in the marketplace to take back the kingdom there as well. Local warfare is bringing God to people wherever you are. When you witness to people about Jesus or offer prayer to them, they may resist receiving the Gospel. There are ways to share Jesus with them that would be helpful in your approach. Often people will reject without realizing it by saying, “Well, I go to church, I’m good.” Most likely, this response comes from a religious spirit or pride that believes if they follow a type of ritualistic approach to church and God, then they’re good, rather than having an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ. We want to get past the resistance with people and let them know that Jesus loves them and has a plan for their life. You can share your testimony of how God healed you. Sometimes people need to be shown compassion and know that we understand what they’re going through to reach them.
1 John 4:18: There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
For us to wage war locally, we have to get out of ourselves and think about others. It's an act of love, to smile at someone and sow a seed by releasing that love toward them to drive out what's working in that person. In Matthew 25:29 it says, “‘For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away.”
The point of that is, even if you don't feel like smiling, you smile, then the next smile becomes more effortless, and it develops a flow so that you can continue this momentum. We want to be generous with our giving and love towards people because God has so generously given to us.
1. What do you have within you that you’ve received from the Lord that you can wage war locally? It doesn’t have to be money; it can be a word of encouragement or the ability to lay hands on somebody.
2. How has God been faithful to you when you desired encouragement, and how has He supplied for you when you had a need?
3. Take time to discuss the individual needs of the group. Minister, pray, and encourage one another at this time.
PRAYER:
Father, thank you so much. We agree at Warrior Fellowships, as touching this one thing that we will be faithful to wage war locally by your spirit, by your word, and we're going to allow you, Father, to impart within us something that we can give out to others. I thank you, Father, for the fulfillment of the body of Christ that we minister to each other, supplying everything that's needed. Every part of the body is important and supplying to the whole. And I thank you for it, Father, that you're fulfilling your purpose on the Earth. And I thank you, Lord God, everyone will be built up and encouraged. No one will be left out, and everyone in lack will be supplied in the name of Jesus. Amen.
