WHAT SPIRITUAL WARFARE LOOKS LIKE

Photo by Kay Rowe

Poem By Sherry Long

I really feel compelled to share this because 

I believe we have been in spiritual warfare 

for years over this book.  Many of you know 

that my marriage fell apart, four out of five 

of my children walked away from God, 

and my physical body turned against me

and started rejecting me.  

In the ministry as we left locations we 

had made an agreement not to go back 

as many times when pastor's keep 

close ties with their congregations the 

new pastor's are not able to get their 

new ministry in place for the people 

still contacting the old pastor for 

ministry needs.  Due to all of this 

as my marriage fell apart and 

children left home I found 

myself with nobody to connect to

and the Lord knows we could never

share what was happening in 

our marriage with others so 

we find ourselves isolated from

everyone and then we find ourselves

isolated from what feels like God himself. 

As I felt I was in a hopeless, helpless

state Satan stepped in and also

tried to physically destroy my life.

I found myself at the point of death

and watched the hand of God reach 

down and deliver me from the

evil plan Satan had for my life. 

As my children began to stray from

God they began to experiment with 

drugs and other entertainments that 

Satan put before their eyes.  As this

happened the Lord has pressed on 

my heart that I am not to step in and 

scream at them that they know God and 

should be ashamed of living their lives 

contrary to His word.  Instead each day

I am to earnestly pray for their souls as

they belong to the Heavenly Father and 

he knows when the timing is correct for 

them to realize where they need to be

and to return to Christ. 

If I were to step in and try to draw them 

back they might falsely return to Jesus

Christ only to please me or their father.

When my children return to Jesus Christ

I want everyone around to know they 

returned because God showed them the

Power of the Almighty God in such a 

way they knew they couldn't stay 

where they are but they are drawn 

back into the family of God. 

Driving to work about twenty eight days

ago I was earnestly seeking the 

Lord to claim the souls of my children

that are not serving and the Lord pressed 

on my heart that the prayers needed to change.

I questioned the Lord on this because I 

feel I always need to earnestly plead with 

him for the souls of my children.

Again the Lord pressed on my heart, "I 

got this one, you need to pray but now

you need to get your eyes on something

different, you still need to pray but start praying

in faith instead of earnestly pleading because 

 baby girl I got this one."

This is so hard for me because I feel if I go 

out and witness to the world and hundreds

are saved but the children that I was a stay

at home mom and tried every way to cultivate

their lives don't ever see Jesus in me than I 

would still be so empty.  

So as I began to step out on faith and let God 

have this one, some mighty, mighty, 

things began to unfold before my eyes. 

As many of my Facebook followers,
co-workers and church family knows my
body was in great turmoil with itself.  I had 

gone to doctors and allergist trying to

find out what was happening inside my

body.  I couldn't eat food for eleven months 

without my body going into an extreme 

histamine attach.  As the breakdown started

we tried searching for anything that I could eat

We finally discovered that I could eat potatoes

and squash.  So for three weeks I ate potatoes

and squash.  We would introduce another food

and my body would flip out.  As time passed I was 

able to add shrimp at which time we were able to 

discover that if the food had no flavor then I could 

tolerate it.  Needless to say by this time my 

vitamins were depleted and I couldn't hardly 

walk down the hall at the office because I had no

energy, my HR director told me to leave one day 

and go see the doctor, so I called my doctor 

and she began giving me vitamin shots 

and wisely asked me to try baby gummy 

vitamins and see how my body responded.  

Dr Andrea McKnight, not only a doctor but a 

Godly woman was able to get me back on my 

feet and we were able to go on a search for 

food that had no flavor.

In my search I remembered a root that my 

father feed us as little children so I contacted 

him and he explained it was the Jicama Root.  

We added this root to my diet and the next time

I went for my vitamin shot, my vitamins were 

perfect, thus I started eating a portion of the 

Jicama Root everyday and found my energy

was being restored daily.  

As my body was also rejecting food it was 

also screaming in pain.  There were days

I could hardly walk the pain was so bad.  

My friends would say, Go take a pain pill 

or ibuprofen", but what they didn't understand

is my body wouldn't tolerate medication.

I did finally learn that I could use liquid 

ibuprofen and get some relief from the pain. 

During this time I screamed out to Satan one

day and I have had several people say, "Girl 

I would have never in my life said that to Satan."

But I was angry, hurting and knowing that 

he was behind this so I did I called his name and 

I said, "Satan I don't care what you take away 

from me or what you destroy, you can take me

to the point I am crawling on the ground but you 

will find that as you take me deeper into pain

and deeper into loosing my family I will only 

become stronger in the Name of Jesus Christ."

So if you choose to destroy my body then go 

ahead and if you choose to take all my earthly 

goods then go ahead but one thing you better 

know, I am getting stronger in Jesus Christ with 

every boulder you throw at me. 

My husband, sister in law and a pastor was

driving down the streets in Lubbock discussing 

the fact that I had talked to Satan this way and

I said, "Well maybe I shouldn't have talked to him 

that way, knowing he can release the demons of hell 

on to me, but it's too late, as I can't go back 

and retract the screaming of those words to him."

About twenty days ago we found that a pill I take for 

my thyroid gland has an emulsifier in it that was 

destroying my body slowly but surely.  God's timing

is so perfect.  As I called my pharmacy who had made the 

mistake in giving me the generic brand of medication

instead of the name brand like my doctor had plainly 

written onto my prescription they explained due to some 

changes in my medical insurance they would no longer 

pay for the name brand drug so they had switched me

to the generic drug without telling me. 

I started taking the name brand drug and my body

started healing.  I was able to tolerate one meal and 

a few days later I was able to tolerate another meal.  

After weeks now I can eat every meal and snacks 

between if I want them.  

Yesterday I was able to RUN up the stairs at 

the office and my energy level is restored.  My

bones are not screaming in pain and my organs

are happy and functioning properly once again. 

I say all this for you to see that had the Lord

opened the doors of my ministry during that 

eleven months there is no possible way I 

could have carried the load.  

Twenty days after eating food again, the Lord 

opened the doors of the Digging A Well

ministry to the point that anyone looking 

close or by far can see the hand of God moving

in ways that are absolutely impossible.  There are 

things happening all at the same time that could

never happen on this earth at the same time if I 

tried to make it happen with all my might.  

The one thing I learned through all of these

trials is that Satan was doing all he could do to 

destroy the ministry and my body because

he knew what God could do with it even if 

I couldn't see the whole picture.   

So as you pray I need people to start praying

that the gates of hell are bound from 

this ministry and as we go forth, 

we go forth in the name of Jesus Christ, 

the author, the finisher, the beginning and the end, 

the first and the last, the rock, the deliverer, 

the shepherd, the Holy one of Israel, 

the redeemer, the great shepherd, 

the cornerstone, the rock of 

my salvation, the lily of the valley, the 

bright and morning star, the hope of 

my salvation, the way, the truth

and the life, the King of Kings, Messiah, 

the bread of life, the eternal savior,

the designer, the inspector, the supplier,

the protector.  He is the everything we
need to take his word into a dark
and dying world.

  For my thoughts are not your thoughts, 

neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, 

so are my ways higher than your ways, 

and my thoughts than your thoughts.

For as the rain cometh down, 

and the snow from heaven, and returneth 

not thither, but watereth the earth, 

and maketh it bring forth and bud, 

that it may give seed to the sower, 

and bread to the eater:

So shall my word be that goeth 

forth out of my mouth: 

it shall not return unto me void, but it shall 

accomplish that which I please, 

and it shall prosper in the thing 

whereto I sent it.  For ye shall go out with joy, 

and be led forth with peace: 

the mountains and the hills shall break

 forth before you into singing, and all the trees 

of the field shall clap their hands.

Isaiah 55:8-12