Principalities & Powers...

I sense angels fighting battles unseen...

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."

Ephesians 6:12

As light slowly bled across the night sky I rejoiced...as darkness was taken over by the beauty of a summer sunrise I groaned upon my bed...the night was fraught with battles felt but not seen...with dreams and moments of memory morphing into nightmare...

I know not what battles were fought on my behalf last night...only that they were momentous, on a scale beyond imagination and knowledge...I woke often, tossed and turned increasingly and with frequency, war seen only between this veil and the supernatural.

I understood not, though a sense of peril permeated the hours between that first heavy blink into the land of Nod and wakefulness at odd moments throughout the night.

I had occasion this past friday and into saturday to deal with pyschosis, manipulation, gas lighting, and so far out in left field type behaviour I sat stunned. All from someone tasked with representing employees within our union. The behaviour came as a shock...the lack of memory of phone conversation percolated into a Saturday email of anger and word play meant to confuse.

At this point in my life experiences I find myself nonplussed and shocked despite understanding gained from the past...however, I also found myself prepared to meet word play with wisdom, with truth...kindly written but firmly planted and rooted in knowledge I spoke to anger, I stood in the face of belittlement and most accosting, grand delusion and deception.

Ah my friends...we are created for just such a purpose as this...to live in grace and mercy when needed, but more importantly to live as peacemakers...bending not a whit in the face of harassment, of abuse, of deception and a need to hide wrong doing...

I sat in stunned silence...letting understanding and wisdom flood in to drive back confusion, dismay and a need to make things right.

I sat in quiet solitude and plucked the ear of God, for grace, for truth...in this moment I was reminded of His wisdom, of His knowledge; I saw the right path, felt it and stepped upon it in full confidence that I was built for this moment and many others like it.

Oh my dear treasures, here is where all that has transpired comes to the fore ready to do battle...lifting eyes to the heavens while girding ourselves in Truth, in righteousness, in wisdom and walking into battles seen and unseen.

While there are days I grow weary of standing and take a step back to rest, I see now that some battles are meant to uplift, to reinforce walls built with stone and brick, one upon the other. With each successive moment in the trenches I sense those walls growing taller, wider, stronger...forming into massive gates of titanium...arrows of the enemy bouncing harmlessly off.

There is love, there is grace and mercy within...there is hope and peace thriving amongst fields of green and riotous colours of every imaginable flower growing...

It is good...oh it is good.

My dear friends...you WILL find yourself there one day very soon...growth, healing, your own personal journey through hell has given you exactly what you need to fight, to love truly and fully, to give mercy and grace, to hold others accountable with kindness but with steel and reinforced rebar.

Built for just such a time as this...Queens each one...worthy of not just more, no...worthy of abundance in every area of your life.

The enemy would come to steal your joy, your grace, your compassion...instead he encounters your walls, walls built upon a strong foundation, built with a God who loves eternally...you are able, capable and existentially knowledgeable...

I stand today as a witness...I stand today in the gap and pray for your release from hell, for your place to be seen and understood in this world...you will overcome...

“For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.” 1 John 5:4

Stand my friends...walk...crawl...no matter the conveyance, you will find your way...you will enter the promise land, you will escape from the pit that holds you captive. You are capable of great things, everyday...

May God greatly bless your days and nights with peace, with courage and comfort, with strength and truth...