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The Year Ahead - 2002
As I sought the Lord concerning the year ahead, there has been a
growing awareness in my heart that God is about to move into the next
stage of His plan to manifest the End Times Apostles whom He has been
training in secret.
Today warfare has taken on a new dimension, under the
influence of the kingdom of darkness, and terrorism has come to every
nation. The modern method of warfare, which I have described in our
teaching on Prophetic Warfare and elsewhere, is COIN warfare, or Counter
Insurgence.
Having grown up with the threat of counter
insurgence, and being exposed early in life to this form of warfare when
I was first called up to do my National Service for my country, I have
realized that the reason this method of warfare is so effective is
because it is the method that Satan uses in his attack against the
Church.
The basic principle behind this warfare is to
infiltrate the land of your enemy without him being aware of it. Unlike
early conventional warfare where the element of surprise involved
suddenly attacking your enemy and seeking to destroy him, coin warfare
involves entering the enemy territory under the guise of a friend, and
slowly bringing an influence that eventually will displace your enemy.
It is like a cancer in the body, that slowly attacks
the cells, taking them over and spreading through the body. When the
cancer is finally discovered it is often too late to do anything about
it, because it has already so spread through the body, that it cannot be
easily eradicated without destroying much of the healthy tissue in the
body.
Now here is what the Lord told me concerning how we
as the Body of Christ are to take the land for His kingdom and overcome
our enemy. We are to beat him at his own game. We are to use his own
method of warfare against him, and infiltrate his camp secretly. Then
when he finally realizes we are there, he is powerless to stop us.
The early church used an approach that was very
similar to conventional warfare in many ways. It resulted in a rapid
spread of the Gospel, but it also resulted in such a lash back from the
kingdom of darkness, that the early apostles and church leaders were
soon eradicated, and the church robbed of its power. Then the enemy
began immediately to fill the church with his poison, using his coin
warfare methods, until the church was filled with false teachings and
the doctrines of man, and lost its power. It was plunged into the dark
ages.
The End Times Church will be different to the Early
Church, and will use an approach that is totally different. We are
going to use COIN Warfare from the start, and we are going to so
saturate the realm of Satan with the Gospel and the truth of God's Word,
that the Kingdom of God will displace the kingdom of darkness.
So the Lord's Word for the New Year came to me loud
and clear. I have included a prophetic word concerning the New Move,
but here is a summary of the principles that we should take heed to as
we move into this new year of opportunity that stands before us.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ATTACK OPENLY
When you do, you expose yourself to the enemy and you
will find yourself no match for him, because he has the whole world
under his control. He will snuff out your life as he did to the early
apostles and you will accomplish little in the earth.
Your attack must hidden and subtle. Rather than
fighting with the arm of flesh, you should be fighting using your
spiritual weapons. And the only way to do this is to get those who are
on his side to defect to our side. We must steal his soldiers one by one
until he has no more army to fight for him.
Realize that the only power that the enemy has is
contained in man. Without man he can accomplish nothing in the earth.
So the only way to beat him is not to attack and destroy his soldiers,
but to win them over to our side.
DO NOT BOAST IN MAN
There is a tendency to look for great leaders to be
our champions, and we make the same mistake as the Israelites did when
they cried for a king. God does indeed work through His leaders, but
His chosen leaders are not those who seem to be something in the earth.
Paul tells us the following
1 Corinthians 1:26 For you see your calling,
brothers, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty,
not many noble, [are called]:
27 But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the
things that are mighty;
28 And insignificant things of the world, and things that are
despised, God has chosen, [yes], and things that are not, to bring to
nothing things that are:
29 That no flesh should boast in his presence.(GMR)
Your salvation is not to be found in your governments or political
leaders. It is not to be found in your professors and doctors and
experts. It is to be found in those humble men and women of God whom He
is raising up to lead His church.
DO NOT FEAR WHAT MAN CAN DO
Satan's choice method of attack in the times in which
we live, is the use of terrorism. He knows that if he can get man to
fear, then the door is open for him to take complete control. When the
Church of God is filled with fear, she loses her power. Fear paralyzes
us, and makes us ineffective in our spiritual warfare. And the
dangerous thing about fear is that it only takes a little of it to
contaminate and neutralize our faith.
You might be full of faith and desire to do great
exploits for the Lord, but when you look around you at the events taking
place in the world and where you live, and you permit even the slightest
bit of fear to enter in, you become totally ineffective for the Lord.
The truth of the matter is that
The Enemy Fears You
It is time that we turned tables on the enemy and
started to put some fear into him and his helpers, so that they are
paralyzed instead of us. Instead of being the victims of terrorism, we
should be using his own methods against him. We should be destroying
his plans and his structures by infiltrating them and demolishing them.
We should be keeping him on the run.
The Year Ahead
So as you move into the New Year, go boldly with these
principles in your mind. Know that God is about to do some wonderful
things in the earth, and you are able to become part of it only by
refusing to be caught up into the things that the enemy is trying to use
to sidetrack you.
To Be Continued...
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