We get a flat tire because we ran over a nail in the road we get hypertension because we have a family history and we don’t eat right, we fall and break a bone so we can't go to church because we weren't watching what we were doing, we have a traffic accident because either we or the other person made a mistake. We blame Satan for om us having a flat tire, to us contracting an illness. When somebody says, “The devil is on my trail”, it’s unlikely that Satan himself is doing it, but it’s probably one of his demon troops. He works through a vast army of demon spirits. Remember this, Satan is a created being and not omnipresent he can only be in one place at a time. Who are those principalities, powers, rulers of darkness that Paul mentions in Ephesians 6:12?

The Bible is clear that this is not a battle which is fought on a physical plane at all, but rather a spiritual one.Įphesians 6:12 (HCSB) For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.Ģ Corinthians 10:3-6 (KJV)3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds )5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. Spiritual warfare consists of struggling against evil forces in our minds.

The battlefield of the mind