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The spiritual world is real. You know that. I know that. Spiritual battle is real.
And what I know is that when you take that step of faith to do the thing that
the Lord is calling you to do, to bring forth your business by God's design,
spiritual battle is taking place in the heavenly realms.
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The enemy knows that if he can stop you in the beginning stages,
or in any stage actually,
but if he can stop you from taking that
step of faith to doing the thing that you're called to
do he knows that he will stop you from creating the impact that you're called
to create he knows that that ripple effect and that eternal return on investment
that you are called to create and have on this side of heaven won't happen that's
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why there's struggle that's why we're you're questioning your calling.
That's why there's a spiritual battle, because we live in a fallen world, right?
And today we're going to talk about that spiritual battle, but really dive into
being a kingdom warrior.
This is the Kingdom Revolution podcast. My Facebook community is for Kingdom women warriors.
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And I know I never really talked about what I meant when I say that you are a warrior.
So today we're going to get into that. What does that mean?
How you can apply that in your business and fight that spiritual battle that
is taking place. Welcome to the King.
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With me today. I want to talk about being a warrior.
I just, oh, I love the thought of women rising up there.
They're putting on their armor of God, keeping it on, but raising up that sword
of the word of God and that shield of faith and stepping into battle.
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I truly believe that you are a warrior for such a time as this.
And we know that the spiritual world is real.
Conversations, decisions, battles, and the like, all of that occur in the spiritual
realm and impact what takes place in our physical lives.
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So the physical realm is kind of a mirror of what's taken place in the spiritual realm.
When we have conflict in the physical realm, when we are in conflict,
maybe we're fighting, we're wrestling with things, there's things going on in the spiritual realm.
We have an enemy who goes around accusing us.
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He is in the courts of heaven bringing accusations against us in the heavenly realms.
We get to approach the throne of God.
We get to enter the courts of heaven and plead the blood of Jesus on our behalf.
Unless we realize that truth and wake up to the battle that is taking place,
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we're going to continue to look for physical solutions to solve spiritual problems
that are manifesting themselves in our physical lives.
Once again, what's going on in the physical realm?
Is a mirror, is a signal, is a clue to the battle that is being fought in the spiritual realm.
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So we know that we're not fighting against flesh and blood, right?
Ephesians 6.12 says we're not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against the rulers,
authorities of the unseen world, against mighty powers in this dark world,
against governing forces that
are evil in this dark world and against evil spirits in heavenly places.
We are in a war.
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Whether you are called to business, whether you are a kingdom-minded entrepreneur
or not, we are a warrior, but we have spiritual and physical battles.
But more importantly, focusing on the kingdom-minded women called to entrepreneurship
because our battles are a little bit different than other people's battles.
We, we fight different battles. In fact, the war we're in is like no other,
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no other war that any of us have ever seen, known, heard about,
or honestly could even conceive because we are called.
We have a high calling on our life as a entrepreneur.
It, it goes deep, whether it's showing your kids that you can do this thing,
showing your husband that you can do this thing, showing your kids
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that you when you take those steps of faith
and obedience that there's blessings around that
corner the enemy doesn't want that to happen the
enemy doesn't want your children your family to see you strong taking those
steps of faith and continue moving forward when opposition comes against you
they the enemy doesn't want other people to see that the enemy doesn't want
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you to bring forth your dream your idea your business in that impact that you're
you're called to create.
Or he doesn't want you making kingdom wealth to give more, to bless more,
to advance God's kingdom, right?
And sometimes we're completely unaware that is taking place around us. We're too busy.
We're too preoccupied. We're questioning our calling because this didn't work
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or that launch didn't work.
And sometimes we don't understand spiritual warfare. We don't understand that battle.
Either we're unaware of the unseen battle, or we're too focused on what's going
on in the physical realm.
And we don't recognize that the spiritual realm is just as important.
And we're not focusing on the fact that we come from a place of victory.
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We fight from a place of victory. The victory is already ours.
Sometimes I think that, and not us, because we're kingdom-minded warriors,
but we sometimes, even born-again believers or Christians walk around completely
unaware we have a spiritual battle going on.
Even if we're not being conflicted at that time, even if we don't have a physical
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battle we're fighting, there's still spiritual warfare and spiritual battle
that is taking place in the heavenlies.
And we fight in the spiritual realm and we see victory in the physical realm.
So we're not fighting against our spouse. We're not fighting against our mom.
We're not fighting against our boss, right?
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We're fighting in the spiritual realm and we see the victory of what what takes
place in that spiritual realm, in our physical realm.
So there's a spiritual root behind every single physical disturbance.
Setback, ailment, issue we face, especially in our business, right?
And sometimes it is just physical things in our business, like we could have
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shiny object syndrome, or we don't invest when we know that we should,
or we're too busy looking on the outside world and what everyone else is doing
instead of extracting that blueprint inside of us.
But then once again, it gets down to that root cause, that root reason of why we're doing that.
And too often, though we do restrict our battles to the physical realm,
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the battle, we battle physical temptation to sin,
reactions to things that happen to us, challenges at work or home,
you know, just to name a few, we restrict our focus just on the physical realm.
And when we do that, our victory will only be temporary or shallow.
It's like putting a bandaid on a wound.
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When there's internal hemorrhaging, we get to fight in the spiritual realm.
And I'll give you like, how do we do that, right?
There's different ways that we fight through prayer, through worship.
But remember, when we fight in the spiritual realm, we're fighting,
we're locking arms with our heavenly board of directors, our Holy Spirit,
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Jesus, and our Heavenly Father,
We come from a place of victory and we see victory in the physical realm.
Because remember, our battle is not against our neighbor, our spouse,
our coworker, our child, or even our fleshly desires or weaknesses, right?
People are simply a conduit for the spiritual battle taking place in another
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realm, the heavens, right?
A conduit means a pathway through which something such as information,
influence, ideas is being transmitted or conveyed from one entity or another.
We're a conduit. We help. Our angels are fighting on our behalf, right?
Are we sending out our angels, those warrior angels, right? There's different types of angels.
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And we get to be a conduit for that battle through our prayer, through our worship.
It's so much easier sometimes to do battle in the physical realm, isn't it?
It's easier to fight what we can see going on when we feel wronged in such a
way, or when our launch didn't go the way that we wanted to,
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or maybe we blame someone or something else for something that happened.
But doing that is like a police officer in his living room trying to shoot at
a criminal he sees pulling a gun on him on a reality TV show.
Show if the officer shoots at the television he
will have merely added more
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of a mess to the mess that's probably already going on right it
might make him feel better to shoot at the television if a criminal pulled a
gun on the television show and pointed it at him or out at the audience it might
make him feel better for that moment that he did something but in the end nothing.
Got resolved nothing got solved in fact things probably got worse because he
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shot his television vision.
So whatever has gone on, or is going on, or will go on in your visible physical
world, it's rooted in the invisible spiritual realm.
And if we don't know how to navigate in the spiritual realm,
then we can't fix anything that is going on in the physical realm.
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So think about that again. If you don't know how to navigate in the spiritual
realm, We're not going to be able to truly fix anything in this realm that we are in.
This even means with everything that is going on with the mainstream evil agenda
in this world that's being pushed, that's a spiritual battle.
It's a battle that you get to fight. You get to do something about with how
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you stand firm in biblical truth and using your platform in your business by God's design.
You get to create a movement and speak into what is on your heart to speak about, to fight out against.
And when you're active in the spiritual battle, it doesn't have to be tough
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conversations with co-workers or family.
It doesn't mean you have to spend all of your time hiding in your prayer closet either.
When you're actively engaged in the spiritual realm, you can move with confidence
and power in the physical one, knowing that you're waging warfare correctly.
You are praying, you're worshiping throughout the day, you're living and fighting,
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you're living and walking in victory, right?
And so that means we have to come to the realization that there are our adversary
opponents out there that we are going to be facing that are dangerous and kind
of more numerous than we probably even thought.
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Because once again, you are taking that step of faith into your calling and creating something.
Listen, the enemy, Satan hates women.
He hates children, if you haven't realized that already. He hates families,
the institution that God created.
So he's going to do anything and everything to try to stop and deter you.
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We have to arm ourselves appropriately.
We have to arm ourselves and our children.
And even if you don't have children, you get to arm yourselves for the future generations.
Because there's a ripple effect and an eternal impact of what the Lord is asking
you to do with your business by God's design.
It's so much greater than what you can even imagine, especially when you can
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create kingdom wealth to give more, bless more, and fix those broken and corrupt systems.
We have to arm ourselves. We belong to God.
We already have won the victory because of the Holy Spirit who lives in us is
greater than the Spirit who lives in this world.
Jesus is greater than the enemy of this world.
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And as a kingdom-minded warrior, we're fighting a spiritual battle,
not for victory, but from a place of victory.
Ooh, I get Holy Spirit goosebumps with that one.
That is so powerful. We're fighting from a place of victory.
You belong to your Heavenly Father.
You have already won a victory over the spiritual battle. And we get to fight
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from that place of victory because of what Jesus did for us.
We are a warrior in a spiritual battle taking place in the spiritual realm.
To wage warfare well, we get to fight with spiritual weapons,
the spiritual weapons that God gave us.
Paul has given us our armor and he, well, Jesus, God gave it to us, right?
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But he, Paul talks about the armor in Ephesians.
He talks about it. So we will know what to suit up in and take with us into battle.
God's not going to dress us. He gave us, he gave us everything that we needed.
He provided you what you need, but the responsibility is for us to put it on.
That responsibility is left up to us. Isn't our Heavenly Father amazing?
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He gives us free will. So, my friend, it is time to suit up.
A warrior never heads into battle without appropriate armor,
and neither should you face what the devil throws at you or your business or
your family without the weapons and the armor God has provided you with as outlined in Ephesians 6.
And remember, you are not fighting for victory. You are fighting from victory.
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The victory is yours.
It's time to walk confidently as a warrior that God has gifted you to be.
I pray that this bless you today.
Next Thursday, I am going to dig into the word warrior.
I broke it down into an acronym. We're going to talk about what that Kingdom
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Warrior actually means.
So for today, go grab Ephesians 6.
Read that and spend some time just thanking your Heavenly Father that you get
to fight from a place of victory.
The victory is ours in Christ Jesus.
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