You fight spiritual warfare by lifting up Jesus — the highest authority!

Spiritual Warfare | Unseating Principalities

This is a year of Encounters & Visitations!

You choose your daily encounter, God chooses your Holy Visitations.

Spiritual warfare is the spiritual war over who rules the will of man.

Warning: The enemy always comes to steal what God just did!

Personally coming against demonic forces is unwise or dangerous spiritual warfare.

Greek: ὀνομάζω (onomazō) = To name, to call by name; to invoke by identifying with the character and authority of the one named.

3 Strategies of Wise Spiritual Warfare

1. Fight with the Word of God (Bible)

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3 Strategies of Wise Spiritual Warfare

1. Fight with the Word of God (Bible)
2. Fight with worship

Warning: Your worship must be at the level of your warfare!

3 Strategies of Wise Spiritual Warfare

1. Fight with the Word of God (Bible)
2. Fight with worship
3. Ask the Lord to fight for you

Asking God to win the battle for us is the wisest way to engage in spiritual warfare.

Greek: ἀρχή (archē) = Rule, ruler, first in rank or authority.

Demons are evil spirits that oppose the will of God and seek to destroy people through deception, bondage, and rebellion.

Principalities are high-ranking demonic spirits that influence regions, cultures, governments, and people groups against the will of God.

Principalities Simplified: High-ranking demonic beings.

Principalities Over Fort Worth
1. East Side: Competition

Warning: Watch out for spiritual predators — wolves!

Principalities Over Fort Worth
1. East Side: Competition
2. West Side: Greed

Greed is the selfish desire for more.

Principalities Over Fort Worth
1. East Side: Competition
2. West Side: Greed
3. South Side: Lust

Lust is the ungodly desire that refuses God’s boundaries.

Greek: πάθος (pathos) = Raw, strong feelings or emotions that are not guided by God; consuming lust or passion.

Principalities Over Fort Worth
1. East Side: Competition
2. West Side: Greed
3. South Side: Lust
4. North Side: Rebellion

Rebellion Definition: Defying God’s authority and refusing to obey (submit to) Him.

Rebellion is when you know what God wants you to do and you still disobey Him!

Simple Definition: Rebellion is saying ‘no’ to God!

Practical Advice: Ask the Lord what the principalities are over your city.

Principalities Over America
1. Molech: Abortion and murder

Molech is the principality of murder and child sacrifice.

Abortion is modern-day child sacrifice!

Greek: βρέφος (brephos) = An unborn or newborn child; infant, babe, child in arms.

Caution: If it doesn’t make sense, it’s spiritual!

Principalities Over America
1. Molech: Abortion and murder
2. Ishtar/Jezebel Spirit: Perverted sexuality

Ishtar is the principality of perverted sexuality.

Greek: πόρνη (pornē) = A prostitute; figuratively, an idolatrous community.

It’s not a cultural war — it’s a spiritual war!

Principalities Over America
1. Molech: Abortion and murder
2. Ishtar/Jezebel Spirit: Perverted sexuality
3. Mammon: Greed

Mammon is the principality of greed.

Mammon is the spirit that rests on money.

You discern principalities by prayerfully identifying consistent demonic agendas.

Jesus is the highest authority over all principalities!

Unseating = Removing from power.

Unseating principalities is lifting up Jesus, the highest authority, over every demonic force!

Practical Advice: Pray and lift up the biblical response.

Unseating Fort Worth Principalities
- Competition (east side) | We lift up unity
- Greed (west side) | We lift up generosity
- Lust (south side) | We lift up righteousness
- Rebellion (north side) = We lift up fear of the Lord & submission

Practical Advice: When you are feeling attacked, lift up the highest power.

3 Practical Ways to Unseat Principalities
1. You pray it
- Pray and lift up the biblical response

Molech: We lift up life and the blood of Jesus

Ishtar (Jezebel Spirit): We lift up righteousness, holiness and purity

Mammon: We lift up generosity

3 Practical Ways to Unseat Principalities
1. You pray it
- Pray and lift up the biblical response
2. You live it
- Live out the opposite biblical response/action

Molech:
- Take communion regularly
- Attend Citizen for Life marches
- Vote for pro life politicians
- Support adoption initiatives

Ishtar (Jezebel Spirit):
- Support the Justice Residence
- Vote for pro family politicians
- Refuse the games of gender ideology and preferred pronouns in the workplace

Mammon:
- Tithe, support Kingdom advancing initiates
- Live a generous life
- Actively resist selfishness

3 Practical Ways to Unseat Principalities
1. You pray it
- Pray and lift up the biblical response
2. You live it
- Live out the opposite biblical response/action
3. You resist it
- You can’t unseat publicly what you entertain privately
- Resist the spirit and the actions/temptations behind it

Molech:
- Refuse death
- Refuse to normalize the killing of the innocent
- Refuse to call a baby a clump of cells
- Refuse to call abortion healthcare
- Refuse to treat an unplanned pregnancy like an unwanted life
- Refuse to stay silent when innocent children are being harmed
- Refuse to financially support organizations that profit from abortion

Ishtar (Jezebel Spirit):
- Refuse to let culture define sexuality instead of God
- Refuse pornography in your life and home
- Refuse sexual entertainment that normalizes what God calls sin
- Refuse to celebrate what scripture calls sexual immorality
- Refuse to compromise sexual purity because “everybody does it”
- Refuse the lie that telling the truth is hate speech
- Refuse sexual perversion

Mammon:
- Refuse to let money determine your obedience to God
- Refuse to make every major decision based on the fear of money
- Refuse to go into debt just to look successful
- Refuse to measure your life by what you own
- Refuse to trust money for what you should be trusting God for

Greek: ἐξουσία (exousia) = Authority, right, jurisdiction; the power to act.

You fight spiritual warfare by lifting up Jesus — the highest authority!