Quin Sherrer - A Womans Guide to Spiritual Warfare: How to Protect Your Home, Family and Friends from Spiritual Darkness

Soon after the first edition of this title was released in 1991, it hit the top-selling list for Christian books in the spiritual warfare category. In fact, it kept that rating for six years, and both men and women were reading it as a classic on the topic. I (Quin) admit it was not a subject I was eager to write about when Servant senior editor Ann Spangler first proposed the idea, but we agreed to take on the project.

Ruthanne and I interviewed dozens of women who had successfully found victory, and they readily shared their scriptural strategies and insights. It was a great learning experience for us, plus we also gained great appreciation for our many prayer partners who faithfully prayed during the process.

Once, I (Quin) was on a flight from Orlando to Atlanta and introduced myself to the woman sitting beside me. As soon as I mentioned my name, she cried out, You wrote that book that helped save my marriage and my children A Womans Guide to Spiritual Warfare ! I copied the prayers in it and asked my husband to pray them aloud with me every day. Our daughter was falling into bad company, but we used those prayers and examples to give us hope. Today we are a family following the Lord and active in a church.

A while back, a friend called me from Virginia. Just wanted you to know I minister in a prison here, she said. A woman I was talking to about the Lord was reading your bookbehind bars yet!and said it was really helping her.

I (Ruthanne) have had countless similar encounters with women who have told me that reading the book and praying the prayers in it saved their marriages, healed broken relationships with prodigal children or helped them break free from bondage. A woman in Lima, Peru, read the Spanish edition and wrote, A Womans Guide to Spiritual Warfare is helping me to keep going after my mothers death. I have been attacked by the enemy, until I read your book and started to rebuke him.

One friend used to come to my resource table every summer at an annual ministry gathering and buy several copies to give to the military wives she was mentoring. Some have told me they keep the book on their bedside table so they can refer to it often. Readers tell us they not only keep their own copy handy, but also buy additional ones to give away. Several times women have come to my table to buy the book, saying, I had my own copy but loaned it out and never got it back. I have to have another one!

Although we do not claim to be experts on the subject, we have gained a lot of knowledge about spiritual warfare through our research and study, and especially through our own times in the trenches. This revision is an accumulation of our combined experience, plus many testimonies from women just like you who are learning to be skilled warriors.

Todays women face unique difficulties that need to be addressed in the context of spiritual warfare: single parenting, troubled marriages, demanding careers, the supermom syndrome, media influence, abortion, coping with addicted children and spouses, financial pressuresthe list goes on and on.

Through this practical handbook, we aim to help women understand the why and the how of spiritual warfare based on biblical examples and contemporary experiences. In these pages, we will address such questions as:

• What is spiritual warfare?
• Who is the enemy, and who started the war?
• Is every mishap from Satan?
• What weapons are we to use?
• If Jesus won the victory, why do we have to fight?
• What about the battle in the mind?