Ron Phillips - Everyones Guide to Demons & Spiritual Warfare: Simple, Powerful Tools for Outmaneuvering Satan in Your Daily Life

In his latest book, Everyones Guide to Demons and Spiritual Warfare, Ron Phillips skillfully lays a solid foundation addressing the important issues of spiritual warfare like a wise master builder. All the while he places top priority on the atoning work of Christ on the cross by providing the biblical and common sense tools of how to fight our enemy by the authority and lordship of Christ. This book provides the spiritual keys necessary for every believer desiring to live an overcoming life beyond the norm and mundane. Its a must read for every Christian seeking Gods best for their lives.

MARCUS D. LAMB
PRESIDENT/FOUNDER, DAYSTAR TELEVISION NETWORK

Pastor Ron Phillips has put a lot of study and prayer into the writing of this book. It is factual, informative, and will be a blessing to you. As you read it, God will help you to know more about Him and His wonderful plan for His children.

DODIE OSTEEN
COFOUNDER, LAKEWOOD CHURCH
HOUSTON, TX

For too many people today, spiritual warfare is a wacky mix of new age teaching and bad theology. Ron Phillips has done a great service by anchoring this book in solid biblical doctrine. This will change the way the church looks at spiritual warfare, and its long overdue.

PHIL COOKE
FILMMAKER AND AUTHOR OFJOLT! THE POWER OF INTENTIONAL
CHANGE IN A WORLD THATS CONSTANTLY CHANGING

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EVERYONES GUIDE TO DEMONS AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE by Ron Phillips
Published by Charisma House
Charisma Media/Charisma House Book Group
600 Rinehart Road
Lake Mary, Florida 32746
www.charismahouse.com

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Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version of the Bible. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc., publishers. Used by permission.

Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the King James Version of the Bible.

Scripture quotations marked NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, International Bible Society. Used by permission.

Cover design by Justin Evans
Design Director: Bill Johnson

Copyright 2010 by Ron Phillips
All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Phillips, Ron M.

Everyones guide to demons and spiritual warfare / Ron Phillips.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

ISBN 978-1-61638-127-1

1. Spiritual warfare. I. Title.

BV4509.5.P485 2010

235.4dc22

2010020327

E-ISBN: 978-1-61638-347-3

Contents

SECTION III: UNDERSTANDING THE
DYNASTY OF YOUR ENEMY

SECTION IV: KNOWING THE
STRATEGIES OF YOUR ENEMY

SECTION V: ENFORCING THE
VICTORY OVER YOUR ENEMY

SECTION VI: MAINTAINING THE
VICTORY OVER YOUR ENEMY

A MONG THE MOST popular television programs in recent years is the reality show Survivor. A group of people are left in a desolate location and must survive on what is at hand. As a part of the intrigue, only one can win the large cash prize at the end of the contest. As the show progresses, the contestants never know who are their friends or who are their enemies!

Major Nidal Hasan was a psychiatrist in the United States Army. His education was paid for by the taxpayers. At thirty-nine years of age, the major had never served in a combat zone. In November of 2009 he shouted Allahu Akbar at a troop enlistment center in Fort Hood, Texas, and began to fire two weapons, killing thirteen and wounding more than thirty-five individuals, both civilian and military. Pretending to be a friend of the American soldiers, he was a plant of the enemy. The U.S. Army did not know an enemy was among them.

We live in a beautiful world, yet to survive we must know our real enemies. Our strong enemies are not people but invisible forces of darkness. These forces from the dark side carry out the order of a former ally who turned against our God. Satan, along with the forces of evil demons, is very near and ready to take out Gods soldiers. Yet God has given us the resources to survive and thrive. But to do so we must know our enemy and be fully aware of the resources and weapons at our disposal.

This thought is captured beautifully by the psalmist in Psalm 126. This passage is a song of freedom, celebrating the return of captive Israelis from Babylon to Zion. Their emotion and confession picture for us freedom from Satans snares and chains! Keeping us captive to wrong living, wrong thinking, wrong decisions, and wrong relationships is Satans strategy to hold us down. His plan is to keep us from ever discovering our true selves and our way home.

In this psalm we observe the five legacies of liberty. These facets of freedom will be clearly seen in the life of the individual or in the life of the liberated church.

1. FREEDOM IN CHRIST IS LIKE
A DREAM COME TRUE

When the LORD brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream.

PSALM 126:1

The Christian life experienced to its fullest is also a dream come true. Most believers are living far beneath their privileges. Jesus promised, I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly (John 10:10). Are you living with an abundance of power, resources, and joy? The supernatural power of God is our heritage. The fruit of the Spirit is our promise.

Having led hundreds of people to freedom in Christ, I can say honestly that for many of them life becomes new, fresh, and exhilarating. One young lady was suffering from anorexia nervosaself-destructive starvation. Although she had seen some counselors, her problem was not physical but spiritual. After extended counseling she rejected the enemy and his deception. The truth set her free. She is now active for Christ and especially enjoys singing in the choir.

People who have been set free from the enemys strongholds invariably experience an amazing awakening to the spiritual life. Suddenly their eyes are open to all that they have in Christ.

In the early 1950s, before cruises became the vogue, a poor man booked a passage from London to the United States in order to see his family. On board he stuck to himself and never entered the dining room.

Toward the end of the journey, passengers asked him why he did not eat in the dining room. Oh, I could afford only a ticket for the trip. But I brought along cheese and crackers to sustain me, he assured them.

Sir, the food is included in the price of the ticket! his fellow passenger said.

It is possible to live the Christian life this way. We must realize that our commitment to Christ has brought us all that we need for this life and the life to come.

2. CHRISTIAN FREEDOM IS A SOURCE OF JOY

Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing.

PSALM 126:2

Never have I seen more joyless people than in the average church or religious gathering. People seem restrained and bound by tradition, denomination, or religious pride. Where are the exuberance, the wholehearted singing, the joyful shout, and the sounds of laughter?

No wonder so many believers and churches are insipid and weak. Nehemiah 8:10 says, The joy of the LORD is your strength. Shortly before the cross, Jesus prayed these words: These things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves (John 17:13). You may protest and say that Jesus was talking about our future joy in heaven. Yet Jesus went on to say, I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one (v. 15). It is the evil one who hinders our joy in the Christian life. Joy is the birthright and privilege of every Christian.