C. Peter Wagner - Territorial Spirits: Practical Strategies for How to Crush the Enemy Through Spiritual Warfare

Most of the people who need this message will not be looking for this book. To change their lives, you need to put a copy of this book into their hands.

But others (seeds) fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundred-fold, some sixty-fold, some thirty-fold (Matthew 13:8).

Our ministry is constantly seeking methods to find the good ground, the people who need this anointed message to change their lives. Will you help us reach these people?

Remember this - a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop. But the one who plants generously will get a generous crop (2 Corinthians 9:6).

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Contents

by John Dawson

by C. Peter Wagner

by C. Peter Wagner

by C. Peter Wagner

by Steven Lawson

by C. Peter Wagner

by Timothy M. Warner

by R. Arthur Mathews

by Thomas B. White

by Jack W. Hayford

by Anne Gimenez

by Larry Lea

by Dick Bernal

by Edgardo Silvoso

by Paul Yonggi Cho

by Richmond Chiundiza

by Paul B. Long

by John Dawson

by Vernon J. Sterk

by Jacob Loewen

by Michael Green

by Oscar Cullmann

Im not really interested in territorial spirits. What is God up to? That is the question. However, the presence of the adversary serves a useful purpose.

The swarming presence of beelzebub and his minions indicates the places of wounding and corruption in the body of our nation, the places where the land needs to be cleansed through confession, reconciliation, and the presentation of the blood of the Lamb, Christ Jesus.

Like vultures circling in the desert sky, the presence of the demonic indicates approaching death below. The stronghold of the enemy becomes the target of a praying people, and the plans of satan backfire once again.

This strategic book is a needed contribution. The Church is awakening to the potential of united prayer. Citywide prayer meetings are becoming a common phenomenon. It is time to examine again the nature of the unseen realm as revealed in Gods Word. We need all the help we can get, and Peter Wagner has served us well by compiling the insights of godly men and women who have proven the Word in both scholasticism and in demonstration with power.

Understanding brings hope. Our ancient adversary can be overcome. We need to lift ourselves out of a self-centered spirituality, a mentality that says we are victims rather than warriors. Fiery darts will come, but as we raise the shield of faith, we must take up the sword of the Spirit and join with others in contending for cities and nations. When we follow Jesus into battle, our small steps of faith and obedience always contribute to a bigger victory than our own.

At the fall of the human race, satan gained a mandate to become the god of this age (2 Cor. 4:4). But since the birth of the Church at Pentecost, there has been an ebb and flow of satanic power in specific places at specific times. He is like a squatter that the legal owner of a building must evict.

In human history, it is easy to see the enemy coming in like a flood and the Lord raising up a standard against him. In a global sense, each generation faces satan in the form of the spirit of antichrist or world domination. This is the spirit behind those who have had ambition to rule the world such as Napoleon or Hitler. They would usurp the place that belongs only to God. The earth is the Lords and all its fullness... (Ps. 24:1). A praying Church should face this spirit and drive it off long before we find ourselves in a world at war.

Physical violence represents an encroachment of spiritual violence into the material realm. The spirit of world domination can emerge only when the saints have lost their vigilance or when the international Church has become severely divided over some issue. Nahum 2:1 says, He who scatters has come up before your face. Man the fort! Watch the road! Strengthen your flanks! Fortify your power mightily.

It is possible to trace through history the story of battles over states, provinces, cities, and neighborhoods. Consider this example from my experience.

Several years ago, I was in a Bible school in New Jersey browsing through some books on the history of missions to Africa. I began to read the story of Uganda. Many of the first missionaries died of tropical diseases, but others followed heroically until a powerful national Church was established.

What caught my attention was an account of the tribal king who dominated Uganda. He was proud, sexually depraved, and extremely cruel. The description was remarkably similar to the newspaper reports of the dictator ruling Uganda at that time. Idi Amin and his regime of death seemed to match his predecessor in every detail.