Warfare: Changing Strategy

Ken Malone
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Recently a friend sent me an email and said, “We are under extreme warfare.  The strategies that we used in years past are not working; do you have any strategy that can help us?”
The warfare has changed and with that the strategy has to change.

Code talkers
In October 2015 we were with the Navajo in Gallup, NM.  The Navajo were the code talkers in our war with Japan.  The Japanese were able to de code all of the former codes that the U.S. was using.  The U.S. Army was using strategies that Japan could de-cipher each time.  Until Philip Johnson, the son of a missionary, who grew up on the Navajo reservation, thought of the Navajo language as a strategy for transmitting coded messages.  It worked brilliantly.  The Marines recruited the original 29 and then 400 Navajo for the purpose of communication.  The Japanese were never able to decode the language of the Navajo.  The Navajo with this new strategy helped in a big way to win the war. 

Let’s change strategies.
We keep using the same war strategies over and over.  You and I are not getting the same results we did 10-15 years ago.  We must shift our tactics.  When one group in Hemet, CA drives stakes in the ground and gets breakthrough results, we all then drive stakes in the ground.  When the church in Manchester, KY marches through their city and a mighty awakening takes place we then begin to march.  There is only one problem with this.  They had the word of the Lord to march and drive stakes we did not.  They had impacting results we didn’t. 

Shift Happens
I want to share with you five simple but very effective warfare strategies for your spiritual war on both a personal and corporate level through Holy Spirit.  This will work for you as an individual or you can apply these to your city, state or nation.

Strategies to Overcome
1. Praise and Worship. This was one of the main weapons the Lord used in the Old Testament.  Put it to use again.  Praise and worship puts you into the presence of God.  When you move into this arena of war you are warring from Christ’s Holy Presence.

2. Be a Code Talker-Pray in Tongues.  Just like the Japanese could not decipher the Navajo code, praying in Holy Ghost puts you in direct communication with God.  2 Cor. 14:2. Building up yourself in the faith-pray in tongues.  Jude 20   Recently a friend from Colorado sent me a text asking for prayer over their finances.  As I began praying I heard the Lord say, “Tell them to pray in tongues.”  They started praying in the code talk of heaven and within two days breakthrough came to their finances.  Keep praying-BREAKTHROUGH IS ON THE WAY.

3. It is written.  Jesus defeated satan by using what the Lord has written. Matthew 4:4; 4:7; 4:10  We should use this same tactic for defeating the enemy.  Say to satan, it is written: By His Stripes I am Healed.  Isaiah 53:5

4. Holy Communion.  Believe it or not this strategy and weapon is a powerful tool in the hand of any believer.  This act of relationship with the Lord brings healing, restoration and deliverance.  Also serve communion to your land.  It will cleanse you and the land.

5. Wait for the Sound of Heaven.  When the philistines came out against David, he inquired of the Lord and the Lord said to go up.  David defeated the philistines and sent them running.  When the philistines came out a second time against him, He inquired of the Lord a second time about this matter.  The Lord said, Wait until you hear the sound of marching in the Mulberry trees.  Before you go up against the enemy inquire of the Lord, then wait until you hear the sound of heaven.