The Rules of Engagement

Counterattacking the Weapons of the Enemy

spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert” (Isa. 43:18–19). Sin counterattack Pray 1 John 1:9: “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” Snares counterattack Pray Psalm 91:3: “Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.” Remember: “Foolish and unlearned ques tions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meek ness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will” (2 Tim. 2:23–26). Spirits of affinity counterattack Read Matthew 22:36–37: “Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” Spiritual abortion counterattack Bind the spirit of spiritual abortion. Decree and declare that everything that needs to be birthed through prayer and supplication will be birthed in its correct time and season. There will be no abortions and no stillbirths in Jesus’s name. Spiritual miscarriage counterattack Decree and declare that your life is synchronized to God’s original plan and purpose and that there will be no miscarriage of anything God has planned for your life. Stigmatization counterattack Live your life in exact contrast to the stigma. Decree and declare that God is your defense.

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