Essential Tactics and Strategies for Spiritual Warfare

Essential Tactics and Strategies for Spiritual Warfare

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The Art of War for Spiritual Battle: Essential Tactics and Strategies for Spiritual Warfare

This new book by best-selling author Cindy Trimm, The Art of War for Spiritual Battle will become the “go-to” manual for preparing Christians to have victory in today’s spiritual battles with the enemy through strategic spiritual warfare and powerful intercessory prayer. Using occasional relevant quotes from the classic book, The Art of War by Sun Tzu, long a manual of wisdom for handling conflict of any kind, Trimm teaches the necessary disciplines for a modern-day prayer warrior. The principles in this book include tactics for organizing prayer, protocols for enforcing your authority as you wage your prayer campaign, and strategies for establishing and expanding God’s kingdom wherever you are.\

Table of Contents

Foreword

The Art of War is a straightforward manual on handling conflict of any kind. Reading it again recently, it dawned on me how its philosophy is equally relevant to the spiritual battles taking place around us in every day. Thus was born The Art of War: Winning Life’s Battles.

Introduction

There is a war being waged for the souls of the earth, and if you haven’t stopped to look lately, we are losing the battle. The only way to turn the tide is to fight again like the evangelists and revivalists of old. Not go back to their methods, but get God’s strategic directives for our time just as they did for theirs. God is looking for generals to organize and lead that charge, but He first needs to know that they are skilled in the art of spiritual war.

1. The Big Conversation

In order to take the fields of battle God has assigned to us, we need to be steadily plugged into command centers. We need to be constantly tapped into the Big Conversation that is going on in heaven; tuning into heaven’s frequency and listen in to what God is broadcasting concerning His will and His ways of bringing His goodness into manifestation on the earth.

2. The Generals of Prayer

These five factors—(1) the path of righteousness; (2) the spirit; (3) the natural; (4) the general(s); (5) methods and discipline—should be familiar to every general: those who know them will be victorious; those who do not will fail.

3. Allying Your Forces

This chapter discusses the formation of the community of Herrnhut, their 100 years of prayer and what happened during it (the Great Awakening, the Kentucky Camp Meetings, and their missionary outreaches), and some of its parallels to the collection of the mighty men of David. This is basically a chapter on the importance of unity within the church and the correct operation of authority and leadership.

4. Defensive Tactics

This chapter discusses the importance of “taking care of the home front.” In other words, the place of prayer in taking care of yourself, your family, your church leadership, and your community in the areas of resisting sin, staying on course with God, staying healthy and safe, etc. This would include discussion of Psalm 91 as well as other Scriptures about the protection of God.

5. Downloading Divine Strategies

This chapter discusses how to hear from God, how to get in on the intercessory prayers Jesus is already praying at the right hand of the father, and staying out of the legalism and human interference that has killed so many movements of God in the past. Ex: The Methodists, The Salvation Army, etc. Thus the importance of not institutionalizing Christianity, but keeping it a living connection with God. Also the need for the creation of Second, Third, Fourth, etc. Generation Generals to carry on that work.

6. Consolidating Fire Power

This chapter is a discussion of the offensive tactics of spiritual warfare.

7. Maintaining the Campaign

How do you keep your troops enlivened to stay with the fight for a lifetime of needs to be addressed? This chapter could look to the life of William Wilberforce and the fight to end slavery in the British Empire as an example. It includes counting the costs, staying motivated, celebrating the small victories as well as the larger ones, the importance of staying plugged into God, etc. This could also include a discussion of the Nine Situations (again from Sun Tzu’s text), or that could become its own chapter before this one.

8. Set for Triumph

This chapter will discuss what it takes to marshal victory in the protracted campaign of spreading the Gospel around the earth as well as God’s will to all nations. It will put forth that while we have already been given the victory, it still needs to be enforced and walked out, and this can’t be done in a half-hearted way. It will take giving our lives to Christ in very significant ways, for:

They have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death. Revelation 12:11

Product Details

  • Title : The Art of War for Spiritual Battle: Essential Tactics and Strategies for Spiritual Warfare
  • Author: Trimm, Cindy
  • Publisher: Charisma House
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • ISBN: 9781616382704

About the Author

Cindy Trimm is a charismatic, motivational speaker, preacher, teacher, and former senator in the Bermuda government.  She travels approximately 48 weeks a year, speaking and doing conferences. She is very motivated, energetic, aggressive self-promoter, and very interested in getting published books to round out her products. Author is relationally positioned with many well-known Christian leaders (Wagner, Tims, Jakes, Bynum).

10 Comments

  • Reply December 6, 2019

    Varnel Watson

    Ima tell yall this Joe Absher Isara Mo

  • Reply December 6, 2019

    Joe Absher

    #5 downloading divine strategies .
    used to be called searching the scriptures and obeying the will of God

    • Reply December 7, 2019

      Varnel Watson

      well now ppl download them straight from Heaven

  • Reply December 7, 2019

    Isara Mo

    The title sounds sweet.. Let me check out the contents.

    • Reply December 7, 2019

      Varnel Watson

      you tell us what you find there Isara Mo

    • Reply December 7, 2019

      Isara Mo

      Troy Day
      I will go over it slowly then tell u what I find

    • Reply December 7, 2019

      Isara Mo

      Troy Day
      In Psalms 144:1 David says I thank God for He has trained my hands for warfare and my fingers for battle.
      There is no better war trainer than God.. There is no better War Manual than the Bible.
      There is no better Teacher than the Holy Spirit.
      In Col 2:3 the verse says in Jesus are HIDDEN… ALL THE TREASURES of WISDOM and KNOWLEDGE..
      Any warfare, whether visible or invisible, requires knowledge to attain a favorable outcome.
      I have tried to most of the times lean on this verse to get my essential tactics and strategies in warfare.
      I have seen results..
      On the other hand the Author has genuinely tried to show us the way out of the mess we are in….will it work for the soldier of Christ? I mean the tactics and strategies..II can’t say.

    • Reply December 9, 2019

      Varnel Watson

      Isara Mo I feel you are going somewhere?

    • Reply December 9, 2019

      Isara Mo

      Troy Day
      No Im not going somewhere.
      I’m just trying to THINK ALOUD how many booooks and Dvds and CDs on spiritual warefare are being poured out into the market daily to the soldier and the scenario of the warfront is getting worse and worse.
      Somebody is feeding the soldiers bad diet..
      Somebody is misleading the soldier by their human intelligences..
      General Troy Day the war is one the enemy is one why are there SOOO MAANY war manuals?
      I think in America you have the Foods and Drugs Admin which oversees the safety of the citizen regarding foods and medicines.
      If the food is detrimental the Admin steps in immediately and equally if the drug is harmful legal action is instituted against the culprits.
      Why is the soldier of Christ being fed DAILY a diet and medication which makes him weaker and weaker and NOBODY STANDS UP AND SAYS STOP.
      Where is the simplicy of the gospel which revolutionized the world at the time of the Apostles?.
      The soldiers of the time had just ONE FOOD SUPPLY CHAIN..the Word of Christ… and it was not even in print(am right Troy)
      There is supposed to be just ONE AUTHOR and FINISHER OF THE FAITH.
      Improvements by OTHER AUTHORS regarding the FAITH has greatly watered down the original script.
      I’m not English but I know a certain English saying which say TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH(SOUP)
      I have chosen to have my own recipe and cook and eat(drink) my own soup.. I know it is not poisoned.
      Jesus said don’t call any one teacher for you have on ONE TEACHER…
      The recipe of the ONE TEACHER is enough.
      Now I think I am going somewhere..

  • Reply December 7, 2019

    Varnel Watson

    Isara Mo they STILL work on some though Joe Absher may be mocking some others still

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