A spreading error among those who profess faith in Jesus is seeking to fight spiritual battles with physical weapons. I have seen people, in the name of prayer, come to church with cutlass and gun to fight the devil. Such practice would have been laughable if not that it is pitiable. Peter was once caught in such error. As the hordes of Jews came to arrest Jesus, he brought out his sword and chopped off a man’s ear, ostensibly to defend the Master. He definitely had a different idea of how the battle of his Lord should be fought. Meanwhile, Jesus had wrapped up the battle in the garden of Gethsemane in that powerful session of intercession. It was a battle of the spirit meant to be fought in the realm of the spirit; and He had done that.

If you fight in the flesh, you will fail miserably; but reliance on the name and the blood of Jesus will spell victory.

Many believers know that we are at war; but few know the nature of the war. Paul gives us insight into both the nature and the means of prosecuting our warfare. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds” II Corinthians 10:4 NKJV. Our weapons are not physical, because the warfare is not physical either. The enemies we confront are the principalities and powers, the unseen rulers of darkness. You cannot take aim at them with your physical swords. Comprehensive faith in Jesus and His accomplished work on the cross, and a life of consistent intercession is what guarantees victory. If you fight in the flesh, you will fail miserably; but reliance on the name and the blood of Jesus will spell victory.