Into the Fire

If you're a Christian and you celebrate Halloween, liberty gives you that opportunity. I don't celebrate it, endorse it, appreciate it, like it. Not Halloween. Not Trick or Treat. Not Trunk or Treat or whatever it's called. Not Harvest Parties. Not anything to remotely honor the date that gives license and freedom to celebrate the occult.

I've never understood the pursuit of the "holy" facsimiles to what the world celebrates. When wickedness, evil, witchcraft, and the elements of darkness are given free rein to entertain a party of demented ideas, I find it certifiably odd that the church desires to replicate its own version of the date. Amazing that the church believes it can sabotage the "holiday" with their own creation of non-creepy activities just to make sure the kids have "an alternative" to the evil festivities. Give them candy and games and cupcakes with black and orange frosting and prizes. Hide a Jesus tract or reference in there and call it "good". Entertain, entertain, entertain.

Because most of those little ones and bigger ones all the way up to the parents have no clue what spiritual warfare is and how necessary it is to the walk of a Christian. Half the battle on this earth consists of fighting and opposing those very things celebrated and acknowledged by the date going all the way back to the Druids. Jesus demonstrated the normality of deposing demons and their activities. The spiritual realm rages in unseen wars that we feel far more often than we're willing to admit. As genuine Christians, the enemy of our souls seeks to rob us, kill us, and destroy us, and sometimes we make it so accommodating to do so. Halloween endorses the common visions and practices of the evil one.

Veteran prayer warriors and people of faith realize the influences of darkness and their often heightened activities during this time of the year. It's not hocus pocus. It's spiritual warfare.

Must be the season of the witch . . . 

Father, we honor you. We come against the spiritual forces of evil in high places according to your word and your direction and by your power and authority. We recognize the liability of romancing with the enemy to the destruction of our souls. Help us to live within your fullness, to combat the enemy, to not stand still and idle while he rampages through our lives and the lives of those we love. Let us not ignore the power you've given us in the Spirit of Truth. May we act upon your instructions and fight the good fight in your Name. Thank you for equipping us and help us to use all the spiritual weapons against a cunning foe. And may we always remember: Apart from you, we can do nothing. In the Name of Jesus, Amen.