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Spiritual Manna for Spiritual Warfare Series Endtime Devotionals by Fritz Springmeier Spiritual Manna for Spiritual Warfare Series Endtime devotionals By Fritz Springmeier INDEX TO SPIRITUAL MANNA ARTICLES. (chronological) 1. SURVIVAL IN THE SPIRITUAL DESERT 2. LESSONS FROM CHRIST ABOUT BEING OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER 3. A SENSE OF IDENTITY 4. DO YOU FEEL HOPELESS? GOOD 5. ALLIANCES WITH PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL 6. APOSTASY 7. KNOWING THE FUTURE, MEMORIAL TO JOHN TODD 8. LOVING ONE'S COUNTRY & LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE 9. WHO ARE YOU? 10. WHAT HAVE YOU ACCOMPLISHED? SEEDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT 11. BREAKING THE SPELL OF SLAVERY 12. BREAKING THE SPELL OF THE LIES WE LIVE BY 13. DO UNTO TO OTHERS AS.USE COSTLY PLASTIC CARROTS. 14. GET ANGRY AS HEAVEN! 15. EXPLAINING THE MASTER MAGICIAN'S TRICKS, SHOW & FUTURE . 16. FROM---TO 17. DO YOU WANT YOUR LIFE TO COUNT? 18. NO PAIN, NO GAIN. LESSONS FROM VETS. 19. A CUP OF FRESH WATER 20. STREET SMARTS FOR 21ST CENTURY PILGRIMS 21. MY NEAR CHRIST EXPERIENCE 22. AMERICA, PREPARE TO MEET YOUR GOD 23. THE BIG SILENT UNASKED QUESTION 24. GOD BLESS AMERICA, YES HE WILL WITH JUDGMENT 25. COURAGE FOR A TIME OF WAR & A TIME OF PEACE 26. IF ONLY GOD WOULD. 27. THANKS DAD 28. VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH 29. TASTE THE LORD & KNOW THAT HE IS GOOD 30. THE REST OF THE STORY! 31. THE KINGDOM'S LOST TEACHING OF EMPOWERING GROUP LOVE 32. THE COSMIC CHESS GAME 33. WATCHING THE WHEAT & TARES 34. THE LOVE OF THE TRUTH VS. TRUTH 35. BEING MIGHTY IN SPIRIT & HOW TO DRINK GOD'S BITTER MEDICINE 36. ROCK-A MY SOUL IN THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM 37. DON'T FORGET THE 3 STORMS, THE 3 PERSONS, & THE 3 MEALS. 38. SHOOTING OUR OWN & KILLING OUR WOUNDED 39. YOU ARE FREE, THEY ARE THE SLAVES 40. CREDIBILITY 41. CHRIST, SWEETEST NAME I KNOW 42. JUDAS ISCARIOT: AMERICAN HERO 43. DEALING WITH DIFFERENCES 44. INDECISION 45. FOR EVERY ACTION THERE’S AN EQUAL BUT OPPOSITE REACTION 46. DO YOURSELF AND ME A FAVOR. WORK ON BEING MORE LOVEABLE 47. YHWH KNOWS YOUR IDENTITY, DO YOU? 48. IN THE ANIMAL FARM’S SACRED PIGS WE TRUST 49. TRUTH IS ALWAYS TRUTH 50. SERVING GOD WITH OUR HEARTS ONE DAY AT A TIME 51. THE DANGEROUS SIDE EFFECTS OF POWER 52. COURAGE & DISCERNMENT IN RISK TAKING 53. COMMITMENT TO LIVING 54. SACRED SPOTS 55. PROTECTION FROM PERSECUTION 56. SPIRITUAL TERRORISTS, SPIRITUAL HIJACKERS, & SPIRITUAL MURDERERS 57. TIL DEATH DO US PART: COVENANT MARRIAGES 58. GOALS & A PERSONAL HEAVENLY HOPE 59. YOUR HEALTH AS A FUNCTION OF THE HEART 60. DOING GOOD 61. REPAIRING THE BREACH IN THE VAIL WITH NON-TEARABLE FABRIC 62. OUR VICTORIES ARE NOT REPORTED 63. IN TUNE WITH LIFE 64. 'AMERICA STANDS FOR FREEDOM' 65. SILENCE 66. BRAVEHEART 67. ORDER OF PHINEAS 68. HEAVEN IS NICE, BUT WHAT ABOUT NOW? 69. MASTERY OF SELF OR SLAVERY 70. WHAT’S ON YOUR HEART? 71. HEALTHY SPIRITUALITY 72. PEDESTALS ARE MADE FOR STATUES NOT MEN 73. RESIST NOT EVIL 74. NOXIOUS KNOCKS AT THE DOOR 75. LEARNING FROM OUR GARDENS SPIRITUAL WARFARE IN A POST 9-11 SPIRITUAL DESERT Spiritual manna (#1) via Fritz Springmeier, May the good Lord bless you. Being stranded in the desert is no fun. The heat beats down, and the stomach tightens up, will I get out of this "death valley"? But a certain set of people come to love the desert. They discover its flowers, and its pink-gold-purple scarlet sunsets. Blowing dust and glaring suns try to blind the desert dweller. But some people make peace with the desert and learn to successfully live there. We are now in a spiritual desert, you can learn its lessons and come to see the beauty of these times or you can hate the spiritual desert. But whether you hate or love working in a spiritual desert, always have a healthy respect for its power to squeeze the life out of you. In the desert, you need the water of life. Take in spiritual nourishment and the living waters of life. You will have to plan ahead, because situations of life will have a way of overtaking you if you don't. Big events are now moving the world, and the individual looks out on the world's huge forces and he seems tiny compared to the vastness of it all. The desert makes one feel how vulnerable we are. The desert makes us feel small. But small is not bad. Many of the most successful desert critters are small. This is just one small example of how something that seems bad can be reframed to see its hidden advantages. The spiritual person has to get beyond images. Many of our images of the Moslem world are but mirages. They are myths created by the heat of passion. For instance, we have been led to believe that Jihad means a holy war. Jihad actually means "striving to make one's religion real in one's own life and society". There are Jihads of the heart, there are Jihads of the tongue, there are Jihads of the Hand, and finally the Jihad of the Sword, if their belief in Allah is attacked. Most of the time Jihad is simply the striving of the Moslem's soul for God to become real in their life. And I hope that the God in heaven who loves them will become real to them. It's always easier to see the fault in others, but what of our own faults. Have you noticed that some of our nation's spiritual weaknesses have also troubled our military in the past? For instance, America has a type of magical thinking, that allows Americans to identify with Hollywood movie scripts. We seem to think that if we magically think something could happen, and we write a script for it to happen, that it can. So we write the script and send in our Rambos with their sophisticated impressive toys. In Grenada, they dumped the Navy seals way out in the ocean and some of them drown. In Somalia, we barely extracted our force of hundreds of Rambos (Rangers, Deltas, Seals, etc.) before they got annihilated. In Vietnam, we gave them fancy M-16s that were like Matel toys that jammed, and then blamed the jams on the soldiers. "America doesn't make junk. We make the best." Again our self-image and our pride are everything. And it is a reflection of our spiritual problems in this nation. We think we are spiritually beautiful, and we are naked and disgusting. We have to get past the vain images and pride. Defense officials in the U.S. and U.K. are quietly admitting the first attack by U. S. Rangers on the Taliban fighters almost turned into a total disaster. America has the potential, but not if we play games with ourselves. America could have built tanks that could have gone head to head with Germany's W.W. II Panther and Tiger tanks. But we preferred to live in our own images of glory. Life is just a Hollywood movie. Just write the correct script. Our churches are the same way, a lot of hype and image, but little substance. Some of our churches are simply entertainment. Some of our military actions in Vietnam, such as our pretensions to really bomb North Vietnam were simply entertainment for the American public by our Air Force. Lots of show, and little substance. It's a spiritual problem in America. It might surprise people that our melting pot hasn't melted everyone. While in other countries that we despise, they often have long records of peaceful co-existence. Jews, Christians and Moslems have quietly co-existed throughout the nations of the Middle East for many centuries. (Not a bad idea."When a man's ways please the Lord, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him." PRV 16:7) Jews and Christians continue to live in nations such as Iraq. It might surprise some Americans to learn that 4 million Moslems live in Germany and France (what we thought were Western or Christian nations). It might also surprise some Americans to learn that 90 million Moslems live in China, and 60 million in Russia. Why has Islam been growing so fast? Why are many Americans discarding the American way of life to join Islam? Don't misunderstand me. I am not suggesting that Islam is the way. I am suggesting that Americans quit playing around with images and Hollywood fiction, and get their heads back to reality. Americans live in our patriotic myths, and if we chase mirages we are apt to die spiritually. We are immature spiritual brats, spoiled by our affluent lives, and needing a few spiritual spankings. Will we learn from our spiritual spanking or will we just scream? The night is coming to this spiritual desert. Christians who can read the weather know it is going to get chilly and dark. Persecution and tyranny are coming. Don't forget to eat spiritually. The Word of God says, "Why should I fear in the days of evil, When the iniquity at my heels surrounds me? (Ps. 49:5) The night has come before in the desert, and people survived. Yes, the same kind of World Order Satanists that plague us today were around thousands of years ago. If we keep reading in that 49th Psalm (verse 11) we read, "They call their lands after their own names." Boy, our leaders like to get immortality by naming forests, buildings, and streets after themselves.
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