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The Amish Voice 6
Mighty Warrior Princess
—Norma Miller
Good morning from gorgeous Kentucky!
I have some things on my heart that I am
excited to share with you! That being
said, let's just dive right in.
I have a lot of friends in a lot of different
places, and I have listened to quite a few
women. As you know, many of us
women face similar issues. Many of us
feel trapped in various circumstances
beyond our control. The enemy loves to
make women feel trapped and unfulfilled.
Nothing makes a woman more anxious,
angry, frustrated, and overwhelmed than
when she feels trapped and unfulfilled,
especially if she does not see the light at
the end of the tunnel. When this is the
case, you begin to feel hopeless, and
you
respond
from
that
hopelessness and the fear, anger,
and frustration that go along with
it. This spills over to our husbands,
children, families, and friends,
creating something like a principality. I
am not judging you for where you are. I
am only now seeing some of this as the
attack it is—upon women and their
families. I am currently in the process of
facing it head on and tearing down this
stronghold or principality, so I just want
to write about this now.
God revealed an area in my life recently
in which I was bound by fear. I felt
trapped and hopeless by the things others
were doing that affected me and I saw no
way through it or around it, and nothing I
was doing seemed to be working. I was
afraid I would never make progress in my
life and never achieve my dreams. When
He revealed this fear and removed it from
me, I saw the truth that by using the right
keys, I can tear down principalities that
are over me. It was like a whole world
opened to me. You see, what had bound
me to fear was the belief that others could
control my success in life! I knew that we
don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but
against spirits. I knew that I could wage
warfare and tear down strongholds in my
life, but I didn't realize that by using the
correct keys, I could also tear down the
strongholds that bind others around me
and influence me!
For example, let’s say there is someone
in your life, perhaps your husband or a
son, who struggles with anger, and can
fly into a rage at the drop of a hat. If you
believe you have no power or authority
over this, you will feel like a victim; you
will feel trapped! When we feel trapped,
we will do one of several things. 1. We
will fight back, creating more anger and
abuse. 2. We will run, which gives that
anger more control. 3. We will react in
some other way that isn't healthy. Any of
these ways will result in giving the anger
more room to grow and becoming more
serious and abusive.
HOWEVER!! Listen to this: If you
realize you are not fighting flesh and
blood—in other words, you are not
fighting a person, but a spirit of anger—
you can remain in love to the person you
love, while you attack the spirit of anger
by disarming it.
Disarm
means to remove
the power from something. So, if you
know the way you usually respond is to
run in fear, you need to stand up to it, but
in love. If your reaction is normally to
respond back in anger, you need to
respond calmly, with respect, and appeal
to the person's emotions without
anger or fear lacing your words.
We need to listen to God–-He
will give us wisdom; but the
important thing is to disarm it
by not responding in a way that
gives it power.
This is only one way we tear
down principalities. Another major
way is that when we realize we are
fighting a spirit, we can pray against that
spirit by asking God's Spirit to come and
bring light to the situation. We have so
much power when we realize we are not
fighting people!
When we are no longer living out of a
victim mentality, but realize our power,
we are allowing Jesus to fight our battles!
We can save our breath and energy for
important things, and let go and let God
fight our battles for us. What freedom! I
hope this empowers you as much as it did
me. You are not a victim! Go forward in
who you are today, Mighty Warrior
Princess! —Norma Miller
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