26 Seeds

This is an excerpt of a message shared by Ron Kangus, to the full time trainees at Living Stream Ministry in May of 2005. For more information, fellowship or referenced materials, please visit the LSM website at
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These seeds are sown into us, as investments into our spiritual future. That we could learn through the Body what other members learned through defeat, pain and humiliating failure. (Ron Kangus)

1) Spiritual warfare is based on the Victory of Christ.
(Song of Songs Chapter 4, Matthew 27:51-54 with footnotes RcV)

2) Spiritual warfare is a Body matter
( No individual can fight it. Live in the body in a more personal way, caring for our fellow soldiers. Phil. 2:25 and Philemon)

3) Spiritual warfare is about the Work of God
(Read the Glorious Church, to realize the price of doing the work of God. To cause Satan to suffer loss is extremely great. In preaching the gospel, edifying the saints, serving, you can spare yourself. But in dealing with the enemy you cannot spare yourself. I want to give myself with the exercise of a strong will to be one of those doing the work of God, to cause Satan to suffer loss. The Lord may let us fall, fail and sin to help us realize the ground the enemy has in us.)

4) Offer ourselves willingly to the Lord in the day of His warfare, in the splendor of consecration.
(Psalm 110:3)

5) We need the humanity of Jesus to live a normal, Jesusly human life. It is “Man” that defeats the enemy.
(we need to eat right, sleep, exercise, take care of our husband and children…)

6) Pray for our daily bread
(when you set your sights on the kingdom, the enemy attacks your provision)

7) Pray for the Lord to keep us from the evil one.
(we easily respond to temptation, when we are alone. We need to pray for the Lord to cover us and our whole house.)

8) We need a Strong Will.
(never let it become passive. We need a spirit of power related to the will. One of the enemies strategies is to paralyze our will. NEVER BE PASSIVE, pray, Lord, give me a proper will, to say Yes to God and No to Satan!)

9) Be empowered with the power that raised Christ and seated Him in the heavenlies.
(Tear down every confidence in yourself, never trust your feeling, Activate your spirit!)

10) Resist the wearing out tactics
(Daniel 7:27, Volume 38 of WNee Collected Works. Be angry at the enemy! Refuse to be worn out. Expose his tactics. The enemy will seek to wear out our strength, our love and our consecration.)

11) We should not be ignorant of Satan’s schemes
(the Body is full of awareness of his stratagems.)

12) Be watchful after glorious experiences
(Guard our inner being, close your spirit to negative things)

13) Satan will attack you at the point of your weakness
(we need to repent, ask the Lord to expose the ground satan has in us and ask Him to gain that ground back for Himself)

14) Experience the Word as a sword, dealing with our negative feelings.
( the enemy will intensify our wounds. We need to use the Word to lance the negative feeling, then the enemy has to retreat. The sword cuts two ways, the enemy and our selves)

15) The first among our enemies, is our flesh.

16) Don’t practice sin.
(we may sin in our behavior, we need to deal with it thoroughly, confess, repent, forsake and receive.)

17) Cover our mind with the helmet of the Hope of Salvation
(1st Thes. 5:8. After a humiliating failure, the enemy assaults our mind, even with thoughts of suicide. We need the God of Hope to cover our mind to say “No, Satan, I will not die or contribute to my death!”)

18) Pray, Lord cover us with the Corporate Christ
(typified by the porpoise skins covering the tabernacle)

19) Cover the sins and shortcomings of our fellow soldiers.
(with the love that covers all things. Whether you cover or expose, will be a test to you)

20) Maintain the one accord

21) We overcome the accuser by the blood of the Lamb

22) Don’t be silent. Declare Christ’s Victory
(the enemy will try to force you to be quiet)

23) Do not love our soul life, even unto death

24) Do not allow the warfare to distract you from the central vision.
(Gaze on the Lord, don’t pay attention to the devil)

25) Overcomers Sing to the Lord, Sing to Him!
(The overcomers on the sea of glass are singing the song of Moses and of the Lamb)

26) Praising the Lord, defeats the enemy!
Praise Him!