Spiritual Warfare Testimony

If you have a personal savior, Jesus Christ, you also have a personal enemy, Satan. If your path is salvation, you are automatically engaged in spiritual warfare. It is spiritual warfare, but it is packaged in “natural”, everyday form. If you are lost eternally, then warfare with the enemy, Satan, is not an issue.

Just because we do not see the enemy or may be totally unaware of him does not mean he does not exist. The Apostle Paul’s own testimony and his writings confirm this.

“We do indeed live in the body, but we do not wage war with human resources. The weapons of our warfare are not merely human. They possess God’s power for the destruction of strongholds”. (2 Cor. 10:3-4 NAB)

“Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. Our battle is not against human forces but against the principalities and powers, the rulers of this world of darkness, the evil spirits in regions above.

You must put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. Our battle is not against human forces but against the principalities and powers, the rulers of this world of darkness, the evil spirits in regions above.

You must put on the armor of God if you are to resist on the evil day; do all that your duty requires, and hold your ground. Stand fast, with the truth as the belt around your waist, justice as your breastplate, and zeal to propagate the gospel of peace as your foot gear. In all circumstances hold faith up before you as your shield: it will help you extinguish the fiery darts of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, the word of God”. (Eph. 6:10-17 NAB)

The following is personal testimony of author Dr. Denis Van Loan

Spiritual Warfare Caused By
“The Essence & Dynamics of Man” Book

I am sure that any Holy Spirit inspired writing will encounter substantial resistance from the powers of darkness. It would seem that if Satan is threatened, or his territory is threatened, he would fight viciously to protect it. If spiritual warfare is any measure of the enemy’s hatred and opposition for a literary work, then THE ESSENCE AND DYNAMICS OF MAN must surely be intensely threatening and provoking of hatred by Satan. Satan cannot thwart the operation of the Holy Spirit. Until I garnered a lot of prayer support for this book, here is some of the spiritual warfare that I encountered.

In A Period of 6 Months:

• Lightning destroyed my VCR and damaged the TV
• In mild weather a healthy tree fell on neighbor’s car…over $1,000. damage
• Dental office went thru 3 computer systems
• One factory new computer “froze” after printing 666…an erroneous Ins. #
• Virus called “Empire” shut down my new computer
• Two home bathrooms were destroyed by water leaks…over $3,000 repairs
• IRS hassled me on a bogus claim for unpaid taxes
• Cash flow problems due to computer breakdowns
• One car engine required replacement
• A second car had to be replaced due to excessive repair expenses
• Personal computer that the book was written on crashed the hard drive (providentially author Anne S. White offered to edit entire manuscript before crash)
• Mysterious numbness in fingers and one arm occurred after staffing at a Prayer Ministry School. (Extensive prayer and Sacramental anointing with oil stopped what doctors could not cure)
• Fraudulent marketing company siphoned over $1300 from my office account
• Attorneys charged $6,400 to “protect” my loss of $1300
• Wife fell, injured back, broke eyeglasses, partially disabled for 6 weeks
• Son, studying abroad, was assigned a homosexual roommate
• Without warning I passed out, fell face down…black eye, bruised lip
• Next day I passed out and fell backward…no damage this time
• Prayer, & further tests ($13,000) avoided laser heart surgery (10 years later no recurrence of heart problems)
• After completion of this report on spiritual warfare…a new (6 week old printer) stopped two thirds of the way thru the printing process…printer had to be replaced
• A gusting rain storm blew out only one building window…in one of my operatories…causing hundreds and hundreds of dollars damage
• Wife, Sandy had to have colon surgery for a recurring polyp
• Sandy was involved in a car accident that was not her fault (fortunately spared of serious injury)
• My home telephone went dead due to a telephone company problem
• My hot water heater kept shutting off…
just when a hot shower was needed (thermostat/breaker was replaced twice)
• One of my gas furnaces quit and was found to be leaking carbon monoxide gas
• Costly roof repairs were needed on my modern triplex rental…over $1200
• Major damages by 2 tenants required their eviction and cost thousands of dollars

Fast Forward to Present Time when I Was Converting Published Book into Digital Format:

• Son, Mark nearly killed in a viscous October snowstorm in Marble Mountains.
• I was “supernaturally” spared serious injury after falling 5 or 6 times in the snow of the same Mountains.
• Two days after backpack trip… Mark’s car was stolen from the Church parking lot.
• Three days later my car was broken into and a Gortex type jacket was stolen (in another Church parking lot).
• Two weeks prior… daughter, Julie was “rear-ended” by a drunk… it totally destroyed her car (Amazingly she was not seriously injured).

I could go on, but I am sure you get the picture. It is just too much to be coincidence; I am fully persuaded that it is spiritual warfare orchestrated by our personal enemy, Satan. It makes me realizes that he does not want this book disseminated, so I am doing the opposite. I decided to forget about selling the book; I am going to give it away.

As Anne White, my book editor, says: “It is a compliment when you get so much spiritual warfare”. She should know, after authoring 9 different books and also establishing the VMTC Prayer Ministry in 9 countries. It is an International, Inter-denominational, healing of the whole person ministry.

It makes me realize that the book “THE ESSENCE & DYNAMICS OF MAN is something my adversary does not want disseminated. The spiritual warfare I’ve encountered, does not discourage, but rather encourages me and motivates me all the more to complete the work. I do appreciate the prayer covering I get, because it does thwart the enemy’s actions against me. Denis Van Loan DDS.

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