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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:
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Lightning destroyed my VCR and damaged the TV
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In mild weather a healthy tree fell on neighbor’s car…over $1,000.
damage
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Dental office went thru 3 computer systems
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One factory new computer “froze” after printing 666…an erroneous Ins. #
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Virus called “Empire” shut down my new computer
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Two home bathrooms were destroyed by water leaks…over $3,000 repairs
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IRS hassled me on a bogus claim for unpaid taxes
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Cash flow problems due to computer breakdowns
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One car engine required replacement
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A second car had to be replaced due to excessive repair expenses
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Personal computer that the book was written on crashed the hard drive
(providentially author Anne S. White offered to edit entire manuscript
before crash)
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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)
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Fraudulent marketing company siphoned over $1300 from my office account
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Attorneys charged $6,400 to “protect” my loss of $1300
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Wife fell, injured back, broke eyeglasses, partially disabled for 6
weeks
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Son, studying abroad, was assigned a homosexual roommate
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Without warning I passed out, fell face down…black eye, bruised lip
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Next day I passed out and fell backward…no damage this time
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Prayer, & further tests ($13,000) avoided laser heart surgery
(10 years later no recurrence of heart problems)
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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
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Wife, Sandy had to have colon surgery for a recurring polyp
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Sandy was involved in a car accident that was not her fault
(fortunately spared of serious injury)
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My home telephone went dead due to a telephone company problem
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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
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Costly roof repairs were needed on my modern triplex rental…over $1200
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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:
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Son, Mark nearly killed in a viscous October snowstorm in Marble
Mountains.
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I was “supernaturally” spared serious injury after falling 5 or 6 times
in the snow of the same Mountains.
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Two days after backpack trip… Mark’s car was stolen from the Church
parking lot.
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Three days later my car was broken into and a Gortex type jacket was
stolen (in another Church parking lot).
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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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