Christian Spiritual Warfare By Minister Speed

This is a war. Sacrifice is what victory Is measured upon. The Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and violence take it by force. When are you going to pick up your weapon of warfare. What type of military strategy suggest waiting for the attack?

This is not a war for land as most wars go. This is not a battle for money. This war is for spiritual territories and for the souls of God’s most precious creation

Must we always be in a position of defeat before we are incensed enough to move forward in battle. We are in the last days and we must develop a more proactive stance. We have been given The Sword of the Spirit which is the very Word of God itself. We wear the very Armor whose design was made by the hand of God. Beside all this God Himself lives within us to ensure that His purpose, pattern, and plan are Supernaturally transmitted to us without the enemy's knowledge. We have been made Holy, Set Apart and a Distinct Entity with a Kingdom of our own.

That's not the end of it. We have a Leader that is both King of Kings and The great High Priest, Warrior and Peace Maker, Lamb an the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. 

He by Himself stood against the forces we battle against and defeated them all soundly, completely, and permanently. All we have to do is have Faith in Him our Commander In Chief and we are assured Salvation and then Victory against the wrath to come. If we strive to be obedient to his ways we can rest assure that the life we live on this plane will be to an advantage.

The Just shall live by faith, not logic, not reason, but faith. Get out of the problem and realize that our God is bigger than any problem. Stop looking at what you're going through and look at where you're going TO. Stop focusing on the Condition and move toward the Relation. This is abundant living. The Covenant is binding , legal, authoritative and PowerFill. There is more to Christ than you've been told.

 When are you going to pick up your weapon of warfare?

The Decline of Christianity In America. By Minister Speed

Are we witnessing the decline of Christianity in America? When you examine all of the most recent poll numbers, the answer is inescapable. Christian churches in America are losing members rapidly, and this trend is especially dramatic among young Americans. According to a stunning new survey by America's Research Group, 95 percent of 20 to 29 year old evangelicals attended church regularly during their elementary and middle school years. However, only 55 percent of them attended church regularly during high school, and only 11 percent of them were still regularly attending church when in college.


Those numbers have got to be incredibly sobering to the evangelical Christian leadership in the United States. The reality is that young Americans are deserting the Church in America in droves. The other day we came across an article in Advertising Age that blew us away.

The article was discussing marketing and religion, but what impacted us so profoundly were some figures from the American Religious Identification Survey by the Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society & Culture at Trinity College. According to that survey, 15% of Americans now say they have "no religion" which is up from 8% in 1990.

That would be bad enough news for evangelical Christianity. But there is some more news from that survey that is much worse. In that same survey, 46% of Americans between the ages of 18 to 34 indicated that they had no religion. Forty. Six. Percent.


It is important to realize that not all of those 46 percent are unbelievers. According to a survey by Bohan Advertising/Marketing, the Barna Group and the United Methodist Church, 62 percent of Americans in that age group consider themselves to be "spiritual" (see my note entitled "what is spirituality), and 43 percent of them have prayed to some higher power in the last 2 months. But what it does mean is that almost half of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 do not identify themselves with any particular religion.


Remember in my new book entitled "A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier" I wrote: "Many do not understand that millions under the age of thirty have no God consciousness. They have not accepted the tenants of Christianity and live a pagan lifestyle reflecting an if it feels good, then it must be good mindset. They are technologically advanced, politically astute, educationally empowered, but lack the necessary moral compass derived from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. 

In a way, they are a reflection of our brothers and sisters within the church who gives them credence to remain ignorant in God because they see no value or difference between Christianity and this world. To them the average Christian is hypocritical, ignorant, and a microorganism of the world itself".


When you look at more recent poll numbers for Christianity in particular, the numbers become even more staggering. Another new survey by the Barna group reveals that less than "1" percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 23 hold a Biblical worldview. This new poll data clearly demonstrates that the youngest adults in America are clearly rejecting traditional evangelical Christian teaching.


The Barna survey defined "a Biblical worldview" as holding all of the following six key beliefs: 1) Believing that absolute moral truth exists. 2) Believing that the Bible is completely accurate in all of the principles it teaches. 3) Believing that Satan is considered to be a real being or force, not merely symbolic. 4) Believing that a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by trying to be good or by doing good works. 5) Believing that Jesus Christ lived a sinless life on earth. 6) Believing that God is the all-knowing, all-powerful creator of the world who still rules the universe today.


So what do all of these poll numbers mean? They mean that evangelical Christianity has totally lost almost an entire generation of American young people. Meanwhile, the Christian Science Monitor recently published an article about the "coming evangelical collapse" that they believe is coming. They openly predict that "within two generations, evangelicalism will be a house deserted of half its occupants." Ouch!

The reality is that nearly all Christian denominations are rapidly losing members at this point. The most recent American Religious Identification Survey demonstrates this fact very clearly. According to that survey, the percentage of Americans who call themselves Christians has dropped more than 11% since 1990.

The survey also reports that Catholics, Baptists and other mainline Protestant churches have seen very large drops in numbers. However, Islam, Wicca and eastern religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism showed large gains in the survey. The long-term trends look even more frightening for the churches in America. According to LifeWay Research, membership in Southern Baptist churches will fall nearly 50 percent to around 8.7 million Americans by the year 2050 if current trends continue.

But even more bad news for evangelical Christianity in America is that those who still call themselves Christians do not necessarily hold to traditional Christian beliefs any longer. Two other recent surveys reveal that the majority of American Christians believe that accepting Jesus Christ as savior is NOT the only way to eternal life. USAToday recently reported on an almost unbelievable new survey that found that 52 percent of American Christians believe that eternal life is not exclusively for those who accept Jesus Christ as their savior.


A different survey that was taken last year by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life found that 57 percent of evangelical Christians in America believe that "many religions can lead to eternal life". That shocking study revealed what many evangelical leaders have known for a long time - large number of "Christians" in the United States are throwing traditional Christian doctrines into the dumpster. Evangelical Christians have traditionally been those who follow the teachings of the Bible most literally.

But these new surveys indicate that even a majority of them do not believe in the most fundamental precepts of the Christians faith any longer. For example, in John 14:6 Jesus says the following: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." If there was another way for our sins to be forgiven, then why did Jesus need to die on the cross? If there were other ways to salvation, then Jesus could have come down to earth, pointed out a bunch of other ways to get to heaven, and then could have gone back up to heaven without having to deal with the cross.

But the reality is that there was no other way for our sins to be paid for. And yet these new surveys reveal that a majority of American Christians now believe that there are plenty of other ways to get to heaven.


The Pew survey referenced above also revealed that 45% of Americans say that they seldom or never read their religion's holy books. Perhaps if more American Christians were actually reading the Bible they would know what is truth and what is error. Instead, American Christians have surrounded themselves with preachers and self-help coaches and "feel-good" ministers who tell them what they want to hear, who always make them feel comfortable and who never, ever tell them about sin, holiness or the judgment of God.

The current situation in the churches of America reminds us of 2 Timothy 4:3..... For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.


The reality is that past generations of America faithfully filled up churches across the nation that were preaching the Word of God, but today the vast majority of Americans stay home from church each week, and many of the churches that are still drawing crowds are watering down their messages as much as they can in a desperate attempt to hold on to the people who are still there. Dave Olson, the director of church planting for the Evangelical Covenant Church, has done some really interesting research into the church attendance patterns of Americans.

Olson's research found that the percentage of Americans that regularly attend church is only 18.7%. In addition, his research shows that if current trends continue, the percentage of the U.S. population that attends church each week in 2050 will be about half of what it is today. All of these polls and surveys tell us the same thing: Christianity in America is in a serious state of decline - especially among young people.


Many Christian leaders who read this article will try to deny it or will try to make excuses. But all of these polls are not lying. The truth is that we need to examine ourselves. Is God moving where you worship? Do our churches look like the authentic Christian movement that we read about in the book of Acts? Are our lives significantly different from what we see in the world? Are our services lifeless, joyless exercises in futility? Do we truly have great love for one another and a passion to reach people with the gospel of Jesus Christ? 

If we want any chance to win back the next generation, then we are going to have to get back to the real thing. If you do not have "the real thing" in your church, then it is time to start asking yourself some really hard questions.

A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier, By Minister Speed

The book A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier is intended to be the first in a series of three books which speaks candidly and unapologetically of the satanic deceptions and failures within what the Minister calls the false and apostate church which parallels the Church of Jesus Christ today.  

A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier is a wake up call.   It is a call of obedience to the word and will of God.  It is a call to lay aside traditional lip service and pick up the banner of Jesus Christ.  This book is a declaration for sobriety from the intoxication of worldly ideologies which run rampant in the Church of God where Jesus Christ is LORD. 

  This new book, the first in this series by Minister Speed has invaded an area of great conflict, “The Spiritual Warfare Within,” and addresses issues of great concern including the failure of Church leadership, and the lack of Power so evident and present in the church today.

He also offers a critical look at the passive, placating, and politically correct spirit which runs rampant throughout the church today. 

Minister Speed is an innovator in his word method delivery, and his compassion for the lost is only matched by his desire to see others come to know God through Jesus Christ as he has and have their lives restored.  

This book, while controversial is a rich and rare blend of personal intensity, scriptural integrity. and practical insight.  If you want to reach for the higher calling of God, to truly develop and condition your spirit man, then I highly recommend A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier.  

This book will revolutionize the way in which you perceive God, yourself, and the world around you.

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Spiritual Soldier's Prayer of Faith By Minister Speed

Father I know that you are real and that you are God. I know that your Son is my Savior and He came to destroy the works of the devil. I know by faith the Holy Spirit of God lives within me and that I can do all things through Christ which strengthens and operates through me. 

Father by faith and without doubt I come against anything that is not of you and that's which produces evil against my brothers and sisters. Father God I call on your word as witness that no weapon formed against me shall prosper and every tongue that rises against me The Holy Spirit shall send judgement.

I come against and therfore speak against every spirit which would work in dis - obedience aganist the Spirit of the Living God. Not by my might, nor by my power, but by your Spirit, I Am. Through your Annointing I can do all things and I can claim those things that be not as though they already exist. 

Father I thank you that you have heard me, and I am grateful that you saw fit to redeem me and give my life favor. I yield my body, spirit, and soul as a living channel, an instrument to do your will.

Use me as one would use a servant that your will and purpose might be made manifested in, through, and upon my life and I will give you all the glory because you are worthy of all the praise.

On your name and through the nature of Yeshua the Messiah I pray. 

Selah!!!

The Spiritual Soldier

A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier

Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Isaiah 58:1 KJV

The Spiritual Soldier

The entire world is engaged in the terrible Spiritual battle between good and evil. With Satan’s rebellion overthrown and his from exile heaven, He seized authority from Adam through deception and continues his rebellion here in the earthly realm.

This rebellion has infiltrated its way into the very world wherein the saints of God live. Satan has transformed himself into an agent of God and created an organize religion which desires to imitate the hierarchy of God based upon falsehood. His strategy is to destroy the divine and legitimate government of God by counteracting the truth with lies. 

Thus, a counterfeit Christ exists, counterfeit Christianity is manifested, and the truth mingled in error and ignorant prevails. The Bible has been bombarded by opinions, traditions, and false doctrines which have created a people who sleep and slumber.  Therefore;

● The church has never been weaker, more powerless and fragmented as it is now.  

● Church leadership has come under active spiritual contention and has failed.  

● Many churches are failing to teach from the Bible. They have resorted to marketing strategies, psycho analysis, and a political correctness that includes religious inclusivism.  

● There has been a cataclysmic decline in church membership in the past two decades.

If you want to reach for the higher calling of God, to truly develop and condition your spirit man, then I highly recommend A Declaration to the Spiritual Soldier.  This book will revolutionize the way in which you perceive God, yourself, and the world around you. 

Minister Speed is an innovator in his word method delivery, and his words are piercing and as fundamentally sound as I’ve ever read.  Minister Jimmie Speed is a passionate and fiery orator of God’s truth. He is founder of The Christian Restoration Ministry and the Spiritual Soldiers Publishing Co. His heart’s desire is to see God’s people use biblical Christianity to renew their mind and take Jesus to an unbelieving world.   God Bless and Selah!!!