Spiritual Warfare Is God Ringing Your Line

Oct 16

5 min read

Divine Ones, let me tell you the truth most people do not want to hear about spiritual warfare.

Everybody is quick to say somebody is doing something to them. Somebody is jealous, somebody is working against them, somebody put something on them. And listen, I am not saying opposition is not real. I am saying that is not always what is happening.

Sometimes the warfare is not an attack from outside. Sometimes it is God ringing your line, and you keep sending Him to voicemail.

What spiritual warfare really is

Spiritual warfare, the way I have lived it and the way I teach it, is that tug you feel when your life is trying to stay small and your calling is trying to pull you forward.

It is God, it is the universe, it is heaven itself trying to get your attention. Ring, ring, ring. And you already know it is Him calling, because the call does not stop. It shows up in your quiet moments. It shows up when you are trying to sleep. It shows up every time you try to settle for a life you know, deep down, you have outgrown.

Going against that call is what wears you out. Not a stranger. Not a hater. You, fighting the very thing you were made to do.

Yeah, God put something on your life. He put purpose on it. And purpose gets heavy when you refuse to carry it in the direction it wants to go.

The signs you are not cursed, you are called

Let me talk plain so you can check yourself honest.

You keep walking through the same doors, over and over. Same kind of relationship, same kind of job, same kind of disappointment, different faces, same ending. That loop is a sign. When a lesson keeps circling back, it is not always an enemy. Sometimes it is a call you have not answered yet.

You feel a weight that rest does not fix. You sleep, and you still wake up tired in your spirit. That is what unanswered purpose feels like in the body. You were not made to ignore yourself forever without feeling it.

You cannot get comfortable where you used to fit. Places that once felt fine now feel tight. Conversations that once fed you now drain you. That discomfort is information, Divine Ones. Growth will make your old life feel too small before your new life is fully built.

And here is the one that stings a little. You already know what He told you to do. You do not need another sign, another confirmation, another person to co-sign it. You need to answer.

Why we would rather blame somebody else

Real talk, blaming somebody else is easier than answering God.

If it is a hex, you can buy a candle and wait. If it is a jealous person, you can cut them off and keep your same habits. But if the warfare is your calling, then the change starts with you. Your yes. Your obedience. Your willingness to stop going against the grain of your own life.

That is a harder pill, and it is also the one that sets you free. Because a call you answer stops feeling like warfare and starts feeling like direction.

I know this because my own purpose did not arrive when I was young and ready and convenient. It arrived in my 40s, after a whole lot of life, after seasons I did not understand at the time. I had free will the whole way. We all do. God will ring the line, but He will not force you to pick up. The crossroads is real, and the choice stays yours.

The crossroads moment

Everybody in this walk hits a crossroads. One road is familiar. It is the life you know how to survive, even if it costs you your peace. The other road is the call. It asks more of you. It will stretch you, correct you, and change who you have to be to walk it.

Free will means you get to choose. Free will also means you live with what your choice keeps producing.

So ask yourself the question I ask my own self, honest, no performing. Can you truly say you are the happiest you have ever been? Not the busiest. Not the most needed by everybody else. The happiest, the clearest, the most at peace in your own skin.

If the answer is no, do not rush to blame the nearest person. Sit with God first. The warfare you feel might be the distance between where you are standing and where He called you to stand.

What to do when you realize it is Him calling

Start by telling the truth, out loud, in prayer. Tell God you hear Him. Tell Him you have been avoiding the call because you were scared, or tired, or unsure how it would all work. He already knows. Saying it out loud is for you. It ends the pretending.

Then tell Him you are ready, and this time you will answer. Not when everything is perfect. Not when everybody claps for it. Ready right here, in the middle of the mess, with what you have.

That is the WHAT and the WHY, and I give that to you free because somebody reading this at 2 or 3 in the morning needs to stop misnaming their warfare tonight.

The full HOW is deeper work. In the Academy, that is where we walk through discernment step by step, how to tell a true call from fear, from ego, from outside attack, and how to build a protection practice while you answer. If you are ready for those deeper rooms, you can step in here: https://www.divinecandi.com/challenge-page/69f405a5-af75-480d-ae49-41073445e8a1

No pressure, and no rushing your process. But do not keep calling it an attack if heaven is trying to promote you.

A short prayer for the one at the crossroads

Lord, I hear You ringing my line.

Forgive me for every time I knew it was You and I let it go to voicemail. I am not running from my calling anymore. Show me the next step, just the next one, and give me the courage and the clarity to take it.

If I cannot say I am the happiest and the most at peace I have ever been, then I am telling You now, I am ready for Your call, and this time I will answer.

Order my steps. Settle my spirit. Let my life line up with what You put on it.

In Jesus name, amen.

Divine Ones, I am better than I have ever been, not because life got easy, but because I finally stopped fighting my own call. That same peace is available to you, on the other side of your yes.