Several years ago everything in my life came apart at the seams. Our finances shriveled up; our rental house was flooded with sewage; my new responsibilities at work produced very high stress; the pastor of the church we loved abruptly quit; the engine went out on our recently purchased car and our marriage was brutalized by all the terrible turmoil our little family was forced to endure.
These and several other terrible events caused me to crash into a deep, dark pit of near-suicidal depression that lasted for over three full years. Every month there was a new crisis, and the resources we needed were simply not available to solve our constant troubles.
Worn out, beaten up and totally exhausted, it became painfully obvious to both my wife and I that Satan had declared war against us, and in the midst of this horrific battle, we found to our great dismay that we had no weapons with which to fight back. Our Rescuer God was silent and far away, so all we could do was hug the dirt of our foxhole while the devil's artillery shells of destruction continued a earthshaking barrage of explosions all around us and over us.
During those three long, dark years, I hated every day of my life. Every week brought a new trouble, a new problem, a new sorrow, and I was totally helpless to stop or block or fix any of it. My family and I were on a roller coaster ride from hell, and all we could do was stay strapped in our seats, pray, and hold on for dear life.
Fortunately we all survived. My wife got a better job; we all found a healing and loving church to attend; someone else cleaned up the sewage; I got raises and praises at work; the depression partially lifted; and my marriage was healed. The biggest thing that caused these changes is I finally became so furious at satan for all the harm that he was unleashing against me, that I decided to fight back.
If the devil was going to kill and destroy me, then at least I would go down fighting. And so it was that I embarked on an intense study of how I could hurt satan, and to my good news, because I am a child of God and the son of Christ, the Warrior King, I DON'T HAVE TO BE A VICTIM! There are things I can do to hurt satan back! And so let me also encourage you that if suffering appears to be non-stop in your life, then it is time to fight back. The pages that follow are some lessons I have learned about hurting satan.
