The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the
contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 2 Corinthians 10:4
Helen Berhane was imprisoned for almost three years in the shipping container
prisons in Eritrea. She shares how a Muslim man with epilepsy was also
imprisoned. She says in her testimonial book titled Song of the
Nightingale:
I noticed that he wore two charms on his belt. I pointed at them, “Where did
you get those charms from?” “I saw a witch doctor, before I was arrested, about
my fits. He said that they would make me better, but I should never take them
off.” “Jemal,” I said, ‘those charms cannot heal you. Only prayer to God can do
that.”
As I spoke he began to have a fit, and so I prayed for him. I did this often
until, miraculously, he agreed to take the charms off. I took them away and
burnt them, but whatever was in them smelled awful, and the guards demanded to
know what I had been doing, which gave me the opportunity to explain to them
that only prayer can heal a person, not charms from a witch doctor.
Jemal’s health improved and his fits became less frequent. I was delighted
but he was worried.
“Helen, if they know that I am feeling better they will keep me here, and I
want to be released.”
“If you continue to trust in God, no one can keep you from going home, not if
God wills that you should be released.” I was very pleased when he was released
shortly afterwards.[1]
RESPONSE: Today I will live in the awareness that the spiritual battle
rages all around me and I can be used to counter Satan’s bondage over
people.
PRAYER: Lord, you have given me the spiritual weapons with which to
demolish the strongholds of the spiritual battle that I find myself against
today. Help me not to depend on the weapons of the world.
1. Berhane, p. 31.
