There is something holy that rests upon the quiet days before Christmas. The world grows louder with pressure and expectation, yet heaven grows quieter. More tender. More intentional. And within that stillness, a truth begins to surface again. A truth older than time. A truth the heart often forgets. The story of Christmas is a story of warfare. But not the kind we ever imagined. The Light of the world entered through the smallest doorway. The Warrior of heaven arrived as an

There is a way of seeing intercession that brings the heart into rest rather than strain. A way that begins not with effort, but with Jesus. Scripture tells us that He lives to intercede for us. He is already before the Father. He is already speaking. Intercession does not begin with our words. It begins with His presence. When we intercede, we are not starting something. We are joining Someone. Intercession is joining with Jesus. It is letting our heart come close. It is all

As we continue our December focus on spiritual warfare, this post builds directly on what we explored in Warfare From Rest. If you have not yet read the first post in the series, I encourage you to return to it before you continue here, because the foundations we laid there shape everything we are about to step into. Today we begin looking at how prayer matures into intercession and why this shift is essential for learning to wage warfare from rest. Before we can explore the

Before we step further into this series, I want to encourage you to revisit the earlier post where we talked about Ephesians 6. The Surprising Truth About Spiritual Warfare lays the foundation for how we approach this topic. Today we are taking the next step, moving deeper into what spiritual warfare truly looks like and how we begin to live from a place of rest rather than reaction. What follows is not a shift into new information, but an unfolding of what the Spirit has al

For years, I read Ephesians 6 as a call to arms as a checklist of weapons to grab before stepping into a spiritual fight. The belt, the breastplate, the shield, the sword… I pictured myself strapping on gear to face down an enemy who was still coming for me. I thought that was how to be ready for battle. But the more I have sat with Jesus, the more I have realised that is not what Paul was saying at all. The armour of God is not battle gear to help you win  a war. It is a pic