ARMED AND STRONG IN THE LORD
February 2022--(Armed to do what? We use the weapons of the Spirit to fight what war? What is the goal? 
–To turn people to Jesus, and keep ourselves close to Him so we can keep going and aren’t a casualty or put out of service. He arms us and tells us how to fight, so we can be winners; overcomers; destroy and defeat the deceptive, deadly, destructive works of the devil; and complete our part of the mission for establishing His Kingdom on Earth.)
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(Jesus speaking: ) You need to actively train in the use of the new weapons I've given you. To actively train doesn't mean to only use them when you are in a bind, or when you get around to them, or to use a few of them, or to only use the ones you like best. It means that you take a good, hard look at each weapon, one by one, and determine whether or not you truly know how to use it and are well practiced in using it. If you're not, then you've got to work‚ train, and practice, until you can say that, yes, you know this weapon and you can use it the way it was meant to be used.

These weapons are spiritual and not fleshly‚ but to effectively use them, your flesh has to get very involved! You have to take positive physical action. 

Granted, you may not discover the "full use" of these new weapons for some time to come, because it takes time, training‚ and strengthening your faith. And even if you're doing all the right things and aren't being negligent, learning about the new weapons is a step-by-step process, and as you go along, I will always be showing you new things, giving you new tips and tricks, etc. But if you aren't at least trying and fighting to discover the potential of the weapon, if you're content to just use one or two of its features, you're not going to get very far. 

Don't wait for the Enemy to attack you--attack him! This means different things for different people in different situations, but it's an overall change of mindset and approach that many of you need to have. Sometimes you can see a battle "looming" in the distance or sense it's coming; it could be anything from a battle in the form of persecution to a battle in the form of jealousy. 

You've been in the fighting business a long time, and many of you are attuned enough to sense when a battle is coming before it actually hits. When you get that feeling, what do you do about it? Unfortunately, many of you wait until it hits full force, until the Enemy is right there in your face whapping and walloping you, and then you fight back. Well‚ stop fighting back and fight first! Be the one to deliver the initial blows! Get on top of your battle from the start.  (ML3532)

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(Dad speaking: ) You've been chosen to be trained in the high order of the warriors of the Lord's spirit realm.
Along with the Lord's other brides who've chosen to go on the attack and to fully don the complete use of the new weapons, you will help to defeat the Enemy! Your destiny is to use the new weapons and the keys like no others before you. That is the Lord's gift to you and to all His brides who take up this challenge. It's not reserved for you alone, but for all who will take up this challenge. All will not take up this challenge, but those who do will find it ultimately rewarding, extremely challenging, and incredibly fruitful and vital in the days to come.
You're now entering warrior school. Get set up with your warrior schedule, your memory times, your Word times, your times in quiet meditation and reflection, your times in learning the art of prayer. 
You've got to really fight! You've got to be a warrior! A warrior doesn't come in and haphazardly start fighting. A warrior is focused and determined to win the victory, to slay the enemy, and to not stop until he stands victorious over his foe, with sword in hand and victory under foot. So get up and fight, soldier! Take up that sword and get to training hard. Don't stop! Train hard, Son! Train hard, for the Endtime will soon come. Keep going, keep fighting, keep training, in the Name of Jesus! I love you! (End of message from Dad.)  (ML3433)

*[Note: ] When fight in the spirit—Jesus takes action in real ways to defeat the serpent and save us time and again, so we can be fit to accomplish His will while we are in this realm.

(A true story: ) A thrilling incident happened in a little hut in Africa. A missionary awoke suddenly. She had a feeling of imminent danger. Fear held her in a vice-like grip. The moon's rays shone through the window, but she could see nothing wrong. She continued to have a feeling of great danger so she awoke her husband. They talked in a whisper. 
Looking beside the bed, they saw a fearsome creature--a giant cobra whose head was raised, ready to strike & inject venom into the flesh of the missionaries. Quickly the husband reached for his rifle & shot the cobra through its head.

Our story is not complete. One day while a friend of the missionaries was sweeping the floor in her Canadian town, she had an irresistible urge to pray for these missionaries. "They are right now in great danger," she said to herself. So she began to pray. Presently God's peace came into her heart. She knew that God had worked on behalf of her faraway friends. Later, when the missionaries told her of their frightful experience, she compared the date & time of the two experiences. The peril of the missionaries & the burden to pray for them corresponded to the minute!
	"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of!"
(GT1)
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That true story shows how using some of the weapons of the Spirit (listening to the Lord and fervent prayer) stopped a literal serpent from harming God’s children, using a literal weapon.--Just like our spiritual enemy, the serpent Satan, will be defeated while we fight along side the forces of Heaven, using God’s power in God’s way.

Here are some of the Spiritual weapons He’s revealed to us:
1.	The Word of God
2.	The Love of Jesus
3.	The Keys of the Kingdom
4.	Holy Spirit 
5.	Angelic help 
6.	Brotherly love and humility
7.	Praise
8.	Prayer
9.	Hearing from Jesus
10.	Full possession by Jesus—and Heavenly thought power
11.	Faith, rising above, and focusing on the light: God’s Power
12.	Healing and soul restoring
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A Testimonial to using the Spiritual weapons, from a young man:

“Thankfully, since receiving these prophecies, since having prayer against Apotheon, I've been able to get up early regularly and have had much more of a spring in my step. I've been really fighting to get that time with the Lord, and I have felt a huge difference. In fact, the Lord has made the benefits and the direct physical tangible results of taking that time with Him so obvious to me in recent weeks. The days that I was faithful to get up early, read the Word, hear from the Lord for the day, and have prayer vigil, I got so much more done; the day was filled with accomplishments. The days that I didn't get as much quality time with the Lord, didn't get in that prayer vigil first, I found that the day just didn't flow as smoothly.
I know this is the most obvious lesson in the book, but the Lord had to again make it very clear to me these past couple of weeks. When there's so much to do, I'm tempted to yield to my carnal mind and think I should spend less time with the Lord. But if I don't do that, but instead obey what the Lord has always taught us, which is to make sure I spend that time with the Lord even when I'm really busy, then the day flows so much smoother.” (ML 3433)

[Note: Here are the messages from Jesus and those He sent to speak to this man in prophecy.]

(Dad speaking: ) The days are getting darker, so you have to fight harder. Just because you don't see the battle doesn't mean it's not out there. Just because you can't see the Enemy and see the demons face to face doesn't mean they're not right there, ready and waiting to attack and sink their fangs into you and poison you with their lethargy and sleepiness.
You've been plagued by and attacked by Apotheon these past couple of weeks. You wonder why you feel so drained, why every time you get up early to read you just can't do it, or every time you try to read at night you fall asleep? It's Apotheon! He's trying to drain you of your lifeblood--the Word.
Rebuke him by name! Call on the power of the keys to rebuke and bind Apotheon's power, and you'll feel a marked difference. Win this battle in the spirit and you will feel lighter, you will feel better, you will feel an immediate change come over you. The Lord has promised it, so claim His promises that can never fail, and get on that old boy Apotheon and kick him out of here! He's nothing before the power of the keys; so don't stand for it.

 (Angel speaking:) My name is Arcothon. I have come to see you through this Time of the End and to teach you the art of warfare. You wonder why my name sounds so familiar to Apotheon. I am Apotheon's archenemy, the warrior angel designed to defeat Apotheon.
Arcothon is my name, for I fight through fire. I fight through the words that the Master gives me, and I turn them into fireballs that fight and defeat him. Apotheon is the archdemon of apathy, laziness, waiting, sitting, dragging down, draining the lifeblood out of you. You know the various manifestations of Apotheon, but you do not know my manifestations.
I am the opposite of Apotheon. I am fire, I am attacking, I am fight! I am a warring angel designed to fight; that is all I do. I fight through the weapon of prayer, of prophecy, of the keys, of hearing my Master's instructions, and of casting out Apotheon.
My Master's words are pure energy, pure light. I fight through light of the purest form. The purest energy known to man is light, yet I fight with an even greater energy, a purer energy, even purer than light. It is an energy that you do not fully comprehend as yet, for it is the energy of the power of God. This is the energy that runs through my body and through my veins and out my hands when I fight. I do not fight with conventional weaponry, with swords; I fight with pure energy, missiles of pure energy that nothing and no one can defeat!
This energy cannot be unlocked on its own. I am simply a channel, a carrier, and that is where my greatest strength lies. For I, in myself, am nothing, but I have learned to be a pure conduit of the energy of God, and that is my greatest strength.
I am commissioned, I go to the fight, I open my channel, and through me pours energy straight from the throne of God. Part of the energy that powers Heaven flows through my body and through my veins and out my hands, and that is what defeats the Enemy. And that is why I have been assigned to help teach you, and the others in the Family as well, who want to take up the challenge, who have the faith to believe, and who are willing to make the sacrifices necessary. I wish to teach you to be a greater conduit of the power of God. You will not be as pure as I am, or as those in the heavenly realm, while you are yet in the flesh, but I can still teach you to open yourself up so completely that the power of God can run through you in such great measure that you will perform miracles that you know not of.
Yea, you children of David can defeat Satan himself, and in time, the Spirit of God flowing through all of you collectively will win a great and mighty victory. All you need to do is to learn how to become a clean receptacle and a conduit of the power of God, and enough of it will flow through you that nothing on Earth will stand before you. For nothing of Earth can stand before even a small portion of the power of God.
So that is what you need to do: Allow me to help teach you to open yourself more to the power of God. Receive my help, allow me to teach you the art of war. Let our wonderful Husband, the King of the universe, the Source of all power, possess you. That is being a conduit of the power of God.
I am not the power; I am only a teacher to teach those who want to learn how to become a conduit. And once you link up with the Master, the Holy Ghost power will flow through you in unparalleled measure, and you will feel the power of the Spirit of God flowing through you.
This is the art of war, and it is this full possession by our Master, King of the universe, Holder of the powers, Source of the power, that will cause you to be effective in your warfare and become an unstoppable, unbeatable source.
I love you and I'm here to help you, so call on me. Call me Arcos for short. Arcothon is my real name, and it symbolizes a conduit of the power of God. What do you think of when you hear the word "Arcothon"? You think of an electric arc. Imagine a lightning strike, a huge electrical arc. Now imagine something a thousand times more powerful than any lightning you've ever seen, and you will be getting close to somewhere near a fraction of the power of God that flows through me.
That is what my name means and symbolizes--a conduit of the power of God--and I can teach you to become a greater conduit of the power of God as well. I will teach you to become a conduit of the true full possession of our Husband and Lover and King and God of the universe, the Keeper and Source of all power, in the name of Jesus, amen. (End of message from Arcothon.)

(Question:) How can I open myself more to allow Arcothon to teach me to become a better conduit of the power of God?

 (Jesus speaking:) By spending more time with Me. Spending time in the bed of love, spending time praising Me and letting Me fully possess you, and by spending time practicing, opening up your mind to the spirit world, really focusing on the power. 
I am sending spirit helpers to those of you who really desire to be more than what you are. And these spirit helpers are specific tutors to you in learning to harness the power of God, and learning full possession and to fully tap in, for these helpers are part of Me, they are one with Me. … [be open to] Arcothon's input and vast wisdom and great skill in the art of war. He is waiting to teach you who are willing to take up the challenge and make the necessary sacrifices. You just have to open yourself up to the power, open yourself up to Me, open yourself up to the help I give you through your spirit helpers, open yourself up to My Spirit by spending time loving Me, praising Me, meditating on My Word, meditating on the spirit world, and getting filled up. The more time you spend in the spirit world, the more time you will get to practice, and the more you will learn to harness the power of God.
The more you get distracted with the cares and the worries of this life, the less time you have with Me and with Arcothon and your many other spirit helpers. So that is the first commission to each of you if you are to truly gain the power of God--spend time in the spirit world. You need that private time with Me, that time when you can sit in pure quietness and meditation. (End of message from Jesus.)

	(Dad speaking: ) So this time fight the Devil effectively with the right weaponry, the right tools of the trade. You're a handyman--you know you've got to have the right tools for the job. So get up and fight the Devil with the right tools. Stop trying to bang in the nail with the screwdriver, or cut a piece of wood with a hammer. You've got to use the right weapon to be effective. So call on the keys to specifically bind Apotheon in your life right now, and you will feel a great, great difference in the spirit, and a great difference in your anointing. You will have strengthened your anointing and strengthened your link and come back stronger than ever to blast him right out of the ring through the keys of the Kingdom! Amen, Son?
The angel that the Lord has given you to teach you how to fight is Arcothon--a powerful fighting angel who is extremely talented in fighting with the new weapons. He is designed for the sole purpose of fighting and defeating the Enemy. Whenever there's a serious crisis, we send him along with the other angels that are specifically trained in the art of war to blast apart the attacks of the Enemy. Arcothon is a fighting angel who will help teach you the art of warfare; he will help you learn to wield the sword of the keys; he will help you learn to wield the art of praise and prayer and calling on the Lord for miracles of healing, supply, deliverance, and fighting through fire.
Arcothon is a fighting, powerful warrior trained in the art of war for many, many millennia, and he will help you as you depend on him and look to him. He has come specifically to help teach and train you, as well as help train your other spirit helpers who you already have, who are trained in the art of warfare. (ML 3433)