Hello, thanks for joining me today for Give Him 15. The title of our post today, Air Superiority, Part 2.

In yesterday's post, I spoke of spiritual air superiority, the power and authority the church has been given with which to defeat the powers of darkness.

The scriptures speak of these invisible dark forces as operating in heavenly places.

This realm does not refer to heaven, God's home, but to the invisible spiritual realm around us. It's the

unseen realm of the spirit, invisible yet real, hidden, yet very active. Much of what takes

place on earth is influenced by this dimension. Certainly anything of eternal significance

or that regulates the destinies of people and nations is influenced by it. However, most people,

including Christians, give little thought to this unseen world. Many people, including Christians, give little thought to this unseen world.

Many people, especially in cultures that emphasize higher education or intellectualism,

are actually cynical of its existence.

But the Bible is filled with descriptions and accounts of this realm.

In fact, apart from the invisible spiritual dimension, there's no God, Satan, angels, demons,

the resurrection of the dead, the fall of humankind, the birth of Christ, redemption through the cross, miracles, nothing.

None of those things exist apart from this realm.

Yet again, surprisingly, most American Christians live their lives without considering how much this realm affects us,

let alone how we can influence it.

Several years ago, I was led by Holy Spirit to read five separate verses in Ephesians that

contain the phrase heavenly places, five verses in

Ephesians with this phrase, and read them or do so consecutively without the verses in between

them. What I found was fascinating. Here are the five verses, and I'll read them,

but give you the references after I read them. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, which he brought about in Christ

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