Welcome to strange encounters.

Our podcast focused on spiritual warfare.

Even when you hear those terms, I know that it causes things to rise up.

But we want to be careful not to take this phrase and just

toss it around because you become too obsessed with it, but you also can become too numb to it.

And we've tried to balance that out on every single episode of this brand new podcast called

Strange Encounters. My name is Rick Burgess. If we have never met before, I host the Rick Burgess Show.

That is available Monday through Friday. You can find all the information about our show.

If you love to join us for that, too, by going to Rick Burgess Show.com. We started this podcast

at the first of the year because I was concerned with,

I mean, I've been a follower of Christ since 1996 and still in the process of sanctification.

I certainly have not arrived, but I have no doubt that I've been justified. And when I begin to

have a thirst for studying the Word of God and reading all the things we see there about

the supernatural world of angels and demons, I started to realize that when I was attending

most Western churches, there was very little talk

about it, if any, and there were so many questions that I had because, as I'll start this episode,

I look at the Apostle Paul, and we mentioned in passing on our very first episode some of these verses,

but I want to go back to them for this episode and others that'll deal with some of the stories that we have for you on this episode.

It appears that the Apostle Paul is warning me, other parts of Scripture do too, that I need to be prepared

for spiritual warfare every single day. That has to mean that it's actually expected, that it is

going on. You may be familiar with Ephesians chapter 6, but I want to jump into it again because I want us to

maybe take some of this word for word and not just kind of gloss it over like, oh yeah,

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