Our enemies in this world are many and fierce. Most of them are unseen and fighting against us behind the scenes.

To illustrate (and this will date me a bit), the opposing five players never let Michael Jordon go in for an easy score without a struggle. He still scored but not without five guys who were paid a lot of money to prevent him from doing just that.

• If you’re going to do meaningful work for the Lord you will be attacked.
• If you find yourself getting upset on a Sunday morning before heading off to church for no apparent reason, you are probably under spiritual attack.

Those are just two examples of times when we could be under spiritual attack. The enemy of your soul does not want you to “score” and will do anything under heaven to prevent you.

Fortunately, the Holy Spirit is our fortress against the wiles of the enemies. Recognizing spiritual attack is as important as defending against it. Likewise, letting your guard down by being totally unaware is also bad.

The Holy Spirit of God wants us to call out to Him. He wants us to allow Him to work and to move in our lives. Unfortunately we get in the way.