The WOFOYO Podcast
The WOFOYO Podcast
Identifying Your True Battles
Have you ever found yourself exhausted from fighting battles that never seem to end? The problem might not be your effort, but rather that you're fighting the wrong enemy.
Proper identification of what we're truly facing is perhaps the most overlooked skill in both spiritual warfare and everyday challenges. This episode dives deep into why we so often misdiagnose the root causes of our problems and how this fundamental error keeps us trapped in cycles of frustration. Whether it's a married couple arguing about money when trust is the real issue, organizations addressing symptoms instead of causes, or believers trying to solve spiritual problems with practical solutions (or vice versa), the consequences of misidentification are profound.
Drawing from both scriptural wisdom in Ephesians 6 and practical military assessment strategies, we explore three powerful questions that can transform your approach to any challenge: What's going on? What's not going on? And what am I supposed to be doing? These simple yet profound questions cut through distraction and help us develop strategies that actually work.
When we properly assess our situations through prayer and discernment, we discover which battles require spiritual weapons and which require practical solutions. This clarity allows us to stop wasting energy on misidentified problems and start addressing root causes with precision.
Ready to stop spinning your wheels and start seeing real breakthrough? Take time to get quiet before God, ask for His perspective on what you're truly facing, and listen. Your effectiveness in every area of life depends on your ability to properly identify the real battle.
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Hey everybody, welcome to another Wofo, yo Short. I'm C-Dub. Recently, bones and I were having a discussion it's going to be on the upcoming Tuesday episode of the podcast where we were talking about you know how you want to continue the mission if you don't know what the mission is. And he was talking about properly identifying our callings, properly identifying what we're supposed to be doing in the Lord, because we're failing to identify this a lot of times. And let me tell you, that theme has just been with me all this week, and not just spiritually, although it has been spiritually, but it is so far-reaching in its scope that it really is profound. This affects not just your spiritual life, although it definitely applies your personal life, your relationships. It affects your workplace, it affects your community. It affects this nation, affects this nation. Are you properly identifying what threats there are to you, to your country, to your family, to your mind? Are you properly identifying what spiritual warfare aspects there might be? So in Ephesians 6, paul goes put on the whole armor of God that you might be. So in Ephesians 6, paul goes put on the whole armor of God that you might be able to stand against all the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, powers, rulers, darkness, world, spiritual wickedness in high places. And then he talks about what this armor is, but he's saying you're going to have to realize what we're fighting against Now. That being said, again, this truth is not just spiritually applied. Although it is something that is spiritually applied, it's not limited to that. It's not limited to that.
Speaker 1:So if you want to get hemmed up in life, start trying to fight things spiritually that aren't a spiritual battle, or start trying to things that are a spiritual battle in ways that aren't spiritual. We need proper discernment, and what happens is what this looks like is you'll have a lot of activity, but you will fail to discern the root cause of all the problems, so you will never get to the root of the problem. You'll never be able to lay the ax to the root, as John the Baptist says. So what this means is you can start trying to address surface behaviors and if it's spiritually caused and you don't discern that it's a spiritual battle is you can start trying to address surface behaviors and if it's spiritually caused and you don't discern that it's a spiritual battle, these things keep resurfacing. Also, you can try and rebuke the devil all you want, but if it isn't a spiritual issue, if it's really a mindset issue or habits that you learned, you're just spinning your wheels. So it's important that we properly identify what is going on.
Speaker 1:Now let me tell you, with the victim culture that's out there, it is constantly pointing hey, this person's your enemy, this person's your enemy, this person's your enemy, this person is oppressing you. They've got a scale for who's oppressing who. And as long as you're doing that and especially since a lot of times that's not even the case now you're focused on what you can't control versus all the ways that you could help yourself by focusing on how to improve yourself. You're just mad at somebody else and you're being used while you do that, so you're losing that battle. There are so many ways this plays out. You could have a couple that's married arguing about money, but if the real issue is communication and trust, then the money's just the surface issue. You could have people trying to focus on second and third tier problems at work, but if you never address the root cause of why things are messing up, you're just throwing a lot of energy with very, very little results, a lot of time, a lot of emotional investment in it but you never see the results and you don't see them because you failed to properly identify the threat, you failed to properly identify the problem.
Speaker 1:Whenever we do use of force stuff and we're doing training, one of the things we'll talk about assess the situation. What's going on? So I remember Rick Joyner over at Morningstar. He brought up something that a military guy who's been there done, that was a member of Delta. He's speaking on spiritual awareness over Morningstar and Rick just incorporated it to a whole bunch of things. It has three questions what's going on, what's not going on and what am I supposed to be doing? These are questions that help you properly assess.
Speaker 1:If you fail to properly assess the root cause of why people are in poverty, you throw a whole bunch of money at it just to see the situation get worse. You never address the behaviors and the mindsets, the education level and what makes for education that gets you out of poverty. And we don't talk about fatherlessness and all these other things because people are scared to. If you're distracted in a country, it looks like, hey, we're going to spend a whole lot of time fighting a war in a country that we said had weapons of mass destruction to find out that they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. If you're distracted, attention span is an issue it takes time to properly assess and sometimes you don't have the time, but the more time you have, the better bead you're going to be able to get on that target.
Speaker 1:So I want to encourage you think about what issues you're facing. It can be at work, it can be in your family, it can be personal life, it can be with your walk with the Lord, different things you might be struggling with. Pray about it. Always have that pen and pad nearby and ask the Lord, lord, what's the real cause, what's the real issue? And then just get quiet before the Lord and write it down and then test the spirits by the spirit. How are you going to do it? Was that the Holy Spirit that I heard? Let's see how this plays out. And then you start to look and then you start to pinpoint and you go aha, yes, this applies and it's amazing if you will just get quiet, especially after prayer, after some worship time. Make sure you're balancing that with time alone with God. Find out and he will reveal the root causes of what a lot of these problems that you're facing, whether it's corporately, as a body, or whether it's individually the Lord. If you ask him, the Lord will reveal these things to you. Make sure, no matter what environment you're in, that you're properly assessing and identifying the threat. That way, you can properly engage, you can develop a proper strategy and you know how to fight the good fight and not just launching missiles in the air that you don't know where you're aiming at.
Speaker 1:Wofo Yo. Hey everybody, thanks for listening. We hope this challenges you and causes you to grow and also be effective. You can always check us out at wofoyoorg or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, spotify. Be effective. You can always check us out at wofoyoorg or subscribe on Apple Podcasts, spotify or Audible, or even check us out on YouTube. For Bones and myself, this is C-Dub, reminding you that if you're going to grow, you've got to wofo yo. Get in the word for yourself.