Raising Royalty: The Honesty Policy

With my children, I am emulating a policy used in my own family growing up. It was about never keeping secrets. I grew up in a home where we talked about everything, all the time. After growing up and having my own children, I’ve realized why.

Secrets are Trouble

For the most part secrets are trouble and create problems where there may not have been any. It’s like building a porch without support beams. It may hold for a while, but eventually, something is bound to break. Secrets lead to lying, which leads to doing things behind parent’s backs, and hiding those actions. If they can hide small things from us, surely they have the capacity to hide bigger and bigger things, until finally they are teenagers and we have no idea who they are, what their opinions are and they are drifting farther and farther away from us.

Secrets of the Supernatural: Battleground of the Soul

Where is Spiritual Warfare fought?

There are two major supernatural battlefields: the external and the internal.

The External

The external war is, of course, deliverance. When Jesus sent out his buddies, the disciples, he sent them out to cast out demons and heal the sick. This is a battle with the lowest level of demons, the foot soldiers in the army of the kingdom of darkness. (See my previous post on Deliverance.)

The Internal

The internal war is within your soul: your thoughts, beliefs and emotions. This is a daily battle.

Secrets of the Supernatural: The Key to the Supernatural

Regarding the supernatural we tend to be strangers to it all. We’re like these rich kids born to royalty and we are out living in the streets, oblivious to our rightful power. But no one told us we were kings!

Oh sure, I grew up going to church every Sunday—rain or shine or sprained ankle but no one talked about the demons I was seeing in my bedroom. No one talked about deliverance or angelic intervention. So we, like most Christians, grow up ignorant to the supernatural realm.