Our fight is against flesh and blood?

This has bugged me for many years as a rather passive way to deal with difficult people in difficult situations. Its theologically correct, our fight is not against the person who is in front of us or the head of a group or the boss at work, but the forced which have robbed and corrupted those people over many years or even in the immediate - this week maybe.
HOWEVER............................. I am often confronted with Flesh and Blood, particularly Christians far from flowing from the fruit of the spirit. I am confident in saying..... in those moments, i am indeed fighting against flesh and blood. Also, how i deal with that person in that moment could determine the outcome of their own fight against apparent unseen forces in spiritual places.
WHY do i say this? Because people who should know better, at times give themselves to those forces instead of Christ will for them or the situation. When i face a person who is IN Christ but not partnering with His WILL and His WAY...... then my wrestle is WITH them and at times very much a wrestle FOR them, for them to bring their will inline with christs will for their life.
When we say 'our fight is not with them', it can often mean we avoid conflict / confrontation and a possibly important opportunity for both of us to grow in Christ.

When i deal with religious institutional spirits in hidden dark places, i tend to meet them in wonderful Christian people, which is often the first point of dealing with it. Why? Because, for all the good intent in the world, if you covenant with legalism and empire, your giving permission....YOUR giving permission for that to function and express itself through you. Owning that is the beginning of overturning it. Most strongholds need a submission of mind and will to function.

Do you get what i mean? Difficult to explain, but i think its a real issue. If folks covenant with strongholds, my first fight is with them, so i give back to them the rubbish theyve just tried to lay on me, and then for them that they might be free of it. As much as i might pray for what binds them in the private place, nothing is going to work quite so well as someone bringing their own will inline with Gods will for them?
In the parable of the sower....the whole summary of potential stumbles seems to hang on: 'that they did not understand'. Its our thoughts that need to be held captive under heaven (which dictate our values, our sense of self, our practices) and sometimes wrestling with a person for their mind to be under heaven can release them from the spiritual, even give them choices.

Just a passing warble.
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