This Day We Fight!: Breaking the Bondage of a Passive Spirit

by Francis Frangipane

Christians must make no mistake about the devil wants to take this world and thrust it into utter darkness and chaos. And considering daily news reports, it often seems his plan is succeeding. It is in this climate that Francis Frangipane calls believers to awaken as if from a stupor. The church must, he states, overcome weariness and indifference, strategize for war, and scatter wickedness like dust! This fervent, biblical exhortation to defeat evil will appeal to spiritual warriors, intercessors, the prophetically gifted, and anyone who feels overwhelmed by sin and current events. Here is indispensable insight for transforming the temporal with the power of the eternal.

Genres: Christian, Christian Living, Nonfiction, Christian Non Fiction, Spirituality, Faith

176 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2005

About the author

Francis Frangipane is a Christian minister and author.
He is the best-selling author of 16 books, including Holiness, Truth, and the Presence of God and This Day We Fight. Pastor Frangipane is also the founder of In Christ's Image Training (ICIT), an international online ministry school with students in over 120 nations. This online course is designed to take Christians at all levels and lead them into a deeper understanding of what it means to be like Christ. The home study curriculum is quoted as being one of the most impactful journeys you may take with the Lord. Pastor Frangipane's prayer is to see Christlike pastors and intercessors united before God, revealing the love of Christ to their communities. To find out more about this ministry, please visit frangipane.org

Reviews

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading this book enough times to have to keep the pages together with a big rubberband, need I say much more?

I may have a few minor disagreements or questions about the way Frangipane connects some of the dots Scripturally, in perhaps embellishing the context or interpretation...but nothing that deters me from being greatly encouraged and motivated by this wonderful book.

We are all weary of the fray. Those who follow Jesus fully and without reserve have been in an unseen struggle from the time we got really serious about Him, a struggle that is intensifying. The temptation is to want an extended R&R, but the enemy of Heaven doesn't fight according to the Geneva Accord. Our best R&R is described in Psalm 23, and in accepting Jesus' invitation in Matthew to receive His rest in coming to him.

Francipane lays a strong foundation at the beginning of this book in identifying the passivity that has held the Church in its grip for too long. The reasons for such a passive spirit are many, and don't matter. Bottom line: it's time to put on the armour again, and show up for duty. The rest of the book deals with various areas of spiritual combat, including the home front; our church; the city where we live; and the government. Nothing unusual there.

But it is the way Francipane drives his call to arms home that I find so energizing. I'm not left feeling burdened with even MORE on my spiritual "to do and achieve" list. Instead, I'm charged up with fresh confidence that this is a battle against an already defeated foe who is brash enough to think he can continue pretending...and for that reason, for the rest of the world who is being deceived and for Christians who are clueless...we must use the authority given by our Commander and retake lost spiritual territory.

There will be a time when weapons are melted down and turned into ploughshears. But that is not this day. "THIS day, we fight!"

[Tammiejim Nemeth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an amazing book that will awaken your spirit and open your eyes to the heart of God and the deception of the enemy, where your mind has been clouded, where you have allowed sin to enter in...it is a call to those who will have courage to look into their inner man and surrender all things to the Lord. Then, who will stand up and fight in prayer, intercession, worship, aggressive love, laying it all down and carrying your cross. A book in season...very good.

[Cherelynn · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I liked best were the practical steps to take to press forward in faith and prayer. It's a keeper!

[Cindy Warr · Rating 5 out of 5]

WOW. This book is inspiring me! Reading it at a time when the battle is raging all around me. I have a choice to make. Do I just throw my hands up and say this is too much for me to deal with? Or do I stand and fight with the full authority that God gives me and the power of the Holy Spirit. This day I fight!

[Eliot Vlatko · Rating 5 out of 5]

Francis sheds a lot of light on the reality of spiritual warfare by focussing on the Biblical truth of it. It will encourage you and give you a better understanding of the part God has called us to play in these times.

[Debbie Dunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Anything by Francis Frangipane is good and informative. This is a look on fighting spiritual warfare.

[Elaine Beachy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just excellent!! I received an anointing and renewed energy to pray and do spiritual warfare and stand my ground. Each time I read it, I am empowered and energized by the Holy Spirit.

[Jonathan Bullington · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book that motivates the inner parts of us to stand on truth principals and fight for our hearts.

[Jaime · Rating 4 out of 5]

Francis Frangipane wrote this book with the intent of helping Christians to release the warrior spirit and how to overcome a defeated state/attitude. He succeeds becauseof his approach and crisp wiritng and clarity. His straightforward challenge to Christians to not kow-tow to evil is a spiritual battle cry to gear up for battle. He encourages and exhorts Christians to get into the spiritual war made and to operate in a mode of spiritual aggression. The spirits/feelings of discouragement, deception and doubt are dissected by the author. The reader is led through steps of re-affirming one's faith, God's promises, and truth. The key to all this is having an emotional and spiritual connection with God. One must be humble through this. Armed with this knowledge, the believer will be triumphant by relying of God and His promises. As God will destroy the works of the devil, we must take the battle to the devil when he attacks.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good book about resilience in spiritual warfare but not up to par with Holiness, Truth and the Presence of God and The Three Battlegrounds.

[Jordan Ulmer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a challenging and encouraging book filled to the brim with great quotable phrases of wisdom.