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Informed Intercession will help Christians and church leaders develop strategic prayer strategies for their cities-to see their towns transformed for the kingdom of God. The principles of spiritual mapping and strategic prayer are simple-and biblical. According to Ephesians 6 and other passages, demons can occupy territories and regions. As the author describes it, spiritual mapping is "an attempt to see your city as it really is, not what it appears to be." The goal is to push back the demonic darkness by identifying strongholds, attacking these areas with concentrated prayer, then infiltrating vanquished enemy's domain with the good news of Jesus Christ. Spiritual mapping is a means to an end: to move beyond breakthrough into complete transformation for your city or region.
- Sales Rank: #159109 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Renew
- Published on: 1999-01-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .78" h x 5.98" w x 8.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 276 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
George Otis, Jr. is the founder and president of The Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency headquartered in Seattle. Otis presently serves as co-coordinator of the AD 2000 and Beyond United Prayer Track. He is also an international advisor to Aglow International and Lydia Prayer Fellowship. Otis is the author of numerous books including The Lastof the Giants and Strongholds of the 10/40 Window. George lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife, Lisa, and their four children.
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Accessing the innermost recess of the hidden dimension
By Melvyn Lee
This book contains a cluster of excitements. It talks about transformation of cities, blessings upon cities, wonderful conversions, compelling evidences and then leading to more meaty materials on strategic research.
By and large, the weight of Otis message touches on a very much controversial issue, which is spiritual mapping. Some have called this exercise mystical. Others have challenged and call it unbiblical. Otis need not justify. He is in the business of finding out and reinforcing the truth. Many of us read line upon line but Otis reads a deeper meaning in between the lines, and that creates a drive in him to demystify the riddle behind our earthly dimension.
This is why the author is willing to paddle sacred mountains, interview a host of spiritual practitioners, identify topology of cities and various locations just to find out a truth to one pivotal question, "Why does spiritual darkness linger where it does? ". This book articulates his dedication.
But the fruits of Otis research per se is not an end to itself as he has to assembly them into ready-to-use tools. Knowing that spiritual rookies can be raw in this subject, Otis has also prepared simple materials in the form of questionnaires and wise guidelines that can help them to explore new ground using spiritual mapping.
The final product of spiritual mapping contains revolutionary methods that can give us understanding to our natural dimension from a spiritual perspective. Therefore with this kind of first class data, we are more acutely aware of the dark corners of our living dimension. The insightful information found in this book have also brought me to another mileage of realization. That is happenstance is a foolish answer to the ignorant. The happenings in our dimension are the visible products engineered by "invisible hands" of the spiritual realm.
Regardless of what critics have to offer, the end results of spiritual mapping speaks for itself. I am sure intercessors all over have already a deep appreciation towards the painstaking journey of Otis research and quest for truth. Many of them already found it extremely useful. Spiritual giants can now be subdued with intelligent utterances towards heaven. No wonder Otis stands out as a favorite consultant among prayer partners.
To put it succinctly, this book is both educational and enjoyable. The wisdom and integrity revealed here is certainly a product of its own class, that can now be applied by many who wants to see their own cities transform. Intercessors, make sure this book is included in your prayer class !
To Otis and Sentinel group thanks a million !
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Book summary
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Spiritual mapping is a form of cultural geography or cultural anthropology aiming for a fuller understanding of the nature and origin of any obstacle to revival and to receive God's prescribed strategies for their removal. Spiritual mapping may focus on people's spiritual worldview and allegiance, moral choices, the resulting patterns of behavior, and social reputation. Spiritual mapping superimposes a Christian's understanding of forces and events in the spiritual domain onto seemingly natural circumstances and places. The veiled realities include angels and other divine resources , , , territorial or psychic demonic strongholds, quid pro quo spiritual pacts to handle individual or corporate trauma, repressed hurts associated with unresolved social injustice. Dark supernatural powers really exist, not simply appear to be. Western Christianity has lost the ability to recognize the spiritual dimension, having embraced an anti-supernatural worldview. Spiritual mapping equips the church to discern and to navigate the spiritual dimensions in its ministries. Spiritual mapping does not substitute prayer or evangelism, but can render both more effective.
(A) Spiritual Mapping's Scope & Contents:
The scope of a spiritual mapping project may be a neighborhood, a city, a region, a people group, or a virtual online community. Civic and legal boundaries are often arbitrary and do not reflect socio-cultural realities and spiritual domains. For example, Navajo tribal members, spread over Arizona and New Mexico and Utah, are more concerned with traditional boundaries rooted in tribal myths than with state boundaries; colonial and thus modern borders of African countries often bisect ancient tribal homelands; immigrant groups may maintain strong ties with their home culture and religion.
Spiritual mapping asks what are wrong with one's community. To that end, one may characterize the community's status of Christianity, worldviews and allegiances, spiritual opposition, and prevailing social bondages. There needs to be a balance between sensitivity and candor; both judgmental and rose-colored attitudes need to be avoided. With respect to Christianity's status --- Are old revival fires still burning, or has the fervor of previous years given way to liberal lukewarm religion? What is the status of current evangelistic initiatives? What is the community's perception of the church? As a relevant force or an outmoded institution? In relation to worldviews and allegiances, identify important underlying religious and secular philosophies, ideologies, or mind-sets. With respect of prevailing social bondages --- Outward evidence of spiritual darkness needs to be gathered. There needs a cataloging of the conditions of externally inflicted pain like disease, poverty, injustice and violence. There needs to be an assessment of the nature and prevalence of self-destructive vices, such as gambling, sexual immorality, pornography, and prostitution. There also needs to be a characterization of any disintegration of stabilizing social values and structures, with the symptoms being corruption and divorce. Are there new militancy among sinners? What role may the media have in promoting spiritual darkness in the community? Concerning spiritual opposition, look out for such things as witchcraft, anti-Christian legislation, economic discrimination, public mockery and physical persecution.
Spiritual mapping also asks how various past influences are woven together to form distinct cultures and communities, as well as their collective knowledge. This is because present realities often stemmed from previous generations' attitudes and actions; and earlier events help shape present realities. In exploring how the above-characterized present state of the community came about, investigate confluent events like natural disasters, military invasions, the influx of new religions. Plot these on time lines. Investigate how such factors alter the life and identity of the community, if the inhabitants of the time attempted to resolve traumatic circumstances by entering into pacts with the spirit world, and if their actions compounded or modified earlier arrangements. To present attitudes in terms of their geographical distribution, one could indicate on a map the locations of evangelical churches, and deceptive centers, commercial sex centers - that can give a good idea where various problems are concentrated. Sometimes certain locations may emerge as centers of idolatry and demonic attention.
Spiritual mapping furthermore asks about the community's potentials for spiritual change. Ask if the church has positioned itself for action by cultivating unit, holiness and prayer. What is the quality of intercession? God may already have begun to break up strongholds if there exist large-scale conversions, social reconciliation, and/or public miracles.
(B) Spiritual Mapping's Personnel, Attitude & Process:
The spiritual-mapping team should be motivated by a passion for lost souls, commitment to community, a servant attitude to serve their fellow researchers and the spiritually lost whose circumstances they are investigating, and be accountable. Inflated egos, personal agendas, dictatorial personalities should be avoided. The spiritual mapping team leader must exercise considerable wisdom and patience and humility, must command the respect and attention of all other members; and adeptness with facts and figures means nothing if the leader is inept at social interaction. The spiritual mapping team consists of three units: (1) The archival unit needs to be killed at culling information from secondary sources, such as books, journals, dissertations and maps. (2) The field unit consists of "people persons" thriving at social interaction, keen observers and wise judges of character, and able to extract information from observation and personal interviews. This unit's members conduct interviews with people of thorough understanding of the vocabulary, history and rituals of the targeted cultural environment - especially tradition bearers with unique roles or performance skills, good memories and long lives. Members need to display genuine interest and curiosity. (3) The intercessory unit awaits the Holy Spirit's promptings and revelations. Insights gleaned from prayer need to be verified and supplemented with objective evidence. Bizarre maps might claim divine revelation but are based on inadequate surveying, detached from objective supporting evidence, based on theological dogma and imaginative thinking. The intercessory unit can also pray for wisdom in selecting proper boundaries and scheduling and evaluating people and information, that colleagues be led to hidden or confirming sources and find favor with respondents and be granted divine protection, that God will prepare a ready audience for the final report.
Divine guidance and revelation to Christians flows out of relationship with Him. Paul named prophecy as a highly desirable spiritual gift . God calls a Christian by name; and a Christian follows Christ because he/she knows Christ's voice , . This process is intimate, natural, and not uncommon , , e.g. Paul's Macedonian vision . (These last 3 verses are not directly relevant, these verses do not directly concern cognitive spiritual mapping, but situational guidance.) God's revelations are not magical, though not impervious to human error. Human conclusions regarding divine revelation need be tested against Scripture, mature counsel, and objective social-science research. God reveals his secrets and commands his blessings also to those serious enough to make relational and territorial covenants with a community. Lacking active engagement (not merely passive lingering) with a community, a person is less likely to know and care for the place they live in. Though spiritual mapping might appeal to some migrants, spiritual mapping becomes a quest for knowledge not to change communities.
If community churches are not yet united in prayer or if no evident passion exists for the lost, a spiritual-mapping project may be premature. One may then instead pray for an appetite in the church for unity, prayer and evangelism. The best intelligence would be useless if no one is interested in it.
Like missionaries and church planters, the spiritual-mapping team is best sent out by a commissioning authority to provide a leadership structure to hold expectations for the team and to provide spiritual accountability. The commissioning should be a public affair to formalize a "protective custody" and to explain the spiritual mapping plan vis-à-vis the larger Christian community and to solicit support.
(C) Comments on Otis' Use of Biblical Verses:
Otis often uses poor Biblical theology, taking versus out of contexts. For example, he misquoted the following verses: 2 Chronicles 7:14 refers to forgiveness granted to the community that repents, not (as Otis implies) to some other "community" that one hopes to transform; Jeremiah 29:13-14 mentions God allowing himself found, not (as Otis implies) that the targeted community will be successfully transformed; John 15:7 does not guarantee (as Otis implies) that a desire for a successful community transformation is necessarily compatible to "If you abide in me, and my words abide in you"; James 5:16 refers to what happens among Christians themselves, not (as Otis implies) Christians' intercession for non-Christians. 1 John 3:21-22, does not mean (as Otis implies) a desire for a successful "community transformation" is necessarily compatible to "if our hearts do not condemn us".
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