There is no doubt that censorship today is greatly increasing and freedom of speech is in peril. We are seeing more people blocked and removed from social media, de-platformed from the internet, and banned on media channels.  “Cancel culture” is now a popular, freely-used weapon against freedom of speech.

But it is important for us to understand that censorship is not just a political or cultural issue—it is spiritual at its root. What we are seeing is the outworking in the natural of the spiritual battle that is taking place. A supernatural battle of values.

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Knowing that, does it make you look at the censorship differently?  Can you see a trend that emerges once we understand that it is a spiritual war taking place before our eyes in the ink, airwaves, and cyberspace in our nation? Let us break these battles down.

As we list some of the most censored thoughts or topics, let’s look at the spiritual values behind them. Each of these topics that tend to be censored has a corresponding spiritual issue at play—a battle of its own. Where talk about abortion, for instance, is halted, what is actually going on is a battle of the value of a culture of life versus the culture of death, the battle of religious freedom versus tyranny.

We can battle these strikes of the Enemy, that come in the form of censorship, with strategic prayer about the root issues.  Many of these battles are an affront against the Ten Commandments—the core values of the Kingdom that God gave us in Exodus 20. We can pray about these censorship battles by praying God’s Word.

For instance, renounce the spirit of idolatry and pride behind “transgender theology” –the agenda that is usurping the role of the Creator with a distorted view of identity. Then speak the truth of God’s identity for each of us, made male and female in the image of God as Genesis 1:27 shares. Speak the truth. Proclaim it in prayer. Call forth the opposite spirit over our nation that counters the Enemy’s distortion.

Censorship is the redaction of God’s values in our culture—the removal of truth, the battle for values. Removing them from view does not mean, however, that these values do not exist. God is more powerful. These tactics are just the Enemy’s strategy of blinding people to the truth that can set us free.

Intercessors for America has a new foundational guide on Free Speech that is a great companion piece to this article. You can download your copy of this by clicking HERE. 

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