As fathers, it is our responsibility to navigate the complexities of the modern world and safeguard our children from harmful spiritual influences. The rise of new age philosophies and practices can be enticing, but they often lead our children down a perilous path, veering them away from the truth and into dangerous spiritual territory. In this episode we empower fathers to protect their children from the demonic influences of new age ideas.My guest is Dr. Roger Krickler. Dr Krickler is a retired engineer with 43 years of military and defense contractor experience. His expertise was in ground-to-air Soviet missile defense systems, electronic warfare, radar and training fighter pilots how to defend against soviet air defense systems. Upon coming home from his deployment to Egypt and meeting Jesus, he started going to church. There he had his first experience helping with casting out demons. His experience and expertise on both conventional and spiritual warfare are why I’ve brought Dr Krickler on the program.You can find Dr. Krickler here:Website: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2276667Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556040728522Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3DRj7jSapwYHXNJAcAzPNNYoutube: https://www.youtube.com/@RogerKricklerSpecial thanks to Zencastr for sponsoring The Fatherhood Challenge. Use my special link https://zen.ai/CWHIjopqUnnp9xKhbWqscGp-61ATMClwZ1R8J5rm824WHQIJesasjKDm-vGxYtYJ to save 30% off your first month of any Zencastr paid plan.Transcript - Dads Demons and Bad Spirits---As fathers, it is our responsibility to navigate the complexities of the modern world and safeguardour children from harmful spiritual influences. New age philosophies and practices can be enticing.They often lead our children down a perilous path, veering them away from the truth and intodangerous spiritual territory. In this episode, we empower fathers to protect their childrenfrom demonic influences of new age ideas. I will be introducing an expert on spiritual warfarein just a moment so don't go anywhere. Welcome to the Fatherhood Challenge, a movement to awakenand inspire fathers everywhere to take great pride in their role and a challenge society to understandhow important fathers are to the stability and culture of their families environment. Now here'syour host, Jonathan Guerrero. Greetings everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. My guest is Dr.Roger Crickler. Dr. Crickler is a retired engineer with 43 years of military and defense contractorexperience. His expertise was in ground to air Soviet missile defense systems, electrical warfare,radar and training fighter pilots, how to defend against Soviet air defense systems. Upon cominghome from his deployment to Egypt and meeting Jesus, he started going to church. There he had hisfirst experience with helping cast out demons. His experience and expertise on both conventionaland spiritual warfare are why I have brought Dr. Crickler on the program. Dr. Crickler, welcome to theFatherhood Challenge. Thank you, Jonathan. I think it's an opportunity for me to be with you todayand I sure do thank you for it. Please start by sharing your story of how you got involved in spiritualwarfare. Okay, I'd be glad to. It actually started in 1984. I took an assignment after a divorce in1983 to Cairo, Egypt and I met a man John Wade. He was a Christian and we began a friendship and overseveral months we talked about Jesus and he explained the good news story to me. And after a few months,I turned my life over to the Lord. And as I read the New Testament and I tell you what an experiencefor someone that just learning about Jesus and never really grew up in the church, it really broughtthe Bible to life. As an engineer, I was always fascinated by how long a Sabbath day was for not growingup in the church. That was something brand new to me and helping with casting out demons. That was anexperience. And I can tell you like it was a second ago that during the casting out of the demon,it was a young girl. We bound her to a card table chair so she couldn't move around the room.Not any constraints, but just spiritually binding her to the chair. And I tell you,being brand new, I had two things going on in me at the same time. One, I was fully engaged andyou know, casting out the demons, but then a part of me was almost like an out-of-body experiencefloating above me, looking down, going, is this really happening? You know, and theninstantly I went right back and engaged in the battle against the spirit of suicide and the spiritof depression is what she had. But it was quite the experience for a technical guy that now isyou know, involved with the spiritual aspect of life. It was truly eye-opening and then after that,I continued on with my study of spiritual warfare because God had called me into that,even in Egypt, some of the prayer meetings or prayer sessions we had in the hotel rooms.I just felt the calling way back then to get involved with this and it just happened to be mytraining over my 43 years that God helped me with. That also complimented the spiritual warfare aspectsin trying to do what I do in my podcast, which is to try to take natural world experiences thatyou can visualize, so you can try to get an idea of what's going on in the invisible war that wecan't see. And that's a little harder to fathom for some, so trying to make an association betweennatural world and spiritual world is the goal of what I try to do in my teachings. The reasonthat it's so important is because as we all know, we're made in God's image and God is a spirit and soour actual beings have a spiritual component. Whether we wanted to or not, we have that spiritualcomponent. So we live in two worlds. We live in the natural world like you were saying, physical,we can see it, taste it, all of our five senses, but we also live in the spiritual world. And that'sthe harder part for people too, I think, understand and comprehend, but it's a part of something that wehad no control over. We were born, had no control over that, born in center, no control over that.We were born into a war that started back in the Garden of Eden, right, with Adam and Eve andSatan. That war has been going on and we were born into it and we had no control over it.And so now we either have to learn how to fight or just continually get beat up. And so that's whyagain, I'm so passionate about trying to teach people that there is a war that we do have weapons,we can fight back. It's just a matter of learning how, just like when I went in the military,I had to learn my weapons and when to use them, what kind of battle conditions to use what weaponand the same in the spiritual warfare. We have a lot of weapons like binding and loosening and prayerfasting, different weapons for different battle situations. And so my purpose is to try to teachwhen to use what, basically, like I was taught when I was in the military.So dads might definitely be able to relate to this one. So there's a term that's called,the term is called strongholds. And strongholds, if I have to just shoot from the hip of association,I would associate that with a home defense system. Does this also apply to spiritual warfare?What would a spiritual stronghold be? And why would you why should dads be aware of them?Well, I'm glad you said that because I happen to be on the safety team at church. So I'm involvedwith weapons and have been all my life in my military career. So, but strongholds in a,in the in spiritual warfare context is a belief that you hold on to so strong that no matter who comesat you with a different belief, a belief system that you are not going to relinquish your belief inthat system, no matter how sound or logical it might be and it makes all kinds of sense in its rationalbecause you feel so strongly about a particular belief that you're just not going to give it up. And sothat's why it's so important when we start building our belief system as children,there's a thing that I learned a long time ago about values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectationsthat builds a child's reality map. So it starts at very young age. It's everything that they hear,they teach, you know, they see, touch, smell, it all goes into the mind and it starts building a realitymap which also has a belief system. And so from there, a dad really needs to get involved very earlywith what's being shown to taught and so forth to a child so that these, I come,babes values, assumption, beliefs and expectations that they have some control over what is being taughtand shown to their kids because as these things grow over the years, if they're the wrong babes,it is harder and harder to try to change that child's mind.So what is the connection between, I think these might also be strong holes as well, but what is theconnection between meditation, yoga, video game characters like Enderman and Minecraft and alsothe Ouija board? Why should dads be aware of these? Because these are games or exercises that peoplethink they're doing for the greater good on releasing relieving stress or video game, maybe it'skeeping your child entertained while you're doing something else, it all is going into the mindwhere I said the battlefield is, like in a child's video games, they're drawn into a virtual world,a virtual reality, right? These things that you can put on your face and get into a 3D virtual world,they are a direct input into the mind. And if it's like a violent game, then violence is the thingthat's being entered into the mind. And so what a young mind can do is start to get the ideathat violence is okay, right? They can maybe identify with one of the characters in the video,and we'll get into that maybe in a little bit, it's called, um, transference of spirits whereyou try to emulate somebody that you admire. But the mind is where the battlefield is, andwith yoga, weegee boards, these are asking you as part of the game and part of the exercise toopen your mind, release your thoughts, you know, become empty. And when you do that, it's like openingthe gate for anything to come in. And if you're not as aware that evil thoughts and so forth canenter through that, you're just opening it yourself up to attack. So it really sounds like there isno such thing as a mind that just remains empty. And I know meditation a lot of times becomes all aboutjust emptying the mind, keeping the mind empty. But there really is no such thing. What is happening isyou're being asked to remove everything out of your mind so that something else can move in.It never stays empty, which means, um, and you mentioned our mind is is the battlefield.We were always meant and designed to live in this physical world and exist in this physical worldconstantly with some sort of a spiritual connection that is conscious within our mind. And we geta choice of what that is. Exactly. Um, to your point, I mean, when you, when you make a void, andespecially in the in the mind and in the spiritual world, when you create a void, then something'sgoing to fill it. And what you hope to do is fill it with something good and not something bad.What should dads do if they suspect that their kids have opened a door to Satan or any demonicinfluence, like weird things that are going on or, um, strange interactions? What should a dad do ifthey think that's happening? That's a great question because it's kind of a two part, right? Becausethere's believers and then there's non-believers. But so for the believer that are familiar withspiritual warfare weapons, the first thing is to bind the strong man like we kind of alluded to before.Um, saying something like in the name of Jesus, I bind Satan and influencing demons and thosethat are misguided by evil spirits and thoughts from my son or daughter. So when you say that,you're immediately saying in the name of Jesus, which is the power, and then you want to loosenum, and post the angels around the child, which is filling that void. When you tell Satan to leave,you've got to fill that void immediately. Otherwise, like in the Bible, it talks about the legionsof demons that came back and we are many. You know, you can cast them out, but if you don't fill upthe void, they can come back with even more. And now the problem is he can gotten worse, right?So the power of binding and loosening is very important and setting down with your child and talkingto them about, you know, what they're doing and how they can be influenced and maybe trying tosubstitute something that they're doing with something else that's actually more beneficial.It might be a way, I think each dad has to, you know, obviously know his child and how topull something out and put something in its place. But I think the idea is thatyou want to avoid meeting resistance so you don't yank something away with their saying,no, give it back to me. You know, you try to replace it with something that's more beneficial.So another thing that really to watch out for in this is a change of attitude and behavior inthe child and video games and opening up your mind and so forth. Dad's need to understand this andI'll give you a great example of this. And so there was a youngest son was raised up to be part ofa closely knit family with good communication. He respected the parents rules and attended churchtogether. Suddenly he does not want to be with the family or attend church. He becomes sullen withdrawn rebellious. He defies your instructions and stays out late. You cannot understand the suddenchange. And then you try to wonder why because you have an older son, you gave them the same loveand they didn't rebel or do anything but yet this one is. So then you look at and say, well,what's different? So what you might find most of the time is that if you examine the problem withyour son is that you will find that the change came about after someone else came into his life whohe respected it and admired. And this is what I was alluding to about in a video game. They seea character in the video game and they say, oh, I want to be like that video game guy.So but you can begin to respect and admire somebody else in your school or wherever it may be and theybegin to associate closely with that person. And then the new friend starts influencing the youngchild by telling them what they do and how they think what their parents let them get away withand so forth. And now the child wants to be more like the new friend and becomes rebellious tothe parent and that is a classic classic classic Satan tactic to attack children and it's calledthe transference of spirits. So what I mean about transfer means to convey from one person to the other.The word spirit is not used like a demon like you think evil spirits and you know that type ofthing. It's actually where spirits used here is a character or an attitude or a motive behindan action. So that's what these new friends do. They try to sway the child to their way of thinkingwhich is usually down the wrong road and it's a way that Satan can attack because again the battlefieldsin the mind and that's a classic way that Satan attacks young kids and really adults too. We'vebeen talking about Satan. We've been talking about demons and evil spirits. So let's let's talk aboutthe other side. Tell me about the Holy Spirit. What is his role in helping dads maintain spirituallysafe homes and how what can dads do to connect with the Holy Spirit? First of all the Holy Spirit ispart of the Trinity. There's the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. And that the Holy Spirit, when I lookat the three functions of God, there's the Father, I look at Him as the planner. He plans things.Jesus is the implementer. He puts things into effect and the Holy Spirit is the administrator. He'smaking sure everything's getting done. He's making sure tasks get done and so forth. Sothe Holy Spirit is the God that lives within you after you become a believer. You have tohave faith in Jesus. Believe they died paid for your sins and that he rose on the third dayand that you become a believer because at that point is when the Holy Spirit can come and livewithin you because Jesus actually had to die on the cross and leave as part of God's plan to redeemus. The Holy Spirit, He sent to be with us, to guide us, to teach us and to makethe words in the Bible mean something to us. He enlightens us with the words and the parables andthe different stories in the Bible because when you read them on the face of you, sometimestimes are confused, but the Holy Spirit over time, it's not like learning from a fire hosebut over time, He teaches you more and more about what God's words are. And for dads,that's the first thing you have to do is get the Holy Spirit in you by converting andbecoming a believer because that's how you get the Holy Spirit and He is your power. Remember,Jesus is the authority and the Holy Spirit is the power behind the weapons that you're going touse not only in your own life but to intercede for your child, for your other family members,for members of your church or whoever. We have the prayer of intercession which Jesus did a lotin the Bible. So the Holy Spirit is a real entity. It's part of God. He lives in us and we need to turnto God and have the Holy Spirit live within us. You mentioned enlightenment. Enlightenment is avery popular reason behind why a lot of people get caught up in new age ideas and why they seek themout. They're trying to find some sort of enlightenment. This also becomes a goal behind yoga and so manyother practices like that. But what's fascinating is you need all of these different things in the newage idea and the new age philosophy to try to find enlightenment. There's all of these different paths.There's all of these deities to enlightenment versus the Holy Spirit. And if you want enlightenment,he is the source and there is no end with him. If you're a believer and know how to fight Satan,then you have the Holy Spirit living in you and then you engage and keep battling Satan. Satan isgoing to attack you 24/7. And if you don't know how to fight, then learn how to fight and battle backbecause that's what God wants for us. He wants us to have a better life and he's giving us these tools.We just have to learn how to use them, pick them up and use them. Otherwise, we can be drawn easilybecause we do have the sinful nature in us to be drawn to some of these things likeyoga and video games and Ouija boards that seem on the surface. Come on, it's just a game. I canit's no harm there. But you peel back that onion and you find out that no, it is or harmful andyou just have to be aware of that. And that's the whole idea of behind spiritual warfare andlearning about it. Yoga, for example, really masks and disguises itself as being a health benefitand a lot of people, I mean, you can it's not hard to find people who report benefits from actuallydoing yoga. But behind a lot of the poses, the poses are very, very intentional and they mimic,they mimic and they're patterned after deities. And if you really delve into those deities,the deities that you see and there's paintings of them, there's drawings of them everywhere andthere's actually even statues that have been created and carved the images of these deities andthese poses, which is where the poses come from. These deities actually have a source. The deitiesare actually patterned after demons. After the image of actual demons, this is what's behind yoga.And so you were just innocently in it for exercise and yeah, it can seem, it can seem very, very innocent.But you can get the exact same benefit from that you get from yoga, you can actually get theexact same benefit by doing exercise other ways, other ways that people have been doing for centuries.I want to talk about spirit guides. Spirit guides are also fundamental to new age belief systemsand spiritual, spiritualism. Spirit guides, what they really are are demons.You're communicating with spirit guides, you need to stop immediately what you're doing becauseyou are definitely absolutely communicating with demons. That's what you're doing. I'm just beingvery blunt about it. So if that's what you're doing, you need to stop. You only need one spirit guide.There's one true spirit guide and he's the Holy Spirit. He is all you need.And so coming back to you, Dad, some talking to you, Dads, if you struggle with your role,if you struggle with energy, if you're struggling with focus as a dad, if you're strugglingwith work, life, balance, if you're struggling with how to parent your kids, if you have a teenager,that you're struggling to connect with, if you're struggling with finances, any of these things,it doesn't matter what it is, anxiety, talk, pray, talk to the Holy Spirit, talk to God, the HolySpirit is all you need. He is the ultimate spirit guide. He is the only, only spirit guide that youwill ever need. And he wants to be involved in every single aspect of your life. So let him in,whatever you're struggling with, talk to him. And here's the cool thing. We just got through talkingabout this actually before, before we did this episode. One of the cool things is if you don't knowwhat to say, if you're trying to pray, you're trying to talk to God or you're trying to say somethingto the Holy Spirit and you don't really know what to do or what to say, there is a promisethat he is actually able to interpret what you were trying to say, what you want to say in yourmind, but you can't find the words for. He is so powerful that he can take those thoughtsand he can bring those thoughts all the way up to the Father and communicate them accuratelywhen you can't find the words. Dr. Kregler, how can dads get a hold of you with questions?Listen to your podcast or find out what you're doing. Well, I just started my podcast about a monthand a half ago. So I'm on YouTube so you can search my name, Roger Crickler, K-R-I-C-K-L-E-R. I'm onSpotify. Now these are videos because I do a video podcast on Spotify. It's Roger Crickler. And thenon my website on Buzzsprouts at Spirits, Weapons and Warfare, which is the name of my website.And then I just recently started a Facebook page, Spirits, Weapons and Warfare. And on the Facebook page,you can actually comment and write things and then we can direct message off of that if you want.So those are some ways that you can reach out to me.And just to make it easier if you go to thefatherheadchallenge.com, that's thefatherheadchallenge.com.If you go to this episode, look right below the episode description. I'll have all of the links that Dr.Crickler just mentioned. I'll have the links posted right below the description there for your convenience.Dr. Crickler, before we go, we would like to say a prayer for both believers and non-believers whoare just looking for spiritual help and looking for guidance. They may be trapped. They may be looking foranswers, both for themselves, for their family, for their kids. And so I was wondering if you woulddo the honors of closing us out with a prayer. Oh, thank you, Jonathan. I'd love to. So for thebeliever, I pray that your warning efforts are successful, that you fight like your life dependedon it because it does know that the Holy Spirit lives in you and with him all things are possible.You are a victor, not a victim in Jesus name. I pray, amen. And for my non-believers who are still madein God's image for my lost brothers and sisters still trying to fill that void in your life with thethings of this world, which you'll never be satisfied. I pray you will turn towards the Lord.What I can say is that this life is temporary so the things you strive for and desire noware going to go away. You cannot want them bad enough to have them last forever. By the decisionsyou make while you're on this side of death, you cannot, you can control where you will live forever.It is my prayer that you will find the Lord and give your life and allegiance to Him.You will never regret it. If you're ready now, you can repeat after me. You can whisper it orshout it out, but it is as easy as ABC. First, admit you are a sinner. I am sorry for my sins andturn away from sinning. Be believe that Jesus is God, Son, God, Son, and that He was sent hereto pay for your penalty for sin. See? Confess that by faith that Jesus Christ is my Savior and Lord.So my primary purpose for you is not that you will be saved, although God's will is that no one shouldperish. That's in 2nd Peter 3 9. Nor that your sins are forgiven because Jesus paid the priceon the cross. Rather, I pray for you, my lost brothers and sisters, that you should be freefrom the demonic influences in your life so you can be saved. In Jesus name, I pray. Amen.Dr. Krueger, thank you so much for that prayer and it's been an absolute honor to have you onthe Fatherhood Challenge. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you very much.Thank you for listening to this episode of the Fatherhood Challenge. If you would like to contact us,listen to other episodes, find any resource mentioned in this program or find out more informationabout the Fatherhood Challenge. Please visit thefatherhoodchallenge.com. That's thefatherhoodchallenge.com.Bye bye.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/thefatherhoodchallengepodcast/donations

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