DELIVERANCE

   

Mary K Baxter A Divine Revelation of Hell Heaven

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WITH EXTRACTS BELOW FROM MARY GARRISON'S BOOKS:

THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM
ARE BINDING, LOOSING AND KNOWLEDGE
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HOW TO TRY A SPIRIT
(BY THEIR FRUIT YOU WILL KNOW THEM)
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HOW TO CONDUCT SPIRITUAL WARFARE
AS I SEE IT
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DORIS WAGNER'S BOOK IS ALSO HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:

HOW TO CAST OUT DEMONS
A GUIDE TO THE BASICS

THIS BOOK BY DORIS M WAGNER ALSO INCLUDES :

HOW TO BREAK UNGODLY SOUL TIES

THE NAMES OF THE SATANIST CHURCHES

THE WAYS THE DEVIL GETS IN - OPEN DOORWAYS TO THE DEVIL TO BE SHUT

A BASIC GUIDE TO DELIVERANCE IN EVERY AREA

PRAYER TO CUT OFF FREEMASONRY



THERE ARE THREE TYPES OF EVIL POWERS IN DISCUSSION BELOW:

1.         THE DEVIL

2.         SPIRITS (STRONGMAN / DEMON LEADERS) (MATT 12:29-30)

3.         DEMONS

1     JESUS ONLY DEALT WITH THE MAIN SPIRITS (STRONGMAN) (IE.  LIKE GENERALS IN THE DEMON ARMY). 

2     IT IS WISER TO CAST OUT THE STRONGMAN, AND THEN ALL THE DEMONS UNDER HIM WILL LEAVE WITH HIM. 

3     IF YOU CAST OUT INDIVIDUAL DEMONS, THE STRONGMAN IS STILL THERE, AND THE PERSON IS STILL BOUND.  THERE MAY BE MANY DEMONS UNDER ONE STRONGMAN. 

4     BENNY HINN TEACHES THAT THERE ARE TWELVE DIFFERENT STRONGMEN LISTED IN THE BIBLE. 

5     IN DIFFERENT SITUATIONS, THERE MAY BE A COMBINATION OF STRONGMEN WORKING TOGETHER, EXAMPLES:

HOMOSEXUALITY:

SPIRIT OF LIES

SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM

SPIRIT OF PERVERSION

FORNICATION:

SPIRIT OF LIES

SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM

SPIRIT OF PERVERSION

CANCER:

SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY

SPIRIT OF BONDAGE

SPIRIT OF (FEAR)?

THE TWELVE STRONGMEN ARE:

1.    SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY

2.    LYING SPIRIT

3.    FAMILIAR SPIRIT (SPIRIT OF DIVINATION)

4.    SPIRIT OF PERVERSION

5.    SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS

6.    SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM

7.    SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY

8.    DEAF AND DUMB SPIRIT

9.    SPIRIT OF FEAR

10. SPIRIT OF PRIDE

11. SPIRIT OF BONDAGE

12. ANTI CHRIST SPIRIT

STRONGMAN	SCRIPTURE	DEMONS UNDER STRONGMAN
1. SPIRIT OF JEALOUSY	NUM 5:11	MURDER
		ANGER
		RAGE
		REVENGE
	PROV 6:34	RESTLESSNESS
		COMPETITION
		SUSPICION / DIVIDES
2. LYING SPIRIT	2 CHRON 18:22	RELIGION
	JER 23:14	ADULTERY
	EZEK 12:24	HOMOSEXUALITY
	2 THESS 2:11	SODOMY
		WALKING IN LIES / DELUSIONS
		PROFANITY
		VANITY / VAIN IMAGINING
		EXAGGERATIONS
		HYPOCRISY
		FLATTERY
	NOTES:	VANITY
		THOSE THAT OPERATE IN VANITY WILL MOVE INTO DIVINATION / CULT ACTIVITY.  THE SPIRIT OF LIES WILL MOVE YOU INTO ANOTHER SPIRIT THAT WILL BRING A STRONGER STRUGGLE.  EXAMPLE:  EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT ‘VAIN VISION’, ‘FLATTERING DIVINATION’.
	NOTES:	RELIGION
		RELIGIOUS DEMON:
		- BRINGS CONDEMNATION
		- ESTEEMS THEMSELVES HIGHER THAN ANYONE ELSE
		- ISOLATES THEMSELVES (CAN’T FIND A CHURCH GOOD ENOUGH)
		- ALWAYS ACCUSING YOU
		- ALWAYS OPPOSING YOU
		- ATTACKS YOUR TESTIMONY
		- ENDS UP IN SOME DEMON ACTIVITY
		- SINGS LOUDER THAN ANYONE ELSE
		- PUTS ON A RELIGIOUS FACE TO PRAY
		- BEFORE THEY SAY ‘JESUS’ THEY SAY ‘DEVIL’.  HE’S BOSS
		- ‘LOOK AT ME AND MY ANOINTING’
3. FAMILIAR SPIRIT AND SPIRIT OF DIVINATION	1 SAM 28:7	HYPNOTIST, VENTRILOQUIST
	DEUT 18:9-12	ASTROLOGY
	ACTS 16:16-18	HOROSCOPE
		FORTUNE TELLING
		OCCULT
		NEW AGE
	NOTES:	DEMONS ARE ATTRACTED TO SIGHT, SOUND, SMELL, EG. INDIAN INCENSE, ROCK MUSIC, ANYTHING UNNATURAL
4. SPIRIT OF PERVERSION (MEANS “TWIST“)	ISA 19:14	HATES THINGS OF GOD
	PROV 14:2	LUST
	PROV 23:33	DOCTRINAL ERROR
	2 TIM 3:2	LOVERS OF SELF MORE THAN GOD
	PROV 15:4	BREACH IN SPIRIT / WOUNDED SPIRIT
	ACTS 13:10
	PROV 17:20
	PROV 17:23
	2 PETER 2
	JUDE
5. SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS	ISA 61:3	GRIEF
	PS 69:20	LONLINESS
	ROM 9:2	DESPAIR
	NEH 2:2	HOPELESSNESS
	NEH 8:10	REJECTION
	PROV 15:13	SELF PITY
	LUKE 4:18	GLUTTONY
	NOTES:	GLOOMY, DOWN, ALWAYS IN DESPAIR, HOPELESS SITUATION, NO WAY OUT, TROUBLE AND SORROW ALL THE TIME, ALWAYS RAINING.
6.  SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM	HOSEA 4:12	IDOLATRY
	EZE 16:28-31	LOVE OF THE WORLD
	EZE 16:15	LOVE OF MONEY

		FELLOWSHIP WITH UNBELIEVERS
		SEXUAL SIN, INCLUDING FORNICATION, ADULTERY, PROSTITUTION, LEWD PICS
	NOTE:	FORNICATION IS A DEMON UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM:  MULTIPLIED FORNICATION - NOT SATISFIED, MUST HAVE MORE.  THE SPIRIT IS CONTROLLING THE PERSON. EMOTIONAL WEAKNESS EXISTS IN THOSE BOUND BY A SPIRIT OF WHOREDOM.  THEY CAN’T SAY ‘NO’.  THEY CAN’T STAND UP AND SAY ‘NO’ TO SEX, OR TO A FILTHY PICTURE.  THEIR HEART IS TAKEN OVER BY THE SIGHT OF IT.  THEIR HEART IS WEAK, THEY CAN’T SAY ‘NO, I DON’T WANT IT’.  THEY SAY ‘OH, YEAH, I’M NOT SATISFIED, I WANT MORE’.  THEY ARE TAKEN OVER BY FORNICATION / ADULTERY / PROSTITUTION
7.  SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY	MARK 9:17	DISEASES
	LUKE 13:11
	JOHN 5:5
	LUKE 4:39
	ACTS 28:8
8.  DUMB AND DEAF SPIRIT	MARK 9:17-26	INSANITY / LUNATIC / SCHIZO
	MATT 17:15	SEIZURES / TEARING / GNASHING
	MATT 12:12	EPILEPSY
		MOTIONLESS / PINETH AWAY
		SUICIDE TENDANCIES

		INNER EAR DISEASE / DUMB
		BLINDNESS / EYE DISEASES
9. SPIRIT OF FEAR	2 TIM 1:7	FEAR HAS:
	1 JOHN 4:18	TORMENT / TERROR
	JOB 4:14	SENSE OF DANGER
	PS 55:5	NIGHTMARES
	EX 15:16	WORRY
	HEB 2:14	TIMIDITY
	LUKE 21:26	PHOBIA / PARANOIA
	PROV 29:25	INFERIORITY COMPLEX, HYPOCR
		STRESS
		HEART ATTACKS
		NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS
		DISORDERS EG. NEURALGIA
	NOTES:	THE END RESULT OF THE SPIRIT OF FEAR IS THE DEMENTED STATE WHERE THE DUMB AND DEAF SPIRIT IS ALSO MANIFESTED, INCLUDING PARANOIA, SCHIZOPHRENIA, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, INSANITY, MELANCHOLIA, MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS: DREAD TO FACE LIFE, INERTIA.  THE SPIRIT OF FEAR IS AN OPPRESSOR.
SPIRIT OF PRIDE	PROV 16:18	MOCKERY / SCORN
	PROV 21:24	STUBBORNNESS
	PROV 29:1	WITCHCRAFT
	1 PET 5:5	GOSSIP

	ISA 2:11	WRATH
	PROV 3:34	ARROGANCE
		SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS
		DICTATORIAL
		CONTROLLING
		CONTENTION
		INSOLENT
11. SPIRIT OF BONDAGE	ROM 8:15	CANNOT CALL ON GOD
	EX 6:9	CANNOT PRAY
	EX 1:14	CANNOT CALL GOD ‘FATHER’
	2 TIM 2:26	ANGUISH
	MATT 4:16	BITTERNESS
	ACTS 10:38	ALL TYPES OF ADDICTION
	PROV 5:22	EG. DRUGS, CIGARETTES, ALCOHOL
	ACTS 8:23	SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS
	JOHN 8:34	OPPRESSED
	ROM 6:16	LUST: EXCESSIVE DESIRES
	2 PET 2:19	COMPULSORY SIN / SUBJECTION
		BOUND: INABILITY TO BREAK FREE
		CAPTIVITY
		SERVANT TO OBEY BONDAGE SPIRIT
	NOTES:	ADDICTIONS
CAST OUT GENERAL AND WHOLE ARMY WILL COME OUT WITH HIM.  CAST OUT INDIVIDUAL SOLDIERS AND WILL BE CASTING OUT FOREVER, WITH GENERAL STILL INSIDE		IF YOU SAY ‘YOU DEMON OF NICOTINE’ OR ‘YOU DEVIL OF DRUGS’ - SLOW, WON’T COME OUT FAST.  IF YOU SAY ‘YOU SPIRIT OF BONDAGE’ WHOLE THING COMES OUT JUST LIKE THAT.

11.   SPIRIT OF BONDAGE (CONT)		LEGS BEGIN TO SHAKE, GOES RIGHT UP THEIR SPINE, AND ‘AAHH’ COMES OUT OF THEIR MOUTH.
12. ANTI CHRIST SPIRIT	1 JOHN 4:3 2 JOHN 7-11	DEMONS OF: §  LEGALISM §  CLAIMS AUTHORITY TO BIND PEOPLE §  BLASPHEMES §  CONTROLLING SPIRIT §  EXALT THEMSELVES §  ATTACK YOUR TESTIMONY §  OPPOSE MEN OF GOD §  SPEAK AGAINST THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT §  INTERRUPTS / DISTURBS SERVICES §  SPEAKS IN TONGUES AT THE WRONG TIME §  PERSECUTES THE SAINTS §  IGNORES THE BLOOD OF JESUS / SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE TO MENTION IT §  SUBSTITUTES OTHER METHODS OF ATONEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE FROM GOD §
COMMON MANIFESTATIONS OF THE DIFFERENT SPIRITS	INSANITY	EYES BECOME GLASSY
	OCCULT	LEGS SHAKE
	SATANISM	STOMACH AREA.  WHOLE BODY SHIVERS UP SPINE AND STOMACH GOES WILD
	WITCHCRAFT	NECK GOES CRAZY / WILD
	CURSE	STRONG SMELL OF SULPHUR
	FORNICATION	VIBRATION ON THE HEAD
	SUICIDE	EYES ALMOST WHITE, SHIVER
	LUNATIC	EYES ROLL UP / CLOSE EYES
	MASTERBATE	FINGERS STIFFEN / TINGLE

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CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL ARE ALSO CALLED:

SONS OF DISOBEDIENCE (EPH 2:2)

OLD MAN (EPH 4:22-24)

FATHER THE DEVIL (JOHN 8:44) / (MATT 13:38) / (1 JOHN 3:10)

 

NAMES OF THE DEVIL MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE:

PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS

RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS AGE

SPIRITUAL HOSTS OF WICKEDNESS IN HEAVENLY PLACES (EPH 6:12)

RULER OF THIS WORLD (JOHN 12:31)

THE ENEMY WHO SOWS WEEDS (MATT 13:39)

YOUR ADVERSARY THE DEVIL (1 PETER 5:8)

… THE FATHER OF LIES (JOHN 8:44)

THE PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR (EPH 2:2)

RULER OF THE DEMONS (MATT 12:24)

KING OVER THE DEMONS IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT (REV 9:11)

RULER OF THIS WORLD (JOHN 16:11)

GOD OF THIS AGE (2 COR 4:4)

SERPENT (2 COR 11:3)

A GREAT DRAGON (REV 102:3)

THE ENEMY (MATT 13:39)

THE TEMPTER (MATT 4:3)

ANGEL OF LIGHT MASQUERADE (2 COR 11:14)

ACCUSER OF THE BRETHEREN (REV 12:10)

DEVIL AND SATAN (REV 12:9) (REV 20:10)

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CHILDREN OF GOD:

AND GOD HAS RAISED US UP WITH CHRIST AND SEATED US WITH HIM IN THE HEAVENLY REALMS IN CHRIST JESUS (EPH 2:6) FAR ABOVE ALL RULE AND AUTHORITY, POWER AND DOMINION, AND EVERY TITLE THAT CAN BE GIVEN, NOT ONLY IN THE PRESENT AGE BUT ALSO IN THE ONE TO COME.  AND GOD PLACED ALL THINGS UNDER (JESUS) FEET .. (EPH 1:21).

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KATHRYN KUHLMAN QUOTE:

IT MEANS SOMETHING TO BE A CHRISTIAN. KNOW THAT. SQUARE YOUR SHOULDERS. LIFT YOUR HEAD HIGH. YOU ARE SOMEBODY. YOU ARE AN HEIR OF GOD AND A JOINT HEIR WITH CHRIST JESUS.

I BELONG TO HIM. THE MIGHTY GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE IS MY HEAVENLY FATHER. I’M HIS BY ADOPTION. I’M JOINT HEIR WITH HIS WONDERFUL SON.

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Extracts from the sermon on tape given to his partners

JERRY SAVELLE

I CANNOT BE DEFEATED

GOD WANTS ME FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. HE HAS DELIVERED AND DRAWN ME TO HIMSELF OUT OF THE CONTROL AND DOMINION OF DARKNESS, SATAN AND ALL HIS COHORTS. SATAN HAS NO AUTHORITY OVER ME WHATSOEVER, AMEN. ACCORDING TO WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL TEACHES ME, ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AT CALVARY, WHAT HAPPENED FROM THE CROSS TO THE THRONE, JESUS DEFEATED SATAN, AND TOOK FROM HIM HIS ABILITY TO HOLD ME CAPTIVE. COL. 2:15 SAYS: ‘HAVING SPOILT PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS HE MADE A SHOW OF THEM OPENLY, TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT.’ THE AMPLIFIED SAYS: ‘HE DISARMED THEM’. – HE DISARMED THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS THAT RANGED AGAINST US. ‘HE DISARMED THEM’ MEANS HE TOOK AWAY SATAN’S WEAPONS – HE HAS NO WEAPONS, PRAISE GOD. JESUS DEPRIVED HIM OF HIS ABILITY TO HARM AND TO HURT ME. ‘DISARMED’ MEANS JESUS OVERCAME SATAN’S HOSTILITY AGAINST ME. ‘DISARMED’ MEANS HE REDUCED HIS POWER AND HIS ABILITY TO ZERO. HALLELUJAH.

LUKE 11:22 SAYS: ‘BUT WHEN A STRONGER THAN HE SHALL COME AND OVERCOME HIM, HE TAKETH FROM HIM ALL HIS ARMOUR WHEREIN HE TRUSTED’. JESUS WAS THE STRONGER AND HE OVERCAME MY ADVERSARY AND TOOK FROM HIM ALL THE ARMOUR IN WHICH HE TRUSTED. REVELATION 1:8 SAYS: ‘I AM HE THAT LIVETH AND WAS DEAD, AND BEHOLD I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE, AND I HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL AND DEATH’. HEBREWS 2:14 SAYS: ‘THAT THROUGH DEATH, HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM THAT HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL’. THE AMPLIFIED SAYS: ‘AND TO BRING TO NOUGHT AND TO MAKE OF NO EFFECT HIS POWER AND HIS ABILITY’.THE ROTHERHAM TRANSLATION SAYS: ‘HE PARALYSED SATAN’S DEATH DEALING POWER’. HALLELUJAH! THE ONE YOU AND I ARE DEALING WITH IS POWERLESS. HALLELUJAH! WHY THEN, ARE SO MANY OF GOD’S PEOPLE STILL IN BONDAGE AND STILL IN CAPTIVITY? A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE. I PRAY THAT I MAY BE FILLED WITH THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD AND CONTINUE TO INCREASE IN HIS KNOWLEDGE. THE BIBLE SAYS IF I CONTINUE IN THE WORD, I WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE ME FREE. WHEN I UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS, I CANNOT BE DEFEATED. I AM BEYOND DEFEAT. AMEN.

1 JOHN 2:14 SAYS: ‘YOU ARE STRONG, AND THE WORD OF GOD ABIDETH IN YOU AND YOU HAVE OVERCOME THE WICKED ONE’. STRONG, WHY? BECAUSE ‘THE WORD OF GOD ABIDES IN YOU’ AND WHEN THE WORD OF GOD ABIDES IN ME RICHLY, I WILL OVERCOME EVERY ATTACK OF THE EVIL ONE, NO MATTER WHAT COMES AGAINST ME, IT WILL NOT SUCCEED WHEN I STAND IN THE AUTHORITY THAT JESUS HAS CONFERRED ON ME. LUKE 10:19 SAYS:‘BEHOLD, I GIVE YOU POWER, AND NOTHING SHALL BY ANY MEANS HURT YOU’. JESUS HAS SHATTERED SATAN’S AUTHORITY. HE HAS NO POWER OVER ME, HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER ME. AND I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO FEAR REGARDING SATAN AND HIS OPERATIONS. IT’S TIME FOR ME TO BEGIN TO ACT AS IF I TRULY BELIEVE IT. WHEN I ACT LIKE THE BIBLE IS TRUE, THEN I CANNOT BE DEFEATED. TRIAL AND ADVERSITIES MAY COME MY WAY, BUT THEY CANNOT KEEP ME FROM LIVING A VICTORIUS LIFE WHEN I KNOW WHO I AM IN CHRIST AND I KNOW MY AUTHORITY AS A CHILD OF THE LIVING GOD. PSALM 34:19 SAYS: ‘MANY EVILS CONFRONT THE CONSISTENTLY RIGHTEOUS, BUT THE LORD DELIVERS THEM OUT OF THEM ALL’. GOD NEVER INTENDED FOR ME TO FAIL, HE NEVER INTENDED FOR ME TO LIVE A DEFEATED LIFE. NOTHING MAKES GOD HAPPIER THAN WHEN HE SEES ME TAKING HIS WORD, TAKING HIS ARMOUR, TAKING HIS NAME AND OVERCOMING EVERY ATTACK THAT IS LAUNCHED AGAINST ME. I REFUSE TO GIVE UP. I REFUSE TO GIVE IN. GOD IS ON MY SIDE. AND IF GOD BE FOR ME, NO-ONE CAN SUCCESSFULLY BE AGAINST ME. GOD HAS PROMISED NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST ME SHALL PROSPER.HALLELUJAH. WHEN GOD IS ON MY SIDE, I CANNOT BE DEFEATED. DEFEAT BECOMES A THING OF THE PAST. GOD WILL ALWAYS MAKE A WAY. RIGHT NOW, WHILE I’M TALKING, GOD IS MAKING THAT WAY, HALLELUJAH. 2 CORINTHIANS 1:10 SAYS: ‘FOR IT IS HE WHO RESCUED AND SAVED US, AND HE WILL AGAIN DELIVER US FROM DANGER AND DESTRUCTION AND HE WILL DRAW US TO HIMSELF’.THE APOSTLE PAUL EXPERIENCED MANY TIMES GOD’S DELIVERING POWER. MANY TIMES PAUL FACED DEATH, MANY TIMES HE FACED TRIALS AND ADVERSITIES, BUT GOD DELIVERED HIM TIME AND TIME AGAIN, AND PAUL IS SO CONFIDENT THAT GOD WILL CONTINUE TO DELIVER HIM THAT HE SAYS ‘HE WILL AGAIN DELIVER US FROM DANGER AND DESTRUCTION AND HE WILL DRAW US TO HIMSELF’. I AM HIS CHILD. HE WILL DELIVER ME ALSO.HALLELUJAH. GLORY TO GOD. ACTS 7:9-10 SAYS:‘BOILING WITH ENVY AND HATRED AND ANGER, HIS BROTHERS SOLD JOSEPH INTO SLAVERY IN EGYPT, BUT GOD WAS WITH HIM AND DELIVERED HIM FROM ALL HIS DISTRESSING AFFLICTIONS AND WON HIM GOOD WILL AND FAVOUR’. WHEN GOD’S FAVOUR IS ON MY LIFE, WHEN GOD’S GOODNESS IS SURROUNDING ME THEN GOD WILL SEE TO IT, NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF AFFLICTION I MAY EXPERIENCE, GOD WILL TURN EVERY SETBACK INTO A VICTORY. HE DID IT FOR JOSEPH AND HE WILL DO IT FOR ME. I MAY BE STRUCK DOWN, BUT I AM NEVER STRUCK OUT, HALLELUJAH. I AM INDEED BEYOND DEFEAT. WHEN I ACT ON WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT ME, NOT WHAT MAN THINKS, SATAN CANNOT KEEP ME FROM OVERCOMING EVERY ATTACK THAT HE LAUNCHES AGAINST ME. CONTRARY TO WHAT SATAN SAYS, HE IS NOT ALL POWERFUL. ONLY GOD IS ALL POWERFUL. SATAN IS NOT ALL POWERFUL AS HE WOULD HAVE ME BELIEVE. I’M THE ONE WITH THE POWER. GOD’S THE ONE WITH THE POWER. AND THANK GOD, IT’S BEEN BESTOWED UPON ME. I HAVE BEEN INDUED WITH POWER, THE BIBLE SAYS. I’M THE ONE WITH THE POWER. I’M THE ONE WITH THE AUTHORITY, NOT SATAN. HE HAS BEEN REDUCED TO ZERO. I ACT ON WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN TO ME. LUKE 24:49 SAYS: ‘WE SHALL BE INDUED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH’. INDUED MEANS I HAVE PUT IT ON AND AM CLOTHED WITH IT. WHEN I AM INDUED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH, IT MEANS I HAVE PUT IT ON AND AM CLOTHED WITH IT. I AM WALKING AROUND WITH POWER AND AUTHORITY. FOR AS I KNOW, AND AM FILLED WITH, THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, I REALISE THAT POWER AND AUTHORITY IS AS CLOSE TO ME AS MY NEXT BREATH; POWER AND AUTHORITY IS AS CLOSE TO ME AS MY ABILITY TO SPEAK THE NAME OF JESUS AND THE WORD OF THE LIVING GOD. IT ALSO MEANS THAT I AM SKILLED IN POWER. I KNOW HOW TO TAKE THIS POWER AND AUTHORITY AND APPLY IT TO ATTACKS AND ADVERSITIES AND OPPOSITION, AND KNOW, THAT NO POWER IS GREATER THAN THE POWER OF GOD UPON MY LIFE. MATTHEW 16:18 SAYS: ‘UPON THIS ROCK I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH AND THE GATES OF HELL WILL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT’. THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE SAYS: ‘SHALL NOT OVERPOWER IT’. WHAT IS THE ROCK? REVELATION KNOWLEDGE. HALLELUJAH! WHEN I AM WALKING IN REVELATION KNOWLEDGE, THE GATES OF HELL CANNOT OVERPOWER OR PREVAIL AGAINST ME. I REFUSE TO HAVE A LACK OF KNOWLEDGE OF MY AUTHORITY OVER SATAN AS A BELIEVER. I WILL ACT ON THAT KNOWLEDGE. I WILL NOT GIVE UP BECAUSE I WILL WIN. IT’S NEVER GOD’S WILL FOR ME TO BE DEFEATED. I KNOW WHO I AM IN CHRIST. THE BIBLE SAYS: ‘THANKS BE UNTO GOD THAT CAUSES ME TO TRIUMPH ALWAYS’. JESUS ALREADY BOUGHT AND PAID FOR THIS AUTHORITY THAT I AM INDUED WITH, THAT I POSSESS. GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. HIS WORD WILL WORK FOR ANY BELIEVER THAT WILL DARE PUT IT TO WORK, HALLELUJAH. I EXERCISE MY AUTHORITY AND I STAND MY GROUND. DEFEAT IS NOT GOD’S PLAN FOR MY LIFE. I CANNOT BE DEFEATED. NOT AFTER WHAT JESUS DID AT CALVARY, I CANNOTBE DEFEATED. I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT IN MY ABILITY, I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT IN MY MIGHT, I’M NOT TALKING ABOUT IN MY STRENGTH. IN MY OWN ABILITY I’M NO MATCH FOR SATAN. BUT I QUIT LEANING ON MY ABILITY AND I AM FILLED WITH THE MIGHT OF ALMIGHTY GOD, HALLELUJAH. AND I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH HIM WHO STRENGTHENS ME. AND SATAN IS NO MATCH FOR THE MIGHT OF THE ALMIGHTY, HALLELUJAH! I AM JUST DECLARING WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. DEUTERONOMY 28:13 SAYS: AND THE LORD WILL MAKE ME THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL. I SHALL BE ABOVE ONLY AND I SHALT NOT BE BENEATH’.THAT’S MY COVENANT. GOD PROMISED BY COVENANT THAT I WILL BE THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL. I WILL BE ABOVE ONLY AND NOT BENEATH. THAT MEANS IT IS NEVER THE WILL OF GOD THAT I EXPERIENCE DEFEAT IN MY LIFE. I AM A WINNER. THERE IS NOT A LOSER IN THIS ROOM TODAY. GLORY TO GOD. NO MATTER WHAT SETBACKS, I’M NOT A FAILURE UNTIL I DECLARE I AM A FAILURE. AND I AM NOT GOING TO DECLARE THAT, BECAUSE THE BIBLE DOES NOT DECLARE THAT, AND ‘M NOT LEANING TO MY OWN WISDOM, I’M LEANING TO THE WISDOM OF GOD. AND WHETHER IT LOOKS LIKE IT, WHETHER I’VE EVER EXPERIENCED SUCCESS OR NOT, THE BIBLE SAYS I AM, THE BIBLE SAYS I CAN, AND I’M GOING TO HOLD FAST TO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, AND EVENTUALLY THINGS WILL TURN AROUND IN MY LIFE, HALLELUJAH! GLORY TO GOD. HIDE AND WATCH, IT AIN’T OVER YET! LET ALL THE WINNERS SHOUT HALLELUJAH. I AM DEVELOPING A WINNER’S ATTITUDE. I’M NOT A LOSER. I CANNOT BE DEFEATED.NOT AFTER WHAT JESUS DID AT CALVARY, HALLELUJAH. JESUS DEFEATED MY ADVERSARY. HE’S BEEN REDUCED TO ZERO. GLORY TO GOD.HALLELUJAH. I REFUSE TO ACCEPT DEFEAT. I KNOW WHO IS FOR ME: THE ALMIGHTY GOD. GOD IS FOR ME, GOD IS WITH ME, AND GOD IS IN ME. AND GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN ME, THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD, HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! I HAVE THE ATTITUDE OF A WINNER. I KNOW GOD IS FOR ME, I KNOW GOD IS WITH ME, AND I KNOW GOD IS IN ME. WHEN I HAVE A REVELATION OF GOD FOR ME, GOD WITH ME AND GOD IN ME, THEN I AM BEYOND DEFEAT. HALLELUJAH, GOD IS FOR ME, GOD IS WITH ME, AND GOD IS IN ME, AND I CANNOT BE DEFEATED. HALLELUJAH. GLORY TO GOD. I CANNOT BE DEFEATED WHEN I KNOW THESE THINGS.I DON’T NEED MORE MONEY, MORE BREAKS OR MORE SLACK. I NEED MORE KNOWLEDGE. IF THE WORLD CAN ACHIEVE WITH WILL POWER, WHAT CAN I ACHIEVE WITH GOD POWER. I REFUSE TO LAY DOWN OR GIVE UP, I HAVE GOD POWER ON THE INSIDE OF ME. I AM A WINNER, NOT A LOSER. I WILL NOT PLAY DEAD AND LET THE DEVIL RUN OVER ME FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE, AND LET THE DEVIL KEEP ME FROM EXPERIENCING ALL THAT GOD SAYS IS RIGHTFULLY MINE. I WILL ACT LIKE THE BIBLE IS TRUE. I AM WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS I AM, I HAVE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS I HAVE, AND I CAN DO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS I CAN DO.DEFEAT WILL BECOME A THING OF THE PAST, WHEN I BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAYS I AM AND BELIEVE THAT I CAN DO WHAT GOD SAYS I CAN DO. MY BREAKTHROUGHS ARE GOING TO START COMING MORE RAPIDLY THAN BEFORE, AND I CANNOT BE DEFEATED, AMEN. I GIVE THANKS UNTO THE FATHER, WHO HAS DELIVERED ME.  I TAKE AUTHORITY IN THE NAME OF JESUS 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BURN UP ALL

WITCHCRAFT AND CURSES

LORD, I SPEAK YOUR SPIRIT OF FIRE BURN UP ALL WITCHCRAFT.  SURELY THEY ARE LIKE STUBBLE; THE FIRE WILL BURN THEM UP. THEY CANNOT SAVE THEMSELVES FROM THE POWER OF THE FLAME.  I SPEAK TO THE NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST:  SPIRIT OF FIRE BURN UP ALL WITCHCRAFT.		(ISA 47:8-14)
LORD, I SPEAK GALATIANS 3:13 OVER ANY CURSES.  I SPEAK THE BLOOD OF JESUS AS A HEDGE AROUND ME.  I BREAK ANY YOKES IN THE POWER OF JESUS NAME AND THE POWER OF BLOOD COVENANT.  I SEND YOUR FIRE ON ALL THORNS.  BURN THEM UP.		(GAL 3:13) (PS 118:10-16) (ISA 33:12)
I PLEAD THE BLOOD OF JESUS AS A HEDGE ABOUT ME, MY HOUSEHOLD AND EVERYTHING I HAVE.  BLESS THE WORK OF MY HANDS.		(JOB 1:10; GAL 3:13-14)
JESUS, YOUR NAME IS AS OINTMENT POURED FORTH.  I POUR FORTH THE NAME OF JESUS, JESUS, JESUS.		(SS 1:3)

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PRAYER TO BREAK ALL 

UNGODLY SOUL TIES

(EXCERPT FROM HOW TO CAST OUT DEMONS BY DORIS M WAGNER): 

IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT,

I BREAK ALL UNGODLY SPIRIT, SOUL, AND BODY TIES THAT HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED BETWEEN YOU AND (SPEAK OUT HERE THE NAME OF THE INDIVIDUAL INVOLVED).

I SEVER THAT LINKING SUPERNATURALLY AND ASK GOD TO REMOVE FROM YOU ALL INFLUENCE OF THE OTHER PERSON (NAME) AND DRAW BACK TO YOURSELF EVERY PART WHICH HAS BEEN WRONGFULLY TIED IN BONDAGE TO ANOTHER PERSON (NAME).  THIS PRAYERFUL STATEMENT MAY THEN BE FOLLOWED UP BY A PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE OF ANY DEMONS THAT ENTERED THROUGH THE PARTICULAR SOUL TIES BEING REFERRED TO AT EACH STAGE.  IF YOU ARE READY TO MOVE STRAIGHT ON TO DELIVERANCE, CONTINUE AS FOLLOWS:

I NOW SPEAK DIRECTLY TO EVERY EVIL SPIRIT THAT HAS TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THIS UNGODLY SOUL TIE.  YOU NO LONGER HAVE ANY RIGHTS HERE, AND I ORDER YOU TO LEAVE NOW WITHOUT HURTING OR HARMING ___ OR ANY OTHER PERSON, AND WITHOUT GOING INTO ANY OTHER MEMBER OF THE FAMILY.  IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.

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SPIRIT-LED PRAYER TO

RELEASE FROM SLAVERY

POINTERS

ANOINTING FOR BREAKTHROUGH - COMMUNION, ANOINTED OIL.

NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY GOD’S SPIRIT

NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU CAN PROSPER AND EVERY TONGUE THAT RISES AGAINST YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED.  THIS IS THE HERITAGE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD, AND THEIR VINDICATION IS FROM ME, DECLARES THE LORD.

SMITE DEBT/SICKNESS - CANCELLED 

AUTHORISED TO WIN

GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS

ANOINTING BREAK BONDAGE TO SLAVERY

LIFT UP HEAD - HEAD NOT TAIL (DEUT 28:13)

TAIL FALL IN THE ANOINTING

HEAD ONLY IN CHRIST JESUS

CAPTIVES SET FREE

SPIRIT OF TRUTH SETS YOU FREE - IF YOU OBEY JESUS COMMAND THEN YOU ARE HIS DISCIPLES INDEED AND YOU SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE.  THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH LEADS AND GUIDES INTO ALL TRUTH.  IT IS FOR FREEDOM THAT CHRIST HAS SET YOU FREE.  STAND FIRM, THEN, AND DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE BURDENED AGAIN BY A YOKE OF SLAVERY (GAL 5:1).

GOD MAKES A WAY FOR YOU

SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS IN ABUNDANCE

SPEAK / DECREE : WEALTH, HOUSES, RICHES, LAND ETC

SATAN CRASHED TO THE GROUND - I SAW SATAN FALL LIKE LIGHTNING FROM HEAVEN.

SPIRIT OF FIRE CONSUME ALL THAT IS NOT OF GOD.  ONLY GOD’S WILL WILL STAND.

SPEAK / DECREE RICH BLESSINGS, SATISFYING LIFE

YOU ARE IN THE PALM OF GOD’S HAND

NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST YOU WILL PROSPER.

NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY GOD’S SPIRIT

CUT AGREEMENT BETWEEN PERSON AND BONDAGE TO SLAVERY AGREEMENT WITH THE GRAVE - ISA 28:18 - YOUR COVENANT WITH DEATH WILL BE ANNULLED, YOUR AGREEMENT WITH THE GRAVE WILL NOT STAND.

PUT PERSON IN LIFE CYCLE - YOU ARE A SON OF GOD - OPERATE BY THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST, NOT THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.

SPEAK THE SPIRITUAL LAW OF INCREASE START OPERATING IN THE PERSON‘S LIFE- GIVE AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN, REMIND GOD OF WHAT THE PERSON HAS SOWN.  LIFT WHAT THE PERSON HAS SOWN TO HEAVEN, ASK GOD TO BLESS IT AND MULTIPLY THE SEED SOWN BACK IN A 100 FOLD HARVEST

GOD IS MIGHTY TO SAVE - ZEPHANIAH 3:17, ISA 63:1

SPEAK / DECREE INCREASE, WEALTH, RICHES, ABUNDANT BLESSINGS

CUT GENERATIONAL SPIRITS / CURSES OF POVERTY, BONDAGE TO SLAVERY, ETC. PASSING DOWN FROM ANCESTORS

TAKE ANOINTED COMMUNION, (LIFT UP BREAD AND WINE TO GOD, GIVE THANKS, ASK HIM TO ANOINT IT) THAT DEBT SMITTEN, BONDAGE TO SLAVERY BROKEN ETC (SPIRIT-LED PRAYER)

ALL UNEQUAL YOKES SMASHED

POWER OF THE DEVIL SMASHED.  IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, IN THE AUTHORITY OF HIS WORD GIVEN TO ME IN BLOOD COVENANT, IN THE POWER OF HIS BLOOD THAT DEFEATED SATAN AT THE CROSS AND FOREVERMORE (REV 12:11), I BREAK THE POWER OF THE DEVIL OVER ____‘S LIFE.   I GIVE THE ORDER. BE BROKEN NOW!  IN JESUS NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME.  FALL LIKE LIGHTNING SATAN. 

CHIEF DESIRES OF PERSONS HEART GRANTED - WHAT GOD MADE HIM TO BE AND DO - PURPOSE ON EARTH - GOD GIVES YOU THE POWER TO CREATE WEALTH

NO WORD UNFULFILLED - GOD’S WORD COMES TO PASS - GOD FAITHFUL TO WATCH OVER IT TO PERFORM IT

ENFORCE AND DECREE DEVIL DEFEATED AS LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD

PSALM 112 - RIGHTEOUS MAN BLESSED, WEALTH IN HIS HOUSE

ZEPHANIAH 3:17- THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU, HE IS MIGHTY TO SAVE

PS 37:4 - DELIGHT YOURSELF IN THE LORD AND HE WILL GIVE YOU ALL THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART

WEALTH AND RICHES IN HOUSE

GOD IS MIGHTY TO SAVE - ZEPHANIAH 3:17, ISA 63:1

DESIRES OF HEART GRANTED.

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PRAYER FROM THE INTERNET:

IN JESUS NAME I CONFESS AND REPENT ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND MY ANCESTORS FOR SINS / INIQUITIES ANY OFFERING BLEMISHED SACRIFICE TO YOU.  I BREAK ANY CURSE PLACED ON ME / MY BLOODLINE FOR THESE SINS / INIQUITIES BACK TO ADAM AND EVE.  IN JESUS NAME I COMMAND THE POWER OF THE DEVIL BROKEN NOW.  COME OUT IN JESUS NAME.

I BREAK THE CURSE OF ANY IDOL WORSHIP AND/OR ABOMINATIONS THAT CAUSED ___ TO GO AFTER THE GODS OF THIS WORLD.  IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I COMMAND THE CURSE BROKEN NOW AND COME OUT IN JESUS NAME.I COMMAND THE CURSE OF IDOLATRY LOOSE ___.  I BREAK EVERY CURSE OF THE WANDERER AND VAGABOND.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF REBELLION, DISOBEDIENCE AND NOT OBEYING THE WORD OF GOD.  I COMMAND SELFISHNESS AND GREED TO LOOSE ___ IN JESUS NAME. 

I BREAK THE CURSE OF THE CITY.  I COMMAND ALL LAWLESSNESS / REBELLION CEASE IN JESUS NAME.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF CONFUSION.  I COMMAND THE SPIRIT OF CONFUSION, THE SPIRIT OF BABYLON, HARLOT SYSTEM, WHORISH NATURE, AFTER OTHER GODS, LOOSE ___ NOW IN JESUS NAME.  I GO BACK TEN GENERATIONS AND I BREAK THAT CURSE IN ___ LIFE.  I COME AGAINST THE BABYLON CURSE.  I REBUKE BLASPHEMY AND CURSES OF DAMNATION SPOKEN UPON ME / OR DOWN BLOODLINE FOR TEN GENERATIONS.  EVERYTHING THAT TRIED TO TAKE AWAY MY SELFWORTH, BROKEN!  IN JESUS NAME. 

I COME AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF DESTRUCTION, PERISHING AND QUICKENING.  ALL BACKBITING, SLANDER, CONTENTION, ANGER, HATRED, COME OUT IN JESUS NAME.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF DELAY.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF POVERTY.  I COMMAND THE SPIRIT LOOSE ___, IN JESUS NAME.  THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN STOLEN FROM ___ I COMMAND THEM TO COME INTO OBEDIENCE TO THE WORD OF GOD.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF THE THIEF AND LIAR, INCEST, ILLEGITIMACY AND SODOMY.  I COME AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF PRIDE AND SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS.  I COMMAND ALL RELIGIOUS SPIRITS LOOSE ___, IN JESUS NAME.  I COMMAND THE CURSE OF BRASS, NOT HEARING, NO SIGHT, NO VISION, BE BROKEN, NOW!  IN JESUS NAME.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF BLINDNESS AND GODLESSNESS IN ___, IN JESUS NAME.  I COMMAND CONDEMNATION, YOU LOOSE ___ IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF POWDERED EVIL AND DUST FROM THE HEAVENLIES AND THE SPIRIT OF DESTRUCTION.

I BREAK THE CURSES THAT CAUSE ___ TO BE STRUCK DOWN BEFORE ___ ENEMIES.  SPIRIT OF FAILURE LOOSE ___.  I BREAK EVERYTHING THAT MAKES ___ THE TAIL.  EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO BRUISE ___ LIFE, I CANCEL IT, IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. 

I BREAK THE STRONGHOLD OF A CONTRARY SPIRIT.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF LUST, PROMISCUITY, ADULTERY, FORNICATION:  YOUR ASSIGNMENT IS CANCELLED.

I BREAK THE CURSE OF ALL WITCHCRAFT.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF THE FALSE PROPHET.  I COMMAND ALL FALSE TEACHING BROKEN OFF ___ LIFE IN JESUS NAME.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF UNBELIEVERS.  I BREAK THE CURSE OF JEZEBEL.  I COMMAND THE WITCH / WARLOCK, THE GENERATION MAN THAT HAS BEEN INFILTRATED WITH ALL THESE THINGS, GO IN JESUS NAME.

I COMMAND ALL DEMONS ASSOCIATED WITH THESE CURSES COME OUT, IN JESUS NAME.

I TAKE THE BLOOD OF JESUS AND ERASE ALL EVIL LINES (EG. LEYLINES?).  I BREAK THE POWER OF WITCHES /WARLOCKS /WIZARDS / SATANISTS /SORCERORS /WICCANS /PAGANS /OTHERS AND ALL THEIR RITUALS OFF ___.

COMPOUND SPIRIT IE INTERLOCKING SPIRITS? I BIND AND REJECT, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, ALL INTERLOCKING SPIRITS. I COMMAND, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THAT THERE WILL BE NO COMMUNICATION BETWEEN YOU OR ANYONE ELSE. I COMMAND, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, THAT YOU LEAVE QUIETLY AND IMMEDIATELY GO TO THE FOOT OF THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.

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EXTRACTS FROM:

THE SEDUCING SPIRIT

MARY GARRISON

NOW THE SPIRIT OF GOD SPEAKS EXPRESSLY THAT IN THE LATTER TIMES SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH, GIVING HEED TO SEDUCING SPIRITS AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS; SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY; HAVING THEIR CONSCIENCE SEARED AS WITH A HOT IRON.’ 2 TIM 4:1

MANIFESTATIONS (FRUIT) OF THE SEDUCING SPIRIT THAT IT IS WORKING THROUGH A HUMAN BEING. THE HUMAN BEING WILL HAVE THESE MANIFESTATIONS OR FRUIT:

SEAR THE CONSCIENCE

DO THE FOLLOWING IN AN EVIL WAY:

SEDUCE

ENTICE

TEMPT

ALLURE

EXCITE

INTEREST

FASCINATE

ATTRACT

AROUSE

WIN OVER

TO BRING IN A DECEIVING SPIRIT

A SEDUCING SPIRIT IS AN EVIL EMISSARY SENT FROM SATAN TO PERFORM A CERTAIN MISSION. THAT MISSION IS TO OVERTHROW A PARTICULAR PERSON, TAKING HIM INTO CAPTIVITY. HAVING ACCOMPLISHED THAT TASK, HE THEN TURNS HIS VICTIM OVER TO ANOTHER SPIRIT TO DO HIS PARTICULAR JOB ON THAT PERSON. THE NEXT DEMON OR SPIRIT MAY BE ANY NUMBER OF EVIL SPIRITS: DECEIVING, LYING, PERVERSE, ETC. WE COULD SAY THE SEDUCING DEMON OR SPIRIT IS A FORERUNNER FOR MANY OTHER DEMON SPIRITS. HE MUST ACCOMPLISH HIS TASK BEFORE MANY OTHERS CAN START, AS EACH SPIRIT MUST BEAR FRUIT AFTER HIS KIND. WE TRY THEM BY THEIR FRUIT. JESUS SAID SO! THE SEDUCING SPIRIT OR DEMON IS ONLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INITIAL WORK OF SEDUCTION. HIS PURPOSE IS TO: SEAR THE CONSCIENCE,

SEDUCE

ENTICE

TEMPT

ALLURE

EXCITE

INTEREST

FASCINATE

ATTRACT

AROUSE

WIN OVER

AND THEN TO BRING IN A DECEIVING SPIRIT

1. THE SEDUCING SPIRIT WILL CAREFULLY SELECT THE YIELDED VESSEL (PERSON) HE HAS CHOSEN TO WORK THROUGH. THAT DECISION WILL BE BASED UPON THE PARTICULAR WEAKNESS OF THE VICTIM - LUST, ETC. HE WILL WORK UNTIRINGLY, UNCEASINGLY UPON THESE WEAK AREAS IN THE VICTIM UNTIL HE SURRENDERS WITHOUT FURTHER RESISTANCE. IT IS ONLY AFTER THE VICTIM HAS GIVEN HEED (PAY ATTENTION = GIVEN PLACE TO, LISTENED WITH INTEREST TO) THAT THE SEDUCING SPIRIT CAN INFLICT HIS NEXT BLOW!

2. NOW WHAT? THE SEDUCING SPIRIT KNOWS THAT THE PERSON (VICTIM) AND EVERY MAN, HAS WITHIN HIM THE ABILITY TO KNOW THE RIGHT WAY, AND TO KNOW GOD. THIS KNOWLEDGE OF GOD IS SEATED IN THE PART OF THE BODY WE CALL THE CONSCIENCE. THE SEDUCING SPIRIT /DEMON NOW MOVES IN FOR A PARALYZING BLOW TO THE CONSCIENCE. HE BURNS OR SEARS THE CONSCIENCE, THE BIBLE SAYS, AS IF WITH A HOT IRON. THE DICTIONARY SAYS: TO CAUTERIZE IT, TO MAKE CALLOUS, WITHERED, HARDENED, AND INSENSIBLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG. THE SEDUCING SPIRIT /DEMON RENDERS THE CONSCIENCE UNABLE TO ACTIVELY AND ALERTLY REBUKE, CONDEMN, AND EFFECTIVELY RESIST THE DARK FORCE USED BY THIS DEMON.

NOW THE VICTIM HAS A TERRIBLE WOUND - OR BURN - A BURN IS VERY SUSCEPTIBLE TO GERMS OF ALL KINDS. THERE IS NO RESISTANCE IN A BURNED AREA.

NOW THAT THERE IS NO ABILITY LEFT IN THE VICTIM TO DIVIDE RIGHT FROM WRONG, HE IS IN TOTAL SUBMISSION TO THE EVIL SPIRIT. THE JOB OF THE SEDUCING SPIRIT IS COMING TO AN END IN THE VICTIM. HE WILL THEN LEAD THE VICTIM ASTRAY INTO ERROR, TURNING HIM OVER TO WHICHEVER DEMON IS TO CARRY ON. THEN A DECEIVING, PERVERSE, ETC WILL BEGIN TO MINISTER TO HIM. WE MAY TRY THE INCOMING SPIRIT BY ITS FRUIT - SO AS TO KNOW THE NAME OF THE DEMON.

BUT TAKE HEED TO YOURSELVES.

CHRISTIANS ARE NOTED FOR THEIR GULLIBILITY. BUT THIS IS NOT THE WAY JESUS HAS INSTRUCTED US TO BE. A DEMON HAS TRIED TO TEACH US TO BE EASILY TRICKED, CHEATED OR DEFRAUDED. JESUS TOOK GREAT CARE TO WARN US OF THIS. SAYING, TAKE HEED, BEHOLD, I HAVE FORETOLD YOU ALL THINGS. AND HE DID! WE JUST DON’T ALWAYS BOTHER TO SEEK THEM OUT PROPERLY.

SEVEN WAYS TO AVOID SEDUCTION:

1. REGARD WITH CARE

2. PAY CLOSE ATTENTION

3. NOTICE WHAT FRUIT IS BEING PRODUCED

4. OBSERVE CAREFULLY, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE TRUTH

5. USE PRESENCE OF MIND

6. DO NOT BE FOOLISH

7. TRY THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY BE OF GOD

HOW ARE WE TO LOOSE THOSE THAT ARE SEDUCED?

1. BIND THE STRONGMAN DEMONS, CALLING THEM BY THE PROPER NAME.

2. THE SEDUCING SPIRIT MUST BE OUSTED FROM BOTH BODIES, THE SEDUCER AND THE SEDUCED WHICH HE LIVES AND OPERATES THROUGH. HE MUST BE COMMANDED NOT TO COME BACK.

NOW WE ARE STUCK WITH ALL THE DAMAGE DONE - HIS GOODS. WE STILL HAVE A DECEIVED VICTIM, A MESSED UP LIFE, PERHAPS A HEAD FULL OF ERROR, A SMASHED UP HOME, SEPARATED FAMILY, HABITS BUILT UP ACCORDING TO THE SECOND OR THIRD DEMONS FRUIT. SO ,YOU SEE, THERE IS FAR MORE WORK INVOLVED THAN JUST TO DEAL WITH THE DESTROYERS, ALTHOUGH DEALING WITH THE STRONGMAN IS THE MAIN WORK. IT IS THE EASIEST OF ALL. AFTER WE HAVE THE STRONGMAN BOUND, JESUS SAYS WE ARE THEN TO DESTROY HIS GOODS. 2 COR 10:6.

PROCEDURE FOR REPROVING ALL WORKS OF DARKNESS

IS FOUND IN EPH 5:5-17

WE ARE TO REPROVE ALL WORKS OF DARKNESS THAT THEY WILL BE MADE MANIFEST IN THE LIGHT, THAT THEY WILL CLEARLY BE SEEN AND DEALT WITH. MINISTERING SPIRITS NEED TO BE CALLED IN TO OCCUPY THE TERRITORY GAINED - TO KEEP OUT SNIPERS, INTRUDERS, UNTIL A COMPLETE HEALING CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED. OIL, LAYING ON OF HANDS, PRAYERS OF FAITH MUST BE ADMINISTERED.

AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT, (VERSE 8) WE HAVE A RIGHT TO PROVE WHAT WE SUSPECT TO BE HIDDEN ACTS OF EVIL, AND LOOK AT THEM CLOSELY SO THAT WE MAY PROVE WHAT IS ACCEPTABLE UNTO THE LORD (VERSE 10).

SEEING THEM IN THE LIGHT OF TRUTH WE ARE BETTER ABLE TO DECIDE WHAT THE CONTENT IS. THEREFORE, WE MUST REPROVE THEM.

WE MIGHT PRAY ALONG THESE LINES:

‘I COMMAND THAT ALL OF THE DARK WORKS DONE IN SECRET PLACES OF DARKNESS AND HIDDEN FROM MY EYES, AND A SHAME TO SPEAK OF, ALSO ALL THE EVIL SPIRITS (HUMAN OR DEMONIC) INVOLVED IN SUCH WORKS OF DARKNESS BE MADE MANIFEST (EXPOSED, SHOWN CLEARLY, VISIBLE) IN LIGHT TO ME, THAT I MAY VIEW THESE WORKS. (ANOTHER SCRIPTURE IS ISA 28:14-29).

VERSE 13, WHATEVER WE SEE AND DECIDE IS REPROVABLE WILL BE MADE MANIFEST IN LIGHT FOLLOWING OUR PRAYER OF REBUKE, CENSOR AND BLAME, WITH WHICH WE CHARGE AND ATTACK THESE UNSEEN WORKS AND FORCES.

ONCE THE DARK WORK BECOMES MANIFEST IN THE LIGHT, WE MUST BE PREPARED AND WILLING TO TAKE PROPER ACTION.

VERSE 11, STOP FELLOWSHIP WITH UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS THAT ARE BEING DONE IN SECRET OR MYSTERY.

LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, AFTER REPENTANCE, THE GOSPEL OF TRUTH MUST BE PREACHED TO THEM TO SEAL THE DELIVERANCE AND COMPLETELY FREE THE VICTIM.

SO, YOU SEE, WE HAVE MUCH TO DO IN THE SPIRIT AS FIRST WORK WHICH CAN BE DONE SILENTLY FROM ANY DISTANCE. ALSO, MUCH TO DO IN THE PHYSICAL, BUT REMEMBER WE ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES WORKING ON THIS CASE. GOD HAS A MIGHTY ARMY AWAITING TO DO BATTLE.

ARE NOT ALL THE MINISTERING SPIRITS TO BE SENT FORTH FOR US - THE HEIRS OF SALVATION ? HEBREWS 1:14

SEND THEM FORTH!

MARY GARRISON

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THE KEYS OF THE 

KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

There are six major keys listed in the bible:

Jesus holds these three keys:

1. The key of david (rev 3:7, isa 22:22)

2. The key of hell (rev 1:18)

3. the key of death (rev 1:18)

The believer holds these three keys:

1. The key of knowledge (luke 11:52, luke 11:46-47) also see: matt 16:18.

2. The key of binding (matt 16:19)

3. The key of loosing (matt 18:18)

　

THE DEVIL IS DEFEATED.

　

ALL THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL WERE NULLIFIED AT THE CROSS: WE HAVE AUTHORITY TO TRAMPLE ON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS AND OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY (LUKE 10:19). QUOTE JERRY SAVELLE: “COL. 2:15 SAYS:

‘HAVING SPOILT PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS HE MADE A SHOW OF THEM OPENLY, TRIUMPHING OVER THEM IN IT.’ THE AMPLIFIED SAYS: ‘HE DISARMED THEM’. – HE DISARMED THE PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS THAT RANGED AGAINST US. ‘HE DISARMED THEM’ MEANS HE TOOK AWAY SATAN’S WEAPONS – HE HAS NO WEAPONS, PRAISE GOD. JESUS DEPRIVED HIM OF HIS ABILITY TO HARM AND TO HURT ME. ‘DISARMED’ MEANS JESUS OVERCAME SATAN’S HOSTILITY AGAINST ME. ‘DISARMED’ MEANS HE REDUCED HIS POWER AND HIS ABILITY TO ZERO. HALLELUJAH.”

I PUT ON THE FULL ARMOUR OF GOD (EPH 6). GOD ALMIGHTY, BE A WALL OF FIRE AROUND ME, AND BE MY GLORY WITHIN (ZECH 2:5). I PUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS AROUND ME AS A HEDGE OF PROTECTION (JOB 1:10).

I OVERCOME THE DEVIL BY MY BLOOD COVENANT WITH GOD. JESUS IS THE MEDIATOR OF THE NEW COVENANT BETWEEN GOD AND ME (HEBR 9:15, 1 TIM 2:5-6): I OVERCOME YOU, DEVIL, BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB AND THE WORD OF MY TESTIMONY (COVENANT)(REV 12:11). SATAN, THE BLOOD OF JESUS IS AGAINST YOU. I DECREE YOUR POWER IS BROUGHT TO NOUGHT AND MADE OF NO EFFECT (HEBR 2:14 ROTHERHAM TRANSLATION, AMPL.).

IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, IN THE AUTHORITY OF HIS WORD GIVEN TO ME IN BLOOD COVENANT, IN THE POWER OF HIS BLOOD THAT DEFEATED SATAN AT THE CROSS AND FOREVERMORE (REV 12:11), I BREAK THE POWER OF THE DEVIL OVER __________ LIFE. I GIVE THE ORDER. BE BROKEN NOW! IN JESUS NAME THAT IS ABOVE EVERY NAME. FALL LIKE LIGHTNING SATAN. (2 COR 10:4; LUKE 10:19; 1 JOHN 3:8; ISA 58:6).

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PRAYER TO BREAK THE CURSE OF

FREEMASONERY

PRAYER COPYWRITE HIS CHURCH, PINETOWN, S.A.

IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND BY THE AUTHORITY I POSSESS AS A BELIEVER IN HIM, I DECLARE THAT I AM REDEEMED OUT OF THE HAND OF THE DEVIL.

THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS, ALL MY SINS ARE FORGIVEN.  THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, GOD’S SON IS CLEANSING ME NOW FROM ALL SIN.  THROUGH IT, I AM RIGHTEOUS, JUST AS IF I HAD NEVER SINNED.

THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS, I AM SANCTIFIED, MADE HOLY, SET APART FOR GOD – FOR I AM A MEMBER OF A CHOSEN GENERATION, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PECULIAR PEOPLE, THAT I SHOULD SHOW FORTH YOUR PRAISES, LORD GOD, WHO HAS CALLED ME OUT OF DARKNESS INTO YOUR MARVELOUS LIGHT (1 PETER 2:9).

MY BODY IS A TEMPLE FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT, REDEEMED AND CLEANSED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

I BELONG TO THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, SPIRIT, SOUL AND BODY.  HIS BLOOD PROTECTS ME FROM ALL EVIL.

IN JESUS’ NAME, I CONFESS RIGHT NOW THAT I HAVE BEEN GUILTY OF THE SIN OF IDOLATRY IN THE MASONIC LODGE (1 JOHN 1:9).  IN AGREEMENT WITH THE LORD, I CALL THAT INVOLVEMENT SIN AND ASK HIM TO COMPLETELY REMOVE IT FROM MY LIFE. 

IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I REBUKE ANY AND ALL THE LYING AND DECEITFUL SPIRITS OF FREEMASONRY WHICH MAY THINK THEY STILL HAVE A CLAIM ON ME (JAMES 4:7).  IN JESUS’ NAME, I RENOUNCE THE SPIRITS OF FREEMASONRY:

- BA’AL                                      (SUN GOD)

- JAHBALON                             (UNHOLY TRINITY)

- BAPHOMET                            (SEX GOD – ANTI CHRIST)

- TUBALCAIN                            (MURDER, BLOODSHED)

AND DECLARE THAT YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER ME ANY MORE, FOR I AM BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS, SHED ON CALVARY.

IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I RENOUNCE ANY AND ALL THE OATHS MADE AT THE ALTARS OF FREEMASONRY, NAMELY:

1      THAT MY HEART WILL BE RIPPED OUT IF I SHOULD EXPOSE THE SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY

2      THAT MY THROAT WILL BE SLIT FROM EAR TO EAR IF I SHOULD EXPOSE THE SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY

3      THAT MY INTESTINES WILL BE PULLED OUT AND FED TO WILD ANIMALS IF I SHOULD EXPOSE THE SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY

4      THAT MY BODY WILL BE BURIED IN THE ROUGH SANDS OF THE SEA, AT THE LOW-WATER MARK WHERE THE TIDE EBBS AND FLOWS TWICE IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS

5      THAT MY TONGUE WILL BE TORN OUT BY ITS ROOTS IF I SHOULD EXPOSE THE SECRETS OF FREEMASONRY

I RENOUNCE AND BREAK THE CODE OF SILENCE THAT I SWORE WITH AN OATH IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

I BREAK EVERY COVENANT AND/OR BLOOD COVENANT THAT WAS MADE AND I CANCEL IT OUT IN JESUS’ NAME.  I ASK FORGIVENESS FOR THAT SIN AND I THANK YOU FOR THE BLOOD OF JESUS THAT CLEANSES ME.

I ASK YOU, FATHER, THAT IF THERE IS ANY BLOOD THAT IS TESTIFYING AGAINST ME IN THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION, THAT YOU WOULD PLEASE QUIETEN THAT BLOOD WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS.  THANK YOU FOR THE BLOOD OF JESUS THAT SETS ME FREE.

I RENOUNCE ANY OATH OF LOYALTY I SWORE TO THE ORGANISATION IN JESUS’ NAME.

I CANCEL OUT ALL THE RITUALS IN WHICH I PARTICIPATED, NAMELY:

1      THE CABLE-TOW (CORD) AROUND THE NECK (“THE CORD OF LIFE”) WHICH MEANT THAT I WAS ADOPTED INTO LUCIFER’S FAMILY.  I NOW BREAK THIS TIE IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND I ASK YOU FATHER TO PLEASE ADOPT ME AND TO TAKE BACK THE ADOPTION PAPERS OUT OF LUCIFER’S HAND.

2      THE BLINDFOLD UPON MY EYES WHICH SYMBOLIZED, WHEN TAKEN OFF, AN “ILLUMINATED MIND”.  I RENOUNCE THE OPENING OF THE THIRD EYE AND I ASK YOU LORD TO SEAL IT NOW WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS.

3      THE BAPTISM OF FREEMASONRY (THREE TIMES SUBMERSION) INTO A COFFIN AND THE RESURRECTION AS A FREEMASON (DYING WITH THE MASONIC ‘CHRIST’ – BA’AL OR TAMMUZ – HE IS RAISED WITH HIM).  I ALSO RENOUNCE THE SECRET MASTER’S WORD “MAH-HAH-BONE” THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME DURING THIS RITUAL AS I WAS “RAISED FROM THE DEAD”.

4      I BREAK THE SOUL TIE THAT WAS FORMED WITH THE SPIRIT OF DEATH IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.  I SEVER MYSELF FREE FROM THIS SPIRIT AND BREAK THE CONTRACT THAT WAS MADE WITH HIM IN JESUS NAME.

5      IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I RENOUNCE ALL THE OCCULTIC SYMBOLS AND TOKENS NAMELY THE SQUARE AND COMPASSES (SEXUAL ORGANS), THE PENTAGRAM, THE LETTER ‘G’ – THESE ARE ACTUALLY FORMS OF THE OLDEST IDOLS IN HISTORY.

6    I RENOUNCE EVERY APRON (THE PRIESTHOOD OF LUCIFER – THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON) THAT I RECEIVED AND WORE DURING THE RITUALS AS WELL AS THE RANKING THAT EACH APRON REPRESENTED.  SATAN, ;IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, I GIVE YOU BACK EVERY RANKING I EVER RECEIVED. 

7    I RENOUNCE THE “LION’S PAW” HANDSHAKE, POSITION OF THE FEET OR ANY OTHER FORM OF IDENTIFICATION AS A FREEMASON IN THE NAME OF JESUS.  IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST I RENOUNCE THE FREEMASON’S FAITH IN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON AS WELL AS THE KEYS OF SOLOMON.

8    I RENOUNCE ANY CONTACT POINTS WHERE MY FAMILY NAME WAS WRITTEN IN ANY FREEMASONRY BOOKS, STONE TABLETS, OBELISKS, ETC.  AS WELL AS ALL WITNESSES THAT WERE PRESENT AT THE RITUALS, PHYSICALLY AS WELL AS IN THE SPIRIT IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

9    I RENOUNCE THE ‘ALL SEEING EYE’ OF LUCIFER, THE POWER OF THE PYRAMID AS WELL AS THE WHOLE HEIRARCHY OF FREEMASONRY.  I SEVER MYSELF FROM ANY TIES WITH EGYPT, AND ANY WORSHIP OF THEIR SEX GODS I RENOUNCE AND CANCEL IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

I BREAK ALL BONDAGES OF SLAVERY UPON MY LIFE COMING FROM FREEMASONRY IN THE NAME OF JESUS.

I BREAK THE SOUL TIES WITH THE GRAND MASTER MASON AND I RENOUNCE HIS AUTHORITY OVER MY LIFE IN JESUS NAME.

I ALSO RENOUNCE THE FIVE POINTS OF FELLOWSHIP WITH FREEMASONRY IN JESUS NAME;

IN THE POWERFUL NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, I NOW CHANGE EVERY CURSE INTO A BLESSING – I REVERSE THE CURSE!!  THANK YOU LORD!!

BY THE POWER OF HIS SHED BLOOD, I ALSO BREAK ANY GENERATIONAL SIN AND BONDAGE WHICH MAY BE OPPRESSING ME THROUGH OATHS MADE BY MY PARENTS OR ANCESTORS (EXODUS 20:5) AND I NAIL ALL THESE THINGS TO THE CROSS OF CHRIST (COLOSSIANS 2:14).

I ALSO BREAK ANY AND ALL POWER OF THE DEVIL THROUGH THESE OATHS OVER MY CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN AND COMMAND HIM TO LEAVE THEM ALONE, FOR THEY ARE UNDER THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB OF GOD!

I ALSO ASK THE LORD TO CLEANSE ANY POSSIBLE SIN OF ILLEGITIMACY THROUGH THE TENTH GENERATION WITH THE BLOOD OF JESUS (DEUTERONOMY 23:2).

BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, SATAN HAS NO MORE POWER OVER ME AND NO PLACE IN ME.  I RENOUNCE HIM AND HIS HOSTS COMPLETELY AND DECLARE THEM TO BE MY ENEMIES.

JESUS SAID: ‘THESE SIGNS SHALL FOLLOW THEM THAT BELIEVE; IN MY NAME SHALL THEY CAST OUT DEVILS (MARK 16:17).

I AM A BELIEVER, AND IN THE NAME OF JESUS I EXERCISE MY AUTHORITY AND EXPEL ALL EVIL SPIRITS.  I COMMAND THEM TO LEAVE ME NOW, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD AND THE NAME OF JESUS.

I FORGET THOSE THINGS THAT ARE BEHIND AND REACH OUT TO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE TO COME.  I PRESS TOWARD THE MARK FOR THE PRIZE OF THE HIGH CALLING OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS (PHIL 3:14).

AMEN

A FULL 21 PAGE PRAYER TO BREAK THE CURSE OF FREEMASONRY

(INCLUSIVE OF ALL LEVELS IN FREEMASONRY) IS AVAILABLE IN

APPENDIX 5 OF:   HOW TO CAST OUT DEMONS, A GUIDE TO THE BASICS, BY

DORIS M. WAGNER.

CONCLUDING PRAYER:

HOLY SPIRIT, I ASK THAT YOU SHOW ME ANYTHING ELSE WHICH I NEED TO DO OR TO PRAY SO THAT I MAY BE TOTALLY FREE FROM THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SINS OF FREEMASONRY, WITCHCRAFT, MORMONISM AND ALL RELATED PAGANISM AND OCCULTISM.

NOW DEAR FATHER GOD, I ASK HUMBLY FOR THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST, YOUR SON AND MY SAVIOUR, TO CLEANSE ME FROM ALL THESE SINS I HAVE CONFESSED AND RENOUNCED, TO CLEANSE MY SPIRIT, MY SOUL, MY MIND, MY EMOTIONS, MY INTELLECT, MY WILL AND EVERY PART OF MY BODY WHICH HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THESE SINS, IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST.

I ALSO COMMAND EVERY CELL IN MY BODY TO COME INTO DIVINE ORDER NOW, AND TO BE HEALED AND MADE WHOLE AS THEY WERE DESIGNED TO BE BY MY LOVING CREATOR, INCLUDING RESTORING ALL CHEMICAL IMBALANCES, AND NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTIONS, CONTROLLING ALL CANCEROUS CELLS, AND REVERSING ALL DEGENERATIVE DISEASES, IN THE NAME OF MY LORD JESUS CHRIST.  I PRAY FOR HEALING ACCORDING TO JAMES 5:14-16.

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EXCERPTS FROM :

MARY K BAXTER

A DIVINE REVELATION OF HELL

VISIONS OF THE ANTI CHRIST / END TIME

OPEN VISIONS FROM HELL 

THE LORD SAID, THIS VISION IS FOR THE FUTURE, AND IT WILL COME TO PASS. BUT I SHALL RETURN TO REDEEM MY BRIDE, MY CHURCH, AND THEY SHALL NOT SEE IT. AWAKEN, O MY PEOPLE! SOUND THE ALARM TO THE CORNERS OF THE EARTH, FOR I SHALL RETURN AS MY WORD HAS SPOKEN.

I BEHELD THE FIERY SERPENT THAT WAS IN THE RIGHT ARM OF HELL.

JESUS SAID, COME, SEE WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE WORLD.

I SAW THE HORNS OF THE FIERY SERPENT AS THEY ENTERED THE BODIES OF PEOPLE ON EARTH. MANY WERE COMPLETELY POSSESSED BY THE SERPENT. AS I WATCHED, I SAW A HUGE BEAST ARISE IN A LARGE PLACE AND TURN INTO A MAN. THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH RAN FROM HIM, SOME INTO THE WILDERNESS, SOME INTO CAVES, AND SOME INTO SUBWAY STATIONS AND BOMB SHELTERS. THEY SOUGHT ANY SHELTER TO HIDE FROM THE EYES OF THE BEAST. NO ONE WAS PRAISING GOD OR TALKING ABOUT JESUS.

A VOICE SAID TO ME, WHERE ARE MY PEOPLE?

I LOOKED CLOSER AND SAW PEOPLE LIKE DEAD MEN WALKING. THERE WAS A DESPERATE SADNESS IN THE AIR, AND NO ONE TURNED TO THE RIGHT OR LEFT. I SAW THAT THE PEOPLE WERE BEING LED ABOUT BY SOME UNSEEN FORCE. NOW AND THEN A VOICE SPOKE TO THEM OUT OF THE AIR, AND THEY OBEYED THE VOICE. THEY DID NOT TALK TO ONE ANOTHER. I SAW TOO THAT THE NUMBER ‘666’ WAS WRITTEN ON EACH ONE’S FOREHEAD AND ON HIS HANDS. I SAW SOLDIERS ON HORSES HERDING THE PEOPLE ABOUT AS THOUGH THEY WERE CATTLE.

THE AMERICAN FLAG, TATTERED AND TORN, LAY FORLORNLY ON THE GROUND. THERE WAS NO JOY, NO LAUGHTER, NO HAPPINESS. I SAW DEATH AND EVIL EVERYWHERE.

THE PEOPLE WALKED BEHIND ONE ANOTHER INTO A LARGE DEPARTMENT STORE. THEY KEPT IN STEP LIKE DISCOURAGED SOLDIERS AND WERE DRESSED IDENTICALLY IN A TYPE OF PRISON GARB. A FENCE SURROUNDED THE STORE, AND GUARDS WERE STATIONED HERE AND THERE. EVERYWHERE I LOOKED, I SAW SOLDIERS IN BATTLE-DRESS UNIFORMS.

I SAW THESE ZOMBIE-LIKE PEOPLE HERDED INTO THE STORE, WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO BUY ONLY THE BAREST NECESSITIES. AS EACH COMPLETED HIS PURCHASES, HE WAS PLACED ABOARD A LARGE GREEN ARMY TRUCK. THE TRUCK, WELL GUARDED, WAS THEN DRIVEN TO ANOTHER AREA.

HERE, IN A TYPE OF CLINIC, THESE PEOPLE WERE EXAMINED FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES OR CRIPPLING HANDICAPS. A SMALL NUMBER OF THEM WERE SHUFFLED TO THE SIDE AS REJECTS.

SOON, THOSE WHO FAILED THE EXAMINATION WERE TAKEN TO ANOTHER ROOM. IN THAT ROOM, AN IMPRESSIVE ARRAY OF SWITCHES, BUTTONS AND GAUGES LINED AN ENTIRE WALL. A DOOR OPENED, AND SEVERAL TECHNICIANS CAME IN. ONE OF THEM BEGAN TO CALL THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM. WITHOUT A STRUGGLE, THEY AROSE WHEN THEIR NAMES WERE CALLED AND MARCHED INTO A LARGE BOX. WHEN THEY WERE INSIDE, ANOTHER TECHNICIAN CLOSED THE DOOR AND PULLED A SWITCH IN A PANEL ON THE WALL.

A FEW MINUTES LATER HE OPENED THE DOOR, TOOK DOWN A BROOM AND DUST PAN, AND SWEPT WHAT REMAINED OF THEM OFF THE FLOOR. NOTHING BUT A BIT OF DUST WAS LEFT OF WHAT HAD ONCE BEEN A ROOMFUL OF PEOPLE!

I SAW THOSE PEOPLE WHO PASSED THE MEDICAL EXAM BEING PUT BACK INTO THE SAME TRUCK AND DRIVEN TO A TRAIN. NO ONE SPOKE OR EVEN TURNED TO LOOK AT ANYONE ELSE. AT ANOTHER BUILDING EACH PERSON WAS ASSIGNED A JOB. THEY ALL WENT TO WORK WITHOUT A SINGLE DISPUTE. I WATCHED AS THEY WORKED VERY HARD AT THEIR ASSIGNED TASKS, AND THEN AT THE END OF THE DAY, THEY WERE TAKEN TO AN APARTMENT BUILDING WITH A HIGH FENCE AROUND IT. EACH UNDRESSED AND WENT TO BED. TOMORROW THEY WOULD WORK HARD AGAIN.

I HEARD A LOUD VOICE FILL THE NIGHT AIR.

I SAW A HUGE BEAST, AND HE SAT ON A LARGE THRONE. ALL THE PEOPLE OBEYED THE BEAST. I SAW SPIRITUAL HORNS GROWING FROM HIS HEAD. THEY REACHED INTO AND OUT OF EVERY PLACE ON EARTH. THE BEAST TOOK UPON HIMSELF MANY POSITIONS OF AUTHORITY AND MANY OFFICES, AND HE BECAME GREAT IN POWER.

THE BEAST PUSHED HIMSELF INTO MANY PLACES AND DECEIVED MANY PEOPLE. THE RICH AND FAMOUS WERE DECEIVED AS WELL AS THE POOR AND DISFRANCHISED. SMALL AND GREAT PAID HOMAGE TO THE BEAST.

A LARGE MACHINE WAS BROUGHT INTO AN OFFICE. THE BEAST PUT HIS MARK ON IT, AND HIS VOICE CAME OUT OF IT. THERE WAS ALSO A ‘BIG BROTHER’ MACHINE THAT COULD SEE INTO HOMES AND BUSINESSES. ONLY A SINGLE MACHINE OF THIS TYPE EXISTED, AND IT BELONGED TO THE BEAST. THE PART OF THE MACHINE THAT WAS LOCATED IN THE HOMES OF PEOPLE WAS INVISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE, BUT IT COULD AND DID REPORT TO THE BEAST EVERY MOVE THE PEOPLE MADE. I WATCHED AS THE BEAST TURNED HIS THRONE AROUND AND FACED TOWARD ME. ON HIS FOREHEAD WAS THE NUMBER 666.

AS I WATCHED, I SAW ANOTHER MAN IN ANOTHER OFFICE BECOME VERY ANGRY AT THE BEAST. HE DEMANDED TO TALK WITH HIM. HE WAS YELLING AT THE TOP OF HIS VOICE. THE BEAST APPEARED AND SEEMED VERY COURTEOUS AS HE SAID, COME, I CAN HELP YOU TAKE CARE OF ALL YOUR PROBLEMS.

THE BEAST TOOK THE ANGRY MAN INTO A LARGE ROOM AND MOTIONED FOR HIM TO LIE DOWN ON A TABLE, THE ROOM AND THE TABLE REMINDED ME OF A HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM. THE MAN WAS GIVEN AN ANESTHESIA AND WHEELED BENEATH A VAST MACHINE. THE BEAST ATTACHED WIRES TO THE MAN’S HEAD AND TURNED ON THE MACHINE. ON THE TOP OF THE MACHINE WERE THE WORDS, THIS MIND ERASER BELONGS TO THE BEAST, 666.

WHEN THE MAN WAS REMOVED FROM THE TABLE, HIS EYES HAD A VACANT STARE, AND HIS MOVEMENTS REMINDED ONE OF A ZOMBIE IN A MOVIE. I SAW A LARGE BLANK SPOT ON THE TOP OF HIS HEAD, AND I KNEW HIS MIND HAD BEEN SURGICALLY ALTERED SO HE COULD BE CONTROLLED BY THE BEAST.

THE BEAST SAID, NOW, SIR, DO YOU FEEL BETTER? DIDN’T I SAY I COULD TAKE CARE OF ALL YOUR PROBLEMS? I HAVE GIVEN YOU A NEW MIND. YOU WILL HAVE NO WORRIES OR TROUBLES NOW.

THE MAN DID NOT SPEAK.

YOU WILL OBEY MY EVERY COMMAND, SAID THE BEAST AS HE PICKED UP A SMALL OBJECT AND ATTACHED IT TO THE MAN’S SHIRT. HE SPOKE AGAIN TO THE MAN, AND HE ANSWERED WITHOUT MOVING HIS LIPS. HE MOVED LIKE A LIVING DEAD MAN.

YOU WILL WORK AND NOT GET ANGRY OR FRUSTRATED, NOR WILL YOU CRY OR BE SAD. YOU WILL WORK FOR ME UNTIL YOU DIE. I HAVE MANY LIKE YOU THAT I CONTROL. SOME LIE, SOME KILL, SOME STEAL, SOME MAKE WAR, SOME HAVE CHILDREN, SOME RUN MACHINERY, AND SOME DO OTHER THINGS. YES, I CONTROL EVERYTHING. AN EVIL LAUGH CAME FROM HIM.

THE MAN WAS HANDED PAPERS TO SIGN. HE GLADLY GAVE ALL HIS BELONGINGS TO THE BEAST.

IN MY VISION I SAW THE MAN LEAVE THE OFFICE OF THE BEAST, GET IN A CAR AND DRIVE HOME. WHEN HE APPROACHED HIS WIFE, SHE TRIED TO KISS HIM, BUT HE MADE NO ATTEMPT TO RESPOND. HE HAD NO FEELING FOR HIS WIFE OR ANYONE ELSE. THE BEAST HAD MADE HIM INCAPABLE OF FEELING ANY EMOTION.

THE WIFE BECAME VERY ANGRY AND SCREAMED AT HER HUSBAND, BUT TO NO AVAIL. AT LAST SHE SAID, OK, I’LL CALL THE BEAST. HE WILL KNOW WHAT TO DO. AFTER A QUICK PHONE CALL, SHE LEFT THE HOUSE AND DROVE TO THE SAME BUILDING HER HUSBAND HAD JUST LEFT.

THE BEAST WELCOMED HER IN AND SAID, TELL ME ALL YOUR TROUBLES. I AM SURE I CAN HELP YOU.

A VERY HANDSOME MAN TOOK HER BY THE ARM AND LED HER TO THE SAME TABLE HER HUSBAND HAD BEEN ON EARLIER. AFTER THE SAME OPERATION, SHE ALSO BECAME A DEPERSONALISED SLAVE OF THE BEAST.

I HEARD THE BEAST ASK HER, HOW DO YOU FEEL? SHE DID NOT ANSWER UNTIL AFTER HE ATTACHED A SMALL OBJECT TO HER BLOUSE. THEN SHE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HE WAS MASTER AND LORD AND BEGAN TO WORSHIP HIM.

YOU WILL BE A BREEDER, HE SAID. YOU WILL HAVE PERFECT BABIES, AND THEY WILL WORSHIP AND SERVE ME.

THE WOMAN REPLIED IN A ROBOTIC VOICE, YES, MASTER, I WILL OBEY.

I SAW THE WOMAN AGAIN. THIS TIME SHE WAS IN ANOTHER BUILDING. THERE WERE MANY PREGNANT WOMEN THERE. THE WOMEN LAY LIFELESSLY ON THEIR BEDS AND IN CHANTED MONOTONES PRAISED THE BEAST. ALL HAD 666 ON THEIR FOREHEADS.

WHEN THEIR BABIES WERE BORN, THEY WERE TAKEN TO ANOTHER BUILDING WHERE MIND-ALTERED NURSES HAD THE TASK OF RAISING THEM. THE NURSES ALSO HAD 666 ON THEIR FOREHEADS.

THE BEAST GREW IN POWER UNTIL HIS EMPIRE STRETCHED ACROSS THE EARTH. THE BABIES ALSO GREW, AND AT A CERTAIN TIME, THEY ALSO WENT BENEATH THE MIND-DESTROYING MACHINE. THEY WORSHIPED THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE. BUT THE MACHINE HAD NO POWER OVER THE CHILDREN OF GOD.

I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD SAY, THOSE THAT WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE SHALL PERISH. MANY SHALL BE DECEIVED AND WILL FALL, BUT I WILL SAVE MY CHILDREN FROM THE BEAST. THESE THINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE END TIMES. DO NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST. REPENT NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE.

THE BEAST WILL CALL HIMSELF A MAN OF PEACE. AND HE WILL BRING PEACE TO MANY NATIONS OUT OF A VERY CHAOTIC TIME. HE WILL BE ABLE TO SUPPLY THE WORLD WITH MANY INEXPENSIVE GOODS, AND HE WILL ASSURE THAT EVERYONE’S PAY IS SUFFICIENT. HE WILL MAKE AN ALLIANCE WITH MANY NATIONS, AND THE GREAT MEN OF THE WORLD WILL FOLLOW HIM INTO A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY.

BEFORE THESE TIMES I WILL RAISE UP AN ARMY OF BELIEVERS THAT WILL STAND FOR TRUTH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS. THE MIGHTY ARMY THAT JOEL SPOKE ABOUT WILL HEAR MY VOICE FROM THE RISING OF THE SUN TO THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN.

IN THE NIGHT HOURS ALSO THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE, AND THEY WILL ANSWER ME. THEY WILL WORK FOR ME, AND THEY WILL RUN LIKE MIGHTY MEN OF WAR. THEY SHALL DO GREAT WORKS FOR ME, FOR I WILL BE WITH THEM.

ALL THESE THINGS WERE REVEALED TO ME BY THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IN AN OPEN VISION. THEY ARE THE WORDS OF HIS MOUTH, AND THEY CONCERN THE TIMES OF THE END.

JESUS AND I RETURNED HOME, AND I WONDERED ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE HAD SHOWN ME AND TOLD ME. I FELL ASLEEP PRAYING FOR THE SALVATION OF ALL MANKIND.

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KENNETH COPELAND

REFUSE THE FEAR

 BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY MAGAZINE MAY 2000

‘FEAR NOT’ IS NOT JUST A SUGGESTION;  IT’S A COMMAND - A COMMAND WE’VE NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH.

  

‘I’M AFRAID SO’

‘I’M AFRAID NOT’

‘I’M AFRAID I CAN’T MAKE IT ON TIME’

NO ONE LIKES TO BE AFRAID.  YET PEOPLE HAVE BECOME SO USED TO FEAR, THEY HAVE TROUBLE IMAGING LIFE WITHOUT IT.  IT’S SUCH A PART OF THEIR THINKING THEY’VE MADE IT A FAMILIAR - EVEN WELCOME - PART OF THEIR CONVERSATION. 

‘WELL, BROTHER COPELAND, ISN’T FEAR A NATURAL THING?’  YES, AND THAT’S WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT.  GOD’S WORD NOT ONLY TELLS US WE CAN LIVE FREE FROM FEAR, BUT IT ALSO COMMANDS US TO DO SO. 

LOOK AT WHAT THE PROPHET ISAIAH SAID ABOUT FEAR.

FEAR THOU NOT; FOR I AM WITH THEE: BE NOT DISMAYED; FOR I AM THY GOD: I WILL STRENGTHEN THEE; YEA, I WILL HELP THEE; YEA, I WILL UPHOLD THEE WITH THE RIGHT HAND OF MY RIGHTEOUSNESS (ISAIAH 41:10).

FEAR NOT; FOR THOU SHALT NOT BE ASHAMED; NEITHER BE THOU CONFOUNDED; FOR THOU SHALT NOT BE PUT TO SHAME: FOR THOU SHALT FORGET THE SHAME OF THY YOUTH, AND SHALT NOT REMEMBER THE REPROACH OF THY WIDOWHOOD ANY MORE.  FOR THY MAKER IS THINE HUSBAND; THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME; AND THY REDEEMER THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL; THE GOD OF THE WHOLE EARTH SHALL HE BE CALLED (ISAIAH 54:4-5).

IN BOTH OF THESE PASSAGES ‘FEAR NOT’ IS NOT JUST A SUGGESTION; IT’S A COMMAND - A COMMAND WE’VE NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY ENOUGH.  YES, THE HUMAN RACE IS RIDDLED WITH FEAR, BUT CHRISTIANS NOT ONLY DON’T HAVE TO BE, BUT SHOULD NOT BE.

LET’S LOOK AT HOW FEAR CAME INTO THE WORLD.  THE BIBLE SAYS, ‘…SIN ENTERED INTO THE WORLD, AND DEATH BY SIN…’ (ROM 5:12).  WHEN ADAM MADE SATAN HIS LORD, SATAN - WHO NEVER CREATED ANYTHING - PERVERTED THE FORCE OF FAITH IN ADAM AND IT BECAME FEAR.

EVERYTHING GOD HAD INVESTED IN ADAM’S SPIRIT CAME UNDER THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH, FROM WHICH CHRIST (THE ANOINTED ONE) FREED US (ROM 8:2).  THE FAITH ADAM RECEIVED WITH WHICH TO CONNECT WITH GOD BECAME THE SAME SPIRITUAL FORCE THAT CONNECTED HIM TO THE DEVIL.  FEAR IS TWISTED OR PERVERTED FAITH.  FEAR WORKS IN THE SPIRIT WORLD THE SAME AS FAITH  - IT ACTIVATES SATAN THE WAY FAITH ACTIVATES GOD.

EVIDENCES OF THIS ARE ALL AROUND US.  FOR EXAMPLE, SOMEONE WHO IS TOLD THEY’LL DIE OF CANCER WILL FEAR DEATH BECAUSE THEY HAVE FAITH IN CANCER.  FEAR OF CANCER IS REALLY FAITH IN ITS ABILITY TO KILL YOU.  FEAR OF A POISONOUS SNAKE IS REALLY FAITH IN THAT SNAKE’S ABILITY TO HURT AND KILL.  FEAR OF OUR CHILDREN FALLING ILL WITH DISEASE IS FAITH IN THE SICKNESS AND DISEASE.

FEAR IS CONNECTED TO THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH THE SAME WAY FAITH IS CONNECTED TO THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN CHRIST JESUS.

SO WHEN GOD SAYS ‘FEAR NOT’ WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION UNDER THE BLOOD OF JESUS TO RESIST FEAR.

THE KEY TO GETTING RID OF FEAR

REMEMBER, GOD DOESN’T WANT YOU HANDLING THE FEAR.  HE’S ALREADY OVERCOME IT FOR YOU.  HE WANTS YOU TO GET RID OF IT!  LET’S SPEND SOME TIME IN ISAIAH 54 LOOKING AT HOW FEAR OPERATES AND HOW WE CAN GET RID OF IT.  LOOK AT VERSE 10 AND VERSES 13-14:

FOR THE MOUNTAINS SHALL DEPART, AND THE HILLS BE REMOVED; BUT MY KINDNESS SHALL NOT DEPART FROM THEE, NEITHER SHALL THE COVENANT OF MY PEACE BE REMOVED, SAITH THE LORD THAT HATH MERCY ON THEE… AND ALL THY CHILDREN SHALL BE TAUGHT OF THE LORD; AND GREAT SHALL BE THE PEACE OF THY CHILDREN.  IN RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALT THOU BE ESTABLISHED:  THOU SHALT BE FAR FROM OPPRESSION; FOR THOU SHALT NOT FEAR: AND FROM TERROR; FOR IT SHALL NOT COME NEAR THEE.

THE KEY TO GETTING RID OF FEAR IS GIVEN TO US IN THAT LAST VERSE - BE ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.  BEING THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN MAKE HAPPEN THROUGH OUR OWN EFFORTS.  WE ARE IN RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD BECAUSE HE SAID SO, THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS.  OUR PART IS TO ESTABLISH THAT TRUTH IN OUR OWN THINKING.  WE ARE RIGHTEOUS IN HIM AND GOD IS FOR US AND NOT AGAINST US.  EVEN WHEN WE MAKE MISTAKES, GOD SAYS, ‘DON’T WALLOW AROUND IN GUILT!  JUST COME TO ME, CONFESS THE THING AND GET RID OF IT!’ 

THE PURPOSE OF TRAINING YOUNG CHILDREN SHOULD BE TO TEACH THEM GOOD JUDGMENT - NOT FEAR.  WHEN WE TRAIN OUR CHILDREN WE COULD SAY, ‘DON’T GO OUT IN THE STREET.  DADDY’S AFRAID YOU’LL BE RUN OVER…’ OR WE COULD SAY, ‘ YOU SEE THAT CAR?  CARS ARE GOOD AND ONE DAY YOU’LL BEG ME TO DRIVE MINE.  BUT DON’T PLAY IN THE STREET BECAUSE CARS CAN MASH YOU FLAT!’  THE SECOND WAY DOESN’T BRING FEAR INTO GOOD JUDGMENT.  SURE, IT TAKES MORE TIME THAN SAYING, ‘GET OUT OF THE STREET.  DON’T YOU KNOW YOU’RE GOING TO GET KILLED OUT THERE!’  BUT IT DOESN’T RELEASE FEAR INTO THE CHILD’S LIFE.

FAR FROM OPPRESSION

ACCORDING TO VERSE 14, WHEN WE ARE ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, THEN WE’LL BE FAR FROM OPPRESSION BECAUSE WE WON’T FEAR.  ONE DICTIONARY DEFINES OPPRESSION AS ‘THE TAKING AWAY OF MEN’S GOODS OR ESTATES BY TERROR OR FORCE WITHOUT HAVING ANY RIGHT THERETO, BY WORKING ON THE IGNORANCE, WEAKNESS OR FEARFULNESS OF THE OPPRESSED. (AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, NOAH WEBSTER 1828).  ACTS 10:38 DESCRIBES JESUS AS GOING ABOUT ‘DOING GOOD, AND HEALING ALL THAT WERE OPPRESSED OF THE DEVIL’. 

OPPRESSION IS SOMEBODY TAKING SOMETHING AWAY FROM YOU (WITHOUT A RIGHT TO IT).  SICKNESS IS A SATANIC OPPRESSION.  THE DEVIL DOESN’T HAVE ANY RIGHT TO TAKE YOUR HEALTH.  HE’S NOT YOUR  GOD.  YOU’VE BEEN BOUGHT WITH A PRICE, AND YOUR BODY BELONGS TO JESUS.  BY THE STRIPES ON HIS BODY, YOU WERE HEALED.

LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF HOW, WHEN WE ARE ESTABLISHED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND KNOW OUR COVENANT RIGHTS, WE CAN STOP THE ENEMY FROM USING OPPRESSION AND FEAR TO STEAL FROM US.  MY DAUGHTER, KELLIE’S SECOND CHILD, LYNDSEY, GOT SICK THE CHRISTMAS SHE WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD.  CHRISTMAS MORNING SHE LOST CONSCIOUSNESS AND WHEN THEY WOKE HER, SHE DIDN’T KNOW ANYBODY.  THEY RUSHED HER TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM WHERE SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH THE MOST DEADLY TYPE OF SPINAL MENINGITIS.  ITS USUAL KILLING TIME IS 48 HOURS OR LESS.  TWO CHILDREN IN THE HOSPITAL HAD DIED AND ANOTHER HAD BOTH LEGS AMPUTATED BECAUSE OF IT, YET THE INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALISE SAID SHE’D NEVER SEEN A WORSE SPINAL TAP TEST.

KELLIE KNEW FROM PSALM 112, THAT A PERSON WHOSE HEART IS FIXED TRUSTING IN THE LORD, NEVER FEARS EVIL TIDINGS.  MY DAUGHTER TERRI TOLD ME LATER, ‘KELLIE LEFT THAT DOCTOR, WALKED UP TO ME, LOOKED ME STRAIGHT IN THE FACE AND CALMLY AND FIRMLY SAID, ‘I REFUSE TO FEAR IN THE NAME OF JESUS.’

WE TAUGHT OUR CHILDREN THIS WAY.  WE REFUSE TO HAVE FEAR EVEN AT A MOMENT LIKE THAT!

AT THE TIME OF THIS ATTACK, GLORIA AND I WERE IN COLORADO WAITING ON A FRIEND’S AIRPLANE TO PICK US UP AND TAKE US TO THEM.  AS WE PRAYED, I LOOKED AT GLORIA AND SAID, ‘I HAVE A STRONG URGENCY TO RECEIVE COMMUNION TOGETHER.’  SHE SAID, ‘I DO TOO.  LET’S TAKE COMMUNION RIGHT NOW.’  SO WE DID.

AT THE HOSPITAL, MY DAUGHTER, TWO SONS-IN -LAW AND JERRY AND CAROLYN SAVELLE WERE MOVED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD TO TAKE COMMUNION.  WITHOUT BEING AWARE OF IT, WE ALL TOOK COMMUNION AT THE VERY SAME TIME.  THEY IN FORTH WORTH AT THE HOSPITAL - GLORIA AND I IN COLORADO.  FIVE MINUTES LATER, LYNDSEY WOKE UP AND SAID, ‘DADDY, WHY ARE ALL THESE WIRES ON ME?’  BY THE NEXT AFTERNOON, SHE WAS RUNNING AROUND THE HOSPITAL.

WHERE DID THE VICTORY TAKE PLACE?  THE VICTORY TOOK PLACE IN US.  EVERY ONE OF US TOOK AUTHORITY OVER FEAR AND REFUSED TO BE MOVED BY IT.  WE ESTABLISHED OURSELVES IN THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD AND STAYED FAR FROM OPPRESSION.  WITHOUT FEAR THERE WAS NOTHING TO CONNECT US TO IT.

ACTING ON THE WORD ONLY

THAT PARTICULAR DISEASE TRIES TO CUT OFF CIRCULATION IN APPENDAGES OF THE BODY.  WHEN THE DOCTORS TESTED LYNDSEY, THEY FOUND SOME HEARING LOSS.  THAT GAVE US ANOTHER GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO BE AFRAID.  WHEN GLORIA AND I ARRIVED LATER THAT FIRST NIGHT, I WENT TO LYNDSEY’S BEDSIDE.  ‘LYNDSEY,’ I SAID, ‘I SPEAK TO THE ANOINTING THAT IS IN YOU ACCORDING TO 1 JOHN 2 THAT SAYS THE ANOINTING WE HAVE RECEIVED OF HIM ABIDES IN US NOW.  I STIR IT UP!”

LYNDSEY LOOKED UP AT ME, GRITTED HER TEETH AND SAID, ‘I AM HEALED, IN THE NAME OF JESUS.’  NOW THE DOCTORS SAID THE HEARING LOSS WAS WORSE IN ONE EAR THAN THE OTHER, SO WHEN LYNDSEY TALKED ON THE TELEPHONE, SHE WOULD USE THE EAR THAT WAS WORSE, ABSOLUTELY DETERMINED TO WALK BY FAITH!

WHY WOULD AN 11 YEAR OLD GIRL DO THAT?  BECAUSE HER MAMA AND DADDY TAUGHT HER TO DO IT!  THE THINGS OF GOD ARE MORE NATURAL TO HER THAN THE WORLD’S WAY OF DOING THINGS.  LYNDSEY AND HER MOTHER QUOTED SCRIPTURES ABOUT HEARING EVERY MORNING AND NIGHT, OVER HER EARS.  SEVERAL WEEKS LATER SHE HAD LESS HEARING LOSS, AND FINALLY EVEN THAT LEFT.

ACTING ON THE WORD OF GOD INSTEAD OF ACTING ON FEAR PUTS US FAR FROM OPPRESSION.  YES, THE DRIVE TO BE AFRAID IS A TERRIBLE FORCE, BUT WE HAVE BEEN REBORN.  THERE’S A GREATER FORCE AT WORK IN US.  THE FAITH OF GOD WE FEED WITH THE WORD KEEPS THAT FEAR CAST OUT!  BY RECEIVING JESUS AS LORD AND SAVIOUR AND ACTING ON THE WORD, WHAT WAS A FOUNTAIN OF FEAR HAS BECOME A FOUNTAIN OF FAITH.

WHAT THE DEVIL TRIES TO DO IS TRAIN US IN HABITS OF FEAR SO HE CAN STEAL, KILL AND DESTROY.  BUT WE DON’T HAVE TO TAKE THOSE THOUGHTS.  IN FACT, ANYTHING THAT JESUS BORE ON THE CROSS, WE’RE OBLIGATED TO RESIST WITH EVERYTHING THAT IS IN US!  LOOK AT ISAIAH 54:15:  ‘BEHOLD, THEY SHALL SURELY GATHER TOGETHER, BUT NOT BY ME: WHOSOEVER SHALL GATHER TOGETHER AGAINST THEE SHALL FALL FOR THY SAKE.’

WHEN FEAR AND OPPRESSION AND TERROR TRY TO GET TO YOU, TELL THEM TO FALL.  SAY, ‘FALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS!  I REFUSE TO BACK OFF FROM YOU.’

YEARS AGO, A PREACHER TOOK ME WITH HIM TO MINISTER IN A HOSPITAL.  I’D BEEN SAVED A MONTH OR SO AND DIDN’T KNOW ANYTHING..  AT THE TIME, I WEIGHED ABOUT 245 POUNDS.  WE WENT TO SEE A LITTLE, SICK, MOSTLY OUT OF HER HEAD OLD WOMAN, WHO WEIGHED ABOUT 75 POUNDS.  WE WERE JUST STANDING THERE BY HER HOSPITAL BED WHEN SUDDENLY SHE RAISED UP, LOOKED RIGHT AT ME AND SHOUTED, ‘SICK, BOY!  SICK, SICK BOY!  SICK!’

I BOLTED FOR THE DOOR.  THE DEMONS IN THAT LITTLE WOMAN RAN ME OUT OF THAT ROOM!  OUTSIDE, I WAS SO ASHAMED.  I SAID, ‘LORD, THIS IS PITIFUL.  IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I’LL NEVER AGAIN RUN FROM THE DEVIL THE REST OF MY LIFE.  BUT YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO TEACH ME HOW TO DEAL WITH DEVILS.’

SINCE THEN, I’VE BEEN AROUND SOME OF THE MEANEST, MOST DEMONIC PEOPLE ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH, WALKED RIGHT IN AND WALKED RIGHT OUT AND HAD GOD ALMIGHTY PROTECT ME EVERY STEP OF THE WAY.  ISAIAH 54:17 TELLS US: ‘NO WEAPON FORMED AGAINST THEE SHALL PROSPER, AND EVERY TONGUE THAT RISES UP AGAINST THEE IN JUDGMENT THOU SHALT CONDEMN.  THIS IS THE HERITAGE OF THE SERVANTS OF THE LORD, AND THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS FROM ME,’ SAITH THE LORD. 

REDEEMED FROM FEAR AND OPPRESSION

WE HAVE AN ANOINTING - THE BURDEN-REMOVING, YOKE-DESTROYING POWER OF GOD INSIDE US.  SO FOR US TO ACT IN FEAR IS BLASPHEMOUS.  WE MAY BE TREMBLING FROM THE KNEES UP AND SHAKING FROM THE KNEES DOWN.  WE MAY HAVE BEEN AFRAID ALL OUR LIVES.  FEAR MAY SEEM LIKE IT’S JUST PART OF US.  BUT WE CAN RESIST FEAR, SAYING, ‘I HAVE BEEN REDEEMED FROM THE POWER AND BONDAGE OF THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.  FEAR, TAKE YOUR HAND OFF MY LIFE.  I REFUSE TO BE AFRAID OF ANYTHING I HAVE BEEN REDEEMED FROM.’

HEBREWS 2:14-15 SAYS:

FORASMUCH THEN AS THE CHILDREN ARE PARTAKERS OF FLESH AND BLOOD, HE ALSO HIMSELF LIKEWISE TOOK PART OF THE SAME, THAT THROUGH DEATH HE MIGHT DESTROY HIM THAT HAD THE POWER OF DEATH, THAT IS, THE DEVIL; AND DELIVER THEM WHO THROUGH FEAR OF DEATH WERE ALL THEIR LIFETIME SUBJECT TO BONDAGE.

THE NEXT TIME YOU’RE TEMPTED TO RUN FROM THE DEVIL, REMEMBER DAVID.  WHEN PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO HIDE FROM GOLIATH, DAVID WAS ASKING, ‘WHAT DO I GET IF I KILL HIM?’

WHEN GOLIATH MOUTHED HIS THREATS, DAVID TALKED HIS FAITH: ‘I’LL TAKE YOUR HEAD OFF.  I’LL SHOW THE WHOLE WORLD THAT THERE’S A GOD IN ISRAEL!’  HE KNEW A PERSON IN COVENANT WITH GOD IS NEVER AT THE MERCY OF ANY THREAT FROM THE DEVIL.  DOWN GOLIATH WENT, AND DAVID CUT OFF HIS HEAD.

THAT’S THE WAY YOU CAN BE.  ‘(SUBMIT TO GOD), RESIST THE DEVIL AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU.’  (JAMES 4:7).  MAKE THE DEVIL DREAD EVERY DAY YOU GET OUT OF BED.  WHEN THE DEVIL COMES STORMING IN, TELL HIM, ‘GET OUT, IN THE NAME OF JESUS!’  PUT THAT WHOLE ARMOUR ON!  AND WHEN YOU DO, THINK WHAT YOU MUST LOOK AND SOUND LIKE TO THE DEVIL.  YOU’RE STANDING BEHIND THE SHIELD OF FAITH.  THE FACEPLATE IS PULLED DOWN ON THE HELMET OF SALVATION.  YOUR BODY’S COVERED WITH TRUTH AND THE BREASTPLATE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND YOUR FEET ARE SHOD WITH THE GOSPEL OF PEACE.  WAVING THE SWORD OF THE (HOLY) SPIRIT AS YOU REFUSE TO SPEAK ANYTHING BUT FAITH IN THE NAME OF JESUS!

THE DEVIL WON’T KNOW THAT IT’S NOT GOD IN THAT SUIT.  AFTER ALL, IT’S GOD’S SUIT!  SO, TAKE YOUR STAND!  BE BIGGER THAN YOU ARE BECAUSE THE BIGGER ONE IS LIVING IN YOU.  AND WHEN YOU ROAR, ROAR LIKE THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH!

IF YOU’LL DO THAT, IT WON’T BE LONG BEFORE YOU STOP ASKING HOW YOU CAN GET RID OF FEAR.  INSTEAD YOU’LL WATCH IN AMAZEMENT AT HOW FAST FEAR, AND EVERY OTHER OPPRESSION OF THE DEVIL, FLEES FROM YOU!

BVOV

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UNDERSTANDING YOUR AUTHORITY

BY KENNETH E HAGIN

MAGAZINE ARTICLE

THE BELIEVER WHO IS FULLY CONSCIOUS OF THE DIVINE POWER BEHIND HIM 

AND OF HIS AUTHORITY CAN FACE THE ENEMY WITHOUT FEAR OR HESITANCY.

WE DON’T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF THE DEVIL’S STRATEGIES AGAINST US BECAUSE JESUS HAS ALREADY DEFEATED HIM!  TOO MANY CHRISTIANS ARE TRYING TO DO BATTLE WITH AN ENEMY WHO HAS ALREADY BEEN DEFEATED.  JESUS WON THE VICTORY OVER ALL THE POWERS OF THE ENEMY MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO.  AND JESUS HAS AUTHORISED US TO TAKE OUR PLACE IN HIM - TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER ALL THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL (LUKE 10:19).  IN THE BOOK OF EPHESIANS, PAUL PRAYED THAT THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS WOULD RECEIVE THE REVELATION OF WHO THEY ARE IN CHRIST.

EPHESIANS 1:16-23:

16: Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

17: That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:

18: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

19: And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

20: Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

21: Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

22: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

23: Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

WE UNDERSTAND, OF COURSE, THAT PAUL DID NOT WRITE A LETTER TO THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS IN CHAPTERS AND VERSES.  MAN DIVIDED IT INTO CHAPTERS AND VERSES FOR EASY REFERENCE.  BUT AS WE CONTINUE TO READ CHAPTER 2, WE FIND THAT THE APOSTLE PAUL IS STILL WRITING ABOUT THE SAME THEME - THE REVELATION THAT HE WANTED THEM TO RECEIVE

EPHESIANS 2:1-6:

1: And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2: Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4: But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

5: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

6: And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:

NOTICE THERE ARE TWO KEY PHRASES IN THIS PRAYER WHICH PAUL PRAYED FOR THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS.  THE FIRST KEY PHRASE IN EPHESIANS 1:20 SAYS, ‘…AND SET HIM (JESUS) AT HIS (GOD) OWN RIGHT HAND IN THE HEAVENLY PLACES…’  THE SECOND KEY PHRASE AT EPHESIANS 2:6 SAYS, ‘… AND HATH RAISED US UP TOGETHER..’. 

IN THE MIND OF GOD THE FATHER AND THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, WE WERE RAISED WHEN CHRIST WAS RAISED.  NOTICE ALSO THAT GOD NOT ONLY RAISED US UP TOGETHER, BUT HE MADE US SIT TOGETHER IN HEAVENLY PLACES IN CHRIST JESUS.  (EPH 2:6).  SO IN THE MIND OF GOD, WE WERE RAISED WHEN CHRIST WAS RAISED, AND WHEN CHRIST SAT DOWN, WE SAT DOWN TOO.  THAT’S WHERE WE ARE NOW - SEATED WITH CHRIST.  AND ALL AUTHORITY THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO HIM BELONGS TO US!

NOT ONLY HAVE WE BEEN MADE TO SIT DOWN WITH CHRIST,  BUT WE ALSO HAVE BEEN SEATED ‘FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITY, AND POWER, AND MIGHT, AND DOMINION..’ (EPH 1:21).  WE KNOW JESUS CHRIST IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER FAR ABOVE ALL OF THESE POWERS, BUT WE ARE THERE TOO.  THE WORD OF GOD TELLS US TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL AND TO ENFORCE HIS DEFEAT.  GOD IS NOT GOING TO DO IT FOR US.  HE HAS ALREADY DEFEATED THE DEVIL THROUGH CHRIST’S DEATH, BURIAL, AND RESURRECTION.  AND HE HAS GIVEN US AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL. 

EPHESIANS 6:12 SAYS, For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

THOUGH WE MAY BE WRESTLING AGAINST THESE POWERS, WE HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THEM THROUGH CHRIST.

THIS AUTHORITY IS NOT THE PROPERTY OF JUST A SELECTED FEW.  SOMETIMES WE THINK THAT IF A PERSON IS AN EVAENGELIST, A PASTOR, OR A GREAT AND MIGHTY SAINT OF GOD, HE HAS MORE AUTHORITY.  BUT HE DOESN’T HAVE ANY MORE AUTHORITY THAN YOU HAVE.  THIS AUTHORITY IS THE TRUE POSSESSION OF EVERY CHILD OF GOD!

THIS AUTHORITY BELONGS TO YOU WHETHER YOU KNOW ABOUT IT OR NOT.  ANY BLESSING, ANY RIGHT, ANY PRIVILEGE, ANY AUTHORITY CAN BELONG TO YOU, BUT IF YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT IT, YOU CAN’T ACT UPON IT.  OR YOU CAN KNOW ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THROUGH CHRIST, BUT IF YOU DON’T ACT UPON THAT KNOWLEDGE, IT STILL DOESN’T BECOME A REALITY TO YOU.  IN OTHER WORDS, YOU DON’T ENJOY THE REALITY OF IT.  YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT BELONGS TO YOU.  BUT KNOWLEDGE ALONE ISN’T ENOUGH.  IT IS KNOWLEDGE ACTED UPON THAT BRINGS RESULTS. 

IN 1952 I WAS HOLDING A REVIVAL MEETING IN OKLAHOMA, AND DURING THE MEETING, THE LORD APPEARED TO ME IN A VISION.  THIS WAS THE THIRD TIME HE HAD APPEARED TO ME.  AT THE END OF THE VISION, HE BEGAN TALKING TO ME ABOUT THE DEVIL, DEMONS AND DEMON ACTIVITY, AND HOW TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER THEM.

THE LORD SEEMED TO BE STANDING WHERE THE CEILING OF THE ROOM WAS, AND I WAS KNEELING THERE BEFORE HIM.  WHILE HE WAS TALKING, A DEMON OR AN EVIL SPIRIT CAME BETWEEN THE TWO OF US AND PUT OUT SOMETHING LIKE A SMOKE SCREEN OR A CLOUD.  AS A RESULT, I COULDN’T SEE JESUS ANYMORE.  THEN THE DEMON JUMPED UP AND DOWN AND WAVED HIS ARMS AND LEGS.  IN A SHRILL VOICE, THE DEMON SAID, ‘YAKETY, YAK, YAK.  YAKETY, YAK, YAK.’  I COULD NOT HEAR ONE WORD JESUS WAS SAYING TO ME, AND I COULD NOT SEE JESUS BECAUSE OF THE DARK CLOUD.

I WONDERED, WHY IS THE LORD PERMITTING THIS?   WHY IS HE LETTING THIS HAPPEN?  I NEEDED TO HEAR WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING.  DOESN’T HE KNOW I’M NOT HEARING WHAT HE IS SAYING?  WHY DOESN’T HE TELL THIS DEMON TO STOP?  WHY DOESN’T HE REBUKE THIS DEMON?  THESE THOUGHTS WERE GOING THROUGH MY MIND, BUT THE DARK CLOUD WAS STILL THERE, AND THE DEMON CONTINUED TO DISRUPT WHAT JESUS WAS SAYING TO ME.

SUDDENLY, WITHOUT THINKING, I SPOKE TO THE SPIRIT AND SAID, ‘I COMMAND YOU, IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, TO SHUT UP AND TO STOP!’  WHEN I SAID THIS, THE DEMON HIT THE FLOOR, THE CLOUD DISAPPEARED, AND I COULD SEE JESUS STANDING THERE.  THE DEMON LAY ON THE FLOOR - WHIMPERING, WHINING, AND SHAKING LIKE A LITTLE PUP THAT HAS BEEN WHIPPED. 

THEN JESUS SAID SOMETHING WHICH ABSOLUTELY UPENDED MY THEOLOGY.  HE POINTED TO THE DEMON LYING ON THE FLOOR, AND SAID TO ME, ‘IFYOU HADN’T DONE SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, I COULDN’T HAVE.’

I SAID, ‘LORD, I DIDN’T HEAR YOU RIGHT.  YOU DIDN’T SAY IF I HADN’T DONE SOMETHING ABOUT THAT DEMON, YOU COULDN’T HAVE.  YOU MEAN’T YOU WOULDN’T HAVE, DIDN’T YOU?’ 

JESUS LOOKED AT ME VERY STERNLY AND SAID, ‘NO, I SAID I COULDN’T!’

I SAID, ‘LORD, THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING I HAVE EVER HEARD.  THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM ANYTHING I HAVE EVER PREACHED.  I WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY VISION OR ANY KIND OF EXPERIENCE IF IT CANNOT BE PROVEN BY THE WRITTEN WORD - WITH AT LEAST THREE REFERENCES FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT.  THE BIBLE SAYS, ‘… IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE WITNESSES SHALL EVERY WORD BE ESTABLISHED’ (2 COR 13:1).  YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE ME AT LEAST THREE REFERENCES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT FOR ME TO ACCEPT WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.’

JESUS DIDN’T GET ANGRY WITH ME.  HE SMILED SO SWEETLY AND SAID, ‘I’LL GIVE YOU FOUR.’  THEN HE WENT ON TO SAY, ‘THERE IS NO PLACE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHERE ANY WRITER TOLD THE CHURCH TO PRAY TO GOD THE FATHER ABOUT THE DEVIL OR TO PRAY TO GOD THE FATHER TO REBUKE THE DEVIL.’

PEOPLE WHO ASK GOD TO REBUKE THE DEVIL ARE WASTING THEIR TIME.  YOU SEE, THE LEAST MEMBER OF THE BODY OF CHRIST HAS JUST AS MUCH AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL AS ANYONE ELSE.  UNLESS BELIEVERS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEVIL, NOTHING WILL BE DONE. 

THE FIRST SCRIPTURE JESUS GAVE ME WAS MATT 28:18.   MATTHEW RECORDED THAT WHEN CHRIST AROSE FROM THE DEAD, ALL POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.  THE GREEK WORD FOR ‘POWER’ CAN BE TRANSLATED AUTHORITY  IN THIS PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE.  ALL AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN UNTO JESUS IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.  THEN JESUS SAID TO ME’I IMMEDIATELY DELEGATED THE AUTHORITY IN THE EARTH TO THE CHURCH; I SAID ‘GO!’  IN THE VERY NEXT VERSE, MATTHEW RECORDS THE WORDS OF JESUS, ‘GO YE THEREFORE, …’  (MATT 28:19).  YOU SEE, JESUS IS THE HEAD, AND WE ARE THE BODY.  BECAUSE HE IS THE HEAD, BECAUSE HE IS VICTORIOUS, AND BECAUSE HE DEFEATED THE DEVIL, HE HAS AUTHORISED US TO GO WITH HIS AUTHORITY. 

THE SECOND SCRIPTURE JESUS GAVE ME WAS ACTUALLY A PASSAGE FOUND IN MARK CHAPTER 16:

15: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

16: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

17: And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

THE VERY FIRST SIGN TO FOLLOW BELIEVERS IS THAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS, THEY WILL CAST OUT DEVILS.  IN OTHER WORDS, WE HAVE AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL!  IN FACT, THIS IS THE WAY JESUS INTERPRETED MARK 16:15-17 TO ME:  IN ORDER TO CAST THE DEVIL OUT, WE HAVE TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER HIM. 

I REMEMBER THAT FOR MANY YEARS I FASTED AND PRAYED FOR MY OLDEST BROTHER TO BE SAVED.  HE WAS THE ‘BLACK SHEEP’ OF THE FAMILY.  IN SPITE OF MY PRAYERS, THINGS SEEMED TO GET WORSE INSTEAD OF BETTER.  I’D ALWAYS PRAYED, ‘GOD, SAVE HIM.’  BUT I HEARD THE LORD CHALLENGING ME TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  HE TOLD ME THAT I HAD THE AUTHORITY.  SO WITH MY BIBLE IN ONE HAND AND MY OTHER HAND LIFTED TO HEAVEN, I SAID, ‘IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I BREAK THE POWER OF THE DEVIL OVER MY BROTHER’S LIFE.  I CLAIM HIS SALVATION.’  YOU SEE, I GAVE THE ORDER.

ROMANS 5:17 SAYS, 17: For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.

THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE SAYS, ‘… REIGN AS KINGS IN LIFE THROUGH THE ONE MAN JESUS CHRIST.’  WHEN A KING GIVES AN ORDER, HE KNOWS IT IS GOING TO BE CARRIED OUT BECAUSE HE IS IN AUTHORITY.

SOON AFTER I EXERCISED MY AUTHORITY, THE DEVIL TRIED TO TELL ME THAT MY BROTHER WOULD NOT BE SAVED.  AS I WALKED INTO MY LIVING ROOM ONE DAY, IT WAS AS IF SOMEONE THERE WITH ME SAID, ‘OH, COME ON NOW, YOU DON’T THINK OLD DUB WILL EVER BE SAVED, DO YOU?’  I STOPPED RIGHT THERE, DEAD IN MY TRACKS, AND FROM THE INSIDE OF ME, FROM MY SPIRIT, I BEGAN TO LAUGH - IT JUST BUBBLED UP UNTIL IT CAME OUT OF MY MOUTH.  AND I SAID, ‘NO, MR DEVIL, I DON’T THINK THAT!  I NEVER HAVE THOUGHT THAT!  I KNOW IT BECAUSE I AM TAKING THE NAME OF JESUS AND BREAKING YOUR POWER OVER HIM!’  THE SAME THING HAPPENED TWO DAYS LATER IN THE SAME SPOT, AND I SAID THE SAME THING TO HIM.  THE NEXT SUNDAY MY BROTHER WAS SAVED.

MANY TIMES PEOPLE ENDEAVOR TO USE THE AUTHORITY THAT BELONGS TO THEM, BUT WHEN CIRCUMSTANCES DON’T CHANGE IMMEDIATELY, THEY BECOME DISCOURAGED AND SLIP BACK INTO THE NATURAL.  THEY START TALKING UNBELIEF, AND THEY DEFEAT THEMSELVES.  UNCONSCIOUSLY, THEY GIVE THE DEVIL DOMINION OVER THEM.  I DIDN’T SEE ANYTHING CHANGE THE MOMENT I SPOKE IN THE NAME OF JESUS, BUT I KNEW I HAD SPOKEN WITH THE AUTHORITY THAT BELONGED TO ME. 

THE THIRD VERSE THE LORD GAVE ME WHEN HE APPEARED TO ME IS FOUND IN JAMES.  JAMES 4:7 SAYS:  7: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

‘YOU’ IS THE UNDERSTOOD SUBJECT OF THE SENTENCE.  JAMES DOES NOT SAY, ’PRAY TO GOD AND HE WILL RESIST THE DEVIL FOR YOU.’  NO, JAMES SAYS, ‘YOU RESIST THE DEVIL!’  YOU HAVE TO HAVE AUTHORITY OVER HIM TO BE ABLE TO RESIST HIM.  YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO GET SOMEONE ELSE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEVIL FOR YOU.  YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE TO EXERCISE YOUR OWN AUTHORITY. 

JAMES DOES NOT SAY THE DEVIL WILL FLEE FROM JESUS.  HE SAYS THE DEVIL WILL FLEE FROM YOU.  THE AUTHORITY IS YOURS.  SOMEONE SAID, ’I JUST DON’T FEEL LIKE IT IS SO.’  BUT FEELING DOESN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT.  THE AUTHORITY IS YOURS WHETHER YOU FEEL LIKE IT OR NOT, BUT YOU MUST EXERCISE IT.  THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS MISS IT - THEY ARE GOING BY FEELINGS.  THEIR FAITH IS NOT IN THEIR AUTHORITY; THEIR FAITH IS IN THEIR FEELINGS. 

I LOOKED UP THE WORD ‘FLEE’ IN THE DICTIONARY, AND I FOUND A DEFINITION THAT DESCRIBED WHAT I SAW IN THE VISION.  ‘TO FLEE’ MEANS TO RUN FROM AS IN TERROR.  RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL RUN AWAY FROM YOU AS IN TERROR.  MOST CHRISTIANS DON’T KNOW THAT.  THEY SEE THE DEVIL, AND THEY RUN AWAY FROM HIM AS IN TERROR.  BUT THE DEVIL IS SUPPOSED TO BE RUNNING FROM THEM.  WHEN I FOUND THIS DEFINITION, I KNEW WHY THE DEMON IN MY VISION WHIMPERED, CRIED, TREMBLED, AND SHOOK.  HE WAS SCARED.  HE KNEW HE WAS A DEFEATED FOE, AND I HAD FOUND OUT ABOUT IT. 

EVERY WRITER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS ADDRESSING CHRISTIANS, AND, IN EVERY INSTANCE, THE WRITER TELLS CHRISTIANS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEVIL.  WE MUST HAVE AUTHORITY, OR WE COULDN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE DEVIL. 

THE FOURTH AND LAST SCRIPTURE JESUS MENTIONED IS FOUND IN FIRST PETER 5:8:

8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

‘YOUR ADVERSARY’ MEANS YOUR OPPONENT OR ENEMY.  IT MEANS ONE ARRAYED AGAINST YOU.  IT IS THE ENEMY, SATAN.  THE PROBLEM WITH MANY CHRISTIANS IS THAT THEY SAY, ‘OH, THE DEVIL IS AFTER ME.  LET’S PRAY.  YOU ALL PRAY FOR ME SO THE DEVIL WON’T GET ME.’  WELL, THE DEVIL HAS ALREADY GOTTEN THEM, TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MATTER, BECAUSE IF THEY TALK LIKE THAT, THEY ARE ALREADY DEFEATED. 

YOU CAN TURN IN PRAYER REQUESTS.  YOU CAN GET ALL THE PREACHERS ON RADIO AND TELEVISION AND THEIR WIVES TO PRAY FOR YOU, BUT YOU WILLS TILL BE BOUND BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING.  YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR SITUATION.  YOU ARE TOLD BY GOD HIMSELF TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. 

WE READ FIRST PETER 5:8, WHICH SAYS,

8: Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

WITH THAT VERSE IN MIND, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT WHEN THE DEVIL COMES AGAINST YOU?  ARE YOU GOING TO STICK YOUR HEAD IN THE SAND LIKE AN OSTRICH AND HOPE HE WILL GO AWAY?  ARE YOU GOING TO TRY TO FIND SOMEONE TO ENCOURAGE YOU WITH NATURAL HUMAN SYMPATHY - SOMEONE WHO WILL SAY THAT EVERYTHING WILL BE BETTER TOMORROW?  NO, BLESS GOD, GO AHEAD AND DO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS TO DO!  YOU RESIST THE DEVIL, AND HE WILL FLEE FROM YOU!

LET’S READ THE NEXT VERSE:

9: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world

GOD’S PLAN IS NOT FOR YOU TO ‘WANDER LIKE A BEGGAR THROUGH THE HEAT AND COLD.’  HIS PLAN IS FOR YOU TO RULE AND REIGN OVER THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF LIFE - OVER POVERTY, OVER DISEASE, OVER ANYTHING THAT WOULD HINDER YOU.  THE AMPLIFIED BIBLE SAYS WE ARE TO ‘REIGN AS KINGS IN LIFE THROUGH THE ONE MAN JESUS CHRIST’ (ROM 5:17).  HOW CAN A KING REIGN?  HE REIGNS BECAUSE HE HAS AUTHORITY.  WELL, YOU REIGN BECAUSE YOU HAVE AUTHORITY.  JESUS CHRIST HAS AUTHORISED YOU TO RULE AND REIGN IN THIS LIFE! 

KENNETH HAGIN MINISTRIES

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YOU CAN KNOW ABOUT YOUR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES THROUGH CHRIST, BUT IF YOU DON’T ACT UPON THAT KNOWLEDGE, IT STILL DOESN’T BECOME A REALITY TO YOU. 

UNLESS BELIEVERS DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DEVIL, NOTHING WILL BE DONE. 

BECAUSE JESUS IS THE HEAD, BECAUSE HE IS VICTORIOUS, AND BECAUSE HE DEFEATED THE DEVIL, HE HAS AUTHORISED US TO GO WITH HIS AUTHORITY. 

 WHOSE REPORT WILL YOU BELIEVE?
BY MELANIE HEMRY

KENNETH COPELAND MAGAZINE - BELIEVER’S VOICE OF VICTORY

TRUE REPORT

‘SHE HAS A BRAIN TUMOR,’ HE SAID.  ‘IT’S INOPERABLE, INCURABLE AND UNTREATABLE.  THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DO.’

 

LIZZY GROSS WAS AS EXUBERANT ABOUT HER VISIT TO THE DOCTOR AS MOST 9 YEAR OLDS WOULD BE ABOUT A FIELD TRIP TO THE ZOO.  TO HER, THE PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGIST’S OFFICE WAS AN ADVERNTURE - THERE WERE ALL SORTS OF INTERESTING GADGETS.  LESTRA, LIZZY’S MOTHER, WATCHED HER WITH AN INDULGENT SMILE.

WHEN LIZZY BEGAN SEEING DOUBLE, AN OPHTHALMOLOGIST DIAGNOSED LAZY EYE AND HE RECOMMENDED WAITING UNTIL SPRING BREAK BEFORE CORRECTING IT.  LESTRA TOOK LIZZY TO A CHILDREN’S EYE SPECIALIST TO GET A SECOND OPINION.

‘THIS ISN’T LAZY EYE,’ THE SECOND SPECIALIST EXPLAINED.  ‘IT’S EITHER MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, MYASTHENIA GRAVIS OR A BRAIN TUMOR.  SHE HAS TO SEE A NEUROLOGIST RIGHT AWAY.’

ALONE IN THE DOCTOR’S OFFICE, LESTRA BATTLED EMOTIONS THAT THREATENED TO OVERWHELM HER.  ‘JESUS,’ SHE SAID, ‘I KNOW YOU’RE HERE.  WE’VE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 13 YEARS NOW.  I NEED YOU TO HELP ME.’

THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT SPOKE CLEARLY IN HER HEART.  I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING THIS DAY.  CHOOSE LIFE THAT YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN MAY LIVE.’  (DEUT 30:19). 

‘LORD, I CHOOSE LIFE.’

TWO HOURS LATER, THE NEUROLOGIST SAID HE THOUGHT LIZZY MIGHT HAVE OCULAR MYASTHENIA WHICH COULD BE TREATED WITH MEDICINE AND POSSIBLY OUTGROWN, AND SCHEDULED A MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING (MRI) SCAN OF HER BRAIN TO BE SURE.

LIMP WITH RELIEF, LESTRA WENT HOME AND STARTED DINNER.  THE NEXT DAY, A FRIEND SUGGESTED SHE CALL DEBBIE GASTON, A WOMAN IN THE CHURCH WHO’D BEEN HEALED OF HODGKIN’S DISEASE A FEW YEARS EARLIER.  ‘SHE KNOWS SOME THINGS ABOUT HEALING THAT WE DON’T KNOW,’ LESTRA’S FRIEND EXPLAINED.

‘YOU’RE NOT GOING TO HAVE TO TELL ME GOD NEEDS TO BE FIRST PLACE IN MY LIFE,’ LESTRA SAID WHEN SHE ARRIVED AT DEBBIE’S HOUSE LATER THAT DAY.  ‘YOU DON’T NEED TO HELP ME GET MY PRIORITIES RIGHT.  GOD AND I ARE REAL TIGHT.  I JUST NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HEALING.’

WITH A SIGH OF RELIEF, DEBBIE OPENED HER BIBLE AND BEGAN READING OUT LOUD SCRIPTURE AFTER SCRIPTURE THAT REVEALED GOD’S HEART ABOUT HEALING.  ‘HE HIMSELF BORE OUR SINS IN HIS BODY ON THE TREE, SO THAT WE MIGHT DIE TO SINS AND LIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS; BY HIS WOUNDS YOU HAVE BEEN HEALED.’ (1 PETER 2:24 NIV).

‘YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE’

‘WHAT ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SAY THEY ARE STANDING IN FAITH BUT DIE?’ LESTRA ASKED.

‘YOU HAVE TO MAKE A CHOICE,’ DEBBIE REPLIED.  ‘EITHER YOU BELIEVE THOSE PEOPLE’S EXPERIENCE, OR YOU BELIEVE WHAT GOD SAYS.’

‘YOU’RE TELLING ME TO SAY LIZZY IS HEALED, BUT I DON’T KNOW IF I CAN DO THAT.’

‘OK, DO YOU THINK YOU COULD SAY, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT BY HIS STRIPES SHE WAS HEALED?’

‘I CAN DO THAT,’ LESTRA SAID.

LESTRA LEFT DEBBIE’S HOME THAT DAY WITH SEVERAL THINGS - THE BOOK GOD’S WILL FOR YOUR HEALING BY GLORIA COPELAND, KENNETH COPELAND’S TAPE SERIES FREEDOM FROM FEAR, AND A STACK OF THE BVOV MAGAZINES.  SHE ALSO HAD A PLAN.  AT HOME, SHE AND HER HUSBAND, JOHN, WROTE OUT THEIR SCRIPTURAL PROMISES FOR LIZZY’S HEALING AND POSTED THEM AROUND THE HOUSE.  THEY BEGAN DEVOURING THE MATERIAL DEBBIE HAD GIVEN THEM.

THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY, THEIR PASTOR, JOHN HAGEE, AND THE ELDERS PRAYED FOR LIZZY.  LESTRA HAD LEARNED THAT YOU BELIEVE YOU RECEIVE WHEN YOU PRAY.  THAT DAY SHE WROTE IN HER BIBLE, ‘FEB 3 1991 - LIZZY IS HEALED.’

LESTRA WAS AT PEACE THE FOLLOWING WEDNESDAY WHEN SHE TOOK LIZZY IN FOR THE MRI.  THE DOCTOR WOULD CALL THEM WHEN HE GOT THE RESULTS.  THE NEXT DAY, JOHN, AT CHURCH WHERE HE WORKED AS MINISTER OF MUSIC, RECEIVED THE NEUROLOGIST’S CALL: ‘SHE HAS A BRAIN TUMOR,’ HE SAID.   ‘IT’S INOPERABLE, INCURABLE AND UNTREATABLE.  THERE’S NOTHING WE CAN DO, BUT WE WANT YOU TO GET HER TO THE HOSPITAL RIGHT AWAY TO MAKE SURE.’

LESTRA WAS ALREADY HOME WHEN JOHN AND PASTOR HAGEE ARRIVED.  SHE MET THEM AT THE DOOR AND POINTED A FINGER IN EACH OF THEIR FACES. ‘I WILL NOT FEAR!’ SHE PROCLAIMED.

‘WELL, OK, THEN I WON’T FEAR EITHER!’ JOHN AGREED.

THEY CHECKED LIZZY OUT OF SCHOOL AND DROVE HER TO THE HOSPITAL, EXPLAINING TO HER THAT SOMETHING WASN’T WORKING RIGHT IN HER HEAD, BUT THAT GOD WAS GOING TO HEAL IT.

THE NEXT MORNING A GROUP OF SPECIALISTS REVIEWED LIZZY’S CASE, THEN REPORTED TO JOHN AND LESTRA, ‘THERE IS NO CURE.  NOTHING IS GOING TO MAKE HER BETTER.  CHEMOTHERAPY WON’T HELP HER.  RADIATION WON’T HELP HER.  SURGERY WON’T HELP HER.  TAKE HER HOME AND ENJOY HER FOR A WHILE.  SHE WILL DEVELOP EXCRUCIATING HEADACHES, AND WHEN SHE STARTS VOMITING BRING HER IN IMMEDIATELY, BECAUSE YOU’LL KNOW SHE’S ABOUT TO DIE.  SHE’LL DIE AN AGONISING DEATH, AND YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO STAND IT.’

‘ALL I CAN TELL YOU, DOCTOR, IS THAT I SERVE A MIGHTY GOD,’ LESTRA SAID.  ‘I SERVE A GOD OF MIRACLES, AND THAT’S WHO I’M GOING TO BELIEVE.’

SEVERING THE CONNECTION TO FEAR

AT HOME THAT NIGHT, JOHN AND LESTRA HELD ONE ANOTHER AND WEPT.  BUT IT WASN’T FROM GRIEF.  THEY KNEW BETTER.  THEY WEPT BEFORE THE LORD WHILE DECLARING HIS GOODNESS AND THE TRUTH OF HIS WORD.  PASTOR HAGEE CALLED THE WHOLE CHURCH TO FAST AND PRAY FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF LIZZY’S HEALING.

JOHN AND LESTRA COUNTERED THE FEARFUL THOUGHTS THAT BOMBARDED THEM DAY AND NIGHT WITH THE WORD OF GOD.

STANDING ON GOD’S WORD THAT LIZZY WAS HEALED, THEY SENT HER TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY.  THEY DIDN’T TAKE ANY TIME OFF FROM WORK, AND DETERMINED EARLY ON THAT THEY WOULDN’T BELIEVE WHAT THEY SAW - GOOD OR BAD.  SO WHEN LIZZY’S LEFT EYE BEGAN TURNING OUT, THEY REFUSED TO FEAR.

OVER THE NEXT FEW WEEKS LIZZY’S EYE TURNED ALL THE WAY INSIDE HER HEAD UNTIL ONLY THE WHITE WAS SHOWING.  EVENTALLY, HER EYELIDS BEGAN TO DROOP.   FINALLY, SHE COULD HARDLY OPEN HER EYES.  THE MUSCLES ON HER FACE LOST THEIR TONE AND ELASTICITY.

LESTRA AND JOHN FOUGHT FEAR AS THOUGH IT WAS THE FORCE THAT COULD KILL THEIR DAUGHTER - AND IT WAS.  THEY MAINTAINED A POSTIVE ATMOSPHERE FOR ALL THEIR CHILDREN.  THEY PLAYED HEALING PRAISE BY KENNETH COPELAND AND SCRIPTURE TAPES IN LIZZY’S ROOM WHILE SHE SLEPT.  THEY LISTENED TO TAPES, MEDITATED ON THE WORD AND CONFESSED SCRIPTURES.

BUT SOMETHING WAS MISSING.

IN THE YEARS LESTRA HAD BEEN A CHRISTIAN, SHE HADN’T REALLY NEEDED THINGS FROM GOD.  SO EACH MORNING AT 4.30 SHE GOT UP AND SPENT TIME IN FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM.  BUT SINCE THE DAY THEY FOUND OUT LIZZY WAS SICK, SHE HADN’T SAID ANYTHING TO GOD THAT DIDN’T INVOLVE LIZZY.

FINALLY, LESTRA TOLD THE LORD THAT SHE WOULD KEEP GETTING UP AT 4.30 BUT WAS NOT GOING TO MENTION LIZZY ANYMORE DURING THAT TIME.  IN HIS PRESENCE SHE WAS LIFTED ABOVE THE CRISIS.  AFTERWARD, SHE WOULD PULL OUT THE HEALING SCRIPTURES, PUT ON HER ARMOUR AND GO BACK INTO THE BATTLE - REFRESHED.

BY THE MIDDLE OF MARCH, LIZZY LOOKED SO BAD THAT PEOPLE AT CHURCH TURNED AWAY AND WEPT WHEN THEY SAW HER.  THAT WASN’T THE ONLY THING BOTHERING LESTRA.  ALONE ONE NIGHT SHE MADE A HEART CRY TO THE LORD.

FATHER, THERE’S SOMETHING THAT I HAVE TO GET STRAIGHT WITH YOU.  I WON’T SAY IT OUT LOUD BECAUSE I DON’T WANT TO GIVE THE DEVIL ANY PLACE.  I KNOW IT IS YOUR WILL TO HEAL LIZZY.  I KNOW THAT YOUR WORD IS TRUE.  I KNOW THAT YOU ALREADY PAID THE PRICE FOR HER HEALING.  I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT IF THIS DOESN’T WORK OUT THE WAY IT’S SUPPOSED TO - I’LL NEVER BLAME YOU.  I WILL NEVER TURN AWAY FROM YOU.  I WILL LOVE YOU AND SERVE YOU ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. 

WHEN LESTRA PRAYED THAT PRAYER OF CONSECRATION - REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME - AN AMAZING THING HAPPENED.  IT SEVERED HER CONNECTION TO FEAR.  SHE HAD NO IDEA WHEN SHE FELL INTO A RESTFUL SLEEP THAT NIGHT THAT THE WORST WAS YET TO COME.

‘THIS IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS’

MONDAY MORNING, JOHN WAS AT WORK WHEN HE RECEIVED A CALL FROM THE SCHOOL.  ‘LIZZY HAS A HORRIBLE HEADACHE AND JUST VOMITED.’

FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE ORDEAL BEGAN, FEAR GRIPPED JOHN GROSS THE LIKES OF WHICH HE HAD NEVER KNOWN.  HE WENT STRAIGHT TO PASTOR HAGEE’S OFFICE.  ‘IT’S HAPPENING JUST LIKE THE DOCTORS SAID!’

‘THIS IS NOT WHAT IT SEEMS!’  PASTOR HAGEE PROCLAIMED.  ‘LIZZY HAS A SIMPLE HEADACHE.  TAKE HER HOME AND GIVE HER AN ASPIRIN.  SHE’LL BE BACK IN SCHOOL TOMORROW.’

FEAR HIT LESTRA WITH SUCH FORCE IT TOOK HER BREATH AWAY.  SHE LEFT HER DESK AND BEGAN SPEAKING HER CONFESSIONS AS SHE WALKED THE HALF MILE TO HER CAR.

‘FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT THE MANIFESTATION OF LIZZY’S HEALING COMES SPEEDILY.  I THANK YOU THAT IN ISAIAH 49:25-26 YOU SAID, ‘I WILL CONTEND WITH THOSE WHO CONTEND WITH YOU, AND YOUR CHILDREN I WILL SAVE.  I WILL MAKE YOUR OPPRESSORS EAT THEIR OWN FLESH.’  SO FATHER, I CONFESS THAT EVERY REBELLIOUS CELL IN LIZZY’S BODY EATS ONE ANOTHER.

‘THIS IS WHAT THE LORD SAYS - YOUR REDEEMER, WHO FORMED YOU IN THE WOMB:  I AM THE LORD, WHO HAS MADE ALL THINGS, WHO ALONE STRETCHED OUT THE HEAVENS, WHO SPREAD OUT THE EARTH BY MYSELF, WHO FOILS THE SIGNS OF FALSE PROPHETS AND MAKES FOOLS OF DIVINERS, WHO OVERTHROWS THE LEARNING OF THE WISE AND TURNS IT INTO NONSENSE.  

‘THANK YOU, FATHER, FOR TURNING THE WISDOM OF DOCTORS INTO NONSENSE.’

BY THE TIME LESTRA REACHED HER CAR, THE FEAR HAD GIVEN WAY TO EXCITEMENT.  SHE FIRMLY BELIEVED THAT LIZZY’S SYMPTOMS MARKED THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BRAIN TUMOR.  AT HOME, SHE AND JOHN TREATED LIZZY’S HEADACHE, CALLED A RELATIVE TO SIT WITH HER AND BOTH WENT BACK TO WORK.

THE NEXT MORNING LIZZY LOOKED HORRIBLE BUT FELT GREAT.  TRUE TO PASTOR HAGEE’S WORDS, SHE WENT TO SCHOOL.  THE NEXT DAY, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, LIZZY WENT HOME WITH A FRIEND AFTER SCHOOL.  WHEN LESTRA PICKED HER UP, THE FRIEND’S MOTHER SAID, ‘LIZZY LOOKS GREAT!’

THAT IS SO KIND OF HER TO SAY, LESTRA THOUGHT AS LIZZY CLIMBED IN THE BACK SEAT.  DURING THE DRIVE HOME, LESTRA GLANCED IN THE REARVIEW MIRROR AND ALMOST GASPED AT WHAT SHE SAW.  TWO BRIGHT BLUE EYES SPARKLED FROM A FACE THAT WAS PERFECTLY NORMAL. 

‘WE WERE SO COMMITTED TO NOT LIVING BY SIGHT THAT I DIDN’T MENTION THE CHANGE TO ANYONE, INCLUDING JOHN.  IT WASN’T UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT THAT HE SAID, ‘HAVE YOU NOTICED LIZZY?’

WE AGREED NOT TO SAY ANYTHING TO ANYONE.  ON SUNDAY WHEN WE WENT TO CHURCH PEOPLE LOOKED AT LIZZY AND BEGAN TO WEEP FOR JOY.  WHEN PASTOR HAGEE SAW LIZZY, HE PULLED HER INTO HIS ARMS AND SAID TO HER FATHER, ‘JOHN, TAKE THIS CHILD BACK TO THE DOCTOR AND LET HIM DOCUMENT A MIRACLE.’

TWO WEEKS LATER LIZZY HAD ANOTHER MRI.  HOVERING OUTSIDE THE DOCTOR’S READING ROOM, FRIENDS HEARD, ‘THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE TONIGHT.  THEY’RE LOOKING FOR A TUMOR, AND IT’S NOT THERE.’

A FEW DAYS LATER, LIZZY’S PHYSICIAN, WHO WAS A CANTOR AT A JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, AS WELL AS A WELL-KNOWN PEDIATRIC NEUROLOGIST, PHONED PASTOR HAGEE.  ‘I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU AND YOUR CHURCH DID FOR LIZZY GROSS.’

‘WHY DO YOU ASK?’ PASTOR HAGEE QUIZZED.

‘I HAVE IN ONE HAND AN MRI THAT SHOWS A TUMOR IN THE CENTRE OF HER BRAIN.  I HAVE IN THE OTHER HAND A PERFECT MRI SHOWING THIS CHILD TO BE ABSOLUTELY HEALTHY.  IT’S THE MOST DRAMATIC THING I’VE EVER SEEN IN MEDICINE, AND I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOUR CHURCH DID.’

‘DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD PARTED THE RED SEA?’ PASTOR HAGEE ASKED.  ‘DO YOU BELIEVE THAT GOD MADE THE SUN STAND STILL FOR JOSHUA?  WELL, WE SERVE THE SAME GOD.  WE FASTED AND PRAYED FOR A MIRACLE.  AND GOD ANSWERED OUR PRAYER.’

TODAY LIZZY GROSS IS A 19 YEAR OLD COLLEGE STUDENT WHO PLANS ON GOING INTO NURSING.  SHE HAS BEEN IN PERFECT HEALTH SINCE THE DAY HER HEALING MANIFESTED - A MERE SIX WEEKS AFTER SHE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A DEADLY BRAIN TUMOR.

JOHN AND LESTRA GROSS WOULD BE THE FIRST TO TELL YOU THAT THE CHOICE GOD PRESENTED TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IS STILL ECHOING THROUGHOUT ETERNITY:

‘I HAVE SET BEFORE YOU LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING.

CHOOSE LIFE.’

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