1 Corinthians 13:12 (New King James Version)
Now is the time to be looking one's own glass simply because our Groom is coming for His Bride and we ought to fetch "self" up rightly before He comes for His bride and to see all things He has for us as His children or if you wish ..."His" saints. We truly need to have an understanding inside of ourselves in what needs to to saved that is inside of us and what needs to be hewn down and put out as garbage for the trash man and leave it there for him to take it to the city dump to be crushed up and dis-mantled completely. So our glass won't be darkly dimmed at all. Instead it will be bright and lit up in heading home with the Groom in Jesus Christ our Savior whom is that Lamb of God. At different times in one's life we often break those glasses that was in the cuborads that slips out of hands then hits the floor then breaks into very tiny pieces that does scatter into very small fragments that can cut us in our flesh that then bleeds and hurts till it heals with medicine. Well this is what happens to us when we haven't been taught about "evil spirits" it tries to break down far enough to manage our own life at times without getting help from the Lord. And we go on our merry way until God get's our attention to get us moving in another direction in Him instead of Satan. We go through all emotions and we wonder how it happened to us. Often times enough we just haven't learned in all of those misconcieved ideas that satan like to do to us in our minds in how to overthrow God and allow Him to rule in us instead of God.We are usually leaders in some function in a church setting For the Devil is a Master of all Deception and is a very formidable enemy in all of our life. Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”Jude 1:9 (New King James Version)
Micheal, the warring angel, treated the devil with total respect! If you don't think the devil is a formidable enemy and has a caused a formidable problems, then why did God /have need to send His own Son to literally defeat him and to take care of the problem? We Must understand that the devil knew full well what he was doing in the garden of eden with Eve, and he knew full well what he was trying to do when he tempted Jesus Christ. Satan is the most intelligent creation of God. He knows and understands so very much about God and His Word that he actually thought he could be as God and dethrone Him. So we Must Not down play Satan at all because if we do then what we will be doing is down play the Lord God, in what He did,and the whole Bible too and we then say to oneself that it really didn't matter! But the Lord Jesus Christ overcame a very formidable enemy ! Listen Up People , everything that is very dispicable and has a nature that comes against God (and us) in any way orginated in the Devil himself. Wake Up ! Wake Up ! Wake Up! He is difinitive plan to make You or I to come against God whom is alway's our enemy and he goes to great lengths to do it in our life. So let us Not think that He's our enemy when he actually is one. He all kinds of Methods of Deception with his own agenda that attack one's peroanl abilities and activites in our every day life. He is the main reason that Jesus Christ had to come ! The truth about it that Jesus Christ has taken the key's of Hell and death from him. The key of the house of DavidI will lay on his shoulder;
So he shall open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open.
[Isa.22:22](New King James Version)And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed[a] in heaven.”
Matthew 16:19 (New King James Version)
I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.Revelation 1:18 (New King James Version)
Jesus Christ has showed us in His Word Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me
John 14:6 (New King James Version)
Jesus Christ came to us so we could lead the way unto all others that road which leads to Him, in us learning how to defeat the devil just as he has already shown us.He leads us by His example! If you whom are called by God for a very specific reason with a purpose, than I can tell you that You will Not fulfill your purpose completely unless you or I learn to recognize and deal with Satan in and around our lives on a daily basis and not just doing it on the surface, but in the Spiritual realm in defeating the devil, the devil is flat out grinning from ear to ear, believe me, some of them do spiritual warfare! An unspoken truth is a flat out lie! I'd rather speak all truth when it comes to God's Scriptures. We will Never ever win a war unless we all know our enemies whom stalks us !!! We allow God to lay down some foundational truths daily and study them in being aggressive about it. and let is grow inside of your own life especially as our time on earth is getting very short of time whom know when Jesus will come after everyone. Only He know it and the exact time it will happen. We just keep on what he has told us to do in going about the business of what He's told us to do in His Book. The more He teaches usand in having our trust in Him as He speaks to us through His Holy Spirit as time goes on in our daily life then, He shows us times and events etc. Now, Satan knows those scriptures of the Word of God, he truly knows it better than some of us today, he comes on like ( the sower), when God has laid something or anything with us ! He ties to come in with something simliar but yet not so,He's cursing God, but the Lord gives us something so much deeper understanding for us to follow through with in our life. That's when our glass has been causing us to look through that very dimly glass and then it's shattered unto tiny pieces but yet we learn to step over it without getting hurt! That's how our God operates through us for satan can't be raging at us No longer Yet he had waged a heavy war but God fixed him to where he couldn't even touch us. God exposes him to us as he tried to be incognito, for he knows God teaches us to head down those right paths which is the Light of God. He manifest himself so we just cannot see him, for he is the master of the deciever, liar, and a killer, and he tries his best to materlize in us or around us with all sorts of things for he does things for his own advantage and often times to where we can see him trying his best to hurt us all. He's in our thoughts. situations, circumstances that tries to destroy us all. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Some people do not think everyone can actually encounter satan because he is not omnipresent like the Holy Spirit. I will say this to you that there is very little time and distance in the spirit realm! We all need to understand it for our own good!2 Peter 3:8 (New King James Version)
Using the equation 24 hours in heaven = 1000 years on earth, we see that my three day experience in heaven took .7 of one second of our time. So we can see that I was only gone .7 of one second while driving my vehicle. We must understand that I also traveled across the universe to heaven and back in this .7 of one second.
And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
When we hear God's Word in any way, Jesus says Satan comes immediately. Jesus was making a statement here. God made a statement here! The Lord says Satan comes immediately. He always comes! THIS IS A TRUTH that goes for everyone who hears any kind of a Word from God!
It is possible for Satan to visit every human on the face of this earth, in fulfillment of what Jesus said here because time and distance are practically nonexistent in the spirit realm.
Using the population of the world at the end of 1998, Satan can spend 1.343 minutes with every person on the earth every 24 hours ! And just how much can Satan do in a minute, being incognito? Think about this? And then subtract those he knows he doesn't have to visit very often and look at the time it would allow toward those few who may be a threat to his cause! Know this, Satan is no dummy. He knows those people who are chosen by God for a particular purpose. He spends a lot of time with them and their minds, unknown to them.
Jesus revealed that the enemy comes in while men sleep. He said this right after the parable of the sower.
Matthew 13:25
But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
The wheat is the seed of the Word, and the enemy plants weed seeds right along with the good seed, 'immediately,' and moves on to the next victim! He comes in 'unawares.' He did it with Eve! He did it with Judas! John 13:26,
Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
Satan did it with Peter!
Matthew 16:21
From that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Satan beguiles us in our minds!
The Bible says Eve was beguiled in her mind. Looking at synonyms for beguiled we see a broader picture of what Satan can do to our minds by giving us the right thoughts, at the right time, in the right circumstances.
delude - To tone down what God meant = Oh, it'll be all right - He didn't really mean that, He meant this.
hoax - What Satan presented to Eve was a hoax, unknown to her.
trick - He was able to trick Eve because she didn't really understand what God meant and that Satan would come! (Parable of the sower)
captivate - He captivated her thoughts - first by getting her attention.
charm - Satan can be charming; remember he is an angle of light.
distract - Satan was able to distract Adam and Eve from what God said.
divert - He diverted her thinking!
allure - He allured her with the attractiveness of the fruit.
attract - He got her attention.
entice - He tried to entice Jesus by offering Him the kingdoms of the world! He enticed Eve with the promise of knowledge!
seduce - He had seduced Eve's mind when she gave in to what he said.
tempt - He successfully tempted Eve, but not Jesus, because Jesus knew God's thought behind His word. Jesus also knew Satan was real. Eve was unaware of the enemy.
bait - Satan baited Eve's mind!
tantalize - That apple looked good.
fascinate - I'm sure Eve was fascinated with the thought of being like God!
bewitch - hypnotize - mesmerize - spell bind - immerse - curse - enchant - possess - captivate - occupy
Jesus knew where Peter's thoughts had originated. Jesus had just revealed 'the plan of God' to Peter (Peter had 'heard the word', like in the parable of the sower) but because of the lack of understanding, the cares of this world, and the type of love we as humans understand, Satan used Peter and came at Jesus' purpose. Satan and all evil spirits come against what God is doing as a top priority. Everything else they come against is secondary!
Satan uses what he already has in you to come against the truth, or what God wants to use you for - your true purpose. (You will see this picture more and more clearly as you read future articles about spirits.) Satan couldn't use or get control of Jesus because he had nothing in Jesus!
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
Satan used what he already had in Judas. Here is where Satan put the thought into Judas to betray Jesus.
John 13:1
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;
Satan's opening into Judas' mind was the fact that Judas was already a thief. Wealth (lust of money) is a care of this world! Judas didn't receive the idea to betray Jesus just to betray Him! He received the idea to betray Jesus because of what was already in him; he wanted money, power, prominence (desires already in him)! Lust was the opening to those particular betrayal thoughts. Judas had been stealing from the bag of money all the time, but now the devil had planted a new idea (seed) in his head/heart. Because Judas accepted the thought, Satan was able to come in and actually bewitch (hypnotize - mesmerize - spell bind - immerse - curse - enchant - possess - captivate - occupy) his mind!
John 13:26
Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. 27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
At that point Satan came into control, in fulfillment of this scripture's picture:
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Judas' own iniquities (lawlessness, sins) already performed (already in him), allowed the enemy to come in legally, take control and keep him prisoner! When God speaks about Satan, He says:
17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Satan had control of Judas' mind/actions when it came to stealing and he could make him do it over and over! It's like having a spirit of anger. It rises up when it wants to and the person has no control over it.
Here is what happened after Satan had moved on and Judas gained control of his thoughts!
Matthew 27:3
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4) Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5) And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Have you ever gotten angry or emotional and did something, then after it was over you wondered why you did it? You wished you hadn't! You weren't really in control of your own thoughts, were you?
There is one more account I need to emphasize at this point. It's the record of Jesus' temptation. When Jesus dealt directly with the devil, He used the law and said, "It is written!" What He really did was to speak truth in all of his temptations. Jesus said the truth sets us free. Here we see the truth keep Jesus free!
Matthew 4:3,4
And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Satan had just tempted Jesus' with a care of this world - the flesh!
Matthew 4:5-7
5) Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Satan has just encouraged Jesus to tempt (test) God! Of course Jesus knew better. In my experience, I didn't! The day I had my first visions, those of Russia, the Middle East, the Glory of the Lord, etc., Satan was there (unknown to me) pumping thoughts into my mind. He wanted to get the credit and throw me off course by telling me all this was of the devil! I walked to the south end of the hill and below me was an oil well, of which I was the pumper. It was not running and I had a thought I didn't realize wasn't mine. I said, "God, if this is of you and not of Satan, crank up that oil well!" Had I known the enemy had spoken to my mind and had I known the truth of God's word, I would have spoken to Satan and said, "It is written, I should not tempt God." Am I wrong? Well here is God's audible answer to me, "Tempt the Lord, thy God, not unwisely!"
Matthew4:8-10
Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
Satan had just tempted Jesus with all he could offer! You will notice that Jesus used the Word correctly and didn't twist it to make it mean something for personal gain. He knew what God meant when He said it and that is why it is so important to learn what God meant in His Word. If we don't understand what God meant, we are open bait for the devils' deceptions! That is just a fact!
I will be writing a lot more about thoughts and spirits and their ability to control our thinking in other articles in this section. But to close this article, let me say this to you. Any time God does anything, the enemy always comes to give interpretation, to corrupt, to delude, to confuse, to add to, to kill, to steal, or to destroy what God did or said. That's what he did in the garden with Eve and that is what he does with US!
Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness. If thy whole body therefore be full of light, having no part dark, the whole shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give the light.
Notice here that Jesus said we could have light in us (our bodies) and still have a part that was dark, ...be full of light, having no part dark.... He would not have said, "having no part dark," if it were not possible to have darkness in with the light.
Yes, we as Christians can have spirits that are operating in us (our flesh) and even controlling our lives. If the anger in you rises up and causes trouble with others, it has altered your life and changed the path you were on. It changed the path, not you! Anger has landed some people into jail and cost some their jobs. Is that not controlling your life? I know some will hang on to the words "influencing your life."
But I speak as one delivered; these things that were unknown to me at the time controlled my life's destiny.
(Let me say here, one of the most important words ever given to me was given through the spirit of anger. I saw the spirit, but knew the word was from God. I knew the same thing had happened to this person that had happened to me!)
If you have a deep seed of anger, it's there for one of two reasons. Either it is there because it has been passed down from a previous generation, or it is there because of something that happened to you. I had a legitimate reason to be mad, but that was beside the point - THAT DOES NOT MATTER. If you have a legitimate reason to be angry, it doesn't matter. What matters is the fact that you have anger in you, and it is a spirit. It is influencing and changing your life, whether you believe this or not!
Is your anger unknowingly towards God because you believed for something that didn't happen? No matter what anger it is, the Lord wants to deliver you!
And he asked the scribes, What question ye with them? And one of the multitude answered and said, Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
(The disciples had called the spirit out and it hadn't worked.)
Then Jesus spoke to those there, saying that they were of little faith and told them to bring the boy to him.
Mark 9:19
He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him unto me. 20 And they brought him unto him: and when he saw him, straightway the spirit tare him; and he fell on the ground, and wallowed foaming.
When the boy came into the presence of the Lord, the spirit rose up in the boy to control him one more time. Then Jesus spoke with the father of the boy.
Mark 9:21-22
And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? And he said, Of a child. And ofttimes it hath cast him into the fire, and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do any thing, have compassion on us, and help us.
Obviously, the spirit had been in the boy for quite a while. We need to understand that the length of time a spirit has controlled or harassed a person is relevant to what must happen to get rid of it. The longer a spirit is resident, either inside or on the person, the more it is entrenched or attached. So there is more to understand than just what type of spirit it is. Then we see the father of the boy ask for help and here is Jesus' answer.
Mark 9:23-24
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth. And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.
Honesty with God is always the best avenue. The father asking the Lord for help, in tears, reminds me so much of my very sincere, "Oh God, help me," when I needed delivered from anger.
Mark 9:25-26
When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him. And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead.
Notice that Jesus told the spirit "and enter no more into him.." This particular spirit was 'in' the person, not 'on' the person. There is a great difference. What Jesus said also reveals that you can tell this type of spirit not to come back. From this we can learn that a spirit has the ability to intensely control the soul and flesh of a person. This man's son looked so lifeless after the spirit was gone that many said he was dead.
Mark9:27-29
But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose. And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out? And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.
Jesus said the reason they couldn't cast this type of spirit out was because, "This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting." The King James (Open Bible version, with study notes) also shows us that "come forth" could be translated "be driven out."
"This kind (type) can be driven out by nothing (no other way), but by prayer and fasting." In other words, Jesus was telling the disciples that this particular kind of spirit had to be driven out through prayer and fasting, that just speaking to it, "In the name of Jesus" (poof!), doesn't make it happen! This helps explain the intensity we must have in some cases to take the Kingdom of God by force!
In Matthew's account we see that Jesus also spoke, in answer to the disciples, about having the faith of a mustard seed, etc.
Matthew 17:19 -20
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
From my experience, I believe that the disciple's lack of faith was the reason they did/could not pursue the spirit.
Matthew 17:21
Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.
Jesus had just spoken to them about their lack of faith. Then He says, "However" this type "goeth not out" but by prayer and fasting. ("And fasting" is not included in all versions.) It is clear that He was saying, "However, this is the only way this type will go out." Jesus had just given them more information about this type of spirit. It takes this knowledge, this understanding, along with faith!
The Greek word for "goeth not out" is the same word translated "can come forth" and "be driven out" in the book of Mark. So we can arrive at the same picture given in Mark.
Howbeit (however) this kind goeth not out (must be driven out) by prayer (and fasting?).
You may be asking why Jesus just spoke and it happened? For one thing, Jesus had the fullness of all the gifts of the Spirit. We don't individually have all the gifts, but corporately we do. This is why it is so important to recognize the body of Christ. To recognize the body of Christ means that we must recognize the gifts given by God to each person. This sheds light on why Paul said that some Christians are sick and die because they haven't discerned "the body of Christ." In my case it took team work to deliver me from the spirit of Fear!
At any rate, Jesus was telling His disciples that for them to have success, pressure must be applied to the spirit through prayer (and fasting?)!
I have shown you the scriptural evidence Jesus indicated that some spirits must have 'pressure applied' and won't leave by just speaking to them in faith. The testimony of my deliverance from the spirit of fear verifies this fact. The spirit of fear was very entrenched in me and probably was there from birth (family curse). It had a 'strong hold' on me!
As they were praying for me, they were told it was the spirit of fear. One lady placed her hand just below the bottom of my chest bone and started to push up. It was where I had been back handed, with the words "Come out," etc. Surprisingly, I felt something move inside me. I thought, "My God, this is real!" As she pushed it up, I felt it move more and more but then I started to realize that it had tentacles all through my flesh (body) like an octopus, with its head being where she was pushing. I could feel the tentacles tearing at my flesh as this thing moved up in my chest. (I want to make it very clear here that the spirit did not move unless she pushed it up with her hands. She knew exactly where the spirit was as it moved up.) They continued praying a warlike prayer in the Spirit and using the name of Jesus! It was the voice of the Lord delivering me. The spirit was tearing my flesh and started to make me bleed out my mouth. When the group realized I was bleeding, they commanded it to stop tearing me and it did.
My pastor told me afterward that I would be weak and sickly for three days. He was right. I rested and listened to Christian music most of the time. The amazing thing was that the next morning I felt like I woke up to a new world. It didn't look the same, it didn't feel the same, but it was the same. I finally realized I was the one who was different, not the world. I definitely saw clearer, in fulfillment of what Jesus said.
Matthew 7:4
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5) Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
I have found that in every case, when I have been delivered of a spirit, it has left me with clearer vision of what that particular spirit produces. That "aura" we have around us, produced by a spirit, most certainly blinds us to even seeing its works in ourselves clearly until we are delivered of it.
I should have written down everything that I realized was missing from my mind that next morning. The thought pattern that I remember the most as being gone was the thought pattern that contained the "What if's." "What if this" and "What if that," is easily seen to be of the spirit of fear. I remember (before the deliverance) standing in front of people and having the spirit of fear rise up so much that it stopped me from delivering what I was to say. I had always thought that it was "just me!" Well, it wasn't, it was the spirit of FEAR!
To understand a little more about the unknown ability of spirits, I share something about a person who was told they had fear in them. This person denied it; most people do. You must understand that the spirit can deny it's own existence. The pattern of denial is directly related to the type of spirit it is.
I have shared this experience with you in the hope it will help you to recognize the fact that in some cases it takes 'pressure' to remove a spirit. Perhaps you have picked up some other nuggets to add to your knowledge of spiritual warfare. The lack of knowledge and understanding was the reason group A didn't get the job done.
In closing, let me make it very clear, fasting was involved in my deliverance. It was the Lord who delivered me from the spirit of fear through His Spirit, His Name, and some obedient people!
Now that old shattered glass has become brand new and it sparkels and shines every time it's been cleaned how awesome it is to see just how beauitful it is to see it ..You would almost have to put on a pair of sun glasses to keep the eyes safe from the brightness of the sun. i_amgodschild