BASIC SPIRITUAL WARFARE

Spiritual warfare 101

What does that word Hosts mean?  In this instance it means a whole bunch, a huge number.

13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

2Cor 10:3 – 3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not [a]carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

Clearly from these two scriptures alone, the apostle Paul is telling us that we’re in a war, we are in a battle.  In Peter he says be sober, vigilant because your enemy the devil is prowling around like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour - over and over in scripture the reference is made to warfare.   Paul invited Timothy, he said come and endure suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 

When you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour you become enemy number one of the prince and power of the air and of the ruler of this world and his name is satan (and you thought you would have a wonderful carefree life? LOL).

Who is he, what is he?  You have to understand there is two realms of existence that God created.  There is the physical realm and there is the spiritual realm.

Now we live in and we experience every minute of every day the physical realm.  You can see it, you can touch it, you can hear it, taste it, smell it etc.  But the spiritual realm is invisible to us, we can’t see it, we can’t taste it, we can’t touch it, we can’t perceive it with our physical senses but it’s real just the same, it’s another plain of being.  The spirit realm is here in this room where I am, the spirit realm is right where you are sitting, it’s just a different plain of existence and so you don’t see it.  God dwells in that realm, that is His original realm because Jesus said the hour is coming and now is John 4 when those who worship God must worship Him in spirit and truth, why?  Because God is spirit.

Interestingly though when God decided to create man, He chose to create him in a different realm.  He chose to make man physical in a physical world.  If God himself is spirit, why did he choose to make man physical – one day God will give us the answer. 

Now the problem with this spirit realm is we tend to ignore it, we tend not to be aware of it and we tend to forget just how much impact it has on our every day lives.  And because of that we lose the war more times than we win it.  The matter of awareness is one of the big issues in our life.  What does it mean that the battle is not against flesh and blood?  It couldn’t be clearer, our battle is against spirits.  Our battle is against beings in this other realm – the spiritual realm.  Invisible beings that we cannot see, so what categories of beings are there in the spirit realm? 

1.  There is God – The very first issue you have to settle in your mind is there is a superior being, a creator God who is separate from and greater than His entire creation.  And you must measure everything against this knowledge.  You see all of the Asian religions and most of the pagan religions do not accept the fact that there is a creator God who is greater than and separate from His creation. And indeed our children in the public school systems are being taught that such a creator doesn’t exist.  But it is the foundation and basis of our entire existence, there is a Creator God!!  There is a being who is infinite, who is all powerful, who has all wisdom, who has all knowledge, who has always existed and who is totally outside time.  Do you know God can see the entire timeline from beginning to end all at the same time?  Do you know God is capable of reaching down into that timeline any place that He wants to?  He is outside of time, He is outside of the physical creation and He is so much greater than us.  How could you explain to a biscuit that you baked what you are?  You’d have a hard time doing that wouldn’t you, because the biscuit couldn’t understand and has no intelligence, that’s how much greater than us God is.  And yet God created us in His image.  He created us with characteristics that are part of Him which is utterly amazing.  You can’t do that when you bake a biscuit, you can’t put part of yourself in that biscuit.  But our creator God is so great that He can do that. 

But you must understand, the way to measure all occultic teaching that comes out of asia, the entire new age movement, the root core is this; There is a creator God who is separate from His creation, who is greater than His creation and there is a spirit realm that is separate from the physical realm.  You see all of the new age teaching and all of the Asian religions teach that there is one vast homogeneous spirit.

Homogeneous relates to homogenous eg. Homogenous milk – In the old days the milk man would deliver the milk to your doorstep and it was not homogenized and the cream would separate out from the milk and float to the top of the milk bottle.  Then homogenized milk came in and they took the milk and cream and shook it so hard for so long that the cream all broke up and it became spread throughout all the milk and so the cream didn’t separate out from the milk.  And now you can make all types of milk, like wholemilk, skim milk etc etc, But the occultists and the Asian religions don’t believe that there are individual created spirit entities within the spirit realm.  They believe the spirit realm is just one huge homogeneous spirit and that each one of us is a little piece of that spirit which has chosen to manifest itself in the physical and that’s where the term “Collective Unconsciousness” comes from.  They don’t believe that there is a superior being that has all knowledge. They believe that the collective knowledge of every human being that’s ever lived is deposited and resides within this vast homogeneous spirit. So when a new ager refers to the term God, you think he’s referring to the Creator God but he’s not referring to the Creator God at all, he’s referring to this total erroneous homogeneous spirit that he believes the spirit realm is.  But God’s word is clear, it teaches us that within the spirit realm there are specific created beings.  There is God who is not created, He has always existed, He is the creator.  But then God created spirit beings. 

2.  Angels:  And some of them are in His service and we call them angels.
3. Demons:  And some of them rebelled against Him and left His service and we call them demons. 
4. Human Spirits:  And then there are human spirits because He decided to create each one of us with a spirit because we’re created also in the image of God. 

So there are basically 4 different kinds of spirits within the spirit realm.

1.  God, the creator God
2. Angels, which are spirit beings within the service of God
3. Demons, which are spirit beings who are not in the service of God
4. Human Spirits

Now don’t fall into the trap that there is a generic spirit power.  The occultists like to believe this, especially in the Asian religions.  They believe there is a spirit power, they believe that there is an inherent power from the spirit realm that you can tap into just the same as you can tap into electricity.  You put your blender into the electricity and the blender will run, you unplug it, it stops running.  It’s because of all those electrons that are running through the wires.  You can’t see them but they are physical.  There are no electrons in the spirit realm.  The source of power within the spirit realm comes directly from spirit entities.  It comes from angels, demons, God or humans.  And our only legal access to power from the spirit realm is through faith in Jesus Christ period!!!

It’s amazing that throughout the body of Christ, the new age movement is making phenomenal inroads. 

Reiki:  This is a demonic healing.  If you tap into spirit power using anything other than faith in Jesus Christ then you are obtaining your power demon spirits.  There’s no other option.  If you’re not operating in faith through Jesus Christ then the power from the spirit realm is coming from demon spirits.  Reiki comes from Taoism which is from the Japanese and Chinese religions.  Taoism teaches that you can pull spirit power from the spirit realm, that it is a generic power like electricity and that you can learn to channel it and you can learn to pull it through your body and to use it and to push it out your hands and that you can pass your hands over someone and you can then project this power into their body and you can heal them.  So you are actually inviting demon spirits to come into your body and you are then putting those demon spirits into the people who you are treating.  Demons CAN heal!!  If you create a change in the physical realm without using some physical force to create that change then you are using spirit power.  

E.g – See this phone – what is holding it up?  My hand.  Now if I could withdraw  my hand and the phone would stay there, you’d all better be going out that door because the thing that would be holding the phone up would be spirit power.  Same thing is true with healing.  That’s why homeopathy is witchcraft.  The purpose of homeopathy is to heal through the spirit, not through the physical.  If you bring about changes in the physical body without using something physical to do it then you’re using spirit power. 

Acupuncture:  Does not use anything physical in order to create the changes in the physical body, therefore it is using spirit power. 

We live in an age where we have to research everything.  You have to demand a definition of terms because the belief is in acupuncture, it comes from Hinduism, Taoism, Shintuism, it believes that within the human body that this vast homogeneous spirit that comes through the human body, that it runs through our body in currents just like we have blood vessels that carry blood, they believe that there are lines of flow of spirit in our body.  And the placement of the acupuncture needles is absolutely accurate and tap into the lines of flow of spirit power.  If you’ve had acupuncture, you’ve had demon spirits indwell in your body, you’ve accepted them in and you received a demonic healing.  Our only access to power from the spirit realm is through faith in Jesus Christ.  We don’t need candles, we don’t need crystals, we don’t need bells, we don’t need rituals, we don’t need anything, in the name of Jesus!  That’s our access to the spirit world.  Now you go and have a surgery done and the surgeon brings his knife, he uses a physical force to cut something out, to put something in, that’s physical.  If a doctor gives you a physical medication, that’s physical, that’s ok.  In homeopathy they believe just the opposite. 

In the 1800s 1860s there was a doctor in Germany and he became disillusioned with what he called allopathic medicine and he believed that anything that’s wrong with our physical body is not physical in origin but a manifestation of what he called the inner man in other words our spirit.  He said therefore you cannot treat the spirit with the physical which is true.  So what he was going to do is he will find a poison.  Supposing you have red hot swollen joints, he will find a poison that if you took it will produce red hot swollen joints and then he’s going to take that substance and will dilute it.  That doctor diluted out that poison so far that not one molecule of it was left and then he said but now I have the essence of it, the spirit and you can treat spirit with spirit.  And the more dilute the homeopathic medication the more powerful they are – it works, demons can heal.  But it’s not through faith in Jesus Christ.  That’s your gold stamp, if you’re going to receive anything from the spirit realm, if it doesn’t come through faith in Jesus Christ it’s illegal and you’ve opened the door for demon spirits to come into your life.  Do you understand? 

There is interaction between the spiritual realm and the physical realm.  There is a place where it interfaces and it’s a term from chemistry.

Explanation:  Every substance is made up of a thing called molecules.  If I poured a glass of water and I put some oil in it, what would happen to the oil?  It would float to the top wouldn’t it?  But if you had a very powerful microscope and you could enlarge it, you would see that there is a tiny layer between the oil and the water where the molecules of oil and the molecules of water mixed.  That’s called an interface.  Now the interface between the spirit realm and the physical realm is in our head.  It’s in our mind. 

2Corinthians 10 – It tells us that the place where spiritual warfare is fought is in our heads or brains. 

At the time of the Garden of Eden prior to the fall I believe Adam and Eve could see into the spirit realm equally with the physical because God is Spirit, and clearly God was used to walking in the garden and communing with Adam and Eve.  They could see Him, they could hear Him and they could talk to Him.  So at that point and time they had the ability to perceive the spirit realm because part of them is spirit.

Philippians says; I pray to God that your whole spirit, soul and body will be sanctified and kept holy until the time of Christs return.  So we are made up of 3 different parts.  Part of us is physical, what you see here is my physical body but that’s really not m.  Me is inside this physical body.  Me, is my soul and spirit. 

My soul is my mind, my will and my emotions.  And my spirit is spirit.  But our spirit has a body.  And so when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden prior to the fall, when they looked and saw the physical trees how did they see?  Did they see through their physical eyes?  No, did you know that you don’t see through your physical eyes at the front of your head, you see through the back of your head in the occipital lobe of your brain.  What happens is the light comes into your eyes and it hits the retina and it sends the impulses back to the occipital lobe.  You see front from the back.  So their physical eyes get the image of what’s out there and that image is projected onto the occipital lobe of their brain.  They could see into the spirit realm because the eyes of their spirit body saw because it’s spirit what was going on in the spirit realm and then that image was projected into the occipital lobe of their brain.  

So whether you’re seeing in the physical or you’re seeing in the spiritual, your seeing is all taking place in your head.  This is why the interface between the spirit and the physical is in our brains. 

So prior to the fall Adam and Eve could see both ways.  They could see with their physical eyes and they could see with their spiritual eyes.  And that continued on after the fall, why?  Because there was so much interaction between the physical world and the spiritual world.  You see the sons of God (the angels), came down and took wives of the daughters of men and they co-habitated with them.  They had sex with them and they had off-spring.  Genesis 6 says “and those offspring, the result of the demon/human matings walked the earth prior to the flood and afterwards.  

So God decided to sever between our brain and our spirit.  What that did was it instantaneously cut off all our ability to communicate with the spirit realm.  We could no longer see in the spirit realm, hear in the spirit realm and no longer interact in the spirit realm.  Well that put satan in a world of hurt.  Because when God put men here on earth, He made an edict.  He said “everything on earth has to be channeled through the human race.  Whatever is accomplished on earth has to be accomplished through mankind.  That’s why you and I are responsible to share the gospel.  It is not God’s responsibility to take the gospel, it’s not the angels responsibility, it’s ours.  And God told satan the same thing.  If satan wants to accomplish anything on earth he has to work through human beings just as God has to work through human beings.  So satan is a spirit and at the time of the flood God limited the demon spirits.  Prior to that time, they could maintain physical manifestations for unlimited amounts of time.  That’s the reason why there was so much marriage going on between the fallen angels and human beings.  But after the flood, the demon spirits could no longer maintain physical manifestations for long periods of time.  God limited the spirits after the flood.  Now satan is in trouble because when God chose to sever between the soul and the spirit all of a sudden all his communication with human beings was cut off and how was he going to accomplish things through the world if he couldn’t direct human beings as to what to do?  Re-establishing contact with the spirit realm was going to be his focus.  And one of many ways that this can be done is through hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD.  In America the native Indians use the hallucinogenic drug derived from cactus plants called Paotay.  This is used in their religious rituals to re-establish the link between their soul and spirit so that they can see into the spirit realm and they can more quickly establish contact with their spirit guides.  LSD made a huge hit overnight because the trips that people were experiencing on LSD were actually experiences in the spirit realm.  There are certain drugs that the medical field calls hallucinogenics that when you take them what they do is that it re-establishes the link between the soul and the spirit and all of a sudden you can receive input from the spirit realm.  Think about it, there’s trillions of demons out there and they’re powerful, they’re intelligent and they have great vast power within the spirit realm.  If all of a sudden you can receive input from the spirit realm you’re going to go nuts because those demons can torment you day and night.  In the physical realm we can put a blind fold on and earplugs in but when you have that link between your soul and spirit you can’t turn off the input from the spirit realm.  And so people who took LSD and all these other hallucinogenic drugs, they went insane because they had sudden continual input from the spirit realm.  Same thing with transcendental meditation, when TM first swept America, the purpose of TM is to put you in contact with the spirit realm.  Another fast way of reestablishing that link between your soul and spirit is to blank out your mind. 

In 2 Corinthians 10:3-5 says to take every thought captive to make it obedient to Jesus.  So if you succeed in totally blanking out your mind so that there’s no thoughts whatsoever, you’ve lost control of it and when you’ve lost control of it who do you think is going to take over control of it, demon spirits!  So you have directly opened the door for demon spirits to come in to you.  So when take these hallucinogenic drugs or you blank out your mind you’re sinning, and sin opens a doorway.  You see, demons can’t just jump into you whenever they want to; you have to invite them in.  And the way you invite them in is through sin.  And what re-establishes that link between your soul and spirit so you can see into the spirit realm? A demon spirit.

What about Christians?  Christians have brief experiences where we see into the spirit.  We call these dreams and visions and they are under the control of the Holy Spirit.  If you can see into the spirit realm whenever you want to or if you have a particular prayer ritual where you can always have a vision, then you’re seeing demonic.  You cannot control the Holy Spirit because He is God and we are the servants.  The goal of all occultists is to control spirits in order to obtain power.  And the problem is that Christians want to control God in order to obtain power, to do what they want to do, when they want to do it.  And so many Christians fall into occultic practices because they want power available to them when they want it.  If you can say 100% God’s gonna do this, God’s gonna do that, God’s gonna heal 100% when I want Him to when I lay hands on you, I have serious doubts about you.  God is God and He does what He wants to do when he wants to do it.  He is not under your control.  And God does not work in rituals.  He does not permit us to become dependent on rituals.  He wants us to be utterly and completely dependent upon Him.  So you see into the spirit realm only when the Holy Spirit chooses to give you vision but those of you in intercessory prayer you will see in the spirit realm more than people who are not called into intercessory prayer and I warn you, for every hour you see in the spirit realm, satans up there petitioning God for equal time to deceive you – you need to be so careful.  And the problem in the body of Christ is, when people have been involved in the occult, witchcraft, the new age movement or in a pagan religion of any kind, your first step that you have to accomplish is you have to be able to establish contact with the spirit realm by whatever method you use to do it.  The most direct method in hard core satanism is performing a sacrifice and inviting in the demon – quick and simple, down and dirty.  In white witchcraft and many other religions they jump through hoops for a long period of time before they begin to see through.  But satan knows his time is brief and so now he’s hitting up our children in role playing games such as dungeons & dragons, the gathering.  These games teach our children how to be in contact with the spirit realm. 

And so these people who have established contact with the spirit realm that link is formed by a demon spirit and so everything they see in the spirit realm comes to them right through a demonic filter; the demons control what they see.  And the proof is that witches don’t see angels but if they did they wouldn’t stay witches.  And even though they see in the spirit realm, everything they see is filtered, it goes through a demon spirit, the demon controls what they see and they are masters of illusion.  They can show you anything, it’s like a Hollywood movie set, you can walk down one street and you’re 18th Century France, turn the corner and you’re wild west United States.  These demons can switch the sets in a split second and they can give you all kinds of illusions and deceptions. 

And so when such a person receives Christ, if they don’t go through deliverance they make the error of assuming that now everything they see in the spirit realm is from God.  And there has been massive deceptions brought into the body of Christ from this source.  And many Christians fulfil the practices of blanking their minds and establish contact with the spirit realm which is demonic and they bring massive deceptions into the body of Christ.  Do you know that the most powerful instrument that satan has to use is an absolutely sincere Christian who is deceived; that’s his most effective instrument is a true Christian who is deceived.  So if you’re seeing into the spirit realm all the time, if you’re seeing angels and demons then you need deliverance.  Because it is not God’s will for us to see into the spirit realm all the time.  Again, it is not God’s will for us to see into the spirit realm all the time or even frequently why? Because Hebrews 11 is very plain….. It is impossible to please God without what?  Faith.  And faith is the evidence of what?  Things not seen!!!  There is no sight in faith.

Rebecca got an email from a woman asking her to join hands with her to storm heaven.  She said “I want my spiritual eyes opened so that I can see what’s going on in the spirit realm.”  Rebecca wrote back to her saying, “Excuse me, you want to become a witch!”  The Holy Spirit gives glimpses, limited glimpses into the spirit realm when He chooses. 

You may be a person who God chooses to give visions to more than others but He may also choose to show you very few visions.  He may demand that you simply walk in faith.  It is impossible to please God without faith and there are no emotions in faith and our problem is we are spoilt brats.  We want emotional rewards.  If we don’t have some kind of supernatural experience regularly we think that we’re a second class citizen in God’s kingdom.  It’s not true, God values faith.

What is faith anyway?  Faith is a free will choice.  Faith is accepting as fact that God is and that He always performs His word.  If I let go of this bible what’s going to happen to it?  If you’re on top of this roof and you step off the edge what’s going to happen to you?  Well you have a lot of faith.  You have faith in a thing called gravity, don’t you? You operate in that faith on a daily basis.  You have chosen as truth that gravity is and you operate on that fact.  Faith in God is just the same, you choose, you make up your mind God IS – I accept it as fact!  If someone says to you you’re wrong you shouldn’t care, disregard them – the truth is God IS – you’ve made your choice and that’s final.  That’s what faith is, it’s a choice! 

So if you’re seeing in the spirit realm all the time, there needs to be a severing between your soul and spirit.  You need to kick out that specific demon.  If you’re being tormented by demon spirits, hearing all kinds of sounds, voices in your head etc and you want deliverance, then you need to sever between your soul and spirit.  Unfortunately many people have a lust for power and there is a power in the spirit realm that’s not available in the physical but you mark my words if you’re receiving power from the spirit realm and it’s not through faith in Jesus Christ, it’s from a demon spirit 100%.

We live in an age where we’re having onslaught of terminology.  There’s so many ism’s and things that are going on.  There’s a new form of healing coming out every six months.  If you’ve never heard of them before, look them up on the internet and study them.  It’s hard to keep up with it all but if you know how to evaluate what it is then you will know it’s demonic. 

Well since God has limited the physical manifestation of demons, do they physically manifest?  Yes they do sometimes.  

God allows Rebecca to speak with an Angel:

God had to permit a tremendous amount of manifestations in her life because she was a hard headed scientist and she didn’t want to accept this airy fairy spirit realm.  Everything in her life had to be proven by a double blind study.  Everything had to be measured and tested and reproduced.  You can’t do that with the spirit realm and so God began to allow demon spirits to manifest in her home.  She’d be sitting in her lounge and see the floor buckle and it would open up and smoke would rise through it and pretty soon a hideous unbelievable monster would come through it and scare the living daylights out of her.  Pretty soon she noticed that when these demons would de-materialize, when they would go back into the spirit realm that the temperature in the room would drop so fast that even in a hot summers day ice would form on the windows.

So when Rebecca talked to the angel she asked what was going on.  She asked what the difference was between the spirit and the physical?  Do you have building blocks?  You’re a created being, you have shape in the spirit realm, you have a spirit body.  Do you have building blocks in the spirit like we do in the physical?  We have atoms and molecules, what do you have???  Then angel laughed and said, “You wouldn’t understand the name if I pronounced it for you.”  He said but yes we do.  In the spirit realm everything operates on such a higher level of energy.  He said that Einstein had it correct E=mc2 – if you can accelerate physical matter fast enough it will turn into spirit, it will turn into pure energy.  That’s what the spirit realm is – it’s pure energy.  He said the demon spirits do not operate under the Holy Spirit.  God is the source of all energy.  Our sun does not have a particle of energy compared to the energy that’s in God.  And our sun burns with such intense heat that if we came within a million miles of it we’d be burnt up in a second.  And that is nothing compared to the energy that resides within our creator God.  But he said the demon spirits have been severed from that continual inflow of energy.  Rebecca asked what happens when you physically manifest?  He said, the easiest way to explain this, is it’s like freezing liquid water into ice.  You pull energy out of the water and it freezes.  That’s what happens when we manifest physically into a physical form in the physical realm.  So when the demon spirits de-manifest, when they leave their physical form and go back into the spirit realm they have to get energy from somewhere to do that and so they pull it out of the physical atmosphere and that’s when the temperature in your room drops.

Those of you who have been deep enough into warfare and deliverance and have seen demon bites you will have noticed that a demon bite has no puncture wounds and it has no pressure marks, it’s like a dry ice burn.  It’s not a physical force, it’s a transfer of energy – that’s what a demon bite is. 

Now the angels operate directly in the power of the Holy Spirit, so they have easy access to the power of God to move in and out of the physical realm.  So they’re on a whole different level to demon spirits. 

That’s the reason why we can’t see God with our physical eyes.  Scripture says no man has seen God, that’s true because our physical eyes would be burnt up in a second because the pure energy from the God head is so vast.  We have to have a whole different body, a glorified body.  That’s the remarkable thing about Christ, He’s in a glorified body who can tolerate the unbelievable energy that’s present within the God head. 

But can demon spirits reach from the spirit realm into the physical realm without a physical manifestation?  Yes, they have the power to be able to do things.  Poltergeist for example is very real, paranormal activity is the secular term.  A demon can inhabit your house and move your furniture around without ever physically manifesting.  They can affect the physical world, they can levitate objects, they can do all kinds of things.  And this is where you need to be alert because many times we experience the spirit realm without recognizing it and that’s in the form of a dream.  When we are asleep our defenses are down.  I used to suffer terrible satanic dreams up until I received all this teaching.  And one of the amazing things I learned is that I needed to ask the Holy Spirit to train me, to rebuke demon spirits in the name of Jesus even when I was dead asleep.  The Holy Spirit can do that for you to.  So many times people will have an absolutely vivid dream and most of our dreams are crazy and mixed up and so many people spend so much time trying to analyze every dream that they have and it’s crazy because actually their dreams don’t mean anything.  It’s just a bunch of crazy mixed up stuff because God created us to dream stupid dreams.  Why? I don’t know but He understands the physiology of our brains better than I do. 

But sometimes you will have an absolutely clear, organized, vivid, rational dream.  When that happens it’s probably an experience in the spirit realm and you need to deal with it as such because many demonic wounds can come to us through dreams.  Many times demon spirits will be able to reach into the physical when we are in contact with the spirit realm through a dream and injure our physical body.

Example 1:  There was a man in California on his death bed with throat cancer.  The disease came literally overnight and within 6 months he was dead.  When speaking with him a week prior to his death he told his story.

He said he was asleep one night and he had an absolutely vivid dream and he dreamt that a woman dressed in a black robe with the hood came and stood beside his bed.  He said he was absolutely paralysed with fear and he couldn’t speak and he couldn’t move.  She glared down at him with total hatred and she said “I curse you to death”.  And she reached out her hand and she touched his throat and then she left.  He woke up and was trembling with fear and he said “My goodness what a horrible experience that was”.  Six months later he was dead from throat cancer.  If he had only recognized that was an actual experience in the spirit realm and that was a real death curse that he needed to break, he could’ve been alive today. 

If he realized it he could’ve said “In the name of Jesus I take authority over that curse of death and I command you to be broken now!”.  He should’ve taken oil and covered his throat with it and should’ve said “In the name of Jesus I command every demon spirit placed into my throat through that curse get out of me and be gone now!” If he did that he would not have got sick.  

Example 2:

A young woman came to Rebecca.  She and her husband were Christians and they had been in a business partnership with a non-Christian.  Well they opened a door, the scriptures say do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers.  You don’t go into a business partnership with an unbeliever, you don’t get married with an unbeliever etc etc. because you’re going to suffer for it, you’ve opened a door for satan to attack you.  And so the non-Christian cheated them and they had to desolve the business.  The non-Christian was furious with them.  This woman had been tortured and tormented for a period of almost one year by the time Rebecca saw her and her problem was within her hands.  Her hands were contracting and terribly full of pain and she couldn’t straighten her fingers out.  The doctors could not document what was going on in her hands and could find no source of arthritis or anything else and eventually she came to Rebecca.  Rebecca, also being a physician, the first thing that Rebecca said to her was when did this problem start?  She said it started a year ago.  Rebecca asked her to think back and asked “What happened in your life just before the problem started that was different and unusual?”  When the woman thought about it she recalled that she had a really strange vivid dream.  She dreamt that she was lying in bed.  All of a sudden this ex business partner walked into her bedroom.  She immediately sat up in bed and asked him what he was doing there.  She said, he simply told her to shut up and he grabbed her hands and he held them together.  And then he took a long needle and he shoved it through the back of one hand and pushed all the way through so that it came through the other hand piercing them together.  And then he turned around and left without saying anything more.  She then woke up thinking “Man that was weird!”  Rebecca said No that was an experience in the spirit realm, that man put a curse on you.  And so she’d never broken it and her hands got worse.  Rebecca anointed her hands with oil.  You see when you’re dealing with demonic wounds you have to use the oil.  Her hands were covered both sides front and back with oil and Rebecca said, “In the name of Jesus I command every curse placed on this woman’s hands be broken now!  She then commanded all demon spirits placed into her hands through that episode to be gone in the name of Jesus.

In Africa you will find the response will be unbelievable.  So many people over there have had vivid dreams where people have come and given them something to eat or drink and afterwards they’ve had terrible problems in their life or have laid death curses on them or have touched or wounded them.  So many have dreamt that an animal bit them and when they woke up they had the bite marks on their physical body – that’s a demonic wound. 

Many people will wake up and they will have long scratches on their bodies, in places where they can’t possibly reach, that’s a demonic wound and you need to treat it as such.  Read Becoming a vessel of honour.

So yes demons can reach into the physical realm and they can make contact with us.  Now how do we as believers in Jesus Christ who do not see or hear into the spirit realm, get in contact with the spirit realm?  How has God given us the ability to interact with this unseen spirit realm?  The answer is simple, through the spoken word. 

Example: Romans 10:9  If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead you will be saved. 

Why the emphasis on confessing with your mouth?  Why didn’t it just say to believe in your heart?  Because God has ordained that our interaction with the spirit realm comes through the spoken word.  And when you look up the translation of that word “confess” in the original Greek in which it was written, what it means is “you are entering into a legally binding verbal contract”, that’s the key.  When you want to interact with the spirit realm, you open your mouth and you speak.  If you’re deaf and cannot talk, then sign.  God understands that’s the equivalent of speech.  But you open your mouth and speak.  It’s just like our covenants with God are spoken.  God magnifies His word above His name.  Our spoken word is so important because our spoken word literally brings about changes in the spirit realm.  That’s how we interact with the spirit realm. 

Talking about proclamations!  Do you know why the muslim religion is the fastest growing religion in the world?  Because 5 times a day more than 1 billion people proclaim Allah is God!  

There are three basic aspects to defensive spiritual warfare. 

1. Prevention – Nobody is interested in prevention because there’s no glamour in it.  Prevention is not exciting.  In medicine there is a saying, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, and it’s very true in spiritual warfare as well.
2. Deal with legal ground – We serve a God who is absolutely just.  He is equally just with satans kingdom as He is with us.  Do you know through your actions you can give satan the legal right to defeat you? 
3. Direct confrontation – such as dealing with demonic wounds, other interactions with the spirit realm in our dreams. 

 What is a curse? 

A curse is a sending mechanism.  A curse is like a gun, if I point a gun at you and pull the trigger and there’s no bullets in it nothing’s going to happen.  But if I point a gun at you and there’s a bullet in there and pull the trigger, you’d better be able to run fast.  A curse is like the Gun and the bullets are the demon spirits.

Exodus 40:9 9 “And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it; and you shall hallow it and all its utensils, and it shall be holy.

Exodus 12:21-22  21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe.

The spirit doesn’t need a door because it can come right through a solid wall without any problems because the spirit isn’t physical.  The door was a symbol, and in those days the only opening to the mud huts which they lived was a door, they had a hut and a door.  Because we live on this side of the cross, there’s no more shedding of blood so what do you think you’d use?  The oil.

Physically open the door as a symbol and then drive the demons out in Jesus name.  When you anoint your home, leave one door unanointed and then stand and you’re going to speak out loud, “In the name of Jesus I command every curse over my home to be broken now.  In the name of Jesus, I command every evil spirit in this place, get out this door right now in the name of Jesus”.  And then you anoint the last door and you ask God to cleanse and seal your home and it will be sealed. 

Discerning of Spirits

This only works when the Holy Spirit wants to give it to you, not when you want it.  If someone comes up to me and says, “you have the gift of discerning of spirit, can you tell me if there’s a demon in me?” I’ll say to them, “you tell me what sins you’ve committed, and I’ll tell you what demons are in you”. 

Anoint your holiday accommodation

This is particularly important because you have no idea what unsavory activities have taken place in that room or apartment before you and your family arrived.  There have been several times where we’ve arrived at our accommodation and I’ve been so tired that I’ve just fallen into our bed and straight to sleep.  Suddenly I’ll be yanked out of a dream or the start of a nightmare and the Holy Spirit will prompt me to anoint our apartment even though I’m dog tired. 

Rebecca shared about a meeting….. warned them to all anoint their homes….She fell asleep…. Pulled back the curtains…. Mark from most powerful demons she hadn’t seen in 13yrs, God said thank you for your obedience. 

The key is Prevention!!  The key is Prevention!!  The key is Prevention!!

You never know what you’re going to run into.

Anoint your house

Keep your house anointed and cleansed.  If you have someone come into your house with an uncleansed life or if you’re not cleansed, you’re going to break the seal.  So you’ll need to re-cleanse your home.  When you re-seal the house you don’t have to anoint the whole thing, you can just do the doorways where people have come and gone. 

Anoint your property

Put light grade cooking oil into a plastic spray bottle and go around the edge of your property.  Spray a line of oil and speak out saying, “I’m anointing this property in the name of God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit”, and then leave a driveway or sidewalk open, break the curses, command the demons off your property and then seal your property.  If your neighbours come out and ask what you’re doing, you just tell them you’re spraying for pests.  It’s true, you’re not lying haha. 

Anoint your church

A church should be cleansed regularly actually every week, perhaps on a Saturday night.  The Pastor doesn’t have to do it, you can delegate authority to someone else.  You need to ask the Lord to bind up the demon spirits in everyone who walks in the church, your services will be ever so much free.  I always command demons to be bound before every meeting where I share about spiritual warfare because I don’t believe in allowing demon spirits to manifest.  I am not interested in a 3 ring circus.  Some people would greatly enjoy a manifestation here or there.  But I’m here to teach to you the word of God and I have not time to allow any demon spirit to take away your attention and to show off. 

Rebecca ministered in Africa.  She did several meetings and would have audiences of between 10-15K people and she knew that witchcraft is rife in Africa.  She knew beforehand that satan was wanting to degrade her meetings with demonic manifestations and to interrupt the word of God.  She thought she might have to regularly stop the meetings and bind demons from manifesting but as it turned out, the demons didn’t manifest the whole time she was there.

Don’t chase signs & wonders

Unfortunately, many people want to see the supernatural and chase after signs and wonders.  So and so is coming to town, let’s see a sign and wonder!!!  The word of God says that the signs and wonders should follow us.  If you chase them, you just might get a demonic deception.  So, be careful, because demons can do all kinds of signs and wonders to deceive even the very elect, right? 

Our AUTHORITY is in the name of Jesus, NOT THE BLOOD!

Mark 16:17  These signs shall follow those who believe.  In My name they will cast out demons….

Luke 10:20  ….even the demons obeyed us in your name.

So clearly even before the cross Jesus was teaching the disciples to deal with demon spirits in His name.  Our authority is in the name of Jesus.  It is not in the blood of Jesus, did you know that?  Let me repeat….

Our authority is in the name of Jesus.  It is not in the blood of Jesus.

The blood of Jesus made the provision, but the authority is in His name.  The problem is many people make the mistake in spiritual warfare when they realize that they’re in a nose to nose confrontation with a demon spirit, they say, “Oh I plead the blood, I plead the blood”.  That’s not a weapon.  The weapon is, “You demon, in the name of Jesus get out of here!”  It’s the name of Jesus.  Another thing Christians say is, “I cover myself with the blood of Jesus”, excuse me?  When you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior did you not come under the covering of His blood in that instant?  Did you?  Have you ever come out from under that covering?  I would hope not!

But you’re getting clobbered anyway.  For you to say, I put myself under the covering of the blood of Jesus, you’re simply stating what’s already there.  Use your authority.  Directly address the issue.

Are you afraid?.... “Fear get off my back in the name of Jesus!” You must directly address whatever is going on. 

Do you think your prayers are bouncing back?

Do you think they’re not getting above your head?

When the enemy surrounds the camp, the Lord dwells in the midst of the camp.  The Holy Spirit is right there inside of you.  Your prayers don’t have to get above the top of your head at all.  The Holy Spirit is right in here, don’t let satan deceive you with that. 

Take captive every thought

The number one way the demons attack human beings is right up here in our heads and minds.  Demons can be outside of you and they can inject into your mind emotions and thoughts, just the same as a physician can take a needle and syringe and put a shot of medicine into your arm – they have that ability!

2 Corinthians 10:5 ….bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.

So when a demon spirit puts a thought in your head do you think he says, “Hi, this is your friendly neighborhood demon with the thought for today?”  No, he begins with the thought I….

I’ll tell you how you can prove it.  Make a proclamation:  Well Lord I’m going to fast tomorrow…. The demons heard you.  The next morning you haven’t even got out of bed and had a chance to get hungry yet and the first thought that comes into your mind is, “Oh I’m so hungry”.  Where do you think that thought came from?  Demon spirits!

Have you experienced this?  Life’s going along pretty good, had a good day at church, go to bed happy.  The next morning the whole world is black.  Everything that can go wrong is wrong and your out of sorts mad with the whole world.  What happened?  Your friendly neighborhood demons were there to greet you before you even got your eyes properly opened.  So you need to open your mouth, “You demons, get off my back, I’m not going to have your thoughts today – get out of here in the name of Jesus.!”  And then you whip out your sword which is what?  And you quote from the word of God.  You see you have to take every thought captive because our thought life goes on continually, we’re thinking all the time, that’s the essence of who we are.  We are required to take a hold of our thought life and control it.  That would be the most arduous mission in life that you would ever practice. 

My mind struggle

Once upon a time before I was married, I was borderline OCD.  I had a castle in my kingdom and everything was spotless, you could eat off my floor.  When I got married, I once day realized I married the messiest woman in the world.  There were times where I would spend 2-3 hours cleaning and tidying and then my wife would come home with the groceries and plonk everything everywhere and 2 days later they’d still be there.  In our bedroom here side was piled with clothes and things and my side was tidy.  She would start a project and not finish it and it would stay there half finished while she started the next project.  Before you knew it there were half finished projects in and outside the house.  This was adversely affecting my OCD and I would often manifest.  I would even call her names like plonker and I would say to our kids, here comes you mother the plonker!  I really struggled with controlling my thought life and bringing every thought captive and I would often remember her father saying to me before we got married, “be careful Kelly is very untidy”.  I just smiled and nodded my head thinking “Whatever”.  Well I threatened to leave my wife several times because I couldn’t stand it!  Then God spoke to me so clearly one day about bringing my thought-life captive because divorce wasn’t an option.  So, of course I had to just let everything fall away and relax.  We have 4 young children now and as you can imagine our house is mostly a bombshell but they’re getting better and I am healed of my OCD.  What’s really interesting is that even though in the natural you can see you have a strong case and you think that the other person should be like you, do things your way and have the same standards.  The truth is that’s rarely the case and you end up being the one that has to change, for the greater good.  So the sooner you allow God to deal with you the better things will become.  Bring every thought captive, bind those thoughts in Jesus name, quote those scripture verses and you will have the victory. 

Depression

The number one cause of depression is a lazy undisciplined mind.

David wrote in Psalms 43:5  Why art thou cast down, O my soul? I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

That is taking captive every thought to make it obedient to Jesus Christ.  You discipline your mind, you will have success, both in the world and in God’s kingdom.  The number one way the demons attack you is by throwing thoughts into your head.  

Another example:

You get down on your knees to pray and the demon spirits see you going into prayer and you just see how long you can concentrate on your prayer.  If you’re not praying in tongues and letting the Holy Spirit do the work, I guarantee you, your mind is going all around the world and back, that’s the demons interfering to keep you from concentrating.

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