Acts OF THE Spirit
~General Deborah Green~
PRAISE GOD. Welcome to these Acts of the Spirit messages. What a privilege it is to humble ourselves before God, to know that we can walk before our God in humility of mind and heart, and that our God will keep His keeping hand over us! It is a stupid thing to ensnare ourselves in pride and arrogance, in conceit against God, and think that we no longer need His counsel, need His instruction, need His direction. For the truth of it is, God has established it that we would be needy of Him all of our days upon this earth. He has established it that we would walk in His light, walk in His power and in His glory. Because when we are walking uprightly before the Lord, the Lord will show mercy upon us.
You know, there are times and seasons when God releases, because of the sins of humanity, His wrath, his fury, his indignation. And when He does bring forth such things, it is only those who are walking in humility before Him that will be kept in any particular locality where His wrath, His fury and indignation are released. It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God. For it is God that we are meant to obey, it is God that we are meant to please, it is God that we are meant to live in.
So often we want to run to those areas of the earth where God is bringing forth the natural disasters and play God and tell the people that are left behind in the aftermath, “Everything is okay.” But the truth of it is, everything is not okay, and men and women need to repent throughout the earth. Because we are living in a time when God is vindicating Himself through His wrath, His fury, His indignation, and we need to humble ourselves before God. We do not need to be as the proud boasters, strutting ourselves and thinking that somehow we are so great, so grand, so glorious. But we need to be humbling ourselves before Him, realizing that it is Him and Him alone who will give us His strength, His power, His glory.
“It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God.”
It is indeed a blessed thing to be able to cry out unto God, to believe in God and to know that He is able. And when it is the Lord that we will look unto, it is the Lord who will uplift us and bring us forth. It is the Lord who will give us His light, who will give us His mercy, who will shelter us in the storm. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to know that we can be kept by our God! What a wonderful thing it is to know that when the Lord desires us to humble ourselves, that we will be able to do that, that we will know His keeping hand over us.
You know, so often, God’s people are taken right in the judgments of the heathen because they are not in right standing with God. Just because we have named the name of the Lord, does not put us in right standing. And though we may have been converted to the Lord as a child, as a young teenager, as a young adult, and we think that that lasts forever when we go and live our lives in sin, live our lives for ourselves, live our lives for indulgence...we are only deceiving ourselves. For in order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing. For the Lord will hear the cries of the righteous, and those are the ones that He will shield and cover and protect. And in order to be in right standing, we must be humble before God.
Turn with me, if you will, to the book of Zephaniah, and let us proceed to chapter 2. I’m reading from the Amplified version. But before we get into chapter 2, let’s read verses 17 and 18 of chapter one, and see what God has to say about His judgments.
He says, “And I will bring distress upon men so that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S indignation and wrath. But the whole earth shall be consumed in the fire of His jealous wrath, for a full, yes, a sudden end will He make of all the inhabitants of the earth.” Now if you look at that and you read that, it shows you that nobody has a protection against God. The rich, with all of their gold and silver; the proud, with all of their arrogance and conceit; those who are smug; those who are in ivory towers, so to speak; those who are so secure in the securities of this world—all of those things mean absolutely nothing in the day of the Lord’s wrath and indignation. So let us walk with fear and trembling before our God, realizing that He is sovereign.
“In order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing.”
You know, there is much talk across the nation about the fact that it is hurricane season. And everybody is thinking they can come into some form of preparedness, some form of protecting themselves and keeping themselves from these terrific and horrifying storms. But the truth of it is, the only thing that will truly prove to be our protection, prove to be our shield in the time of storm, is the hand of Almighty God. For if we want to face reality, the truth of it is, that the storms come from God. And it is God who is vindicating Himself upon the sinful cities, upon the sinful coastlines, upon the wretched miserable state of humanity, because they refuse to walk in Him. Because they scoff and scorn His laws and His standards, and it is God who is bringing His wrath and His indignation. So let us walk with fear before God and know that it is only through Him that we shall be kept.
In chapter 2 of Zephaniah it says, “Collect your thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [in submission, and see if there is no sense of shame, and no consciousness of sin left in you], oh shameless nation (not desirous or desired)! The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind! Therefore consider, before God’s decree brings forth (the curse upon you), before the time (to repent) is gone like a drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you—yes, before the day of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you! Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments: seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.” So we see that if we think that we will be able to be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger, we need to be adhering to this requirement of seeking the Lord, inquiring for the Lord, and desiring the Lord as the foremost necessity of our life. And we should walk in humility before Him, and act in compliance with His revealed will and keep His commandments and seek righteousness, seeking humility, requiring them as vital. Then, it says, that we may be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.
OH, IF ONLY THE RETURN OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD WOULD COME UPON THE LAND, HOW MANY COULD BE SPARED? But we are living in a time when we have been taught and trained and told, that we are so important to God, that we can dictate to God, that we can direct God, that God is obligated to forgive us, even though we sin and sin and sin again, even though we indulge ourselves in willful sin and debauchery, we’ve been told that God is obligated. The truth of it is, God is not obligated to any man or any woman, but we are obligated to God. We are obligated to cry out unto the Lord, and beseech Him for mercy, beseech Him for life, beseech Him for His goodness. Because it is only by compliance to the standard of the Lord that we will be regarded as righteous and our prayers be heard.
~PRAYER~
Father, we come before you even now in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, crying out unto you in seriousness, God, because we know that you alone are merciful. Lord, we confess our sins before thee of high-mindedness, of pride, of arrogance, of trusting in silver and gold that are the riches of this world that pass away. We confess that we’ve grown stone-cold in our hearts, that we have been flippant and foolish, that we have been wanton and careless, that we have lived in sin and thought we got by.
Father, we are confessing before you today that it is we, your people, who have sinned. We are begging you in the name of Jesus to wipe away the stain of our sin, to cleanse us and sanctify us once again. Because we realize, dear God, that it is only by your mercy that we are permitted to remain living upon this earth. We realize that in your wrath, your fury, your indignation, that you can easily smite us, that you could easily destroy us and we would be remembered no more. We realize that you could wash us out to the sea of iniquity and our bones and our flesh would be eaten by the prey of the sea. We realize, dear God, that it is only by you that we are given the light, that we are given the mercy, that we are given the breath to even cry out unto you.
Father, we humble ourselves this day, confessing that we have been guilty before thee. We will not try to hide our sin because that sin will be the condemnation in the day of judgment. We know that your judgments are upon the earth, there is no sense to pretend about it, to try to hide it, to act as though it isn’t so. So many in this hour are acting as though these are not your judgments but they are coming from outer space, they are coming from the man on Mars, they are coming from who knows where. Father, we know that you are the one who controls all things and it is you who is trying to call the attention of humanity to the grievousness that their sins have borne in your sight. And Father, we are looking unto you even now, crying out for forgiveness, not only for our own sins, but the sins of our brethren around the world, crying out for the sins of our nation, crying out for the sins of our family, crying out for the sins that we have done before you, crying out, dear God, for your forgiveness, for your mercy, before it is too late.
We admit before you that we are needy of you and it is you that we must have. We bring ourselves before thee this day, asking to be free, to be delivered of all of those oppressive forces that the enemy has put upon us because of sin. We pray to be delivered of the demonic powers that have encamped against us and caused us to be crippled, caused us to be diseased, caused us to be demented and full of sin, caused us to be even crazy as we have striven against you.
Father, we thank you even now that it is you who is our deliverance, that it is you who is our healer, that it is you who is our strength and you do provide. We thank you that as we put our petition in all earnestness before you, that it is you who does hear us when we cry. Because, dear God, we do not want to be destroyed, we do not want to be devastated, we do not want to be taken out of the earth in the state of the sinful. But dear God, we want to be able to stand in your righteousness, declaring your truth in a sin-sick generation.
We thank you that it is you who is merciful, that it is you who does give us the warning, that it is you who desires us to humble ourselves. It is you that we must have, it is you that we must look unto, it is you that we desire, it is you that we long for and inquire of that we may know your will, that we may walk in your counsel all of our days, trusting and believing in you. For it is indeed a beautiful thing, a righteous thing, to be blessed to be kept by you. It is only you that will keep us, it is only you that will shield us and guide us in the way.
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Monday, July 21, 2008
SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Acts OF THE Spirit
LIFE FORCE TEAM -ACMTC
PRAISE GOD. Welcome to these Acts of the Spirit messages. What a privilege it is to humble ourselves before God, to know that we can walk before our God in humility of mind and heart, and that our God will keep His keeping hand over us! It is a stupid thing to ensnare ourselves in pride and arrogance, in conceit against God, and think that we no longer need His counsel, need His instruction, need His direction. For the truth of it is, God has established it that we would be needy of Him all of our days upon this earth. He has established it that we would walk in His light, walk in His power and in His glory. Because when we are walking uprightly before the Lord, the Lord will show mercy upon us.
You know, there are times and seasons when God releases, because of the sins of humanity, His wrath, his fury, his indignation. And when He does bring forth such things, it is only those who are walking in humility before Him that will be kept in any particular locality where His wrath, His fury and indignation are released. It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God. For it is God that we are meant to obey, it is God that we are meant to please, it is God that we are meant to live in.
So often we want to run to those areas of the earth where God is bringing forth the natural disasters and play God and tell the people that are left behind in the aftermath, “Everything is okay.” But the truth of it is, everything is not okay, and men and women need to repent throughout the earth. Because we are living in a time when God is vindicating Himself through His wrath, His fury, His indignation, and we need to humble ourselves before God. We do not need to be as the proud boasters, strutting ourselves and thinking that somehow we are so great, so grand, so glorious. But we need to be humbling ourselves before Him, realizing that it is Him and Him alone who will give us His strength, His power, His glory.
“It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God.”
It is indeed a blessed thing to be able to cry out unto God, to believe in God and to know that He is able. And when it is the Lord that we will look unto, it is the Lord who will uplift us and bring us forth. It is the Lord who will give us His light, who will give us His mercy, who will shelter us in the storm. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to know that we can be kept by our God! What a wonderful thing it is to know that when the Lord desires us to humble ourselves, that we will be able to do that, that we will know His keeping hand over us.
You know, so often, God’s people are taken right in the judgments of the heathen because they are not in right standing with God. Just because we have named the name of the Lord, does not put us in right standing. And though we may have been converted to the Lord as a child, as a young teenager, as a young adult, and we think that that lasts forever when we go and live our lives in sin, live our lives for ourselves, live our lives for indulgence...we are only deceiving ourselves. For in order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing. For the Lord will hear the cries of the righteous, and those are the ones that He will shield and cover and protect. And in order to be in right standing, we must be humble before God.
Turn with me, if you will, to the book of Zephaniah, and let us proceed to chapter 2. I’m reading from the Amplified version. But before we get into chapter 2, let’s read verses 17 and 18 of chapter one, and see what God has to say about His judgments.
He says, “And I will bring distress upon men so that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S indignation and wrath. But the whole earth shall be consumed in the fire of His jealous wrath, for a full, yes, a sudden end will He make of all the inhabitants of the earth.” Now if you look at that and you read that, it shows you that nobody has a protection against God. The rich, with all of their gold and silver; the proud, with all of their arrogance and conceit; those who are smug; those who are in ivory towers, so to speak; those who are so secure in the securities of this world—all of those things mean absolutely nothing in the day of the Lord’s wrath and indignation. So let us walk with fear and trembling before our God, realizing that He is sovereign.
“In order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing.”
You know, there is much talk across the nation about the fact that it is hurricane season. And everybody is thinking they can come into some form of preparedness, some form of protecting themselves and keeping themselves from these terrific and horrifying storms. But the truth of it is, the only thing that will truly prove to be our protection, prove to be our shield in the time of storm, is the hand of Almighty God. For if we want to face reality, the truth of it is, that the storms come from God. And it is God who is vindicating Himself upon the sinful cities, upon the sinful coastlines, upon the wretched miserable state of humanity, because they refuse to walk in Him. Because they scoff and scorn His laws and His standards, and it is God who is bringing His wrath and His indignation. So let us walk with fear before God and know that it is only through Him that we shall be kept.
In chapter 2 of Zephaniah it says, “Collect your thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [in submission, and see if there is no sense of shame, and no consciousness of sin left in you], oh shameless nation (not desirous or desired)! The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind! Therefore consider, before God’s decree brings forth (the curse upon you), before the time (to repent) is gone like a drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you—yes, before the day of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you! Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments: seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.” So we see that if we think that we will be able to be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger, we need to be adhering to this requirement of seeking the Lord, inquiring for the Lord, and desiring the Lord as the foremost necessity of our life. And we should walk in humility before Him, and act in compliance with His revealed will and keep His commandments and seek righteousness, seeking humility, requiring them as vital. Then, it says, that we may be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.
OH, IF ONLY THE RETURN OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD WOULD COME UPON THE LAND, HOW MANY COULD BE SPARED? But we are living in a time when we have been taught and trained and told, that we are so important to God, that we can dictate to God, that we can direct God, that God is obligated to forgive us, even though we sin and sin and sin again, even though we indulge ourselves in willful sin and debauchery, we’ve been told that God is obligated. The truth of it is, God is not obligated to any man or any woman, but we are obligated to God. We are obligated to cry out unto the Lord, and beseech Him for mercy, beseech Him for life, beseech Him for His goodness. Because it is only by compliance to the standard of the Lord that we will be regarded as righteous and our prayers be heard.
~PRAYER~
Father, we come before you even now in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, crying out unto you in seriousness, God, because we know that you alone are merciful. Lord, we confess our sins before thee of high-mindedness, of pride, of arrogance, of trusting in silver and gold that are the riches of this world that pass away. We confess that we’ve grown stone-cold in our hearts, that we have been flippant and foolish, that we have been wanton and careless, that we have lived in sin and thought we got by.
Father, we are confessing before you today that it is we, your people, who have sinned. We are begging you in the name of Jesus to wipe away the stain of our sin, to cleanse us and sanctify us once again. Because we realize, dear God, that it is only by your mercy that we are permitted to remain living upon this earth. We realize that in your wrath, your fury, your indignation, that you can easily smite us, that you could easily destroy us and we would be remembered no more. We realize that you could wash us out to the sea of iniquity and our bones and our flesh would be eaten by the prey of the sea. We realize, dear God, that it is only by you that we are given the light, that we are given the mercy, that we are given the breath to even cry out unto you.
Father, we humble ourselves this day, confessing that we have been guilty before thee. We will not try to hide our sin because that sin will be the condemnation in the day of judgment. We know that your judgments are upon the earth, there is no sense to pretend about it, to try to hide it, to act as though it isn’t so. So many in this hour are acting as though these are not your judgments but they are coming from outer space, they are coming from the man on Mars, they are coming from who knows where. Father, we know that you are the one who controls all things and it is you who is trying to call the attention of humanity to the grievousness that their sins have borne in your sight. And Father, we are looking unto you even now, crying out for forgiveness, not only for our own sins, but the sins of our brethren around the world, crying out for the sins of our nation, crying out for the sins of our family, crying out for the sins that we have done before you, crying out, dear God, for your forgiveness, for your mercy, before it is too late.
We admit before you that we are needy of you and it is you that we must have. We bring ourselves before thee this day, asking to be free, to be delivered of all of those oppressive forces that the enemy has put upon us because of sin. We pray to be delivered of the demonic powers that have encamped against us and caused us to be crippled, caused us to be diseased, caused us to be demented and full of sin, caused us to be even crazy as we have striven against you.
Father, we thank you even now that it is you who is our deliverance, that it is you who is our healer, that it is you who is our strength and you do provide. We thank you that as we put our petition in all earnestness before you, that it is you who does hear us when we cry. Because, dear God, we do not want to be destroyed, we do not want to be devastated, we do not want to be taken out of the earth in the state of the sinful. But dear God, we want to be able to stand in your righteousness, declaring your truth in a sin-sick generation.
We thank you that it is you who is merciful, that it is you who does give us the warning, that it is you who desires us to humble ourselves. It is you that we must have, it is you that we must look unto, it is you that we desire, it is you that we long for and inquire of that we may know your will, that we may walk in your counsel all of our days, trusting and believing in you. For it is indeed a beautiful thing, a righteous thing, to be blessed to be kept by you. It is only you that will keep us, it is only you that will shield us and guide us in the way.
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LIFE FORCE TEAM -ACMTC
PRAISE GOD. Welcome to these Acts of the Spirit messages. What a privilege it is to humble ourselves before God, to know that we can walk before our God in humility of mind and heart, and that our God will keep His keeping hand over us! It is a stupid thing to ensnare ourselves in pride and arrogance, in conceit against God, and think that we no longer need His counsel, need His instruction, need His direction. For the truth of it is, God has established it that we would be needy of Him all of our days upon this earth. He has established it that we would walk in His light, walk in His power and in His glory. Because when we are walking uprightly before the Lord, the Lord will show mercy upon us.
You know, there are times and seasons when God releases, because of the sins of humanity, His wrath, his fury, his indignation. And when He does bring forth such things, it is only those who are walking in humility before Him that will be kept in any particular locality where His wrath, His fury and indignation are released. It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God. For it is God that we are meant to obey, it is God that we are meant to please, it is God that we are meant to live in.
So often we want to run to those areas of the earth where God is bringing forth the natural disasters and play God and tell the people that are left behind in the aftermath, “Everything is okay.” But the truth of it is, everything is not okay, and men and women need to repent throughout the earth. Because we are living in a time when God is vindicating Himself through His wrath, His fury, His indignation, and we need to humble ourselves before God. We do not need to be as the proud boasters, strutting ourselves and thinking that somehow we are so great, so grand, so glorious. But we need to be humbling ourselves before Him, realizing that it is Him and Him alone who will give us His strength, His power, His glory.
“It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God.”
It is indeed a blessed thing to be able to cry out unto God, to believe in God and to know that He is able. And when it is the Lord that we will look unto, it is the Lord who will uplift us and bring us forth. It is the Lord who will give us His light, who will give us His mercy, who will shelter us in the storm. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to know that we can be kept by our God! What a wonderful thing it is to know that when the Lord desires us to humble ourselves, that we will be able to do that, that we will know His keeping hand over us.
You know, so often, God’s people are taken right in the judgments of the heathen because they are not in right standing with God. Just because we have named the name of the Lord, does not put us in right standing. And though we may have been converted to the Lord as a child, as a young teenager, as a young adult, and we think that that lasts forever when we go and live our lives in sin, live our lives for ourselves, live our lives for indulgence...we are only deceiving ourselves. For in order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing. For the Lord will hear the cries of the righteous, and those are the ones that He will shield and cover and protect. And in order to be in right standing, we must be humble before God.
Turn with me, if you will, to the book of Zephaniah, and let us proceed to chapter 2. I’m reading from the Amplified version. But before we get into chapter 2, let’s read verses 17 and 18 of chapter one, and see what God has to say about His judgments.
He says, “And I will bring distress upon men so that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S indignation and wrath. But the whole earth shall be consumed in the fire of His jealous wrath, for a full, yes, a sudden end will He make of all the inhabitants of the earth.” Now if you look at that and you read that, it shows you that nobody has a protection against God. The rich, with all of their gold and silver; the proud, with all of their arrogance and conceit; those who are smug; those who are in ivory towers, so to speak; those who are so secure in the securities of this world—all of those things mean absolutely nothing in the day of the Lord’s wrath and indignation. So let us walk with fear and trembling before our God, realizing that He is sovereign.
“In order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing.”
You know, there is much talk across the nation about the fact that it is hurricane season. And everybody is thinking they can come into some form of preparedness, some form of protecting themselves and keeping themselves from these terrific and horrifying storms. But the truth of it is, the only thing that will truly prove to be our protection, prove to be our shield in the time of storm, is the hand of Almighty God. For if we want to face reality, the truth of it is, that the storms come from God. And it is God who is vindicating Himself upon the sinful cities, upon the sinful coastlines, upon the wretched miserable state of humanity, because they refuse to walk in Him. Because they scoff and scorn His laws and His standards, and it is God who is bringing His wrath and His indignation. So let us walk with fear before God and know that it is only through Him that we shall be kept.
In chapter 2 of Zephaniah it says, “Collect your thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [in submission, and see if there is no sense of shame, and no consciousness of sin left in you], oh shameless nation (not desirous or desired)! The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind! Therefore consider, before God’s decree brings forth (the curse upon you), before the time (to repent) is gone like a drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you—yes, before the day of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you! Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments: seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.” So we see that if we think that we will be able to be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger, we need to be adhering to this requirement of seeking the Lord, inquiring for the Lord, and desiring the Lord as the foremost necessity of our life. And we should walk in humility before Him, and act in compliance with His revealed will and keep His commandments and seek righteousness, seeking humility, requiring them as vital. Then, it says, that we may be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.
OH, IF ONLY THE RETURN OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD WOULD COME UPON THE LAND, HOW MANY COULD BE SPARED? But we are living in a time when we have been taught and trained and told, that we are so important to God, that we can dictate to God, that we can direct God, that God is obligated to forgive us, even though we sin and sin and sin again, even though we indulge ourselves in willful sin and debauchery, we’ve been told that God is obligated. The truth of it is, God is not obligated to any man or any woman, but we are obligated to God. We are obligated to cry out unto the Lord, and beseech Him for mercy, beseech Him for life, beseech Him for His goodness. Because it is only by compliance to the standard of the Lord that we will be regarded as righteous and our prayers be heard.
~PRAYER~
Father, we come before you even now in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, crying out unto you in seriousness, God, because we know that you alone are merciful. Lord, we confess our sins before thee of high-mindedness, of pride, of arrogance, of trusting in silver and gold that are the riches of this world that pass away. We confess that we’ve grown stone-cold in our hearts, that we have been flippant and foolish, that we have been wanton and careless, that we have lived in sin and thought we got by.
Father, we are confessing before you today that it is we, your people, who have sinned. We are begging you in the name of Jesus to wipe away the stain of our sin, to cleanse us and sanctify us once again. Because we realize, dear God, that it is only by your mercy that we are permitted to remain living upon this earth. We realize that in your wrath, your fury, your indignation, that you can easily smite us, that you could easily destroy us and we would be remembered no more. We realize that you could wash us out to the sea of iniquity and our bones and our flesh would be eaten by the prey of the sea. We realize, dear God, that it is only by you that we are given the light, that we are given the mercy, that we are given the breath to even cry out unto you.
Father, we humble ourselves this day, confessing that we have been guilty before thee. We will not try to hide our sin because that sin will be the condemnation in the day of judgment. We know that your judgments are upon the earth, there is no sense to pretend about it, to try to hide it, to act as though it isn’t so. So many in this hour are acting as though these are not your judgments but they are coming from outer space, they are coming from the man on Mars, they are coming from who knows where. Father, we know that you are the one who controls all things and it is you who is trying to call the attention of humanity to the grievousness that their sins have borne in your sight. And Father, we are looking unto you even now, crying out for forgiveness, not only for our own sins, but the sins of our brethren around the world, crying out for the sins of our nation, crying out for the sins of our family, crying out for the sins that we have done before you, crying out, dear God, for your forgiveness, for your mercy, before it is too late.
We admit before you that we are needy of you and it is you that we must have. We bring ourselves before thee this day, asking to be free, to be delivered of all of those oppressive forces that the enemy has put upon us because of sin. We pray to be delivered of the demonic powers that have encamped against us and caused us to be crippled, caused us to be diseased, caused us to be demented and full of sin, caused us to be even crazy as we have striven against you.
Father, we thank you even now that it is you who is our deliverance, that it is you who is our healer, that it is you who is our strength and you do provide. We thank you that as we put our petition in all earnestness before you, that it is you who does hear us when we cry. Because, dear God, we do not want to be destroyed, we do not want to be devastated, we do not want to be taken out of the earth in the state of the sinful. But dear God, we want to be able to stand in your righteousness, declaring your truth in a sin-sick generation.
We thank you that it is you who is merciful, that it is you who does give us the warning, that it is you who desires us to humble ourselves. It is you that we must have, it is you that we must look unto, it is you that we desire, it is you that we long for and inquire of that we may know your will, that we may walk in your counsel all of our days, trusting and believing in you. For it is indeed a beautiful thing, a righteous thing, to be blessed to be kept by you. It is only you that will keep us, it is only you that will shield us and guide us in the way.
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SPIRITUAL WARFARE
Acts OF THE Spirit
LIFE FORCE TEAM -ACMTC
PRAISE GOD. Welcome to these Acts of the Spirit messages. What a privilege it is to humble ourselves before God, to know that we can walk before our God in humility of mind and heart, and that our God will keep His keeping hand over us! It is a stupid thing to ensnare ourselves in pride and arrogance, in conceit against God, and think that we no longer need His counsel, need His instruction, need His direction. For the truth of it is, God has established it that we would be needy of Him all of our days upon this earth. He has established it that we would walk in His light, walk in His power and in His glory. Because when we are walking uprightly before the Lord, the Lord will show mercy upon us.
You know, there are times and seasons when God releases, because of the sins of humanity, His wrath, his fury, his indignation. And when He does bring forth such things, it is only those who are walking in humility before Him that will be kept in any particular locality where His wrath, His fury and indignation are released. It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God. For it is God that we are meant to obey, it is God that we are meant to please, it is God that we are meant to live in.
So often we want to run to those areas of the earth where God is bringing forth the natural disasters and play God and tell the people that are left behind in the aftermath, “Everything is okay.” But the truth of it is, everything is not okay, and men and women need to repent throughout the earth. Because we are living in a time when God is vindicating Himself through His wrath, His fury, His indignation, and we need to humble ourselves before God. We do not need to be as the proud boasters, strutting ourselves and thinking that somehow we are so great, so grand, so glorious. But we need to be humbling ourselves before Him, realizing that it is Him and Him alone who will give us His strength, His power, His glory.
“It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God.”
It is indeed a blessed thing to be able to cry out unto God, to believe in God and to know that He is able. And when it is the Lord that we will look unto, it is the Lord who will uplift us and bring us forth. It is the Lord who will give us His light, who will give us His mercy, who will shelter us in the storm. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to know that we can be kept by our God! What a wonderful thing it is to know that when the Lord desires us to humble ourselves, that we will be able to do that, that we will know His keeping hand over us.
You know, so often, God’s people are taken right in the judgments of the heathen because they are not in right standing with God. Just because we have named the name of the Lord, does not put us in right standing. And though we may have been converted to the Lord as a child, as a young teenager, as a young adult, and we think that that lasts forever when we go and live our lives in sin, live our lives for ourselves, live our lives for indulgence...we are only deceiving ourselves. For in order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing. For the Lord will hear the cries of the righteous, and those are the ones that He will shield and cover and protect. And in order to be in right standing, we must be humble before God.
Turn with me, if you will, to the book of Zephaniah, and let us proceed to chapter 2. I’m reading from the Amplified version. But before we get into chapter 2, let’s read verses 17 and 18 of chapter one, and see what God has to say about His judgments.
He says, “And I will bring distress upon men so that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S indignation and wrath. But the whole earth shall be consumed in the fire of His jealous wrath, for a full, yes, a sudden end will He make of all the inhabitants of the earth.” Now if you look at that and you read that, it shows you that nobody has a protection against God. The rich, with all of their gold and silver; the proud, with all of their arrogance and conceit; those who are smug; those who are in ivory towers, so to speak; those who are so secure in the securities of this world—all of those things mean absolutely nothing in the day of the Lord’s wrath and indignation. So let us walk with fear and trembling before our God, realizing that He is sovereign.
“In order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing.”
You know, there is much talk across the nation about the fact that it is hurricane season. And everybody is thinking they can come into some form of preparedness, some form of protecting themselves and keeping themselves from these terrific and horrifying storms. But the truth of it is, the only thing that will truly prove to be our protection, prove to be our shield in the time of storm, is the hand of Almighty God. For if we want to face reality, the truth of it is, that the storms come from God. And it is God who is vindicating Himself upon the sinful cities, upon the sinful coastlines, upon the wretched miserable state of humanity, because they refuse to walk in Him. Because they scoff and scorn His laws and His standards, and it is God who is bringing His wrath and His indignation. So let us walk with fear before God and know that it is only through Him that we shall be kept.
In chapter 2 of Zephaniah it says, “Collect your thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [in submission, and see if there is no sense of shame, and no consciousness of sin left in you], oh shameless nation (not desirous or desired)! The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind! Therefore consider, before God’s decree brings forth (the curse upon you), before the time (to repent) is gone like a drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you—yes, before the day of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you! Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments: seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.” So we see that if we think that we will be able to be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger, we need to be adhering to this requirement of seeking the Lord, inquiring for the Lord, and desiring the Lord as the foremost necessity of our life. And we should walk in humility before Him, and act in compliance with His revealed will and keep His commandments and seek righteousness, seeking humility, requiring them as vital. Then, it says, that we may be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.
OH, IF ONLY THE RETURN OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD WOULD COME UPON THE LAND, HOW MANY COULD BE SPARED? But we are living in a time when we have been taught and trained and told, that we are so important to God, that we can dictate to God, that we can direct God, that God is obligated to forgive us, even though we sin and sin and sin again, even though we indulge ourselves in willful sin and debauchery, we’ve been told that God is obligated. The truth of it is, God is not obligated to any man or any woman, but we are obligated to God. We are obligated to cry out unto the Lord, and beseech Him for mercy, beseech Him for life, beseech Him for His goodness. Because it is only by compliance to the standard of the Lord that we will be regarded as righteous and our prayers be heard.
~PRAYER~
Father, we come before you even now in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, crying out unto you in seriousness, God, because we know that you alone are merciful. Lord, we confess our sins before thee of high-mindedness, of pride, of arrogance, of trusting in silver and gold that are the riches of this world that pass away. We confess that we’ve grown stone-cold in our hearts, that we have been flippant and foolish, that we have been wanton and careless, that we have lived in sin and thought we got by.
Father, we are confessing before you today that it is we, your people, who have sinned. We are begging you in the name of Jesus to wipe away the stain of our sin, to cleanse us and sanctify us once again. Because we realize, dear God, that it is only by your mercy that we are permitted to remain living upon this earth. We realize that in your wrath, your fury, your indignation, that you can easily smite us, that you could easily destroy us and we would be remembered no more. We realize that you could wash us out to the sea of iniquity and our bones and our flesh would be eaten by the prey of the sea. We realize, dear God, that it is only by you that we are given the light, that we are given the mercy, that we are given the breath to even cry out unto you.
Father, we humble ourselves this day, confessing that we have been guilty before thee. We will not try to hide our sin because that sin will be the condemnation in the day of judgment. We know that your judgments are upon the earth, there is no sense to pretend about it, to try to hide it, to act as though it isn’t so. So many in this hour are acting as though these are not your judgments but they are coming from outer space, they are coming from the man on Mars, they are coming from who knows where. Father, we know that you are the one who controls all things and it is you who is trying to call the attention of humanity to the grievousness that their sins have borne in your sight. And Father, we are looking unto you even now, crying out for forgiveness, not only for our own sins, but the sins of our brethren around the world, crying out for the sins of our nation, crying out for the sins of our family, crying out for the sins that we have done before you, crying out, dear God, for your forgiveness, for your mercy, before it is too late.
We admit before you that we are needy of you and it is you that we must have. We bring ourselves before thee this day, asking to be free, to be delivered of all of those oppressive forces that the enemy has put upon us because of sin. We pray to be delivered of the demonic powers that have encamped against us and caused us to be crippled, caused us to be diseased, caused us to be demented and full of sin, caused us to be even crazy as we have striven against you.
Father, we thank you even now that it is you who is our deliverance, that it is you who is our healer, that it is you who is our strength and you do provide. We thank you that as we put our petition in all earnestness before you, that it is you who does hear us when we cry. Because, dear God, we do not want to be destroyed, we do not want to be devastated, we do not want to be taken out of the earth in the state of the sinful. But dear God, we want to be able to stand in your righteousness, declaring your truth in a sin-sick generation.
We thank you that it is you who is merciful, that it is you who does give us the warning, that it is you who desires us to humble ourselves. It is you that we must have, it is you that we must look unto, it is you that we desire, it is you that we long for and inquire of that we may know your will, that we may walk in your counsel all of our days, trusting and believing in you. For it is indeed a beautiful thing, a righteous thing, to be blessed to be kept by you. It is only you that will keep us, it is only you that will shield us and guide us in the way.
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LIFE FORCE TEAM -ACMTC
PRAISE GOD. Welcome to these Acts of the Spirit messages. What a privilege it is to humble ourselves before God, to know that we can walk before our God in humility of mind and heart, and that our God will keep His keeping hand over us! It is a stupid thing to ensnare ourselves in pride and arrogance, in conceit against God, and think that we no longer need His counsel, need His instruction, need His direction. For the truth of it is, God has established it that we would be needy of Him all of our days upon this earth. He has established it that we would walk in His light, walk in His power and in His glory. Because when we are walking uprightly before the Lord, the Lord will show mercy upon us.
You know, there are times and seasons when God releases, because of the sins of humanity, His wrath, his fury, his indignation. And when He does bring forth such things, it is only those who are walking in humility before Him that will be kept in any particular locality where His wrath, His fury and indignation are released. It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God. For it is God that we are meant to obey, it is God that we are meant to please, it is God that we are meant to live in.
So often we want to run to those areas of the earth where God is bringing forth the natural disasters and play God and tell the people that are left behind in the aftermath, “Everything is okay.” But the truth of it is, everything is not okay, and men and women need to repent throughout the earth. Because we are living in a time when God is vindicating Himself through His wrath, His fury, His indignation, and we need to humble ourselves before God. We do not need to be as the proud boasters, strutting ourselves and thinking that somehow we are so great, so grand, so glorious. But we need to be humbling ourselves before Him, realizing that it is Him and Him alone who will give us His strength, His power, His glory.
“It is stupid to think that we are able to keep ourselves, that we are alright, that we are okay, if we are not alright with God.”
It is indeed a blessed thing to be able to cry out unto God, to believe in God and to know that He is able. And when it is the Lord that we will look unto, it is the Lord who will uplift us and bring us forth. It is the Lord who will give us His light, who will give us His mercy, who will shelter us in the storm. Oh, what a wonderful thing it is to know that we can be kept by our God! What a wonderful thing it is to know that when the Lord desires us to humble ourselves, that we will be able to do that, that we will know His keeping hand over us.
You know, so often, God’s people are taken right in the judgments of the heathen because they are not in right standing with God. Just because we have named the name of the Lord, does not put us in right standing. And though we may have been converted to the Lord as a child, as a young teenager, as a young adult, and we think that that lasts forever when we go and live our lives in sin, live our lives for ourselves, live our lives for indulgence...we are only deceiving ourselves. For in order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing. For the Lord will hear the cries of the righteous, and those are the ones that He will shield and cover and protect. And in order to be in right standing, we must be humble before God.
Turn with me, if you will, to the book of Zephaniah, and let us proceed to chapter 2. I’m reading from the Amplified version. But before we get into chapter 2, let’s read verses 17 and 18 of chapter one, and see what God has to say about His judgments.
He says, “And I will bring distress upon men so that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood shall be poured out like dust and their flesh like dung. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’S indignation and wrath. But the whole earth shall be consumed in the fire of His jealous wrath, for a full, yes, a sudden end will He make of all the inhabitants of the earth.” Now if you look at that and you read that, it shows you that nobody has a protection against God. The rich, with all of their gold and silver; the proud, with all of their arrogance and conceit; those who are smug; those who are in ivory towers, so to speak; those who are so secure in the securities of this world—all of those things mean absolutely nothing in the day of the Lord’s wrath and indignation. So let us walk with fear and trembling before our God, realizing that He is sovereign.
“In order to have the covering of protection from the Lord, we must be in right standing.”
You know, there is much talk across the nation about the fact that it is hurricane season. And everybody is thinking they can come into some form of preparedness, some form of protecting themselves and keeping themselves from these terrific and horrifying storms. But the truth of it is, the only thing that will truly prove to be our protection, prove to be our shield in the time of storm, is the hand of Almighty God. For if we want to face reality, the truth of it is, that the storms come from God. And it is God who is vindicating Himself upon the sinful cities, upon the sinful coastlines, upon the wretched miserable state of humanity, because they refuse to walk in Him. Because they scoff and scorn His laws and His standards, and it is God who is bringing His wrath and His indignation. So let us walk with fear before God and know that it is only through Him that we shall be kept.
In chapter 2 of Zephaniah it says, “Collect your thoughts, yes, unbend yourselves [in submission, and see if there is no sense of shame, and no consciousness of sin left in you], oh shameless nation (not desirous or desired)! The time for repentance is speeding by like chaff whirled before the wind! Therefore consider, before God’s decree brings forth (the curse upon you), before the time (to repent) is gone like a drifting chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD comes upon you—yes, before the day of the wrath of the LORD comes upon you! Seek the Lord [inquire for Him, inquire of Him, and require Him as the foremost necessity of your life], all you humble of the land who have acted in compliance with His revealed will and have kept His commandments: seek righteousness, seek humility [inquire for them, require them as vital]. It may be you will be hidden in the day of the LORD’s anger.” So we see that if we think that we will be able to be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger, we need to be adhering to this requirement of seeking the Lord, inquiring for the Lord, and desiring the Lord as the foremost necessity of our life. And we should walk in humility before Him, and act in compliance with His revealed will and keep His commandments and seek righteousness, seeking humility, requiring them as vital. Then, it says, that we may be hidden in the day of the Lord’s anger.
OH, IF ONLY THE RETURN OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD WOULD COME UPON THE LAND, HOW MANY COULD BE SPARED? But we are living in a time when we have been taught and trained and told, that we are so important to God, that we can dictate to God, that we can direct God, that God is obligated to forgive us, even though we sin and sin and sin again, even though we indulge ourselves in willful sin and debauchery, we’ve been told that God is obligated. The truth of it is, God is not obligated to any man or any woman, but we are obligated to God. We are obligated to cry out unto the Lord, and beseech Him for mercy, beseech Him for life, beseech Him for His goodness. Because it is only by compliance to the standard of the Lord that we will be regarded as righteous and our prayers be heard.
~PRAYER~
Father, we come before you even now in the name of Jesus Christ the Lord, crying out unto you in seriousness, God, because we know that you alone are merciful. Lord, we confess our sins before thee of high-mindedness, of pride, of arrogance, of trusting in silver and gold that are the riches of this world that pass away. We confess that we’ve grown stone-cold in our hearts, that we have been flippant and foolish, that we have been wanton and careless, that we have lived in sin and thought we got by.
Father, we are confessing before you today that it is we, your people, who have sinned. We are begging you in the name of Jesus to wipe away the stain of our sin, to cleanse us and sanctify us once again. Because we realize, dear God, that it is only by your mercy that we are permitted to remain living upon this earth. We realize that in your wrath, your fury, your indignation, that you can easily smite us, that you could easily destroy us and we would be remembered no more. We realize that you could wash us out to the sea of iniquity and our bones and our flesh would be eaten by the prey of the sea. We realize, dear God, that it is only by you that we are given the light, that we are given the mercy, that we are given the breath to even cry out unto you.
Father, we humble ourselves this day, confessing that we have been guilty before thee. We will not try to hide our sin because that sin will be the condemnation in the day of judgment. We know that your judgments are upon the earth, there is no sense to pretend about it, to try to hide it, to act as though it isn’t so. So many in this hour are acting as though these are not your judgments but they are coming from outer space, they are coming from the man on Mars, they are coming from who knows where. Father, we know that you are the one who controls all things and it is you who is trying to call the attention of humanity to the grievousness that their sins have borne in your sight. And Father, we are looking unto you even now, crying out for forgiveness, not only for our own sins, but the sins of our brethren around the world, crying out for the sins of our nation, crying out for the sins of our family, crying out for the sins that we have done before you, crying out, dear God, for your forgiveness, for your mercy, before it is too late.
We admit before you that we are needy of you and it is you that we must have. We bring ourselves before thee this day, asking to be free, to be delivered of all of those oppressive forces that the enemy has put upon us because of sin. We pray to be delivered of the demonic powers that have encamped against us and caused us to be crippled, caused us to be diseased, caused us to be demented and full of sin, caused us to be even crazy as we have striven against you.
Father, we thank you even now that it is you who is our deliverance, that it is you who is our healer, that it is you who is our strength and you do provide. We thank you that as we put our petition in all earnestness before you, that it is you who does hear us when we cry. Because, dear God, we do not want to be destroyed, we do not want to be devastated, we do not want to be taken out of the earth in the state of the sinful. But dear God, we want to be able to stand in your righteousness, declaring your truth in a sin-sick generation.
We thank you that it is you who is merciful, that it is you who does give us the warning, that it is you who desires us to humble ourselves. It is you that we must have, it is you that we must look unto, it is you that we desire, it is you that we long for and inquire of that we may know your will, that we may walk in your counsel all of our days, trusting and believing in you. For it is indeed a beautiful thing, a righteous thing, to be blessed to be kept by you. It is only you that will keep us, it is only you that will shield us and guide us in the way.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Are Demons For Real?
by GENERAL JAMES GREEN/captain Josephate Ngichabe
The Nature And Activity Of Demons
Casting out DEMONS-Every Christian's Job!
"And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my
name shall they cast out demons."(Mark 16:17)
The New Testament Greek word for "demon" is "daimonion". This is the extended form of another Greek word "daimon". In the Greek language these words were used to describe a special class of spirit beings to whom were attributed varying degrees of supernatural influence or power.
Are DEMONS for real? Yes, absolutely! Satan and his demons are skillful strategists, they are masters of every evil tactic imaginable. Desire for power and the unknown are the greatest destroyers of men's souls. Satan is a real spirit being with mighty supernatural powers and intelligence. The only weapon that will win over the power of Satan and his demons is salvation through the blood atonement of the LORD JESUS CHRIST. In Ephesians 6:11-12, (The Holy Bible) Christians are instructed to put on the whole armour of God, in order that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
Yes, the Bible tells us there are PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, RULERS OF DARKNESS, and SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS (demon forces) arrayed in heavenly places against us. Listed below is a compilation of occult terms and activities, all of which are promoted by Satan and activated by demons.
--BLACK ARTS--
Fortune Telling, Prognostication, Palm Reading, Crystal Ball Reading, Divination, Tarot Card Reading, ESP, Tea Leaf Reading, Automatic Writing, Handwriting Analysis, Rod and Pendulum, Ouija Board, Tumbler Moving, Horoscope, Zodiac, Astrology, Mirror Mantic, Psychometry, Telepathy, Cabala, Clairvoyance, Clairadiance, Satanism, Wicca, Premonitions, Precognitions, Psychoanalysis, Psychography, Color Therapy, Psychics, Psychic Healing, Spiritists, Spiritualists, Spirit Healers, Familiar Spirits, Elemental Spirits, Spirit Guide, Mystic Eye, Medium, Numerology, Black Magic, White Magic, Pentagram, Hexagram, Seances, Control Spirit, Witchcraft, Incubi, Succubi, Ghosts, Poltergeists, Hypnotism, Charming, Conjuring, Spells, Hexes, Vexes, Curses, Necromancy, Metaphysics, Water Witching, Mental Science, Omens, Superstition, Fetishes, Amulets, Secret Societies, Lotus, Chants, Potions, Sorcery, Rock and Roll, Atheism, Bewitchments, Enchantments, Firewalking, Charms, Moon Mancy, Mind Control, Transference, Evil Concupiscence, Karate, Judo, Meditation, Traumatic Shocks, Drugs, Acupuncture, Idolatry, Voodoo, Fairy Tales, Scientology, Illuminati, Masonic Order, Transcendental Meditation, Yoga, Reincarnation, Karma, Wizard, Antichrist, 666, Warlock, Witch, Covens, Murder, Ritual Abuse, Third Eye, Trance, Jinks, Lucifer, Baphomet, Dragon, Diana, Serpent, Devil, Satan!As you can see, Satan has deceived many into joining his ranks. Although he promises them fame, fortune and power, what they don't understand is that they have already lost the war, and in the end they will lose their souls in Hell for eternity. Why not join the ranks of God's Mighty Army? Jesus is both Lord and Christ of the universe.
The Bible tells us: "Wherefore, God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name: that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heaven, and things in earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil. 2:9-11)
THE OCCULT: SATAN'S DEADLY SNARE!
DEMONS-MENTIONED IN THE BIBLE:
Look Them Up! 1) Instances of Demon Possession: Saul -1 Sam.16:14-23. Men in the tombs -Matt. 8:28-34; Mark 5:2-20. The dumb man -Matt. 9:32. The blind and dumb man -Matt. 12:22; Luke 11:14; The daughter of the Syropehician -Matt. 15:22-29; Mark 7:25-30. The lunatic child -Matt. 17:14-18; Mark 9:17-27. The man in the synagogue -Mark 1:23-26; Luke 4:33-35. Mary Magdalene -Mark 16:9; Luke 8:2. Spirit of divination -Acts 16:16
2) Worship of Demons Forbidden: Lev. 17:7; Zech. 13:2; Rev. 9:20
3) Demons Cast Out By Jesus: Matt. 4:24; 8:16; Mark 3:22; Luke 4:41
4) Demons Cast Out By The Disciples: Mark 9:38; Luke 10:17; Acts 5:16; 8:7; 16:16-18; 19:12.
5) Power Over Demons Given To Christians: Matt. 10:1; Mark 6:7; 16:17; Luke 10:19
6) Punishment Of Demons: Matt. 8:29; 25:41; Luke 8:28; 2 Peter 2:4; Jude 6; Rev. 12:7-9
7) Witchcraft Forbidden: Exodus 22:18; Lev. 19:31; 20:6,27; Deut. 18:9-14; Acts 19:19.
8) Witchcraft Practices: Exodus 7:11,22; 1 Chron. 10:13; 2 Chron. 33:6; Isa. 8:19; 19:3; 29:4; Ezek. 21:21; 2 Kings 23:24; 1 Sam. 28:7-25; Acts 8:9,11; 13:8; 19:13-15.
P R A Y E R
SALVATION:
Dear Jesus, I come to you with all the sins I've committed and I beg you to forgive me. I confess and repent of any and all participation in the black arts of Satan and the occult. Cleanse my body, soul, and spirit with your precious blood. I need your help and I ask you to come and live in my heart. I want to serve you, obey your commands and do what is right. I want to live for you everyday, please lead and guide me by your Spirit into righteousness. Thank you Jesus for hearing and answering my prayer. Amen.
LOOSING FROM CURSES, SPELLS, AND WITCHCRAFT POWER:
In the name of Jesus Christ I now rebuke, break and loose myself from any and all evil curses, charms, vexes, hexes, spells, jinxes, psychic powers and prayers, bewitchments, witchcraft, sorcery and mind control that have been placed upon or sent against me, or my family line, from any person(s), or from any occult or psychic source. I command the power of all connected spirits or demons to be broken over my life and to leave me now in the name of Jesus. Thank you Jesus for setting me free.
COME TO JESUS CHRIST THE DELIVERER:
I come to you, Lord Jesus, as my deliverer. You know all my problems, all the things that bind, that torment, defile and harass me. I now refuse to accept anything from Satan, and loose myself from every dark spirit, from every evil influence, from every satanic bondage, from every spirit in me that is not the Spirit of God. I command all such spirits (demons) to leave me now. I confess that my body is a temple for the Holy Spirit. I am redeemed, cleansed, sanctified, and justified by the blood of Jesus. Therefore Satan has no place in me and no power over me, through the blood of Jesus. Amen.
The Warrior's Most Powerful Weapon!
by General James Green/';Captain Josephate Ngichabe
THE CHRISTIAN'S ARMOUR
In himself the Christian is as weak spiritually as any other man. He must confess his weakness continually and by faith draw his strength from the Lord. God has equipped us with spiritual armor and weapons in order that we may fearlessly attack our enemies and defend ourselves from the onslaught of temptation and sin. In a word, the Christians' armor is Christ. Considered in detail, the armour is the varied protection we have in Christ. By faith we must take it piece by piece. Twice Paul instructs us to use "the whole armor of God". The devil is no fool. He will attack where we are unprotected.
"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." Eph. 6:13-17
OUR GREATEST WEAPON -THE WORD OF GOD!
BOTH WRITTEN AND SPOKEN!
In the Bible there are two Greek words used to describe the "Word of God". First there is the LOGOS, the Personal Word, the title of the Son of God. Jesus is identified as such in John 1:1-18, declaring His distinct and superfinite personality, His Deity, His creative power and His incarnation, "...the word became flesh".
Second there is the RHEMA, the spoken Word. The significance of rhema (as distinct from logos) is exemplified in the command to take "the sword of the Spirit, which is the word (rhema) of God". Eph. 6:17 Here the reference is not only to the written Word but to the living, powerful Word of the Spirit that will speak through the soldier of Christ. Nothing at all can help us -nothing except the Word of God ...We do not mean the dead letter of the Bible only, but the living, Spirit Word of God, the Word that God speaks directly into our hearts. It is never in contrast to the Bible, but rather, when we read the Old or New Testament, something in our hearts starts to burn, and then God speaks the words of Jesus directly into our hearts. The dead letter kills; the Spirit brings life. (2 Cor. 3:6)
THE SWORD
The Sword is the Word of God and is absolutely essential in the Christian walk. In the gospel of Matthew, chapter 10, Jesus says, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I came not send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother...". The first division that many Christians face is with those of their own household. As we share our discovery of JESUS with our loved ones, many of us have had a sad awakening as the sword has brought instead of acceptance, disputes and controversy. Then comes the test as the new Christian is forced to choose between following the Lord or following the opinions of unregenerated loved ones. Many stumble, some turn back and follow Him no more, but there are those who will persist in following JESUS, WHO GAVE THEM A GREATER LOVE than those who are cut away by the Sword. In Ephesians 6:17 we are told, "...take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." This admonition is for the spiritual battle that we fight with the demonic forces that are constantly harassing and opposing the Christian who is advancing in the Lord. We are pressed into using the Sword as a weapon as we engage in war with the dark forces of the evil one.
In Hebrews 4:12 there is another use of the Sword, "For the Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." In this place we become intimately acquainted with the Sword, to the point of either loving or hating it's work in our lives. If we yield ourselves to His Sword, we will be divided asunder. The Spirit will expose our sins, He will separate the precious from the vile, the corrupt from the incorrupt. And, if we embrace His fiery truth we will grow to appreciate the ministry of the sword as our lives are brought into greater subjection to Jesus Christ, and with His Sword He does battle to become the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords in our hearts!!!
by General James Green/';Captain Josephate Ngichabe
THE CHRISTIAN'S ARMOUR
In himself the Christian is as weak spiritually as any other man. He must confess his weakness continually and by faith draw his strength from the Lord. God has equipped us with spiritual armor and weapons in order that we may fearlessly attack our enemies and defend ourselves from the onslaught of temptation and sin. In a word, the Christians' armor is Christ. Considered in detail, the armour is the varied protection we have in Christ. By faith we must take it piece by piece. Twice Paul instructs us to use "the whole armor of God". The devil is no fool. He will attack where we are unprotected.
"Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God." Eph. 6:13-17
OUR GREATEST WEAPON -THE WORD OF GOD!
BOTH WRITTEN AND SPOKEN!
In the Bible there are two Greek words used to describe the "Word of God". First there is the LOGOS, the Personal Word, the title of the Son of God. Jesus is identified as such in John 1:1-18, declaring His distinct and superfinite personality, His Deity, His creative power and His incarnation, "...the word became flesh".
Second there is the RHEMA, the spoken Word. The significance of rhema (as distinct from logos) is exemplified in the command to take "the sword of the Spirit, which is the word (rhema) of God". Eph. 6:17 Here the reference is not only to the written Word but to the living, powerful Word of the Spirit that will speak through the soldier of Christ. Nothing at all can help us -nothing except the Word of God ...We do not mean the dead letter of the Bible only, but the living, Spirit Word of God, the Word that God speaks directly into our hearts. It is never in contrast to the Bible, but rather, when we read the Old or New Testament, something in our hearts starts to burn, and then God speaks the words of Jesus directly into our hearts. The dead letter kills; the Spirit brings life. (2 Cor. 3:6)
THE SWORD
The Sword is the Word of God and is absolutely essential in the Christian walk. In the gospel of Matthew, chapter 10, Jesus says, "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth, I came not send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother...". The first division that many Christians face is with those of their own household. As we share our discovery of JESUS with our loved ones, many of us have had a sad awakening as the sword has brought instead of acceptance, disputes and controversy. Then comes the test as the new Christian is forced to choose between following the Lord or following the opinions of unregenerated loved ones. Many stumble, some turn back and follow Him no more, but there are those who will persist in following JESUS, WHO GAVE THEM A GREATER LOVE than those who are cut away by the Sword. In Ephesians 6:17 we are told, "...take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God." This admonition is for the spiritual battle that we fight with the demonic forces that are constantly harassing and opposing the Christian who is advancing in the Lord. We are pressed into using the Sword as a weapon as we engage in war with the dark forces of the evil one.
In Hebrews 4:12 there is another use of the Sword, "For the Word of God is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." In this place we become intimately acquainted with the Sword, to the point of either loving or hating it's work in our lives. If we yield ourselves to His Sword, we will be divided asunder. The Spirit will expose our sins, He will separate the precious from the vile, the corrupt from the incorrupt. And, if we embrace His fiery truth we will grow to appreciate the ministry of the sword as our lives are brought into greater subjection to Jesus Christ, and with His Sword He does battle to become the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords in our hearts!!!
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