Andrew Wommack: The Believer's Authority - Week 2 - Session 2

welcome to gospel truth with Andrew Wommack a teaching ministry that emphasizes God's unconditional love and grace and now here's Andrew welcome to our Tuesday's broadcast of the gospel truth today I'm continuing a series talking about the believers Authority we are basically dealing with the fact that we are in a spiritual war that there is an opposition out there the devil in his kingdom and that God has invested every born-again believer with the power and the authority to overcome the devil and I tell you I've already spent over a week teaching on this I've got a brand new book out on this entitled the believers Authority what you didn't learn in churches the subtitle this is a brand new book and also our study guide I've already advertised these a lot I won't go back through but I am excited about this I believe that this is going to help people I've already talked about the first week we emphasize that there is a spiritual war and our lack of understanding that there are spiritual forces behind what's going on in our physical body and our finances in our relationships a lack of understanding that is one of the reasons that Satan is beating most people because we just are trying to deal with things in a humanistic type of way you've got to recognize there are demonic powers and we have to take our authority over then yesterday I began to start talking about where what authority does the devil have and we started dealing with this and I got into some examples and talked about how that I basically got caught up into over emphasizing Satan's power and I think that this is probably typical it's a shame that it ever happens but you know it's there was a guy that wrote a book as the pendulum swings and he had a on the front of the book a pendulum and showed how it would go to one extreme over here and when it stopped and you let go it was automatically he wouldn't ever come back and just stop right where it should be but it always tends to go the other direction and this is the way that things go people are over here believing Satan doesn't even exist that all of the demons are in some witch doctor in Africa and when they finally realize that that's not true and that demons operate it's nearly inevitable that people go too far the other direction and they go to seeing a demon on every doorknob well that's what happened with me and I got to where we were doing some strange things I won't tell you about all of them it isn't one of the pretty chapters in my life but I just got thrown into casting demons out of people we saw people delivered of dope and different things and so the results was there people started coming I didn't know what to do so we read these books we were told that you could never cast a demon out by yourself because the demons are so powerful they might have come into you and that you got to have two people there one to pray and intercede while the other one is doing it you got a cast them out into the pit you couldn't just cast them out or they'd go and have it somebody there was just all this weird stuff we were told that people had to throw up in a bucket that there had to be some physical manifestation you had to ask him their name a friend of mine one time was trying to cast demon out and he says what's your name and his demon says liar and he says are you telling me the truth you know when you stop and think about it's really not very smart to be asking the demons their name in the fifth chapter of the book of Mark Jesus did ask the man named Legion what's your name and the demon said Legion because we are many it happened one time I'm not saying you couldn't do it but it is we just got into all this weirdness and anyway let me just cut it short by telling you this one example that it kind of culminated to where we had so many things we were doing we made people fill out questionnaires we would prep them for two and three weeks it had take two months to get an appointment because we were dealing with people and going back into their background and how are you when you were a kid not at just all of this weirdness that is still being done today and we were doing all of these things and finally this one guy who had been working with for about three weeks he was a homosexual and he wanted to have those it's cast out them I believe that homosexuality is a demonic spirit I know that many of you probably disagree with that you're free to have your opinion but I'm not going to agree with your we'd both be wrong and I believe it's a demonic spirit and I've seen those spirits cast out of people and people just totally set free so anyway we have been prepping this guy for three or four weeks and he wasn't scheduled to come and get delivering yet but he finally just reached a place to where he was convinced he was going to come and he was going to get delivered of these demons and get free of that homosexuality that night so this is still when I was in the Baptist Church he came over to a Wednesday night service he brought another person who was demon-possessed with him another homosexual who had demons and he wanted to see what was going to happen to his friend to see if he wanted to go through this and so they came and they asked for me and again we were taught that you had to have two people to cast demons out and so the guy that usually he and I did this the associate pastor of the church he was gone to a conference someplace and he wasn't there so I told this guy I said I can't cast these demons out of here there's only one person here but you know I Jesus cast demons out without having other people around he told us to go cast out Devils that's not a scriptural model but anyway that's where I was at the time so this guy said I'm not leaving I'm getting rid of these demons I'm not leaving this place with them and I said well I'm not casting them out and he says well you better do something because these demons are coming out right here in this place so what I did was get Jamie this is before Jamie and I were married and I took her back there with me and we went into one of these rooms and I was talking to this guy and I said look I'm not dealing with this and he said yes you are and he just fell on the floor and he got the barking like a dog and slithering like a snake and there was this was a corner room in this building in two sides of this room were glass and he started taking chairs and throwing them against this glass and I thought he was going to break the glass and this guy just manifested all of these demons right there and without me wanting to do it I was in the midst of a deliverance and I didn't know what to do the other guy who was demon-possessed we had chairs that were stacked up it was in a classroom that wasn't being used and the chairs were stacked up like ten high or something one on top of the other and this other demons this guy was on top of those chairs up against the ceiling plastered against the wall he was scared so much he didn't know what he was doing so he was up there Jaime was praying in tongues just as fast and furious as she could go this guy was you know slithering around on the floor like a snake and barking like a dog and I didn't know what was happening and we were taught that you had to ask him your name so I asked what's her name and so one would name itself and I'm homosexuality or I'm something before I could even deal with that and cast that spirit out another one would start talking and I'm this and that and he had like I don't know at least 10 or 15 demons and you know what I just I felt like I was being made an absolute fool I didn't know what I was doing I couldn't get one demon cast out before another one name itself and all these things were going on and I didn't know what to do and I just was calling out to God for help and all of a sudden I came back to my remembrance that Jesus forbid the devil's to speak told him to keep holder peace and come out and I thought well no that would be a good way to do it it had never dawned on me so I just said I command all of you to shut up and cut out of this man right now in Jesus name and this guy all of a sudden just fell flat like he was dead and I didn't know if he was dead I didn't know I went I rolled him over to see what was happening and when he rolled over he was just praising God and he says I'm free there God and he was praising God and I thought man that's a lot easier than the way we've been doing it ask him their name having them throw up in a bucket and do all this stuff I said why don't we do it this way from now on and I just throw away this book that I'd been reading and I started going by that and started dealing with things but that was a turning point in my because prior to that time we had just given Satan so much power that actually there were some demonic things beginning to happen in my life that I believe happened just because of my preoccupation with the devil during this same period of time I rented a building and we were going to open up an arlington texas christian centers what i called it and we were going to take in dopers and drug addicts because we'd been seeing them getting delivered and instantly set free without withdrawals and so we were going to start casting demons out of people and doing things so we rented a house it was right on the edge of the university of texas at arlington campus and it had actually been a fraternity house and the thing was trashed so we went and cleaned it up and we had painted it and I was up there one night about 1 o'clock in the morning and I was praying and as I prayed I mean something physically attacked me I know some of you don't believe this stuff but I can't help but this is what my testimony is you're just going to have to you're going to have to accept it or at least listen to because it's just the way that it was there was nobody else in that house but something physically attacked me I believe it was because it was a fraternity house and all of the ungodliness and corruption that had gone on in that place there was probably some demonic powers in that deal in anyway something physically attacked me I was choking things were hitting me I mean I had bruises and physical evidence on my body that there was something there and yet there was nothing there it wasn't physical it was spiritual and when this first happened man I got out of that place I locked the door I got in my car I backed out it was like 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning and I was just getting ready to pull that thing down into drive and get out of there as fast as I could and right about the time I was backing out of the driveway the Lord spoke to him and he said Andrew he says there isn't any armor for the back and that was a reference to Ephesians chapter 6 about you have to stand and put on the whole armor of God that you might be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and when he said there isn't any armor for the back I knew exact what that meant that you had to face your enemy you couldn't run from him if this was truly demonic and spiritual I couldn't get away from it by driving out of the place I needed to fight it and I remember sitting right in the middle of that Street getting ready to leave and thinking God you would not want me to go back into that house and fight these demonic things and you know what the Lord never said anything else I didn't hit I didn't hear anything else you know the Lord's not going to argue with you he just told me there wasn't any armor for the back and then it was left up to me what I was going to do with it so I sat there for a while I pulled back in the driveway turn the car off and finally I went in there and locked myself in that house and from about 2:00 o'clock or whatever 2 or 3 in the morning until daybreak I got in there and fought and I mean there was things physically attacking me you may or may not believe that but that's what happened and I just stood my ground and spoke to them and you know what by a daybreak that thing was gone it was broken people who are coming over and painting the house and doing things they made comment about man this is different everything feels different you know people don't always understand what they feel but they can feel whether there's an oppression or where there's a freedom in a place and people told the difference also during that same period of time I had some dreams and in these dreams I won't go into the details but Satan attacked me physically there was all these demonic things happening and you know why I believe that that happened it's because I was so focused on the devil we were always casting out the devil I was I was actually empowering Satan and giving Satan more attention than what he deserved I remember during the same period of time I was praying and I it dawned on me I'd spend 2 to 3 hours a day praying and one day it just dawned on me that during what I was calling prayer I actually was speaking to the devil more than I was talking to God I was saying Satan I rebuke you I buying it and I spent more time talking to the devil than I did to God during my prayer time and it dawned on my lightning-fast mind that that wasn't right and I just was so preoccupied with the devil at that preoccupation whatever you focus on gets magnified and I was so focused on the devil and what he was doing in people's lives that in my mind Satan was being magnified and that's the reason that he was able to come against me and physically attack me and attack me in these dreams when I made this decision and I just cast the demons out of that man who was homosexual and saw him free and I saw how easy it was I realized I had been giving undue power and authority to the devil that he was not who he claimed to be and I started changing and I started spending more time talking to God in prayer than I did the devil I started just focusing on God and you know that was back around 1972 or something like that and I can say that since 1972 to the present I have never had those same Deamonte any any kind of demonic manifestation in my life like I did back then I'm not saying that it wasn't demonic I'm not saying that it didn't exist but I'm saying there is a reason why some people have all of these demonic occurrences sometimes it could be out-and-out fear it could be that through your actions you have given place to the devil you've invited Satan into your life or like in my case I I wasn't personally submitted to the devil but I was spending so much time rebuking and thinking and focusing on the devil that I actually had given him more credit than he deserved and because of that there was demonic things happening since that time I have seen hundreds or thousands of demons cast out of people and now I command them to shut up I don't let them manifest matter of fact just this last week there was a man who as I talked to him was doing all kinds of weird things and going through his facial contortions and jerking and doing stuff and groaning and making noises and he told me he had demons and so I agreed with him and rebuked those things and as he was making some of these things I told him to stop and he said well I'm trying to stop and I said that's just look I already cast the devil out I said now you stop this stuff and he says I can I said if you do it again I'm gonna slap you and you know what he stopped there's a lot of people that have been taught that you've got to go through these things and you got to have these manifestations and some of it is just carnal junk you know I've given a lot of examples I really want to get into just sharing these things from the word but I'm saying all of this to kind of position my point here that you know what there's a on both sides of the road it's certainly wrong for people to believe that all of the demons are with a witch doctor in Africa but it's certainly wrong for us to get to where we see a demon on every doorknob that every single problem is a demon that you get to amplifying it and like I said basically the non spirit filled Church has been in this ditch over here to where they don't even acknowledge that Satan is a factor the spirit-filled Church at least a portion of it the spiritual warfare people the intercession people have gotten into a ditch in the other area to where they are causing problems and you know I don't want to mention names here but I do know people who went to get deliverance and had to go through a huge process not like the Bible says where you just rebuke the devil and cast him out but they went through this huge process and the very first time they went they did have some hurts and some things that I believe were demonic and this person got delivered of it and with it there were some physical manifestations and the very first time the person really God helped and it helped them so much that they just went back and submitted to these people and these people begin to start on a weekly basis doing this and going back into the childhood and picturing themselves in the womb and all of these hurts which i think is just total foolishness and they just kept doing it anyway this person over a period of time got so bad that they nearly lost their mind they got committed to a mental institution and they were about to lose their marriage they had made an absolute fool of themselves and I believe that they became demonized through the deliverance ministry who was giving place to all of this stuff there's a balance here yes Satan exists this attitude that he doesn't exist and everything is human is wrong but on the other hand there is some personal responsibility even the man in the fifth chapter of the book of Mark who is called Legion because he had about 6,000 demons that man was able to run and fall at the feet of Jesus and worship Him I can guarantee you that that was not the demons in him that was worshipping Jesus even a man who is demon-possessed with approximately six thousand demons had enough control that he could at least throw himself at the feet of Jesus this thing to think that you can become so demonized that you have no power no authority and you're just totally at the mercy of whoever's casting it out is wrong everybody can do something you got to get the person to resist the devil to be able to get those things cast out and so there's extremes on both sides there's a truth that goes down the middle and that's what I'm trying to strike here and in the process of start talking about Satan and his power I'm giving some of these examples to show you that I'm going to counter some things I'm going to say some really strong things against a lot of the deliverance ministry today but you know what I've done most of what I'll be criticizing and yet God loved me and I loved God and we were seeing some degree of response and we saw some good things happen but you know what there's a better way and that's what I'm trying to do I'm going to probably offend people on both extremes but there is a right and a wrong way to approach this and Jesus needs to be our example Jesus did not go through all these things Jesus didn't tell somebody fill out a form and wait 40 days and we'll do something before we can cast these demons out Jesus didn't have to take a person into a back room and go through all of these rituals and the incantations and the things that some people do today actually once you begin to understand the Bible says in Psalms chapter 107 verse 20 that he sent His Word and healed them and delivered them from all their destructions the scripture specifically says that people were delivered through the word you can have a person cast demons out for you but the drawback to that is you don't always have that person around they aren't always there the better way to be delivered is to get delivered through the word you can take the truth of the word of God and you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free I've seen people that had serious demon problems that I would to sit there and minister the word to them and see this person completely set free and then I say all right now I'll cast the demons out and they say you don't need through their God the truth set them free I've seen that happen that's a better way and when you get a person delivered because they've taken the truth and the Word of God and put it in their heart you avoid the problem that Jesus spoke about when he said that when you cast out a spirit it goes about through dry places but then it wants to return and it brings seven other spirits with him that are worse than the first if you cast the demons out of a person against their will are with very little cooperation for them but they aren't standing well then the potential is that those demons are going to come back and be worse she'll they'll be worse off than they were before but if you teach a person the truth you can get a person delivered through the Word of God Psalms 107 verse 20 and many of you may not even realize it but have you as you've watched this program I've read hundreds or thousands of testimonies of people saying my life is never the same and I'm delivered from depression and discouragement people are healed relationships are put together things are working you may not have even realized it but demonic powers who are hindering you in your body in your finances in your relationship as you get hold of the truth John chapter 8 verse 32 you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free the truth has been delivering many you and many of you may not have realized it you didn't have any manifestation you didn't wall on the floor scream or yell and yet demonic powers are losing their whole because you're hearing the truth and the truth is setting you free that's a very valid way now sometimes a person can be so far gone and so far possessed by the devil that they literally need a person to help them but I don't take total responsibility for a person's deliverance anymore I realize that even Legion fell at the feet of Jesus and worshiped and I will ask a person if they say that they need deliverance they got to do something they have to renounce the devil they need to speak and turn against it and I make the person have some personal responsibility man I've said some really good things today I know that this is different to many of you and where you're coming from and you may think this is strange but if you read the Bible there's a lot of this in the Bible Jesus cast a lot of demons out of people and I've got a lot more to share on this tomorrow we're going to get into some scriptures and start showing you about Satan and how he got his authority and power and this will really emboldened you and your battle against the devil I encourage you to listen as I announce or gives you some information about how you can get this new book the new study guide the DVDs the CDs and please listen and 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dollars a month into just television time and then it takes about another seven hundred thousand to be able to process all the orders to fulfill them to mountain run the phones to run the data entry it costs a lot of money and I'm just asking that if you've been blessed by this and if you would like to help other people hear these truths I'd like to ask you to join with me as a partner we have information on your screen please call or write today we'd like to point out Andrews upcoming speaking schedule he'll be an Amsterdam for the Euro spirit conference May 21st through the 23rd Colorado Springs Colorado for the annual summer family Bible conference June 29th through July 3rd and in South Africa for a gospel truth seminar July 21st through the 23rd for more details on Andrews next meeting in your area call our helpline or visit our website at a WME net this is Andrew Wommack and I'd like to invite you to join me on May the 21st through the 23rd in Amsterdam I'm going to be speaking at the Euro spirit 2009 and we're going to have a number of different speakers I'll be ministering each day the 21st through the 23rd of May we're going to be holding this at the Victory Outreach in Amsterdam it's going to be a great time and so all of you watching over god TV I'd encourage you to come and be a part of this May the 21st through the 23rd Victory Outreach in Amsterdam my first trip I'd been there seven months in the Lord had asked me how long will you give Russia and I remember thinking I want to go to the other nations Lord I mean really the nations are on my heart I don't want to be stuck in Russia my whole life

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Length: 28min 31sec (1711 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 16 2013