Deliverance and Healing (2 of 5) - Evil Spirits and how they Operate

now what we want to start to look at now is we want to look at how demons enter people how do spirits get into people's lives and if a spirit got into someone's life what ways would it operate what would it do how would you know that the demon was in a person's life and we'll find there's a number of ways you can establish that there's an evil spirit present so we want to look first of all at how evil spirits enter and before we sort of get into how they enter it's a help to understand what they are so if you're going to be doing deliverance you will be engaging or commanding an evil spirit to come out it helps if you understand firstly what Jesus taught about it and what happened in his ministry related to it and secondly how actually they gain entry into a person's life and then we'll look at the foundations for a person being set free so the first thing we'll do is we're just going to look at the way demons enter and oppressed people and our first verse we'll look at is in Acts chapter 10 and verse 38 and it tells us in this verse acts 10 verse 38 it says God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power and he went about doing good healing all who were oppressed of the devil for God was with him so Jesus was anointed with the Holy Spirit that's the same anointing you carry he had a different level of it a different portion of it the anointing flowing on his life but it's no different anointing it's the work of the Holy Spirit flowing in your life and said he worried about their good healing all who were oppressed of the devil now the word oppressed means literally to exercise Dominion or spiritual force and hold someone down to exercise spiritual force and to hold a person down so it tells us very clearly in this verse that evil spirits whatever they are exercised a spiritual force on people so that they feel held back held down held imprisoned like I can't break out even though I want to I can't seem to change even I want to change so but behind it is a spiritual force that's why people struggle to get free of things they want to get free they know what's right what they should do but there's often anchored to the problem in their life is a spirit being which literally holds them down in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 2 it says that spirit that works or energizes within the children of disobedience so when we when our life is out of alignment with God when we disavow breakers laws and a spirit gains entrance it'll do one of two things it'll either hold you down so you're held imprisoned and can't break free or or end it will energize problems in your life so they stay alive and keep working and you can't ever seem to get over them so say for example a spirit of unforgiveness or spirit of bitterness I often work together these spirits then what the person would do with he would they would find that they're constantly feeling offended and hurt by things that people are doing to them they can't ever seem to get out of thinking about the injuries that have been done to them by other people it's like it just goes on and on and on a new hurt comes suddenly they're they're preoccupied and they can't get out of their mind the injustice they've got and what's happened now they might not be thinking that consciously but they get reactionary so you'll find a person who's got a demonic spirits they working in that area they get very reactionary over something quite small that the response or reaction is out of proportion to the the injury that was done a little misunderstanding and someone can flare up and they didn't do the most obvious thing which was just calm down think about it ask what's happened inquire for information try to establish some work out what's going it doesn't happen there's just this a sudden he comes alive inside of anger or resentment or whatever or reaction or a wall of a fence comes and it feels like there's little control or management even though the person knows I ought to they just can't and so the demonic spirit will either bring a cap and a pressure and a binding or it'll energize problems so they just they flare up and they're hard to manage like a fire that's suddenly gone out of control and the word the Bible uses the word energize to energize or flame something in so it becomes quite big so you notice that many people you know if you notice how little as much for them and how doesn't take much to get them really upset a little with that way they've got an area of their life out of control they're in bondage and demonic spirits are energizing a root problem now it's not just a matter of getting the demon out we you need to address the root problem that gives it a right to be there we'll come to that later so the second thing we notice is that we have a look at an example of Jesus doing deliverance so it says he was anointed with the Holy Ghost that's a crucial thing you cannot do deliverance without the Holy Ghost and usually he doesn't do it without you so you'll see a little later it's a working together with the Holy Spirit so we have a look at looking heaven Luke have a Luke in Luke and we'll have a look in Luke chapter 4 head and it will go down here to read it there in verse 32 gee they were astonished at his teaching for his word with it was with authority now in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon so the the environment they're in is in church the guy's a believer and he's sitting in church and as he's sitting in church Jesus gets up and begins to minister and he's preaching sharing the Word of God and the Spirit of God starts to fill the place and as the Spirit of God fills the place there's a man in there who's come to church to worship to give and to listen to the Word of God instead he's becoming agitated and he's firing up and sidon suddenly he just bursts out in the middle of the meeting starts yelling out what does he yell out leave us alone if I prayed that prayer leave me alone it's a male prayer I think leave us alone what have we to do with you Jesus of Nazareth did you come here to destroy us I know who you are the Holy One of God and let's just have a look of what the demon said and and see if we can gain a bit of insight the the man is now no longer in control a spirit is speaking through him the Spirit is now got ahold of his voice and it's now the spirit that's talking so what happens to the guy here's what would happen to the guy he would be aware that someone is talking through him but he'd have no control over it whatsoever the spirit being is now speaking and expressing itself and talking to Rick Lee at Jesus and reacting to Jesus very very strongly he would be aware of what is happening but he has no power to deal with it the hidden spirit that tormented him is now in a full manifestation so that's what it means the Spirit is manifesting through him it's expressing its life in a way which which it can't be had now one of the things about evil spirits is they seek to conceal that there's a spirit there they want you to think you've just got a problem so if we look at this man if the Bible says it wasn't and notice another thing we notice it was an unclean spirit so it's almost certain that the man had problems of a sexual nature meaning his mind was tormented with lust or tormented with unclean pictures there's an unclean spirit is operating in his life so he would be pressured into sexual sin he would find himself falling and failing regularly he'd be troubled in his mind with pictures he would be under pressure or there's like a fire burning inside him that he can't seem to get the power over he's forever saying sorry and asking God to forgive him but can't break free into wholeness why it's empowered by an evil spirit and not only that we notice here it says the demon said leave us alone what have we to do with you so it's almost certain there's more than one spirit there and so we gain insight that not only can a demon come into a person's life and torment them but it will try to bring others in so they get a cluster of them and that makes the problem worse so for example if this sate was a sexual demon how would it have come into his life it could have come in a number of ways it could have come in generationally it maybe was in the family it's a family spirit I'm ever praying for one girl age' for tormented with unclean pictures it was a demon that came in because of the conduct of the father and the mother which we established when we talk with them so it could have come in and been in his life all his life it could have come in if he'd been molested at some point in his life and from that point on this got the stuff Armond and this burning lust thing going on in his life never wanted it but can't stop it because it's a spirit that's empowering it the third thing that could have been he may have been involved in idolatry or some form of spiritism when people are involved in idolatry much of the idolatry in those days was connected with temple prostitutes and sexual sin because the the part of our mind that's engaged when we love God or worship or when we are loving or expressing love is the same part that's involved in sex there so worship and the six layer of your mind have very similar areas they touch the same part of your brain so we don't know then whether he was involved in idolatry and that's how the spirit entered into him my experience has been that when people have been involved in idolatry or spiritism they usually have spirits of lust go with it or he may have been involved in sexual sin had had a relationship with or engaged a prostitute or been involved in sexual sin of various kinds we just don't know the Bible leaves that part out but those are some possible ways what we do know is he had more than one spirit and the main one was an unclean spirit and in the presence of a strong anointing it began to flush up and manifest in a way which was visible I was in Singapore a couple of years ago and we were just speaking in one of them one of the meetings and I just got up and started to talk well you know the Holy Spirit's gonna come and start to touch people and I took less than five minutes and this cleaner lady suddenly appears up the top there and she's holding a broom and she must have been just outside the room cleaning and she just burst and held up the spring began to shake it and shaking it at me and yelling at me why you come here why you do this to me and and it's obviously a demon and so I began to work walk down towards her but as I did I saw other people starting to manifest I thought if I do that we're gonna have it all go off right now and I want to preach the gospel and get some people saved so I'm not gonna let demons take over I just remanded the meeting event and then we had all the full-scale deliverance at the end of the meeting but so you see here the evil spirit cries out leave us a note what have we to do with you we know who you are so evil spirits recognize the person of Jesus a lot of people don't know who Jesus is but the spirit world does know the spirit will see things as they are we see things as they appear to be so people can appear to have their life together but in the spirit world you're seen for who you are and what you are everything is seen so in the spirit if we were to look at one another now we just see the temple the body the external but the the real man is the hidden man of the heart the spirit in the soul now we look and the body looks as though it's got substance the soul and spirit looks a bit it's sort of way out there I kind of kind of see that or understand that but from the spirit world if you looked they would look at the spirit man and soul and say that's the substance the others temporary it's like a cloud of water vapor that conceals the person so in the spirit world that it's your spirit man and soul that are eternal and therefore substantial so the spirit world demons can look at people and see their condition we'll come across that a little bit later that's a bit scary in that and then God can see a condition - it's just we've lived so long thinking no one knows what's going on that we can hide and we do try and hide like Adam and Eve like hiding from God rather than actually being and living a full life and an open life before him so the demon said what have we got to do with you know who you are now see how Jesus handled it Jesus rebuked him or rebuke the spirit be quiet come out and so you notice how Jesus dealt with in the air deliverance he asserted his authority he spoke a verbal command and he had faith and the demon will come out that's how it operates just a straight verbal commands to deal with the demonic spirit and the demon came out us is when the demon had thrown him on the ground it came out of him and didn't hurt him so you notice that the demon manifested as it came out it threw the guy on the ground and I have seen some extraordinary things of demons throwing people on the ground doing different things and it looks spectacular but at the end what really counts is actually that the spirit came out so the key thing is not that he manifested not that he fell on the ground it's that the spirit came out and so the man got mightily delivered and the demon noticed that didn't hurt him at all it just looked like it was going to but it couldn't Jesus was in firm control the demon didn't hurt Jesus the demon didn't hurt the man the demon just left the scene and I had someone I've spoken to one or two who have had spiritual visions or pictures of demons leaving I said tell me what it looked like and he said both of them said to me the similar thing they said they went so fast we could hardly even see them they said they're just like they just were out of that place as quick as they could they will they just left the place now I couldn't wait to get away and that's also you can see that implied in the story the demon is now reacting very strongly leave us alone what have you do to do with us I know who you are the Holy One of God and Jesus shut him down because you didn't want a demon announcing that he's the son of God stop and then and the guy set free so that's an example of demon being self a person being set free and said notice this what kind of word is this with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits and they go out of him so you notice they ascribed to Jesus two things he had authority and he had power now let me just explain what the two are so you understand the difference the word Authority Authority is a legal right to speak and act on behalf of someone else so Jesus had a legal right to speak and act on behalf of his father that makes sense because the memory says whatever I see the father doing that's what I do what I hear him say that's what I what I say say notice that he had authority he had authority a legal right the demons had to yield now you also have authority over demons God has given you that authority that's part of being joined to the Conqueror of demons part of being joined to Jesus Christ will see in heavenly places where you joined one spirit with him you also have a right to represent him and of course the right to represent him is also conditional on you listening to his instructions what to do so if if we're gonna move and deliverance you have to understand this I am delegated the right to represent Jesus so when you're doing deliverance you're not it's not about you sometimes in deliverance a demon might challenge you say who are you oh you you know you know tell them your name you know no no no no no what the demon is is challenging your authority to actually confront him and push him out and the response of saint i come against you in the name of the lord jesus christ of nazareth I represent him who defeated you at Calvary you will yield you understand we were representing the government of God okay the second thing he had was power power is the word Dunamis it's a different word it has to do with the level of anointing or activity of the Holy Spirit on your life so authority means I'm delegated the right to represent Jesus and power means I actually haven't connected to the Holy Spirit and I'm empowered by him to do the job and so that comes out of your personal life and you're walking with God and so on let's have a look then what Jesus taught about that so that's an interesting I love that story it's a great story and I've seen that and I've heard demons talks quite interesting how they talk at times I've had my one of my one of my daughter's was in Indonesia and she was praying for this woman and a man's voice spoke out of the woman I will kill you and she got a bit of a surprise when that happened just kept praying in the demon came out and she asked the lady later do you know any English and she and she didn't understand her at all she knew no English but the demon understood the words so it doesn't matter what culture I go to if I dress the demon in it's in my own language it understands it okay let's have a look what Jesus spoke on deliverance in matthew chapter 12 he's just done a deliverance verse 22 and he's cast a demon out of a man who had problems with his vision and is speaking and then of course there's a huge reaction now notice what he says in verse 28 and here's the first thing about Jesus teaching that's important to grasp deliverance is the kingdom of God manifesting it is a manifestation of the kingdom God and Sid verse 28 if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God then surely the kingdom of God has come upon you so let's go through that Scripture and have a little look at it the word cast out means literally to violently display something so she said if I violently displace evil spirits by the Spirit of God it is the kingdom of God manifesting so whenever you do a deliverance or command spurts and they leave the kingdom of God has become established you've represented Jesus and now the devil is displaced probably a way of picturing it is like this if if you wanted to become a policeman police officer you'd have to do training and then you have our oath of allegiance to the government that you will represent the government then they give you a uniform and if you in another country they give you a gun now the uniform you represent the government that's why you're driving down the road and you're going a bit fast and you see a police car or policeman standing there the immediate thing is you become conscious of your sin and failure and conscious of the authority now it's not the authority of the man it is the government is is actually confronting it and you become immediately aware of it in other words when you see the uniform you become aware of Authority and aware of your condition straightaway so this is one think so now the the the policeman's is an ordinary person he gets up and goes to work like everyone else goes to work those were in the uniform as the gun now he's got the power to stop someone stop or I shoot you and so he has Authority a legal right so long as notices he has to stay within his jurisdiction if I'm a policeman here it doesn't mean I'm rich nice tan Australia or anywhere else I'm a policeman here I've got an opera I'm representative of the government I've got to stay within the law and I've got operate out of my own instructions that have been given to me so I have the law book and I have direct instructions and I have to heed both of them you have the Word of God and the instruction of the Holy Spirit you got to listen to both of them and you have the power to carry it out now what did Jesus say said if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God then the kingdom of God is come among you now who does the casting out today a person must cast out the demon someone has to make the demon leave it will not leave unless it's made to so that word is to hurl it out so in deliverance a person has to represent God and confront the demon you've actually got to hurl it out that means you engage it you you can't just pray some little prayer of God to set this person free it's not like that at all it's like with word commands you are violently displacing a spirit it requires asserting your spirit it requires being aggressive it requires you know I can sense the kingdom of heaven violent men enter and possess it so it requires you be strong and forceful you can't be passive in this matter now that doesn't mean loud or shouty or losing your voice it's you must speak strongly with conviction and authority from your voice okay so I cast them out by the Spirit of God so the work of deliverance requires the Holy Spirit to engage with me so therefore I need to believe that something will happen when I pray I need to believe God is in me God is with me that when I pray something's going to happen now if you go anything on our little happen then maybe something maybe not but most times nothing much happens but if you go there I know that when I speak that spirit is going to go when there's a confidence in your heart that faith gives something will happen demons often in deliverance will just deliberately - to see if you're persistent give up they check out whether you really do believe you have the right to deal with them and sometimes I just play out and just be resist you or just pretend there's nothing happening and just make you I knew I couldn't pray very well anyway it's not my thing you know and you get your mind starts to fill with thoughts that would take you out of can cussing the demon out so if I by the Spirit of God custom out so in order to cast out demons you need the Spirit of God working with you now one of the exercise we're going to get you to do is we're going to get you to pray in tongues and activate the flow of God inside you and then learn to minister and release the power of God to another person by voice of command you all get excited about that will do they'll show you how to do it shortly and I'm going to get each of you to start to practice believing that if I speak then something will happen and that a good thing if you think if you have no confidence that God is in you or God is with you then nothing much will happen if you are absolutely confident that God is in me God is with me I'm a minister of God when I speak something is going to happen then you'll find things will start to happen so how do I move from where I am to that kind of place well you develop confidence the more you are willing to step out and learn to work with the Holy Spirit in this area so what we what we will do shortly I'm going to just do a little bit more of this and then we'll have a break before we go into gateways and when to get you ministering to one another in just a moment but before we do that let's have a look a little further down we'll finish in verse 43 through 245 and we'll look a little more on Jesus teaching on demons when an unclean spirit goes out of a man verse 43 what happens where do they go well he goes through a dry place seeking rest but finds none then he says I will return to my house from which I came and when he comes he finds it empty swept and all in order then he goes and takes with them seven other spirits more wicked than himself they enter and dwell there and the last state of that man is worse than the first why then so notice now Jesus is giving a tremendous insight in this passage to the spirit world he's talking about what happens when someone gets delivered what actually goes on now he says when the unclean spirit goes out of the man they're talking about deliverance the whole context is deliverance so when you speak and command the Spirit it goes out of the man what happens and where does it go it says here it goes through Dry places seeking rest so let's just talk a little bit about this firstly it's referring to the demon as a spirit being it is a spirit being you're a human being you're a spirit living in a body you're in one place at one time a demon is a spirit being so can only be in one place at one time since I've in the person or it's gone from the person it's a spirit being now just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not real like for example I can look and I can see the outline of a body I can't see your spirit can't see your soul but it doesn't mean they're not there if they weren't there you would be quite different you'd be gone they'd just be the shell so just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't there it is there and it's a spirit being now notice it says number of things as spirit beings have a name like just like you've got a name you have a name if I say Brian see those Brian just turn around straightaway the moment I called him by name and then everyone else looked now in in in deliverance if you name the spirit and challenge it by name it'll immediately respond and all the other demons will wake up and get concerned I had it many times so I start to challenge demons how the demons start to stir up very soon you can actually trigger off lots of things happening in the room and then you it's a big problem there you've got a lot of things to do then so so so demons have a name now generally the name of a demon is it is the it's really it describes the work it does so for example a spirit of lust what does it do stirs up passion lust unlawful hunger for something inside a person a spirit of fear torments their mind with fear it causes them to believe evil is gonna come upon them and fill them with dread and sick feeling in the stomach so that's what a spirit of fear does a spirit of bitterness will cause a person continually to resist forgiving and to become sour and angry and to speak critically and negatively you notice that the spirit of business that the name describes the kind of work it does a spirit of death or the spirit of death do it will come around a person and will cause them to become feeling separate or unable to bond and connect in relationships and quite numbed in the emotion so when people have had trauma or abuse generally they have a spirit of death around them and they're numbed in their emotions and they can't connect properly there's that spirit keeps them isolated so we get we can think of lots of various kinds of spirits so the Holy Ghost will guide you what the Spirit is in almost every situation he'll show you what it is so it could be a spirit of idolatry which is a spirit that bonds a person in and connects them in so they continually had drawn back to worship something or to stay connected to something in place of God so there are various spirit of a hatred a spirit of hatred will eventually erupt with violent anger in a person and so you find if you go visit the prisons you find people there in there who were involved in violent crime or and murder and they say something like I don't know what come over me they don't know what kind of idea will come over a spirit of hatred and hatreds the root of murder so spread of hate and murder came over the person and what happened is it it caused rage and hate to become destructive against the other person so we so mostly you can just describe a demon on the name of the demon describes what kind of work it does in the case of a cult spirits they do have names and it requires a revelation to get those names God would have to tell you what it was in almost all of these things that will listen the spear God will help us identify what the particular spirit is so the spirits are real they're spirit being they have a name in the nature only in one place at one time they can enter and leave people and notice there that demons have a personality you notice the demon says I will it's got a will of its own notice it remembers where it came from so it's got a memory can remember where it was so demons have a personality they have emotions they can get fearful they have they have desires and plans so they actually have a personality evil personality so it says when it goes out it seeks to find rest now when it says find rest that does not mean the demon is wanting to have a lie-down it's exhausted what it means is that the demon is wanting to find a place where it can live and be in harmony with the environment so spirit of bitterness will want to enter a person who's got bitterness sins in their life the spirit of hatred will want to enter into a person who's got hate in their life and then dwell there and inflame it so it becomes an out-of-control issue a spirit of anger will want to come in where a person's got unresolved sin or anger issues or unresolved grief in their life and inhabit that person and stir it up so it becomes out of control you know it so it says then he said the demon seeking rest so where would a demon go or demons could inhabit a number of things they spirits can go in and live in a building so you could find perhaps in a house or the most obvious thing is a temple if you have been to a temple there is a feel of oppression because of the presence of multitudes of demonic spirits or spiritual power sitting over the building and encourage you to go into those places because sometimes the spirits transfer it's just not smart thing to do so sometimes in a house if there's been a trauma like a murder if you've noticed the thing that may be a multiple murder or something horrendous happened in the house often they burn the house down someone gets invented in you ask yourself why do they do that really simple it just comes out of superstition and fear there must be something bad or evil in the place the only answer for it is to burn it people may know what they're doing but they're actually thinking actually demons need to be consigned to hell but but people don't understand that just try and destroy what's all what is really needed is for the house to be cleansed of the demons and to be sanctified and set apart for the Lord and the presence of God to come back again so demons can live inside a house or a building you've ever ministered to cleanse or to do house key and sometimes you find one room can be unusually cold there's no matter what you do come warm it up I mean to some places where you go into one room and walls some weird or oppressive it can be so demons can enter a house demons can live inside objects particularly things used with idolatry carvings and things like that many times with carvings of items they lay hands and invoke the spirit into it or dedicate it to the spirit that it represents and that allows the demon to come in so when you are worshiping prisoners worshiping an idol they're actually engaging the evil spirit that lives in the idol so what that means is if you pick up items that have been used for idolatry or used in various places and hands have been laid on to impart a spirit and you bring it into your home you've welcomed a demon to come into your home and you yet generally you have some consequences of that now one of the consequences is oppression enters the place so you can have a heavy or dark atmosphere come I had one man asked me to come to his place and pray because he said here's what he said we have constant sickness and constant conflicts in the home there's a Christian and I prayed before I went the Lord showed me that he had some carvings that came from Fiji I said do you have these faces and face masks at all in your house on the wall that come from Fiji and he said yes we do so well hands have been laid on those to impart a demon into them and I said when did the start did it start following your trip to Fiji he said yeah but he hadn't connected just what he thought was a work of art actually was representing a demonic deity and he'd opened the way for the spirit to come in and create the turmoil in the home that he was now experiencing so there's a chapter in the back of the notes on house cleansing how to go about doing doing it this would apply to objects specifically which are involved with the aquaculture idolatry most objects are quite neutral sometimes have you uncertain just pronounce the holy guess what to do so this man I said why don't you get rid of those masks why keep them and so he took them outside and I said once you just take him out and burn them so now they're wooden masks so he took him outside and I said how did you get on he said I couldn't burn them I said why is that he said they would not burn said they wouldn't they said yeah I said what he said I lit a fire they'd the fire went out so I poured petrol on them and lit fire still went out they did not burn I said really I said well that's a new one I haven't heard of that one I said why don't you stand and it next time just pour some more pitching on them light the fight when you before you light the fire find the spirits and forbid them operating and in Jesus name and he did it and he said I glad I stepped back because the thing nearly exploded they just burned and there was nothing but ashes left just been completely so he had encountered a real demonic power around the objects so so when the demon seacrest they look for a building they look for an object or preferably they look for a person demons want a person to get into a vessel why they so obsessed with getting into people very very simple because God made man for Dominion in the earth and what demons want to go is they want to go in number one they want to hurt God's heart by injuring his children and number two they want to defy God by expressing their own life through his representative on the earth that's why they do it so they can't hurt God in any way God's in control totally the devil has very limited spheres of power God is totally in control it's not a touch-and-go battle whether God wins or not not at all God is totally in control and the demons have a specific realm they can operate in outside the laws of God and however we can find we have our challenges and dealing with them so there it is let's read on a little bit further he goes well fine son he says I'll return to my house from which he came out so notice the person this is a disturbing that after a demon has gone out it can come back and find you that's a bit disturbing isn't it so the demons cast out it can relocate you in other words you can't hide the demon come back and notice the demon calls you it says you're my house now that's a legal term if I say this is my house I'm claiming ownership I'm cleaning a legal right so if you were to say concerning a building this is my house you you're saying that because it's your house you know if it's a flat well this is a rental place it's not my house I live here but it's a rental place I don't own it so demons look for legal rights or a legal ground to occupy a person's life what do we mean by that well for example suppose you outside here we've got a I think of 70k maybe 50k 50k is owned all right and so there's a sign up there somewhere saying 50 km/h that is a legal requirement that if you're gonna drive down the road outside this building 50 km/h so that is a that's a law it's written and we've got to read got the number it's all legally gazetted it is the law outside there 50 K so if you break the law if you go in excessive law you go 70 K now you may not see the look at the sign you may just be out there and you've come from the country and you're zooming along you didn't even see the sign that says the speed has changed and now you zoom down there and you're doing 70 not 50 and the policeman sees you he can then pull you over and say well you broke the law he said well I didn't know she what there was a sign you were responsible to know and so not knowing is never counted as an excuse you broke the law you pay the fine you notice now there is a consequence for the broken law in other words he has a legal right to impose a fine because you broke the law now there are also spiritual laws the laws of God people break the laws whether they knew or not it still creates a legal ground for evil spirits to enter people's life that's what the cross was about the cross was about removing the legal rights now you notice the scripture you may remember it but not you've really thought too much about it because often you read scriptures don't really understand what it means in Colossians 2:14 it says that Jesus took away the lists of ordinances the writing that was contrary to us and against us took it out of the way nailing it to the cross and disarmed spiritual powers principalities and powers and triumphed over them what is that scripture all about very simple list of every possible transgression broken law that you and I have committed Jesus took it all in himself on the cross and by taking it to the cross he broke the legal rights of the demons to gain access to our life he disarmed them he took away their weapon the weapon demons uses sin so when sin happens they have a right of access so a demon will tempt a person to sin once they've sinned the legal ground with the broken law is now established they have the right to enter you know it is so if we're going to set people free we have to understand what the cross is done and bring sinners shoes to the light and to the cross there's no deliverance without dealing with sin we have to be willing to address some issues if we don't address sin issues the way the Bible tells us to confess them to him if we confess our transgression we confess to him our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us all our sins and to cleanse us small unrighteousness so what Jesus has done by the power of our confession he can wipe away the legal rights the demon has and also make us clean iron on the inside but I've got to do my part bring my sin to the light now many people just want to get free of demons but they don't want to address the root cause the demons are in there and generally the root cause is legal rights or issues of trauma and broke and the patient's life for the idea so notice the deme all say my house now just to just illustrate this I've had more than many deliverances where the demon suddenly erupted and began to argue and said something like this she belongs to me he belongs to me I will not leave in other words the demon claimed legal ownership so we'll see when it comes to preparing people for deliverance it is quite important to get them to confess that they belong to Jesus Christ their faith in Christ that Jesus I belong to Jesus spirit soul and body why it's a profession of faith why because we want to counteract what the demons about to say no I won't go they belong to me so we get the person into a confession or profession of their faith to remove the legal grounds that the demon has so when they profess their faith in Christ there in the kingdom of God they belong to Jesus when they repent of their sin the grounds for the lis the legal rights for the demon enter are now dismissed now we are able to command the demon it cannot stay it must go in the idea so the work of Jesus on the cross is extraordinary it if there's so much you can continue to learn about what our Savior how loving Savior has done for us okay then let's keep going then so demons what else goes it they can come back they find the person and to find it empty script and put it in order so notice the demons can recognize your condition so if you've just tidied up your place and you're empty that word empty means on holiday not active or not business not going and you're just looking good but you've never established your life with God the demons can come back and enter again so it's important that people are discipled not just delivered that we have to help them establish their life with God again so he goes and take seven other spirits more wicked than himself so there obviously there are levels of wickedness among evil demons and some are more wicked than others and create more harm than others it's also obvious from this their demons talk to one another and strategize how to work together to get into person's life and so we see that we need not just to cast the means out but to help the person rebuild their life with God so now there's no doorway no gateway there's a resistance and the fishness now on the alert a man as fantastic isn't they all right then why don't we just stop now and I'm gonna do a full we're gonna get the next session we're going to look on spiritual gateways how demons into people's lives we're going to go into that shortly but and then we'll look finally at what demons do when they get inside people but what I want to do is to just give you a bit of a break and they're going to get you to do something so we'll just have a break and we'll have the next ten minutes we're going to do some exercises so it's gonna be fantastic you'll all have a chance to do something now be good okay then so what will we do now don't get nervous it's not gonna be it's just gonna be a lot of fun it's always a lot of fun okay here's what we're going to do how many of you know how many are filled with the Holy Ghost from speaking times they're okay alright great so we have the gift of the Holy Spirit and we can speak in tongues and build our spirit man so in a moment we're going to get up and begin to start to pray and start to pray and exercise the gift when you speak in tongues your spirit is speaking the Holy Ghost is arising and you're giving you the language you're building your spirit man let's just do that for a little bit and just energize ourselves and come alive and I encourage you when you're praying in tongues like that begin to move your body allow your whole body to yield and get excited how does it make God is in May let you you know a lot of people think gods so far away isn't he's just right inside me but you don't always believe that if your mind often thinks of God seems like he's a long way off for me so it beginners you pray in tongues strongly and move your body and physically shift your body begin to the thinker's as you're praying God is in me God is filling me let your mind and heart grasp God is filling me amen let's just do it together first of all and see how what you experiences you do that strong praying strong building up your spirit man are we ready so make yourself a little bit of room a little bit of room we can do that there we go we're really weakened of all pray in tongues gonna bless odd amen so here's the first thing we'll do on the count of three we're gonna give the loudest clamp and the biggest shot we can give then we'll frame times ready 1 2 3 [Applause] we love you hallelujah that's good alright now let's begin to just pray in tongues we'll go about 30 seconds we're ready 1 2 3 ba ba ba ba ba ba ba she color bunny up that up I get a pretty uptight she got already up die she come buddy I thought up again a bit of your thigh yeah she got a video outside the secret of idiot knife to11 a most syllable orphan ever get a video thigh yeah well she got a video outside seek a Liberty yard time she curling it up then I got a buddy out thigh she got a buddy outside well she could over to your thighs he a little under the most syllable at they she got a video die bah-bah-bah she got a buddy up she caliber to your thigh ba ba ba ba basically thank you lord holy guys how we love you alright how many of you felt the energy just start to come up just speaking in tongues like that start to lift you up alright how many you consciously were thinking God has in me how many were doing that just starting to think God her and how many sort of felt you him aware of the Spirit of God filling you how many kind of had that awareness we don't necessarily feel a lot but usually what happens is your mind clears and your energy Rises you just a more alive on the inside I mean okay now I want to just demonstrate for you what I want you to do and why I want you to do this okay now what i wanting you to do is i'm wanting to lead you to a point or you can just sit down and be easy for you to see then i want to lead you to a point where you start to have confidence that if I speak God is with me remember if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God notice it's by the Spirit of God I need the Holy Spirit to move if he doesn't move nothing's going to happen so but I've got to do something so I work believing that si minister the Spirit of God will work with me now the problem of course is that the moment your mind starts to wander if God is with me then immediately you've got a gap between you and the Holy Ghost see he loves us to just love him and honor him and thank him that he's with us and loves us to delight in him it doesn't take much to grieve the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit's like a dove he rests with his peace the moment this turmoil its presence left so you know that's why it tells us in Colossians 3 let the peace of God be the ruler of your heart because the moment you lose peace and get an agitation or fear anxiety the spirit lifts until you come and set your mind right again then he comes back and rests again it feels like that that make sense he's a dove Dubbs get frightened off easily they get frightened away yes so lift off and the but it's very easy for us to grieve the Holy Spirit with hot attitude that's wrong with holding things and out and I like that right it's about heat it's easy to welcome him if I just begin to just talk how much I love you Holy Spirit I thank you I'm just dependent on you now Lord work with me as I begin to minister and and as I begin to become conscious of him see the Spirit of God is living in you all the time but often we forget that and we say and do things we just forget he's there and then we dishonor him and and his presence he's grieving he draws back and there's no power in their life so what I want to do is I'm just going to show you an exercise a very simple exercise to do and the purpose of the exercise it's not to prove see whether you can do it or whether you can't do it the purpose of the exercise is to get you to X start to expect that if I begin to speak God will work through me and touch people that's the purpose of it okay that actually God will work through me alright so you hear nears Brian will start with you then I pick two or three others and go around the room and just pick some different people so Brian ought to come out can I practice on you you need someone to stand behind him someone stand behind him just to catch him like that then just move this back here so all right then so Brian I want you just to close your eyes and look up to the Lord expecting for God to touch you so notice I've directed his attention towards the Lord not to me because it's the Lord he must minister not me but I've got a vital part so now what I do is just take his hand now I'll speak out loud what's going on now what I could do is begin to pray in tongues now just praying in tongues itself isn't all the picture praying in tongues stirs your spirit cool it about Arden that I must say cut about out there but what I'll do with my mind and heart it's just become to reach out Holy Spirit you're with me you are with me and so I'm just expecting Lord for you to flow through me and to touch Brian right now so as I released power I expect the Holy Ghost to touch him now it's good he's had a whole touch of God on them that's great we'll get someone else up here we'll get a few more people and we'll just do the same thing I'd like to can I pray with you did okay just come on Avery just need someone to just be there to catch y'all come on up on the top there alright then can I practice on you great just close your eyes and just reach up to the Lord expecting God to do something good in your life I'm not trying to do any deliverance this is not the point of this exercise the point of this exercise is to become aware of the Holy Spirit become aware of God in you so pray in tongues call ba-ba-ba Shikata but I've thought of us at a time as you're praying in tongues your spirit is becoming alive with the Holy Spirit now I need to see into my attention and focus what do I focus on I just think well Holy Spirit you're there I so need you Lord just come and touch her I know she wants the touch of God Holy Spirit as I speak now just flow through me and our yeah you feel the power of God just touch it yeah could you feel it while I was talking could you feel I'm starting to come on you in touch it yeah I could feel that too since I'm coming now the point of this is to help you become confident you are a minister of God God is with you now I've just done it in a very slow and very low-key way so you can see it's nothing about striving or struggling it's all about a relationship with a person who loves you is committed to you he lives inside you and there it is so just close your eyes and look up again let me take your hand take a person's hands quite an easy thing to do holy guys come Holy Ghost come now I'm gonna speak the word path Wow and she gets touched by the power of God alrighty then great we're all getting ready I'll do one more and they can feel the atmosphere already starting to change because the Spirit of God is here Josie can I just pray with you ok then now just do it again I'll explain what we're gonna do ok we're right need someone to catch okay you're right can I practice on you great stuff okay close your eyes look up to the Lord in your heart so remember again so the new prime times qila by cata buddy I thought about Shula but I'm but I must now really I can feel the Spirit of God just coming on her right now just straightaway presence of God no no sigh it's like God was wanting to do it and got ahead of me I'm sort of trying to get through my thing and he's just already gone ahead of me whew Holy Ghost did you stay didn't enjoy the presence of God now can you see that God is more willing to use us than we realize he just needs someone to cooperate with them so a lot of this is not a it's not about trying to make God do something it's actually about you just resting in your heart that I am a minister the spirit of god is with me and that he will work through me the key issue is one of just believing that God can work through me you take I can see you're looking wanting something to happen yeah why not exactly that's the spirit why not me amen all right then now you notice that there's an anointing flows from within but there's also the Spirit of God will come on people as well and so I always yield to him moving coming on people but I can always stir what's within me there it is he's already starting to happen right now so you can feel it straightaway couldn't they say I'll just again prime known as Kela but um that I must so know what I'm wanting you to do is to get used to doing this stirring up your spirit through praying in tongues expecting God to do something and be willing to just speak power release the power of God into the person's life believe that as you say thank you Brian well done catching all the ladies tonight it's a grand grand thing to do haha so I wanted you to get used to that as you will just arise in your spirit and speak that God will work through your words to touch the other person amen okay then so we're going to get you all into 3s1 catches one receives one praise and ministers and follow the same process because it'll just make it easier ask the person can I practice on you why because it is just a practice to just do what we can secondly ask them to close your eyes them lift their how to look up to the Lord not to you so the pressures not on you to perform unless it's inside you to perform and then you close your eyes and take your hand and just begin to ponder and meditate the God is in me and begin to pray in tongues allow your heart to become conscious of God then okay you already come on you can do it let's do it let's do it

Channel: Mike Connell

Views: 57,345

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Keywords: manifestation, generational spirit, idolatory, spiritism, authority, power, house cleansing, energise, spiritual force, unclean spirit, spirit being, Demon (Mythical Creature), Ghost, Haunted, Ghosts, evil, Spirit

Id: _GZKsXCEzKQ

Length: 55min 18sec (3318 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 05 2013