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Powerless Demons?
A while back I came upon a webpage and blog written by a christian lady, who had experienced evil sexual encounters with demons. This web sight with great detail described her experience with perverted demonic spirits. In my opinion there was a lot of space given to the description of the effect these demons were allowed to have over her physical body. Details of these illicit encounters interacting with sexual demons was being described. She professed her salvation and deliverance, but gave little to no information or testimony to the deliverance from this situation. She gave great space and time to the details of the manifested presence of these demons.
Please hear my heart. I refuse to judge the person, but I feel a need to address the situation and speak to it from the word of God. I do not believe that demons have authority over my life unless I give them that authority. Knowingly or unknowingly.
I do not believe that incubus and succubus spirits, sexual devils, spirit husbands and wives, spirits of perversion, spirits of infirmity, deaf and dumb spirits, spirits of death and destruction, spirits of sorcery, witch craft, drug and addiction spirits and every other class or kind of spirit named or unnamed has the power to influence and manifest in our lives without our consciously or unconsciously giving over our place of authority.
At some level we are exercising our will to come into agreement with them. I don’t believe that Christians knowingly with full knowledge allow these spirits to influence and manifest in their lives freely and willingly. I don’t even believe that most non christians with full knowledge allow any of these devils to occupy their lives. I believe that satan and his demons are a wise cunning lot and they have thousands of years of experience. They know things we don’t know and most of us don’t really want to know for various reasons. We allow them access through our imaginations and desires. Are they real? Yes, and once invited in will not leave so easily.
Mostly through fear of the unknown and the misconception even in the church that the devil has great power over mankind. We allow our authority to govern our own lives to be accessed by demons through our ignorance and lusts.
I don’t believe that it takes months and years and thousands of dollars with some professional to get the devils out of our lives. Are there some things that take longer and have entrenched in our belief systems or genealogy that we don’t even know have been given a place of authority? Yes. Are we opening the legal doors to the influence of demonic entities through what we watch on TV, movies and listen to on CD’s? Yes. I believe we do. I also believe that what would be an open door for me may not be an open door for you. Each one of us has to realize that I have the authority in my life to walk in purity or impurity. Based on what I am attracted to that weakens my walk with God and offends my own personal conscious. If it is sin to me and not to you, I need to abstain and not try to influence you to follow me. I can share my belief of how it effects me and let you decide what you need to do about it. God gave us a free will and choice is what separates us from any other class of beings.
Will the enemy overpower you and take what doesn’t belong to him? Yes, if I am ignorant as to the laws that govern a specific area I am at risk of losing my place of authority. Ignorance of the law in our nation is no excuse or defense from the consequences already established by the laws of the land. Will I have to fight sometimes to defend what belongs to me? Yes, maybe even unto the physical death. But no power can take my right and will to believe what I chose to believe. Even if ISIS cuts off my physical head, they cannot take the love of God and the established fact that Jesus is my Lord and Savior out of my belief system. Their cutting my head off doesn’t lessen my truth it will just prove it more quickly. I may loose my physical head, but they did not win their ultimate goal of having me denounce the truth of who Jesus is.
There are few churches who will deal with demonic manifestations or even acknowledge that demons exist. In my opinion we have given a medical diagnosis to every demon on the planet and invented a few that didn’t exist before we gave them names. I do not believe that every mental illness is demonic possession. No more than I believe that every physical illness is demonically influenced. Jesus clearly dealt with both physical illness and mental anguish speaking to each one based on the origin of the issue. His insight came through the gifting of the Holy Spirit and came from the voice of Father God revealing things that were not seen and exposing them so that authority could be used to set the person free.
There are many deliverance ministries in the earth today. Many who point people to the truth of their authority in Christ Jesus and many who major on the manifestation and naming of the demons to get them out. Sometimes naming may be necessary to get to the leader that is causing the problem. I believe a lot of interaction and allowing of demonic manifestation in deliverance causes more attention to be given to the demons than to the feelings and reputation of the person seeking help. Jesus was moved with compassion and healed them all. He was not moved to inflate His ego and reputation in the region by doing miracles and getting into conversation with demons that wanted to manifest and call attention to their leader, satan and not to the true and living God.
I just tend to believe that Jesus left an example for deliverance. His example simply stated was to shut up and come out without hurting the person being afflicted and tormented by the evil spirit.
(KJV Strong's) Mark 1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. ( this was a man in the synagogue who cried out that Jesus was come to torment to destroy us, meaning he had more than one spirit in him,)
(KJV Strong's)Mark 7: 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the devil is gone out of thy daughter. (this was a mother who came to Jesus to get help for her daughter)
(KJV Strong’s)Mark 5:8 Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
(KJV Strong's) Mark, 5:1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes. 2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, 3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. 6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. 10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the country. 11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding. 12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them. 13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea. 14 And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done. 15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid. 16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine. 17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts. 18 And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him. 19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him: and all men did marvel. 21 And when Jesus was passed over again by ship unto the other side, much people gathered unto him:
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: 4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him, 7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, W hat have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me not. 8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit. 9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.
These are just a sampling of how Jesus dealt with unclean spirits. Are there many classes and divisions of demons? I believe there are. Jesus didn't call each one up and discuss its evil manifestation He just rebuked it and went on. Teaching about these demons and their diabolical manifestations may be necessary for the afflicted to recognize their evil and perverted influence on their bodies and minds. But to give lengthy unfettered permission for them to manifest will take the attention from God and project it on the enemy of God! Especially if you are in a public environment.
Perverse or sexual spirits will manifest in perverted and sexual ways. Focusing on teaching people about the love that comes from God and has been given to man and woman for marriage. Will help those who are tormented with evil spirits to see the scriptural bases of the physical and emotional feelings and stimulation that comes with sexual acts. I believe that the teachings on Godly spiritual intimacy is a better approach and leaves no place for the glorying of fallen spirits to be elevated, and will limit the crude and rude manifestations of these spirits on the person that is hosting them. Although the end result of entertaining and interacting with these spirits may bring about the same pleasure responses as interacting in healthy marital intimacy. It does not make this experience a validated method of releasing sexual frustrations.
I believe the recounting of personal experiences, through the recounting of sexually tormenting acts, or sexual pleasurable acts performed upon them by demons. Can be a dangerous thing to those who are ignorant of the role demons play in these extreme sexual encounters. Yes, they can draw large followings because of the curiosity of the subject content. The telling of ones experience may be beneficial in helping others to see they have or are having like experiences. In my opinion publicly with out having the ability to know who is accessing this information to explicitly detail a personal encounter is opening innocent people up to the influence of some of these same spirits. If in fact we don’t emphasize the ability to be free through salvation and the appropriation of the Blood of Jesus.
This information that one can be set free, indeed is a true place to find hope that they are not crazy. Sharing a like experience may validate their own life experience. Giving them an opportunity to find their way out through salvation through Jesus Christ.
On a blog or webpage people can see countless others who have had similar or worse experience with tormenting spirits. The danger is that the spirits of lust may subtly be manifesting and drawing us into a greater desire to hear details, which only give glory to the enemy and not to the one who needs deliverance. The details of the demonic encounter take a lot more words to describe than the repenting, denouncing and deliverance from these evil influences.
The teaching on the web page of incubus and succubus spirits was very informative and I believe them to be factual for the most part. My concern, respectfully, is that there is much details given about the demonic encounters, symptoms, and ways people became influenced or inhabited, but very little scriptural reference to the example of Jesus and his disciples about getting delivered. I find no where in the scriptures where lengthy fasting and prayer was needed or used to rid a person of a tormenting spirit.
I would love to see a more balanced approach in teaching the tormented individual that they have the complete authority to get rid of tormenting sexual or any other evil spirit and be totally free from the influence of their presence. Scriptural advice and examples, practically applied to the already super real experiences the individual has, will bring a deliverance that will more greatly empower the delivered one to maintain their own lives, and deliverance.
The scriptures teach us that we are a temple of the Holy Spirit. We have defiled our temple or been defiled through acts we have committed or had perpetrated upon us. I can denounce, reject, cast out, etc. from my own life, but if I am not replacing these cleaned areas with the renewing of my mind from the word of God then I am just preparing my house for the multiplied occupation of more devils.
(KJV Strong's) Matt. 12:43 -- When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. 44 Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. 45 Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Demons seek attention and power.
Demons seek attention and power. One way they get this power is through our testifying of their abilities to manifest in our lives or through the symptoms they can produce through their occupation of our territory or bodies. We have been given a free will by God, He Himself will not violate our will. If we do not have revelation of that fact or our truth is incomplete or misguided. We will believe that God has allowed these things to come upon me and thus I must just bear it.
This is a lie from the enemy who wants us to believe that he has the same authority as God does. He also wants you to believe that he is more powerful than you are. He is not! Jesus defeated and made an open show of satan at the cross. Gave the victory to us to maintain in our own lives. I am the master of my will, I have to choose to be influenced and pressured to lay aside my will and participate in behavior that opens me up to be attacked, influenced, oppressed and even possessed if I continue to seek out the payoff from entertaining these spirits.
Sexual spirits are easily more powerful because of the physical manifestation of pleasure that comes from participating in sexual acts. Sexual acts entered into outside of the guidelines of safety that God has set for us. Open us up to being influenced by demonic sexual perversion. It isn’t that God didn’t want you to have sexual pleasure. He did, He created sex. He knew the power that the act can have over our lives and inherent in it is the ability to reproduce other human beings. The devil want’s to plant seeds into your mind through enticing you to enter into sexual acts outside of the safety of the boundaries God has set.
These thought seeds that can produce offspring of perversion and pass them down through our blood lines. The act of my will, weakened through the physical feelings of pleasure, entered into with demon spirits or their influence, will rob me of the purity of the gift of sexual intimacy when I find the one person that I want to spend my life with.
Do I think that everyone who has had a sexual encounter outside of marriage did so by the seduction or possession of an evil spirit? NO I believe that when we over ride our conscious in any area and indulge our own pleasure that is me making a choice it is an act of my own will. I also believe that any act of sin or falling short can be influenced by the ideals, beliefs and pressures of those around me or with me. Their thoughts, beliefs and opinions can weaken or influence my own good judgement. They will not be the recipient of the resulting consequences of my choice. I will.
Seeking out sexual or any other gratification through interacting with demonic spirits will open one up to loosing the controlled ability to make choices through the reasoning of their own minds and may grant access to very real and powerful demonic spirits to control areas of your life. Using your one time invitation as legal access to now come to you at their will and manifest in ways you no longer have control over. Appealing to the lower senses of my flesh they will begin a process that will lead me to make more more flesh gratifying choices. Choices that dull my concious and make it easy to justify my behavior
It is an act of my will to chose through the enticement of sexual gratification to enter into acts that may be selfish and passion driven. This choice may lead to the birth of a child that I can not take care of or do not want at this stage of my life. Then the ball of destruction is rolling and the enemy is laughing as he waits for the generations to unfold, infected by guilt and shame and deep regret. Or worse my choice may end with the murder of a human life so I will not have to take responsibility for my choices or sexual actions.
Children that have been violated or adults who have been raped, or molested have had their will overpowered by one who was physically stronger than they were, or used control and manipulation, fear of pain or even death to cause one to submit to their evil acts. The victim has against their choice, submitted or been overpowered and had their will of choice taken from them. These evil humans have used their place of authority in a child's life or position of power in the market place, the church, the home, etc. to force your will to bend to their evil wishes.
God did not do this to you. Did He know it? Did He allow it? In the sense that He is all powerful and all knowing, yes. But the rest of the story is that He gave mankind a free will. We can or can not give permission for Him to bring His ability into the situations of our lives to help us when we are being attacked by demons or humans.
God did not create good men and satan create evil men. We were all created by God in His image, born into a fallen world where satan is the god of this world system. We are born with a free will that is shaped and controlled by what we believe. My personal belief system is based on what I have experienced and been taught by those around me. I have given the position of influence, to others and relinquished my authority to men and sometimes even to evil fallen spirits.
It is the willful act of man that determines his good behavior or his bad behavior. Not God or demons!
It is the willful act of man that determines his good behavior or his bad behavior. Not God or demons. God cannot make us do anything. He bound him self by giving us free choice. Nor can the devil, he has no authority, man outranks him in his own life in the earth. Unless I empower them to do so God nor satan can use my will withour my consent. Through my mistaken belief that God can stop everything down to keeping me from getting pregnant. Puts God in the category of controller of my life and choices. If I have sex I am bringing the material together that has the power with in its self to create life. I can blame God or credit God if I am wanting a child. Children are a gift from God. I believe that means that God gave us the ability through the makeup of our human anatomy the power to recreate life.
If I willingly give my position of authority over to another. I have reassigned the position God created me for to a lesser authority. I in essence have given my kingdom to another king.
These sexual demons of perversion, sex, lust, violence etc. are trespassing on my property. If I am a Christian I have God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit as my allies. I have a blood covenant through the blood of Jesus that gives me access to the God of the Kingdom of Heaven. How can I be an ally with God? By repenting for my sinful ways, excepting Jesus as the blood sacrifice for my sins. Turning from the willful sinning I have been doing. Take responsibility for my choices and develop relationships with the Father God, Jesus His son and the Holy Spirit the comforter and revealer of the truth.
Holy Spirit will translate me from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's Son. Through abhorrence and repentance of my willful sinning, I am translated into the kingdom of light. The place where my will, mind and emotions, can be transformed and conformed into the image of Christ. This takes place as a progression of my will to put aside the darkness and evil that has controlled and governed my life through deceit and blindness to the truth. As I exchange the lie for the truth and walk in it through out my daily life then we are being delivered on an ongoing basis. I am renewing my mind with the truth of my power to make choices and through the Word of God that gives me guidelines though scripture. I don’t through force have to do anything. I by clear understanding choose to do what I do.
I believe that there are demonic spirits that are familiar with us and our ancestors. They look for a trauma or an event where we are weak in guarding our minds to the truth, or have believed a lie. They then use their influence to turn us back toward darkness and away from the truth in Christ Jesus. Impregnating our minds with the process that seduces through pleasure and the need to be loved and validated. Through intimacy of our thoughts and imaginations we have intercourse with unholy spirits. These spirits deposit seeds that reproduce, unholy offspring. In the dark hidden place of our thoughts we create demonic half-breeds. Out of the lust of self gratification we unintentionally produce children of darkness. Not flesh and blood children but, ideals and beliefs that are half truth and half lie. Not literal children but unholy spiritual offspring, alive in the world of my mind, created by my will, feed and nurtured by the emotions of my willful choices.
The more of our human senses that are involved in an event the greater it is embedded in my mind and memories. Sometimes an event has been so dramatic that we may black out or block out the event completely. I don’t believe we have to go back through every memory of each demonic event to be delivered from the influence of that particular situation. Reliving the events in great detail seem to me to give glory or attention to the demonic influence.
Jesus again is my example. He delivered the Gadarene demoniac who had a legion of demons which is over 6,000. If each one of these had to be named and dealt with individually, reliving each detail of the event, Jesus would still be there getting him delivered. We have no account of the man with the legion of demons having to have years of ongoing deliverance. Jesus told him to go to his friends and tell what great things the Lord had done for him. Not to recount in detail the many manifestations of demon activity he had been delivered from. I am sure he could have written a book and financed his travels to tell of what God had done. The content would have been huge if giving details of all the many and varied experiences of the legion of demons in him. But rather small in the beginning if only telling of the story of his deliverance through the authority of Jesus rebuking the legion and them going into pigs.
The man went and became a preacher in Decapolis and all men marveled with great wonder and astonishment at the obvious change in his behavior! I am sure they all knew who he was. They were now eyewitnesses of who he is! When we are set free our deeds and behavior will change. It will be obvious to those who see us that we have been changed.
19 Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. 20 And he departed, and began to publish in Decapolis how great things Jesus had done for him:and all men did marvel. (Mark 5:19-20 KJVStrongs)
I believe that we with in the church have taught unwittingly that deliverance is a long hard process and you will have to fight demons the rest of your life. We through ignorance have left an example of our weakness. Instead of the strength of Christ’s blood to deliver us once and for ever of demonic torment in sexual or any other areas of our lives where we have been bound.
We as weak and powerless Christians have not been able to get someone set free and have by way of self defense told them it was something they were doing wrong. Don’t misunderstand me, we have to maintain our lives through what we watch, participate in and expose our senses to. Jesus said to cast out devils. He didn’t say to entertain them or give them names. Why would I want to hold a conversation with a devil? They are very intelligent beings. They have thousands of years experience with mankind. I just need to know that Jesus gave the example to tell them to come out and they did. Even the thousands at a time, had to come out. They can communicate. They recognized Jesus authority and ask permission to go into the pigs. He allowed it. You will never over power a devil. They recognize authority and if we don’t have it in a given situation they will laugh at you and yet worse they will hurt you. If you have authority, they will obey and come out.
My friends you have the ultimate authority over your own life and body. If you are being tormented my devils sexual or other wise. Tell them to shut up and come out. They have to bow to your will. It is your body and mind they are trying to influence. Say NO, in the authority Jesus gave you and they will have to flee. Resist the devils and they will flee! You can’t participate and watch perversion and stay free. You can’t hold onto the sexual pleasure and seek or long for it and get rid of the demon at the same time. You can denounce any perverse spirits from influencing your sexual desires and consecrate yourself through sexual purity and live free from demonic influence.
If you as a parent have a child that is tormented by a sexual spirit. Take authority over that spirit in your own home and clean your house from the influences that would open the door again to sexual or other spirits that are not of God. Monitor what they watch and especially what they have access to electronically. It isn’t easy to be a parent, but we are responsible to keep our children safe while they are in our home and under our authority. Listen to their words and body language around the people in your life. If they hold back from physical contact, or are too quick to engage with a stranger. Let that give us pause and ask Holy Spirit if something or someone is being influenced by something we can not see in the natural.
Jesus has already defeated satan. He has left us His example. He told us to go and do the same things He was doing in the earth. He was our example. Not the one who is constantly having to follow me around and deliver me. He gave me authority over devils and all the works of darkness. I have to choose to use it or to keep the benefits or liability of the demonic presence.
The Father sent the Holy Spirit to empower us to see and know the things that exist in the realm of the unseen. He will give us spirit eyes to see spirits. We need not be afraid of what we will see. Jesus said it is finished. He meant it, it is finished! He did it and has given me the insight through the scriptures and the revelation of the Holy Spirit in my life to walk in this life without being tormented of the devil.
Satan is not God! He is not omnipresent. Present everywhere all the time. He is not omniscient. Having all power. He is a created being given a position over a group of angels in Heaven who decided he would be like God and get others to see him as God. He was cast out of Heaven and relocated into the earth and the atmosphere around the earth. He only got 1/3 of the angels to go with him. I’m not too smart, but I am smart enough to know that even with 1/3 being cast out with him, that leaves two-thirds of the angels to minister in my behalf as a child of God and an ally with the Kingdom of Heaven.
God created Adam in the garden and gave him dominion over the earth. Satan only has dominion of what ever he can convince me is not mine. Is he powerful? Yes, but not on the level God has delegated to us in the Kingdom of Earth when allied with the Kingdom of Heaven. He has no kingdom. You do! Don’t abdicate your throne and install satan or a demon in your place.
Our problem is not the number or even the power of devils. It is the lack of revelation and experience with the complete dominion God gave us, over our own individual lives. Adam was created into dominion over the earth, skies and seas. He was fashioned as an adult grown and capable of utilizing and exercising that dominion.
We are born as babies and have to grow into that dominion through the care of parents. Parents who teach us right from wrong, protect us and discipline us for our own safety. Parents who help guide us on the path we are to follow as we grow into our dominion over our own lives. We as adults submit to laws and boundaries set so we can coexist in peace and safety with other humans. Jesus learned obedience through the things he suffered the scriptures teaches us. Jesus came not as an adult Adam but as the infant Adam living the human life, just as we do. Jesus didn’t know everything God knew. He Himself said he only did what He saw and heard the Father say and do. He had to see and hear and then use his will to act upon what was revealed through His relationship with His Father God!
Jesus didn't show up in the manger with the ability to do miracles...
Jesus didn’t show up in the manger with the ability to do miracles. He was a baby. He cried, was breast feed. Had his diapers changed by his mother. I am sure they stank just as ours did. He had brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles. Cousins, John the Baptist was His cousin. He was from the priestly blood line through Mary’s side of the family.
He lived 33 years before He came into the understanding and power of His call to minister to mankind in the earth. He went through human puberty. He had sexual feelings and emotions. He had to cast down thoughts and imaginations just as we have to. I can imagine that more than one little girl tried to get him to look at or touch her in an impure way. He had to deal with peer pressure. He had to do chores, worked a job with his father Joseph, went to church, learned the scripture, prayed and developed a personal relationship with God through the understanding He gained from the exposures in the temple and in His community. But mostly through His own personal experience with God. He obeyed his parents. He did math. He must have because He didn’t hesitate to take the loaves and fishes and add heaven’s principles to earths food and feed the 5,000.
He read the accounts in the scriptures and experienced first hand an ongoing experience with God. At twelve he got a revelation that He was who Isaiah was talking about when He read the scriptures of the prophet Esaias in Luke 4:18-21 to the leaders in the synagogue in Nazareth.
He came to John to be baptized as an outward experience symbolizing an inward understanding and abhorrence and turning away from sin. He was tempted of the devil, after the Holy Spirit lead Him into the wilderness. He communicated with the devil and used the words from Gods mouth to clarify the lies and half truths the devil was tempting Him with. His first miracle wasn’t healing the sick, it was making wine from water! His mother knew through her ongoing experience and training of Jesus that God had said He would be the savior of the world. I believe Mary knew He had power before Jesus knew He had power.
I am sure that Mary and Joseph lived an open life before Jesus of their personal relationship with God. They knew they were raising the savior of the world. Did they really know what that meant or would look like? Did they know how it was all going to materialize? I don’t think so, but I do believe that they knew that what ever happen that God had already spoken to their spirits that everything would be all right. They had together lived through the miracle escape with Jesus as an infant from Herod when he killed all the babies in the land.
Mary and James, Jesus brother stood at the cross and watched his human life end and witnessed His resurrected life beginning. They were in the upper room and were filled with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Jesus told John to look after his mother Mary. Joseph must have already passed by this time in His life. He had other siblings but Jesus trusted John in their intense grief and bewilderment in the moment to look after His earthly mother until He fulfilled the plan His Heavenly Father had devised to redeem us. Jesus knew who He was and what He had to die for. Did He have a clear picture of how He would come back to life and save the world? I don’t think so, I believe he had prophetic insight into His future, but had to experience it first hand as we do. He was still experiencing the earthly kingdom until the power of God shook the earth, rolled the stone away and breathed resurrection life back into his body! Can you imagine what He must have thought when He opened His eyes in the tomb and His face was covered with the napkin. Did He feel the rumble of the ground shaking and the stone rolling away? The power of God was so great that when on the cross, Jesus cried with a loud voice and yielded up the ghost that the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves after his resurrection and when into the holy city and appeared unto many according to Matthew 27:50-53.
When we don’t know who we are, the enemy can tell us we are less than and because of our past experiences we may believe him. God left us the scriptures as an eyewitness account of others who have taken dominion in their lives, as well as examples of those who did not take dominion. We have believed a lie. Because we haven’t experienced success in an area doesn’t mean that we can’t experience success in living a life free from demonic influence. I can’t imagine Jesus felt too successful hanging on the cross. Or how abandoned He must have felt in the garden before they came to get Him. The scripture says His anxiety level was so high that He sweated drops of blood. He had witnessed crucifixions before. He knew that great physical pain was a given when one died in this manner. He as a human man questioned why God had forsaken Him as He hung on the cross.
He was born and lived as a human in every way we are born and live as a human. He met and experienced God through the exposure of His parents life. Mary was in the priestly lineage. Jesus read the scriptures and taught his disciples from His personal experience who God really was and what He wanted from mankind. He trusted the God He experienced and proved for Himself to be true. He exhibited power by walking on water, rebuking storms, healing the sick, casting out devils, opening blinded eyes and deaf ears, he raised the dead. All before He was resurrected. He taught the disciples to do the same and sent out the 70 to minister to the people. They found that even devils were subject to them because of what Jesus had taught and exhibited to them. He appeared to them after he rose from the dead on several occasions. Showing them His human body, scared and beaten, but resurrected and alive for ever more. He reminded them to do what He had instructed them to do before. He told them where to go and wait until they received an endowment of power from on high, from the Kingdom of Heaven. They went to the upper room and waited and the Holy Spirit came with the tangible manifestation of the wind, and little flames of fire, visible over their heads. They all, each and every one who was there. Not just the disciples and Mary the mother of Jesus, but all 120 of them received the Holy Spirit and spoke out wondrous praise to God in a language they had not studied. The real, living people in Jerusalem heard and witnessed it. Those who knew these men and women and knew they had not learned this language. They heard God being glorified in their own language. They experienced for themselves this miracle. No one had to tell them about it and interpret their words. They understood and glorified God. A sign and wonder that caused many to believe and to be encouraged that what this Jesus had taught had truly come to pass.
The word of God is ageless and always appropriate for all generations. Paraphrased or directly quoted from what ever bible version you prefer. It is in my humble opinion that only real truth will stand. Anything less will keep the focus on the lesser gods of this world and rob us from the truth that we have power from on high to over come the works of the devil. The devil and his demons have gained power through our submitting to the works of the flesh. I can denounce, cast out and be set free. I can stay free by turning my focus on what is pure and holy. You may need someone to help you get free from demonic influence, but you will have to maintain this deliverance. Read the scriptures, seek Him, allow the Holy Spirit to lead and guide you into the full truth you need, to get free and stay free. Don’t focus on the details that glorify the entity that inhabited your mind and emotions infecting your body. Glorify God who has given you the power to be set free because of what Jesus did.
I don’t believe Jesus is going to come down from Heaven and deliver me from all my mess. I believe He already did that at the cross and is now seated in the place of authority on high waiting until I make His enemies His footstool. He is interceding until I get the revelation that as He is so are we in the earth. Not as He was in the earth but as He now is we are to be in the earth.
He did miracles in the earth, he died and rose again, descended into the bowels of the earth and made a show of satan openly, lead captivity captive and gave gifts to men. He did it so I could do it. If I am waiting for Him to do it again. Then it had no power the first time. When He said it was finished. It was finished. Now I must take the finished work and reproduce it in my own life. He will empower me with the gifts of the spirit, and send the angels to fight and aid me in my journey. But I must believe that He did it first as my example and now I can follow that example and conquer every devil that tries to usurp my position in Christ Jesus!
I will exert my will over my own life. Take responsibility for the openings I have allowed the enemy to get into my kingdom through. I will close the gaps, kick the enemy out, and occupy my mind and emotional man complete with its emotions and sexual appetites until this same Jesus returns for me. I will be willing to see where demons have invaded my kingdom, destroy them and shout it from the roof tops so that others can be free as well.
Will you?