Scripture:
1 John 4 v 1 - 3: "Beloved believe not every spirit,
but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are
gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that
confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit
that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and
this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come,
and even now already it is in the world."
Every Christian who truly follows Jesus Christ should be
engaged in spiritual warfare. Seventy percent of Jesus' earthly ministry was
casting out demons and healing the sick. The Holy Spirit was sent to the Church
to bring gifts that would help us do the things Jesus did.
Unfortunately the Church has for years played down need
for such ministry and sophisticated people, intellectuals, graduates and
priests have pooh poohed the very existence of demons or evil spirits. However
you hear it in strange places like in cricket - the demon bowler; amongst
celebs - she's battling her demons; serial killers - his eyes look cold and
dead you can see the devil in them.
The truth is we human beings are actually spirit beings,
covered with a soul, enclosed in a fleshly body. We began as spirits in Heaven,
acquired a soul as hostages of Satan, were given a fleshly body by God in the
Garden of Eden to manifest what Satan had done to us so God could repair the
damage and bring us back home, cleansed of all evil and sin-free.
Our minds have been severely tampered with in satan's
evil realm and need to be renewed according to the Word of God. We need to
overcome everything that was brainwashed into us back then before the world was
formed, because it caused us to be born sinners. We look on an innocent sinless
baby and wonder how it can grow into a criminal or a killer kid. Its already
tainted before it gets born.
Satan's very real demons were assigned to each soul to
kill, maim and destroy before this world was formed. Jesus was slain before
this world was formed (Rev 13 v 8). Many real and scary things were done to us
before we were born. This world is truly a slow motion action replay at a rate
of 1000 years equals 1 day.
Jesus died to break Satan's power over us through sin,
and equip us to defeat his demons ourselves. Satan's biggest and most
successful deception is that he and his demons are figments of our over-excited
imagination. Any reality check gets filed under "Unexplained!".
The world today is in a serious mess because too few Christians
believe we are in a warzone fighting beings we cannot see or hear. They sit in
pews every Sunday and are content that all is well with my world. The world
however is flummoxed on how to deal with Boko Haram who kidnap schoolgirls in
Nigeria to sell as sex slaves for huge profit to continue their terrorist war
against Christians in Nigeria. The USA and UK super powers send advisors to
help. However it doesn't help. That's because Boko Haram are 100% controlled by
demons sent to kill, maim and destroy.
You can only truly defeat them through spiritual warfare
not guns and ammunition. The same goes for ISIS, North Korea, Syria, Al Qaeda,
the Taliban. All Communism is the manifestation of an antichrist spirit. All
Muslim and other religions are a manifestation of an antichrist spirit,
including Roman Catholicism.
It has taken generations for radical Islamists to fully
infiltrate western nations and make strongholds called mosques. Britain has
discovered 1500 radical extremist mosques exist there. Only 2 British mosques
can be described as moderate. What is the solution? Churches in Britain are
being turned into bingo halls so they have already lost the fight. Christianity
is being submerged into powerless, evil Interfaith.
The Church has no power when it ignores the power of God
through the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. When churchgoers find no
victory over terror and tragedy they drift away.
We must get back to our true nature in Christ and learn
to try the spirits, not the people, the SPIRITS!! Christians engaged in
spiritual warfare have the gift of discerning spirits of good and evil. When
you have delivered someone from demons and seen the wonderful change in them it
is joy unspeakable and full of glory.
However, it happens as you are rejoicing something
catches your eye. Job is not over. The person protests that they are fine now
but you discern something in the eyes. You need to try that spirit. Speak to
that spirit, not the human, and challenge it with "Did Jesus Christ come in
the flesh?" No demon will EVER admit that!
They will mumble and look away but they or it cannot look you in the eye
and confess that Jesus came in the flesh.
And when a demon is identified it has to leave. Its like
a secret agent. If his cover is broken he has to retire. When you break that
demon's cover you consign it back to Hell. Policemen cannot explain why a group
of youths can suddenly turn into killers, kicking and beating an innocent human
to death for no reason but the fun of it. The high it gives them. But if you know that there is one or two
members who have a violent spirit in them or a spirit of murder it will incite
the group in a flash. We are seeing it today on our university campuses in
South Africa. Anarchy and violence.
That same spirit causes them to smirk and laugh in the
dock when they get long sentences. The spirit is achieving its mandate to kill
(the innocent victim), maim the families involved, and destroy the
perpetrators.
The Apostle Paul said "I don't just beat the
air" I know my enemy. (1 Corinthians 9 v 26). Paul was not guessing which
demons were manifesting, he was using the gifts of the Holy Spirit to discern
and know what he was fighting. We should all be able to deal with demons like
this. Years ago my 3 year old son was doing spiritual warfare before I was. I
learnt a lot from him. He could see, hear, name and defeat them as easy as
breathing.
So you don't have to be old, wise and whiskery to deal
with demons. You just have to learn more about this subject.
Call on Jesus to open your eyes and fill you with the
Holy Spirit. Be willing to open His marvellous gifts and use them. Discover
what you are really capable of and turn this world upside down for Jesus. You
are not fighting a losing battle. You have Jesus with you who has already
defeated Satan and all his demons so that you could do this too. Be an
overcomer! Be a true follower! Give demons the boot!
Let your spirit, your real self, conquer your soul and
its demons of anger, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, wrong sexual activity, false
religions, bitterness, hatred, violence, murder, pride, rebellion etc. Cleanse
your flesh of these gate crashers and rise up in newness of life to be part of
God's army in these last days.
Prayer: Heavenly Father Forgive me for wasting time on
frivolous things when I could be fighting the big battles with Jesus against
demons, the real aliens who want to destroy us. I want to know the truth so I
can be free to help others overcome our common,(not so) hidden enemy. Teach me
to reign over them and deal with them like Paul and others have done. In Jesus'
name. Amen.