Being Dominated By Evil Spirits

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BEING DOMINATED BY EVIL SPIRITS.

Jesus said to me that anyone who is walking in darkness can be dominated by rulers of darkness. They rule over all unsaved people and anyone walking in darkness, including believers who are walking in darkness.

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That's why sometimes even saved people can yield to these spirits and let them dominate them if they are walking in darkness—if they're not in fellowship with God and walking in the Light of His Word. Evil spirits will dominate believers, if they allow them to—by consent, ignorance, or disobedience. That's the reason people, including believers, do certain things and don't know why they do them.

Jesus said, "That's why sometimes people who commit acts of darkness say, 'I don't know what made me do that.' Or that's why perfectly good people say about someone else, 'I would never do anything like that,' and before long, they've done something worse."

Jesus said that's why sometimes even in someone's own family, a family member does something strange or out of character, and other family members say, "What in the world made him do that? I've never seen anything like that!"

The reason they do it is that they are being dominated by rulers of darkness—demons and evil spirits. If they're walking in darkness, they are being ruled over and motivated by those rulers of darkness.

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Jesus gave me First John 5:19 to illustrate what He was talking about: "And we know that we are of God, and the whole WORLD lieth in WICKEDNESS [darkness]" (1 John 5:19). Jesus said to me, "Every unsaved man and woman, regardless of who they are—whether it's your kinfolks or someone else's kinfolks, your brother, sister, mother, or father—every unsaved person is in the kingdom of darkness. And they are ruled or motivated more or less by these demons or evil spirits who are the rulers of the darkness of this world."

Then Jesus said, "Whether they want to admit it or not, or whether you or anyone else wants to admit it, that is absolutely the truth." Those who have not been born again and who have not come into the Body of Christ are still in the kingdom of darkness. So every person who is not in the Kingdom of Light is still ruled or dominated to some extent by those demon spirits in the kingdom of darkness, although they may not know it (Eph. 2:1-3). That's the reason people do and say things they said they would never do."

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We see many examples of the unsaved being motivated by evil spirits. For example, I was preaching in California one time, and I read in the newspaper that a twenty-eight-year-old young man had deliberately drowned his own four-year-old son in the bathtub. When the authorities questioned this young man, they found he was all right mentally. He had no record of wrongdoing, had a good job, and lived in a fine home. He had no financial worries, came from a good family from whom he had inherited part of his wealth, and had worked in the family business. They couldn't find one thing wrong with him.

He told the authorities that there wasn't anything wrong with him mentally; he wasn't worried, had no problems, and the child was good. "But," he said, "while I was bathing him, I suddenly had an uncontrollable urge to harm him, and a voice told me to drown him. I yielded to it, and when I came to myself, I was holding my child under the water. I cried, 'Oh, God, why did I do that!'"

You see, he was dominated by evil spirits—rulers of the darkness of this world—because he was in darkness; he wasn't saved. But believers don't need to be dominated by evil spirits because we have been delivered out of the kingdom of darkness and translated into the Kingdom of light (Col. 1:13). We are in the light where Jesus is our Lord. He is the One who is to dominate us. He is the Ruler over us. He is our Head, not rulers of darkness.

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Satan is the head of those who are unsaved. If the unsaved people of this world really knew the truth, they would run to Christians to find out how to get saved so they could come out from under Satan's dominion.

There is a spirit world that is even more real than this physical world. People need to know that. When you talk about the spirit world, you have to realize that God is a Spirit (John 4:24), and that the devil, demons, and evil spirits also exist in the spirit world, as do angels—both good and evil. But believers have authority over evil spirits; the unsaved do not, for Satan is their god.

- Kenneth E Hagin ( The Triumphant Church )

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Sinners Need The Gospel Now

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SINNERS NEEDS THE GOSPEL NOW.

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Charlie Peace was a criminal. Laws of God or man curbed him not. Finally the law caught up with him, and he was condemned to death. On the fatal morning in Armley Jail, Leeds, England, he was taken on the death-walk. Before him went the prison chaplain, routinely and sleepily reading some Bible verses. The criminal touched the preacher and asked what he was reading.

 ‘‘The Consolations of Religion,’’ was the reply. Charlie Peace was shocked at the way he professionally read about hell. Could a man be so unmoved under the very shadow of the scaffold as to lead a fellow-human there and yet, dry-eyed, read of a pit that has no bottom into which this fellow must fall? 

Could this preacher believe the words that there is an eternal fire that never consumes its victims, and yet slide over the phrase without a tremor? Is a man human at all who can say with no tears, ‘‘You will be eternally dying and yet never know the relief that death brings’’? All this was too much for Charlie Peace. So he preached. Listen to his on-the-eve-of-hell sermon.

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‘‘Sir,’’ addressing the preacher, ‘‘if I believed what you and the church of God say that you believe, even if England were covered with broken glass from coast to coast, I would walk over it, if need be, on hands and knees and think it worthwhile living, just to save one soul from an eternal hell like that!’’

My reader, because the Church has lost Holy Ghost fire, men go to hell-fire! We need a vision of a holy God. God is essentially holy. The cherubim and seraphim were not crying, ‘‘Omnipotent! Omnipotent is the Lord!’’ nor ‘‘Omnipresent! and Omniscient! is the Lord,’’ but ‘‘Holy! Holy Holy!’’ This vast Hebrew concept needs to penetrate our souls again. If I make my bed in hell, if I take the wings of the morning—yet He is there. God compasses us in time; God, the inescapable God, awaits us in eternity. We had better be at peace with Him here, and be in the center of His will now!

- Leonard Ravehill ( Why Revival Tarries )

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Sister Etter Healing

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By the time Sister Etter reached age forty she was a national phenomena. Various denominations recognized her ability to stir dead churches, bring in the unconverted, and cheer on a deeper spiritual walk with God. Doctors, lawyers, drunkards, and adulterers-people from all walks of life-were gloriously saved and filled with the Holy Spirit in her meetings. Because of one of her meetings in 1885, the police said they had never seen such a change in their city. The city had been so deaned up that they had nothing to do!

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One newspaper reporter wrote of Sister Etter: "She goes at it like a foot pad tackles his prey. By some supernatural power she just knocks em silly when they are not looking for it, and while they are down she applies the hydraulic pressure and pumps the grace of God into them by the bucketful."

Eventually the Lord led Maria to begin praying for the sick. At first, she was reluctant, feeling it would take away from her evangelistic call. But God continued to make His will clear, and she agreed. She studied the Word and began preaching His divine will in healing It didn't take long to see that evangelism and healing went hand in hand as thousands were won to Christ as a result of seeing others healed.

Maria preached that the strong manifestations of the Spirit were "nothing new; they were just something the Church had lost."And she refused to get caught up in the pet doctrines of the day, desiring only for the Holy Spirit to do His works.

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Once in a meeting, a crowd rushed to the platform and cried out, "What shall we do?"

Maria finishes the story: "They went down by the mighty wind power of the Holy Ghost. He sat upon the children of God till their faces shone like Stephen's when his enemies said he looked like an angel. Many received gifts; some for ministry, some as evangelists, some of healing, and hundreds of sinners received the gift of eternal life."

In another meeting, over twenty-five thousand people crowded in to hear Sister Etter. And remember, in those days, there were no public address systems! Maria wrote that before she even finished preaching, the power of God fell on the multitude and took control of about five hundred as they fell to the ground.

📕GOD'S GENERALS 

Roberts Liardon

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The Devils Territory

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HOW MUCH AUTHORITY OVER THE DEVIL DO WE HAVE WHEN WE ARE IN HIS TERRITORY?

Answer: The devil has no right to trespass on God's property.

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But if you trespass on the devil's property, he's got a right to jump on you. God can't keep him from it, and you can't keep him from it, because you're on his property.

It's like this: I don't have authority in your house or apartment. I can't go there and say, "We're going to move everything out of this room and sell all of it." In  the  house  of  God,  if  the  devil  comes  around,  we've  got authority. But if we go to the devil's house and try to exercise authority, he may throw us out.

In the summer of 1954 I was preaching in Oregon and had my family  with  me.  We  took  a  short  vacation  while  traveling  to meetings I was holding. On the way home, we stopped in Salt Lake City, Utah, to see the Mormon Temple. (I  had  studied  the  history  of  Mormonism  and  the  Book  of Mormon. I didn't agree with it because it's unscriptural. It doesn't agree with Paul's revelation.) 

A guide was showing us around,  explaining  how  the  temple  had  been  built.  I  was

listening  intently  when  I  heard  somebody  hit  the  ground.  I didn't  turn  around because  I  was  listening  to  the  guide.  But somebody said, "That  man  fell."  About  that  time  my  wife  looked  around  and said, "Daddy, our baby!" (It was Ken, and actually, he was 15 at the time.) He had hit the ground so hard that his shoes flew off.

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He  was  lying  on  his  back  with  his  knees  drawn  up  to  his stomach and his face working in some kind of seizure. If you had any spiritual sense at all, you could sense evil spirits when  you  stepped  on  the  grounds.  These  were  religious demons. They're the worst kind to get rid of.

They're the most difficult to cast out of a person. You can get rid of an adulterous or a lustful demon a hundred times faster than you can a religious demon.

So there Ken lay. Instantly the devil gave me all kinds of mental pictures  of  my  preaching  deliverance  and  Ken  being  in  some kind of institution. The guide said, "That happens very often when I get to the part in  my  lecture  about  Moroni"  (the  angel  who  supposedly appeared  to  Joseph  Smith).  The  guide  thought  it  was  a supernatural  manifestation  to  corroborate  what  he  had  told about. He said, "Just pull that boy back under a tree. He'll soon come out of it."

I turned around, grabbed hold of Ken's arm and said, "Come out of him in the Name of Jesus Christ!" I literally lifted him by his arms, looked him right in the eye and said again, "Come out of him!" I shouted the third time, "Come out of him!" When I said it the third time, the demon came out. It hadn't been in his spirit, but had attacked his body. Ken straightened up, blinked his eyes and said, "Daddy, Daddy, where am I?"

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I  said  out  loud,  "Well,  we  got  on  the  devil's  territory  and  he jumped on you. But the Name of Jesus delivered you. Now let's get off the devil's territory before he jumps on some of the rest of us." We drove down the highway rejoicing over our victory.

Ken began telling his side of the story. He said the last thing he remembered was the guide talking about Moroni. He explained, "I felt something come out of the ground. It got into my feet and then into my knees. When it got up to about my stomach I don't remember anything else."The power of God does not come up out of the ground.That wasn't the Holy Spirit. And besides, we got rid of it in the Name of Jesus!

Ken  said,  "Daddy,  what  if  that  had  happened  at  school?"  I answered, "Don't ever be afraid it will happen again. If you are afraid, you'll open the door to the devil." You've got authority over Satan, but know this: Don't get on his territory.

Literally speaking, if you go to places controlled by Satan, you can get attacked.

Spiritually  speaking,  if  you  get  into  disobedience,  you  get spiritually over into the devil's territory.

You can claim protection, however, and go wherever you have to go.

- Kenneth E. Hagin

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John Alexander Dowie

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ARRESTED 100 TIMES WITHIN A YEAR

JOHN ALEXANDER DOWIE  opened several large rooming houses called "Healing Homes." Here, the sick who had come for healing could find shelter and rest between the services held at Zion Tabernacle. Once there, they were able to receive constant ministry from the Word until their faith mounted to the place of complete manifestation. But the newspapers, mainly the Chicago Dispatch, were merciless, calling the homes "Lunatic Asylums" and continued to print every lie imaginable.

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Because of these healing homes, Dowie's enemies thought they had found a vulnerable spot. So early in 1895, they arrested him on the charge of "practicing medicine without a license." Obviously untrue, Dowie would have been the last person to allow medicine into his homes He hired a brilliant attorney, but he only kept Dowie advised of the legal matters.

 So Dowie chose to represent himself in court because no one else could articulate his call as accurately as himself. Dowie's superior intellect was not enough to overrule the evil jurisdiction of the court. Despite his profound arguments, the court fined him. But they never dreamed he would take the case to a higher court, costing much more money than the fines they had issued!

When he did, the higher court denounced the evil of the lower court, and reversed the decision.

The city hoped Dowie would get discouraged if they continued to arrest and fine him. So before the year was over, he had been arrested one hundred times. Although severely persecuted, he was never discouraged.

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 Persecution brought out great resiliency in his character. He actually thrived on his persecutors' affliction and interrogation. Evil will always try to persecute the power of God. But Dowie was super-naturally secure and anchored in bis godly authority. The supernatural never bows to the natural. 

 - GOD’S GENERALS ( “The Healing Apostle" ) 

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The Mighty River

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"Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered." Romans 8:26

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For our praying to be effective, we've got to connect with that subterranean area of our being where a mighty river of God's Spirit is flowing. 

For when the tongue speaks by virtue of the mind's instruction only, it's speaking by our intellect, which is a reasoning tool. Our mind is argumentative, constantly reasoning, and it often becomes entangled in an argument with itself.

 If we're not careful, we'll begin to operate from the mental realm only, and it will submerge our spirits and dominate us and we'll be Christians who operate from the mouth out, from the chin up, from the neck up. We'll never connect with that powerful subterranean area of our spirits where the rivers of living water are flowing!

The mighty river of God's Spirit is in our tears, our moanes, our dreams and visions.

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Lake's Mistake

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LAKE'S MISTAKE

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In his later years, John G. Lake enjoyed a wonderful balance of the supernatural and natural. But his understanding came at a very heavy price. The price was his family!

Lake's children from his first marriage suffered greatly because of his constant absence. Even when he was present in a room, he would drift away in meditation, being constantly mindful of the ministry and the Lord. Because of this, his children felt greatly neglected!

Remember, it was these same children who saw their mother starve and work to death in Africa. As a result, each of them had developed very hardened attitudes, and they left home very early, between the ages of fifteen and sixteen, to live in Canada. As they grew into adulthood, their lives were characterized by hardened bitterness. However, two of his sons commented while on their deathbeds, "I wish dad were here to pray for me."

Lake grieved over his lack of attention given the children. And he would later write in a letter that the many miracles wrought at his hands were personally unfulfilling and not worth the loss of his family.

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But Lake learned from his experiences, and finally found the key to being a good husband, involved father, and powerful minister. His children borne by Florence had a different attitude toward him. They remembered him as a man who loved to laugh and enjoy his friends. In his later years, Lake was not "so heavenly minded that he was of no earthly good."

He didn't keep his head in the clouds, and people no longer fell into silence when entering his presence because he would lovingly interact with them. Lake had finally learned to enjoy the natural and the supernatural to the fullest extent. The atmosphere in his home was no longer rigid and stiff! He loved to have fun at the dinner table when the family was together. His hearty laugh could be heard echoing down the halls. And he enjoyed symphonic and opera music, so every Sunday evening, he would listen to his favorite radio programs.

Lake also enjoyed a wonderful sense of humor. He loved to read Will Roger's

newspaper column, and would later be thought of himself as "a great entertainer:" He liked to keep the atmosphere around him light with laughter.

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