The Devils Territory

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

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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William James Roop

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Brother Roop teaches the Bible

How Demons Possess People

Hello everyone.  Praise the Lord!

HOW DEMONS POSSESS PEOPLE.

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Jesus then told me he was going to show me how demons get hold of people, even believers, if they will let them.  He showed me a man in a vision. I didn't recognize the man. I saw an evil spirit come and sit on his right shoulder. (There's no significance to the right shoulder at all. If there had been, the Lord would have told me.) The evil spirit began to whisper in this man's ear, and the man began to entertain its thoughts.

Then in the vision the man became as transparent as if he were made of glass. Something seemed to go into his head. It looked like a black dot and it was almost as large as a baseball. Jesus told me that this thing first came from the outside to attack the man, but because he had listened to it and had opened his mind to it, it had entered his thinking. He had become obsessed!

Then I saw this black dot go from the man's head down into his spirit. He told me that it now possessed him wholly. Then I saw a whole group of evil spirits come in. I saw the first spirit holding a door open, as it were, for all these other spirits who were swarming in. There were so many I couldn't count them all. They looked like big flies. The first one looked like a little monkey or elf.

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Jesus talked to me about that. He reminded me of the Bible account in Matthew 12:24 which tells how Jesus was accused of casting out devils by Beelzebub, the lord of flies. He said these spirits were lower classes of spirits. The higher class demon got in there first and got control and then let the others in.

Remember the man whose house was swept clean but the evil spirit came back with seven others and they all entered into him (Matt. 12:44,45)? The one spirit knew how to get in, and he took the others with him. Jesus told me this man was possessed of the first spirit which went into him, and then he let the others in. All of them were in there, but only one fully possessed him. He then told me the madman of Gadara had a legion of demons.

Jesus told me in the vision to walk up to the man I saw in the vision. I walked up to him, and the Lord told me that from that night on, when I was in the presence of one who was fully possessed, these spirits would recognize me. They would recognize that I had power over them.

He said when a person is fully demon possessed, the demon can use his voice and state that he knows who you are. The demons will know you as much as they knew who Jesus was.

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He said that through discerning of spirits, which is an inward revelation, I would know what kind of a spirit possesses a person. He told me that if the spirit did not come out when commanded to, I should ask what his name is and how many there are within. Some won't come out until you do this.

Then Jesus showed me some things I hadn't understood before. He talked to me about the man who came out of the tombs at Gadara. (Mark 5).  Jesus said if I had been there that day I would have heard, with my physical ears, this man talking. But it was really the demon who possessed the man doing the talking. (A person present wouldn't have heard all the demons speaking unless he had discerning of spirits.) This was what Jesus told me. He said because I had this gift, at times I would see and hear into the realm of spirits. That scares some people; I'd be lying if I said it weren't so.

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Sometimes I've had spirits speak to me before I've ever said a word. I hear them. People can hear me telling them to leave, but no one else hears them talking. Sometimes they say to me very emphatically, "I don't intend to go." I say, "Yes you do, and out you go in the Name of Jesus." I've seen them go. People will be delivered. I've seen too much of it not to believe it, and I know it works.

I don't just run and jump into something. I stop and think it over for a long time before I start using it. The Lord told me one time when He appeared to me in a vision that He would rather I be too slow than too fast. He said some people receive a little revelation, and they grab it and run. They usually end up with everything messed up. It's better to be careful.

I do not believe that God is going to take novices and new Christians who know little or nothing, equip them with these things, and send them out to turn the world upside down. That's out of line with His program.

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So Jesus told me to walk up to this man. When I walked up to him, the man immediately spoke out loud and said, "I know you; I know who you are." Without thinking I told him to shut up in the Name of Jesus. He hushed. Then on the inside of me I knew what kind of spirit was talking to me. It was a deceiving spirit.

I said, "You foul deceiving spirit, I command you to come out of the man in the Name of Jesus!" Nothing happened!  So then I asked the name and how many there were in there. (Deceiving isn't a name, it's just a kind.) He said there were 19 more in there besides him. That was all I needed to know. I then commanded him and all 19 to come out in the Name of Jesus. And they came out!

- Kenneth E Hagin ( MINISTERING TO THE OPPRESSED )

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William James Roop

Hospice Care and Dying

The Trucking Tango

Brother Roop teaches the Bible