Renounce, Repent and then Deny!

I was reading an article today about Spiritual things and it was part 4 by G. Craige Lewis. It really spurred my interest because I think of the parable of the ten virgins which Jesus taught. The five wise virgins were ready when the Lord came. The wise went with him into the prepared place and the foolish, God said, he did not know. They did not get in. Now what is the difference between the two? Both slept. Both woke up when word spread about the King’s coming. The difference is: While it was still dark the wise were looking, they trimmed their lamps. The disciplined themselves to be full of wisdom by the filling power of the Holy Spirit. The foolish, as the word of God records, did not do what the word of God clearly tells us to do. The foolish built their homes on sand and when the rains and storm came, well the house just did not stand.

It is amazing to me how believers can read the same passage and come to different understandings about it. If we all are of the same spirit and it is the same word why do we come up with different meanings? If we read a book, medical or even a novel this err does not happen.

After reading this Daily Word from Pastor Lewis it started me thinking. I will enclose it just so the reader can see what it is that impressed me:

'Spiritual Things' - Part 4 - "The power to not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage"

The power to change comes from accepting Christ and who he is in your life. So, why go back? Why do people go back to the way they where before they changed? If you are a new creature, what makes a new creature revert back to the old creature they were before they changed? Well, it's because there are things that are in your path that remind you of the old man. There are paths that the enemy presents to you that will lead to your old ways. It's simple. If you were a drug user before you accepted Christ, then there will be paths that will lead to drugs. There is no need of you trying to test yourself to see if you can witness to drug users after you have changed! Be wise! Avoid drugs users, drug dealers, drug houses, etc. until you are come into the fulness of Christ in your life. Even though you are a new creature, your mind can still be affected by your environment. That's why we must put on the whole armor of God to resist the fiery darts of the enemy! But you have to be smart and know when it's something that you should not do or a place you should not go because you are still growing past those old areas of bondage in your life.

People always ask me about the demons that I have dealt with in people. I have dealt with many demonic spirits in people, but I tell you this. There is a sure fire way to perform a self deliverance with no one else around. You have more power over the demonic presence that may be in you than in another person. If you are battling demonic spirits, just deny them access! Read Galatians 5:19 and see if there are any demons present. Then, rebuke them and command that they come under your authority as a believer. But the key is, you must then deny them access to you! You must stop doing the evil that you have been practicing and you will be delivered. It's not about falling down and getting up. Every time you do that, the bible says you add 7 times the demonic influence in your life. Stop singing that gay anthem! A saint is more than just a sinner who fell down and got up. A saint does not have to fall according to the bible. The word says that God can keep you from falling! So, let's believe that we don't have to fall or be oppressed by demonic influences in our lives. We do not have to be entangled again in that old yoke of bondage! Whom the son has set free is free INDEED!

Now this reading did very much impressed me. A while back a pastor told me that there was a crack in the foundation, as he spoke of me. I did not understand what he was talking about. I wanted to dismiss it outright but, could not. There was something there, some truth that neither he nor I understood. I say he did not understand because he could not explain it to me properly. I say I did not understand because of the doctrine which I had been taught up till that point in my walk with Jesus.

I believe now is the time to wake up, clean up, and trim our lamps. We have to look for our soon coming King. The night is here and who can see, but those who have a lamp? We must watch and pray, pray and watch, like a watch stander.

When I read Galatians as the pastor suggested I found that I did have manifestations of the flesh, even more so that I had thought or considered. I believe that pastor is right when it come to deliverance and casting out of evil spirits. There is a general casting out by renouncing these evil spirits and telling them to leave, thereby removing all legal ground which they have to inhabit our bodies or these vessels. Once legal ground is removed then we have authority: to not follow a spirit’s suggestions to our minds, to not manifest or to act on what evil spirits say, to not respond to the urges in our flesh even though it once gave us pleasure and thus we repent of our evil. We have to renounce what was in us. We have to turn away from doing it again. We have to deny that evil spirit access to us. We have to stand in the gap. If we confess our sins to God, then he forgives us. I go one step further ask for strength to overcome these holds of the devil, these cracks in my foundation, which erroneous doctrine had cracked the foundation which I built my house on, which is there being the word of God. Bad doctrine is erring and can make us foolish because we did not search out the truth, even after receiving the spirit of truth. This statement the pastor made about my having a crack in the foundation stayed on me and in my mind and now I understand it better. I therefore renew my mind in sound doctrine. The more I hear the Holy Spirit and understand God and Jesus, the more it is made plane to me about this salvation. I can better understand false doctrine from truth because I have wrestled with this gospel of salvation searching for truth for a while: Now I understand it better. Now I repent and deeply bring change to my life by the word of God and manifesting the Power of the Holy Spirit and the will of The Almighty by driving sin out of my life.   

Revelation 12:11
And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.

The Disasters in the Natural World

We see around the world disaster. Some man made, some predicted, some engineered and some repercussions of disaster. All over the world it seems there is an outbreak of people wanting to scream. The oppression and attempts to control the world only increases the shaking of the souls of the world hence the repercussions boom. Make no mistakes, booms are happening. When I closely looked at the explosion at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant:  (see link for visual). When we look at this explosion closely we see first a cause. The earthquake was not the cause. Though the earthquake did cause damage, Japan was repaired for an earthquake. The building codes and structures were made with earthquakes in mind with great forethought. Men put their minds together and made ready for the eventualities. What they did not know, was, what they did not know. The earthquake generated a Tsunami. The Tsunami was a second explosion of nature that could not be foreseen. The wave of furry could not have been planned for. The speed which the title wave came, there was no time; it could not be out ran. 

            There were predictions and some bespoke plans which we heard tell about. We heard about the arousing of problems in the Middle East. We know the illuminate and these types of high cabals do make plans for there world control and conquest. We pray against them and we know they are already defeated. Our Lord will hang them by their own rope. We who can read the bible and do understand end-time prophesies and the changing of the age and which things are to come and seasons foretold to us by our Lord Jesus are ready and have confidence. We need understanding and compassion for those who have no knowledge of prophesies, and truth of things which are to come. As I heard it so bluntly stated, “Buda needs to be thrown in the ocean, Japan needs Jesus.” Those words are so true.

            There is ignorance in the land in these last days: So few people know the words of our Lord Jesus. It is like what happen in Japan, men planed for what they knew but the other problems which came with this disaster were both unforeseen and unplanned and caused great damage even more than the earthquake.

            The shaking, The Time of Jacob’s Trouble, has been waiting and is now here. All has been plan. All is prepared. We have our lamps lit, we have our oil, even extra oil for our lamps, we have our wicks trimmed and we are looking while others sleep. We pray, looking at the season, look and pray.

            When I think about the explosions at the reactor plants at Fukushima, I see first the concussion shockwave first hit and breached the walls. For a moment the building wall still stood even though we saw the shockwave outside the structure. Then the structure gave way and pieces flew everywhere. Then the radioactive dust and radioactive water vapor from the water use to cool down the reactor went up in the air blown by the northerly winds. All the while the Japanese government officials were telling the people to stay calm and all efforts were being taken. They did their best to keep the people calm and give the impression that the government had everything in control. Nothing could be further from the truth. Things were not in control. Events were in motion and who knew which way the pieces of Japan would fall. The economics, the religious, the social, the emotional parts of Japanese people all these parts of the people’s lives were up in the air and where they will fall, and the impacts are yet unknown. One thing is for sure what goes up must come down.

            One of the pieces that people don’t consider is the Spiritual. The house will have a flood come against it and will it still stand? I think about the parable at the Sermon on the Mount. Lord Jesus taught us in his words:

                             Matthew  7

²⁴Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

²⁵And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

²⁶And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:

²⁷And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

            Jesus gave us a deep understanding, he told us to hear and do these sayings which he gave us. The truly wise will prepare. They will not only be hearers of the words of Lord Jesus but doers of the words. What about those who have no knowledge? Their Lives, I dare say, will resemble what has happen in Japan in recent days. Disaster, shaking, flooding, explosion, fires and maybe even a complete melt down. Shortages of food and water, prices going ever higher:  It will happen before our eyes. Only the wise will be able to stand.

            Be ready. Be wise. Pray and watch. Watch and pray. Stand, after doing all, stand. The shaking is not over. In prayer, my Lord asked me, Mark have you ever seen an earthquake in the teens, 17 points on the Richter scale? I said woo! That would be horrific! He said, you have not seen anything yet. I was shocked. I know there is much more to come. To all the Saints I say prepare yourselves to move because the bang is now and the boom is almost here. Today is like the time between the shockwave bang and the boom of pieces flying in the air. It is here and who was prepared? Who will be able to stand? What will be left after the dust settles?