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“For though we walk in the flesh, we
do not war according to the flesh, for the weapons of our
warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the
destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations
and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of
God, and we are taking every thought captive to the
obedience of Christ.” (2 Corinthians 10:4,5 NASB)
For many years I swallowed the lie that
the enemy could not hear my thoughts. Because of this, I
prayed silently. It was only after the Lord started
teaching me about spiritual warfare and using His authority
against obstacles, that I realized most of the warfare is
seeded in our thoughts. I discovered this when I would take
a quiet time to pray and listen to the Lord, then suddenly I
would get an interruption by hearing a spirit speak.
Sometimes it would be in response to what I was thinking.
Then when I would rebuke it in Jesus’ Name, (still within my
thoughts) it would give a rebellious reply as it was
leaving. Boy was I surprised. Actually I was shocked at
first, but then it gave me more strength to fight the
battle, because I KNEW I was making a difference. The
bottom line to this example is that the realm of God is
spirit, and so is satan’s. They don’t need our open
mouths to hear us.
When the enemy speaks directly to your
thoughts, you are hearing a thought that does not originate
from yourself as mentioned above, and is the counterfeit of
the Lord’s voice. The problem is that because it is a
thought, it has no voice inflection and “sounds” the same as
the Lord’s voice. If you have some doubts that what you are
hearing may not be the Lord, be alert to Him bringing
warnings to you. He may use another Christian. You may be
directly admonished, or perhaps the person’s body language
will hint what was said or done was offensive. In a group
situation, the leader might ignore your input as if you
hadn’t said it. Test yourself. Is what I’m hearing out of
joint with the body of Christ? Does it bring strife? Does
it point the finger, bringing guilt and condemnation, or
does it build up and edify?
If you hear the enemy occasionally, do
not be anxious, or feel guilty. It wasn’t your idea to
hear him or listen to what he said. Your place is simply to
recognize him and resist his attempt to snare. He must flee
in Jesus Name. (James 4:7) There are two reasons the enemy
is allowed to touch us: intentional sin and the Lord’s
purpose. In these last days the Lord has even more of a
purpose for us to overcome the enemy. We will be called to
recognize the darkness and leave it behind. There will come
a day when darkness will be under our feet and we will rule
and reign with Him. (Romans 16:20; Revelation 2:26,27;
3:21; Hebrews 2:7,8; 2 Corinthians 10:6)
If you recognize the enemy either
through or to your thoughts as a pattern, start resisting in
Jesus’ Name over and over again. Do not be concerned that
you will grieve the Holy Spirit of God by mistaking Him for
the enemy. Obviously, the Lord knows and understands your
plight, especially in learning to discern. He wants you
stable and established in hearing HIM. God will work with
you to get His will accomplished in hearing Him.
Every time you come up against the
foreign thought, rebuke it in Jesus’ Name. If you belong to
Jesus, you WILL OVERCOME. No weapon formed against you
shall prosper. (Isaiah 54:17) Do not fret or fear this,
simply take an active part in renouncing the thought in
Jesus’ Name. Set your face like flint and rebuke as often
as you need to until you are no longer harassed. You have
the authority of Jesus’ Name, and the devil hates and fears
His Name. You can stand in the Lord and resist all that
would come against you.
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THOUGHTS
Counterfeit spirits have the power to
counterfeit any manner of hearing the Lord. They can speak
to and through one’s thoughts. They can answer fleeces,
give visions and pictures, etc.
The following is a list of the works of
occult spirits that open the door to counterfeit spirits.
This list is compiled from many full time deliverance
ministries who have cast out thousands of demons resulting
from the use or practice of the below. People who have
toyed with anything regarding occult activity do not realize
it is not a game. The forces behind those seemingly
harmless pursuits are deadly. If children or adults could
see the real issues behind the scenes they would never
choose that road for a simple amusing diversion. That road
leads to death and hell. (Incidentally, the word channeling
in the new age movement, is a camouflaged way of describing
the function of mediums, and that is a wide open field for
familiar spirits. This has entered the school systems.)
Amulets, Astral projection, Astrology,
Automatic handwriting, Fantasy Books, Card Reading,
Channeling, Charms (good luck pieces), Clairvoyance,
Conjuring, Consulter of the dead, Crystal ball, Deliverances
(non-scriptural), Dispatching demons, Divination, Diviner,
Dreamer, Charms, Clairvoyance, Communication with the dead
(necromancy), Conjuration, Crystals, Dream catcher, Drugs,
Dungeons & Dragons, Eight ball, Enchanter, ESP, Fetishes
(good luck pieces), Fortune Telling, Gypsy, Hallucinations,
Handwriting analysis, Horoscopes, Horror movies, Hypnosis, I
Ching, Incantation, Indian burial ground, Indian Jewelry,
Indian artifacts, KKK, Magic, - Black, White, Yellow, Gray,
Good luck charms, (St Christophers, rabbit’s foot, clovers,
crickets), Healing through psychic healer, Higher levels of
martial arts, Household gods and idols from other countries
(including Buddha and Japanese Bogota, shrines), Pictures
and statues of Jesus, Pictures and statues of angels,
Pictures and statues of cupids, Pictures and statues of Mary
and saints, Witchcraft paraphernalia, Mediums, Blood
covenantors, Horror & occult (movies TV, books, computer
games, toys), Psychic hot line, Incantations, Incense, Life
or reincarnation reading, Magic games, Medium, Mental
telepathy, Mind control, Mind reader, Music, heavy metal,
Necromancy (talking with the dead), New Age, Non-Christian
exorcism, Occult, Ouija board, Pagan objects (Buddha, Tiki),
Pagan temples, Palm reading, Palmistry, Past life readings,
Pendulum divination, Pokemon, Potions, Psychic healing,
Psychic predicating, Pyramids, Ritualism, Rock music
(secular or Christian), Role playing games (like Dungeons/
Dragons & Kabala), Satanism, Science fantasy (movies, books,
games, etc) Séances, Soothsayer, Sorcery, Sorcery games,
Spell or hex, casting, Spirit guide(s), Spiritism,
Spiritist, Table lifting, Tarot cards, Tea leaves, Toys of
magic including E.T., Transcendental Meditation, Voodoo,
Warlock, Water witching, White magic, Witchcraft, Yoga.
Anyone can be badgered by the
counterfeit if the Lord lifts the hedge. That is why
Christians must be trained to use great discernment. Doors
open to these spirits in several ways:
1. They have access to badger people who have toyed with
occult activity in relationship to mediums, horoscopes,
Ouija boards, palm reading, 8-balls, channeling, new age
etc.
2. A bad weed in one’s heart of lusting for supernatural
knowledge leaves one vulnerable. Lust for knowledge in a
Christian most often is found in one who finds ways to
demand answers from God.
3. The lust of itching ears with an absorbing desire for
supernatural experiences also will open the door.
4. People who look for signs are vulnerable. They are ones
who lay fleeces before the Lord on a continuing basis.
Fleeces, if used at all, should be used with extreme caution
as unto the fear and respect for the
Lord.
Because even in a purified vessel one
can hear the enemy, this is a very important warning: If you
have ever been involved in ANY FORM OF THE OCCULT, RENOUNCE
IT. If in your past you played with Ouija boards, 8-balls,
read horoscopes, had cards or palms read, attended seances,
been involved in the new age movement or any such thing; you
have become a candidate for a familiar spirit’s yoke.
(Isaiah 8:19, 29:4) This will make your hearing impure,
warped, twisted, and polluted. Verbally renounce these past
associations in Jesus Name, and turn your back on them and
rebuke. (“I bind satan and renounce all association with
___________in the Name of Jesus, I resist them and break any
spiritual yokes of enslavement assigned against my spiritual
hearing, in Jesus Name.”)
If you have had association with
witches or anything stronger you need to seek deliverance
through an appointed gift. This is a strong warning. If
you do not renounce these things, you will find yourself
yoked into hearing a familiar spirit and following its
road. You will lose your hedge and be severely cut back so
as not to lose your soul. (Isaiah 5:4,5)
WRITE YOUR RENOUNCEMENT IN JESUS’
NAME.
The best safeguard to keep from
receiving a supernatural experience from evil forces is to
seek Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is our door. (John 10:1,
Revelation 3:20) We do not want to stumble in desiring
the EXPERIENCE of the supernatural, we want to desire HIM.
“But let him who glories glory in this, That he
understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising
lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these I delight,” says the LORD.” (Jeremiah 9:24
NKJV)
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The characteristics of dreams from the
enemy are usually full of twisted accusations and darts that
wound. Sometimes a dream will have knives, darts, sharp
cutting instruments that inflict and cause pain. The
purpose is to dump fear, remorse, guilt, torment, and
barriers to one’s relationship with the Lord. The dream can
be resisted and stopped by thinking “In Jesus’ Name” during
the dream.
Also many times enemy visions and
dreams will have a numbing, immobilizing or even
paralyzing influence over man’s will. This can happen with
an inability to speak or move the body, or lack of freedom
in exercising the will. Another characteristic of an enemy
dream is the inability to wake up, as the sleep is so deep,
that when the person does wake up in the middle of it, it is
such a lethargic state that it is very difficult to stay
awake. Frequently there is the tendency to fall right back
to sleep into the same enemy onslaught. I have learned to
truly fight myself awake and then stay awake to do adequate
warfare and gain the peace of the Lord before I go back to
sleep. If you suffer this, always remember that thinking or
speaking the Name of Jesus will break the enemy restraint.
His Name is a very powerful weapon.
The Lord continually mentions in the
Bible, we shall find Him when we search for Him with all our
heart. He is to be our first love. He is a rewarder of
those that diligently seek Him. Seeking Him is not a
mellow, “What will be, will be,” attitude. It is a pursuit,
and it goes upstream against the current. Christians are
not immune to enemy experiences. Enemy conflict is a current
sent against us for two reasons. Both are because THE LORD
ALLOWS IT. First, intentional sin lifts the hedge. The
Word says, “herein do I exercise myself, to have always a
conscience void of offense toward God, and toward man...give
none occasion to the adversary to speak
reproachfully....Whatsoever is not of faith, is sin.” (Acts
24:16 KJ, I Tim. 5:14B KJ, Ro 14:23B KJ) When I
disobey the training of my conscience I give cause for the
enemy to speak reproach, the hedge is lifted and I get
“dumped on.” Most often when I get dumped on by a nightmare
or bad dream He reminds me of those three verses. [The more
mature we become in the Lord, the more sensitive our
conscience becomes to very slight details in a day. An
example would be attitudes that grieve the Holy Spirit like
being critical of others in our thoughts.] I can always
tell an enemy dream because it is almost always a personal
accusation to that particular day. The problem with enemy
dreams is there is always a measure of truth in them. So
after I take heed to of the partial truth, I must then
overcome guilt and condemnation and remember that I am
covered by the blood of Jesus. I must also remember it is
His righteousness that keeps me, not my own. The Lord does
not want us buried in guilt that puts another layer between
ourselves and His love.
The second reason the Lord allows enemy
conflict is that the Lord wants us to become an overcomer.
Satan puts many things in our path to try to get us off
course, discouraged and tired, waylaid and delayed, all the
while hoping we will give up. The Lord allows this to help
us to grow, overcome darkness, and find HIM. We cannot find
Him without resistance. The two go hand in hand.
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