Battle Prayer to Break Legal Rights of Demons

n the article we have in the Spiritual Warfare section of our site titled, 4 Levels of Spiritual Warfare Against Demonic Spirits, I gave you the 4 basic levels in which demonic spirits can attack people which includes all Christians. This specific article will be dealing with the second level which is when demons are allowed to attack as a result of a legal right given to them by the person they have targeted. If by chance you have come across this article and have not read the above article on the 4 levels in which demonic spirits can move in for an attack it would be my recommendation that you first read that article so that you can have a good, basic understanding of what these 4 levels are all about and how this second level fits into the big picture. In this second level, demons will move in for an attack once they see a person committing a door-opening, hedge-breaking sin and transgression against the Lord. In this second level, it does not make any difference if this person is a Christian or nonbeliever. There are rules to the spiritual war games that are going on behind the scenes in the battle between God and the devil for all of our souls and demons themselves have to abide by these rules. In the above article, I gave you the verse from the Book of Job which shows that we apparently have some type of protective, spiritual hedge surrounding us or else demons would be constantly attacking everyone and we would all be in a state of constant warfare with them. What happens in the spiritual realm is that this hedge can be broken by a person if this person commits a heavier type of sin or transgression against the Lord. In that article, I gave you some of the heavier sins and transgressions against the Lord that could possibly break this hedge, thereby causing a hole to occur in it thus giving the demons the opening and legal right to be able to start to come directly after you. For the purposes of this article, I will go ahead and re-state what some of those heavier sins and transgressions are. As Christians, we can have absolutely nothing to do with any of the following areas: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The occult False religions and cults Any part of the New Age Movement The homosexual lifestyle Any type of Satan worshipping group Any involvement with abortion or the abortion industry Abusing alcohol Doing any type of drugs including pot Any type of extreme verbal and/or physical abuse on your mate or children 10. Any type of promiscuous sexual lifestyle 11. Any type of criminal activity 12. Murder

13. Bringing a cursed object into your home All of the above areas are extreme, forbidden areas with our Lord. He will not be putting up with any of His own entering in and engaging in some of these heavier sin areas. If you do, and you do not pull out of it within a reasonable length of time, then God could pull back His hand of protection on you and your life, and you thus could end up with a big hole occurring in your protective hedge, thereby giving the demons the opening and legal right to be able to come directly after you. All of the above activities are major door openers to the dark side, and demons just wait for people, especially Christians, to cross over into some of these realms knowing full well that they will have the appropriate legal rights to move in for an all out attack if that person does not pull out of it within a reasonable period of time. If you are a Christian, and you have fallen int o some of these heavier, dark side areas and have drawn demonic spirits into your life as a result there is deliverance for you if you are willing to admit that you have sinned and transgressed against your Lord and Savior. If you are willing to see the errors of your ways and are ready to renounce and pull out of the demonic areas that you may have fallen into then God can work with you to set you completely free from these demons and drive them out of your life for good. But you are first going to have to admit to God that you have sinned directly against Him by crossing over into some of these heavier, forbidden areas to begin with. If you cant see, admit and realize that you have been sinning directly against the Lord, and that you have been wrong by crossing over into some of these forbidden areas to begin with then there will be no deliverance for you, and the demons will continue to have the appropriate legal rights to be able to stay attached to you, and they will then continue to tear you and your life to pieces. To any of you who may have fallen into one or more of the above dark side areas and have drawn demons into your life as a result, and are really looking to be delivered from the bondage you now find yourself caught up in this article will give you a good, basic, 5 step process on how to go about properly breaking the legal rights of the demons so that God can fully deliver you from their evil grip. I will then give you a battle prayer that I had given to another woman who had drawn heavy demonic activity in her life as a result of crossing over into some of the above areas. This battle prayer will have all 5 of these steps properly incorporated into the prayer. At the outset you have one of two choices. You can either try the 5 steps I will give you below and attempt to do a self-deliverance on your own or you can seek out the help and guidance from someone who is experienced with delivering people from demons. God is raising up more people at this time who know how to do deliverances, so you might be able to find someone close to where you live at who can help you with this if you are too scared to try it on your own. From the personal experiences I have had with this kind of deliverance, many of these deliverances can be done as a self-deliverance where you go before God the Father on your

own, follow the 5 steps I will give you below, and then verbally engage with the demons, telling them that they now have to leave you in the name of Jesus Christ once you have properly broken all of their legal rights before God the Father. However, if after reading what these steps will entail, you still feel reluctant or too afraid to try this on your own, then the first thing that I would recommend is that you try and talk to your pastor if you belong to a church. Tell him what your problems are and see if he would be willing to work with you to get you delivered from these demons. If he cant or wont help you for whatever his personal reasons may be, then ask him if there is anyone else in his church who is experienced and anointed to be able to handle this kind of deeper problem for you. If there is no one at your church who is experienced and anointed to do deliverances, then I would ask your pastor if he knows anyone else from any of the other churches in your area who can do a deliverance. If no luck with this option, then I would get into the yellow pages and start calling all of the main Christian churches in your area, and ask if they have someone that knows how to do deliverances. You may have to go into a seeking mode to find someone who will know how to do this. But do not give up on this, as God will guide you on this if you ask Him to help you find the right person who can get the job done for you. For those of you who would like to try and handle this on your own as a self-deliverance especially if you cannot find anyone locally to help you out here are the 5 basic, main steps that you will need to take in order to be able to get complete deliverance from these demons. I will first list each one of these steps, one right after the other, so you can see exactly what you will have to do. Here are the 5 steps. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The full surrender Confess each one of your sins before the Lord Renounce each one of your sins before the Lord Break the legal rights of the demons Verbally command the demons to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ

Now I will go into further detail on what you will need to do with each one of these specific steps so you can get yourself set fully free from these demons. 1. The Full Surrender The very first thing you are going to have to do is to be willing to come into a full surrender with the Lord. We have another article in our site in the Bible Basics section titled, The Full Surrender. In this article, I explain to you exactly what this full surrender is, give you all of the verses from Scripture to back up what God is looking for in this full surrender, and then give you a good, simple, full surrender prayer that you can actually use to go before the God the Father to make this full surrender with Him. The very first rule in spiritual warfare, before you can even begin to do battle with demonic spirits, is that you have to be walking and operating in a full surrender with the Lord. If you

are not willing to come into this full surrender with the Lord where He will now be the One to take over the reigns of your life and lead your life into the direction that He will now want it to go in then there will be no help and no deliverance from these demons. You have been running your own show over all of the years and now you are in a big mess as a result of drawing these demons into your life. The only way out of it now is going to be Gods way not your way! You will now have to fully surrender every single part of your life over to the Lord for His direction and handling. God will now be running your entire life from here on in, not you or anyone else in your life. Here is the verse from the Bible that gives us this specific revelation: Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (James 4:7) Notice the first four words Therefore submit to God and notice that this verse starts out with this command. What this means is that you first have to be willing to fully submit to God before you can even begin to resist and fight against the devil and his demons to make them flee from you. Submitting to God means you have entered into this full surrender with Him. You have to be willing to fully surrender every part of your being to Him body, soul and spirit, along with your entire life over to Him. Again, all of this is fully explained to you in our article titled, The Full Surrender in the Bible Basics Section of our site. If you are willing to make this full surrender with the Lord where He will now be the One who will be in total control of your life and lead it in the direction that He will now want it to go in, then you will now be ready for step 2. 2. Confess Each One of Your Sins Before the Lord The next step to be able to receive total deliverance from these demons is that you are going to have to be willing to admit that what you were involved in were sins and transgressions against the Lord in the first place. And then you will have to be willing to fully confess each one of these transgressions out as actual sins before the Lord. If you cant or wont admit that you have been sinning against the Lord with your involvement in some of the above areas then again, there will be no help and deliverance from these demons. As a result, the demons will continue to hold you captive until you can agree to see and do things Gods way. Its either Gods way or the highway. There is no negotiating or trying to compromise your way out of this with the Lord. Sin is sin, and any involvement in any of the above areas are direct sins before the Lord, no matter what your excuse may have been for falling into some of these areas to begin with. If you are willing to admit that what you have been involved in was wrong and sinful before the eyes of God, and then you are willing to fully confess each one of these sins as actual sins before the Lord in the prayer I will give you below then you will now be ready for step 3. 3. Renounce Each One of Your Sins Before the Lord

The next step, in addition to being willing to fully confess out each one of the transgressions as sins, is that you will now have to be willing to fully renounce each one of these sins before the Lord. When you renounce each one of these sins before the Lord what you will now be telling God is that you will never, ever go back into any of these heavy sin areas again. Before you decide to go before the Lord for your deliverance, you will first have to make sure that you really want to be set free from your sinful past and that you will do everything you possibly can in your own natural will power not to go back or fall back into any of these heavy, sin areas ever again. If you have fallen prey to some of the different drug addictions, ask God, through the power of His Holy Spirit, to help set you completely free from the addictions of whatever drugs you may have been hooked on. The Holy Spirit is there to help you out with His power if you are really wanting His help. There is nothing that the power of God cannot totally defeat and overcome in your life, no matter how hopeless or bleak the situation may look to you in the natural. One word of caution in this area! Once you make up your mind to fully renounce any of these types of heavier sins before the Lord you will have to make sure that you never, ever fall back into these same areas again. What will happen if you do, is that not only will you give these demons another legal right to be able to come back after you again but these demons who will be coming back after you for a second time will be demons that will be 7 times more wicked and evil than what the original demons were that had attached to you in the first place. For more information on this kind of possibility we have another article in our site titled, Interpretation of Matthew 12:45 Demons in the Spiritual Warfare section of our site. In this article, I give you the main verse from Scripture where this revelation is being given to us by the Lord, and the appropriate interpretation and commentary on what this verse is trying to tell us. It would be my strong recommendation that you also read this article as part of your education on this topic. 4. Break the Legal Rights of the Demons Once you have fully confessed and fully renounced each one of these heavier sins before God the Father then you have just taken away all of the legal rights that the demons had to stay attached to you. Now you are ready to break those legal rights. I will show you how to properly do this in the battle prayer I will give you below and how to properly word out this part of the prayer. Basically what you will be doing is verbally breaking the legal rights of the demons operating under God the Fathers authority, power, and anointing to be able to do so. After you break the legal rights of these demons before God the Father, then you will be ready for the last and final step. 5. Verbally Command the Demons to Now Leave You in the Name of Jesus Christ

Once you have fully confessed and fully renounced each one of the sin areas you had been involved in, and then have fully broken the legal rights of the demons before God the Father then the last thing that will remain will be you turning around and verbally engaging with the demons telling them that they no longer have any more valid, legal rights to stay attached to you, and that they will now have to leave you in the name of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You will have to verbally do this. Demons cannot read your mind or your thoughts so you will have to verbally, out loud, command them to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ. Again, I will show you how to word out this part of the prayer in the battle prayer I will give you below.

The Battle Prayer

I am going to give you an exact battle prayer that I drew up for a woman who had drawn heavy demonic activity into her life as a result of falling into some very heavy dark side areas. This woman has given me permission to release the exact battle prayer that I had drawn up for her. However, it was agreed that I would leave her name out of it due to the very personal nature of some of the things she was involved in. I will substitute another name in her place so as to keep the flow of the prayer intact. As you will see when I list out the legal rights the demons had to come into her life in the first place many of these sins were very severe transgressions against the Lord, and these demons had more than enough legal rights to launch an all out, full scale attack on her and her life. This battle prayer is divided into two parts. The first part will be her confessing and renouncing each one of her sins before the Lord, and then breaking the legal rights of the demons once those sins had been properly confessed and renounced before the Lord. The second part of the prayer will be when she then turns around and verbally commands the demons to now leave her in the name of Jesus Christ. Here are both parts of the exact prayer. I will then add some additional commentary after I give you this battle prayer so I can point out several things to you as to why I worded certain parts of the prayer as I did. 1. Prayer to Break the Legal Rights of the Demons Father, In the name of Your Son Jesus Christ, I now approach Your throne in a time of great need, in time of an extreme emergency. Father, as You already know, I have demons attacking me from the outside, and possibly from the inside of my being. I know why they are in my life. I have done some really ba d and evil things in my life. I have horribly transgressed against both You and all of Your basic laws and commandments with the sins that I have personally committed against You. Father, I first want to say to You that I am really sorry for doing all of these bad and evil things against You. There is no excuse for the kind of behavior that I have exhibited over the

years. But Father, I now want to take a strong stand. I do not want any more part of this kind of evil and wicked lifestyle. I know now that You are My only hope and My only salvation to be able to deliver me from the demonic bondage I now find myself enslaved in as a result of crossing over into these kinds of heavier sins. Father, I ask that You please have mercy on my soul, and that You please forgive me for all of the sins and atrocities that I have personally committed against You under the blood that Your one and only Son Jesus Christ has personally shed for me on the cross. 1. Father, in the name of Jesus, I now want to formally confess out all of the bad, evil, and sinful things I have personally done against You. Father, I now confess to you the following things as being sins and extreme abominations in Your sight: 1. My involvement in drugs. 2. My involvement in sex, fornication, unnatural and unholy sex acts such as homosexual acts and thoughts, and being involved in a swingers type lifestyle. 3. My use of all kinds of pornography. 4. My past adulterous affairs and activities. 5. All of my past thefts and covetousness. 6. All of my envy and jealousy that I have ever shown against anyone, and all of my lying and deceit that I have ever been involved in. 7. All of the pride, impatience, hate and rage that I have ever shown or manifested over the years. 8. All of my involvement in some of the occult arts such as witchcraft, invocation of demon spirits, and tarot cards. 9. All of the times that I have personally cursed You and prayed to other false gods. 10. Breaking most of Your 10 commandments to one degree or another. Father, I now know, without any shadow of a doubt, that all of the above activities were evil, heinous sins and abominations in your sight. I am so sorry for going this far against You. Father, I know that Your Son Jesus Christ has died for all of my sins. Father, in the name of Jesus, I now ask that You please forgive me for every single one of the these sins and transgressions that I have personally committed against You. Let the Blood of Your Most Holy Son Jesus Christ completely wash away every ounce of stench, every ounce of each one of these sins that have been committed against You. Father, you tell me in Your Word, that if I am willing to confess my sins and agree to repent, that You will fully forgive me of my sins and cleanse me from all unrighteousness. Father, I now ask that You please forgive me for of all of my sins that I have personally committed against You through the blood that Your Son Jesus Christ has personally shed for me on the cross. I now believe that all of my sins have been completely forgiven and completely washed away by the Blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2. Father, I now want to agree to also renounce every single one of the above sins. You have my word that I will never, ever attempt to go back into any area having to do with the occult, any area having to do with sexual fornication, or any involvement in any kind of drug use whatsoever.

Father, in Jesus name, I now officially renounce every single one of the above sins and transgressions that have been committed against You. 3. Father, the next thing I need to take care of is when my father raped me when I was a young child. I now know that what he did was evil and wrong in Your sight. However, I will choose not to hold any unforgiveness towards him. Father, I choose with my own free will to fully forgive him for what he did to me when I was a young child. My father and the judgment on his life will now fall into Your hands, not mine. I hold no hate or animosity towards him. I ask that you please have mercy on his soul when he has to face You for his own personal judgment. I now fully forgive him for what he has done to me. 4. Father, I now believe that all of my sins, transgressions, and abominations against You have been fully forgiven by You under the shed blood of Your Son Jesus Christ. Father, I thank You for having this kind of mercy on my soul and that You have made a way of forgiveness for me through the Blood of Your Son Jesus Christ. Father, with all of my sins and transgressions against You now being fully forgiven I now want to once and for all break the legal rights that these demons have had over me over all of these years. Father, in Jesus name, I now ask that You fully break the legal rights of these demons. I now ask that You completely break and completely sever every single one of their legal rights that has arisen as a result of my involvement in all of the above sin areas. Father, in Jesus name, I now personally come against each one of these legal rights myself operating under Your authority and Your anointing to be able to do so. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ I now fully break and fully sever each one of these legal rights. Father, I repeat, in the name of Jesus Christ, I now command that every single inch and every single part of this legal right line be completely broken, completely severed, and completely demolished in the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I now plead the Blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ against each and every single part of this legal right line and command it to be completely broken right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. 5. Father, I also want to reaffirm with you as I have done the other day, that I have now fully surrendered my body, my soul, my spirit, and my entire life into Your hands. I now ask that You place me into Your perfect will for my life. I am now willing to fully follow You all the rest of the days of my life. I will now be guided by Your Holy Spirit from this moment on and I will never, ever cross back over into the sin-filled life I used to live in. Father, I now belong to You, and You alone. You, and You alone, are my Rock and my Salvation. I will look to no other. My life is now totally in Your hands. Father, from this moment on, I will fully follow You and fully serve You for the rest of my eternal life.

Thank You Father. Thank You Jesus. 2. Battle Prayer to Cast Out the Demons Sarah, You have now broken all of the legal rights of the demons on the above prayer that I gave you. They are now ready to be cast out with the battle prayer I will now give you. I would wait until everyone is out of the house and do this in private between you, God, and the demons. 1. The 1st part of the prayer will be you going to God the Father asking Him to anoint you with His power to cast these demons out and off of you for good. You will also be asking God to take this battle up for you and to have His power come through the Holy Spirit to drive these demons off of you. 2. The 2nd part of the prayer will be when you will then turn around and verbally engage with the demons to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ. 3. Say both parts of these prayers out loud so the demons can hear you loud and clear. Also, on the 2nd part of this prayer hold out your right hand as you are telling the demons to now leave you. The right hand of God the Father is His hand of power and deliverance. As His born-again child, you now have the legal right to be able to do this. I would say this prayer out loud 3x-4x over the next couple of days. A) Father, In the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I now boldly approach Your throne of grace and mercy. Father, I now come before You to once and for all to take these demons out of my life for good. Father, I have already come before You confessing all of the bad and sinful things I have ever done to You throughout most of my life. I have also renounced my past activities and have told You that I will never, ever go back into those heavier sin areas again. Father, I have horribly wronged You with some of those past transgressions, and I am so sorry that I have ever gone against You and deliberately disobeyed You so many times. But Father, now is the time to pick myself back up off the mat. Now is the time to make a brand new start with a brand new direction. I have already fully surrendered my body, my soul, my spirit, and my entire life into Your hands. I have now entered into Your perfect will for my life. I am now all Yours. I now belong to You and no one else and I will now fully serve You and fully follow You for the rest of my eternal life. Father, now is the time to clean up one last loose end. As a result of my past involvement in some of these horrible transgressions against You, I have drawn demons into my life. I know that I have given these demons full legal right to come into my life and attack me like they have been doing with everything that I have done against You.

Father, but now is the time to take a final stand against these demons! Now is the time to vanquish them out of my life for good! N ow is the time to stand up and fight and directly engage with them operating under Your full power and anointing to be able to do so! Father, You have said in Your Word that The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out all of their troubles. (Psalm 34:17) You have said in Your Word that Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and Your right hand will save me. (Psalm 138:7) Father, in Jesus name, I now ask that You send me into battle to cast these demons out of my life for good. You say in Your Word that You can make me bold with strength in my soul (Psalm 138:3) and that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13) Father, since I have now fully surrendered every part of my life into Your hands I now want to take a hold of the verse that says to Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (James 4:7) Since I am now fully submitted to You, I am now ready to resist Satan and his demons who have been attacking and tormenting me over all of these years. Your Word tells me that Satan and his demons will now flee if I pick up my sword, which is Your Word, and directly engage with them. Father, in the mighty name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I now ask that You stir Yourself up as a Man of War and go before me to take out this defeated foe. Your Word tells me that The Lord is a man of war. (Exodus 15:3) Your Word tells me that The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war He shall prevail against His enemies. (Isaiah 42:13) Father, in Jesus name, I now ask that You stir up Your zeal like a mighty Man of War off the wording of this verse. Father, I now ask that You go before me as a consuming fire. Your Word tells me that The Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; You shall drive them out and DESTROY THEM QUICKLY (Deuteronomy 9:3) Father, Your Word tells me that You will go before me and make the crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. (Isaiah 45:2) Father, these demons have kept me prisoner long enough. I now ask that You go before me to make this crooked path totally straight again and that you break the bars that have been holding me captive over all of these years. I now ask that You completely cut and completely sever the cords of these wicked and evil spirits.

In Deuteronomy 33:27, it says that You will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, Destroy! Father, I now ask that you anoint me from head to foot with Your anointing, with Your power, and with Your authority to take these demons head on. You have already told us in Your word that in my name they will cast out demons, (Mark 16:15) and that You gave the early apostles the power over unclean spirits and that they cast out many demons. (Mark 6:7) Father, not by my might, but by Your Holy Spirit I will engage with and defeat these demons once and for all! Father, Your Word tells me that no weapon formed against me shall prosper. Your Word tells me that I have been given the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt me (Luke 10:19) and that Through You we will push down our enemies, through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. (Psalm 44:5) Father, now is the time! Now is the time to drive this enemy out of my life once and for all! Father, Your Word tells me that the Sword of the Holy Spirit is Your Word. Father, in Jesus name, let your Word be my Sword! Father, I repeat, let Your Word be my Sword! B) (Say all of this prayer out loud and hold out your right hand when saying it) In the name of My Lord and Savior and my deliverer Jesus Christ I am now speaking to every single demon that is on the outside of me and to every single demon who may be on the inside of me. Demons, in the name of Jesus Christ, I now come against each and everyone of you. I know that you have all been in my life for many years. I also know why you have been allowed to enter into my life and attack me like you have been doing over all of these years. I now know what all of your legal rights have been over all of these years that allowed you to attack me as you have been doing. Demons, in the name of Jesus Christ all of your legal rights have now been totally and completely broken before my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and my heavenly Father, God the Father. I have now fully submitted and fully surrendered my entire body, my entire soul, my entire spirit, and my entire life into the hands of God the Father. I now belong to God the Father and my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I now belong to Them, and to Them alone in this life. You no longer own me. You no longer have any more legal rights to stay attached to me. All of your legal rights and demonic strongholds have now been completely broken and completely demolished under the shed Blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I have now fully confessed my sin of using drugs over the course of my entire life. I have now fully confessed my sins of fornication and having sex with multiple lovers and partners

over the years. I have now fully confessed my sin of watching any kind of pornography. I have now fully confessed my sins of past thefts and covetousness. I have now fully confessed my sins of breaking most of 10 of Gods commandments to one degree or another during the course of my life. I have now fully confessed my sins of delving into parts of the occult that I had no business treading into. I have now fully confessed all of my sins having to do with my jealousy, rage and anger. All of my sins have now been fully confessed and fully renounced before God the Father. All of my sins have now been fully forgiven. My slate has now been made perfectly and completely clean. My sins and transgressions against the Lord are no longer remembered in His eyes. I am now a new creation in Jesus Christ. I am now totally committed to serving Him, and Him alone in this life. Never again will I go back into the sin-filled life that gave you the legal right to be able to come into my life in the first place. Demons, in the name of Jesus Christ: I now plead the Blood of Jesus Christ over every inch of spirit. I now plead the Blood of Jesus over every inch of my soul. I now plead the Blood of Jesus over every inch of my body. I now plead the blood of Jesus over every inch of this entire house. Demons, the Word of God is now my Sword! I repeat, the Word of God is now my Sword! I am now taking up my sword, which is the Word of my God, which is the word of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and I am now coming against each and everyone of you whether you be on the outside of me or whether you be on the inside of me. Demons, all of your legal rights have now been completely and totally broken to pieces completely and totally demolished completely and totally severed. I repeat all of your legal rights have now been completely broken. Your time is up! You will all have to go now! I repeat you will all have to go now! To every single demon who is living and operating on the inside of me I am now coming against each and everyone of you. I now plead the Blood of my Lord and Master Jesus Christ against each and everyone of you. I repeat I am now pleading the Blood of Jesus Christ against each and everyone of you. Demons, in the name of Jesus Christ, I now command all of you to come out of me right now and to leave me and this house and you are to never, ever come back on me again. I repeat every single one of you that may be on the inside of me is to come out of me right now in the name of Jesus Christ and you are to leave my body, my soul, and this entire house immediately! Go now, in the name of Jesus Christ! I repeat, go now in the name of Jesus Christ! To every single demon who may be attacking me from the outside, or who has been living in this house as a result of the legal rights I had earlier given to you, I am now coming against each and everyone of you. You too have had all of your legal rights totally broken. Not one of

you has any more legal right to be able to stay attached to me in any way, shape, or form. You will all now have to go. Demons, in the name of Jesus Christ I now plead the Blood of Jesus against each and everyone of you! I repeat I now plead the Blood of Jesus Christ against each and everyone of you! Demons, in the name of Jesus Christ I now command you to leave myself and my house and you are to never, ever come back on me again. I repeat, you are to leave me and my house for good, and you are to never, ever come back on me again! Go now, in the name of Jesus! I repeat go now in the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Chris t and do not ever come back into my life or in this house ever again! Father, I have full faith and belief that You have now driven all of these demons out of my body, out of my soul, out of my house, and out of my life for good by the power of Your Holy Spirit. Father, I now ask that You protect both me and my family from this moment on, and that You never allow these demons to come back on us ever again. Father, to You be all of the glory. To You be all of the praise, glory and honor that is only due to You. Father, thank You for this deliverance. Father, thank You for this new life. Father, I now ask that You take complete control of my life from this moment on and that You lead me into Your perfect will for my life. Father, guide me by Your Holy Spirit into the direction and path that You will want me to take in this life. My life is no longer my own. I now belong to You, and You alone. Thank You Father. Thank You Jesus. Thank You Holy Spirit.

Remarks
Note the following in the way this prayer was worded: 1. This battle prayer is divided into two main parts. The first part of the prayer is where you go one-on-one with God the Father to fully confess and fully renounce each one of the specific sins that you have committed against Him that have given the demons the legal right to be able to come directly against you. Also note that I had this woman apologize to the Lord for this kind of extreme activity. Many of her sins were heavy and extreme, and I felt she also needed to apologize to the Lord, as she knew that what she was doing was wrong and sinful in His sight. If you have engaged in some of these heavier types of sins against the Lord, it would be my recommendation that you also apologize to the Lord from your heart for committing these types of heavier sins and transgressions against Him in the first place. 2. Also note that her natural father had raped her when she was younger. As I stated in my article in 4 Levels of Spiritual Warfare Against Demonic Spirits if anyone has raped or severely abused you, you will have to be willing to fully forgive that person in the eyes of

God. This could have been another possible entry point with these demons, so she had to close that door by telling God that she would be willing to fully forgive him for what he had done to her at such a young age. 3. When you get into the second part of the prayer where she is going to go toe-to-toe with these demons to drive them off of her first note that I had her go before God the Father to ask Him for His power and His anointing to be able to defeat and drive these demons off of her. She could have just skipped this part of the prayer and just started to command the demons to now leave her in the name of Jesus since all of their legal rights had been broken earlier in the first part of this prayer. However, what you have to realize was that this was a more serious type of case. When someone has been beat up for so long from this kind of demonic attack, their faith and strength levels are not going to be operating at the same levels of what a normal Christian may be be operating at. As a result, you first have to have them go before God the Father and ask Him for His power, authority and anointing to be able to drive these demons off of them. You also need to quote some good battle verses back to God the Father, asking Him to take this battle up for them, since they have been beat up from so many years of constant abuse and torment from these demons. In the Spiritual Warfare section of our site, we have another article titled, Battle Verses of the Bible. In this article, I give you 100 of the very best battle verses from the Bible. You thus have a whole range of different types of battle verses to pick and choose from to put into your own personal battle prayer. The battle verses I picked for this particular case were the ones I thought were best suited for what I was dealing with. 4. Then notice as you get into the part where she starts to verbally engage with the demons. Instead of just starting out by commanding the demons to now leave her I have her confront the demons and tell them that they have now been fully exposed, that all of her sins have been fully confessed and fully renounced before God the Father, and that all of their legal rights have now been fully broken and completely taken away from them. Once the demons know and understand what has just happened between this woman and God the Father they will know they have all been put on final notice that all of their legal rights are now gone. They will know that she now knows who she is in her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and that they will now be no match for her since God will now be anointing her with His power to be able to cast all of them out of her for good. 5. As she starts to come against them also notice that I have her speak directly to any demons who may be living and operating on the inside of her, and any demons who may be attacking her from an outside position, which would be on the outside of her body. When you come across someone who has crossed over into these kinds of heavier sins and transgressions there is always a very good chance that some of the demons may have been allowed to literally enter in on the inside of that persons body and soul. As I have stated in my article on the 4 Levels of Spiritual Warfare Against Demonic Spirits Christians can draw demons into their bodies and souls if they cross over into some of these

heavier types of sins. However, the demons will not be able to enter into that persons human spirit since the Holy Spirit already lives in there. This woman had been saved for about 5 years before I met her, but the attacks from the demons never did stop. The reason the attacks had never stopped was due to the fact she had never properly broken all of the demons legal rights and thus did not have the legal authority to be able to cast them out. Once she had fully confessed and fully renounced all of these heavier sins before God the Father then the demons no longer had any more legal rights to be able to stay attached to her and they are now ready to be cast out. Since I did not know what demons were operating on the inside of her or what demons were operating on the outside of her I had her speak directly to both of them. This way she would be covering both of her bases. 6. Also note that right in the middle of the battle I had her plead the Blood of Jesus over her entire spirit, over her entire soul, and over her entire body. If any demons were trying to hold on to her during this battle pleading the Blood of Jesus right in the middle of this kind of battle should break them loose since they are obviously no match for the power that is in Blood of Jesus Christ. 7. I then had her finish out the battle command by pleading the Blood of Jesus directly against all of the demons, and then telling them that they now have to leave her since there is now nothing left for any of them to be able to hold onto. This is the part where you now tell them to leave you in the name of Jesus Christ and that they are to never, ever come back on you again. The prayer is then ended with her telling both God and Jesus that she now believes that God has given her total victory and deliverance from these demons, that she is now willing to fully follow God in the direction that He will now want to take her life in, and then thanking Him for the victory and giving Him all the praise, honor, and glory that is only due to Him for this kind of an extreme deliverance.

Conclusion
I know many Christians will read this kind of extreme testimony and really have a hard time believing that this kind of extreme activity really does occur in our walk with the Lord. Many of these people who have been under heavy demonic attack for any period of time are very reluctant to tell anyone for fear of people thinking they are going nuts or that they are just imagining all of this. As a result of this kind of fear and paranoia, many of these people keep a lot of this kind of activity to themselves. Many of the Churches still do not like to talk about this kind of heavier activity for fear of giving the devil his due, or for fear that people will start seeing demons around every possible corner. As a result, you have some in the flock who are literally getting their heads knocked off by these demons and everyone around them is completely oblivious as to what is really going on. I really feel that was why Jesus Himself listed the command to cast out demons in every single one of the verses that I listed at the beginning of my article on the 4 Levels of Spiritual

Warfare Against Demonic Spirits. Every single time that Jesus told His apostles to go out and walk with His anointing to save the lost and heal the sick He always told them to also cast out demons where and when needed. This specific command is in every single one of those verses! If God the Father is making sure that His Son had this kind of command in every single one of those verses then You know that God is really trying to tell all of us something with this kind of an intense statement. Bottom line demons are real, and they are still allowed to roam in the air on this earth seeking who they are going to try and devour next. As a result, some Christians will come under direct demonic attack from time to time from some of these demons. As I have said before, the apostle Paul could not have said it any better when he said our real battle in this life is not with flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers which are demons and demon powers who are still allowed to roam this earth and interact with some of us until Jesus returns back to us in His second coming and then casts Satan into the Bottomless Pit. Until that glorious, final event actually occurs, this world will always have to put up with a certain amount of attacks from demonic spirits. As Christians, this leaves us with one of two alternatives. We can either choose to hide our head in the sands, hoping that Satan and his demons will never personally attack either us or those who may be close to us. Or we can choose to rise up be vigilant, alert, and sober for any type of demonic activity that could set in on either us or our close friends and loved ones and then be ready to go into immediate combat and take their heads off with the Word of God as our Sword like the Bible is telling all of us to do as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. For what is worth, we will continue to add more articles on this subject so this kind of information is available to anyone who may actually need it. We have received numerous emails from people all around the world who have had to engage with some demonic spirits who were attacking them for various reasons and some of them have been able to receive complete and total deliverance from the demonic attack they were facing with some of the basic 101 information and knowledge that we have released in these kinds of articles. God says in His Word that His people will perish and go into captivity for having lack of knowledge. If you look closely at these two verses where God is making these two statements I also believe that the reverse is true that having the appropriate knowledge from God can help set you free and deliver you from any type of captivity that you may have already fallen into. And when demons launch an all out, full scale attack on someone that person will go into spiritual captivity until they can get themselves delivered from their evil grip by the power of God.

As Jesus has already told us there is deliverance from any type of demonic bondage you may have fallen into. If Jesus was telling the early apostles that we are to cast out demons and that we will have His power and authority to trample over all the power of our enemies then people can be set free from these kinds of extreme cases. Once again, God the Father could not make things any more clear on these kinds of issues and topics with all of the revelation and knowledge that He has given to us in His Word. This knowledge and revelation is all there for the taking for the seekers who are willing to grab a hold of it, study it, and then seek to implement it into their daily walk with our Lord and Savior. And to think that all of this revelation and knowledge is all contained in just one, glorious, Holy Book unbelievable!

Battle Verses of the Bible

n this article, I will give you 100 of the best battle verses from the Bible. I simply cannot stress enough the power that is on these particular verses. For those of you who have read the entire Old Testament, one of the things that really stands out is how God the Father would not hesitate go into battle for His chosen people, the Jews, when they were walking in good stead with Him. God the Father was absolutely ferocious in His defense of the Jewish people when the situation would warrant Him coming to their aid. The Bible tells us that God the Father does not change. And if God is still the same today as He was in the past, then this means that He will also come to the aid of all New Testament Christians who are walking in good stead with Him. The best analogy I can give you on this is the family analogy. For those of you who are married and have children, just imagine that you just found out that someone was going to try and abduct and kill one of your children. What do you think your natural response to such a horrible threat would be? You would have a strong, righteous wrath rise up on you, and you would not hesitate to go into battle to either kill this abductor in self-defense if you had to, or arrange to make sure he got caught by the police and properly prosecuted. I have had mother after mother tell me that they would not hesitate to kill someone like this if they thought their child was going to be killed or seriously injured by such an evil individual. It is the exact same way with God the Father. God is our real Father, and as such, can you imagine what some of His emotional responses may be when He sees one of His own children come under any type of human or demonic attack? God the Father is a God of maximum intensity. This means that all of His emotions within His personality are going to be of a maximum intense nature. So if God would have a very strong, righteous wrath rise up on Him when seeing any of His own children come under any kind of an evil attack can you just imagine what the intensity of that righteous wrath would be like?

This is why some of the battles God fought for the Jewish people back in the Old Testament were so bloody and so intense. Some of these battles were the full wrath and anger of God coming into full manifestation to defeat some of Israels enemies. Just as God was so ferocious in His defense of the Jewish people back in the Old Testament God can be just as intense and just as ferocious in His defense of you or any of your loved ones should the need ever arise where you would need His protection. This is why the battle verses I will list in this article are so important for each and every Christian to have full knowledge of. However, in order to be able to get Gods maximum protection on you, there are several things you must do before God will go this far with you. As I have said in my article on How to Plead the Blood of Jesus for Deliverance and Protection, many of Gods children are getting beat to a pulp in the playing field of life. The main reason for this is that many Christians are lacking real, working knowledge in the area of spiritual warfare. God says in His Word that His people will perish for having lack of knowledge. And not having the right kind of knowledge in spiritual warfare is what is getting so many of His people beat up in this life. Demons, and humans who have chosen to live this life on the dark side, are constantly on the prowl seeking who they are going to try and devour next. All you have to do is watch the daily news and it is one horror story after another. Robberies, rapes, abductions, murders, and thefts are occurring every minute of every day in our country and all across the world. And some of those who are coming under these types of evil attacks are Christians. For those of you who really want to learn how to get God to protect you from some of these types of vicious and evil attacks I would strongly recommend that you read and study the article I did on how to Plead the Blood of Jesus and then go into our Testimonies section and study some of the testimonies we have written up showing you how to go into battle against some real adverse situations. The battle advice that we had given to each person in these testimonies brought complete and total victory against the adverse situations they were all facing. Once you have the knowledge on how to get God to move on your behalf in a battle situation defeating whatever enemy has come your way can then become quite easy, since God is all-powerful and there is nothing that He cannot do which would include handling any type of storm cloud that may have just come your way. I would also highly recommend that you write or type out all of these battle verses on index cards in the order that I will give them to you. If you are willing to take this kind of extra step with the Lord, then you will have right at your fingertips all of the main battle verses of the Bible. As you will see when reviewing some of our testimonies, you will need to incorporate some of these battle verses into your own personal battle prayers when engaging with whatever enemy may have come your way. A good example of this is the testimony titled, Battle Prayer Against Terminal Hodgkins Disease. In this testimony, the battle prayer that I had given to this woman came in a little bit longer than some of the other ones. In this battle prayer are quite a few healing and battle

verses that were put into the battle prayer itself so she could go on the offensive against the terminal cancer that had just struck her brother. This is why I cannot stress enough how powerful these battle verses really are. If you are willing to put these battle verses into an index card system you will then have right at your fingertips God-torpedoes to shoot at whatever enemy may come your way whether it be human, demonic, or any kind of illness or disease. As you will see in some of the battle verses I will list below there are several verses that talk about God the Father being a Man of War, and that He can be stirred up to go into battle for you. And the way that you stir up God the Father to go into battle for you is to form out the appropriate battle prayers that will fit the specific battle situation you may be facing. The other angle on all of this is that more Christians need to learn how to go on the offensive against whatever enemy has come their way. Too many Christians are way too passive when they are hit by any type of serious storm cloud. God the Father is just waiting for you to come directly to Him to take this storm cloud head on operating under His full power and authority to be able to do so. But if you are not willing to go on the offensive against these bad storm clouds like David did with Goliath, then neither will God. And this is why so many Christians are getting defeated when these types of bad storm clouds do come against them all due to passive inaction on their part. Now I will take you into some of the most powerful verses in all of the Bible showing you how God can go into battle for you to defeat whatever enemy may come your way no matter how big, mean, or nasty you think this enemy may be! Study these verses very, very carefully, as they are all showing you the war side to God the Fathers personality and how ferociously He can go into battle for you to defeat any enemy that may try and come against you in this life. These are whopper power verses, and I mean whopper power verses! 1. The Full Surrender The first thing you must be willing to do before you can even begin to get God to protect you and fight some of your personal battles for you is that you have to be willing to fully surrender every part of your life over to God the Father for His direction and handling. In the Bible Basics section of our site, we have an article titled, The Full Surrender. In this article, I give you all of the main verses from Scripture that will show exactly what this full surrender will entail and exactly how to enter into it with God the Father. As you will see in this first verse I will list below, you have to be fully submitted to the Lord before you can even begin to do battle with Satan, any of his demons, or any human enemy in the natural realm.

Here is the very first verse each Christian must get under their belt before they can even begin to enter into any kind of true, spiritual warfare in the Lord. This verse is only one sentence long, but a lot is being said in this one sentence. This is absolutely the number one foundational verse in which all true spiritual warfare in the Lord will be based on. Here it is: Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (James 4:7) Most people skip the first part of this verse and jump right into the second part of it. However, the first part of this verse gives you the secret in which you will be able to engage with the devil. The first part is to submit to God. Submitting to God means you are in a full submission with God. To be in a full submission with God means you are in a full surrender with Him. This lack of a full surrender to the Lord is one of the main reasons why so many of His people are coming under such heavy attacks from demons and other evil people in this life. Its your all for Gods all. If you want Gods maximum protection on both you and your entire life then you will have to be willing to give Him your all. And your all is a full and complete surrender of your body, soul, spirit, and your entire life over to God the Father. If you are not willing to fully surrender every part of your being and every part of your life over to the Lord, then you simply will not be getting Gods full protection on you and your life, and you will then be subject to various types of storm clouds being able to come against you. 2. Going On the Offensive Against Your Enemies The second part of this verse then gives you secret #2 to spiritual warfare and that secret is to resist the devil. Notice the verse says to first resist the devil, and then he will flee. Resist means you fight, you engage, you take your enemy head on. You do not sit passively by while he continues to attack and beat you down. If there is one major secret I feel the Lord has given to me in the area of spiritual warfare it has to be the strategy of going on the offensive agains t whatever enemy is coming against you just like David did with Goliath. If you will notice when reading the stories in our Testimonies Section we had each person go on the offensive in their battle prayers to the Lord and take their enemy head on operating under Gods power and anointing to be able to do so. It was only when that person took the initiative and went on the offensive against their enemy did God move in with His healing and deliverance power to set them completely free.

Some of these people had been bound up for quite some time in their predicaments before they were given this battle advice to go on the offensive. Once they went on the offensive against their enemy, it completely turned the tide for them, and many of these people were set completely free within a day or two! This is how powerful this type of battle strategy can be. The above verse should be committed to full memory by all Christians, as it is the number one foundational verse in which all true spiritual warfare in the Lord is based on. 3. Walk in All of Gods Ways Keep All of Gods Commandments As you will see in the next two verses, the second thing you must do after making a full surrender with the Lord is that you have to seek to walk in all of Gods ways and keep all of Gods commandments. If you are out cheating on your wife and committing adultery behind her back, then you will not be getting Gods full protection on you or His power to help deliver you from any attacks that may be coming against you from your enemies. This is another main reason why so many of Gods children are coming under such heavy attacks from the enemy. They have holes in their hedges as result of operating in some of these heavier sins. If you are operating in any of these heavier sin areas, then you will need to get it all worked out with Lord before you can even begin to step out onto the battlefield to do spiritual battle with your enemies. Study these next two verses very, very carefully, as the Lord is very serious on the conditions that must be met before He is going to be willing to give you His divine protection from your enemies. 1. If you walk in My statutes and keep My commandments, and perform them you shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. I will give peace in the land, and you shall lie down, and none will make you afraid; I will rid the land of evil beasts, and the sword will not go through your land. You will chase your enemies, and they shall fall by the sword before you. Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you s hall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you. (Leviticus 26:3) 2. For the Lord your God walks in the midst of your camp, to deliver you and give your enemies over to you; therefore your camp shall be holy, that He may see no unclean thing among you, and turn away from you. (Deuteronomy 23:14) Notice in the second verse that God will walk in the midst of your camp, which is your life, and He will deliver you and keep your enemies from overtaking you but only if your camp is holy. If it is not, then He will turn away from you, and you will then have no protection from your enemies!

The first verse is literally telling you that if you keep all of Gods commandments and stay out of any serious sin then He will give you safe dwelling in your present set of circumstances and also give you the power and ability to engage and chase your enemies away from you should they even try to launch an attack against you. Notice the last part of this verse says that a hundred shall put ten thousand to flight. What I believe God is trying to tell us with this last sentence is that no enemy, no matter how big and how evil, will be any match for you as long as you are living under Gods wing and protection. 4. God Will Anoint You With His Power To Go Into Battle If you are walking in a full surrender with God the Father, and walking in all of His ways and staying out of any serious sins and transgressions against Him then the next thing you will need to fully realize is that God will now anoint you with His power if you are ever forced to go into battle with your enemy. The Bible tells us that we are now all good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Whether we want to face up to it or not, we are all living in a war zone as a result of the curse of Adam and Eve that is still in full operation on this earth. Anyone of us at anytime can come under human or demonic attack. The daily news will prove that to you without any shadow of a doubt. As a result, each Christian must now make their own personal decision as to how they will handle this kind of adversi ty when it does come their way. You can either choose to learn how to rise up in the power of your Lord and Savior and learn how to become a true warrior in the Lord, or you can continue to keep your head in the sand and let storm cloud after storm cloud k eep beating you down. The choice is yours. The following verses will show you that God can anoint you with His divine power to defeat any enemy that may come your way but you first have to be willing to step into that anointing and take your enemy head o n before God will release His anointing through you to be able to defeat that enemy. Again, study these next set of verses very carefully, as they will all show you the incredible supernatural power that God can flow through you so you can take on any type of bad storm cloud that might come your way in this life. 1. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19) 2. Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. (Luke 9:1) 3. And He called the twelve to Him, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them .

(Mark 6: 7,13) 4. And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. (Matthew 10:1) 5. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. (Matthew 10:6) 6. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from me, says the Lord. (Isaiah 54:17) 7. Through You we will push down our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me. But You have saved us from our enemies, and have put to shame those who hated us. In God we boast all day long, and praise Your name forever. (Psalm 44:5) 8. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. (2 Chronicles 16:9) 9. but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. (Daniel 11:32)

10. This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6) 11. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you ; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8) 12. For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 1:5) 13. For the kingdom of God is not in word but in power . (1 Corinthians 4:20) 14. in mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God (Romans 15:19) 15. Truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance, in signs and wonders and mighty deeds . (2 Corinthians 12:12)

16. God also bearing witness both with signs and wonders, with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Spirit (Hebrews 2:4) 17. And they went out and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word through the accompanying signs. Amen. (Mark 16:20) 18. And with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. (Acts 4:33) 19. But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you (1 John 2:27) 20. But you have an anointing from the Holy One , and you know all things. (1 John 2:20) 21. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. (Acts 2:43) 22. No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and of good courage (Joshua 1:5) 23. Blessed be the Lord my Rock, who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle my lovingkindness and my fortress, my high tower and my deliverer, my shield and the One in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me. (Psalm 144:1) 24. For You are my lamp, O Lord; the Lord shall enlighten my darkness. For by You I can run against a troop; by my God I can leap over a wall. As for God, His way is perfect; the word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him. (2 Samuel 22:29) 25. It is God who arms me with strength, and makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of deer, and sets me on high places. He teaches my hands to make war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them; neither did I turn back again till they were destroyed. I have wounded them, so that they were not able to rise; they have fallen under my feet. For You have armed me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those who rose up against me. (Psalm 18:32,37) I believe all of these verses mean exactly what they are saying. God can anoint you with His supernatural power to defeat any enemy that may come your way but only if you are willing to step into it and not be afraid to directly engage with whatever storm cloud is getting ready to come your way. Notice the first verse tells you that you can have Gods power and authority to trample over all the power of the enemy not just against some or part of his power. This means you

can have Gods anointing and power operating in your life to come out completely victorious against any storm cloud that may attempt to come against you in this life. 5. God Will Give You His Strength, Boldness and Courage to Walk With His Anointing All of the above Scripture verses are definitely telling you that God can anoint you with His divine power whenever that power is going to be needed to take on any kind of heavy storm cloud. However, there is one more thing that you are going to need before God will release His power through you. And that one more thing is the mental strength, courage, and boldness to step out with His power to actually use it to directly engage with your enemy. If you are not willing to step out and flow and operate with Gods anointing for whatever you are going to need it for, then absolutely nothing is going to happen. If you are not willing to speak out to any demons who may be trying to attack you, then Gods power will not come into the situation to blow them out of there, and they will thus stay right where they are at continuing to attack and torment you. As you will see when reading some of our own personal testimonies nothing was happening in all of these adverse situations until that person was ready and willing to step out of his boat with some mental confidence, courage, and boldness to face their enemies head on. Per the testimony titled, Suicide Attack #2 the mother of the girl involved in this testimony was always afraid of this part of the walk but she found herself with no other alternative but to go into the gap for her daughter so she could take the demons head on who were trying to get her daughter to kill herself. Once she was willing to summon up enough courage and faith in God to go into this kind of battle for her daughters life God then anointed her with His power and she got the job done with a complete victory! However, had she not had enough courage and faith to step into the gap for her daughter, nothing would have happened and her daughter could have ended up taking her own life. The Scripture verses I will list in this caption will all tell you that God can also give you His strength, courage, boldness, and confidence to face any storm cloud that may be getting ready to come your way. Again, study these verses very carefully, as they could make the difference between life and death depending on the seriousness of the adverse situation you may be forced to deal with. 1. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13) 2. The Lord is my strength and my shield (Psalm 28:7) 3. In the day when I cried out, You answered me, and made me bold with strength in my soul. (Psalm 138:3) 4. O God, You are more awesome than Your holy places. The God of Israel is He who gives strength and power to His people. (Psalm 68:35)

5. He gives power to the weak, and to those who have no might He increases strength. (Isaiah 40:29) 6. For the Lord will be your confidence, and will keep your foot from being caught. (Proverbs 3:26) 7. Yet the righteous will hold to his way, and he who has clean hands will be stronger and stronger. (Job 17:9) 8. They shall walk after the Lord. He will roar like a lion. When He roars, then His sons shall come trembling from the west (Hosea 11:10) 9. If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. (Proverbs 24:10) Notice the very last verse is telling you that if you faint in the day of any kind of adversity, that your strength will be considered small in the eyes of God. In other words, God is telling you that He does not want you to be a wimp and He is expecting each and every one of us to learn how to war against any adverse situations that could come our way in this life, operating under His authority, power, and anointing to be able to do so. This is why we are all called to be good soldiers of Jesus Christ, not just a select few. 6. God Will Run Protection For You Sometimes God will want you to go into the battle, and then He will fight the battle through you to defeat your enemy. However, there will be other times where you will have to do absolutely nothing. God will run protection for you so that no attacks will ever come your way in the first place. God will act as a shield and fortress for you. As you will see in the following Scripture verses, God will be:
y y y y y y y y y y y

Your Hedge Your Refuge Your Fortress Your Deliverer Your Defense Your Front and Rear Guard Your Stronghold Your Strength Your Rock Your Savior Your Light

These verses in particular are extremely powerful, and I mean extremely powerful! These are the types of verses you will need to ground on in your walk with the Lord. These are the types of verses that can keep a lot of unnecessary attacks from ever coming your way in the first place. Quote these verses back to God the Father in your prayer life with Him. Tell Him that you will stand on the promises of these verses with full faith and belief.

If and when any storm cloud gets ready to come your way pull these verses out, and go into major prayer with the Lord telling Him that you are now going to stand on the wording of these verses, and that you will have full faith and belief that He will run protection for you against whatever may be getting ready to come your way. Give yourself pep talks if need be, telling yourse lf that God is going to protect you no matter how hopeless the situation may appear to you in the natural. Load your mind and spirit up with the wording of these powerful verses and set your face like flint against your storm cloud having full faith and belief that God will protect you and deliver you from whatever storm cloud is getting ready to come your way. Again, it would be my very strong recommendation that you either write or type all of these verses out on index cards so you can have all of them right at your fingertips should you ever need any of them for an emergency situation. These verses have the full power and anointing of God Almighty Himself on them. 1. Have You not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? (Job 1:10) 2. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; the God of my strength, in Him I will trust, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my Savior, You save me from violence. (2 Samuel 22:2) 3. Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1) 4. But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. (2 Thessalonians 3:3) 5. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He guards all of his bones; not one of them is broken . (Psalm 34:19) 6. And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. (2 Timothy 4:18) 7. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised; so shall I be saved from my enemies. (Psalm 18:2) 8. But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; He is the ir strength in time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him. (Psalm 37:39) 9. I will lift up my eyes to the hills from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot

to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul. The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth, and even forevermore. (Psalm 121:1) 10. Deliver me speedily; be my rock of refuge, a fortress of defense to save me. For You are my rock and my fortress; therefore, for Your names sake, lead me and guide me. Pull me out of the net which they have secretly laid for me, for You are my strength. Into Your hand I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O Lord God of truth. (Psalm 31:2) 11. Oh, how great is Your goodness, which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have prepared for those who trust in You in the presence of the sons of men! You shall hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the plots of man; You shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. (Psalm 31:19) 12. The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell. Though an army should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear; though war should rise against me, in this I will be confident. (Psalm 27:1) 13. The Lord is on my side; I will not fear. What can man do to me? The Lord is for me among those who help me; therefore I shall see my desire on those who hate me. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes. All nations surrounded me, but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them. (Psalm 118:6) 14. If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31) 15. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mou ntains be carried into the midst of the sea God is in the midst of her, she shall not be moved; God shall help her, just at the break of dawn . (Psalm 46:1,5) 16. Whenever I am afraid, I will trust in You. In God (I will praise His word), in God I have put my trust; I will not fear. What can flesh do to me? In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? (Psalm 56: 3,11) 17. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, He permitted no one to do them wrong; Yes, He reproved kings for their sakes, saying Do not touch my anointed ones, and do My prophets

no harm. (Psalm 105:13) 18. Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. Through God we will do valiantly, for it is He who shall tread down our enemies. (Psalm 60:11) 19. For the Lord God will help me; therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I will not be ashamed. He is near who justifies me; who will contend with me? Let us stand together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near me. Surely the Lord God will help me; who is he who will condemn me? Indeed they will all grow old like a garment; the moth will eat them up. (Isaiah 50:7) 20. Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever. (Psalm 125:1) 21. Oh, bless our God, you peoples! And make the voice of His praise to be heard, who keeps your soul among the living, and does not allow our feet to be moved. (Psalm 66:8) 22. Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you . (Isaiah 46:4) 23. He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust. Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feather, and under His wings you shall take refugee; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. Only with your eyes shall you look, and see the reward of the wicked. Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, even the Most High, your habitation, no evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; for He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways . They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone. You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, the young lion and the serpent you shall trample. Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble ; I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him, and show him My salvation. (Psalm 91:1-16)

If you will read each one of these verses one right after the other, you will really feel the power on these verses when you string them all of them together. All of these verses show us, without any shadow of a doubt, how protective God can be with His own. However, as the last verse points out, this kind of divine protection will only be given to those who have established a true, personal relationship with the Lord. 7. God Will Go Before You To Fight Your Battles Sometimes God will simply run a protective shield around you where nothing will be able to get through to attack you. Other times something will start to slip through to come directly against you, and then God will move ahead of you to take it out. This is where God will literally take your enemy head on and do battle with it. Sometimes God will fight the actual battle through you, other times He will simply tell you to hold your position and do absolutely nothing, and then He will move Himself to completely take out the attack coming against you. This is where God shows you how powerful and how awesome He really is when He moves into battle to personally protect you. Again, these next set of verses are extremely powerful as all of the other ones listed above. Notice the very intense language God is using when these verses describe Him moving into actual battle for you. The first two verses are major, whopper, power verses. These first two verses are specifically telling us that God can be a Man of War if He needs to be, and that He can actually be stirred up to go into battle for you if He has to. 1. The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is His name Your Right Hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O Lord, has dashed the enemy in pieces. And in the greatness of Your excellence you have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath which consumed them like stubble. (Exodus 15:3,6) 2. The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war. He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud; He shall prevail against His enemies. (Isaiah 42:13) 3. I will go before you and make the crooked paths straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. (Isaiah 45:2) 4. For you shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight; for the Lord will go before you, and the God of Israel will be your rear guard. (Isaiah 52:12) 5. Therefore understand today the Lord your God is He who goes before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you. (Deuteronomy 9:3) 6. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. (Exodus 14:14)

7. Be strong and courageous; do not be afraid nor dismayed before the king of Assyria, nor before all the multitude that is with him; for there are more with us than with him. With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God, to help us and to fight our battles . (2 Chronicles 32:7) 8. For I will contend with him who contends with you. (Isaiah 49:25) 9. since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you (2 Thessalonians 1:6) 10. The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, Destroy ! (Deuteronomy 33:27) 11. Do not say, I will recompense evil; Wait for the Lord, and He will save you. (Proverbs 20:22) 12. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you (Genesis 12:3) 13. Many a time they have afflicted me from my youth; yet they have not prevailed against me The Lord is righteous; He has cut in pieces the cords of the wicked. (Psalm 129:2) 14. It is God who avenges me, and subdues the peoples under me; He delivers me from my enemies. You also lift me up above those who rise against me; You have delivered me from the violent man. (Psalm 18:47) 15. Plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help. Also draw out the spear, and stop those who pursue me. Say to my soul, I am your salvation. (Psalm 35:1) 16. When my enemies turn back, they shall fall and perish at your presence. For You have maintained my right and my cause; You sat on the throne judging in righteousness. (Psalm 9:3) 17. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. (Jeremiah 1:8) 18. God is a just judge, and God is angry with the wicked every day. If He does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. He also prepares for Himself instruments of death; He makes His arrows into fiery shafts. (Psalm 7:11) 19. He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. For by strength no man shall prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces; from heaven He will thunder against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His

king, and exalt the horn of His anointed. (1 Samuel 2:9) 20. For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You Then the Spirit of the Lord came upon Jahaziel thus says the Lord to you: Do not be afraid nor dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but Gods You will not nee d to fight in this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord , who is with you, O Judah and Jerusalem! Do not fear or be dismayed; tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord is with you. (2 Chronicles 20:12-17) 21. Behold, all those who were incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced; they shall be as nothing, and those who strive with you shall perish. You shall seek them and not find them those who contend with you. Those who war against you shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not, I will help you. (Isaiah 41:11) 22. When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. (Isaiah 59:19) 23. Now I know that the Lord saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand . (Psalm 20:6) 24. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and You right hand will save me. The Lord will perfect that which concerns me (Psalm 138:7) 25. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, nor shall the flame scorch you. (Isaiah 43:2) 26. For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, nor did their arm save them; but it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, because You favored them. (Psalm 44:3) 27. You marched through the land in indignation; You trampled the nations in anger. You went forth for the salvation of Your people, for salvation with Your anointed. You struck the head from the house of the wicked. (Habakkuk 3:12) 28. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. (Psalm 34:17) 29. And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that the Lord Your God has done to these two kings; so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms through which you pass. You must not fear them, for the Lord your God Himself fights for you. (Deuteronomy 3:21)

Really meditate and chew on these verses so they can get down deep into your mind and spirit. Believe what they are telling you. Our God is a mighty, powerful and awesome God especially when you see Him go into major battle to protect one of His own. 8. Battle Angels Sometimes God will take up the battle for you and take your enemy head on all by Himself. Other times He will use His battle angels. Several people I know have had several visions of these battle angels. All of them have said they have actually seen swords by their sides. One of them said the actual blade itself is solid light the light of God. Below are a few good Scripture verses that specifically talk about these battle angels. One of the verses mentioned below literally talks about the sword that is seen on one of these battle angels. St. Michael the archangel is a battle angel. These battle angels are extremely powerful and highly anointed by God the Father Himself. Several of these verses will show you how these battle angels can literally go into actual battle for you and sometimes they will literally kill your enemy if God wants them to go that far with it. 1. The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, and delivers them. (Psalm 34:7) 2. For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. (Psalm 91:11) 3. And let the angel of the Lord chase him And let the angel of the Lord pursue them Let the destruction come upon him unexpectedly. (Psalm 35:5-8) 4. Behold, I send an Angel before you to keep you in the way and to bring you into the place which I have prepared. (Exodus 23:20) 5. Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation? (Hebrews 1:14) 6. Then the Lord commanded the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath but David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord. (1 Chronicles 21:27, 29) 7. And it came to pass on a certain night that the angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundr ed and eighty-five thousand; and when the people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses all dead. (2 Kings 19:35) 8. Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died. (Acts 12:23) 9. Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by doing so some have unwittingly entertained angels. (Hebrews 13:2)

The last verse shows you that sometimes angels can literally appear to you as a normal human being, usually for the purpose of helping you out with something. There are countless testimonies from people all over the world who have been helped out by angels in a moment of crisis, and then all of sudden they are gone as quick as they came. 9. Stay Humble in Your Battle Walk With the Lord I will end this article with two very good verses showing us that even though God can come to our aid in very powerful and miraculous ways to defeat our enemies He still wants us to remain humble with all of this, along with making sure that we treat all of our enemies with love, respect and kindness. 1. Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles; lest the Lord see it, and it displeases Him, and He turn away His wrath from him. (Proverbs 24:17) 2. If your enemy is hungry, give hi m bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; for so you will heap coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will reward you. (Proverbs 25:21) Notice the first verse is telling us not to rejoice and be happy when God does have to move into battle to defeat our enemies. The reason for this is because your enemy has now been placed under judgment with God, and God is now deeming that some kind of appropriate action has to be taken. This is actually a very sad state of affairs when God is forced to have to render some type of judgment on someone. This is why God does not want us rejoicing when He does have to go this far with someone. The best analogy to understand this principle is with our criminal justice system. Even though everyone is glad and relieved when a murderer is caught and sent to prison for the rest of his life the sad part about all of this is the fact that the murderer has chosen with his own free will to live his life on the dark side and that he will go straight to hell when he dies and crosses over, unless he gets saved and gets all of his sins forgiven with Jesus before he dies. The Bible tells us that murderers will not be inheriting the Kingdom of God unless they g et saved and washed clean under the Blood of Jesus. If they do not, then it is very sad thing knowing what awaits all of them on the other side once they die and cross over. I think this is why God wants all of us to treat even our worst enemies with love, respect and kindness.

Conclusion
All of the above Scripture verses will give you more than enough live ammunition should you ever need them to face any enemy or storm cloud head on. You can also use many of these battle verses in conjunction with the healing verses of the Bible when you are needing a healing on something. All sickness and disease is also our enemy, and as such, you can ask God to move into battle for you against any sickness or disease that is attempting to come against you as we have shown you how to do in the Testimonies Section of our website.

Just pick out the appropriate battle and/or healing verses for whatever enemy you are attempting to engage with then form out your own personal battle prayer with God the Father and then go on the offensive against that enemy if you have a solid green light from the Lord to take that enemy head on. Our God is a powerful Man of War and He can be stirred up to go into battle for either you or any of your close loved ones if your enemy will not retreat or back down.

How to Plead the Blood of Jesus for Deliverance and Protection

any of the non-denominational churches talk about the power of Pleading the Blood of Jesus but they do not tell you exactly how to do it, what to plead it on, what to plead it against, and how frequently you need to do it in order to get Gods maximum protection on you and your loved ones. In this article, I will show you exactly how to plead the Blood, what to plead it on, some of things that you can plead it against, and how frequently you will need to plead it in order to get Gods maximum protection on you and your specific set of circumstances. I will also give you the Scriptural grounds that entitles all Christians to be able to use this form of offensive prayer. I will also show you how to incorporate the Pleading of the Blood in your own personal battle prayers, which is when you will need Gods deliverance and/or healing power to come into any type of adverse situation that you may have just fallen into. I will back all of this up with some very powerful testimonies involving myself and some of my personal friends, and how Pleading the Blood of Jesus helped rescue and deliver them out of some real, dire predicaments. All of these stories will be in the Testimonies section of our website. The information in this article has been battle tested and battle proven. In my own personal opinion I believe that learning how to Plead the Blood of Jesus will give you one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful form of offensive prayer that you can use for any kind of deliverance and/or protection that you may need from the Lord. This form of offensive prayer can not only be used to get Gods protection on you before any type of adversity ever strikes you, but it can also be used for physical, emotional, and mental healings, for battling demons, and for battling any kind of storm cloud that may have just come your way. I believe that we are truly heading into end time waters as prophesied in the Bible. Learning how to properly Plead the Blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection is going to be needed by all Christians in order to help keep them out of harms way as things really start to heat up in the years ahead.

Too many Christians are getting robbed, raped, abducted, murdered, sexually and/or physically abused, slandered, cheated, scammed, etc. All you have to do is watch the daily news and it is one horror story after another. I believe the number one reason why so many Christians are coming under such heavy attacks from both demons and evil people in this world is because they do not have Gods full protection on them. And the reason they do not have Gods full protection on them is because they have never been taught how to spiritually defend themselves using actual spiritual warfare techniques! There are numerous verses in the Bible telling all of us that we are to be good soldiers of Jesus Christ and that we have to fight the good fight of faith . Like it or not, we are all living in a war zone as a result of the Adamic curse that is still in full operation on this earth. We are living in a fallen, imperfect and cursed world that is subject to death, corruption, demonic spirits, and evil humans who have chosen with their own free wills to live this life on the dark side. What this means is that anyone of us at anytime can come under direct human or demonic attack. Places where we thought we were safe are no longer safe. Criminals are getting more brazen and more evil. Children are literally getting abducted right out of their beds in the middle of the night with their parents and the other children in the house sleeping in the other rooms. 9/11 has forever changed our landscape as far as all Americans are concerned. Radical terrorists have now officially invaded our country and we will never know when or where the next attack will occur. The Bible has already warned us that evil, lawlessness, and immorality will abound in the end times. There are verses telling us that in the end times men will become lovers of self, unholy, blasphemers, having no self-control and only living life for what they can get out of it. The Bible tells us that the love of many will grow cold during these times, and many people will only be out for themselves and for whatever pleasures they can get out of this life while they still can. As a result of this kind of deterioration in mans moral state, many people will become more impulsive, brazen and evil. This may help explain why some of these evil people are literally kidnapping children right out of their beds or front yards while the parents or babysitters are still in the home. They are losing all self-control over their evil, sick desires and impulses, and they are acting out on them without any thought of the consequences of their actions. Since I really do feel that we have officially entered into end time waters as prophesied in the Bible, each Christian is going to have to make a big personal decision as to how they are going to live the rest of what time they still have left down here on this earth. Christians can either choose to remain passive with their heads stuck in the sand, hoping that neither they nor any of thei r close, loved ones will ever come under any kind of direct human or demonic attack or they can choose to learn how to rise up in the power of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and learn how to spiritually defend themselves using spiritual warfare techniques as given to us out of the Bible!

When the enemy does come, and he will come at each one of us from time to time, you can either choose to run and hide hoping that you will somehow survive the attack and make it out in one piece or you can choose to learn how to spiritually defend yourself and engage with the enemy head on like David did with Goliath. The choice is yours. Too many Christians are taking the first approach, and they are literally getting killed and taken out of this life way too early. The pain, torment, and agony of losing loves ones, especially to any kind of violent crime, is beyond human comprehension. Too many Christians are living defeated lives with no real joy, peace, or power in their lives. Storm cloud after storm cloud keeps coming after them beating them down to a pulp. Many Christians, since they have not been properly taught how to engage with the enemy when he does come their way, are drowning in their sea of troubles. Too many Christians could not pray their way out of a paper sack if they ever got caught in one because they have never established any kind of personal relationship with the Lord, have never developed any real working knowledge from His Word, have no real knowledge of the enemy, his tactics, and how he ope rates and have no real knowledge on how to properly pray or stand in the gap for someone else to get God to move in with His supernatural power to bring freedom, healing or deliverance to a particular situation. In my opinion, and from the personal experiences that I have had with this form of offensive prayer, I believe that learning how to Plead the Blood of Jesus may be one of the greatest, offensive, spiritual weapons that you can have in your arsenal. As you will see in the personal testimony section of our site, complete and total victory was granted to each person who had Pleaded the Blood of Jesus on their specific set of circumstances. And in most of the cases, the victory was granted very quickly! This is how powerful this form of offensive praye r really is. For those of you who really want to learn how to arm and defend both yourself and your close, loved ones when these attacks do come your way, read on. For those of you who will choose to remain passive hoping that nothing bad will ever come your way, at least keep this article on the shelf in the event that any serious adversity ever does strike you or any of your close, loved ones down the road. Before I go into exactly how to Plead the Blood of Jesus and all of the different things that you can Plead the blood against, I will first give you the Scriptural grounds that entitles all Christians to be able to use this form of offensive prayer.

Scriptural Grounds for Pleading the Blood of Jesus

There are many Christians who attack this form of prayer. They ask where in Scripture is there proof that we can use this kind of prayer for either protection or deliverance when we will really need it. There was no evidence that the early apostles ever pled the blood to heal, to cast out demons, or to get Gods basic protection on them.

I believe there are three specific things contained in the Blood of Jesus forgiveness, deliverance, and protection. Many Christians only know about the first one forgiveness. They have no idea that there are two other things available to them that will enable them to live a victorious and overcoming life in the Lord while still living down here on this earth. Here is a brief discussion on each one of these three things. 1. Forgiveness As Christians, we all know there is definitely forgiveness in the Blood of Jesus. This is the basic, central message of true Christianity that God the Father sent His one and only begotten Son Jesus Christ down to our earth in the flesh to physically die on a cross in order to save us and give us total and permanent forgiveness for all of our sins. Without Jesus dying and shedding His blood on the cross, there would be no forgiveness and remission of any of our sins. Here are some extremely, powerful verses from Scripture specifically telling us this: 1. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Matthew 26:28) 2. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. (Ephesians 1:7) 3. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been made near by the blood of Christ. (Ephesians 2:13) 4. For the life of the flesh is in the blood for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul. (Leviticus 17:11) Notice the emphasis on the word blood in these verses. There is no question that in these verses, and others in the Bible, that the blood that Jesus personally shed for us on the cross is what leads all of us to be able to receive eternal salvation, the forgiveness of all of our sins, and entrance into heaven when we die and cross over. 2. Deliverance Now what are the Scriptural grounds that will give us the legal right to be able to use the blood of Jesus when taking on any attacks that may come our way? As you will see in some of the stories in the Testimonies section of our site, you can Plead the Blood of Jesus against specific types of attacks such as attacks from demons or other evil people, any kind of physical illness or disease, or any kinds of addictions like drugs and alcohol. Many Christians are not aware of this second component that is in the Blood of Jesus which will entitle us to be able to use His Blood to go on the offensive against any adversity that may come our way. Something else happened that day when Jesus died on the cross for all of our sins. The Bible tells us that Jesus also defeated Satan and all of the powers of darkness that day! Here are several good verses from Scripture proving this point to you:

1. that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. (Hebrews 2:14) 2. He has delivered us from the power of darkness and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:13) 3. Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it. (Colossians 2:15) 4. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8) 5. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. (Revelation 12:11) What defeated Satan and all his dark powers? The physical death of Jesus on the cross. And what did Jesus do when He died that day on the cross for all of us? He shed His Blood! This is why Pleading the Blood of Jesus works so well in real, life combat situations when it really is needed to defeat attacks that are coming against us from the dark side. Many Christians are not fully aware of this second fact about the Blood of Jesus that the Blood of Jesus can also be used to engage with our enemies when they do try to launch any kind of an attack against us. I believe that all of the above Scripture verses definitely tell us that the blood that Jesus shed that day on the cross has totally defeated Satan and all of his dark powers. The only thing left is for all Christians to fully realize this incredible fact, and to grab a hold of this powerful truth and not to be afraid to use when they need it especially when demons or other evil people are attempting to come against them with any type of unjust action or attack. Here are four more good, powerful verses from Scripture showing that all Christians now have Gods supernatural power and anointing available to them so they can use it to engage with the dark side of this life: Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19) Notice in this verse we have Gods power over all the power of our enemies, not just against some or part of their powers. This means we have the ability to come out completely victorious in some of lifes battles and struggles, but only if we learn how to properly use what is now available to us. Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. (Luke 9:1)

Notice in this verse that Jesus gives the twelve apostles power over all demons, not just some of them. If we have Gods power available to us to defeat all demons, then I believe that we also have Gods power to defeat any and all humans who may try to come against us with any type of unjust action or attack. but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits. (Daniel 11:32) Knowing their God means that we have spent good, quality time in establishing a good, personal relationship with the Lord. If we do this, then this verse is telling us that God will strengthen and empower us when we need His power to be able to carry out great exploits and great adventures for Him. For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. (2 Chronicles 16:9) This verse is telling us that God is actually looking for people that He can anoint with His power and show Himself strong through, but the implication appears to be that He really cannot find many people who are willing to pay the price to be able to really walk with His anointing. As you can see from the way all of the above Scripture verses are worded true Christianity is not a weak, wimpy, or passive religion. As born -again believers, we all have the Holy Spirit literally living on the inside of us. As a result, all of our bodies have now become the temple in which He now lives in. His supernatural power is now fully available to all of us in order to help us handle some of the storm clouds that can come against us in this life. Learning how to properly Plead the Blood of Jesus for any deliverance and protection that you may need is just one part of our arsenal. I will be doing other articles in the near future covering some of the other aspects on this part of our walk with the Lord. 3. Protection As you will see in the next section, you can also Plead the Blood of Jesus on specific things that you will want protected before any kind of adversity could strike them like your body, house, car, and finances. The goal is to Plead the Blood of Jesus on those things in order to protect you before any kind of adversity could ever come your way. If the above verses are showing us that we can Plead the Blood of Jesus against any attacks that may have already come our way, then I also believe it only stands to reason that we can also go one step further with the Blood of Jesus and that is to use it for protection before any kind of actual attacks could come our way. In this case, you simply Plead the Blood of Jesus on whatever you want Gods full protection on before any attacks could possibly come your way. I believe there is something else in the Bible that gives us another clue that entitles us to be able to Plead the Blood for this specific purpose. In the Old Testament, God the Father had it arranged with His chosen people, the Jews, that in order for them to be able to enter into a

covenant relationship with Him, they had to have some kind of temporary covering for their sins. Jesus had not come yet, so there was no full remission for any of the sins that had occurred back at that time What God the Father had set up was the sacrifice of blemish-free animals such as bulls, goats and lambs. Their blood had to be shed once per year on what was called the Day of Atonement. The shedding of these animals blood was what gave the Jewish people a temporary covering for their sins so they could then enter into a personal relationship with God the Father. This is why Jesus is called the Lamb of God. He is an extension of the lambs used by His Father in the Old Testament to give the Jewish people a temporary covering for their sins. Once Jesus had come to shed His own blood on the cross, there was no more need for any more animal sacrifices. His death on the cross had completed and fulfilled what His Father had started in the Old Testament with the sacrifice of these animals. Now watch this analogy. In the shedding of the lambs blood on the Day of Atonement, there was a temporary covering for the sins of the Jewish people. Then Jesus comes in the New Testament, and the shedding of His blood now gives all believers complete and total forgiveness for all of their sins. Now here is where I feel that something else occurred back in the Old Testament that may entitle us to be able to use the Blood of Jesus for divine protection. In the story of the Passover, God had sent His servant Moses to rescue the children of Israel from their captivity to the Egyptians. God had thrown ten whopper plagues at the Pharaoh in an effort to try and get him to release His people from his rule. On one of those plagues, God tells Pharaoh that He is going to allow an angel of death to come through their camp to kill all of their firstborn children. However, before God sets all of this up to occur, He tells His own people to shed the blood of a blemish-free lamb and to put that shed blood on the door posts and lintels of their houses. God tells His people that the angel of death will bypass their house if he sees this shed blood put on their door posts and lintels. This angel of death will thus not kill any of the Israelites firstborn but only if he sees the blood properly applied to the door posts and lintels of their houses. In other words, the blood of this blemish-free lamb was being used for divine protection before this attack would ever come their way. Had each person not properly applied this blood on their door posts, their firstborn children would have also been killed, along with the rest of the firstborn children of the Egyptians. Here is my argument on this: If the shed blood of the Old Testament lambs used for the temporary covering of sins eventually leads to the shedding of Jesus blood for permanent and total forgiveness of all of our sins can we also use that same analogy and say that the shed blood of the lambs used in the Passover for divine protection could also lead to the shed Blood of Jesus having divine protection in it?

I personally believe the answer is yes, and that is why God the Father seems willing to honor and work with any believer who will plead the blood of Jesus on whatever they want protection on before any attack can come their way just like He did in the story of the Passover with His own chosen people. Before I go into the specifics on how to Plead the Blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection, there is one more area that each Christian must make a big, personal decision on before God will give you this kind of full, divine protection.

Saved and Surrendered

In order to be able to Plead the Blood of Jesus for any kind of deliverance or protection you may need, there are two requirements that must be met. 1. Saved You must be a saved and born-again Christian. A nonbeliever cannot use the blood of Jesus. In the story of the Passover, only Gods chosen people were allowed to apply the blood of the lamb on their door posts to get His full protection on them. It is the same way in the New Testament. Only born-again, Christian believers can use the blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection. 2. The Full Surrender However, for those who are already saved and born-again Christians, there is now one more big thing that you will have to do before you can start to get Gods best to start flowing into your life which will include getting His maximum protection on you and your life. And that is to be willing to make a full and complete surrender of your entire being and your entire life over to God the Father. You have to be both saved and surrendered in order to be able to step from the dugout out onto the real playing field where the real walk with the Lord is really at. God is wanting you to fully surrender four specific things to Him:
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Your body Your soul Your spirit Your entire life

The Bible tells us that we have three parts to our beings body, soul and spirit. God wants all three parts of our being completely surrendered over to Him. The fourth thing that God will also want from you is for you to fully surrender your entire life over to Him. And when I say entire life, I mean literally everything in your life. The Bible tells us that with the measure we use, will be the measure that will be measured back to us. In other words, if you want Gods best to start flowing into your life, then you will have to give God your personal best and your personal best is being willing to fully surrender every part of your being and every part of your life over to the Lord for His full direction and handling. Its your all for His all.

This full surrender to the Lord is where many Christians are really missing the boat with Him. They are saved through the blood of Jesus, but they are not walking in this full surrender with God the Father. As a result, God is not working full force in their lives. The only way to get God to start working full force in your life is to come under a complete and full surrender with Him. Bottom line Gods knowledge and wisdom is perfect on all matters yours is not! God can see into the future and knows exactly what is going to happen to you you cannot. God knows you better than you can ever know yourself, and as a result, He knows what your true potential and capabilities are going to be in this life you do not. Your powers are limited, but Gods powers are not. The Bible tells us that God is allpowerful and that there is nothing that He cannot do or accomplish. Nothing is impossible with God. After chewing on all of the above, who do you want running your life? Yourself, with your limited powers, wisdom, and knowledge or God the Father, who has maximum power and knowledge to do and accomplish anything He will want to do? This lack of a full surrender to God the Father is what is getting so many Christians beat to a pulp in the playing field of life. They do not have Gods full protection on them, and as a result, they are coming under severe attacks from demons, evil people, and just some of the natural cause and effects that can occur at a moments notice such as different kinds of accidents, catastrophes, mishaps, and illnesses that can hit anyone of us at anytime. Without Gods maximum protection on you, anyone of us can get hit by these types of severe storm clouds. Only Gods divine protection can keep you safe and out of harms way from some of these types of storm clouds. And the only way to get Gods maximum protection on you and your life is to come under this complete and full surrender with Him. If you want to take this last and final step with the Lord, then I can give you a very short, but powerful prayer to go to God the Father with to come into this full surrender with Him. This prayer should be said at least once or twice a year after you do it the first time. You need to show God that you mean serious business with Him on this, and by continuing to recite this prayer back to Him on a once or twice per year basis, you will be showing Him that you are really serious about this full surrender, and that you will continue to let Him have full control of your entire life for the rest of your earthly life. I will give you both parts of this prayer the initial prayer that you will go to God the Father with to make the initial full surrender, and then the second part of this prayer that will continue to keep you under this full surrender with the Lord for the rest of your earthly life. A) The Full Surrender Prayer Father,

In the name of Jesus, I now place my body, my soul, my spirit, and my entire life into Your hands. I now ask that You place me into Your perfect will for my life. From this moment on, I will choose to stay fully surrendered to You all the days of my life and will allow You to lead and direct my life in the direction that You will want it to go in. Thank you Father. Thank you Jesus. B) To Stay in the Full Surrender Father, In the name of Jesus, I continue to place my body, my soul, my spirit, and my entire life in Your hands. I choose to stay fully surrendered to You all the days of my life and ask that you continue to keep me in Your perfect will for my life. Thank you Father. Thank you Jesus. The above prayer is short, sweet, and simple, but extremely powerful! With this prayer, you have now just turned the reigns of your life over to God the Father and He will now start to guide and direct your life in the direction that He will want it to go in. God now has a perfect plan and destiny all set up for your life. If you would like more information on this full surrender and all of the Scripture verses to back it up, we have another article in the Bible Basics section of our site with this exact title, The Full Surrender. If you are willing to make this full surrender with God the Father, then you are now ready for the next big step, and that is to learn how to Plead the Blood of Jesus for His deliverance and protection. There are two ways that you will use the Pleading of His Blood. One is for protection where you will Plead the Blood of Jesus on whatever you want protected before any attacks or adversity could come your way. By Pleading the Blood of Jesus on the things that you want specifically protected, you will go a long way in preventing a lot of needless attacks, mishaps, and accidents from ever coming your way in the first place. This is preventative medicine at its best. The second way that you will use the Pleading of His Blood is for deliverance where you have already been hit by some kind of adversity, and now you will need Gods deliverance and/or healing power to help set you free. I will first show you how to Plead the Blood of Jesus for basic protection.

How to Plead the Blood of Jesus for Protection

The first thing you are going to want to do is make a personal list of everything that you would like to have Gods protection on. These are what I call the basics. I will give you my

recommendations as to what some of these basic things should be. You will then have to add your own personal things to this list to properly complete it. 1. The Basics The basic things that you will want covered under the Blood of Jesus for His divine protection are the following: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Your body, soul, and spirit Your house Your car Your finances Your office if you work Your spouse and children if you are married

Any one of these could come under demonic or human attack at any time. Pleading the Blood of Jesus on your car will help prevent you from getting into any type of serious auto accidents, along with helping to prevent any type of break-ins or theft of your car. Pleading the Blood of Jesus on your finances will help protect you from all of the scammers and con artists who are out there trying to scam and steal all of your hard earned money. Identity theft has become a major problem in our country. Pleading the blood of Jesus on all of your credit cards and bank accounts will stop thieves dead in their tracks if they try and target you for identity theft. Pleading the Blood of Jesus on your house and office building will help protect you against any fires, break-ins, burglaries, natural catastrophes or any type of bad accidents. Pleading the Blood on all of your children will help protect them from any possible abductions, serious accidents, or life-threatening illnesses. I do not have to tell you how many sexual predators that are out there looking for their next victim. Literally a day does not go by when someone is not getting abducted, robbed, raped, or murdered. Pleading the Blood of Jesus on your own body, soul, and spirit will also help keep you personally protected from all of the above. I could go on and on with the number of bad things that cou ld happen to either you, your children, or your spouse. Bottom line only God knows when any attack will be coming your way, and only God can protect and shield you from these attacks before they do come. And the way that you can get God to move in with H is full, divine protection before any of these attacks can come your way is by Pleading the Blood of Jesus on each of the specific things that you will want protected. Here is how to specifically Plead the Blood on each of the above items. 2. Pleading the Blood on the Basics In order to get Gods full protection on something, you have to do the following three things:

1. Plead the Blood on the object that you want protected. 2. Plead the Blood against whatever possibly could come against that object. 3. Then seal the prayer with a statement of faith and belief to God the Father telling Him that you are now going to have full faith and belief that He will now protect you from all of the things that you just Pled the Blood of His Son on. Here is a sample prayer on how to Plead the Blood of Jesus on your body, soul and spirit: Father, Father, in the name of Jesus, I now plead the Blood of Jesus over every inch of my physical body, over every inch my soul, and over ever inch of my spirit. I now plead the Blood of Jesus against any demons who may try and come against me. I now Plead the Blood of Jesus against any bad and evil people who may try and come against me. I now plead the Blood of Jesus against any natural accidents or catastrophes that may come against me. I now plead the Blood of Jesus against any diseases, viruses, or illnesses that could possibly come against me. Father, in the name of Jesus, I now have full faith and belief that the Blood of Jesus will now fully protect me against all of the things that I have just Pled His Blood on. Thank you Father. Thank you Jesus. This prayer is short, sweet, simple and straight to the point. You can add whatever else you want in the prayer that will fit your own personal set of circumstances. You will have to Plead the Blood of Jesus on each of the above six items to get Gods full protection on it. You have to be very specific on the things that you will want covered and protected under His Blood. This is why each of you will have to make up your own personal list. The above six items should be absolute minimums. When you Plead the Blood on the other five items, just substitute the appropriate wording on the next item that you are Pleading the Blood on. When Pleading the Blood on the basics, you can choose to either say the prayer out loud or silently to yourself, which ever way you would be more comfortable with. 3. The Index Card What I have found to be very helpful is to write all of the above down on an index card. Here is my recommendation: a) Take an index card and write at the top of it the words Pleading the Blood of Jesus. This way you know this card is for Pleading the Blood of Jesus.

b) On the front of the card, write down and number each of the items that you want protected under the Blood of Jesus. The six items mentioned above should all be on this list. Then write down anything else that you will want covered and protected under His Blood. c) Then write on the back of the card the blood prayer itself as worded above. You can use a fill in the blanks system on the back of the card since you will be Pleading the Blood on different things. You can write the following on the back of the card: Father, in the name of Jesus, I now plead the Blood of Jesus on . I now Plead the Blood of Jesus against . Father, in the name of Jesus, I have full faith and belief that the Blood of Jesus will protect me against any of the things that I have just Pled His Blood on. Thank you Father. Thank you Jesus. On one little index card, you will have everything you need on how to properly Plead the Blood of Jesus on whatever it is that you want His protection on. You will have all of the basics as to what needs to be covered with the Blood in your life on the front of the card, and then the exact prayer written on the back as to how to properly Plead the Blood on each of those basic things. 4. Frequency How often will you have to Plead the Blood of Jesus on all of the above in order to get Gods maximum protection on these things? Through personal trial and error with the Lord on all of this, I have found out that in my own personal life, that I have to Plead the Blood of Jesus on all of the above items on a once per month basis. You may each have to find your own personal frequency factor with the Lord on how often to Plead the Blood on all of the above. But do not be surprised if God does not tell you the same thing once per month. I have personally found out the hard way that if I want Gods full protection on all of the above items that I have to Plead the Blood on the night before the beginning of the next month. In other words, if I want Gods protection for the month of May, then I have to Plead the Blood on all of the above on the last day of April. I have been burned several times when I forgot to do this and was subjected to several abnormal attacks on the first day of that new month. It would be like a football player forgetting to put his helmet on for even one play. Not having his helmet on for even that one play could get him killed due to the intensity of the game that he is playing. 5. Applying a Bloodline Here is another thing that you can do, especially for those of you who own a house with property surrounding it. You can walk around the entire property Pleading the Blood of Jesus

as you walk completely around it in a circle. What you are doing is applying a Bloodline around your property. I have read of cases where Christian farmers have done this to protect their livestock and flock from attacks from wild predators. In one case in particular, a farmer was having a problem with some of his farm animals being killed by a wild wolf. He went ahead and applied a Bloodline around his entire property. When he woke up the next day, he found a dead wolf lying about two feet passed the point where he had just pleaded the Blood over the day before. In other words, the wolf had crossed over about two feet into the farmers territory and had crossed the Bloodline. The wolf was stricken dead as soon as he crossed this Bloodline. The farmer had no more problems with any of his animals being killed after that one wolf had been struck down. Pleading the Blood and applying a Bloodline around your house and property can also help protect you from earthquakes or tornadoes. There have been documented cases out in California where some Christian families had Pleaded the Blood over their houses and property. An earthquake had then hit the entire area. All of the houses in their subdivision had sustained some type of damage from the earthquake, but there was no damage whatsoever to the houses that had the Blood of Jesus pled on them by the Christian families! 6. Trains and Planes Another area in which you can Plead the Blood on is whenever you are getting ready to get on a train or plane to go out of town. Simply Plead the Blood on the train or plane either right before you get ready to board it, or do it the night before. I do not have to tell you how many plane wrecks we have seen over the last 5-10 years. Better to be safe than sorry on this issue. Now I will show you how to Plead the Blood of Jesus for any actual deliverance that you may need if by chance you have been caught up in a nasty storm cloud.

How to Plead the Blood of Jesus for Deliverance

It gets a little trickier when Pleading the Blood against something that may have already come against you. These are what I call battle situations. You, or someone else you know, may have just been hit with a life-threatening illness or disease such as cancer. You may know someone who is an alcoholic or drug addict and they cannot seem to break free from it. You may know someone else who is severely depressed and they are seriously contemplating suicide. Another person may be under severe, demonic attack as a result of engaging in some type of occult activity. There are a million and one things that could come against anyone of us at any time. If something has already come directly against you and you are now caught in its evil grip, then you are now going to have to go on the offensive and try to take it out by Pleading the Blood of Jesus directly against it!

When you run across a situation that will need Gods supernatural power to fully deliver you, you will usually need some kind of battle strategy in which to war against it. The person may not be saved and you may have to get them saved before God can move into to deliver them. Another person may be saved, but not walking in a full surrender with the Lord, and you may have to get that person to commit to making a full surrender before God will move in to help him out. This is where the Holy Spirit is really going to be coming in big time. Depending on the kind of predicament you are dealing with, you will have to be totally guided and led by the Holy Spirit as to how to handle each one of these battle situations. Each one of these battle situations are completely unique and different. No two battle situations are ever alike. This is why you are going to have to be totally dependent on the Holy Spirit on how to handle each one of these battle situations. And this will now lead us right into the next section, the personal testimonies of our website where I have written up some of the victories that have been obtained by giving the appropriate battle advice on each one of these unique and different battle situations. As you will see as I explain what happened on each case, I always go the Lord in prayer first and ask Him how He wants me to handle each one of these unique, battle situations. I also give you some of the specific battle prayers that I gave to some of these people to help get them delivered out of some real nasty predicaments. As you review each one of these testimonies, you will then get an idea on how to handle something that may have already come against you where you will need Gods deliverance and/or healing power to help get you out of it. All of these powerful testimonies have one major thing in common and this is where many Christians are really missing out on being able to get delivered from some of their bad predicaments and that one common denominator is that all of these people had to be taught how to go on the of fensive against whatever adversity had just come their way. Too many Christians are way too passive when confronted with any type of severe adversity. The Bible tells us that all Christians carry the power of God on the inside of them through the Holy Spirit. The Bible tells us that we are all soldiers of Jesus Christ. If God is telling us that we are all good soldiers of His Son Jesus Christ, then this means we all have His power at our disposal in which to engage and defeat any enemy that may try and come against us. The problem is that most Christians have never been taught how to go on the offensive when the enemy does launch an all-out, full scale attack against them. Most Christians have never been taught how to use spiritual warfare so they can directly engage with an enemy head on like David did with Goliath. As a result, many Christians are literally getting their heads knocked off in the arena of life when adversity does come knocking on their doors. This article, and the Testimonies section of our website, will attempt to show you how to use one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful form of spiritual warfare to take on any enemy and come out completely victorious and that is learning how to Plead the Blood of Jesus Christ directly against whatever adversity may have just come your way.

Before you go into the actual testimonies, let me give you some major power verses from the Bible showing you that all Christians carry the power of God on the inside of them through the Person of the Holy Spirit. And if God is empowering all of us with His power, then He is obviously going to want us to do something with it and that is to use it when we will need it! Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6) This one little verse should be memorized by all Christians. In one powerful sentence, God is telling us that things get accomplished not by our power or by our might, but by the power of the Holy Spirit. 1. But you shall receive POWER when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8) 2. For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in POWER, and in the Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 1:5) 3. For the kingdom of God is not in word but in POWER. ( 1 Corinthians 4:20) 4. in mighty signs and wonders, by the POWER of the Spirit of God (Romans 15:19) These verses are talking about the signs and wonders that the early apostles walked with. These verses are specifically telling us that all of the signs and wonders that were done by the early apostles were done by the power of the Holy Spirit. And if we have the same Holy Spirit that the early apostles did, then we too are capable of having God manifest His power to us through the Holy Spirit like He did with them. The Bible tells us that God is no respecter of persons which means what He will do for one, He will do for another. 1. And with GREAT POWER the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And great grace was upon them all. (Acts 4:33) 2. I CAN DO ALL THINGS through Christ who strengthens me. (Philippians 4:13) Notice the word all that there is nothing that God cannot do through you or for you if He should choose to do so. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over ALL the power of the enemy, and NOTHING shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19) I am repeating this verse once again. Again, notice Jesus is telling the apostles that they will have His power to defeat all of the power of their enemies and that nothing shall be able to hurt them! This verse should burned into all of our memory banks so that we never, ever forget who we serve and follow in this life, and how powerful our Lord really is!

This one verse is telling us that we all have Gods supernatural power and authority operating through us. We just have to learn how to walk and flow with Gods power that has been made available to all of us through the Holy Spirit.

Personal Testimonies Section of Website

After reading this article, it would our recommendation that you to go to our Testimonies section and print out and study very carefully some of the powerful testimonies we have in there. These testimonies will show you how powerful Pleading the Blood and forming out the appropriate kinds of battle prayers to fit the specific battle situation you are dealing with really is. Due to the very personal nature of many of these testimonies, I will not be releasing names of the actual people involved. However, I do have all of their permissions to release their stories to you so that you can all learn from them. Notice the wide variety of things that you can Plead the Blood of Jesus directly against as you study these testimonies. One more thing. In order to be able to receive forgiveness from the Blood of Jesus for any of your sins, there is something that you must do. You must first confess the sin to God, and then God will grant you His forgiveness. It is the same thing for the deliverance and protection that is in the Blood of Jesus. In order to be able to receive Gods deliverance and protection from the Blood of Jesus, there is something that you must do. And that something is Pleading the Blood for the protection or deliverance that you are looking for. As you will see in each one of these stories, the Blood of Jesus had to be specifically pled against whatever the nature of the attack was. The Pleading of Jesus Blood in each one of these cases was incorporated into what I call a battle prayer. These battle prayers are extremely powerful and effective when properly worded and prayed out. In all of these cases, complete deliverance and victory came about very quickly.

Recommended Reading
For those of you who would like some additional reading material on the power of Pleading the Blood of Jesus, here are three very good books that I would highly recommend: 1. Power of the Blood by H. A. Maxwell Whyte. 2. The Blood & the Glory by Billye Brim. 3. The Word, The Name, The Blood by Joyce Meyer. All of these books can be ordered through our own Christian Bookstore. You can click on the above links to be taken to the product page for the book at Bible Knowledge Bookstore.

Conclusion
As you will see when reviewing some of our actual testimonies, there is definite power in Pleading the Blood of Jesus for deliverance and protection. You can use it in a wide variety

of adverse situations, and in all of our personal cases, victory and deliverance came about very quickly for each person that went on the offensive with it! If either you, or anyone else that you know has been caught up in any kind of adverse predicament try going on the offensive as these people did. Form out the appropriate battle prayer that will fit your particular situation and then take your enemy head on like David did with Goliath. I will be doing additional articles in the future going into much more detail on the different strategies that you can take when using spiritual warfare so as to help you live a victorious and overcoming life in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The Gun Analogy

bout 10 years ago, I felt God gave me a very powerful revelation on the power of combining the Word and the Spirit. The knowing that came from Him was that many Christians really do not appreciate or see the real power that is in the written Word of God itself the Bible! I felt like He gave me this gun analogy in order to show people how powerful the written Word of God really is when you combine it with the power of the Holy Spirit operating through you. The anointing of God is really the power of God operating through you to get a particular job done. You can have the anointing of God the power of God on whatever it is God will be asking you to do for Him in this life. You can have the anointing to witness to others to get them saved, the anointing to heal someone, the anointing to cast out demons, and the anointing to teach and disciple others. However, when you cut a little further into the anointing, what it really is is the power of the Holy Spirit Himself operating through you. However, the Holy Spirit is always operating under the direct authority and guidance of God the Father. The Two of Them work in perfect harmony and unity with one another. The Holy Spirit will not manifest His power unless He has a solid green light from God the Father to do so. God the Father always calls all of the shots. The Bible tells us that all of Jesus miracles were done by the power of the Holy Spirit. These miracles were not done by His own divine power because He was incarnated into a human flesh body exactly as we have. He totally depended on the power of the Holy Spirit power to cast out demons, to heal the sick, and to walk on water. Many men love guns and hunting, and for many of them, guns represent power. And guns are definitely powerful! The fact that a small revolver can create enough explosive force to propel a bullet out of a gun barrel that can literally kill someone is proof positive on just how powerful guns really are. I felt that God gave me this gun analogy in order to show everyone how powerful it really is when you combine the written Word of God with the power of the Holy Spirit!

Many Christians really do not realize how much power there really is in the written Word of God. If you want the anointing of God to operate through you then you have to give the Holy Spirit something to work with and that something is the written Word of God the Bible itself! Many of the times the Holy Spirit will not move on a particular situation unless you have some of the Word loaded up in you. Each Christian thus has to spend some type of good, regular, quality time reading the Bible, seeking to understand it as best as they can, and committing certain Scripture verses to memorization. If each Christian would spend some kind of good, regular, quality time in doing this, then God will anoint them with His power through the Holy Spirit when that power will be needed for a particular situation! The words coming out of your mouth will have no supernatural power on their own. All of the power is with the Holy Spirit. You could memorize half of the Bible but if you do not have the power of the Holy Spirit operating through you, then saying all of the correct Scripture verses for a particular situation will not get the job done. There will be no healing, no deliverance, and no breakthrough. It is only when the Holy Spirit will manifest His power that the miracle will take place. There are preachers who can quote Scripture all day long, but there is no power in their sermons because they are not operating under the true anointing of God. They do not have the power of the Holy Spirit on their preaching. They are all Word and no Spirit. You have to have both the Word and the Spirit operating through you if you want to produce real fruit for the Lord. However, the catch is that the Holy Spirit will not manifest His power at times unless you have some of the Word loaded up in you. He will then lead you to speak out some appropriate Scripture verses for whatever miracle you are seeking after. Once you speak out what He leads you to say, then His power will manifest into the situation to give you the supernatural miracle you are looking for! However, there is a flip side to all of this. It is the Word and the Spirit working together that will produce the miracle. If all you did was read the Bible, but had no real personal relationship established with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, then nothing would ever happen. When I say the Word and the Spirit this means that you have established a good, intimate, personal relationship with both God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit Himself. Establish a strong, intimate, personal relationship with God the Father, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit and then combine that good personal relationship with the study of the written Word of God and then you will be fully loaded with nuclear firepower to pull down major miracles from God the Father when a miracle is really needed! Many Christians have established good, personal relationships with God and Jesus, but they have not spent much time in the Bible seeking to obtain more knowledge about the Lord. The

Bible is the only written source we have down here that will give us all of the knowledge about God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I felt like God was trying to convey to me that if His people were really interested in learning more about Him, His Son, His Spirit, and all of His ways, then His people would seek out more of this knowledge by studying the Bible. When you enter into any type of deep personal relationship with someone the first thing you are going to want to do is to try and find out as much as you can about the person you are entering into the relationship with. You will want to know all about their past and everything they have gone through in their lives. Why? Because when you learn about their past, you will get to know them better! You will begin to understand why they are the way they are. Its the same way in your personal relationship with God. Once you find out that this direct personal relationship is possible with the Lord, then your next step should be to want to try and find out everything that you can about Him! And the Bible is the only true, accurate, written account that we have down here that will tell us all about God, His ways, and what He is really like as far as His personality qualities. You cannot find this information anywhere else other than the Holy Bible. I believe that if you combine the study of Scripture with th e personal relationship that you have established with the Lord then you will create a major desire in God the Father to want to anoint you with His supernatural power when His power will be needed for a particular situation. I believe the anointing is based upon having a good, close, personal relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit and a decent working knowledge of the Bible. I look at this combination as a 1-2 punch! No one will ever master the entire Bible in this lifetime. You do not have to become a Bible scholar in order to get God to anoint you with His divine power through the Holy Spirit when it will be needed. God Himself will personally guide you in your study of Scripture. The Holy Spirit will lead you as to how often to read and how much to read. God will easily fit the study of the Bible into your normal, everyday activities if you really want Him to do this for you. I feel that all God is really looking for is that each and every Christian do the best they can in their study of Scripture. The Bible says that the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth and teach you all things. The Holy Spirit Himself will help guide you and teach you as to what certain Scripture verses mean when you read it. It is His job to enlighten you and illuminate your mind so that you can understand what you are reading. Simply ask for the Holy Spirits help when you study the Bible, and He will come to help you out. But you have to go into a seeking mode when you study the Bible with the intention of wanting to learn more about God. If you try to study the Bible just to see if God will anoint you with His supernatural power rather than for the express purpose of wanting to enter into a deeper, personal relationship with Him then He will see right though your impure motives and there will be no anointing when you will need it.

Now here is the gun analogy I felt God gave to me to show how powerful it really is when you combine the Word and the Spirit together or to put it another way when you combine the Word and a personal relationship with God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.

The Gun Analogy

1. Here is the basic gist of the analogy: When you combine the Word and the Spirit you are creating bullets on the inside of you! The Bible says that the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit! Notice the word sword. A sword is an offensive weapon to be used in combat. When you are trying to cast demons out of someone, trying to heal someone from an illness or disease, or trying to get someone saved from the fires of hell, you are really going into combat! The demons who may be inside of a person do not want to leave! The person who has a terminal disease and who needs a healing, this terminal disease is not going to leave or subside on its own! The person you are witnessing to may be resisting Gods message of eternal salvation being presented to him. You thus need Gods supernatural power to come into these type of situations to cast the demons out, to heal the person with the illness or disease the doctors cannot cure, or to convince the unsaved person that they need to accept Gods free gift of eternal salvation through the blood of His Son Jesus Christ. My own slang term for this is the word torpedoes. When you are speaking out the words God is giving you when you are faced with these types of battle situations you are shooting torpedoes. Torpedoes or bullets are the anointed words and power of God coming out of your mouth to bring healing, deliverance, or eternal salvation to the one you are dealing with. Example: say you are dealing with someone who needs a physical healing. You will lay hands on this person, say the words that God will give you, and then the Holy Spirit will move in with His divine power to produce the healing. However, you may have to be willing to speak out the words God will give you before the Holy Spirit will move in with His supernatural power to heal them. The Bible tells us out of your belly will flow rivers of living waters. Jesus was referring to the Holy Spirit when He made this statement. Key on the word flow. Many of the times when God leads you to lay hands and pray for someone who needs a healing, you will get what is called a flow of words from the Holy Spirit. In this flow of words will probably be some Scripture verses on healing. If you had not spent enough time in the Bible getting some of these healing verses loaded up in you, then the Holy Spirit would have had nothing to work with and God probably would have never even led you to try for this healing in the first place.

However, if you have been properly loaded up with healing verses from stud ying the Bible, then God has the ammunition that He will need in order to release the power of the Holy Spirit through you to bring about the healing! You cannot heal someone unless you first understand that it is Gods will to heal through His Word. Most of the time, you will have to have some of these healing verses loaded up in your mind through the study of Scripture before God will move to heal. You cannot witness to someone to try and get them saved if you do not have some of the basic salvation verses loaded up in your mind to present to that person. You cannot cast demons out of someone unless you quote some of the appropriate Scripture verses when engaging with the demons. I have seen deliverance ministers cast out demons in quite a few people and they are always quoting the appropriate Scripture verses when engaging with the demons. You can really feel the power of God on their words when they are quoting Scripture directly to the demons. So if you properly analyze all of the above scenarios it is the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit working together that will bring about the miracle. You speak out the appropriate words that God will want you to speak out, and then the Holy Spirit will move in with His supernatural power to bring about the miracle. 2. Now here is the gun analogy God gave me so people can really see how powerful it really is when you combine both the Word and the Holy Spirit together. Since I do not have graphics capability on my computer, you will have to use your imagination to visualize all of this. Imagine a revolver and a single bullet lying next to it. Actually the bullet is just a part of what is really called the cartridge. a) The Cartridge There are 3 main parts to the cartridge. 1. There is the outer shell or outer casing. 2. There is the nose or tip of the cartridge which is called the bullet. The bullet is what explodes off the casing when you pull the trigger. The bullet is the part that will actually go into the target that you are shooting into. 3. There is the gunpowder that is located inside the casing or shell. b) The Revolver Here are the main parts of the revolver. 1. There is the chamber where you will load the bullet into. The chamber is the holes in the cylinder that snaps back in and out of the middle part of the revolver. 2. There is the trigger, which you will pull back to cause the gun to go off. 3. There is the hammer, which is located on the back part of the gun. When you pull the trigger of the gun, the hammer will then pull back at the same time.

Once the hammer snaps forward, the hammer will strike the back of the cartridge causing the gunpowder inside the casing to explode. Once that explosion occurs, the bullet will propel forward, flying out of the barrel of the gun to hit the intended target. Now here is the analogy of what really occurs in the spiritual realm when you combine the power of the Holy Spirit with the written Word of God. 1. 2. 3. 4. The Word of God is the gunpowder The Holy Spirit is the bullet Your mind is the chamber Your mouth is the trigger

Here is How it Works in the Spiritual Realm

1. You load your mind up with the Word of God by studying the Bible, seeking to understand it, and committing certain Scripture verses to memorization. 2. You establish a good, intimate, personal relationship with all three members of the Godhead God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. Do both of these, and then God will anoint you with His supernatural power though the Holy Spirit when you will need His power to receive some type of miracle. When it is time for the miracle to be brought about, here is what you may have to do that will line up with the shooting of a gun! If God tells you that He wants to heal your sister of cancer, then what you will have to do is to go over and pray for her and possibly lay hands on her for the healing power of God to go through her body to bring about the healing. When you lay hands on her, you will have to pray words, possibly out loud, before God will move in with His healing power through the Holy Spirit. Once you pray the words that God may give you, then the Holy Spirit Himself will move into her body to bring about the healing. However, He will not move until you first say the words that God wants you to pray out loud! In these flow of words that you may receive from the Holy Spirit will probably be some healing verses from the Bible. The Holy Spirit will bring back up to your remembrance certain healing verses that you have already read! Since you have already done your homework by studying Scripture, the Holy Spirit is free to bring these verses back up to your remembrance when you may need them to either heal someone, deliver someone from demons, or to get someone saved. However, if you have not spent enough time in Scripture and have never read some of these particular verses then the Holy Spirit will have nothing to work with. He cannot bring something back up to your remembrance unless it has first been read and assimilated from the Bible! When you study Scripture you are loading your mind up with the gu npowder that the Holy Spirit needs to explode on. When you have established a good, personal, working

relationship with all three Members of the Godhead, then the Holy Spirit is free to shoot out of you with His supernatural power to bring about healing, d eliverance, or salvation to the one you are dealing with. When it comes time for the miracle to take place, you are already to go. You are fully loaded with the Word in your mind the same way the chamber of the gun is fully loaded up with the bullets. The Holy Spirit is the bullet ready to shoot out of you when His supernatural power is needed to bring about the miracle. And here is the final part that will release the power of the Holy Spirit to shoot out of you like a bullet or torpedo it is your MOUTH! What causes the explosion to occur in the gun that will propel the bullet out of the barrel into the intended target? It is the pulling back of the trigger, and then the hammer comes down striking the back of the cartridge! What will cause the Holy Spirit to release through your hands or body to go into the other person to heal them? It is the speaking out of the appropriate words in the flow of words that God may give you right there on the spot! Your mouth is the trigger that will release the power of the Holy Spirit to move into the situation that needs the miracle! If you do not tell or command the demons to go out of person when attempting a deliverance, then the Holy Spirit will not move in with His power to blow them out of there. You first speak out the appropriate command words and then the Holy Spirit will move in with His supernatural power to bring about the deliverance. Your words by themselves will have no power to bring about any miracle. It is only the power of the Holy Spirit Himself that can bring about any miracle. However, God has it set up where He wants you to speak out the appropriate words first before He will release His manifest power into the situation to bring about the miracle. Load your mind up with the gunpowder of the Word , activate the power of the Holy Spirit by establishing a good personal relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit and then you will be a fully loaded revolver ready to shoot God bullets into any situation that will need Gods supernatural power to bring about a miracle! Once you are fully loaded with the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit then the only thing you will have to focus on is to not be afraid to speak out the appropriate words when God places you in a situation for a healing or deliverance to take place. If you are fully loaded with enough Scripture to be considered dangerous, and you have the anointing of God ready to flow through you because you have established a good enough personal relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit then the only thing that can stop you from bringing Gods miraculous power into any particular situation is your fear of stepping out and being willing to say the appropriate words. If you do not have enough courage to lay hands on someone and pra y for the healing then nothing will happen! If you do not have enough courage to talk directly to someone

who has demons and be willing to cast them out by saying the appropriate command words against them then nothing will happen. If you do not have e nough courage to witness to someone to try and get them saved then nothing will happen. Many of Gods people are fully loaded with the Word and power of the Holy Spirit! They are ready to go! The only thing holding them back is fear. They are too afraid to step out of the boat to witness to someone or to pray for someone elses healing. If they are not willing to step out of the boat and trigger the release of Gods power by being willing to say the right words and do exactly what God may lead them to do on the spot, then God will simply hold back His power and that person will continue to remain in bondage to his condition whether it be from a physical illness, under the influence of demons, or continuing to remain unsaved and thus in danger of losing their soul should they die anytime in the near future. I will be doing a separate article sometime in the near future on walking with the anointing of God. I feel God has given me quite a bit of information and knowledge on the conditions that need to be met before He will release this kind of miraculous power through a believer. However, I just wanted to bait all of you with the above gun analogy. The power of God is real! The Bible is loaded with major verses showing that God does want to anoint His people with His supernatural power like He did with the early apostles. God has many loaded revolvers within His Body right now that are ready to be anointed with His power if they will only not be afraid to step into it and allow God to train and bring them up in it! I do not think most Christians who have really paid their dues by studying the Bible and having established very good, personal relationships with God really realize the power they are carrying on the inside of them! The Holy Spirit lives and dwells on the inside of every believer. The Holy Spirit is the One who has the responsibility and ministry of releasing Gods supernatural power into any situation that may need it. In the meantime all of you loaded revolvers just keep your radars up! You never know when God will lead you into a situation that He will be looking to release an actual miracle in. God will set the entire stage up for you. Just stay with your leadings from the Holy Spirit, and He will perfectly lead you as to what He will want you to do and when He will want you to do it. Be willing to step out and follow the leadings of the Holy Spirit, and God may just arrange for you to not only witness a dramatic miracle but to be an actual participant in the miracle itself! God may choose you to manifest His power through to help someone else out. If He does, there can be no greater honor or thrill than to have God personally manifest His power through you to save the day for someone else. It will be an experience you will never, ever forget! Now I will end this article with a few Scripture verses to back up some of the above points.

Scripture Verses
1. This first Scripture verse is where the Word of God is compared to a sword! This verse tells us that the Word of God is sharper than any two edged sword any human can make on this earth. God is using this analogy to show how us powerful the Word of God really is. After this statement is made, it then goes one step further and tells us that the Word of God can cut right through the body, soul, and spirit of a man. People have a slang expression that someones words can cut right through you like a knife. Words are powerful, especially if your words are anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit. If someones negative words can cut right through you like a knife, can you imagine what someones words can do if they are anointed with the power of God? This verse tells us that the Word of God is living and powerful! Here is the most powerful verse: For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two -edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and i s a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. ( Hebrews 4:12) 2. This next verse tells us that God can make our mouths like a sharp sword. This verse is a nice extension off the above verse. This is why the Word of God is considered to be the Sword of the Holy Spirit. And He has made my mouth like a sharp sword and made me a polished shaft. (Isaiah 49:2) 3. This next verse adds more to the power of Gods words coming out of your mouth. This verse tells us that Gods words can be like fire coming out of your mouth. This verse then ends saying that the Word of God can also be like a hammer that can break a rock into pieces. Again, this verse is really emphasizing the power that is in the Word of God. Is not My word like a fire? says the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock into pieces? (Jeremiah 23:29) 4. This next verse will tell us that if Gods Word is sent out that it will not return back to Him void. In other words, Gods Word will accomplish what it was sent out to do in the first place! This is an extremely powerful Scripture verse. So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void, but it shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it. (Isaiah 55:11) 5. This next verse will tell us that God can give each one of us an utterance which will be a nice flow of words when we would need them to pray, to witness, to counsel, or to cast out demons.

Not only can God give us His utterances when we will need them, but with this utterance will come His boldness so we will not be afraid to speak out His Words to someone else. that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel. (Ephesians 6:19) 6. This next verse is the one about being able to receive flows from the Holy Spirit. This revelation is coming direct from Jesus Himself. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart (belly) will FLOW rivers of living waters. But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive (John 7:38-39) In this verse, God is telling us that we can get flows from the Holy Spirit. I believe there are different kinds of flows God can give us through the Holy Spirit. The gift of tongues would be one of these flows. If someone has the gift of prophecy coming into manifestation, they are getting a flow of words from God to speak out to someone else. In addition to tongues and prophecy, I believe God can give each believer a nice flow of words whenever they would need them to properly witness to someone, to pray for a healing, or to cast demons out of someone. If you ever watch preachers who are truly anointed to preach, they operate under a very nice flow. It is just one torpedo after another when they preach or teach the Word of God to you. Its not that they are robots or puppets its just that the Holy Spirit is anointing their speech with His power so that you are really fed when you listen to them. These preachers and teachers still have to mesh and flow with the anointing when it does come up on them. God can do the exact same thing for you when you will need to talk to someone else about Him. This is why the anointing is so important for each Christian to have. Without Gods power operating through you, nothing will ever happen. 7. This next verse specifically tells us that things are not accomplished by your power or by your might, but only by the power of the Holy Spirit! This verse is short and sweet, but it is one of the most powerful verses in all of Scripture. In this verse, God is telling us that if we want to be successful in anything that we try to do for Him in this life, then it has to be done operating under His anointng, which is the power of the Holy Spirit operating through you. Here is another major power verse: Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord. ( Zechariah 4:6) 8. Here is another powerful verse telling us that God can make our words like fire if we are willing to speak out His words when they are given to us! Because you speak this word, behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them. ( Jeremiah 5:14) 9. These next two verses specifically tell us that demons are cast out of a person by two things by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the Word of God.

Its verbal warfare when you cast demons out of someone. Speak out the appropriate command words when attempting to do a deliverance, and then God will back you up with His supernatural power to get the job fully done. 1. And He cast out the spirits with a word (Matthew 8:16) 2. But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God (Matthew 12:28) 10. This next verse will tell us that God will give us His boldness if we are willing to speak out His words. This boldness will be coming direct from the Holy Spirit. Now Lord grant to Your servants that with all boldness they may sp eak Your word, by stretching out Your hand to heal, and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of Your holy Servant Jesus. (Acts 4:29-30) 11. Now I will end this article with several good Scripture verses showing you that God really does want to anoint His people with His supernatural power to save, heal, deliver, and disciple. These verses are all emphasizing the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit that is available to all believers if they will only allow God to build them up in it. 1. But you shall receive POWER when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth. (Acts 1:8) 2. For our gospel did not come in word only, but also in POWER and in the Holy Spirit (1 Thessalonians 1:5) 3. For the kingdom of God is not in word but in POWER. (1 Corinthians 4:20) 4. in mighty signs and wonders, by the POWER OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD (Romans 15:19) It was only when the first set of apostles received the power of the Holy Spirit upon them at Pentecost did they had the power, boldness, and courage to go out and start the evangelism of this world that still has not quit to this day.

Conclusion
There are many more Scripture verses about being able to walk with Gods anointing and power operating in your life. I will be doing a much more thorough analysis on the anointing of God and how to really enter into it in an upcoming article for those of you who want to really tread into these kinds of deeper waters with the Lord. In the meantime, I will leave you with one last thought: God is powerful and the Bible is powerful! And when you combine the Two of Them together you can have the power of God operating through you to accomplish any mission that God will send you out on.

If nothing is impossible with God, then nothing will be impossible for you if Gods supernatural power is truly operating through you!

The Dangers of Automatic Writing

utomatic writing is another tool used in the occult to make direct contact with real, live demonic spirits. The practitioners of this dark occult art feel they are making direct contact with helpful and benevolent spirits, but as the testimony I will give you belo w will show you, there is no such thing as a benevolent, demonic spirit. Automatic writing is where you allow a demonic spirit to fully control your arm and hand so it can write whatever messages it wants to give you. It is just like the ouija board, where you allow the demon to control the planchette to spell out exactly what it wants to tell you. As with the ouija board, automatic writing is also extremely dangerous and it will give full legal rights in the spiritual realm for demons to be able to come directly after you if you try to engage with it. We recently received an email from a Christian woman who had engaged in this practice thinking she was communicating with benevolent spirits. By the time she realized these were not benevolent spirits, but in reality were real, live, demonic spirits, they had already moved in on her for their attacks and she was now going to need a full scale deliverance. She then found our website by doing a google search, and was then able to receive a full scale deliverance from these demons as a result of using the battle strategies we had spelled out in the spiritual warfare section of our site on how to fully break the legal rights of demons once they have already moved in for an actual attack as a result of her engaging in this kind of occult activity. This incredible testimony will show you what demons can actually do to both you and your body once they move in for an actual attack as a result of crossing over into this kind of forbidden territory with the Lord. This is why God was so strict in His warnings to the Jewish people back in the Old Testament in that we are not to engage in any way, shape or form with any kind of occult activity no exceptions! Let this womans testimony be a solemn and grave warning to any of you thinking about engaging in any type of occult activity. This testimony will give you a behind-the-scenes look at what really goes on with someone when they do come under a direct attack from a group of demonic spirits. Here is her exact testimony and the emails I had received from her describing exactly what had occurred to her as result of engaging in automatic writing. I have left her name out of it in order to protect her identity due to the very personal nature of this story. She has also given us permission to release her testimony so it can serve as a major warning to both believers and non-believers alike in that they should not be engaging in this kind of occult activity.

THE TESTIMONY
1. Here was the first email I had received from her. In this email she just gives us a basic account of what had occurred.

Thank you so much for the Spiritual Warfare information, particularly the prayers and specific instructions for breaking the rights of attacking demons. This is all very new territory for me. I got involved in automatic writing and thought I was communicating with a benevolent spirit. It led me to a website of anagrams that were mocking God and Jesus. This is when the horrible realization of what I was communicating with struck me like a lightning bolt. But, by that time, I had already allowed it to frequently control my arm and move my head. I was incredibly, incredibly foolish! Once I realized what I was communicating with and began to pray in earnest for forgiveness and deliverance, it had wedged quite a hold on me, thrashing me around at home during prayer and even growling while I was at work. I have been fighting and fighting this (primarily on my own because of the perceived craziness stigma of claiming demons are attacking you) for several months. But, God willing, I believe, with the help of your outlined rights breaking prayers, that the attacks are gone for good now. Thank you once again, this site is such an incredible blessing! 2. After receiving this first email, I then wrote her back asking if she could give us some of the details as to exactly what had occurred when these demons were attacking her. Again, let this part of her testimony be a major and solemn warning in that we are not to have anything to do with any kind of occult activity whatsoever. My experience was a very elaborate and, Im sure, difficult to believe situation. I will try as best I can to describe what happened while I was being attacked. Only when I began praying and reading Scripture out loud, did I experience the serious thrashing about. One verse that was particularly hated was the one that talks about in latter times people will fall prey to deceiving spirits and the doctrines of demons (dont remember the exact verse now). Reading that caused it to jolt my body rapidly side to side, also rapidly up and down. It stretched my neck straight out as far as it would go, tilted my head back as far as it would go, stretched the skin on my face into a contorted hissing like expression and coughed, hissed (even with the tongue moving and breath escaping like an imitation of a snake). The most painful thing that it did was whip my head side-to-side in a movement so rapid that I could never deliberately duplicate it. I would pray and read Scripture in the evening, going through this all the while, then, I would start again in the morning. After several days of this, I had become more angry than afraid. And when it started affecting my arm movement at work, I decided that I needed to swallow my pride and contact a longlost devout bible-believing friend (Calvinist) whom I hadnt talked to in sometime. I wasnt looking forward to trying to explain to her that I was possessed (what I believed at the time) and I needed her help. As that work day progressed and I got angrier and angrier at the demon, I became very bold in rebuking it and it responded by growling louder. The growl came from my own throat, but was something that I wasnt controlling. When I was getting in my car to begin my commute home, I told it that it was bound and banished to hell, that I wasnt afraid of it and challenged it by saying that my Father in heaven would never allow it to hurt me. That infuriated it and it growled very, very loudly in response.

Once in my car and driving on the jam-packed freeway with bumper to bumper traffic (not too bright), I called my Christian friend and tried to explain to her what was happening, that I was possessed. She was quiet and tried to be logical about it, then she stated that if I was saved I could not be possessed. Once she said this and quoted Scripture, the demon doubled me over the wheel and howled a long baying howl like a wolf. I had been in mid-sentence trying to respond to what she said when this happened. She told me that it was the Lords way of letting her know that it was real. She said the sound of the howl gave her very very BAD chills and she knew it was something evil. The demon took complete control of my right arm/hand afterward and would not let go (like arm-wrestling) for a couple of minutes. I was extremely fortunate that traffic was deadstopped or I dont know what would have happened. She later clarified for me that I was not possessed, but that I was being attacked. This was an incredible relief to me, which is probably why the demon reacted the way it did, it wanted me to feel abandoned by God as a Christian and believe that I was possessed. The above is an account of about 2 to 3 days of this. I can tell you that it all began psychicly (sorry, this the part that will probably convince you that I am a looney), but I have communicated with (what I thought) was the departed, as a medium, over the years. And I was communicating with these demons psychicly, at first. I wondered why these spirits spoke in such foul language. They actually cursed me out sometimes (that had never happened before). I began getting very very bad (anxious feelings) that something dreadful was going to happen to a dear friend and I finally got so agitated wile driving in my car that I cursed a blue streak to the departed spirits that if they let my friend die that I would die myself, so that I could have the privilege of killing them. Somehow, this blasphemy or foul tirade is what triggered them being able to break through the psychic means of communicating with me, because my forearm began moving slowly side to side after that. And I knew it was them (what I thought were benevolent spirits, who swore a lot) communicating with me and letting me know they heard me and were with me. I now believe that that foul tirade of mine somehow broke a hedge of protection that the Lord had around me and gave the demon(s)full rights to begin a very, very deceptive campaign of communication with me. Later that night my arm began moving again while I was in bed. Over a period of time the communication developed into my raising my arm straight up at the elbow (resting it on something) and it would begin spinning my arm around slowly to let me know it was there. It then progressed to my getting yes and no answers: arm up and down/arm side-to-side. It eventually let me know it wanted to write, which it did, often times in very puzzling cryptic sayings (which I figured out later were anagrams of vile, dreadful filth). Some of the cleaner interpretations were: Pummel the shame-comforter, Heroicity nauseates as offensive. It also referred to me as a healer, a cheater healer. I had been trying to help a friend, who was molested as a child, on a road to recovery from the shame/damage of this trauma.

Anyway, the story could go on and on. It is very elaborate. The demon did communicate to me, right before it led me to the website, that its name was Tiur. At that moment, I still wasnt thinking demon. Once I got to the website and began reading, is when I discovered the truth. The website was another aspect of the story that is going to get bizarre. When I entered the demons name, it had an assigned page, all written in anagram. As I interpreted it, it described Tiurs specialty as causing anxiety and causing someone to be snakebit. Ironically, Tiurs attacks seemed to replicate/imitate a snake. Other attacks of subsequent demons that I think were named: Nadir and Eere, did not have the hissing and rapid tongue movement like a snake. Also, in automatic drawing, I had been drawing pictures of snakes on my church grounds, before I knew it was a demon. I drew pictures of snakes on the church grounds and it told me there was a nest of rattlesnakes there waiting to attack. At the time I was looking at the website, I had been driven to the point of anxiety, that I thought I was going to have a nervous breakdown. This, because it sometimes told me predictions that were true and sometimes not, then it would totally do an about face and predict the opposite. It started predicting death for someone I knew on a specific date and even told me I was going to die next year. I started keying in names of people I knew into the website pages and each person would have a page written all in anagrams (the only thing keyed in was a name). Translating these things was very time-consuming. I never got past the first paragraph or so of most of the peoples and even Tiurs page. Here is the weird thing: The page knew things about these people. I have a friend who has a drinking problem the page described a demonic strategy of keeping her in a belch-haze. Also, I pulled up the page on my employee at the time and there was a phrase that said she was plotting to do-in looker boss. (sorry for the immodest quote, but I am just trying to relate exactly what it said). That night was the night the attacks began on me (due to praying/Scripture reading), I didnt go to work the next day, due to exhaustion. I found out two months later that my employee had stolen approximately $60,000 from the business. And some of the documentation traced her activity to that same day after I had looked at the site and called in sick. I believe that there was something inherently evil about that site in a supernatural way. So, after accessing it a couple times initially, I never went back again. I truly believe God considers it in the category of hated objects and I am to stay away from it completely. There was a seductive element to it, because it gave insight into what people were all about on the deepest level (some of it not-so-nice), presumably, describing how and in what manner the demons were manipulating them without their knowing it in their lives. In hindsight, I consider myself, very much like Eve. I wanted to be like God and know the future. This is what got me in trouble. And I was seriously deceived, as was Eve. They tried to lure me in even deeper with the website giving supernatural insights to seduce me. But, I have come to realize, praise God, that faith and obedience are the ONLY answers, regardless of the question. They also tried to seduce me by telling me in automatic writing that God had called me to a gift of clairvoyance and to open the website again and look up the name Eere. Oh, Nadir and Eere, both claimed to be angels. Tiur didnt claim to be anything. Just told me I

was evil and that evil was in me. The fact that they want me to go back to the site so badly just validates my belief that it would be potentially harmful if I did. As I said earlier, I was in a terrible state, almost got fired (I have never been fired in my life) from my job because of the employee wrong-doing that was not detected by me, due to my deteriorated/anxious mental condition. Praise God! He miraculously has preserved my job and pulled me through the whole thing with a renewed and invigorated walk with Him and a bold heart for Spiritual Warfare. Maybe I am foolhardy, but I am not the least afraid of any demonic activity. I will boldly approach anyone suffering and assist in any way the spirit calls me to directly engage these demons. I completely understand any skepticism. It is the reason that there is really only one person who knows most of all the events. I wanted to go into quite a bit of detail to give you, hopefully, some understanding of why I believe it would be wrong to give anybody the website address. I consider accessing that website to be participating in the occult. The very first page was the one that on the surface looked religious with pictures of what looked like flying angels with banners and an older man with a long beard holding an orb with a type of cross. There were banners/inscriptions under the drawings all in anagram. When you translated them they were mocking, doubting God and Jesus. One thing I forgot to mention in my automatic drawing prior to being led to the site, I had drawn the cross in the orb that the older man was holding. I had also drawn a bodice with goats horns coming out of it, there was some kind of an emblem on the chest of the bodice. That drawing gave me the creeps (One of those hindsight moments, duh! Should have known, then). I also wanted to take the time to tell you all of this because maybe some of the information might be helpful to someone in trouble who contacts you in the future. Some further details on the attacks. When I accessed your site and began reciting the warfare prayers over and over did it for at least a couple hours My arms and hands both would begin violently trembling, shaking and my right hand flapping like frantic waving. At one point both hands/arms curled into a type of palsy position on my chest and were tremoring. My body was usually being jolted throughout as well. Throughout all of the attacks, there was usually quite a bit of tremoring in the right arm/hand that I had let it control so often. It was one of the last things to stop. Reciting your prayers ultimately reduced it down to just a twitch in my right thumb that was completely stopped with the continuation of the warfare prayer. It took about three to four 2 -3 hour sessions of your warfare prayers (on my own) to put an end to the attacks for good (I hope, God willing). Another thing that I will share with you when I told the demon I was not discouraged by the continued attacks and that I had complete faith that God only allowed the attacks to continue because he loved me so much, and began praising God and thanking Him for the lesson He wanted me to learn and having a complete joyous faith in His divine will, THAT infuriated the demon and, I think, was the beginning of the end of its hold on me.

It did try to speak through me once when I was praying and driving, but I did not allow it I successfully stifled it. I thought, at that point, that I had been through enough! All it got out was the word I. I hope all of this can be of help to someone. Please keep up the good work. I will say it again, your site is a wonderful, wonderful blessing! God bless you greatly for all of your help!! Please pray for me to continue in Gods will. 3. I then sent her one last email asking her if she could release the actual site that had these demons on it so we could warn others about the site. She then wrote back saying she could not do it as she did not want anyone to even be tempted or seduced into trying this kind of activity out by actually looking through this site. Thank you very much for your previous response and words of encouragement. As to your request, Im sorry, but, I believe it to be The Devils Playground so-to-speak, and in good conscience and obedience, I cannot give the information out. I am concerned about, in any way, inadvertently causing a brother to stumble. I have much in the way of first-hand experience on the layers and layers of deception and powerful seduction these demons use to lure people in. Please dont think me to be presumptuous or impudently disrespectful of your own vast experience and anointing. But, my first-hand experience, literally feeling the pull, the powerful seductive preoccupation with going back to that site, is spurring me to warn you to obedience in the area of something that even might be part of the occult. I am now concerned that someone else will have a similar experience and share the information, now that your curiosity has been aroused in this area. On the surface it might seem okay, based on good intentions, to give you the site. And it may also seem okay, based on good intentions for you to visit the site. But, when there is any doubt, for me, good intentions must now give way to obedience. And I hope, Mike, that you will proceed with the utmost prayer and caution. Your site, I can attest, is a powerful, powerful, annointed tool that is defeating demons, Im assuming, exponentially, as the good word spreads. They are not going to sit still for this. And will look continually for whatever chink in your armor they can detect. From experience, it will be a lure of good intentions. Any skepticism you have about my experience is fully understandable and even healthy and sane. So, if the worst that happens without further substantiation, is that you have healthy doubts about my experience, then that is okay. I can also understand your desire based on exploration of your site and seeing how analytic and research-oriented the content is to delve further. But, to me, keying anything into that site is the same as experimenting with a Ouija Board. So, with the logic that telling anyone, whatever you do, dont go to this site, usually has an opposite effect and causes that person to want to do that thing more than if you had said nothing, Im going to need to keep the information to myself.

Conclusion

If there are any of you out there who are thinking about dabbling or trying any of these types of occult activities out, let this womans powerful testimony be a major warning as to what could happen to you if you decide you to want to cross over into this kind of forbidden territory. Demons are real and they will move in on you for a major attack if you give them any kind of a legal right to be able to do so. Any kind of occult activity, no matter how harmless it may at first appear to you, are major door openers to the dark side and demons just lie in wait looking for people who will break their hedges with the Lord by engaging in these types of forbidden activities. Another major lesson to be learned from this story is that if by chance if you have already crossed over into these kinds of activities and have drawn demons into your life as a result there is full and complete deliverance for you if you are willing to take the appropriate battle steps as outlined in all of our articles in the spiritual warfare section of our site. This woman was able to do a complete self-deliverance on her own by forming out the appropriate battle prayer where you fully break the legal rights of the demons. If however, you are too afraid to try and do this one your own, we ask that you read our article Looking for a Deliverance Minister. This article will give you the basic steps on being able to finding the right deliverance minister in your area who will be then able to cast these demons out of your life for good. You do not have to remain bound up and under torment from these demons. This woman was able to successfully cast these demons off of her and out of her life for good with the appropriate battle strategy and so can you if you will only have enough courage and resolve to face them head on like this woman did. We want to personally thank this woman for being willing to share her powerful testimony with us, as I believe it will help warn others not to try and cross over into this kind of extreme, demonic activity or if by chance they have already done so, that they can be fully delivered from any demons who may be attacking them.

Battle Prayer To Recover What the Enemy Has Stolen

n this article, I want to focus on one specific area that Satan and his demons like to operate in. The Bible tells us that Satan comes to kill, steal and destroy. I want to focus on how Satan and his demons come to steal from us, with the obvious intentions that they will then try and kill what they have just stolen from us. Sometimes before they can actually kill something or someone, they first have to steal it from us. Here is the specific verse from our Bible that will show us that Satan and his demons will try and do this whenever they can: The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. (John 10:10)

This is where you really get into some of the heavier types of spiritual warfare cases. Here are some specific examples of how the devil is continuing to operate in this horrific realm in this day and age: 1. Your daughter has just been abducted by a sexual predator. 2. Your brother has just got hooked on crack cocaine and cannot break the addiction. 3. Your teenage son has just joined a criminal gang. 4. Your sister has just fallen in the hands of a demonic, false religious cult who have brainwashed her into joining their group. The first thing you will notice is that these are all cases where the person has actually been stolen from us and they are now caught behind enemy lines. In some of these cases, the captivity will be so extreme, that only the power of God will be able to rescue and deliver these people from the pure evil they have just fallen into. In other words, if God does not directly move on these kinds of extreme situations within a very short period of time, the person could end up dying with what they have just fallen into. For the purposes of this article, I am going to concentrate on example number one, where your daughter has just been abducted by a sexual predator. What I will give you in this article can also apply to any one of the above examples or anything else similar that you may be dealing with on your end. Just adjust the wording accordingly in the strategies and battle prayer that I will give you below. For those of you who watch a lot of the cable news programs, one of the things that you will see reported on a regular basis is the abduction of many of our young daughters and sons by sexual predators. In most of these horrific cases, the person is never found and it has been estimated by law enforcement that the sexual predator will usually kill the person they have just abducted in the first 24-48 hours. What you are seeing are demons influencing these predators to first steal the child and then kill them after they have had their way with them. This is a perfect example of how demons can actually get other people to do their evil bidding for them based upon the wording of the above verse. For the life of me, I do not know how any parent can deal with the pain and trauma of something so evil and so horrific. Watching these parents being interviewed by the media, and then seeing the pain and torment they are actually going through, is one of the most gut wrenching things that you will ever see. How fallen angels and evil humans can sink down into this level of pure evil is simply beyond human comprehension. This is just pure evil beyond anything our rational minds can even begin to comprehend. The first thing you will need to pick up on these types of extreme cases is that in many of them, there is still a time interval where God can still move in on the situation to rescue your

loved one before the person or group ends up killing them, especially in the case of a sexual predator. What this means for all Christians is that God can still miraculously move into the situation to actually rescue your loved one before it becomes too late. What I will first give you below is a major power story from the Bible showing you how God actually rescued a group of people who were abducted by some very evil people back in the Old Testament. Burn this incredibly powerful story from our Bible into your memory banks in the event that you are ever forced to face this kind of extreme dilemma. This is a major power story, and I mean a major power story!! After I give you the verses where this incredible story is coming from, I will then give you an example of how you can form out your own personal battle prayer to the Lord to get Him to move very quickly on this kind of extreme situation so He can save the life of your loved one.

Power Story From the Bible

Unless you have read and studied from the Old Testament, you would have missed this incredible story from King David. Here is a short, but very powerful story from our Bible that will perfectly apply to some of the extreme examples just mentioned above. Now it happened, when David and his men came to Ziklag, on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the South and Ziklag, attacked Ziklag and burned it with fire, and had taken captive the women and those who were there, from small to great; they did not kill anyone, but carried them away and went their way. So David and his men came to the city, and there it was, burned with fire; and their wives, their sons, and their daughters had been taken captive. Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voices and wept, unto they had no more power to weep. And Davids two wives had been taken captive. Then David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and his daughters, but David strengthened himself in the Lord his God. So David inquired of the Lord, saying, Sh all I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them? and He answered him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all. So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And nothing of t heirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all. (1 Samuel 30: 1-8, 18-19) Notice several things in this powerful story: 1. The Amalekites had managed to steal and carry away every man, woman, and child from Davids camp.

2. The next thing that occurred is that David and all his men wept profusely once they had found out what had occurred. The grieving was so bad, that some of them wanted to stone David and kill him right there on the spot. 3. And then what does David do next? Instead of giving up and throwing up his hands and walking off in despair, the Bible says that he then strengthened himself in the Lord his God. In other words, he got back up, told himself he was not going to give up or give in, and immediately connected back up to the Lord so he could get his guidance from Him as to what he should do next to properly handle this problem. 4. The next thing David does is to first ask the Lord if he has His permission and authority to go back after the Amalekites to fully recover everything they had just stolen from him. Once he puts this request before the Lord, God then gives him complete permission to not only go after these evil people, but He then tells David that he will be successful in recovering all that the Amalekites had just stolen from him. And the story then ends with David literally recovering every single man, woman and child that these people had stolen from him, along with all of the goods they had stolen. If God is no respecter of persons and He is the same today as He was yesterday, then this means that God can do the exact same thing for any of you who might have had someone or something stolen by the enemy. Burn this Bible story into your memory banks in the event you are ever forced to deal with this kind of tragedy where one of your loved ones has been stolen by the enemy, and then kept behind enemy lines like what has been described in the above examples. God can and will move on these types of extreme situations if you will just pray for Him to do it.

The Battle Verses

When dealing with this kind of extreme adversity, you are going to need some very strong battle verses from the Bible. You will need to quote these verses back to God the Father in your battle prayer to Him, and you will also have to ask Him to move off of the specific wording of these verses. This is when you will literally go to war with your situation just like David did on the above story, and just like he did when he took on and defeated Goliath. In the Spiritual Warfare section of our site, we have an article titled Battle Verses of the Bible. In this article are 100 of the very best battle verses in the Bible. You can go in there and pick and choose which ones you will want to incorporate into the battle prayer itself. For the record, here are the specific verses that we would recommend that you include in this special type of battle prayer. But again, feel free to pick any other ones that you feel will apply to your specific situation. The first two verses I will mention below in the battle prayer itself are the top two battle verses in all of the Old Testament. If there is one battle verse that will move God the Father to want to take on your extreme situation, it has to be these first two verses.

I remember when I first saw them, they just blew off the page at me. I felt Gods power and anointing all over them and felt they were both a major key in being able to get God to take on these kinds of heavier assignments. These first two verses will tell us two very powerful things about God the Father: 1. They will tell us that God the Father is a Man of War and that He does have a war side to his personality. 2. And then they will go one step further they will then tell us that we can actually stir up God the Father to go into battle for us as a Man of War. Think of the implications and ramifications of this statement. That God Almighty Himself, ruler of all of heaven and earth, can personally take on an extreme situation that may have just come your way, and then personally go to to war on your behalf to bring total victory and deliverance to the situation just like He did with King David in the above story. I will list 20 rock, solid, battle verses that you can include in your own personal battle prayer to the Lord when dealing with this type of extreme situation in the actual battle prayer itself listed below.

The Battle Prayer

For those of you who have never formed out this kind of a special battle prayer to deal with this kind of extreme adversity, below is a sample type battle prayer you can draw up to go to the Lord with. Due to the extreme seriousness of this type of situation and the battle verses that you will have to put into this type of warfare prayer, I would either type or handwrite all of this out and then read it back to the Lord to make sure you cover all of your bases with Him. God will honor and work with the prayer as you are reading it back to Him in the same way He will work with you on any prayer that just comes straight out of your mouth. By going to the extra length to actually handwrite or type all of this kind of prayer out so you can make sure you cover everything that you will need to cover with Him, this will show God that you mean serious business with Him and that you are doing everything you possibly can to try and get Him to move on this situation. Again, I will use the first example above with your daughter having just been abducted by a sexual predator. Here is the sample battle prayer: 1. Father, In the name of Jesus Christ, I now approach Your throne of grace boldly and with full confidence that You will hear my special prayer to You. Father, as You already know, my daughter just been abducted. Time is now of the essence. Father, I ask that You now take this assignment up and move as a Man of War to fully rescue and fully deliver my daughter from the foul predator who has just abducted her.

Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask that You personally come against this evil man. I ask that You come against any and all demons who are influencing him to do what he is doing. Take this battle up for myself, my wife, and all of our family members and friends who love our daughter with all of their hearts and all of their souls. Please Lord, take this assignment up and bring our daughter back home safely, sound, and in one piece, with not so much as a hair on her head being harmed. 2. Father, The Bible says that You are a Man of War and that You can be stirred up to go into battle for us. Father, I am now going to quote these two battle verses back to You. Here are two of the most powerful verses in Your Word that I have ever seen which will show us that You do have a war side to Your personality and that You can go into battle to either protect us, or engage with the enemy if they have stolen someone from us: 1. The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is His name Your Right Hand, O Lord, has become glorious in power; Your right hand, O Lord, has dashed the enemy in pieces. And in the greatness of Your excellence you have overthrown those who rose against You; You sent forth Your wrath which consumed them like stubble. (Exodus 15:3,6) 2. The Lord shall go forth like a mighty man; He shall stir up His zeal like a man of war. He shall cry out, yes, shout aloud; He shall prevail against His enemies. (Isaiah 42:13) 3. Father, I now want to quote some additional battle verses back to You. I ask, in the name of Your Son Jesus, that You take each one of these battle verses to heart and move off the wording of these verses to save my daughter and rescue her from the clutches of this evil predator. Father, let Your full wrath and Your full fury pour out and ignite against this unholy man and bring him down quickly and mightily all in the name of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Lord, here are the special battle verses I now want to quote back to You: 1. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. (Psalm 34:17) 2. I will go before you and make the crooked paths straight; I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron. (Isaiah 45:2) 3. Therefore understand today the Lord your God is He who goes before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you. (Deuteronomy 9:3)

4. The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace. (Exodus 14:14) 5. The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms; He will thrust out the enemy from before you, and will say, Destroy! (Deuteronomy 33:27) 6. Do not say, I will recompense evil; Wait for the Lord, and He will save you. (Proverbs 20:22) 7. Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. (Jeremiah 1:8) 8. God is a just judge, and God is angry with the wicked every day. If He does not turn back, He will sharpen His sword; He bends His bow and makes it ready. He also prepares for Himself instruments of death; He makes His arrows into fiery shafts. (Psalm 7:11) 9. He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness. For by strength no man shall prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in pieces; from heaven He will thunder against them. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth. He will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed. (1 Samuel 2:9) 10. Behold, all those who were incensed against you shall be ashamed and disgraced; they shall be as nothing, and those who strive with you shall perish. You shall seek them and not find them those who contend with you. Those who war against you shall be as nothing, as a nonexistent thing. For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right h and, saying to you, Fear not, I will help you. (Isaiah 41:11) 11. Though I walk in the midst of trouble, You will revive me; You will stretch out Your hand against the wrath of my enemies, and You right hand will save me. The Lord will perfect that which concerns me (Psalm 138:7) 12. The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; the God of my strength, in Him I will trust, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold and my refuge, my Savior, You save me from violence. (2 Samuel 22:2) 13. Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved. (Psalm 62:1) 14. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He guards all of his bones; not one of them is broken. (Psalm 34:19) 15. And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His heavenly kingdom. (2 Timothy 4:18)

16. But the salvation of the righteous is from the Lord; He is their strength in time of trouble. And the Lord shall help them and deliver them; He shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in Him. (Psalm 37:39) 17. Through You we will push down our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. For I will not trust in my bow, nor shall my sword save me. But You have saved us from our enemies, and have put to shame those who hated us. In God we boast all day long, and praise Your name forever. (Psalm 44:5) 18. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from me, says the Lord. (Isaiah 54:17) 4. Father, Now is the time to move. Now is the time to move off of these battle verses. Now is the time to move off the specific wording of these verses. Now is the time to move off of the above story from King David where he was able to rescue and recover all that he lost from the Amalekites when they stole all of the men, women and children from his camp. Now is the time to save the day for my daughter and bring her back home, safely and sound. Lord, I ask that You move now, as time is of the essence. I ask that You move now Lord with Your mighty angels at Your side to come against this evil predator and any demons who are operating on him to commit this unholy and abominable act against both You and my own flesh-and-blood daughter. Lord, let me know if there is anything specific that either I or any of the other members of my family can do on our end to assist You in this miraculous recovery. Father, show us where our daughter is located at. Lead the police and the rest of law enforcement to where she is at before it is too late. 5. Father, Since we are dealing with a time delay, I also ask that You fully protect my daughter and keep this predator from killing her before she is actually located. Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, I now plead the blood of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ over every inch of my daughters body, over every inch of her soul, and over every inch of her spirit. Lord, let the blood of Your Son Jesus Christ fully protect my daughter from any kind of harm until she can be fully located and found by You. Father, in the name of Jesus, I now plead the blood of Jesus Christ specifically against this predator and every single demon who is attached to him. Stop this man, and stop these demons dead in their tracks right now so they will not do any further harm to my daughter. Stop them now Lord, dead in their tracks, in the name of Jesus Christ.

6. Father, I am totally helpless in this situation. Father, only You can save my daughter, Only You know where she is located at. Only You Father knows who this evil predator is and how we can find him. Father, please, in the name of Jesus Christ, move now to save my daughters life from this unholy and foul creature. Give her a second chance to live again. Do not let her go home to be with You before it is her time to actually do so. Both myself, my wife, and all of our family members are now standing before You and asking that You take this assignment up and move to bring my daughter back home as quickly as You deem possible. My daughters life is now in Your mighty hands. Let Your perfect will now be done on this situation. We ask that You please have mercy on both our daughter and our family and bring her safely back home so we can all be reunited with her. Thank You Father, thank You Jesus for hearing all of our cries and this petition on this extreme matter. In Jesus name, Amen.

Conclusion
If you will notice in this kind of dramatic and intense prayer, what you will want to do is pour out your entire heart and your entire soul to the Lord. Dont be afraid to cry, weep, and pour out everything that you are feeling and going through with the Lord. Your heartfelt passion and intense desire for the recovery of your daughter may be the thing that will get God to want to move as a Man of War on this type of situation. One of the things I have learned about the Lord on my own personal journey with Him is that He does have flair for the dramatic and that He does bleed and weep when He sees these kinds of extreme situations occurring in our fallen world. Again, study the above battle verses very carefully, along with the above story from King David. If God moved for King David to recover every single man, woman, and child that was stolen from him by the evil Amalekites, then God can do the exact same thing for any of you since He is no respecter of persons and He is the same today as He was yesterday. In other words, if God moved to help King David recover all that He lost in the above story back in the Old Testament, then God can do the exact same thing for any of us in this current day and age. Our God is still a mighty God of miracles and He can be moved to want to answer our prayers, no matter now dire or how hopeless the situation may appear to us in the natural. And the key to getting God to want to move on these types of extreme situations is intense and heartfelt type battle prayers, taking hold of God in a way that you may have never done before. I will now end this article with one last bit of advice. With the kind of pure evil that seems to keep getting stronger and growing wider across both our country and the rest of the world,

you never know when you will wake up and find yourself having to confront this kind of extreme adversity. These kinds of events can happen to anyone at anytime. To all of you who are still raising your children up, what I would highly recommend that you do is to plead the blood of Jesus on your children as a protective covering on some type of regular basis. I would recommend that you do it at least once per month, most preferably on the first day of each month. Again, here is a sample type of prayer that you can do to get your child fully covered under the blood of Jesus so as to protect them from the evil predators who are still roaming in our streets and our own backyards: Father, In the name of Jesus, I now plead the blood of Your Son Jesus Christ on my daughter Rachel. I now plead the blood of Jesus over every inch of her body, over every inch of her soul, and over every inch of her spirit. I now plead the blood of Jesus against any demonic spirits who may want to try and come against her. I now plead the blood of Jesus against any bad and evil people who may want to try and harm her in any way. I now plead the blood of Jesus against any natural catastrophes that could possibly come her way. Father, in the name of Jesus, I now ask that You perfectly protect this child as she journeys through this life so she can fully accomplish everything that You would like for her to do for You. Father, I ask all of this in the name of Jesus. Amen. For the record, we keep getting more and more reports from people all around the world who are getting delivered off of the information we have in our Spiritual Warfare section. Our God is a mighty Man of War and He will go into battle for you if you will just learn how to apply some of the basics in this area of our walk with Him.

4 Levels of Spiritual Warfare Against Demonic Spirits

n the realm of spiritual warfare against demonic spirits, I believe there are 4 basic levels in which an individual believer may have to face depending on what you may be dealing with in your present set of circumstances and what you may have in your past background. Having the specific knowledge on what each one of these 4 levels are all about can really help you in being able to plan and carry out the appropriate battle strategy in which to defeat demons should they ever move in for an attack on either you or any of your close, loved ones. But before I get into exactly what these four areas are, I want to give you some very basic verses from the Bible showing you the importance that God the Father is placing on that we

realize the reality of demonic spirits in this world, and that we not be afraid to engage and cast them out of people when we do run across them in this life. Here are 8 very powerful verses from the Bible, all showing us that we are not to be afraid of demons, and that we are to directly engage with them if we have to, operating under Gods authority and anointing to be able to do so. 1. And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved, but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe. In my name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues, they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. (Mark 16:1518) 2. Then Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee the Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord. (Luke 4:14-18) 3. Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. (Luke 10:19) 4. Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases. He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. (Luke 9:1) 5. And He called the twelve to Him, and began to send them out two by two, and gave them power over unclean spirits And they cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them. (Mark 6:7,13) 6. And when He had called His twelve disciples to Him, He gave them power over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. (Matthew 10:1) 7. But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. (Matthew 10:6-8) 8. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil. (1 John 3:8) If you will notice, every time Jesus gave His apostles the power and command to go out and walk with His anointing, He always told them to cast out demons as one of His specific commands no exceptions!

So if Jesus was constantly casting out demons, always telling the apostles to cast out demons, and the apostles too were always casting out demons, then it should only be logical that the Church should continue to still cast out demons when needed. It has been estimated by many Bible scholars that approximately 25% of the miracles Jesus had performed were Him casting demons out of people. Satan and his demons are not confined to the Bottomless Pit at this time. This event will not happen until Jesus returns back to us in His second coming. Until that event happens, Satan and his demons are still free to roam in the air seeking who they are going to try and devour next. As Christians, we always have to remember that the devil and his demons are already defeated foes. Jesus has already defeated Satan at the cross when He was crucified. What is now left is that all Christians have to realize that the victory is already ours. We thus have to learn how to engage and defeat the devil and his demons when they do try to move in on a person or a situation and sometimes this means a real, live deliverance because demons can attach themselves to people when they do move in for an attack. And once they do, the only way to be able to drive them out is by the power of God! Before I get into the four specific areas in which demons will try and come against people, especially Christians, there is one more big debate going on right now in the Body of Christ about how far demons can go with Christians. This debate is whether or not a demon can actually enter in on the inside of a Christian. Many believe that once you are saved and become born again, that demons cannot enter in on the inside of you. The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit will literally come in and enter in on the inside of your human spirit at the moment of your conversion with Jesus. As a result of our bodies now becoming the temple of the Holy Spirit, they believe there is no way that a demon or a group of demons can enter in on the inside of your body. At first glance, this does appear to be a very logical argument. However, what they are missing is the fact that the Bible tells us that we have three, distinct, separate parts to our being. We have a body, a soul, and a spirit. The Holy Spirit is living and dwelling in your human spirit, but He is not living up in your soul or body area. If a Christian ends up committing a severe, door-opening sin and transgression against the Lord giving the demons full legal right to be able to directly attack him, then what the demons will try and do if they can get away with it is try and enter into that persons body and soul. They will not be able to enter into the Christians spirit because the Holy Spirit is already living in there. But they will be able to enter into the body and soul of that person if the transgression has been deemed to be severe enough by the Lord. Talk to any deliverance minister who does deliverances on a regular basis, and every single one of them will tell you that demons can enter in on the inside of a Christian, and that they then have to be cast out of them by way of an actual deliverance. In fact, they cannot cast the demons out of a person unless that person is a Christian to begin with, or unless that person is willing to become a Christian if they are not saved.

If an unsaved person has demons living and operating on the inside of them, they will have no spiritual authority to be able to cast the demons out of them. This kind of deliverance is only available for born-again Christians. One of the things Christians can do to totally safeguard themselves from ever having a demon try to enter in on the inside of them is to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. We have an article in the Bible Basics section of our site on exactly what this gift is and how to properly receive it. What happens with this second experience is that the Holy Spirit will release from your spirit and come up and enter into your soul. Once the Holy Spirit is residing in both your spirit and soul areas, then the demons will not be able to enter into your soul since the Holy Spirit is now living in there as a result of having received this gift. This is why after a Christian gets delivered from demons, a deliverance minister will try and get the person to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit to help safeguard and prevent the demons from ever being able to get back in on the inside of that person ever again. This debate has been going on for a long time in the Body of Christ and will obviously never be resolved anytime in the near future. The only thing that I can personally tell you is that I have come across quite a few Christians who have had demons literally dwelling on the inside of them and they all had to have the demons cast out of them by way of an actual deliverance. At the end of this article, I will give you a list of the best books ever written on the subject of deliverance and engaging with demons. Each one of these books have been written by very creditable, anointed men and women of God who have learned much in this area of spiritual warfare. And what you will find out very quickly when reading from each one of them is that they have all found out in the real battlefields of life where this kind of activity does exist, that Christians can draw demons on the inside of them if the demons have the appropriate legal rights to be able to enter in. As I get into the four specific areas where demons can directly attack a Christian, you will see me break this down into two very basic areas. If demons come in for an attack, they will either try and attack you from an outside position, which means they are attacking you from the air. When they are attacking you from an outside position, they are not on the inside of your body or soul. These attacks are coming at you from the outside of your being. The other position that demons can attack you is from the inside position, which means they are attacking you from the inside of your body. And if they are on the inside of your body being able to attack you from this inside position, then something has happened that has given them the legal right to be able to enter in on the inside of you. Your job will then be to find out what their legal right is so that you can get it properly broken before God the Father. Once you have properly broken all of their legal rights before God the Father, then you can turn around and command them to now leave you in the name of Jesus.

But whether you are dealing with demons attacking you from an outside position or from an inside position the rules are still the same. Find out what their legal rights are, properly break those legal rights before God the Father, and then turn around and verbally cast them all of them out in the name of your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As much as I hate to say this, there is a real war game going on between God and the devil for all of our souls. And in this war game are real, live, demonic spirits who will come after people, especially Christians and they will try to get away with inflicting as much death, terror, destruction, and oppression as they possibly can. This is why the Bible is telling us that we are to resist the devil that we are to cast out demons when and where needed and that we are to become good soldiers of Jesus Christ. We are to be as bold as lions, and we are to learn how to walk in the anointing of God so that we can properly use the power and authority that God has already given to each one of us through His Holy Spirit. The Bible makes it very clear as to what kind of big picture we all have to deal with. Each Christian thus has to make up their own personal mind as to how they will deal with this big picture and the war games that are really going on behind the scenes between God and the devil. The apostle Paul could not have said it any better when he said that our real battle in this life is not with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers, which are demons and demon powers. You can either learn how to rise up and walk with the anointing and power of God in your life so as to be able to do battle against your enemies, whether they be demons or other evil people or you can choose to hide your head in the sand and let demons and other evil people keep tearing you and your family to pieces. We have another article in the Spiritual Warfare section of our site titled, Battle Verses of the Bible. In this article, I give you 100 of the best battle verses from the Bible showing you that God the Father is a Man of War, that He does have a war side to His personality, and that He will not hesitate to go into battle for you and your close, loved ones if you are willing to stand up and fight your enemies as a true soldier of Jesus Christ. But before God can go into battle for you, you will first have to be willing to march onto that battlefield and face your enemy head on like David did with Goliath. The choice is yours. In the Testimonies section of our site, we have several powerful testimonies from people who were taught how to directly engage with their enemies, and in several of these cases, their enemies were demonic spirits. These people were all getting torn apart with what these demons were able to get away with and this was all occurring because they did not know how to directly engage with them and how to drive them off of them and their current situation. Once we showed them how to go on the offensive and directly engage with these demons, every single one of them received complete and total deliverance and in most of the cases, deliverance came within 24-48 hours. This is how powerful a thing it really is if you can learn how to go on the offensive against your enemies by operating under the authority, power, and guidance of God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.

Now onto the four different areas you may have to face when dealing with any type of direct attacks from demonic spirits. 1. Demons Attacking With No Legal Right To Be Doing So For most Christians, this first level will be the one they will probably have to face the most from time to time. This first level is when a demon or a group of demons start to attack you from an outside position with no real legal right to be doing so. Jesus Himself had to face Satan head on with this kind of an outside attack when God led Him into the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights. In that wilderness setting, Satan was allowed to literally tempt Jesus with three specific temptations. If God allowed His Son to be tempted in this manner, then you know the chances are very good that many of us will have to face this same kind of demonic attack from time to time from this same kind of outside position. We already have another article in our site titled, Battle Command Against Demonic Spirits in the Spiritual Warfare section of our site. In this article, I show you exactly how to deal with a demonic attack coming at you from this kind of an outside position. I also give you a good, basic, simple battle command that you can use to drive any demons off of you that are attempting to attack or come directly against you. Jesus has already given us His power, His anointing, and His authority to cast out demons and to trample over all the power of our enemies. It simply is a matter of each and every Christian being willing to take up his sword, which is the Word of God, and verbally command the demons to leave you in the name of Jesus Christ. It really is that simple in this first level of spiritual warfare in dealing direct with any kind of demonic attack. 2. Demons Attacking As a Result of a Legal Right To Be Able To Do So In this second level, things start to get much heavier. This second level is when demons start to come in for an attack, but this time they have a full legal right to be able to do so. This is the realm that gets many Christians in trouble with demons. What happens in this second level is that the Christian has given some kind of legal right for the demons to be able to launch a full scale attack against them. The Bible tells us from the Book of Job that we apparently have some kind of protective hedge around us that protects us from demonic spirits. If we did not have this kind of protective hedge, then you can bet that many more Christians would be coming under direct, demonic attack. Here is the verse: Have You not made a HEDGE around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side? (Job 1:10) As a result of this protective hedge, there appears to be some kind of spiritual law in operation that demons have to abide by. They may occasionally be able to come against you as described in level one, but they can easily be cast off from you by just issuing a good,

basic, battle command telling them that they now have to leave you in the name of Jesus Christ once you realize that it is really them that have been attacking you. However, what demons do is just wait for any Christian to cause a hole to occur in their protective hedge. And how do you cause a hole to occur in your protective hedge giving demons a legal right to be able to come directly after you? By engaging and crossing over into any direct sins and transgressions that are expressly forbidden by God the Father in His Word. Obviously not every sin and transgression will cause a hole to occur in your protective hedge with the Lord. The Bible tells us that we are all sinners and that we have all fallen short of the glory of our God. This is why Jesus had to come down to die on the cross to pay the penalty for all of those sins, and to be able to give us full forgiveness and a full pardon for all of our sins. If demons had a legal right to be coming after us every single time we sinned or transgressed, then none of us would ever be safe from their attacks, and we would all be in a state of constant warfare with them. However, what many deliverance ministers have found out in the actual battlefields when having to deal direct with real, live demons is that there are certain sins and transgressions that will give demons the legal right to be able to launch a full scale attack against a person, even if that person is already a Christian! Once you become saved and born again through the Blood that Jesus has already shed for you on the cross, this doe s not give you the right or the license to be able to keep on sinning. Though we have all been made perfectly righteous in the eyes of God as a result of Jesus righteousness now being imputed to us, we still have to make every effort on our end to stay on the righteous side of the fence in our walk with our Lord. We have to do the best we can to try and live righteous lives and stay out of any serious sins and transgressions against our Lord especially those of the heavier kind that will be listed below. In this area of spiritual warfare, there are certain types of sins and transgressions that will give demons the legal right to be able to come directly after you if God should so choose to allow this to happen. If you choose to engage in some of these hea vier sins, then you could possibly break the protective hedge that you have around you with the Lord. The demons will then be quick to see that opening when it does occur, and they will waste no time in trying to come directly after you. Demons just wait for people, especially Christians, to cross over into any kind of door-opening, hedge-breaking sin and transgression, which will then give them the full legal right to be able to launch an all-out, full scale attack on that person and their life. When looking at what some of these kinds of sins and transgressions are, the first thing you will notice is that they are a much more heavier type of sin or transgression.

Here are some of the heavier sins and transgressions, if committed with any type of frequency or intensity, that can get you into major trouble with the Lord where He will then pull back His hand of protection and cause a major hole to occur in your hedge which will then give demons the full legal right to be able to start coming directly after you for a major attack. As Christians, we can have absolutely no part in any of the following areas: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. The occult False religions or cults Any part of the New Age Movement The homosexual lifestyle Any type of Satan worshiping group Any involvement with abortion or the abortion industry Abusing alcohol Doing any type of drugs including pot Any type of extreme verbal and/or physical abuse on your mate or children 10. Any type of promiscuous, sexual lifestyle 11. Any type of criminal activity 12. Murder 13. Bringing a cursed object into your home

If you will notice, all of these sins and transgressions are things that you have to do operating out of your own free will and volition against the Lord. These are not things that are being done to you or against you these are all sins that you are doing and committing against the Lord all on your own volition. In other words, these are all direct, willful sins being done against the Lord. Each one of these areas are major, I repeat, major door openers to the dark side. All of these sins and behaviors are totally unacceptable in the eyes of God and He will not put up with any of His own engaging in any of this kind of activity! In the areas having to do with the occult, we have another article in our site titled, Dangers of the Occult. In this article, I give you all of the main verses from the Bible that will tell us that none of us can engage with anything having to do with the occult, and that if we do, we will risk having God set His face directly against us. Deliverance ministers who deal with demons on a regular basis have all found out that some of the more evil and wicked demons in Satans hierarchy are demons that have attached to someone as a result of that person delving into some area of the occult. This is why God has given all of us such strict warnings in His Word that we can have absolutely nothing to do with any area of the occult no exceptions! If you have drawn demons into your life as a result of engaging in one or more of the above door opening sins, then what you will have to do before you can cast the demons out of your life is that you will have to fully break all of their legal rights. You will first have to realize that you have been sinning and transgressing directly against God by delving into any of the above areas. Once you have full realization and understanding that these are all unacceptable sins and behaviors before God, then you

will have to go before God, fully confess out each one of the transgressions as actual sins, and then fully renounce each one of them telling God that you will never, ever go back into any of them ever again. Then once each of these sin areas have been fully confessed and fully renounced before the Lord then you can turn around, take the authority that God has given to you to trample over all the power of your enemy, and cast the demons off of you for good. What happens to some Christians, once they realize they have drawn demons into their lives as a result of being involved in some of the above sin areas is that they will first try and cast the demons out before breaking their legal rights with God the Father. If you try and do this before you properly break their legal rights before God the Father, they will not go! The reason for this is that they know they still have the full legal right to stay attached to you since their legal rights have not been properly confessed out, renounced, and broken before God the Father. In the Spiritual Warfare section of our site, we have another article titled, Battle Prayer to Break Legal Rights of Demons. In this article, I give you a good, basic, battle prayer on how to go before God the Father and fully break all of the demons legal rights by properly confessing and renouncing these types of heavier sins. In this article is a battle prayer that I had given to another woman who had drawn heavy demonic activity into her life as a result of engaging in some very heavy sins. This woman has given me permission to release the exact prayer that I had given to her so as to be able to help other people who may be having the same kind of problems with demons. To any of you who may have drawn heavy demonic activity in your life as a result of engaging in some of these heavier sins remember the only sin that cannot be forgiven is a direct blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. All other sins and transgressions can be forgiven, no matter how bad, how vile, and how severe you think they may be. If you are truly sorry for having engaged in this kind of activity, fully willing to confess and renounce all of this activity before God the Father then God can fully forgive you and fully deliver you from these demons and restore order back into your life. This is not a hopeless situation. The Bible tells us that God the Father is no respecter of persons which means what He will do for one, He will do for another. God has an equal and unconditional love for each person He has created, and He will thus work equally with each person who is willing to come to Him for their deliverance. We have come across plenty of people who have drawn heavy demonic activity into their lives, and all of them were able to get fully delivered from the demons once they were taught how to fully break their legal rights. For those of you who may be battling this kind of spiritual problem, I would highly recommend that you read my article titled Battle Prayer to Break Legal Rights of Demons, and then form out your own personal battle prayer to God the Father to handle your personal situation.

Once you have fully broken all of the legal rights that the demons may have been feeding and operating on, then you will be able to turn around and verbally command them to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ. In this article, I give you both the prayer to go to God the Father with to break their legal rights, and then I give you a good, basic, battle command to drive the demons off of you for good! This will now lead us into the third level of spiritual warfare when having to deal with the reality of demonic spirits invading our lives. 3. Demons Attacking As a Result of What Someone Else May Have Done to You This particular area has always been one of the most bothersome areas that I have ever come across when investigating and researching this part of our walk with the Lord. Its one thing to draw demons in on you as a result of your own sins and transgressions that you may have committed against the Lord. Most of the time in that area, you have nobody to blame but yourself for choosing to cross over into areas that you knew were forbidden territory by the Lord in the first place. But this now brings us into the third major level when having to deal with direct attacks from demons. What happens in this area is that sometimes demons will be allowed to come in and attach themselves to a person as a result of what someone else may have done to that person. Some examples of this would be women who have been raped, people who have been ritually abused in Satanic groups, people who have been victims of certain types of crimes and assault, women who may have been severely, physically abused by their husbands or boyfriends, and children who have been severely abused by one or both parents either physically, verbally, or sexually. When I first came across this phenomenon, I wondered why God could allow demons to attach themselves to people who have been horribly abused or wronged by another person. This person was usually completely innocent of sinning or transgressing against God. So why would God allow demons to launch a full scale attack against the victim, especially if that victim is a born-again Christian? Christian woman are being raped, molested, and physically beaten every minute of every day across this country. What happens in some of these types of extreme cases is that demons, once they see that person being physically violated to this kind of an extreme degree, will realize that there might be a hole in that persons hedge. Once they see this kind of an opening, they will then try and move in to see if they can attach themselves to that person. What demons are looking for in these kinds of extreme cases is what that persons response is going to be to the violation. If a woman has been raped, the demons will see if that person will start to exhibit and manifest emotions of hate, anger, bitterness and unforgiveness. God will obviously allow the person to have some of these kinds of emotions right after all of this has occurred as a result of the initial knee jerk reaction most of us would have to this kind of severe trauma. I do not believe the demons can get a foothold into that person right off the bat.

But if that person does not start to work themselves out of these kinds of negative emotions over a certain period of reasonable time, then the demons will have something they can attach themselves too, and that something are the negative emotions of hate, bitterness and extreme anger that will settle in that persons mind, spirit and emotions over a certain period of time. And once the demons attach themselves to those kinds of negative emotions, then they will start to try and work it trying to increase the frequency and intensity of those emotions. If a person has drawn heavy demonic activity into their lives as a result of being the victim of some kind of extreme behavior from another person, then what that person will have to do before they can cast the demons out of them is to fully forgive the person who has viciously wronged them no matter how evil and vicious that wrong may have been. We have another article in our site titled, How to Handle Negative Feelings When Wronged by Someone Else. This article is in the Psychological Issues section of our site. In this article, I give you all of the appropriate Scripture verses on being able to deal with this kind of heavier problem. The Bible tells us that whenever we get ready to stand before the Lord to pray to Him, that we have to be willing to fully forgive anyone else who has ever trespassed against us and that will include any vicious criminal who may have raped, assaulted or robbed you, or any violent and psychotic boyfriend or husband who may have physically abused you. The Bible tells us that if we do not forgive others who may have trespassed against us, then God will not be forgiving us when we trespass against others. And then to top it off, God may not even be willing to hear any of our personal prayers with the way He has this particular verse worded. And if He wont hear any of our personal prayers, then we may have little or no chance on getting delivered from any type of demonic attack that may have come our way. The first thing any good, deliverance minister will do on these type of heavier cases is to make sure the person will be willing to fully forgive all of the people who have seriously wronged them in this life. Until this person is willing to fully forgive all of their trespassers, the demons cannot be cast out. The demons have been feeding off of those negative emotions for quite some time and as a result, a mental stronghold has developed in that persons mind and thinking. To start Gods inner healing process, this person has to be willing to fully forgive the person or people who may have hurt them in these more extreme types of cases. Once the person is willing to fully forgive all of their trespassers in the eyes of God, then that person can turn around and verbally engage with the demons, telling them that they now have to leave them in the name of Jesus Christ. 4. Demons Attacking As a Result of a Generational Curse Line Another very disturbing area in the realm of having to do battle with demonic spirits is the area where demons can sometimes jump from abusive and dysfunctional parents onto some of the children trying to get some of the children to manifest the same aberrant and dysfunctional behavior of their parents.

A perfect example of this would be a severe, alcoholic parent. The children grow up seeing and watching their parent live a good portion of their married life in this state. As a result of that parent crossing over into this kind of heavier sin area with the Lord, demons will be allowed to come in and attach themselves to the alcoholic parent. And once they attach themselves to the alcoholic parent, they will then look to see if they can target anyone else in the family to attack. Again, the children are completely innocent. They themselves are not an alcoholic. They have done nothing themselves to draw the demons onto their alcoholic parent. So why would God allow the demons to be able to jump onto some of the children to try and get them to do the same thing that they have been able to get their dysfunctional parent to do? In some of these types of extreme cases, one or two of the children could end up becoming alcoholics themselves. What is happening behind the scenes in the spiritual realm is that the demons will try and get some of the children to move into this same kind of extreme activity, especially as they get older and move into their own marriages. Demons cannot make you do anything. You always have free will to choose whether or not you will act out on their evil suggestions and promptings. All demons can do is try and persuade you to cross over into these kinds of extreme realms. Many children who end up crossing over into some of these same extreme areas are really operating under heavy demonic influence. This is a perfect example of God telling us in His Word that His people will go into captivity for having lack of knowledge. Many children are crossing over into the same extreme realms that their parents were walking in as a result of not having the appropriate knowledge to fully understand what is really going on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm. Once again, God the Father gives us some keen insight from His Word as to why this kind of activity is being allowed to happen in some families. God tells us in His Word that the sins of the fathers can be visited down to 3 or 4 generations of future children. Here is the verse where God is making this specific statement. This verse is from one of the actual 10 commandments, the second commandment. You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments. (Exodus 20:4-6) Notice in this verse that God is using the word visiting visiting the sins and iniquities of the father directly onto the children, traveling as far down as 3 or 4 generations of these future children. What does God mean by the word visiting? I believe what God may be trying to tell us is that there will be severe consequences for certain types of sins and iniquities committed by parents of children. The Bible tells us that the wages of sin will be death.

If the father of a family is an extreme alcoholic, then the family could end up living in a miserable, oppressive and terrible environment. As a result of this kind of severe transgression against the Lord, the family could end up living in poverty. As a result of living in poverty, the children may end up not getting the best education or the better opportunities to progress and grow into what God may have been calling them to become in Him in the first place. As a result of being raised up in this kind of a poor and oppressive environment, some of these children will never find God or what His purpose and divine plan would have been for their lives. Some of them may end up becoming alcoholics themselves and then they end up repeating the same behaviors that their fathers did. And from there, they will marry, and then they will end up treating everyone in their families in the same way their fathers had treated them. And then they have children, their children see and watch their dysfunctional behavior, and then some of them end up repeating the same behavior as they grow older and move into their own marriages. You thus have the sin of one father being visited down several generations all because no one knew how to break the curse line that had developed as result of the original sin from the first sinning, alcoholic father. All of this kind of negative activity could perfectly describe what God is trying to tell us in this verse. And then to possibly top it off, you have demons who will come in and feed off of this kind of extreme behavior through the alcoholic parent, making everyone elses life in the family miserable as a result. You walk into these kinds of houses, and you can literally feel yourself walking into a dark, oppressive cloud. What happens in this kind of scenario in reference to actual demonic activity is that demons will target some of the children to go after. They will try and attach themselves to the child at an early age and start to try and pull them into this darker way of living. If that child is a born-again Christian, they will try and sever the childs personal relationship with the Lord. They will attack their mind, their emotions and their sense of self-confidence and self-esteem. Many of these children grow up with low levels of self-esteem and selfconfidence as a result of all the verbal abuse they have had to put up with from their dysfunctional parent or parents. When the child gets old enough to leave the home, the demons will follow the child and will still try and stay attached to them. I have personally run across several woman who had demons following them into their adult life and literally attacking them on a periodic basis. They would then command the demons to leave them in the name of Jesus, but that would only work for a short period of time, and then the demons would come back for additional attacks. What is happening in the spiritual realm behind the scenes is that the demons apparently have developed enough of a legal right to stay attached to that child as a result of the sins and transgressions of the original sinning parent. What the demons have now formed out as a result of the original parents severe transgressions against the Lord is a curse line between that parent and the child.

What this now means is that before you can cast the demons off of you for good you will first have to fully break the curse line that the demons have been feeding and operating on over all of those years from living with the original, sinning parent. We have another article in our site titled, Battle Prayer to Break a Generational Curse Line. This article is also in the Spiritual Warfare section of our site. In this article, I give you a step-by-step process on how to properly break a generational curse line that may have originated from a dysfunctional parent or parents. Once you properly break that curse line, then you can turn around and verbally engage with the demons and command them to now leave you in the name of Jesus Christ. In this article, I also give you the exact prayer I drew up for a 16 year girl who had this exact problem with demons literally attacking her from time to time and sometimes quite severely as a result of the demons who were on her natural father. What these demons were attempting to do was to jump and transfer down to her so they could then form out that curse line, which would then make it easier for them to be able to follow, torment, and harass her as she was growing into her adult life. This girl was spiritually wise beyond her years. She had a very close, powerful walk with her Lord and Savior, and she had quite a bit of knowledge on spiritual warfare. But what she could not figure out was why these demons were being allowed to chase after her and torment her like they had been doing for quite a number of years. Once I received the background information on her and her family, it was very easy to spot where the demons were coming from. This article will explain to you how the father got the demons on him in the first place and then how they were attempting to jump and transfer from him onto his daughter to form out a curse line so that they could then continue to chase and follow after her into her adult life.

Conclusion
I believe that our God is a God of perfect order. I believe there are reasons for everything. For those who are seekers with the Lord, I believe many of the times God will give you answers as to why things are the way they are and why certain things happen the way they do. Though we are all stuck with having to deal with the reality of demonic spirits in this life as a result of the curse Adam and Eve brought upon this earth, there is still a divine order in all of this and God is still running the entire show. What I have personally found out in the area of spiritual warfare in having to deal direct with demonic spirits is that there are rules to the game, and there are limits as to how far they can go and how much they can get away with. For all Christians, there is complete deliverance from demons, no matter how bad or how hopeless the situation may look to you in the natural. What we are trying to do with the spiritual warfare section of our site is to break these articles down accordingly so that you can pick and choose which ones will be best suited for the battle situation you may be forced to face.

In the area of having to deal direct with demons, I once again want to summarize your possible options per the articles we have done to date. 1. If demons are attempting to attack, harass, or torment you from an outside position, but have no real legal right to be doing so, it would be our recommendation that you read our article titled, Battle Command Against Demonic Spirits. A good, simple, basic battle command against these demons should do the trick and you should be able to drive them off of you very easily and very quickly. 2. If you have committed any type of door-opening sin or transgression against the Lord giving demons the full legal right to be able to come directly after you, we recommend that you read our article titled, Battle Prayer to Break Legal Rights of Demons. Before you can verbally command the demons to leave you in the name of Jesus, you will first have to break their legal rights and this article will give you a good, sample, battle prayer on how to properly do this with God the Father. 3. If you have had someone violate, abuse, or harm you in any type of extreme way, and have drawn demons into your life as a result of what that person or persons may have done to you, it would be our recommendation that you first read our article titled, How to Handle Negative Feelings When Wronged by Someone Else. After you read this article and have made a commitment to the Lord to fully forgive all of your trespassers, then you can form out your own personal battle command as mentioned in the first two articles above, and then cast the demons off of you for good. 4. If you have demons that have been nipping, attacking, tormenting or harassing you as a result of being raised up in a dysfunctional family where either one or both of your parents have committed some severe transgressions against the Lord, it would be our recommendation that you read our article titled, Battle Prayer to Break a Generational Curse Line. This article will give you a step-by-step process on how to fully break the generational curse line that may have formed out from one or both of your dysfunctional parents and then how to verbally command the demons to leave you in the name of Jesus Christ once you have properly broken that curse line with God the Father. As I have said before, you do not want to get so paranoid and spooked that you are seeing demons around every possible corner. But you also do not want to take the other extreme position and turn a blind eye and keep your head in the sand ignoring the reality of demons and the different ways in which they will operate. Many of Gods people are getting torpedoed and taken out of this life way too early as a result of not having the appropriate knowledge on s piritual warfare and how to do battle with their enemies whether those enemies be demons or other evil people in this life. The Bible has made it very clear. Gods Word has told us that we have all been called to be good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Notice that God is using the word good soldiers. When God is using the word good soldiers, I believe He is meaning exactly what He is trying to tell

us. Good soldiers are warriors and they know how to directly engage with their enemies if they have too. They are strong, bold, and fearless. God tells us in His Word that He wants us to be as bold as lions and that we are to directly engage and cast out demons when we have too. He tells us that if we faint in the day of any kind of adversity, that our strength will be considered small in His eyes. Per all of the Scripture verses I listed at the top of this article, Jesus Himself had specifically told the apostles to cast out demons every single time He commissioned them to go out and walk with His anointing. We are to save, heal, teach, disciple, and cast out demons when we do run across these types of extreme situations. I believe God is looking to raise up more well-rounded, anointed soldiers in these last days to battle some of the more increasing evil that we are starting to see more of. As we approach what I believe will be a coming Rapture, and then the coming of the 7 year Great Tribulation where this entire world will literally be ruled by a real, live, living Antichrist, I believe God will be pulling out all of the stops to try and get as many people saved and on that first rapture train as He possibly can. In order to do this, I believe God will be raising up an incredible army of anointed believers who will walk and fly with His supernatural power in a way that the world has never seen before and will never see again. Many of these anointed, chosen ones are being worked, trained, molded, and shaped right now into the eagles that God is calling them to become in Him. For those of you who would like to read a direct prophecy on this coming army and what Jesus will be doing with this army, go to our article titled, Prophecy from Jesus to Mary Baxter on Joels Army to Come in the Prophecies section of our site. In this article is a direct word that Jesus gave to this woman on this coming army that He will be personally raising up, and some of the things that will be happening with this army. Jesus says that this army will be the army of Joel as spoken by the prophet Joel in the Old Testament. In this article, I give you the full verse from the Book of Joel and the description that He gives of this army. He says this army will be the greatest army that God has ever raised up, that there never has been an army as mighty and powerful as this army is going to be, and that there will never be another one like it ever again. I personally believe that this army could be coming out of our generation and that our babyboom generation may end up being the generation that will s ee and experience the Rapture.

Recommended Reading
For those of you who would like more detailed information in this area of spiritual warfare, here are 7 very good books on this subject that I would highly recommend, with all of them being written by very creditable, anointed men and women of God who are very experienced in this level of spiritual warfare and have learned much in the actual battlefields with demonic spirits. All of these people are real pioneers in this area. The Bible tells us that we are to cast out demons, but it does not tell us exactly how to do it. Many of these people have had to learn

how to do this all on their own as the Holy Spirit was guiding and teaching them along the way. As a result of all of their learning experiences, there is now an incredible amount of knowledge and revelation on this subject for those who want to learn more about it. If I had to rate which one of these books would be considered the best at this time, I would definitely have to say the very first book I will list below. The title of this book isDefeating Dark Angels by Charles Kraft. This man gives the best, easiest, most logical, rational and thorough analysis of this topic that I have seen to date. You cannot go wrong with this mans teaching on this subject. Two other books that are extremely good are Healing Through Deliverance Volumes 1 & 2 by Peter Horrobin. Here are seven of the best books the Body of Christ has to date on this subject: 1. Defeating Dark Angels By Charles H. Kraft / Gospel Light 2. Healing through Deliverance, vol. 1: The Foundation of Deliverance Ministry By Peter Horrobin / Baker 3. Healing through Deliverance, vol. 2: The Practice of Deliverance Ministry By Peter Horrobin / Baker 4. How to Cast Out Demons: A Guide to the Basics By Doris M. Wagner / Gospel Light 5. Pigs in the Parlor by Frank Hammond, Ida M. Hammond 6. In The Name Of Satan How The Forces Of Evil Work And What You Can Do To Defeat Them by Bob Larson 7. Larsons Book of Spiritual Warfare By Bob Larson / Thomas Nelson / If any more good books on this subject become available, I will add them to this list. We also have several other good books listed on this subject in the Christian Book section of our site. Just scroll down to the Deliverance from Demons section and you will see additional books listed on this topic that are also very good. But these specific seven are the best of the best in my own humble personal opinion.

Deliverance Verses From the Bible

t has been estimated by many Bible scholars that approximately 25% of the miracles Jesus had performed was Him casting demons out of people. And as we showed you in our article titled, The Great Commission Save, Heal, Deliver and Disciple, the 4 things that Jesus wants all of us to do for Him is to get people saved, heal people from sicknesses and diseases through the power of the Holy Spirit, make disciples out

of people once we get them saved, and cast demons out of people when they do move in on someone. The Great Commission Command was the very last thing Jesus had said to the apostles before He had ascended back up to heaven. And when Jesus makes this kind of dramatic statement that He wants all of us to concentrate on these 4 specific areas in our walk with Him, then I think we should all take this verse very seriously and very literally. And casting demons out of people is one of the things that Jesus would like to have more of us do for Him, otherwise He would have never put this kind of specific command in this verse. What I want to do in this article is to give you all of the verses from the Bible pertaining to all of the deliverances that Jesus Himself had done so you can have all of these verses right at your fingertips in the event any of you would like to learn how to do this with the Lord. You can also use some of these verses in some of the actual deliverances you may get involved in, as demons hate to have any part of the Word quoted directly at them, especially any verses having to do with their own defeat with the Lord. These kinds of verses are constant reminder to the demons that they are now a totally defeated foe, and they will be no match for any Christian who knows they are in Christ and who is not afraid to wield the Sword of the Holy Spirit directly against them, which is the Word of God. It would also be our recommendation to add these specific verses to the battle verses we have listed at the top of our Spiritual Warfare section. These sets of verses will give you all of the ammunition you will ever need to be able to cast out demons from any person or any place you may find them in. Here are all of the verses from the Bible showing Jesus casting demons out of people. There are a total of 17 of them. Again, do not be afraid to use some of these verses in any actual deliverance you may get involved in. You can simply read some of these verses out loud to the demons as you are directly engaging with them. 1. Then His fame went throughout all Syria; and they brought to Him all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, and paralytics; and He healed them. (Matthew 4:24) 2. When He came to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. And suddenly they cried out, saying, What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time? Now a good way off from them there was a herd of many swine feeding. So the demons begged Him, saying, If You cast us out, permit us to go away into the herd of swine. And He said to them, Go. So when they had come out, they went into the herd of swine. And suddenly the whole herd of swine ran violently down the steep place into the sea, and perished in the water. (Matthew 8:28-32)

3. Then one was brought to Him who was demon-possessed, blind and mute; and He healed him, so that the blind and mute man both spoke and saw. (Matthew 12:22) 4. And behold, a woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to Him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David! My daughter is severely demon-possessed Then Jesus answered and said to her, O woman, great is your faith! Let it be to you as you desire. And her daughter was healed from that very hour. (Matthew 15: 22, 28) 5. And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. So I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to me. And Jesus rebuked the demon, and he came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour. Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, Why could we not cast him out? So Jesus said to them, Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, Move from here to there, and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting. (Matthew 17:14-21) 6. Now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. and h e cried out, saying, Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jess of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are the Holy One of God! But Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet, and come out of him! And when the unclean spirit had convul sed him and cried out with a loud voice, he came out of him. ( Mark 1:23-26) 7. Then He healed many who were sick with various diseases, and cast out many demons; and He did not allow the demons to speak, because they knew Him. (Mark 1:34) 8. For He healed many, so that as many as had afflictions pressed about Him to touch Him. And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw Him, fell down before Him and cried out, saying, You are the Son of God. But He sternly warned them that they should not make Him known. (Mark 3:10-12) 9. Then they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes. and when He had come out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit, who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no one could bind him, not even with chains, because he had often been bound with shackles and c hains. And the

chains had been pulled apart by him, and the shackles broken in pieces; neither could anyone tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying out and cutting himself with stones. But when he saw Jesus from afar, he ran and worshiped Him. and he cried out with a loud voice and said, What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God that You do not torment me. For He said to him, What is your name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion; for we are many. And he begged Him earnestly that He would not send them out of the country. Now a large herd of swine was feeding there near the mountains. And all the demons begged Him, saying, Send us to the swine, that we may enter them. And at once Jesus gave them permission. Then the unclean spirits went out and entered the swine (there were about two thousand); and the herd ran violently into the sea, and drowned in the sea. (Mark 5:2-13) 10. Then one from the multitude answered and said, Teacher, I brought You my son, who has a mute spirit. And whenever he seizes him, he throws him down; he foams at the mouth, gnashes his teeth, and becomes rigid. So I spoke to Your disciples, that they should cast him out but they could not. He answered him and said, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me. Then they brought him to Him. And when he saw Him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground and wallowed, foaming at the mouth. So He asked his father, How long has this been happening to him? And he said, From childhood. And often he has thrown him both into the fire and into the water to destroy him. But if You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us. Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes. Immediately the father of the child cried out and said with tears, Lord, I believe, help my unbelief! When Jesus saw that the people came running together, He rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, You deaf and dumb spirit, I command you, come out of him, and enter him no more. And he became as one dead, so that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. And when He had come into the house, His disciples asked Him privately, Why could we not cast him out? So He said to them, This kind can come out by nothing but prayer and fasting. (Mark 9:17-29) 11. Now in the synagogue there was a man who had a spirit of an unclean demon. And he cried out with a loud voice, saying, Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did Y ou come to destroy us? I know You, who You are the Holy One of God!

But Jesus rebuked him, saying, Be quiet, and come out of him! And when the demon had thrown him in their midst, it came out of him and did not hurt him. So they were all amazed and sp oke among themselves, saying, What a word this is! For with authority and power He commands the unclean spirits, and they come out. (Luke 4: 33-36) 12. Now when the sun was setting, all those who had anyone sick with various diseases brought them to Him; and He laid His hands on every one of them and healed them. And the demons also came out of many, crying out and saying, You are Christ, the Son of God! And He, rebuking them, did not allow them to speak, for they knew that He was the Christ. (Luke 4:40-41) 13. And He came down with them and stood on a level place with a crowd of His disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear Him and be healed of their diseases, as well as those who were tormented with unclean spirits. And they were healed. And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all. (Luke 6:17-19) 14. Now it came to pass afterward, that He went through every city and village, preaching and bringing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with Him, and certain women who had been healed of evil spirits and infirmities Mary called Magdalene, out of whom had come seven demons (Luke 8:1-2) 15. Then they came to the country of the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee. and when He stepped out on the land, there met Him a certain man from the city who had demon for a long time. And he wore no clothes, nor did he live in a house but in the tombs. When he saw Jesus, he cried out, fell down before Him, and with a loud voice said, What have I to do with You, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I beg You, do not torment me! For He had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For it had often seized him, and he was kept under guard, boun d with chains and shackles; and he broke the bonds and was driven by the demon into the wilderness. Jesus asked him, saying, What is your name? And he said, Legion, because many demons had entered him. And they begged Him that He would not command them to go out into the abyss. Now a herd of many swine was feeding there on the mountain. And they begged Him that He would permit them to enter them. And He permitted them. Then the demons went out of the man and entered the swine, and the herd ran violently down the steep place into the lake and drowned. When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled and told it in the city and in the country. Then they went out to see what had happened, and came to Jesus, and found the man from whom the demons had

departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed and in his right mind. And they were afraid. They also who had seen it told them by what means he who had been demon-possessed was healed. Then the whole multitude of the surrounding region of the Gadarenes asked Him to depart from them, for they were seized with great fear. And He got into the boat and returned. Now the man from whom the demons had departed begged Him that he might be with Him. But Jesus sent him away, saying, Return to your house, and tell what great things God has done for you. And he went his way and proclaimed throughout the whole city what great things Jesus had done for him. (Luke 8:26-39) 16. Now it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a great multitude met Him. Suddenly a man from the multitude cried out, saying, Teacher, I implore You, look on my son, for he is my only child. And behold, a spirit seizes him, and he suddenly cries out; it convulses him so that he foams at the mouth, and bruising him, it departs from him with great difficulty. So I implored Your disciples to cast it out, but they could not. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here. And as he was still coming, the demon threw him down and convulsed him. Then Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, healed the child, and gave him back to his father. (Luke 9:37-42) 17. Now He was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath. And behold, there was a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bent over and could in no way raise herself up. But when Jesus saw her, He called her to Him and said to her, Woman, you are loosed from your infirmity. And He laid His hands on her, and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God. (Luke 13:10-13)

The Different Kinds of Demonic Spirits

o those of you who would like to learn more about the deliverance ministry, we are going to use this article to give you more specifics on the different kinds of demonic spirits that are out there. This article will attempt to take you into the heart of the different kinds of strategies that demons will use against people. For the most part, demons are known by their function names. The function name will tell you what the demon specializes in once he becomes attached to a person, whether it be on the outside of the person or on the inside of the person.

For instance, a spirit of lust will specialize in transmitting lust onto the person they are attached to. Once they transmit that feeling of lust onto this person, they will then try and get the person to act out on it. This is how many people end up engaging in fornication, adultery, or pornography. This is what you call a person coming under direct, demonic influence. Most of these cases are not full possession type cases, so God will still hold the person completely responsible for their actions, even if a demon is sliming them with this lustful feeling, along with providing them with the actual compulsion to try and act out on it. God still held both Adam and Eve totally responsible for their actions in the Garden of Eden, even though it was the devil himself who tempted Eve to eat the fruit off of that forbidden tree, and then Eve persuaded Adam to do the same thing. Satan still has not changed his tactics and strategies, and he still uses both demons and other people to try to get us to fall into various types of sins. But whether we are coming under any kind of direct influence from demons or other people, the choice will always remain with us as to whether or not we will fall for the temptation to sin directly against the Lord. All demons can do is try and make you do bad and evil things. And unless you are dealing with a case of temporary possession, or someone who has become mentally ill in some way, most of the time the person will have all of his senses fully intact enough to know right from wrong, and will know what the full consequences of their acts will be if they decide to go all the way through with it. A good example of this are the people who murder their loved ones in a fit of rage and jealousy. Many of the times, these crimes are premeditated, which means the person is actually thinking about it and planning on how to do it. Once they go into this kind of a planning stage, the demons will then keep the pressure on from the back end to try and get them to follow all the way through it. But the person can still stop it and call it off anytime they want to. They know full well what the consequences are going to be if they get caught life imprisonment or the death penalty. But in many of these cases, they will still follow all the way through with it and actually kill their spouse or whoever else they have targeted. Demons with function names of murder, rage, and hate are many of the times the driving force behind these types of horrible crimes. But again, the person is still fully cooperating with these demons with their free will and as a result, they will be held totally accountable and responsible by both the law if they are ever caught, and by God Himself once they die and cross over to face Him head on for their own personal judgment. Most of the time people have no idea that it really is demons who are operating behind the scenes providing more fuel to their fires with what they specialize in, such as spirits of hate, murder, jealousy, rage, anger, bitterness, and unforgiveness. Once a group of these type of demons attach to a person who may have been really hurt in a love affair, or a spouse being divorced by the other spouse, or a spouse catching another spouse in an adulterous love affair, they will then try and do everything they can to slime the person with what they specialize in so as to try and get them to act out on these negative feelings and emotions.

This is why it will really help everyone if they knew what some of the basic function names of the demons were, so they can then immediately spot their negative influence when they do try and move in for an attack on someone who may be open to their negative and evil influence. The first basic rule of any type of warfare, whether it be spiritual warfare or natural warfare, is to know your enemy. And knowing the basic function names of the demons who are out there will give you a good head start, as their function names will tell you how they are playing that person, along with providing you with clues as to what their legal rights may be on that person. In this article, I am going to give you some of the basic groupings which will show you the different areas that demons will like to target once they move in on a person. Here they are in a bolded, numbered format so you can have all of them right at the top of this article: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Murder The Occult Lust Pride Mental Health Unforgiveness Sickness Different Kinds of Vices False Religions

These 9 specific areas are some of the major areas that demons will try and target once they move in for an attack on someone. These are the games that demons will try and play on us, and these are real life-and-death games, not fun type games. This is why the Bible tells us to always be sober, vigilant, and alert for any kind of demonic activity that could set in on either us, or any of our close loved ones. Now I will go ahead and discuss each one of these groups under the captions below so you can see how demons will try and operate against you. Here are the main groups and the function names of the demons operating in each of these specific groups. These demons are still to this day roaming in the air trying to attack us anytime they see a hole occur in our protective hedge with the Lord. Also note that demons can play more than one of these games on any one individual person. 1. Murder These types of demons, and the ones who specialize in the occult, are the two worse kinds of demons you can ever come across. In this first group are the demons who specialize in trying to set people up to murder and kill. This will include demons who will try and get people to either kill themselves in the form of a suicide, or kill other people in cold-blooded murders. There is not a day that goes by where we do not see reported on our local news stations the murder or suicide of individual people in this life.

In fact, it is so common and so prevalent, that we have become literally desensitized to all of it since we hear about it so much on a daily basis. It is only when it happens to someone who may be close to us that we are given the full realization of how evil of an act murder and suicide really is. And if it should happen to a very close loved one like your child, your spouse, or a parent, it will rip your heart into a million pieces and leave a hole in your soul that will never fully go away until you cross over to the other side to be with Jesus for all of eternity. Through the power of the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, God can help heal the emotional wounds of this kind of trauma, but you will never lose the actual memory of the event, or the sadness at losing a close loved one in such a horrible, evil, and senseless fashion. The Bible has already given us fair warning that Satan and his demons have come to kill, steal, and destroy, and until Jesus comes back to set up His Millennium Kingdom from the the city of Jerusalem, we are all going to have to battle this kind of an evil reality on a regular basis whether we like it or not. As such, it will really help everyone if they can learn how the enemy will try and operate against them. Here are some of the main function names of the demons who specialize in this kind of extreme evil activity:
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Murder Hate Rage Anger Violence Death Revenge Destruction Darkness Suicide Abortion Jealousy Sadism Fighting

As we have said before, demons usually travel in groups or clusters, with one demon being the chief demon and the rest of the demons being his underlings under his direct control and direction. In many of these types of cases, the chief demon will be a spirit of murder and then he will have his underlings having some of the functions names listed above. They will then move in and set up shop on someone if they have the appropriate legal rights to be able to do so, and they will then try and work and play that person over a period of time to either try and get them to kill themselves or other people, or possibly both, as murder-suicides are still very common in this day and age. Again, in most of these cases, the person is not in a fully possessed state. They still have most, if not all of their senses fully intact, and know basic right from wrong.

The demons will then plant their thoughts, their suggestions, their pictures in their minds eye, and their strategies on how to do this but the person can still resist these types of evil temptations at anytime and choose not to act out on them. Demons cannot make you do anything against your own free will. All they can do is try and persuade you to do it, along with trying to give you the actual desire and compulsion to want to do it. From there, the choice will be up to that person as to whether or not they will want to go all the way through with it and actually act out on these evil desires being implanted into them by the demons. It simply amazes me how so many people will blindly follow these kinds of evil demonic suggestions and promptings, and actually carry out acts of pure, cold-blooded murders on either themselves or anyone else the demons have targeted for them. Just because you get an evil thought or an evil desire to kill either yourself or someone else does not mean that you have to actually try and carry it out. Again, people need to be taught the basics on how demons will try and play mind games with you so they can get you to do their evil bidding. The mind is the battlefield in the area of spiritual warfare, with both demons and God tying to reach you through your mind. God will be trying to transform and renew your mind through His Word, and demons will be trying to reach your mind so they can get you to act out on their evil suggestions. 2. The Occult This next class of demons are the next worse kind of demons you can ever come across. Many deliverance ministers have found out on the actual battlefields that demons who specialize in any area of the occult are some of the more evil and powerful demons in Satans kingdom, and sometimes are the hardest kind to be able to actually cast out. This is why God the Father was so strict back in the OT with the Jewish people in that they were to have absolutely nothing to do with any kind of occult activity whatsoever. In the Spiritual Warfare section of our site, we have an article titled, Dangers of the Occult. In this article are all of the main verses on God warning us to stay completely away from any kind of occult activity. I believe there are demons who literally specialize in every single kind of occult activity that is out there. For the purposes of this article, I am going to go ahead and list all of the different kinds of occult activities that we are to stay completely away from in this life. All of these were listed in our Dangers of the Occult article. Here they are once again so you can have all of these at a quick glance with this specific article: 1. Fortunetelling of any kind such as palm reading , crystal ball gazing, numerology, or seeing psychics. 2. Tarot Cards 3. Ouija Boards and Automatic Writing 4. Seances and any involvement with mediums or spiritists. 5. Astrology and any form of horoscopes 6. I Ching 7. Hypnotism 8. Transcendental Meditation or any type of Far Eastern Meditation.

9. Crystals 10. Witchcraft 11. Satanism 12. Voodoo 13. Channeling 14. Reincarnation 15. Astral Projection 16. ESP 17. Dungeons and Dragons role-playing games. 18. New Age Movement techniques and activities. 19. Necromancy Again, we cannot emphasize strongly enough that both believers and nonbelievers alike stay completely away from this kind of demonic activity. Every single one of the above activities have specific demons assigned to them, and they will come directly after you if you attempt to try any of these kinds of activities out. If you want to see what demons can do to a person once they have opened up the doors by engaging with any type of occult activity, read our 2 articles titled, The Extreme Dangers of the Ouija Board and The Dangers of Automatic Writing. In these two articles are two dramatic, bone-chilling testimonies of two people who drew in very heavy demonic attacks on them as a result of dabbling with a ouija board and automatic writing. 3. Lust This next class of demons have probably been responsible in bringing down more modern day ministries than all of the other ones combined and put together, especially with men. These types of demons are also responsible for all of the different kinds of perversions and filth we see running across every segment of our society today. Here is a basic list of some of these kinds of demons:
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Lust Fornication Adultery Pornography Pedophilia Rape Incest Homosexuality Transvestism Transsexuality Sexual Orgies Wife swapping Prostitution Bestiality Sadomasochism

All of these forbidden areas with the Lord have one major thing in common and that is they are all tied into a spirit of lust, a spirit of sexual arousal where the ultimate aim is for some kind of sexual gratification. If you will notice, all of these kinds of activities are having our sexuality to be tied into the wrong kinds of targets. God Himself created us with the ability to have sexual thoughts and feelings, but this gift was only meant to be used and shared within the confines of a holy, heterosexual marriage, not in the above kinds of aberrant activities. Demons obviously know we have this kind of incredible gift from the Lord, so they will do everything they can to try and get you to release this gift through the wrongs kinds of targets and activities such as the ones listed above. How many marriages, ministries, and personal lives have been totally destroyed and brought down as a result of people following after the different kinds of spirits of lust. The strongest man in God to have probably ever lived, Samson, was completely brought down as a result of lusting after the wrong kind of woman. And to this very day, many people still have not learned from the past and how deadly this kind of spirit can be. We still have many married people across the world who are still cheating on their spouses in their marriages. And then to top it off, we still have to deal with all of the rapists and pedophiles who are out there preying on all of our young children and women, all because they are choosing with their own free wills not to try and fight this kind of bad and evil spirit. 4. Pride In the Sanctification Section of our site, we have an article titled, Pride Will Come Before the Fall. In this article are all of the main verses having to do with pride and how pride will come before the fall. Satan himself is a perfect example of someone who fell from grace and favor with the Lord as a result of too much pride being built up in his personality over a certain period of time. As we explained in that article, once too much pride starts to build up over time in your personality, you will then start to lose your ability to see what the real truth is in many of the important matters in your life. The only truth you will now see is what you think the truth is, even if that truth goes against God Almighty Himself. You will then start to become a little god yourself, thinking that all of the world revolves around you and your own set agendas. You will then become very selfish and narcissistic and will refuse to listen to any kind of correction or counsel the Lord will try and bring your way. Demons know how powerful and destructive of a thing pride can be in helping to bring a person down, so they will do everything they can behind the scenes to try and build up a persons ego through false flattery and vain imaginations. Here is a list of some of the different kinds of demons who will try and bring someone down through the use of pride:
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Pride Arrogance

y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y y

Haughtiness Rebellion Blasphemy Control, Domination Possessiveness Contention Quarreling Critical, Judgmental Selfish Narcissistic Unbelief Skepticism Greed Paranoia Deceit Mockery

Once the spirit of pride enters into someone, either through demons and/or through a persons own human spirit, many of the above qualities will follow right along with it. How many prideful people do you know who also exhibit additional ne gative qualities such as being too judgmental and too critical of other people. Since their inflated sense of pride tells them that they are always right and never wrong, then there is no room for anyone else who does not agree with them. As a result, they will become very judgmental and critical of anyone else who does not agree with them. As their pride continues to build up, they will then become more selfish and narcissistic, as all they will be able to see is what is in their own little world. As a result, everything else in their lives will become totally irrelevant, including the members of their own families. They will then start to want more and more, especially in the area of power, wealth, authority, control, money, and material goods. From there a strong spirit of greed will start to enter in and before you know it, they will have lost all contact with God, their best friends, and family members. They will then become an island and a god all to themselves. And then it happens, everything comes tumbling down around them. They lose all of their friends, their families, their wealth and money, and most importantly of all, they lose their connection and personal relationship to God Himself. Saddam Hussein of Iraq is a perfect example of someone who had it all in the area of power and material wealth, and then lost all of it in a matter of days as a result of letting his pride get in the way of letting the UN inspectors into his country to look for weapons of mass destruction that were never found. Demons are masters at playing the pride game with people since that is what caused all of them to get cast out of heaven in the first place. And so many people to this very day are still continuing to fall for this type of evil spirit, such as some of our politicians, the CEOs of different companies, and even some of the pastors and clergy in our different churches.

Just realize that pride is a major, offensive weapon of demons, and they will play this kind of game with anyone they feel wil l be susceptible to it, especially those who are in any type of leadership position. 5. Mental Health The Bible tells us that God has given us a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. And what do you think demons will want to try and do just off this one verse alone to try and give all of us an unsound mind. In other words, they will try to make us mentally unstable as much as they can. Here is the verse from our Bible giving us this very powerful revelation about God wanting to give all of us a very sound mind in Him: For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1:7) This, without question, is one of the favorite games that demons will try and play with all of us. If they can make us mentally unstable to any significant degree, they will then be able to do significant damage to our abilities to our operate in our callings for the Lord, if not completely knock us right out of our calls. Here are some of the function names of the demons who will operate in this realm:
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Fear Depression Torment Dread Hopelessness Despair Insecurity Paranoia Suspicion Distrust Insecurity Loneliness Shyness Discouragement Passivity Lying Deceit Antisocial Compulsive neurotic behavior Phobias Madness Insanity Schizophrenia Multiple Personalities Hearing Voices Mind Control

We all battle some of these types of faults and imperfections from time to time. Not everyone who has fear, shyness, or loneliness on them is under any kind of demonic attack. But where you can get into problems with some of these types of conditions is when demons do move in and try to intensify what you may already be going through. For instance, if you are battling your own emotions of fear and insecurity as a result of having just lost your job, then the demons will try and attach to you if they can, and then start to slime and hit you with their own fear. Once their fear starts to hit you on top of your own fears already hitting you, then you are getting hit with what I call a double whammy. Demons are always looking for an opening in your defenses, a chink in your armor. If they see that you are battling any type of abnormal fear for any type of crisis you are going through, they will then try and add to it so they can get you paralyzed. And if you get paralyzed enough, then you will stop trying to move forward. And if you stop trying to move forward, then you may end up handcuffing God in being able to work with you. This is why it is so important that you realize the types of games demons are capable of playing with you so you do not fall into their traps. If you have just lost your job, you will need to start seeking and searching for that next new job. And as you are seeking and searching for that next new job, then God will fully guide your steps into the next new job He will want you to have. But if you quit seeking after that next new job due to battling too much fear and insecurity, then God may not be able to lead you to that next new job because you have just taken yourself off of His playing field. And that is exactly what the demons will try and do to you knock you right off of the playing field and onto the bench, so God will not be able to use you or work with you. Again, do not fall for these kinds of tricks and traps from these demons. This is why the Bible tells us that having knowledge can help keep us from being destroyed and going into any type of captivity. And if the demons can start to play this kind of mind game with you where they can get you mentally unstable to any kind of a significant degree, then you will go into a certain amount of mental captivity. And that certain amount of mental captivity could then end up freezing and paralyzing you and keep you from being able to progress any further on the divine path that God has you set up on. If demons cannot kill you, they will then try and paralyze you so you can no longer move forward and function in the calling that God has set up for your life. That is why having some semblance of a good, sound mind in this life will really help you in being able to fully complete your call for the Lord. Demons know this and that is why they will try and slime you with some of the above negative qualities. 6. Unforgiveness Another major area that demons will try and target once they see this kind of an opening in your defenses is in the area of unforgiveness. The reason they will try and target this specific area is due to the following verse:

AND WHENEVER YOU STAND PRAYING, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your tr espasses. (Mark 11:25) Not only does this verse tell us that God will not be forgiving all of our trespasses if we do not forgive the ones who have trespassed against us, but this verse is also implying that we may have a very hard time in getting any of our personal prayers answered with Him, as it starts out with the specific wording, And whenever you stand praying. And if you cannot get your own personal prayers answered with he Lord, then you will not be able to operate in the calling that God has set up for your life. This is why demons will especially target this area, so they can sever the prayer line between you and the Lord. Your prayer line to the Lord is your lifeline. Have that lifeline damaged, cut, or severed in any way, and all of the forward momentum in your calling with the Lord will completely shut down until you can get it re-established again. Here are some of the function names of the demons who will play this kind of mind game with us:
y y y y y y y y

Unforgiveness Bitterness Jealousy Resentment Anger Stubborness Envy Hard-heartedness

All of these negative qualities will all go right along with the main spirit of unforgiveness. These additional qualities is what many of the times will keep you from being able to forgive someone who has trespassed against you. Anger, bitterness, resentment, and a hard heart could all prevent you from being able to try and forgive someone for something bad they may have done to you in your past. We have a special article in the Psychological Issues of our site titled, How to Handle Negative Feelings When Wronged by Someone Else. If any of you are battling any type of unforgiveness in your life, you may want to read this article, as we go further in depth on this topic and show you how you can really do this with the Lords help. God does not want us walking around with any type of heavy anchors and burdens wrapped around us. And holding any type of major unforgiveness against anyone will be a major, heavy anchor wrapped around your soul until you can get it completely cut away from you by the power of the Holy Spirit. 7. Sickness As a result of the Adamic curse that is still in full operation on this earth, every single one of us will have to battle a certain amount of sickness and illness in this life.

Most of the times, any type of sickness or illness we may get will be due to natural type causes. With all of the bad foods we eat, the pollution that is in our air, and just the normal wear-and-tear and aging our physical bodies will go through, all of these will contribute to our bodies breaking down with various types of illnesses and diseases at times. However, if you study many of the deliverances that Jesus did in the Gospel accounts, there were quite a few times that a persons illness was directly due to a demonic spirit. And once that demon was cast out, then the person had a full, physical healing. These types of spirits are called spirits of infirmity, and they will specialize in attacking our physical bodies and causing them to get sick in some way. You will need proper discernment from the Holy Spirit as to whether or not someones illness is being caused by a demon, or if it is just coming from natural cause and effect from all of the different Adamic curse factors that are still in full play. Here are some of the function names of the demons who will operate in this realm:
y y y y y y y y

Spirit of Infirmity (any kind of disease or illness) Death Anorexia Bulimia Insomnia Abnomal amounts of lethargy, sleepiness Epilepsy Gluttony

Again, you will need proper discernment from the Holy Spirit as to when you are dealing with a demon who is causing a specific type of illness or disease. But just remember that this is a type of game that demons can play with us and not to overlook this possibility if you are dealing with a specific type of illness or disease with someone. Anorexia and bulimia especially should be looked at very carefully, as demons love to do these two if they can get away with it. If they can prevent you from properly eating, then you will not have the proper nutrients entering your body to properly function, and you could then seriously put your own life in danger if you stay in these two conditions long enough. However, gluttony will be the opposite end of this extreme. If the demons cannot try and kill you by starving your body to death, they will then try and kill you by causing you to overeat. Many of our natural illnesses, such as heart attacks and cancers, are caused by people overeating of the wrong kinds of foods over too long of a period of time. And spirits of gluttony love to attach to people to see if they can get them to eat themselves to death. 8. Different Kinds of Vices If demons will try and cause you to either overeat or under eat in order to try and kill you, then this next realm should come as no surprise. This next realm is where you get into the different types of vices and addictions that are out there and demons love to play this kind of extreme game on anyone they can.

Here are some of the main function names of these kinds of demons:
y y y y y y y

Alcohol Cocaine Heroin Meth Marijuana LSD Anti-prescription drugs

All of these vices can become extreme addictions and they can all shorten our life span, not to mention they can all seriously cripple us and prevent us from being able to properly function in this life and in our specific callings for the Lord. Get hooked on any of these types of heavier drugs, or get to the point where you have become an alcoholic, and God will then not be able to use you in the calling that He has set up for your life until you can get yourself properly cleaned up and fully delivered. Again, this is why demons will play this kind of heavy, extreme game with some of us, as they know once they can get a person hooked on these kind of addictive substances, they will then knock that person right out of their divine destinies with the Lord. How may potential great men and women of God have never made it to the starting line with the Lord due to the fact that they could never fully break free from their specific addictions? Once demons see someone starting to dabble and experiment with the above substances, they will waste no time in trying to move in for the kill, as they know they will have the appropriate legal rights to be able to attach to that person. This is why experimenting or dabbling with some of the above heavier drugs could get you into major trouble in the spiritual realm, as demons just watch and wait for people to punch a hole in their protective hedges by experimenting with these kinds of forbidden substances. 9. False Religions Our Bible is very clear on this next issue. Per our article titled, The Basics of Salvation Through Jesus Christ, there is only one name and one way into heaven and that is directly through Jesus Christ and His sacrificial death on the cross. There are no other ways, no other names, and no other religions in this world that can get us into heaven. Jesus has made it very clear that He, and only He, is the only way into heaven, and that no one will come to His Father unless they come directly through Him. With Jesus being the only way into heaven, then it can only be expected that demons will try and conjure up as many other ways as they possibly can so they can keep people from finding the only one true Way. Hence you have many false religious systems that are still in operation in the world today. We believe that all of these other false religious systems in the world today are being run by demons, and each one of these areas are major stronghold areas, with some of Satans best and smartest demons running all of these false religious systems.

Here are the major false religious systems still in operation in the world today, with each one of them being run by demonic spirits who specialize in each one of these demonic systems:
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Islam Jehovahs Witnesses Mormonism Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Shintoism Sikhism Jainism Zoroastrianism Spiritualism Christian Science Hare Krishna Scientology Kabbalah Unification Church Freemasonry The Children of God EST Eckanar The Forum The Way International Theosophy Rosicrucianism Atheism Legalism

I know in the politically correct climate we are now all living in, the above statement is very extreme and controversial. But our Bible leaves us with no other logical explanation as to how the big picture is really set up. In our article on the basics of salvation through Jesus Christ, we have listed all of the verses showing that Jesus Christ is the only way into heaven. I am going to list them once again under this caption so you can see how God the Father is really driving home the point that no one is going to get to Him and where He lives at unless they come through His Son and the blood that His Son has shed for all of us on the cross. Simply put we either come through the blood and the cross, or we do not come through at all. As such, there are no middle grounds or neutral areas for people to walk into if they do not want to accept Jesus. This is why all of the above religious systems are called false religions, because none of them will lead to true eternal salvation with God the Father. They are all dead ends being run by demons. Once again, here are the most powerful verses in all of Scripture telling us that Jesus Christ is the only way to be able to receive eternal salvation with God the Father:

1. Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved. (Acts 4:12) 2. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all (1 Timothy 2:5) 3. There is one body and one Spirit one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4:4) 4. Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. (John 14:6) 5. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and find pasture I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10:9) 6. Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life, he who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. (John 11:25) 7. Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life. (John 8:12) 8. And Jesus said to them, I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger and he who believes in Me shall never thirst. (John 6:35) 9. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. (John 6:51) 10. whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life . For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. ( John 3:1516) 11. He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. (John 3:36) 12. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins. (John 8:24) 13. Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. (John 5:24) 14. And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; He who does not have the Son of

God does not have life. (1 John 5:11) 15. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (1 John 4:14) When you read each one of these verses one right after the other, you can really feel the power and the authority that is on each one of them, and that God the Father is telling all of us, in no uncertain terms and very easy to understand language, that no one is going to be getting into heaven unless they come directly through His Son Jesus and that any other ways and any other names in this life are not going to be tolerated and accepted by Him. The world may want us to have a politically correct tolerance for all of these other false religions of this world, but God the Father is not going to, and as such, and as His direct ambassadors on this earth, we have to tell the rest of the world what the real truth is. Once you see what the real truth is through Jesus Christ, it is just heart-breaking to see so many people bound up and in captivity to all of these other false religious systems across the world. Millions and millions of people are being held behind enemy lines in all of these other false religions, and they have absolutely no idea and no clue that they are all on the wrong side of the fence. This is one area where Satan and his demons have been very successful across much of the world. To think that there is only one way, one name, and one faith and that Satan has managed to create all of these other false religions in order to try and prevent people from finding this one true way is just heartbreaking!

Conclusion
As you can see from this big list, there are demons who literally cover every type of evil we can think of. And to think that all of these evil demons were initially born and created good up in heaven by the Lord. The Bible tells us that one-third of the angelic host ended up rebelling against God, and as a result, they are now all lost forever and will never, ever get another chance to get back into heaven. As a result, every single one of these demons have now descended down into the dark side where they have now become nothing but pure evil and the sum total of their existence is to now live and operate within their function names so they can try and drag all of us down into their lower way of living and then eventually into hell itself. What a sad and unbelievable reality! And to think that all of these fallen angels had it all at the very beginning of their existence with the Lord. Knowing some of the basic function names of these demons may help in some of the cases God may bring your way. Again, for the most part, demons will travel in groups or clusters, and when they are allowed to enter into a persons body, the whole group will then usually move in at once and set up shop. The group will have a head demon, who is known as the chief demon, and the rest of the demons will then be the underlings under his direct control.

At certain times, the Holy Spirit can either give you a word of knowledge or some type of discernment as to what types of demons you are dealing with so you can find out what all of their legal rights may be. And then once you find out what all of the legal rights are, then you can proceed to properly break all of them before the Lord. And once all of the legal rights have been properly broken before the Lord, the demons will then have nothing else left to hold onto, and they will then be able to be cast out of the person with the appropriate command words. Knowing some of the basic function names and groupings of these demons will also help in giving us a heads up when demons do try and nip at us from time to time. Knowing what kind of evil they like to specialize in will help tip us off when it really is them attacking us. If more people knew what the basic functions and games of these demons were, they would not so easily fall prey to some of their specific temptations like murder, suicide, and the different types of addictions. Many cold-blooded murders could have easily been stopped dead right in their tracks if more people would have known that they were being played by these demons who specialize in the negative feelings and emotions of hate, rage, anger, and murder. Demons play some of these people just like fiddles, and they then lead them right off the end of some serious life-and-death cliffs. Again, this is why every single church should have some kind of basic teaching on spiritual warfare so the flock will know how the enemy will try and operate against them. The Bible has already told us that those who lack knowledge will perish and fall into captivity. And not having some of this basic knowledge on how demons can move and operate have caused many to have either seriously stumbled in their walks with the Lord, or have knocked some of them right off th e playing field of life itself with an early death and departure from this life. And this was all as a direct result of not knowing how the enemy can move and operate against them. How many people have been led into murders, suicides, drug addictions, adul tery, crime, and perverted sexual lifestyles all as a result of demons playing them on the back end, giving them these unholy desires in the first place, and then prompting them to act out on it and then with most of these people never stopping to thin k or analyze where these kinds of unholy desires were coming from in the first place. Again, a lot of this kind of demonic activity could have easily been stopped dead right at the outset if more people knew how demons really operated behind the scenes. We will continue to add more articles like this to our Spiritual Warfare section so you can have many of the basics on this part of our walk with the Lord.

Prayer Secret #1 Your Personal Relationship With God

his, in my opinion, is the #1 secret for being able to get more of your personal prayers answered by God the Father. This particular secret is the first step you will need to take before you can expect to have any kind of major success in your prayer life with God the Father. Here is the Scripture verse that will give us this first major prayer secret from the Lord: IF YOU ABIDE IN ME, AND MY WORDS ABIDE IN YOU, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples. (John 15:7) Look very, very carefully at this verse to see exactly what Jesus is trying to tell you. He is giving you two powerful pieces of revelation in which to grasp if you want to be able to get God the Father to answer more of your specific prayers. Here are the two main pieces of revelation. 1. Establish a Good, Personal Relationship With the Lord The first part of the first sentence If you abide in Me - is telling you that the very first thing that God is wanting from you in order to be able to properly approach Him for prayer is for you to establish a very strong, personal relationship with Him! Jesus is using the word abide. The word abide means to continue in a state or place, to endure. What Jesus wants from us is that we be willing to abide in Him, that we be willing to live in Him. Being willing to abide in Jesus means that we have established a very good, intimate, personal relationship with Him. The #1 reason God created the human race was for intimate fellowship. God has this incredible love for the human race, and He wants more than anything else that we approach Him and enter into this one-on-one, intimate, personal relationship with Him. If you really stop and think about this, what is one of the greatest joys that a person can have this side of heaven? What is the one thing that most people long for? What is the one thing that will make you cry when you see this portrayed at the movie theaters? It is the longing for a personal, intimate, love relationship with a person of the opposite sex, the longing for a true soul mate. Why? Because that one person, more than any other person, is the one person who can really get to know you. It is the one person who can become your best friend. It is the one person who you can tell anything and everything to. It is the most unique of all human relationships. Some have found this one, true love in this life and others have not. Those of you who have found this one true love know exactly what I am talking about. Those of you who have not found this one true love at this time know the longing that you have to find this one special person. This same longing that we have to meet this one true soulmate is the same longing that God has for all us. Except with God, this longing for us is much more intense. The fact that God would send down His one and only Son to our earth in the flesh to physically die on a cross in

order to bring us back to Himself shows us more than anything else how much He really does love all of us. The best analogy that I can give you on this is the best friend analogy. God wants to become your best friend, over your soulmate and over any other best friends you may have in this life. He wants to be #1 in your life and He will not settle for anything less. The Bible says that God the Father is a jealous God, a consuming fire. Some Christians believe that if they go to church once a week, sing a few songs in church, and pay their tithe, that they are in relationship with God. However, God wants more than this. He wants you 7 days of the week, not just one time a week in a church service. He wants to be able to freely communicate with you 24/7. He wants you to talk with Him just like you would talk to your best friend. He wants dynamic, free flowing conversation with you on anything you want to personally discuss with Him, no matter how small or trivial it may seem to you. And He then wants you to be open to listening to anything that He may have to say to you. What happens to some Christians is that they have not established this kind of close, personal relationship with the Lord, and then when a crisis or emergency presents itself, it is already too late to try to get God to answer their prayer. Notice that Jesus starts the first sentence out with the word IF. IF you have established a good, personal relationship with God, THEN you can approach Him with your prayer requests, and THEN He will answer them. Too many Christians attempt to use God. The only time they ever approach God is when they need something specific from Him. God thus has no natural desire to answer any prayer request they may have because they have never established any kind of true, personal relationship with Him. One of the things I felt like the Holy Spirit has conveyed to me is that if you really want to be able to get God to answer more of your prayers, then you have to create a desire in God to want to answer more of your prayers. And the #1 way that you create a desire in God to get Him to want to answer more of your prayer requests is by establishing a good, intimate, personal relationship with Him.

The Parent-Child Analogy

The analogy the Holy Spirit gave me to understand all of this was the Parent-Child Analogy. Imagine you are the parent and you have two small children. The one boy really loves you. He has established a true, loving, personal relationship with you. He wants to hang out with you. He comes home from school and tells you everything that happened to him that day. He tells you all the little things that may have gone right or wrong during the day. He values your opinion. When he gets older and more mature, all of sudden he wants to hear more about you, your life, and your problems. He wants to know more about you, your past, why you do what you

do and why you think the way that you do. This child is truly abiding in you, truly living in you. You feel like you and him are one in spirit. As you grow older, your personal relationship deepens and keeps getting better and better. Then you have the other child. He could care less about you and your personality. The only time he will ever approach you is when he needs something specific from you. He will even go as far as to act like he cares about you, but once he gets what he wants from you, he is back to ignoring you until the next time he needs something from you. As he grows older, you grow farther and farther apart. When he is finally able to leave home on his own, you never hear from him unless he once again needs something specific from you. He hardly ever calls or comes over. Now if you are the loving father over these two children, which of the two will you have a strong, natural desire to help out when they may need your help on something? You will have no natural desire to help the one who has been using you over all of those years. However, with the child who has established a true, loving, personal relationship with you, you will bend over backwards to give that child anything and everything that he may need. Why? Because he loves you for you! He does not love you for what you can do for him. He loves you for the person that you are and for the friend that you have become for him over all those years. In fact, your love for this loving son will be so great, many of the times you will give him what he will need before he will even ask you for it. Why? Because you are so in tune with him, you will know what he will need sometimes before he will even know what he will need. Then you will want to give it to him before he will even ask you for it because your love for him is so great. You have a very strong, natural desire to want to make him happy, all because of the good, personal relationship that he has established with you over all those years. It is the exact same way with God the Father! Establish a true, loving, intimate, personal relationship with God the Father and see if your whole life does not do a complete 180! Nothing will touch the heart of God more than you attempting to establish a good, close, personal relationship with Him with you truly wanting Him for who He is, not for what He can do for you by way of material blessings. Again as a word of caution God cannot be tricked or duped. You cannot try and enter into this kind of personal relationship with God in order to try and get Him to give you all of your wants and desires. Your motives must be pure! You enter into a good, personal relationship with the Lord because you want to get to know Him personally! You do not enter into this kind of a personal relationship with Him to see how much He can give you. You have to want God for who He is not for what He can do for you. The Bible tells us to seek the face of God not His hand. For those of you who have truly established this kind of close, intimate, personal relationship with God, I am sure you can testify that this is truly the greatest experience that anyone of us can have this side of heaven that this one and only true God in the entire universe can

actually make direct contact with you, communicate and talk directly with you, and establish a real, intimate, personal relationship with you. For those of you who have not really established this kind of close, personal relationship with God, the one thing that I can tell you is that there is absolutely nothing to be afraid of. God will handle and relate to you on the level that you are currently operating at with Him. This kind of intimate, personal relationship with the Lord is not built up overnight, but over time. God can satisfy and meet the deeper longings of your soul and spirit that no human could ever reach! He can truly give you a perfect, pure, and unconditional love that no other person will be able to give you in this life. He will be able to love you better and deeper than anyone else in your life including the good, natural love that you can get from your p arents, your children, your marriage mates, and some of your better friends. You can totally trust God because He is totally and completely perfect in all of His ways. He will not hurt you or harm you in any way. God has no dark side to His personality, so He is completely trustworthy. He is totally incapable of hurting you in any way. Some Christians are afraid to go deeper with God in their own personal relationship with Him because they have been terribly hurt in other relationships, whether it be from their parents, their lovers, or some of their friends. All humans are imperfect and they are thus not capable of giving you any kind of perfect, true love. Since God is completely and totally perfect in His very nature and in all of His ways then He, and only He, is the only One who can give you that perfect, pure, true, and unconditional love that you are really looking for in this life. 2. The Bible Now we come to the second secret that is in the above verse. Note the second part of the first sentence then says, My words abide in you. I believe Jesus is telling us two things in this sentence. His Words are literally meaning His Words. If you have established a good, loving, personal relationship with God, then He will talk to you just like you will talk to Him. And if He is talking to you, then His words will be abiding in you! This will be as a direct result of the free flowing dialogue that you will have with God as a result of having established a close, intimate, personal relationship with Him. The other meaning to His words abiding in you is that He is referring to the Bible. If you really want to enter into a close, personal relationship with God, then you have to be willing to spend some type of regular quality time reading the Bible. The Bible is the only one true source that we have down here on this earth where we can really learn all about God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. When you first enter into a true, personal, love relationship with someone, the very first natural desire you will have is that you will want to get to know everything you can about this person. You will want to know about all of their likes, their dislikes, where they have come

from, and what they have been through. And the only way that you can find all of this out about them is by asking a lot of questions. With God, the #1 way that you will learn all about Him is to read the Bible, because the Bible will tell you everything that you will need to know about Him, His Son Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit. You have to seek after knowledge about the Lord and the Bible is the #1 main source that we have on this earth that can teach us about God and all of His ways.

Bottom Line
To summarize the revelation in the above Scripture verse in one bottom line statement: God is looking to establish a close, intimate, personal relationship with each one of us. This is done in two ways: 1. By establishing a direct, free-flowing, and spontaneous best friend relationship with God where you commune and talk with Him on a regular and frequent basis in the exact same way you would with a best friend. 2. And by seeking after the knowledge of God trying to get to know all you can about Him by studying and meditating on what is written in the Holy Bible. I guarantee you that if you are willing to enter into both of these realms with the Lord, your life will never be the same again. This close, intimate, personal relationship that you can enter into with the Lord will be the door opener that will change the course of your entire life forever. The journey is there for all who are willing to step into it!

Sanctification
s you will see in the Scripture verses I will list in this article Gods ultimate and highest aim for all of us is our sanctification in Him. God wants to make us more holy like Himself. He wants to transform us into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ. He wants to consecrate and set us apart unto Himself. The wording in these verses is very intense. One of the verses will tell us that God wants to sanctify us completely in all three parts of our being body, soul, and spirit. Jesus Himself tells us that He wants us to be perfect just like His Father in heaven is perfect. When you first look at these verses, you wonder how anyone could ever begin to achieve any real state of holiness in the cursed and fallen world we all now live in. With all of the lusts of our flesh, and with all of the different types of temptations of this world, many Christians never even attempt to give God half a chance to start this sanctification process in their life. They feel this bar is simply too high to even begin to strive for in this life. The Bible tells us that all men and women have sinned and have fallen way short of the glory of God. We are so far from the perfection that God is really wanting from each one of us, that we see no real way to be able to obtain it to any significant degree in this life. As a result, many Christians never ask or seek after God to get this sanctification process started in their

life and as a result, there is very little, if any true spiritual growth over the course of most of their lives. However, if you will study the specific wording in some of these verses, God the Father is showing you very clearly how this sanctification process can start to occur in this life. You do not have to wait until you get to heaven to get this sanctification process started with Him. One of the first verses I will list below is telling us that we get three specific things as a result of Jesus dying on the cross for all of our sins. We get redemption, righteousness, and sanctification. Most Christians know about the first two redemption and righteousness but they either forget, or do not pick up on the third thing that we all have available to us and that is our sanctification in the Lord! This sanctification is a progressive process. It is not something that occurs instantaneously at our conversions. It is a progressive work done by the Holy Spirit over the course of our entire life. The apostle Paul tells us that we have to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. He is telling us that there are things that have to be worked out and I believe one of those things is our sanctification in the Lord the process where God the Father begins to set us apart unto Himself and to transform us into becoming more holy instruments of righteousness for His use. The different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries define the word sanctification as follows:
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The state of growing in divine grace To set apart for holy purposes The process of being made holy resulting in a changed lifestyle for the believer

Noted Bible scholar Jack Hayford, in his excellent book titled: Hayfords Bible Handbook, defines sanctification as follows: The work of Gods grace by which the believer is separated from sin and becomes dedicated to Gods righteousness. Accomplished by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, sanctification results in holiness, or purification from the guilt and power of sin. Sanctification is instantaneous before God through Christ and progressive before man through obedience to the Holy Spirit and the Word. To those of you who have never really sought after the Lord to release this kind of supernatural work in your life study these verses very, very carefully. God is giving you an incredible spiritual secret that can dramatically change the quality of your life down here on this earth. As I said at the top of this article, you do not have to wait until you get to heaven to have God start this sanctification-transformation process in your life. It can literally start right where you are at right now if you are willing to fully surrender your entire life over to the Lord and then ask Him to begin to start this sanctification process in your life.

Before I go to the actual Scripture verses on all of this, consider one last thing. Even though this sanctification process appears to be a major leap to be able to make in the Lord, realize that God will start you off with small baby steps to get this process worked into your life. Rome was not built overnight, and neither will your sanctification in the Lord. Many in our society have no drawing towards the spiritual things of God. Their only goal in this life is to get as much of the material things in this life as they possibly can, not really caring who they hurt and run over in the process. Many think that trying to become more holy in the Lord is corny. Many of these types of Christians have been labeled as being not cool and goody two shoes by their peers, by their classmates, or by some of their fellow workers in the workplace. Many of our teenagers are made fun of in their schools if they do not join the crowds in abusing alcohol, doing drugs, or engaging in premarital sex. The ways of our God are not the ways of this world! This is why God tells us that we will become His enemies if we ever become too friendly with the things and ways of this world. This is why God is calling us and separating us unto Himself in this sanctification process that He wants to start with each and everyone of us. To become more holy and more righteous in the Lord may not be cool with the rest of the world, but it is definitely cool with the Lord. And when everything is all finally said and done, and we have finally departed from this life and have to face God for our own personal judgments the only thing that will really matter is what God thinks, not what the world thinks. We will all be judged by how God views things, not how the world or other people view things. I will leave you with one last thought before going into the actual Scripture verses on this topic: If you really watch and study people what is the one thing that most people are really searching for and seeking after these days? Why is it that so many people are tempted into entering a life of drugs or alcohol abuse? Why are so many people committing adultery behind their spouses back? Why are so many business-minded people chasing after their one and only all-personal god the almighty dollar? Why are so many people engaging with other alternative forms of spirituality, such as delving into the occult and the many facets of the New Age movement? If you really bottom-line all of the seeking that is occurring in these areas they are all looking for one thing and that one thing is an incredible sense of well-being. They are all looking for that high that will make them feel good. To those who are seeking after the almighty dollar, they are looking for that high that will give them a sense of approval and a sense of accomplishment. They are looking for all the material things that this money can buy them, thinking that all of these material things will make them feel good on the inside and completely fill the emptiness and void that is on the inside of each one of them. To those chasing after drugs, alcohol, or illicit sexual encounters they are looking for immediate gratification of physical, mental, or sexual pleasures. They want to feel good right now, and they will do anything they can to try and get that next high.

However, as we all know, all of the free sex, drugs, and alcohol, and all of the money in this world, and all of the material things this money can buy us, will never buy us that true state of inner happiness, that true state of well-being that we are all really searching for. All of the material things that we can buy in this life will only keep us high for a very short period of time. Then once that high starts to wear off, we have to find something else we can buy, thinking that the next new purchase will make us feel good for a longer period of time. And then it happens again. That high starts to wane, and then we are once more looking for that next new material thing, that next new adventure that will make us feel good about ourselves. Many people are constantly chasing the wind, but never really being able to reach it or grab a hold of it thus always continuing to fall short of being able to reach that elusive state of well-being that will give them the love, joy, and peace they are really searching for. Even many Christians are missing the mark on all of this. Too many Christians have become more attached to the things of this world rather than to God and the things that He wants us to get involved in. As a result, there are many Christians who are no more happy and no more fulfilled with their lives than many nonbelievers are. Once you become saved and born again by accepting Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior this is just the beginning. Now God wants to start to build you up in Him and all of His ways for your life. The first thing that God will want you to do is to be willing to enter into a full surrender with Him so He can then set you up on the divine path that He will want you to follow in this life. The next thing God will want from you is that you attempt to establish a close, personal relationship with Him. However, this will now lead us right into the next big step. Many Christians have already done both of these things, but they still feel there is something missing in their lives. They are following Gods perfect will and plan for their lives. They know how to be led by the Holy Spirit on a daily basis to accomplish what needs to be accomplished. They have established very good, personal relationships with the Lord but yet there still seems to be something missing in their lives and they cannot seem put their finger on it.
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Where is that feeling of well-being that I should be having more of? Where is that love, joy, and peace of mind I should be having more of? Why is it that at times I am no more happier and no more fulfilled than many nonbelievers are?

I personally believe that the missing ingredient in many believers life is this sanctification process. This sanctification process is a deeper work in the Lord, and many have not entered into it either because they have never been shown how to properly enter into it, or they really do not want to go this far with the Lord. Once you enter into this sanctification process with the Lord, it can be a bit painful at times, since God will be working with you to fully expose and prune out all of the negative qualities that He will not want have operating in your personality.

I will be doing additional articles in the Sanctification Section of our site, giving you all of the main verses that will give you the specifics on what it is you should be seeking after in order to be able to work with the Lord in this sanctification process. As you will see in the some of the verses listed below, it is the Holy Spirit who will really be the One to sanctify you and help you to become more holy in the eyes of the Lord. However, you will still have to do your part in all of this. As I said in another article in this section titled, Mindset: Being Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind, you will have to be the one to attempt to put on the positive qualities that God will want to instill in your personality, and put away all of the negative qualities that He will not want operating in your personality. You will have to really work in partnership and cooperation with the Holy Spirit in order to be able to get God to move you into this deeper realm of making you to become more holy. But for those of you who are willing to let the Lord take this next extra step with you you will find and obtain what everyone is really searching for and cannot find these days an incredible sense of well-being that all of the money, material possessions, drugs, alcohol, and sex will never be able to bring you in this life. This incredible sense of well-being can only be found in the process of allowing God to work His very nature into your own personality, thereby making you to become more holy. A perfect example of this is the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. These 9 fruits are His fruits, not ours such as love, joy, peace, self-control, kindness, etc. This means that God will start to transmit and impart His love, His peace, and His kindness into our personalities. And once this kind of sanctification process starts to occur, this is when you will really be able to start to feel and experience the sense of well-being that God initially created all of us to have in Him. It is only when the very life of God Himself, through the Holy Spirit, starts to enter into your mind, soul, and heart will you feel that high that everyone is really looking for these days. And the only way that you can get the very life of God to start to enter into your mind, soul, and heart is by entering into this sanctification process with the Lord. There is no other way. There are no shortcuts to this process. I really believe this is one of the main, missing ingredients in many believers walks with the Lord. Now I will go to the actual Scripture verses showing you that God really does want to start this sanctification process with each and everyone of us. I will then end this article giving you a simple 4 step process to get God to move you into this sanctification process if you are not afraid of it and are willing to work with Him on it. 1. We Are Now Sanctified in Christ Jesus In the above definition from Jack Hayford on sanctification, you will note that he says that sanctification is instantaneous before God through Christ, but that it is progressive before man through obedience to the Holy Spirit and the Word.

As you will see in the first two Scripture verses I will list below, these verses are telling us that we are now sanctified in Christ Jesus, and that we now receive sanctification, along with redemption and righteousness, through the blood that Jesus has personally shed for all of us on the cross. This is what Mr. Hayford means by the first part of this definition in that our sanctification is instantaneous before God through Christ. However, as you will see in several verses I will list in the second caption below, this sanctification is also progressive in nature as far as we are individually concerned. This means we have to go through a progressive process through the Holy Spirit and the Word in order to become more holy and sanctified in the Lord. What I believe the Lord is trying to tell us in these first two verses is that we have already received His sanctification, like we have already received His redemption and righteousness as a result of being saved and born again. Here are the two verses: 1. To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord (1 Corinthians 1:2) 2. But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God and righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30) To think that God the Father has given us a full redemption and a full pardon for all of our sins and then to add to this package the process of being able to be sanctified through the power of His Holy Spirit to become the saints that He wants us to become in Him is enough to knock you right off the couch if you really stop and think what is in these three words: Redemption, Righteousness and Sanctification! And to think that all of this is coming direct from the one and only Almighty God of the entire universe if we are willing to accept His free gift of eternal salvation through His Son Jesus and His sacrificial death on the cross. It really does not get any better than this that God and Jesus would go to this type of extreme length to bring us back to Themselves and then allow us to become partakers in this sanctification process where God the Father can then start to mold, shape, and transform us into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ. 2. Sanctification is a Progressive Process Now here are the two main verses that will show us that becoming sanctified in the Lord is a progressive process. The two keys words in both of these verses are being sanctified. If we were all instantaneously sanctified at the moment of our conversions with Jesus, then the Bible would not be using these two words of being sanctified. The word being is telling us that this is a progressive and ongoing process.

1. For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren (Hebrews 2:11) 2. For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified. (Hebrews 10:14) Again, with God the Father being willing to open up this sanctification process to each bornagain believer this is really an incredible privilege and the highest of all blessings that we can receive from the Lord. 3. God is Calling All of Us to Sanctification As you will see in the next set of verses, God is calling all of us to this sanctification in Him. These verses are all very direct and straight to the point. The first verse I will list below is telling us that God wants to sanctify us completely in all three parts of our being body, soul, and spirit! When God uses the word completely He is using a maximum intense kind of word. He wants to take us all the way in this realm if we are willing to yield to it and work with Him during the process. If you really study the wording in all of these verses, you can really feel the importance that God is placing on this sanctification process, and that this is something that He wants all of His children to become a part of, not just a few of His select saints. 1. Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:23) 2. but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, Be holy, for I am holy. (1 Peter 1:15) 3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. (1 Thessalonians 4:3,7) 4. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God . (2 Corinthians 7:1) 5. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay, some for honor and some for dishonor. Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified and useful for the Master, prepared for every good work. (2 Timothy 2:20)

6. Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:48) 7. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as slaves of uncleanness, and of lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves of righteousness for holiness What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life. (Romans 6:19-22) When you first read the way these verses are worded, it is very easy to become dismayed and distraught. If you are really honest with yourself, you can really feel and sense how far of a gap there is between where you are at right now with the Lord in your present level of spiritual development and how far God would really like to take you in this realm. Many Christians, when they first read these kinds of verses, realize they are simply too far away from this type of holiness in their present state of spiritual development and they thus throw in the towel never even attempting to give God a chance, through the Holy Spirit, to start this sanctification process through them in this life. This will now lead us into the next section. These next set of verses will tell you exactly how God can get this sanctification process started in your life right in the middle of wherever your present level of spiritual development may be in Him no matter how bad you think it may be. 4. Sanctification is Done By the Word and the Holy Spirit Study these next set of verses very, very carefully. Trying to achieve the state of holiness that God the Father would like to bring us up into is completely impossible if we try to do it through our own flesh and through our own efforts. Many Christians are trying to achieve this state of holiness without the presence and power of the Holy Spirit helping them out. You can easily spot those who are being properly sanctified through the Holy Spirit and those who are not. The ones who are trying to achieve this sanctification out of their own efforts and out of their own flesh not do not appear to be genuine. Their acts of holiness do not appear to be coming from the heart. You get the sense they are just trying to put on a show. There just seems to be something fake and plastic about them and the way they operate. Even most nonbelievers can see right through them. There is a sense of false piety about them that does not seem to ring true. However, with the person who is being properly sanctified by the Holy Spirit, you can really tell there is something different about this type of person. This person does not flaunt his piety, goodness, or holiness. They are very humble about it. Everything they do comes from the heart and everything appears to be done very naturally. There is no pretentiousness or sense of false piety in their actions or attitudes.

This sense of real holiness they are projecting through their personalities literally has a drawing power to it. You find yourself gravitating to these types of people. You can almost sense or see a radiance or glow about them. The love of God just radiates from their countenance. You are very comfortable in being in their presence and talking with them. You can see that their holiness is genuine and that it really is coming from the heart of God Himself. This is why these next set of verses are so specific on how this sanctification process is done in the Lord. Bottom line sanctification in the Lord is done by the power of the Holy Spirit operating through the knowledge that the Word will give you. In other words it is the Word and the Spirit working together that will cause this sanctification process to begin and occur in your life. It really is the Holy Spirit who will be the One to cause this type of transformation to occur in your personality. However, the Holy Spirit will not work without the Word. Why? Because the Word of God will give you the knowledge that you will need in order to be really able to work with the Holy Spirit in this process. You have to know exactly what it is that God wants to change about you before the Holy Spirit will move to cause some of these changes to start to take place in your personality. Example you have to learn from the Bible what some of the specific qualities are that God will want to impart into your personality. A good example of this are the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. The Bible will tell you exactly what these nine fruits are. Then once you know exactly what they are, then you can start to work with the Holy Spirit to get more of these fruits manifested and imparted into your personality. But if you do not learn exactly what these specific fruits are to begin with by reading about them from the Bible, then the Holy Spirit will have nothing to work with and He thus may not do much with you in this realm. All Christians have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of them. The Holy Spirit is only too anxious to get the ball rolling with you in every area of your life where you may need His help on, especially in the area of being sanctified in the Lord. However, many Christians have not spent much time in the Word and they are thus lacking the working knowledge they will need to work with the Holy Spirit in this deeper realm. As a result, there is very little, if any true spiritual growth over the course of most of their lives. As you can tell by the way these verses are worded, this sanctification realm is for the real seekers. The real seekers will be diving into God and His Word to find out exactly what it is God wants to do with them, and then will only be too anxious to work with the Holy Spirit during this process having no fear of doing it, and being willing to fully submit to the Lord with how He wants to handle all of it. These verses in particular are giving you the key that will open this door of sanctification to come into your life and change it forever. 1. because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth (2 Thessalonians

2:13) 2. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Corinthians 6:11) 3. But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthians 3:18) 4. elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace be multiplied. (1 Peter 1:2) 5. For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. (Romans 8:13) 6. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it, that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:25) 7. Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart, having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever (1 Peter 1:22) Notice in the last verse it says that your soul can become purified by obeying the truth through the Spirit. You can only get Gods truth in you if you read His Word. Learn the truth by studying the Word of God, and then combine this with walking in the power of the Holy Spirit, and then your soul can become purified. The verse right above it says that Jesus can cleanse and sanctify His church, which are the individual body of believers, by the washing of water by the word. In other words, you can be washed clean by His Word if you are willing to soak into the Scripture verses like you would soak in a bath of water to clean off. The Word of God has that kind of power in it! The truth from God can set you free in many areas of your life but you first have to learn what those truths are before they can start to work to set you free. And the only way to find the spiritual truths that will change the quality of your life and help set you free is by reading and studying from the Bible. There is no other way! The first 5 verses specifically tell us it is by the Holy Spirit Himself that this sanctification process is done in your life. Put all of these verses together, and God the Father is telling you exactly how this sanctification process can be done in this life and that is by the power of the Holy Spirit operating through the knowledge that the Word will give you.

In other words, its the Word and the Holy Spirit working together in a believer, who is actively seeking after God and His Word, that will get God to release the Holy Spirit to start this sanctification process within their mind, body, soul, and spirit.

How to Enter Into the Sanctification Process with the Lord

Though all of the above may seem like a tall order in the type of world we live in today, it really isnt. I have personally seen God do a sanctifying work in several people I know, and the results and changes in these peoples personality have been dramatic and powerful. They are no longer the people I used to know. They are now true saints in every sense of the word. The Holy Spirit is powerful and He is God Almighty Himself. Once You see Him really get a hold of a believer, and then start this sanctifying work in them to make them to become more holy and Christ-like in their souls and personalities it is truly is an incredible sight to behold! In my opinion, this is even more miraculous than watching Him heal someone of a physical ailment or disease. To those of you who would like to tread into this type of deeper waters with the Lord, but are somewhat fearful of what He may do with you the one thing that I can personally tell you is that you can completely trust God the Father to begin this work in you. He knows you better than you can ever know yourself. Since God is totally and completely perfect in His very nature and personality, then this means He will know how to perfectly handle you with this sanctification process. I will end this article with a very simple 4 step process that will lead you into this sanctification realm if you decide you want to give God a full and solid green light to start this process within you. However, what I cannot give you is exactly what God will be personally doing with each and everyone of you once this sanctification process starts up. Everyone is operating at different levels of spiritual development with the Lord. Some people have more baggage to clean up than others. Some people will be more resistant to the Holy Spirit wanting to remove certain negative qualities than others will. Some will progress at a faster rate of speed than others will because they will be more honest with the Lord and will be more open to receiving revelation on exactly what it is God wants to put in them and exactly what it is He wants to take out of them. This sanctification is a process. It is not something that will done overnight. You can trust God to perfectly handle the time frame in which He wants to operate in. He will not overwhelm you. He will give you plenty of reasonable time to work with the Holy Spirit once the Holy Spirit starts to impart revelation and knowledge to you on exactly what it is He wants to come after. For those of you who would really like to get serious with the Lord on getting this sanctification process started in your life here is a very simple 4 step process that will get you in if you decide you want to take the plunge. 1. Decide If You Really Want It

The first thing you will need to do is to make a personal decision as to whether or not you really want to enter into this sanctification realm with the Lord. Many Christians really do not want God to do any type of sanctifying work in their lives. The reason for this is that they know He will be coming after some of their vices and character flaws, and they simply are not willing to give up some of these vices, or attempt to try and work with Him to change certain parts of their personalities. So the first thing you will have to do is to make a personal decision as to whether or not you really want the Lord to begin this type of deeper work in your life. This is not something that you can go halfway with Him on. This is an all-or-nothing decision. You are either going to go all the way with the Lord once He begins to do it with you or you are not. You cannot straddle the fence post with Him on this process. If you do, then the Holy Spirit is not going to move with full force to help get you cleaned up and sanctified to the degree that God would really like to get you to in this life. Once the Lord starts to move into certain areas of your life and personality, then you are going to have to be willing to fully work with Him on it or nothing is going to get accomplished. He has to have your full consent on all of this. God really respects your free will and He will not run against it. If you decide you want to give the Lord a full and solid green light to begin this type of deeper work in your life after really thinking and chewing on the ramifications on what this type of deeper progressive work will entail, then you will now be ready for step 2. 2. Ask God the Father to Begin the Sanctification Process To get God to start to move you into this sanctification realm will only require one thing and that one thing is that you go before the Lord in serious and heartfelt prayer, and ask Him to start this sanctification process in your life through the power of the Holy Spirit. It really is that simple. The Bible says to ask and then you will receive. The Bible also says you have not because you ask not. In other words, all you simply have to do is ask God the Father in prayer to start this sanctification process and tell Him that you will now be willing to work with both Him and the Holy Spirit once it starts up. Once you put this initial request on His altar, I would keep reminding the Lord to keep this sanctification process going for the rest of your life at least once or twice a year for the rest of your life. By reminding God to keep this sanctification process going on for the rest of your life, you are showing Him that you mean serious business with Him, and that you want the Holy Spirit to keep working with you in this realm as long as you are walking and breathing in this physical body. The show never stops with the Lord, and He will take you as far as you will want to go with Him in this realm. For those of you who would like a good, sample prayer to go before God the Father to get Him to start this sanctification process in your life, here is a very good, sample prayer you can use:

Father, In the name of Your Son Jesus Christ, I now approach Your throne with a very special request. Your Word tells me that You want to completely sanctify me through the special workings of the Holy Spirit. Your Word tells me that You want to shape, mold, and transform me into the express image of Your Son Jesus Christ. Father, I now want to work in cooperation and in partnership with both You and the Holy Spirit to begin this deeper, sanctifying work in my life. Father, I now ask that You begin to completely sanctify me in both my body, my soul, and my spirit. I now give You a full and solid green light to begin this sanctification process in my life. Father, I now ask that You hold nothing back once You begin this sanctifying work in me and my life. I will now be willing to work with both You and the Holy Spirit in any area of my life and in any area of my personality that You feel needs to be cleaned up, sanctified, and made more holy. Father, I now have full faith and belief that You will honor this request and will begin this sanctification process in my life in the way, manner and timing You deem most appropriate at the level of spiritual development that I am currently operating at with You. Thank You Father. Thank You Jesus. Thank You Holy Spirit. This would be the basic gist of wording this type of prayer for those of you who may have a hard time in wording some of your specific prayers to the Lord. If you can truly approach God with this type of prayer, and you are really meaning it from your mind and from your heart then God will hear you loud and clear, and He will then begin to start this sanctification process in your life right where you are standing at the moment this request is put before Him. 3. Study the Word For the Knowledge That You Will Need If you are willing to give God a full and solid green light in which to start this sanctification process in your life then there are now two things you must be willing to do on your end to get this sanctification process moving into full gear. You will not be a passive robot in all of this, expecting God to do all of the work for you. He will need you to do your part in all of this. This will now lead us into the last two parts that will complete what you will need to know in order to be able to work in cooperation with the Lord on all of this. Your first part will be to study the Word on some type of regular and frequent basis. As some of the above Scripture verses have stated, it is the combination of the Holy Spirit working with the Word and the knowledge that the Word will give you that will cause this sanctification process to move into high gear in your life. As I stated at the top of this article, you have to have the actual knowled ge on exactly what it is God wants to change about you. And the only way you can get this knowledge is by reading and studying from the Bible.

Study and pull from the Bible exactly what it is that God wants to impart into your personality, and exactly what it is He wants to take out of your personality that is not pleasing to Him and then the Holy Spirit will start to move into those specific areas to help get you cleaned up and sanctified. Its the Word and the Spirit working in conjunction with one another that will take you on this road to holiness in the Lord. However, your part is to get into the Word. The Holy Spirit cannot do this part for you. Many Christians do not spend much time in the Bible and this is one of the main reasons why there is not much spiritual growth occurring in their lives. The Holy Spirit will personally guide you in this life as to how often and how frequently you will need to read from the Bible. You do not want to get into legalism and ritualism with how often and how much time you will spend in the Word. God Himself will personally guide you in all of this. Just realize that God will be wanting you to spend kind of regular quality time during the course of your life in reading from His Word, and trying to understand and assimilate what you are reading as best you can. The subsequent articles that we will have listed in the Sanctification Section of our site will be giving you many of the appropriate Scripture verses pertaining to your sanctification and exactly what it is God wants to impart into your personality and exactly what it is He wants to take out of your personality. 4. Work in Cooperation With the Holy Spirit During This Process The last and final part to really being able to get this sanctification process started in your life is your willingness and eagerness to work very closely with the Holy Spirit once He starts to move in on you and let you know exactly what it is He wants to do. Here are a few examples of what you may expect from Him. The apostle Paul says that God wants to sanctify you completely body, soul, and spirit. Do not be surprised if one of the things that the Holy Spirit will move in on is any particular vices you may have that could be harming your physical body. Good examples of this would be smoking cigarettes, smoking pot, abusing alcohol, and overeating on the wrong kinds of foods. Many Christians are addicted to smoking cigarettes. I have seen God move on quite a few of them on this particular vice. Some of them have been successful in kicking the habit, and others have not. The power of the Holy Spirit is there to help break this addiction off of you, but the person has to really want to have this vice removed from them before God will move in to break this addiction off of them. Some people really do not want to give this up for the Lord. When that happens, God will respect your free will on the matter and back off. However, I have seen Him come back in waves on that person, and every so often He keeps coming back and knocking on their doors, letting them know once more that He would really like to have this addiction removed from their lifestyle. The same goes for those Christians who still like to smoke their pot. I have discovered there is some slack with the Lord on the cigarette thing, but there is much less slack with Him on

the pot issue! Every Christian who I have known that has smoked pot, and then really came into a full surrender with the Lord, have all had the pot taken out of their lives very quickly. Bottom line God will be letting you know very early on which of these vices He would like to have removed from your personality and lifestyle. His divine power is there to help break these addictions off of your back, but you will have to be the one to make this personal decision for yourself as to whether or not you will work in cooperation with the Holy Spirit to take these addictions out of your life for good. I have seen God break many of these types of addictions off of people and they did not have to go through any type of physical withdrawal during the weaning off process. God, through the power of the Holy Spirit operating on the inside of you, has the full power to be able to set you completely free from any vices or addictions you may have. There is nothing that the power of God cannot totally defeat and overcome if you are willing to allow God to work with you in these areas. Other areas of your life that God may want to move in on are some of your attitudes. If you are holding any unforgiveness towards others for things they may have done to you in your past expect God to move in very strongly to try and get you to forgive these people and to let all of the wrongs they may have ever done to you into His hands. Vengeance and payback in this life belong to the Lord, not to you or anyone else! God will be righting all the wrongs ever done to you in this life. Your job is to forgive all of those who have ever hurt or wronged you and get on with the rest of your life. If you are operating in any type of a judgmental, critical, controlling, or manipulating spirit expect the Lord to deal very heavily with you on these issues. These kinds of attitudes and behaviors are poisonous and toxic to all of those who come in contact with them. They are all unacceptable in the eyes of God, and the Holy Spirit will be moving very strongly on you with conviction and insight to tackle these kinds of attitudes and behaviors. Bottom line God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, will be letting you know very clearly what good, positive, and godly qualities He will want to try and put on into your personality, and what negative qualities and vices He will want to try and put away. Once all of this knowledge and information has been given to you by the Lord, then it will be up to you as to whether or not you will want to work in cooperation with the Holy Spirit to get all of this accomplished. If you are willing to work with the Lord in the specific areas that He will target then the Holy Spirit will start to do the miraculous and supernatural work of removing all of the bad things that He will not want operating in your personality and life, and then impart all of the positive and godly things that He will want have operating in your personality and life. And once this starts to happen, God the Father will then start to transmit and impart part of His very nature and personality right up into your mind, soul and spirit. Gods love, joy, peace, patience, boldness, goodness, gentleness and kindness will all start to move up and mesh into your personality, thereby increasing your ability to be able to walk, live, and operate in these saintly and godly qualities.

When this starts to happen, you will have officially entered into a true, progressive, sanctified state where the very life of God Himself will now be flowing through you and out of you so that you can reach others with His message of eternal salvation, and His message on how to properly live this life the way He wants His people to live it. The Bible tells us that God wants us to become fishers of men for Him. You can become a much better fisherman, representative, and ambassador for the Lord if you are willing to allow Him to lead you into this sanctification process. Nothing will draw others to the Lord more than a Spirit-filled, anointed, and truly sanctified saint who has the fruits and qualities of the Holy Spirit operating through their personality. This sanctification process is available to every single born-again believer. However, it is up to each and every Christian to make this personal decision for themselves. This is something that the Lord will not force on anyone due to the individual cooperation that is needed from each person to really get this process started.

Conclusion
I will leave you with one last thought on all of this. True holiness is Gods ultimate and highest aim for all of us. Getting saved and born again is just the beginning. Once you are saved, God expects you to spiritually grow and mature in your personal walk with Him. After studying the Bible from cover to cover I believe one of the main secrets that is jumping out loud and clear is that God and Jesus are calling u s unto Themselves to become a partaker of Their own divine holiness. They are calling us out to become separate from the world and the corrupt ways of this world. As a result of Jesus personally dying on the cross for each and everyone of us, we now have direct access to the throne of God the Father Himself. As a result of this direct access we now have with God the Father, we not only get to pray and communicate directly with Him, but we also get an open invitation to become partakers of this sanctification process where He can start to work, mold, change and transform us into the express image of His one and only Son Jesus Christ. God is holy and He is calling each and everyone of us into His very holiness. God Himself can start to transmit and impart, through the Holy Spirit, some of His very own attributes and personality qualities right up into the middle of our own souls and personalities if we are willing to enter into this sanctification process with Him. To those of you who would really like to try and achieve any true sainthood in this life with the Lord this progressive, sanctification process is what will lead you in. This path and journey to holiness in the Lord is there for all who are willing to step into it and are not afraid to work with the Holy Spirit in the directions that He will want to take them in. To those of you who are willing to take this dive into these deeper waters with the Lord, I guarantee you will find the most incredible state of well-being that you will never find in any of the material things or pursuits of this world.

Seeking After the Lord With All of Your Heart

here are two main themes that you will see repeated over and over many of our articles. The first theme is the extreme importance that each and every Christian enter into a full surrender with the Lord so that He can then enter them into His perfect plan and destiny for their lives. The second main theme that you will see repeated over and over again is the extreme importance that each and every Christian seek to establish a good, close, intimate, personal relationship with the Lord. When you really stop and think about the big picture and what is really most important in this life, and then study the Bible to see where all of our priorities should be set at in this life there is one special message and revelation that comes jumping off all the pages of the Bible. This one special message and revelation is that God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ, and His Holy Spirit are looking to establish and make a direct, one-on-one, intimate, personal relationship with each person He has created. God knew beforehand that Adam and Eve were going to blow it in the Garden of Eden. God knew beforehand that every man and every woman that would be born after them would all turn out to be unholy sinners in His sight, and that none of us would ever be good enough or righteous enough to be able to enter into His kingdom on any our own efforts, merits or good works. At this point, God could have easily given up on the entire human race after the fall of Adam and Eve, but for some strange reason, He chose not to do so. Why? When you really stop to think about what unholy sinners we all really are, and how fallen and corrupt our human nature really is, you have to wonder what does God see in any of us that makes us so redeemable in His sight? Why would God the Father go to such extreme and painful lengths to bring us all back to Himself by sending down His one and only Son Jesus Christ to our cursed earth to go through the worst and most horrible form of physical death that anyone could have possibly undergone at the time He came down to our world crucifixion by nails? For God the Father to go to such an extreme and painful length to get us all b ack to Himself shows us only one possible thing and that one thing is how much our God really, truly and unconditionally loves each man and each woman He has ever created. There is no way that God the Father is going to send down and sacrifice His one and only Son on a cross if He did not have some kind of a maximum, intense, passionate, jealous, all-consuming type of fire love for each person He has ever created. The fact that God and Jesus would ever allow this kind of scenario to unfold just to be able to save us and bring us back into Their hands and good graces is truly a maximum kind of intense and unconditional love that our human minds have a hard time in really being able to

fully grasp. This kind of total, complete, unconditional, and perfect love is beyond our ability to fully understand or comprehend, especially in the type of world we live in today. So why does God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have this kind of an intense and passionate love for each and everyone of us since we have all been proven to be such unworthy and unholy sinners in Their sight? What exactly do They see in all of us that makes us so redeemable and so pardonable in Their sight? God is obviously seeing something in all of us that is making us salvageable in His sight, otherwise He would have never wasted His time sending His Son Jesus down to our earth to save us. After studying the Bible from start to finish, I believe there is one main reason that God and Jesus have gone to such extreme and painful lengths to bring us all back to Themselves and that one main reason is for intimate fellowship. I believe the main reason that God created the first man and the first woman was for intimate fellowship and God was not only wanting intimate fellowship with Adam and Eve, but He was also going to want it with every man and every woman that would follow after them. Though Adam and Eve blew it for every man and woman that would be born after them, God still has not changed His mind from what his original intentions were. God still has this incredible perfect and unconditional love for each one of us, and He has now made a way for all of us to be able to receive that love and that way is through His Son and the Blood that His Son has personally shed for each one of us on the cross. The Blood that Jesus has personally shed for each and everyone of us now gives us full entrance back into the kingdom of God the Father. Our spiritual relationship with God the Father, which was completely torn and severed with the first sin of Adam and Eve, has now been fully restored through the Blood of Jesus Christ. We have now all been made spiritually whole and complete again if we are willing to accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior. We have now come full circle again! We have now got back what Adam and Eve lost in their first original paradise. Our spiritual relationship has now been fully restored back with God the Father. Now that we have come full circle again with God the Father, there is now one more thing that each Christian must decide on in this life. The veil has now been torn apart between us and God. There are now no more walls, barriers, hindrances and roadblocks between us and God. There is now nothing but clear and smooth sailing ahead of us as far as our own personal relationship with God is concerned. The Bible tells us that we are now all free to approach the throne of God anytime we want for prayer and intimate communication with complete confidence and boldness. God is now waiting with wide and open arms for all of us to approach Him. And what exactly is God waiting for? Intimate fellowship, intimate prayer and communication, intimate dialogue and conversations about anything and everything, and intimate sharing of our most personal, private and secret thoughts.

Bottom line God is looking for seekers! God is looking for those who will not be afraid to try and establish a one-on-one, personal, on-fire, passionate, intense and willing to tell-all and share-all love relationship with Him. God is looking for a maximum intense kind of personal relationship with no holds barred. He is looking for on-fire and passionate people who will try and tear into Him, who will try and take a hold of Him, and who will try to understand Him and all of His ways. The Scripture verses I will list in this article are the bridge, the key and the secret to being able to find and make direct contact with the Lord in this lifetime. As result of having the Holy Spirit now residing on the inside of us, we now have a direct link and a direct connection back to both God and Jesus in heaven. We can now all pray, talk and communicate direct to God and Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Now that the channels have been completely opened back up between God and us, each Christian must now make a personal choice in this life as to whether or not they want to make an attempt get to know this awesome and loving God of ours by establishing this kind of deep, close, intimate, personal relationship with Him. For those of you who would really like to enter into and start to establish this kind of a deeper personal relationship with the Lord, the Scripture verses I will list below will give you the key and secret to being able to really do this in this life. You do not have to wait until you get to heaven to be able to make direct contact with God. You can learn how to establish a good, powerful, personal relationship with the Lord right where you are standing at right now. The key and secret to being able to really establish this kind of deeper, personal, intimate relationship with the Lord in this life is dependent upon one, little, simple thing and this one, little, simple thing is that you have to be willing to seek after it! The verses below are really spelling and shouting out this secret. Study the wording and the order of the specific words in these verses very carefully. As you will see when you study the wording in these specific verses, God is telling us that we have to be the ones to first initiate making some kind of direct contact with Him! Seek, and then you will find God. Draw near to God, and then He will draw near to you. Ask, and then you will receive. Knock, and then the doors will opened up for you. In each one of the verses making these profound statements, we have to be the ones to first start out by doing the actual seeking, asking, knocking and drawing near to God. If we do, these verses are then telling us that God will allow us to find Him. We will be able to make direct contact with both God and Jesus through the Holy Spirit if we show God that we mean serious business with Him by putting in a certain amount of intensity in our seeking of Him. If there is one personal secret that I have learned in my own personal walk with the Lord in order to try and get Him to become much more supernaturally active and involved in my life is that I have to be seeker after Him and all of His ways. If you are not willing to put in a certain amount of quality time to seek after the Lord with some level of intensity in an effort to try and find Him and then to try and develop an active, dynamic, personal relationship

with Him, then you will have very little, if any, true spiritual and supernatural activity coming from Him. The verses below are all showing us that we have to be the ones to try and get the ball rolling with God on this seeking. I believe God is letting us know with the specific wording of these verses is that there is a spiritual law that is in operation in His kingdom and that spiritual law is the seeking law. Seek after God, and then you will find Him. And the more that you seek after God, the more you will find of Him and the deeper and stronger your personal relationship will become with Him. I believe there is a direct correlation between the quality and intensity of your seeking with the Lord and how much God will interact back with you. The deeper, stronger and more intense you seek after God then the deeper, stronger and more intense God will come and seek after you! Not only is God telling us in these verses to seek and attempt to draw near to Him, but He is also telling us to seek after Him with all of our heart and with all of our soul. Seeking after God with all of our heart and all of our soul is showing us that God is wanting us to come after Him with maximum intensity, not with a half-hearted or lukewarm attempt. This would be no different in how we see professional and amateur athletes compete with one another in the games they play. A true professional athlete will give it his best and give it his all every single time he goes out to compete in his particular sport. In the same way, God wants all of us to show Him the same amount of intensity in our own personal relationship with Him and in our own personal seeking of Him and all of His ways. I know many Christians, when they first read these types of verses, get scared and a bit overwhelmed at the specific wording being used by the Lord. These verses need no fancy interpretation. They mean exactly what they are saying. God is telling all of us that He wants us to be seeking after Him, drawing near to Him, trying to take a hold of Him, and trying to understand Him and all of His ways. And not only does God want us to initiate and make an attempt to do this type of seeking after Him, but He wants this seeking to be done with maximum effort and maximum intensity. When many Christians first realize how much intensity God is really looking for in this type of seeking, they realize they are not operating anywhere near this level of intensity with Him, and they then back off never giving God any kind of real chance to help work this kind of intensity in their own personal relationships with Him. Rome was not built overnight, and neither will your personal relationship with the Lord. All God is looking for is that you give Him the best effort you can at your current level of spiritual development with Him. If you do, then God will more than meet you halfway in this realm. When two people first meet and start dating, they usually do not fall madly and passionately in love with one another. It usually takes a certain amount of time for this kind of true, passionate and intense type of love to form out and build up. Its the exact same with God the Father. God does not expect this kind of passionate intensity to be built up overnight. For

many, this will be a slow and gradual process, with the Holy Spirit being the One to slowly guide you further and deeper into this realm with God. Again, seeking after the Lord to try and establish a good, deep, intimate, personal relationship with Him is all part of the sanctification process that God would like to do with each and everyone of us. Before I give you the verses on this topic, and then end the article with some of the different ways that you can seek after the Lord in this lifetime, I first want to make one more statement so that you can really grasp the importance and the incredible profound reality that we are dealing with in that the one and only God of this entire universe is looking to make and establish a direct, one-on-one, personal relationship with each person He has ever created. We are dealing with only one God but one God in three separate and complete Persons God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. All Three of Them want more than anything else in this world to be able to make direct contact with you so They can then start to establish and create this unique, special, one-of-a-kind, personal relationship direct with only you. As I stated in my article God is No Respecter of Persons, God the Father has an equal and unconditional love for each person He has ever created. The Bible tells us that God shows no personal favoritism to any man or woman He has ever created. What this means is that we are all equal in the eyes of God. We are all on an equal footing with the Lord. He loves you just as much as He loves anyone else in this life. What this means is that you can establish and develop just as much of a special and deep personal relationship with God as anyone else can. God will give you just as much time, attention, effort and intensity as He would with anyone else. Just stop and think for a moment what kind of reality we are dealing with that the one and only God of this entire universe can become your best Friend and your one and only true Father! I repeat your best Friend! A true best Friend who will never harm you, hurt you, mistreat you, lie to you, leave you, or forsake you! So many people in this life have been abused, hurt, wounded, mistreated and discarded by their parents, by their spouses, and by some of their so called good friends. As a result, they have a hard time in being able to trust anyone, including God Himself. Per the article we have on Trusting in the Lord, the Bible tells us that we have to learn how to fully trust in the Lord. God is the only One who is perfect in His very nature and personality and He thus is the only One that you can perfectly trust in this life. All other men and women in this life are fallen and imperfect creatures. This is why each and every Christian has to learn how to place all of their faith and trust in the Lord not in the world, and not in all of the other people in this world. God has already shown each and everyone of us how much He really does love all of us by being willing to send down and sacrifice His one and only Son. All God is asking for from each one of us is that we be willing to fully trust Him, and then be willing to enter into this special, intimate, personal relationship with Him.

For those of you who are really looking for true love true love can only be found in a perfect Being and God is the only perfect Being in the entire scheme of things. Though we are to do the best we can in establishing goo d, healthy, personal relationships with all of our friends, our mates and the other members of our family realize that only God is totally perfect in His very nature and essence and only God can give you a perfect, true and unconditional love that no o ne else will be able to give you in this life. If you place all of your love and all of your trust in the other people in this life rather than direct to God Himself, then sooner or later you will find yourself hurt, wounded and bitterly disappointed. Imperfect people are not capable of giving you any type of perfect and unconditional love no matter how hard they try, and no matter how hard they will try and tell you otherwise. So many people are chasing after other people and other material things in this life in an effort to try and find perfect happiness, peace and fulfillment. And then sooner or later it happens. All of their marriages, all of their good friends, all of their earthly wealth and possessions, and all of their personal accomplishments leave them feeling dead, empty and lifeless on the inside. All of the good friends they may have made, and all of the earthly material wealth they may have acquired and accumulated in this life fail to fill the void and emptiness that is on the inside of each and everyone of us. God has purposely created all of us with a void and a vacuum on the inside of each of us and the only thing that can fill that void and emptiness is the Lord Himself. There is nothing else in this world that can fill that little hole that is in all of our souls. This hole can only be completely filled by God the Father, His Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Some people manage to find this revelation and truth in their lives, but sadly, most people do not. As Christians, we all have something that no one else has in this life we have the real God in God the Father, we have the one and only real Savior of this world in Jesus Christ, and we have the one and only Holy Spirit who will come and live on the inside of us once we have accepted Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior. As the Bible has told us, we literally have the kingdom of God residing on the inside of us once we have become saved and born again. We literally have the one and only true fountain of perfect happiness, perfect peace and perfect fulfillment and that is the Lord Himself! And it is all there for the taking for those who are willing to dive into Him and start to seek and drink from Him. Jesus has already told us that He Himself is the fountain of living waters and that we will never hunger or thirst again if we would only be willing to drink directly from Him. The water is Him and the drinking is our seeking to establish a close, intimate, personal relationship with Him. God is waiting for each and every person He has created to come to Him to try and establish this kind of powerful, intimate, personal relationship with Him. The bridge, the link and the connection to the Lord will be your willingness to seek after Him with all of your heart, with all of your mind, and with all of your soul.

Now here are some of the main verses from the Bible giving us this incredible and profound secret and revelation direct from the Lord Himself. I will break these Scripture verses down under 5 separate captions so you can see exactly what the Lord is trying to convey to all of us in these verses. 1. God Is Looking For Seekers These first two verses will perfectly set the stage for all of us in reference to us learning how to develop a personal relationship with the Lord. This first verse will tell us that God the Father is actually looking down on this earth from His heaven for those who will seek after Him and who will try and understand Him. The second verse perfectly completes this first verse when it tells us that God is looking for those who will try and take a hold of Him. Put these two verses together side by side, and God the Father is telling all of us, loud and clear, that He is looking for passionate and intense seekers who will try and take a hold of Him, who will try and figure Him out, and who will try to understand Him and all of His ways. Here are two profound verses giving us this incredible piece of revelation: 1. The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there are any who understand, who seek God. (Psalm 14:2) 2. And there is no one who calls on Your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of You (Isaiah 64:7) To think that this one and only all-powerful God is actually looking down on this earth from His heavenly throne to try and find people who are willing to seek after Him. This verse is shouting from the roof tops two very powerful words open invitation! God the Father is giving every single one of us an open invitation to come in and make some kind of attempt to seek after Him. And what will happen next if we make some kind of attempt to seek after Him? This will now lead us into the next set of verses. 2. Seeking After the Lord These next set of verses will tell us that not only does God the Father want us to seek after Him, but they will tell us that if we make some kind of attempt to seek after Him, that we will actually find Him. In other words, we will end up making some kind of direct contact with God. Think of the ramifications of what these next set of verses are trying to tell us that if we make some kind of attempt to seek after God, that we will be able to find Him, that we will be able to make some kind of direct contact with Him where He can then start to communicate back to us in any way that He should choose to do so. Study these next set of verses very, very carefully. Meditate on what the Lord is trying to tell us. These verses in particular are giving all of us of a major and profound secret in that this

incredible and awesome God of ours can actually be found to some degree in this life if we are willing to make enough of an effort on our end to seek directly after Him. 1. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. (James 4:8) 2. For thus says the Lord God to the House of Israel: Seek Me and live Seek the Lord and live (Amos 5:4,6) 3. Seek the Lord and His strength; seek His face evermore! (1 Chronicles 16:11) 4. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13) 5. and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29) 6. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart! (Psalm 119:1) 7. For it is time to seek the Lord, till He comes and rains righteousness on you. (Hosea 10:12) 8. With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early (Isaiah 26:9) 9. Then they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul (2 Chronicles 15:12) 10. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever. (1 Chronicles 28:9) 11. O God, you are my God; early I will seek You; my soul thirsts for You; my flesh longs for You in a dry and thirsty land where there is no water. (Psalm 63:1) 12. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. (Psalm 42:1) 13. and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6) When you read each one of these verses one right after the other the message is coming through loud and clear. God is looking for intense seekers who are willing to seek after Him with all of their heart and with all of their soul. He will not settle for anything less. These verses are not only telling us that God wants all of us to seek after Him but He is also telling us that we will be able to find Him to some degree and to some extent if we keep pressing in to make this kind of direct connection with Him. Our seeking will not be in vain.

The last verse tells us that the Lord will reward those who are willing to diligently seek after Him. 3. God Created Us For Intimate Fellowship As I said at the top of this article, I believe the main reason God created the human race was for intimate fellowship and that is intimate fellowship direct with Him, His Son Jesus Christ and His Holy Spirit. The different Bible dictionaries and commentaries describe the word fellowship as the following:
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Sharing together Communion with God Sharing things in common with others Companionship, friendly association, mutual sharing The bond of common purpose and devotion that binds Christians together and to Christ

Not only does God want us to learn how to fellowship with other people in this life, but He also wants us to learn how to fellowship direct with Him, His Son and His Holy Spirit. Here are two very powerful verses giving us this revelation that we can have fellowship direct with all three Persons of the triune Godhead. 1. that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:3) 2. Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit (Philippians 2:1) The first verse tells us that we can fellowship direct with both God and Jesus. The second verse tells us that we can have fellowship direct with the Holy Spirit Himself. Put both of these verses together side by side, and God is telling all of us loud and clear, that He wants us to have intimate fellowship with both Him, His Son and His Holy Spirit. 4. Talk to God Like You Would Talk to a Best Friend Probably one of the greatest stories in the Bible about someone who was not afraid to approach God and attempt to commune and talk to Him like you would a best friend has to be the story of Moses. In the Bible Stories section of our site, we have two articles on the Story of Moses and the incredible adventures he personally had with God the Father over the last 40 years of his life. The title of these two articles are The Story of Moses and Lessons From the Story of Moses. Without question, this mans story and adventure in God will go down as one of the greatest God-stories of all time. This one man, in a 40 year period, was able to talk direct to God, see God personally manifest His presence from His back side, receive all of the 10

commandments and help prepare a younger generation to go in and possess the Promised Land. As a result of his incredible, face-to-face encounters with the Lord, God ended giving this man two of the highest compliments any human could ever hope to receive from the Lord in this lifetime. Here are the two verses giving Moses these two incredible compliments: 1. But since then there has not risen in Israel a prophet like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. (Deuteronomy 34:10) 2. So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. (Exodus 33:11) The first verse says that Moses knew God face to face. The word knew is implying that Moses had established a very good personal relationship with the Lord. The second set of words, where it says that Moses knew the Lord face to face, is also implying that he made a good type of personal connection with the Lord in an effort to try and get to know Him better. Notice that Moses was seeking after the face of God, not after His hand. Too many Christians only seek after the hand of God, which represents what He might be able to give you or help bring your way. Seeking after the face of God means that you are seeking after God in an effort to try and get to know Him better as a Person. You are seeking after God to get to know His personality. The Bible tells us that no one can see the face of God and live. God told Moses, when He was getting ready to manifest His presence before him, that He would not be able to show him His actual face, but only His backside. So when the Bible uses the words that Moses knew God face to face, it is showing us that Moses ended up coming to know God in a very personal and intimate way. It is not referring to Moses being able to actually see the face of God. This now leads us to the revelation that is in the second verse. This second verse then goes one step further and tells us that Moses spoke to God face to face as a man speaks to his friend. This is where I am picking up the revelation that we are to learn how to talk to God as we would with a best friend. When God the Father Himself is isolating and spelling out these specific words in that we are to commune and talk with Him as we would with a good friend, then you know we are dealing with a major and profound revelation from the Lord. This is why I have been using the best friend analogy to help try and explain what kind of personal relationship God is really looking to establish with each one of us. Jesus Himself further expounds on this friend analogy with what He has to say in the following verse: You are my friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you. (John 15:14)

Jesus is calling us His friends. God the Father is telling us that Moses learned to how to speak and talk to Him like you would a good friend. Put all three of these verses together, and God and Jesus are telling us that They want a best-friend type of personal relationship with each one of us. If God has to be number one in your life, then it is only logical to conclude that God wants to become your best Friend, over and above any other best friends that you may have in this life. These two verses on Moses personal relationship with the Lord may only be two short, oneline sentences in the Bible, but they are both giving us an incredibly profound secret in the Lord and that secret is that we learn how to develop a best-friend type of personal relationship with the Lord. God does not want to settle for anything less. What Moses managed to accomplish with the Lord should serve as a powerful example for all of us on how we are to interact with God and what we should really be seeking and striving after in this life. Without question, our number one goal and priority in this life should be to establish a close, intimate, personal relationship with the Lord. I believe that trying to establish this kind of close, personal relationship with the Lord is even more import ant than completing whatever divine assignments and calls He may be asking you to complete for Him in this life. You could end up doing great and mighty works for the Lord in this lifetime, but if all those works are not being done operating in a good, close, personal relationship with Him, then you could end up feeling sad, lonely and despondent. All of the good works that you can do for the Lord in this lifetime will not fill that hole and void that is on the inside of your soul. The only thing that can f ill that hole and void is the Lord Himself, not the actual works that you are doing for Him. And the only way that you can get the Lord to fill that hole and void is to enter into a good, personal relationship with Him. 5. God is Looking for Passionate and Intense People Not only are the above verses telling us that God is actually looking for seekers, but He is also looking for people who will seek after Him with a certain amount of intensity in their seeking of Him. These next three verses will put the icing on this entire cake. The first verse will tell us that Jesus Himself will spew us out of His mouth if He finds that we have become too lukewarm in our own personal relationship with Him and in the works that we will do for Him in this life. This verse is so extreme, that Jesus is telling us that He would rather find us to be too cold than too lukewarm. At least if you are too cold, you are operating at the other extreme end of the scale. I believe the reason Jesus is telling us that we have to learn how to seek after Him with a high level of intensity is because nothing will kill a personal relationship faster than if one or both of the parties start to go dead and lukewarm in the way they interact with one another.

Many spouses end up wandering into the arms of another lover behind their spouses back as a result of the deadness and lukewarmness that has infected their marriage relationship. Just as this same kind of lukewarmness can kill a good marriage relationship, it can also hurt or possibly kill our personal relationship with God Himself. God has made all of us after His own image and likeness. As a result, God has created and wired all of us for maximum intensity. Just as our God is a God of maximum intensity, this same God has created and wired all of us for this same kind of maximum intensity. This is why God will not settle for any type of lukewarmness in our own personal relationship with Him. This is why so many people are such avid sports fans. Sporting games and sporting events give all of us a chance to release maximum intensity for the teams or players that we are rooting for. When you really study this part and aspect of Gods personality we are seeing a God who is not dull, boring or lukewarm. We are looking at a God who is extremely passionate and intense. In the same way, God is wanting all of us to learn how to live this life at a higher level of passion and intensity. He is wanting all of us to learn how to live more of this life at a full throttle, at a full pedal to the medal type mentality in how we serve Him, in how we interact with Him, and how we work for Him in this life. There is nothing more contagious, more infectious, and more energetic than to be around a true Spirit-filled Christian who is fully alive in the Lord, and who is serving and working for the Lord with maximum passion and maximum intensity. Now here are three very special verses from the Lord showing us what He is really looking for in how we interact and work for Him in this life. 1. I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of My mouth. (Revelation 3:15) 2. These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me (Matthew 15:8) 3. For My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns broken cisterns that can hold no water Know therefore and see that is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken the Lord your God, and the fear of Me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts. (Jeremiah 2:13,19) Not only is the Lord looking for on-fire, passionate, and intense people, but this passionate intensity has to be coming from our heart. Notice in the second verse that Jesus is ripping on those who are just paying Him lip service. These types of people may talk a good game, but they are not really talking about God and serving God from their heart with any kind of real

passionate intensity. Its all words and show, with no real substance behind their words, actions and behaviors. The last verse perfectly sums up what God the Father is thinking about people who end up eventually forsaking and leaving Him. He is telling anyone who is willing to forget, forsake and leave Him that they are committing an evil and bitter act against Him. Bottom line God the Father has made all of us for Himself. God has made all of us with a hole, a void, a vacuum and an emptiness inside our souls that can only be filled up by His presence. We can thus either learn how to start seeking after God so we can enter into this powerful, personal and intense relationship with Him or we can turn our back on God, completely forsake Him, and trade Him in for all of the carnal and fleshly pleasures of this world. I am afraid with all the luxuries and material wealth this world has to offer, many Christians have forsaken and abandoned their God and have traded Him in for a life of total carnal pursuit. The last verse stated above is a real bone-chilling verse when it says that is an evil and bitter thing to have forsaken the Lord for all the material wealth of this world that has nothing but leaks and holes in it and will never hold any real water. All of the earthly wealth you may be able to collect and accumulate in this life will never be able to hold any real water because it will eventually rot and perish away. In other words, all of the earthly wealth and possessions that this world has to offer has leaks in them, and they will all sooner or later completely perish and be taken away from you on your deathbed. And the only thing that will be left standing, when everything is all finally said and done, is you standing totally alone before the Judgment Seat of Christ, with Jesus judging you on how well you have served Him and followed Him in this life. None of your earthly wealth and possessions will be going over with you when you finally die and cross over to meet Jesus head on for this personal judgment. God has so plainly and so clearly laid out how He wants all of us to live this life and exactly what it is that we all should be seeking after but yet so many Christians keep missing the mark and fail to get their priorities straight in how they should be living this life, and exactly what it is they should be seeking after in this life with the Lord. Our two main goals in this life should be to first seek to enter into a full surrender with the Lord so that He is fully free to guide us into His perfect plan and destiny for our lives. The second thing that each fully surrendered Christian should be willing to do is to seek after God with all of their heart and with all of their soul so they can start to establish and enter into this maximum intense kind of personal relationship with Him.

5 Ways To Seek After the Lord

Now that we know the Lord is definitely wanting all of us to seek after Him exactly how do we go about really seeking after Him?

I will give you 5 basic ways in which you can seek after the Lord in this life so you can improve the quality and depth of your personal relationship with Him. 1. Your Prayer Life With the Lord Without question, the number one way that you should seek after the Lord is in your own personal private prayer life with Him. Your personal prayer life with the Lord has two sides to it. On the one side is where you are praying to God for something very specific, whether it be directly for you or for someone else you may be praying for. We already have a Prayer Section in our site that specifically deals with this part of your prayer life with the Lord, so I will not go any further on this part of your prayer life with Him. The second part to your prayer life, and this is the one that I really want to concentrate on for this article, is where you walk and talk with God much like what you would do with a best friend. This is not where you are asking God for anything in particular. You are just walking and talking with God just like you would do with a best friend. If there is one major, whopper secret that will open up the door to Gods heart, it has to be the secret of learning how to talk and communicate with Him much in the same way as you would do with a best friend. For those of you who have a best friend or who used to have one, you will know exactly what I am about to talk about. A true best friendship is without question, the most unique and special of all the personal relationships that you can have with anyone else in this life. Granted, there is nothing like the bond and love that exists between parents and their own natural children. But as great and powerful as that bond is, a true best-friend relationship can actually go farther and deeper than what can transpire between some parents and their natural children. It would really be nice if all of the relationships between parents and their children could turn into and develop into true best friendships, but for many in this life, this never really happens. This type of best friendship should really be occurring between parents and their children, and between spouses in their marriages due to the large amount of close interaction that occurs in a family unit. But for many different reasons, this type of best friendship really never develops in the way that it should in many households across this world, and you thus have many parents and their children living and breathing right next to one another with no real passionate love and intimacy ever being established and forged with one another. As a result, many people are forced to try and find a true best friend outside the family unit. There is obviously nothing wrong in making best friends with other people outside the family unit, but every family, if they are walking right with the Lord, should also be making and developing many of these best friend relationships right there in the middle of their own household husbands with wives, parents with their children, and children with the other siblings in the household. There is so much quality time that everyone is spending with one another in a family unit, that this kind of quality time should be leading to more people in a household becoming best friends with one another.

But as we all know, for many different reasons, this does not occur with everyone in the family unit. As a result, many people are forced to try and find a true best friend outside the family unit. I cannot even begin to count the number of married men and women I have personally met who no longer feel their spouse is their true best friend. And they are now stuck feeling totally isolated and alone right in the middle of their actual marriage. As I said at the top of this article, the real reality is that imperfect people are incapable of giving perfect love to one another, so most people have to be very careful when they start to search and seek after a true best friend. But when you do find one, you have found a true treasure in this life. The one thing that is so unique and so special about a true best friendship is the incredible comfortableness you will feel in the relationship. All guards and shields will start to come down. You can totally trust this person. You can totally be yourself around this person. As a result of being so comfortable with this person, you feel totally free to express your most intimate and secret thoughts with one another. There is literally nothing that you cannot talk about or freely discuss. You can tell your best friend things that you could never tell your spouse or your own children. You feel like you and this best friend are one in spirit and one in mind. You start to get to the point where you can sometimes read each others thoughts and mind. You can sometimes feel their pain to the same degree as they are feeling it. For those of you who have this type of best friendship with someone, you know exactly what I am talking about. This type of special, unique, close and deep personal relationship is exactly what God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are looking for from each one of us. The Bible tells us to seek after the face of God, not after His hand, which represents what He might be able to give to you. Seeking after the face of God means that we are to seek directly after who God really is. We are to seek directly after His personality so we can start to get to know Him in a much better, deeper, and closer way. Bottom line we should seek after God in the exact same way that we would seek into a true best friend. All of the above verses are telling us that we will be able to find this awesome God of ours if we are willing to expend some quality time and energy to seek directly after Him. And once we find Him, then the doors will be opened up between Him and us! God will now be willing to open up His heart, His mind, His ways, some of His thoughts, and some of His actual emotions direct to us. In other words, God is looking to share a part of His personality with us if we would only be willing to do the same with Him just like what we would be willing to do with a true best friend. Except with God, we are dealing with a Being who is totally and completely perfect in His personality. We are thus looking and gazing on a perfect Being who has the ability to transmit and release perfect true and unconditional love in a way that no other human will ever be able to do in this life. If there is one major, whopper, profound, cant shout it out loud enough secret that God is looking for from each one of us it has to be this revelation that we try and seek to establish this type of best-friend relationship with Him.

Talk to God just like you would talk to your best friend. Share your most intimate, private and personal thoughts and feelings with Him that you would never, ever, consider sharing with anyone else. Be willing to completely open yourself up to the Lord, with no holds barred. Be willing to lay yourself totally bare. Be available to God 24/7, not for just 2 hours a week in a Sunday church service. Be willing to talk and communicate with God anywhere and at anytime. Just like you have total freedom to call your best friend up anytime you want, do the exact same thing with God. The Bible tells us that God never sleeps or slumbers. He is always on duty, day or night, rain or shine, storm cloud or no storm cloud. He is always there for you, 24/7, 365 days every year. God already knows all the thoughts of your mind and heart, so there is nothing you can hide from Him anyway. And not only does He know every single thought and word that is floating around in your mind and heart to begin with but He knows what you are going to say and think before you even begin to say it or think it, since He has perfect knowledge on all future events, including what will be coming out of your mind or your mouth. If you are willing to open yourself up to the Lord with this kind of open and honest intimacy with Him, then you will have just touched the heart of God and He will now more than blow you away with what He will do with you and how He will handle your life from here on in. I believe this best friend type of personal relationship that God is looking to establish with each one of us is the main reason that He has created the human race. God is so jealous and so possessive of the human race that He has created, that He has purposely made all of us to only be able to live in this life and the next life to come only if we are willing to bond and graft directly into Him through the Blood that His Son Jesus has already shed for us on the cross. In other words, we either learn how to directly bond and graft into our Lord with the kind of close, intimate, personal relationship that He is really looking for or we will eventually die and be cast off from Him forever. Jesus Himself is telling us that He will spew us out of His mouth if we ever get to the point of taking Him too much for granted or start to get too lukewarm in our own personal relationship with Him. The last verse above perfectly spells it out for all of us in that if we ever forsake or turn away from our Lord, then we will have committed an evil and bitter act in His sight. 2. Reading and Studying From the Bible The next big way that you should attempt to seek after God is by reading and studying from the Bible. The Bible is Gods only true Word to us in this life. God has given us everything that we will ever need to be able understand Him, His Son, His Holy Spirit and all of His ways in just this one Book. And all of this information, knowledge and revelation is all contained in just one simple Holy Book.

Just as God made it as easy as possibly He could for Adam and Eve by telling them to stay off one simple tree in the same way God has made it as easy as He possibly could by putting all of the information, knowledge and revelation that we will ever need to find and understand Him in one special Holy Book. And yet most Christians will go their entire lives having never read this one special Book in its complete entirety. As a result, they never really get to learn much about God, His ways, and how He likes to work and operate. I believe the Bible is serving as a real litmus test between God and us in this life. If you are a true, saved, born-again, on-fire Christian, then God is going to sit back and see how much of a desire you really have to try and get to know Him. There are two main ways that He is going to do this. The first main way that God is going to test you on this is to see how far and to what extent you will attempt to make some kind of personal contact with Him in order to try and establish a good personal relationship with Him. The second main way that God is going to test you is by watching to see if you will make some kind of attempt to learn more about Him by reading and studying from the Bible. If you are really in love with God, and are really wanting to increase the depth and quality of your own personal relationship with Him, then you will have a strong, natural desire and hunger to want to get into His Word so that you can start to feed off all of the knowledge and revelation that is contained in this Book. There is simply no other book on this earth that we can feed off of that will give us the amount of direct revelation and knowledge about God and who He really is as the Bible can. And again, God has made it as simple and easy as He possibly could by putting everything that we would ever need all in this one Book. This is why I say the Bible is the real litmus test between God and us as it will be what will separate the true, passionate, on-fire seeker from the lukewarm, lazy, carnal and worldly Christian who could really care less about God and any of His ways on how we are to live in this life. With the Blood that His Son Jesus has shed for all of us on the cross, God the Father has now opened up the gates to His heaven and the gates direct to Himself. All we have to be willing to do is to believe and accept Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior be willing to seek after God by making some kind of an attempt to enter into a good, personal relationship with Him and then seek to learn more about Him and all of His ways by reading and studying from His Word. If we do, then we will spiritually grow and mature in this life beyond anything that we ever thought was possible. 3. Reading and Studying From Other Christian Books In addition to the wealth of knowledge and revelation that is contained in the Bible, there is also an enormous amount of information and knowledge in other good anointed Christian books.

God the Father has anointed many teachers in this day and age to be able to teach from His Word. Many of these teachers have written some very good books covering a wide range of issues and topics that will also help you grow in the knowledge and ways of the Lord. For the real seeker in the Lord, there is a whole treasure chest of goodies at your local Christian bookstore. You can find good, anointed books covering just about any topic or issue you may be interested in. In the Christian Book section of our own site, we have a list of some very good books covering a wide variety of topics. If you can combine the study of Scripture with the reading of other good anointed books, you will spiritually grow at a rate that will truly astound you. Going into this kind of heavy seeking mode trying to acquire as much knowledge as you can about the Lord will really move the Holy Spirit to want to work on your behalf. If you are willing to spend some good, quality time trying to increase your knowledge base on the Lord and all of His ways, then the Holy Spirit will really start to move to help you out in understanding and assimilating what you are reading so that true spiritual growth can occur in this life. This is a direct, supernatural work that the Holy Spirit can do for every single believer who is willing to put forth the time and effort to try and learn more about our Lord. 4. Fellowship With Other Believers Another powerful way that you can seek after the Lord is by being willing to fellowship with other like-minded believers. When you are attempting to fellowship with other believers, you are willing to share your walk, your testimonies and your knowledge base with them and they in turn will do likewise with you. As a result of sharing your stories, your testimonies and your knowledge base with one another, you will get to learn more about the Lord from these other believers. God will be doing different things with some of them than maybe what He has done with you. As a result, you can each learn from one another in the personal experiences that you have had in the Lord. I cannot tell you how much more my knowledge base has increased in the Lord over the years as a result of learning from some of my other close seeker-friends and what God is doing in their lives. And I am still continuing to learn from each and everyone of them as they continue to share their walk and journey in the Lord with me. By being willing to learn from other believers, you will be showing the Lord your strong desire to want to learn more about Him and all of His ways and that you are leaving no stone unturned in your seeking and pursuit of Him. God loves to be the center of attention, and He loves it when His people sit around and talk about Him and share their knowledge base with one another. When you do this with other believers, you are seeking after the Lord. 5. Watch For the Lord to Move in Your Everyday Life This next area is one area that many Christians are missing out on. Once you enter into a full surrender with the Lord where He is now free to fully guide you into His perfect plan and

destiny for your life, and then you combine that with seeking directly after Him in order to establish a strong, personal relationship with Him you will have opened up a major supernatural door with the Lord, and He will now start to move in many areas of your life to help you maximize your walk and call with Him. And this is where it really gets fun, interesting and exciting. Once you put the pedal to the medal with the Lord in your seeking of Him, then God is now going to move very strongly on your behalf and He will now start to show Himself to you in a wide variety of miraculous ways. What this means is that you now have to keep your radars up each and every day, as you never know when, where, or how God will move next. Your job will be to try and pick it up when God does move in some kind of supernatural way to help you out. God can move in your life in a wide variety of ways and in a wide variety of matters. God can move to help give you favor with your bosses and supervisors at your places of employment. He can supernaturally open up doors to the next new job that He may want to promote you into. He can help you with the everyday activities of your job. He can help you with the raising and parenting of your children and all of the everyday activity that goes on in the family. He can help you solve problems, handle different types of emergencies, and help warn and protect you of oncoming dangers. There are literally an infinite number of things or situations that God can get actively involved in within your normal everyday life. God is much more active in peoples daily lives than most people actually realize or see. If you are willing to go into this kind of intense seeking mode with the Lord where you have your radars up each and everyday looking for God to move in your life in some way or some fashion then the Holy Spirit will help open up your eyes and help increase your ability to be able to spot it, recognize it, and actually see it when it does occur so that you can fully appreciate it and be very thankful for it when it does happen. The Bible calls the Holy Spirit the Helper, and there is no area of your life that is too small or too trivial that He will not be willing to give you a helping hand on when His help is really needed.

Conclusion
For those of you who have never attempted to draw close to the Lord in your own personal relationship with Him, study the specific wording in all of the above verses very, very carefully. All of these verses are giving us a major life changing secret and that secret is that the Lord is calling each and every person that He has ever created to come into intimate fellowship with Him. If a person is willing to come to God the Father by accepting Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior, then all roadblocks and barriers between them and God will now be totally removed

forever I repeat, forever! Any true, born-again believer now has direct access to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit 24/7, 365 days a year. There are now no more barriers between God and us. Since God is no respecter of persons, you will have just as much of a chance in being to establish a close, intimate, personal relationship with Him as anyone else would. God will not be playing favorites with anyone in this realm. You seek and then you will find God. You draw near to God and then God will draw near to you. The more you seek of God, the more of God you will find. You give God a 100% effort on your end, and God will more than give you a 100% effort from His end. Of all of the articles that we have in our site covering a wide variety of topics and issues, the revelation and knowledge that is contained in the above verses are in my opinion, the most important of all for each Christian to try and get worked into their personal walk with the Lord. Once you have become saved and born again by accepting Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, then the next big step that will await you is whether or not you will attempt to enter into an intense, passionate, personal relationship with the Lord. God cannot make you come to Him. All God can do is give you the knowledge from His Word that this is what He is really looking for from each one of us more than anything else in this world. All of the above Scripture verses are as clear as they can be. God has created all of us to have intimate and close fellowship with Him. God has created all of us to come into close communion with Him. God not only wants to be your perfect heavenly Father, but He also wants to become your perfect best Friend. God has nothing but your best interests at heart. He will never hurt you, harm you, bad-mouth you, forsake you, leave you, or abandon you. He wan ts nothing more than to be able to draw you close to Him so that He can help you get through this life in one piece and accomplish everything that He would like for you to get done in this life. I know some people have a fear of drawing close to God as a result of being terribly hurt or wounded by some of the other people in their lives. But if you believe that our Bible is truly the inspired and infallible Word of our Holy God, then you have to believe what all of the above verses are trying to tell you. If the Bible tells us that God has no darkness in Him and that He cannot commit any kind of evil, then you have to believe and ground on these types of statements and learn how to override all of the hurts you may have suffered in your past from other people. Our God is a faithful, loyal, loving and perfect God. He is totally trustworthy since He is totally perfect in His personality. This means you will be on perfectly safe ground once you decide to approach Him and enter into His realm. He will perfectly handle you at whatever level of spiritual development you may be operating at, no matter how low of a level you think that may be.

This kind of an intense, personal relationship with the Lord will not be built up overnight. God will work to bring you up into this level at a nice, slow, comfortable pace that you will be very comfortable in working with. As I said at the beginning of this article, most romantic love relationships between men and women do not start off with any kind of maximum intensity. It usually takes a awhile for the real true sparks of love to build up. Its the exact same way with God the Father. All God is asking for is that you just give Him a few baby steps to work with and He will more than prove Himself to you that you can learn to fully trust Him and eventually fall madly and passionately in love with Him. This kind of a close, intimate, personal relationship with the Lord can happen in this life. You do not have to wait until you get to heaven to be able to establish this kind of intimate, personal relationship with the Lord. You already have the Holy Spirit residing on the inside of you. He is already there, ready and waiting for your green light to help draw you closer to the Lord. The Holy Spirit will help you in being able to draw much closer to God and Jesus in your own personal relationship with each of Them if you let Him know that you really want to take this kind of a plunge. But the choice will always remain with each individual believer. All God can do is let you know that He is there for you. God has done everything that He possibly can to draw each person back unto Himself. He has sacrificed His one and only Son to pay the penalty for all of our sins and transgressions and He has given us His Word, which has given all of us the knowledge and revelation that we will ever need in this life to be able to understand Him and the big picture on how everything has been set up. Be willing to seek after the face of God like Moses did in order to establish a true, bestfriend type of personal relationship with Him and I guarantee that you will find the fountain of true youth, happiness and fulfillment that you will never find in all of the worldly pleasures of this life.

Worshiping the Lord

nother area where the Holy Spirit will move in on in your sanctification process will be in the area of being able to properly worship the Lord. This will be the area where you can really learn how to worship and praise the Lord in the Spirit. This is a supernatural ability that will be given to you by the Holy Spirit Himself if you are open to receiving this from Him. Since there are so many different denominations and branches in the Body, there obviously are going to be differing levels of the way people will worship the Lord. Some of the more conservative types of denominations will have a much less intense way in which they will worship and sing to the Lord in their services as compared to what you will see in some of the non-denominational, charismatic type services. I have had numerous Catholics tell me that when they decided to switch from the Catholic setting they were raised up in to a more non-denominational, charismatic type of church, their

spiritual senses came in for a major shock the first time they walked into a charismatic service. The first thing they notice is how much more intense the charismatics will worship, praise and sing to the Lord in the first part of their services. Sometimes you will see a real live band up on an actual stage with musicians playing guitars, keyboards and drums, along with one or more singers. You will see people with their hands raised up in the air worshiping, singing and praising the Lord. You will see some people with tears rolling down their eyes. Other people will be jumping up and down and clapping their hands. And others will literally be running around the church or dancing in the middle of the aisles. If you have not been raised up with this kind of intensity in the denomination that you have been brought up in, you will will feel like you have just walked into the middle of a hurricane or tornado due to the high level of passion and intensity these people are worshiping and praising the Lord. For those of you who have been raised up in the more conservative branches in the Body, and are not used to seeing this kind of intensity in the way these people are worshiping and praising the Lord, I will use this article to give you 21 very good verses from the Bible showing you that this type of intensity is definitely biblical, and that these people have not lost their minds or gone too flaky in their walks with the Lord. What these people are doing are worshiping and praising the Lord in the Spirit, singing in the Spirit, dancing in the Spirit and running in the Spirit. This is something that is coming directly from the Holy Spirit and this is all being done in the Holy Spirit. This is literally a supernatural ability that can be imparted to each and every believer by the Holy Spirit Himself if they are open to receiving it. This first verse I will now list will tell us exactly how true wors hip is made to the Lord: the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. (John 4:23) Notice this verse is telling us that we have to learn how to worship God from our human spirits. The letter s in the word spirit is with a small s. This means it is talking about our human spirits. The apostle Paul tells us that we have three parts to our being body, soul and spirit. I believe the Lord is trying to tell us two things with the specific wording of this verse. First, we have to learn how to worship the Lord from our spirit, which means that we have to learn how to worship Him from our heart. The second thing is that we must learn how to worship the Lord in the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit lives and dwells in our human spirits. The Holy Spirit enters into our human spirits the moment we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and have become saved and born again. If we are to worship the Lord from our human spirits, and the Holy Spirit is already living in our human spirits, then I believe it is only logical to conclude that the Lord wants us to learn how to worship and praise Him in the Holy Spirit.

I do not want to come down on some of the other more subdued and less intense ways some people will worship the Lord in some of these other less intense branches, but there is definitely a difference between one person who can worship and praise the Lord in the Spirit and another who is just worshiping the Lord out of his flesh and out of his head. Again, the ability to be able to truly worship the Lord with this kind of intensity, passion and love can be imparted to you by the Holy Spirit if you will not be afraid to open yourself up to receive it from Him. To really be able to receive this kind of ability from the Holy Spirit, the first thing you are going to need is the appropriate verses from Scripture to show you that this kind of intense worship is definitely biblical. Before I list the actual Scripture verses on this topic, I am going to highlight and bullet point several key phrases that you will see listed in these verses. Here are 8 powerful key phrases that will first of all tell us that God the Father wants us to worship, exalt and magnify Him and His Holy Name:
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Worship the Father in spirit and truth Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness Worship at His footstool Let us worship and bow down All the earth shall worship You Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name Exalt the Lord our God Magnify His name

Here are 5 very good phrases on us being able to give thanks to the Lord:
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Give thanks to the Lord for His goodness Give thanks to the Lord, for He is God Magnify Him with thanksgiving Enter His gates with thanksgiving Come before His presence with thanksgiving

Part of what will be included in being able to worship the Lord will also be praising Him. Here are 7 key phrases all pointing out that praising the Lord should be something that we learn how to do on a regular basis:
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I will bless the Lord at all times His praise shall continually be in my mouth Let the high praises of God be in their mouth Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised Praise God in His sanctuary Praise Him for His mighty acts Praise Him according to His excellent greatness

These next 11 phrases will all point out that it is also biblical that we sing to the Lord, and that God will have no problems with you if you want to sing with some level of intensity in your singing to Him:
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Sing to the Lord Sing praises to God I will sing praises Sing praises with understanding Sing out the honor of His name Praise the name of God with a song I will sing of Your power Let them sing aloud in their beds Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes Praise Him with loud cymbals I will play music before the Lord

These next 3 verses will show you that it is also biblical if you want to dance before the Lord when you are worshiping, praising and singing before Him:
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Praise Him with the timbrel and dance Let them praise His name with dance Then David danced before the Lord with all his might

I know some people may think that this kind of higher intensity in the way some people like to worship, praise, sing or dance to the Lord may be a bit on the extreme side but strongly consider this analogy. Next time you are watching a sporting event on TV such as a college or professional football, basketball or baseball game, watch what happens when the cameras start to pan out into the crowd when one team gets ready to score a touchdown, hit that winning shot from the basketball court, or drive in that winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning in a baseball game. When the cameras start to pan out into the crowd in these kinds of climatic moments, you will literally see just about everyone standing up, clapping their hands, and yelling, screaming and shouting at the tops of their lungs all because their team is about to win the game or make an important touchdown, goal or hit in order to help them win the game. And all of this kind of maximum intensity is being shown and expressed over just a simple sports game. If we can have these kinds of maximum intense emotions, thoughts, words and feelings over who is going to win a simple sports game, then how much more should we have this kind of maximum intensity in the way that we worship, praise and give thanks to our one and only Lord and Savior? For those of you who may be new to all of this as a result of just getting saved, or as a result of having decided to switch from one denomination to another, just realize that this higher level of worship that you will see manifested in these types of services is not something that the Lord will expect you to be able to do overnight.

In the Miscellaneous Section of our site, we have another article titled Worship and Praise in Charismatic Churches. In that article, I answered an email from a girl who was trying to make the transition and change from the Catholic church that she was brought up in to a new non-denominational church that she decided to join. The first problem she had was feeling inferior and not good enough before the Lord because she could not worship, praise or sing to Him like some of the other people were able to do in their services. She was uncomfortable and uneasy with all of it because it was such a big and drastic change from what she had been raised up in. The first thing you really have to grab a hold of when learning how to enter into true worship with the Lord is that this is a very individual and personal matter between you and God. Do not ever compare yourself with anyone else in how they worship and praise the Lord. We are all operating at different levels of spiritual development with the Lord. Some people are much more outgoing, bold and brazen in their walks and in their personalities with the Lord. They are not self-conscious, and they have no problems in being able to let go with some level of intensity in the way they worship the Lord in a public setting. However, there are others who are much more self-conscious, shy or timid in their walks and in their personalities with the Lord. They do not have the boldness or courage to be able to sing out loud or raise up their hands when worshiping the Lord in a public type of setting like this. If you fall into this kind of category, do not beat yourself up with condemnation or think of yourself as not being good enough before the Lord. If you will notice in the wording in the first verse that I have listed at the top of this article that we have to learn how to worship God the Father in spirit and in truth. The words in truth could be referring to the fact that we learn how to be true to ourselves and learn how to worship the Lord from a true and pure heart not from a heart of trying to be like everyone else when it is not coming natural to us at the level of spiritual development that we may be currently operating at with Him. Some people will progress at a faster rate in certain areas of their walk with the Lord than others will. Some people will be able to easily and quickly jump right in to being able to worship and praise the Lord with the more intense kind of singing and worship that you will see in some of these types of services. If you are having a hard time in being able to release to the Lord with this kind of intensity in the way you want to worship and praise Him, especially in a public type of setting, then my advice to you would be not to worry about it, and let the Lord gradually bring you up into these higher levels of worship and praise at the pace that He will want to do it in. Be guided by the Holy Spirit on this. The Holy Spirit will gradually work His boldness, courage, passion and intensity into you where you will then be able to do this without feeling overly self-conscious or intimidated. Let Him work all of this into you at the pace that He will want to work with.

What you will find in this specific area is that the closer you get to the Lord in your own personal relationship with Him, the less self-conscious you will become in how you interact with Him and how you share Him and His ways with other people. The closer you get to the Lord, the better you will get to know Him. And the better you get to know Him, the more you will want to express your feelings, thoughts and emotions to Him. And once this starts to happen, you will then start to have a natural and holy desire to want to worship and praise this awesome God of ours. Once you start to really learn more about the Lord as a result of your own personal adventures and walk with Him, the more He will start to blow you away with His goodness, with His awesomeness, with His love, and with how much He really does care for you and how far He will always go to take proper care of you. Once you break into the real realm and reality of what our Lord is really like and all about your mind, your heart and your spirit will want to bow down and worship Him, and Him alone. You will simply want to give and express, to the best of your abiliti es, all the praise and worship that will only be due to Him. You will come to realize that every fiber of your being and every ounce of your existence is solely and totally dependent upon Him and that there is nothing on this earth that can even begin to compare to Him and the depth and awesomeness of His personality. Once your mind comes into direct contact with who God really is and what He is really all about, then it will become much easier for you to be able to worship Him in the way these Scripture verses are telling you to do. But again, let the Holy Spirit slowly raise you up to this level if you are not there yet. If you have committed to making a full surrender with the Lord where He is now in complete control of your life, and you have now given Him a full and solid green light to enter you into His sanctification process for your life, then this ability to be able to properly worship and praise Him will be given to you by the Holy Spirit over a certain period of time.

The Scripture Verses

So that you can get the full power effect of these verses, I am going to go ahead and run all of these verses together one right after the other. Once you read all of these verses one right after the other, then you will be able to understand and witness to some of the more intense levels of worship and praise that you will see in some of the non-denominational, charismatic type of churches. 1. the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. (John 4:23) 2. You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created. (Revelation 4:11)

3. Give unto the Lord the glory due to His name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. (Psalm 29:2) 4. The Lord reigns; let the peoples tremble! He dwells between the cherubim; let the earth be moved! The Lord is great in Zion, and He is high above all the peoples. Let them praise Your great and awesome name He is holy . Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at His footstool; for He is holy. (Psalm 99:1,5) 5. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their chains in pieces. Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, and for His wonderful works to the children of men! For He has broken the gates of bronze, and cut the bars of iron in two. (Psalm 107:14-16) 6. You are my God, and I will praise You; You are my God, I will exalt You. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever. (Psalm 118:28) 7. I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together. (Psalm 34:1,3) 8. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall praise Your works to another, and shall declare Your mighty acts. (Psalm 145:3) 9. I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify Him with thanksgiving. (Psalm 69:30) 10. I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being. May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the Lord. (Psalm 104:33) 11. Praise God in His sanctuary; Praise Him in His mighty firmament! Praise Him for His mighty acts; Praise Him according to His excellent greatness! Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with the lute and harp! Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes! Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with high sounding cymbals! Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord! (Psalm 150:1-6) 12. Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! For He has done marvelous things; His right hand and His holy arm have gained Him the victory. (Psalm 98:1) 13. But I will sing of Your power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning; for You have been my defense and refuge in the day of my trouble. To You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; for God is my defense, the God of my mercy. (Psalm 59:16)

14. Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to the Lord with the voice of triumph! For the Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth Sing praises to God, sing praises! For God is the King of all the earth; sing praises with understanding. (Psalm 47:1,6) 15. Oh, give thanks to the Lord! Call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples. Sing to Him, sing psalms to Him; talk of all His wondrous works. Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those rejoice who seek the Lord. Seek the Lord and His strength, seek His face evermore. Remember His marvelous works which He has done, His wonders, and the judgments of His mouth (Psalm 105:1-5) 16. Make a joyful shout to the Lord, all you lands! Serve the Lord with gladness, come before His presence with singing. Know that the Lord, He is God; it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations. (Psalm 100:1-5) 17. Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is the great God, and the great King above all gods Oh come, let us worship and bow down; let u s kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand. (Psalm 95:1,6) 18. Make a joyful shout to God, all the earth! Sing out the honor of His name; make His praise glorious. Say to God, How awesome are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power Your enemies shall submit themselves to You. All the earth shall worship You and sing praises to You; they shall sing praises to Your name. (Psalm 66:1-4) 19. Oh, sing to the Lord a new song! Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, bless His name; proclaim the good news of His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His wonders among all peoples. For the Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods Give to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due His name; bring an offering, and come into His courts. Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth. (Psalm 96:1,7) 20. Let them praise His name with dance; let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp. For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud on their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth (Psalm 149:3)

21. Then David danced before the Lord with all his might Therefore I will play music before the Lord. And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight. (2 Samuel 6:14, 21) When you study all the above verses, and then match it up with the way some people will worship, praise, sing or dance to the Lord in some of these more intense types of worship services, you will see that everything they are doing is not only biblical, but right on target with the way the Lord would like all of us to be able to truly worship Him. The very last verse from King David really sums it all up when it says that he danced before the Lord with all of his might and that he was not worrying about being dignified. So the next time you see people running in the Spirit, dancing in the Spirit, or singing intensely in the Spirit, remember what the greatest king that Israel has ever had has just stated that he was not afraid to dance and worship before the Lord with all of his might!

Conclusion
When you read all of the above verses one right after the other, you can really feel the power that there is if you can learn how to worship the Lord with some level of intensity. But again, for those of you who are just not there yet, do not get discouraged or dismayed because you cannot worship as freely or as intensely as some of the other people around you may be doing in a church service. God will be looking at your heart on all of this, not at how you compare with the other people all around you. The other thing to note on all of this is that you do not have to be in a church service to be able to worship the Lord. You can literally do this anytime and at anyplace. You can do it while riding in your car, in the privacy of your own bedroom, or in the privacy of your office at work. You can do it quietly all by yourself so no one else will hear you if you happen to be in close proximity to other people. There will be times that the Holy Spirit will come up on you and prompt you to just all of a sudden want to worship and give praise, honor and glory to the Lord for just a few short moments. You will find yourself all of a sudden wanting to thank God for how He is handling your life or for something that He may have just helped you out with. Sometimes the Holy Spirit will initiate it Himself. Other times you will want to personally do it yourself. For those of you who know how to truly worship the Lord in the Spirit, you know what a wonderful blessing and experience it really is to be able to do this. Once you learn how to go into a true worship mode with the Lord through the Holy Spirit, it will help draw you that much closer to God in your own personal relationship with Him. When you look at how our world and society has been set up, you see many people literally idolizing and worshiping other people who have become famous in their public arenas. You have politicians, movie stars, singing stars, and sports stars all getting a certain amount of public adulation, worship and praise from people all over the world for what they have been able to accomplish in their particular fields of expertise.

If people can show that kind of intensity in the way they worship, praise and adulate successful movie, sports or singing stars, then why cant we do the exact same thing with God Almighty Himself? No matter how great some of these accomplishments may have been by some of these public stars, the bottom line is that they are just as human, just as mortal, and just as fallen as the rest of us are. This is why the Bible tells us that we are not to glory in other men or in all of their accomplishments, but only onto the Lord Himself, since He is the only perfect Being and God in existence. There is nothing wrong in celebrating other peoples accomplishments and achievements in their fields of expertise such as the sports arenas or the performing arts arenas. God Himself loves to watch people try and become the best they can be at whatever He has gifted them to be able to do. But as with everything else in this life, we have to keep all of this in proper perspective and proper balance. No human is ever going to become close to becoming the fourth person of the Holy Trinity. No human will ever get close to being like God or becoming God. No matter how successful other people may become with whatever God may have initially gifted them with, we always have to remember that all of these movie and sports stars are fallen and imperfect creatures just like the rest of us are, and that they do not need to be put up on altars or pedestals that will rival our Lord. Some people will worship, praise and follow after these other movie, singing and sports stars more than they will worship, praise and follow the Lord Himself. The Bible tells us that our God is a very jealous God and that He will not allow Himself to be replaced by other people or by other peoples accomplishments and successes in this life. Just realize that as you continue to grow and mature in your walk with the Lord, the Holy Spirit will start to illuminate your mind and open up your eyes to all of this. And one of the areas that He will definitely be including in your sanctification process with the Lord will be helping you out on how to truly worship the Lord from your heart and from your spirit. Tweet Share
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The 9 Fruits of the Holy Spirit

s you will see in the Scripture verse I will give you in this article there is one very special incredible verse that will tell you that God the Father wants to transmit and impart 9 specific fruits of the Holy Spirit up into our personalities. The first three articles that we have listed in our sanctification section all set the stage as to what God is looking to do with each one of us.

God wants all of us to enter into a true sanctification process with Him so that He can begin the process of molding, shaping, and transforming us into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ. He wants to make us into a better and more holy people. He wants to transform us by the renewing of our minds. He wants to put right thinking into our thought process. In the first article we have listed under this section titled Sanctification, I gave you the specific verses from Scripture that showed you that it is by the power of the Holy Spirit that this sanctification process is done with you in this life. However, you will not be a passive robot in all of this. You have to be willing to work in cooperation with the Holy Spirit once He begins to start this sanctification process within you. Your job will be to get into the Word to find out exactly what it is God is going to want to change about you. You will need to find out exactly what godly qualities God will want you to try and put on into your personality, and what qualities He will want you to try and put away. This article will be the first of a series of articles giving you all of the appropriate Scripture verses showing you exactly which qualities and attributes God will want to get worked into your personality, and which qualities He will want to pull out of you. And there is no better place to start this series of articles than with the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. If you want to start off by keying on some of the more positive, godly qualities that God would really like to get worked into your personality really study and meditate on these 9 specific qualities. When God the Father purposely isolates and spells out 9 specific qualities that will be coming direct from His Holy Spirit then He is really letting you know the extreme importance of these 9 specific fruits. These 9 fruits are major fruits and qualities that are coming direct from God Himself and every Christian should do the best they can to work with the Holy Spirit in getting all 9 of these fruits worked into their personality. I will first start off by highlighting each of these 9 specific fruits so that you can have all 9 of them isolated right at the top of this article. I will then give you the Scripture verse where these 9 fruits are coming from, and then do a brief commentary on each one of these fruits so you can fully understand what each one of these fruits are all about, and how they can dramatically change the quality of your life and state of well-being if you are willing to allow the Holy Spirit to start to work all 9 of these fruits into your personality. Here are the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit listed one right after the other in a bolded, numbered format: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Love Joy Peace Longsuffering Kindness Goodness Faithfulness

8. Gentleness 9. Self-control Now here is the specific verse from Scripture where these 9 fruits are being given to us by the Lord: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. (Galatians 5:22) Before I get into the appropriate commentary on each of these nine fruits, note the following: 1. The word Spirit is with a capital S which means these 9 fruits are coming directly from the Holy Spirit, not from ourselves. 2. What this means is that Gods love, Gods peace, Gods joy, and Gods goodness can start to be transmitted up into our personality. These are His divine attributes and personality qualities that will start to move into the core of our personality. 3. Think about the ramifications of this that God the Father Himself is allowing us to share in a part of His divine nature by allowing His Holy Spirit to transmit and impart these nine divine qualities right up into our soul and personality! This is why God the Father is specifically telling us in this verse that these 9 fruits are coming directly from His Holy Spirit so that we can all fully appreciate the magnitude of such an experience. Jesus has already told us that He is the vine and we are the branches. The branches draw their life from the vine, not vice versa. Just as the branch draws its life from the vine, so too must we draw our life directly from Jesus. Jesus will release His life directly into us through the Holy Spirit in the exact same way that the vine will release the life of the tree into the branches. In one short, but incredible powerful Scripture verse, God the Father is giving all of us an incredible revelation on what can go on behind the scenes in the spiritual realm for those who are willing to work with Him in this sanctification process. Now I will go on to describe what each one of these nine fruits are all about and give you definitions from some of the different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries, thereby making it easier for you to work with the Holy Spirit once He starts to move in on you to try and impart some of these divine qualities and attributes into the core of your personality. 1. Love If I had to rank all of the above fruits in their order of possible importance, the quality of love would have to be #1. And this is why it may have been listed as the first fruit in the above Scripture verse.

Due to the extreme importance of just this one quality, I am going to do another article on this quality and title it The Power of Love. This article will also be listed in the Sanctification Section of our site. There are some very powerful and profound verses from the Bible on just this one quality alone, and it needs to have its own article to do it proper justice. Here are some of the different definitions on what love is from the different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries: 1. Unselfish, benevolent concern for another; brotherly concern; the object of brotherly concern or affection 2. The self-denying, self-sacrificing, Christ-like love which is the foundation of all other graces 3. Unselfish, loyal and benevolent concern for the well being of another 4. The high esteem which God has for His human children and the high regard which they, in turn, should have for Him and other peopl e 5. To love, to have affection for someone; to like; to be a friend; the love of brothers for each other One of the main messages that comes through loud and clear from studying our Bible is the extreme importance that God the Father is placing on that everyone learn how to love Him, love ourselves, love one another, and to even go as far as to be able to love our enemies and those who will try and hurt us. However, our abilities as fallen humans to love one another is very limited. This is why it is so important for each and every Christian to work very closely with the Holy Spirit to get this fruit worked up into the core of our personalities. It is only when the love of the Holy Spirit starts to flow and enter into our personalities can we even begin to love God, love ourselves, and love one another to the degree and to the intensity that God would like to see from each one of us. To those of you who will be entering into this sanctification process with the Lord this quality should be listed as the #1 quality you should really attempt to put on into the core of your soul and personality. The Holy Spirit will be moving on you very early and very quickly to get this quality imparted into your mind, soul, and emotions due to the extreme importance of it in your walk with the Lord. You can be the greatest man of God and have some of the greatest gifts of God flowing through you but if you are not walking with all of this in the spirit of love and humility, it will have all been for naught. More on this in the next article. 2. Joy

In the rough and tough world we live in with all of the crime, disorder, and bad things that can happen to anyone of us at anytime, many Christians have lost a lot of their joy in the Lord as a result of some of the beatings they have taken in this life. I remember I had a bank teller tell me one time that she very seldom sees people smiling anymore when they come in and do business with her. She says no one seems to be happy anymore and everyone seems to be carrying around the weight of the world on their shoulders. Again, with the imperfections of our own fallen nature, and then you combine that with how people react differently to adversity some Christians have literally had most, if not all of their joy in the Lord, knocked right out of them. This is why the above verse from Galatians is so powerful and so needed by every single Christian today. In this verse, God is telling us that He can transmit some of His godly and divine qualities right up into the middle of us like filling up a new car with its first tank of gasoline. Many of Gods people need a fresh infusion of His divine qualities due to the leaks that have occurred as a result of some of the beatings His people have taken during the course of their lives. And the quality of joy is a much needed quality in this day and age. No matter how bad of a beating you may have taken in this life God can still fully heal, deliver, and restore you if you are willing to work with Him in this healing process. And one of the things that God can fully restore in you is your joy in Him. And not only can the Lord fully restore what joy you used to have in Him, but He can also increase it to a much greater degree and intensity due to the wording in the above verse with the quality of joy being one of the 9 specific fruits of His Holy Spirit! Here are some of the different definitions of what real joy is all about: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Great delight; gladness of heart The happy state that results from knowing and serving God That deep, abiding, inner rejoicing in the Lord To rejoice, to be glad Happy, joyful, cheerful, rejoicing, festive

Realize that God can transmit this divine quality right up into your personality and this will be His joy, not your joy, once it starts to flow up into you. And once God starts to release His joy into your system, you wont be able to help but feel it. And once you are able to start feeling it again, it will become much easier for you to learn how to walk back in it in your own daily walk with the Lord. The Bible says that the joy of the Lord is your strength. This is why it is so important that every Christian have some level of Gods joy operating through them in this life. Without Gods joy operating in your life, things can begin to dry up. Nothing is ever fun anymore. Everything can start to become a chore. Before you know it, you will want to start to withdraw from others and life in general.

The joy of the Lord can really give you an incredible surge of strength in your own daily walk with God especially when you have to take on some really tough situations. This is why each Christian should work very closely with the Holy Spirit in not only getting Him to release His joy into their system, but to also keep it running through them on a very regular and consistent basis. The Holy Spirit will do this for you if you are open to receiving this divine infusion from Him and are willing to work with Him to keep it properly flowing through you on a regular basis. 3. Peace This is another major quality that we all need operating in our lives, especially with all of the uncertainty of this life and never knowing what is going to happen next. Jobs are no longer as secure as they used to be. You never know when the company you work for may be bought out and your job will be gone in a flash. Half of all marriages are still ending up in divorce. We are all forced to constantly live under the threat of future terrorist activity, never knowing when or where the next attack will come from. With all of this kind of heightened activity that we are all forced to deal with on a daily basis, it becomes very easy to lose your sense of peace, especially your peace in the Lord. Again, this is one of the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit can really help you pick up the slack if you start losing your own sense of peace over some of the storm clouds that could come against you in this life. Realize that the Holy Spirit has His peace to give to you and that He can give it to you in great abundance. I have found that once His peace starts to flow up into your mind, soul, and emotions, it really is as the Bible says a peace that surpasses all human understanding especially when that peace comes in right in the middle of a severe storm cloud that you may be going through. Here is how the quality of peace is described in some of the different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries: 1. The presence and experience of right relationships 2. The tranquility of soul 3. Sense of well-being and fulfillment that comes from God and is dependent on His presence 4. The inner tranquility and poise of the Christian whose trust is in God through Christ 5. Tranquility, rest, harmony, the absence of agitation or discord

The quality of peace should be one of the main qualities that you should try and get worked up into your soul through the Holy Spirit in the sanctification process. Without the peace of God operating in your life, you could become very easily rattled, shaken, tormented, and knocked right off of your game in the Lord the first time any type of adversity should ever come your way. 4. Longsuffering One of the main definitions of the word longsuffering is that it is referring to patience. And patience is another sorely needed quality in the fast paced world in which we live in today. Just watch people standing in line at the grocery store or at your local fast food restaurant and watch how short some peoples fuses are today. Road rage is still a major problem on some of our highways. Look at someone the wrong way and they will want to try and take your head off. Many people have been killed or seriously injured because someone lost his temper over something that was very trivial. With the fast-paced ways of our society, many people have had their fuses shortened up and it thus takes very little to set them off. As a result, many people have very little patience operating in their personalities today. For Christians, this poses a major dilemma. One of the ways of our God is that He is a very patient and longsuffering God. His ways are not our ways. And one of the things you will find out very early on about His ways is that He works on a much slower time frame than we do. And unless you learn to adjust to His slower way of working things out, you will find yourself easily losing your patience with Him and how He wants to work things out in your life. God operates on a much longer and slower time frame than we are used to operating in the fast paced world in which we live in. You will really have to work with the Holy Spirit on this particular quality to get it properly worked up into your personality. The reason for this is that your own impatience will start to act up and try to override the patience and longsuffering that the Holy Spirit will try and transmit to you. At times, it may become of battle of wills your will against His will. But once the Holy Spirit starts to try and manifest this quality up into your personality, then you have to try and move with it and allow it to get worked into your mind and emotions. If you do, then His patience will start to override your impatience, and before you know it, your fuses will start to lengthen and you will not lose your patience like you used to do. Here are the different definitions for the word longsuffering: 1. Forbearance, patience 2. Patient endurance and steadfastness under provocation 3. Forbearance under ill-will, with no thought of retaliation 4. Patience, endurance, steadfastness and forbearance

5. Forbearance under suffering and endurance in the face of adversity 6. Ability to endure persecution and ill-treatment With the way all of these definitions are reading, you can really see why we all need the patience and longsuffering of the Holy Spirit to start operating in our souls and personalities especially when we are forced to face any kind of adversity. Sometimes it will be the patience and longsuffering of the Holy Spirit that will be the only thing that will give you the ability to last the entire length of a bad trial. Learn how to ride and flow with the patience of the Holy Spirit in your daily life and walk with the Lord and you will then be able to enter into a much more restful, peaceful state within your mind and emotions. 5. Kindness As a result of more people being impatient, having short fuses, and with everyone always being in a hurry many people have lost the ability to treat others with kindness and respect. A kind word, a kind action to another person can really do wonders for them. When you really study the life of Jesus in the New Testament, you can really tell how kind He always was with other people in His dealings with them. Jesus is without question, the ultimate role model for all of us of someone who was fully walking and operating in all 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. The quality of kindness will go hand in hand with the quality of love. Once the Holy Spirit starts to transmit His love up into you, the quality of kindness will follow right along with it. It will then become much easier for you to be able to be kind to others once the love of God starts to flow more into your personality. You cannot help but be more kind to others if Gods love is flowing through you. This is why the quality of love has to be the main quality that you really concentrate on getting more of from the Holy Spirit. Once the love of God starts to flow and operate through you to touch others, many of the other fruits of the Holy Spirit will then start to follow right after it in domino fashion. Here are some of the different definitions of what real kindness is all about: 1. Quality or state of being kind 2. The steadfast love that maintains relationships through gracious aid in times of need 3. Goodness of heart, serviceable, good, gracious, pleasant 4. Love for mankind, hospitality, acts of kindness, readiness to help, human friendship, benevolence, taking thought of others

5. Goodness in action, sweetness of disposition, gentleness in dealing with others, affability 6. The ability to act for the welfare of those taxing your patience As you can see from some of these different definitions, this is a very beautiful quality to have transmitted up into your soul and personality by the Holy Spirit. Not only will you be able to touch others with this godly quality, but you will also be able to touch yourself because you will feel so much better about yourself if you can learn how to treat others with much more kindness and respect in your daily dealings and affairs with them. 6. Goodness The Bible says that it is the goodness of God that will lead sinners to repentance and salvation. The quality of goodness is another real powerful quality to have operating through you. This particular quality has a real drawing power to it. Not only does the goodness of God draw people direct to Him, but this fruit of goodness operating in a believer can also draw people direct to God through the actual believer. Spirit-filled saints who are walking with many of these fruits operating through them are like a magnet. Many people who have been saved through an individual believer say that what drew them in was the love and goodness they saw shining through that believer. Jesus says that we are to carry His light and let that light shine before men and not attempt to hide it. Part of His light are these 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit shining through an anointed believer. Nonbelievers are really drawn to someone who has some degree of these nine fruits manifesting through their personalities. However, there is something extra special about the quality of goodness. Many Christians can effectively witness to others by just living right and being a good example and role model for others to follow. Many nonbelievers carefully watch and study some Christians because they know there is something really different about them. One of the key qualities a nonbeliever will pick up on in a solid Christian is this quality of goodness. This quality has an ability to really get down deep into the core of a believers personality. To those who really have this quality, you can tell that it is something operating deep down inside of them. This quality is not something that waivers like some of the other qualities can do. These people are good down to their very cores of their personalities. You can see it and feel it when you get around these types of people. As a result of seeing this God-like goodness deeply ingrained into their personalities, there is an immediate drawing towards them. You feel totally safe being around them because you know you can totally trust them, and you know they would never deliberately hurt you. Children are quick to sense and pick up on this quality in people who really have it. These types of Christians draw children and adults to them like magnets. This is why this particular fruit and quality is so important for each Christian to have. Because with it, you can easily draw many more people to the Lord.

If the goodness of God will lead people to repentance and salvation with Him then the goodness of God operating through an anointed believer will have the ability to draw nonbelievers into salvation. And the goodness of God can be transmitted and worked up into your personality through the power of the Holy Spirit. You can have the actual goodness of God shining through you to reach others if you are willing to work with the Holy Spirit in this sanctification process. Now here are some of the different definitions of what this quality is all about: 1. Beneficence, ready to do good, love in action 2. Kindness in actual manifestation, virtue equipped for action, a bountiful propensity both to will and to do what is good, intrinsic goodness producing a generosity and a Godlike state or being 3. The word beneficence means the fact or quality of being kind or doing good This particular quality is a very powerful fruit to have operating in your personality because of the drawing power it has in it. And the beautiful part about this fruit is that this quality is so pure in its goodness it does not have any manipulative qualities within it. In other words, a truly good person could not even begin to try and use you or manipulate you for their own personal gain because they are too good and too righteous to even begin to think along those lines. This is why these kinds of people are so trustworthy and why so many people are drawn to them because you feel so safe by just being around them. 7. Faithfulness In the times we live in with half of all marriages still ending up in divorce, and with many people getting back-stabbed in the workplaces with people they thought they could initially trust this particular quality is one that is really needed in our day and age. This quality is not only needed in our own personal relationship with God, but it is also needed in our own personal relationships with our friends and our families. Once you are saved and have entered into a true, personal relationship with the Lord one of the first things you will really have to grab a hold of is holding fast to the Lord and staying faithful to Him for the rest of your eternal life. Once you are saved and have entered into a true, personal relationship with the Lord, there is no turning back ever! This is what got the Jewish people in major trouble with God the Father back in the Old Testament. They could not stay faithful and loyal to Him on a consistent and regular basis. There were times that God the Father was literally calling them harlots and adulterers because they would not stay faithful to Him, especially when they kept chasing after other gods. God the Father really holds this particular quality in high esteem, and this is one quality that He will really expect you to operate very strongly in not only in your own personal relationship with Him, but also in your other personal relationships with your family and friends. In other words, He wants you to be faithful and loyal to your spouses, to your children, to your parents, and to your good friends.

Too many people are bailing out from their spouses and their children if they hit a few minor speed bumps in their marriages. Too many spouses are having affairs behind their spouses back, thereby destroying all of the trust and faithfulness that may have been built up in the early years of their marriages. Too many fathers are bailing out of their marriages, and then forgetting and forsaking their own children and sometimes for good, never wanting to see any of them ever again! If God brings you a wonderful mate, wonderful children, and good and wonderful friends then He will expect you to stay loyal and faithful to all of them in your own personal relationships with them. A true friend will stay by your side for life through thick and thin and for better or for worse. Just as God will stay faithful to you in His own personal relationship with you He will expect you to stay loyal and faithful in your own personal relationships with the other people in your life. Now here are what some of the different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries have to say about this particular quality: 1. Fidelity which makes one true to his promise and faithful to his task 2. Steadfast, dedicated, dependable and worthy of trust 3. Steadfast, unchanging and thoroughly grounded in relation to the other 4. Dependability, loyalty and stability With the self-centered and materialistic world in which we now live in, where many peoples only goals and ambitions are to get as much as they can out of this life while they still can I am afraid this is one quality that is in very short supply. Most people are lucky if they manage to make 2 or 3 good, loyal, and faithful friends in this lifetime. This is one quality that God the Father is really watching all of us on. He is watching who is going to stay true, loyal, and faithful to Him and who will stay true, loyal, and faithful to the friends and family that are brought into our lives. The flesh is strong especially in the area of wanting to satisfy its lust for the material things of this life. This is why this quality is one of the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. We all need the faithfulness of the Holy Spirit worked into us to help us keep loyal to God, family, and friends. 8. Gentleness Many men may draw back a bit from this next fruit, which is the quality of gentleness. Whether some of the liberals like it or not, Jesus was fully incarnated into a human, flesh body but this incarnation was done as a man fully Man and fully God. He was not incarnated into the body of a woman, no matter how any liberal tries to spin this basic fact, with many liberals trying to make God gender neutral. Since Jesus walked our earth as a man the Son of Man study His actions very carefully when you read the gospels and how He handled different types of people. There were times that He would engage and set people straight, like He did with some of the Scribes and

Pharisees. But there were other times that He dealt with people very gently, with kindness and love. His gentle way of handling some of these people is what really jumps out at you when you really study how He handled different types of people. Again, Jesus is the perfect role model for all of us to study and learn from especially with how He handled people while He was walking down here on our earth. For men in particular, His actions and behavior towards others should be a major study for all of us and we should seek to pattern our own daily walk after Him. And one of the divine qualities that He had operating in Him with great abundance was the quality of gentleness. The quality of gentleness is another major quality needed in our world today. So many people have been beat up and hurt in their dealings with other people that just a gentle word, a gentle touch from another Christian can really open up the door for that person to be able to receive Jesus and His healing, saving, and deliverance power into their lives. Once you really start walking in the Holy Spirit with His divine fruits operating and flowing through you you will really be able to feel and sense when you should handle a certain person or a certain type of situation with more of a touch of gentleness rather than with any kind of stern rebuke or condemnation. There is a time for tough love but there are also times that just a gentle and loving touch is all that is really needed to properly handle a certain situation. The Holy Spirit will guide you in all of this. Just realize that the quality of gentleness is one of the 9 fruits of the Spirit, and this is one of the fruits that He would really like to get worked into your personality, especially in being able to use it when dealing with and helping out others. Parents especially need this fruit operating through them, as it is very easy to get out of balance with the way you are correcting your children. Sometimes more of a tough love approach is needed, but at other times more of a gentle approach will be better suited for the situation. If all your children ever hear from you are stern words of rebuke and criticism, and it is never properly balanced out with words and actions of love, kindness, and gentleness then after a certain period of time your children will start to pull away from you, and they then will have no more desire to want to establish any type of good, solid, loving relationship with you. Now here are some of the different definitions on the quality of gentleness: 1. Mildness combined with tenderness 2. Gracious, kindly disposition, controlled strength 3. A disposition that is even-tempered, tranquil, balanced in spirit, unpretentious and that has passions unde r control 4. A character that is equitable, reasonable, forbearing, moderate, fair and considerate

5. Power and strength under control 6. Willing to pardon injuries, correct faults. One who rules his spirit well Not only will other people love and gravitate towards you more if you learn how to walk in this quality but you will be at much more peace with yourself since you wont always have to be fighting and striving with others when trying to help them out. 9. Self-Control Last, but not certainly least, is the quality of self-control. This one is huge, and I mean huge! Once you start to enter into a true, sanctification process with the Lord expect the Holy Spirit to move on you very early with this specific quality. The reason for this is that we all have a certain amount of character flaws operating in our personalities. There are some bad and negative qualities that will have to go. The Bible tells us that our spirits and our flesh will war against each other in this life. Our flesh wants immediate self-gratification at all costs and will stop at nothing to try and get it. Our spirits know that some of our fleshly desires are not right for us and as a result, there will be a tug of war between the two and sometimes it will be a major tug of war. And the only thing that will be able to control and curb some of the desires of our flesh is the quality of self-control. Since we all live in a very self-centered and materialistic type world today, many people have very poor impulse control. If they see something they immediately want, they will do anything they can to try and get it. They will not be denied until they get what they are going after. These people are obviously very weak in the quality of self-control. This is why the Bible tells us that if we can learn how to really walk in the Holy Spirit, then we will not fulfill the lusts of our flesh. Due to our fallen and sinful natures, all of us are weak to some degree in the quality of selfcontrol. This is why God the Father made sure to have this fruit listed as one of the 9 fruits of His Holy Spirit. We all need Gods self-control operating in our lives and in our personalities if we are going to have any hope in getting cleaned up and properly sanctified to the degree that He would like to get us to in this life. If you do not have Gods self-control operating through you you will have very little victory over such things as bad tempers, judgmental and critical spirits, an unforgiving spirit, and vices such as smoking and the abuse of alcohol. Once the Holy Spirit starts this sanctification process within you be prepared for some major battles and tugs of wars with Him once He starts coming after some of the negative qualities operating in your personality. But if you are willing to yield to Him and allow Him to start to work all 9 of these fruits into your personality then you will find yourself starting to grow in ways and in areas that you never thought were possible in this life. His supernatural power in this area will blow you away once you see how far He can really take you to become the person that God would like you to become in Him in this lifetime.

Here are some of the definitions of what the quality of self-control is all about: 1. Temperance, rational restraint of natural impulses 2. Sober, temperate, calm and dispassionate approach to life, having mastered personal desires and passions 3. Calls for a self-disciplined life following Christs example of being in the world but not of the world 4. Restraint or discipline exercised over ones behavior The above definitions perfectly describe what God is looking for once He starts to work and transmit this quality up into our personalities. This specific quality is one of the major keys in being able to get any kind of victory over some of the lusts and desires of our flesh.

Conclusion
All of the above definitions on each one of the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit give you a perfect description of what each one of them are all about, and why God the Father really wants to work each one of these 9 fruits into our personalities. As you can see when reviewing each one of them, they are all very powerful and they not only have the ability to help change, transform, and sanctify you but they also have the ability to touch all of those around you. Nothing will draw nonbelievers and believers alike to the Lord than a truly, sanctified saint in the Lord who is walking and operating in all 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. If you are willing to allow the Holy Spirit to work and transmit all 9 of these fruits up into your personality to some appreciable degree in this life you will then become a light that will literally radiate the presence of God Himself through your soul and personality. You have no idea how many people you will be able to save , touch, witness to, and help disciple if you have these fruits operating through you. These fruits will give you a credibility with God and with other people that no degree or title can give you in this life. This sanctification process is the ultimate, highest aim and goal with God for our lives. For those of you who are not afraid to let God begin this deeper sanctifying work in your life keep these 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit directly in front of you and work very closely with the Holy Spirit once He starts to manifest these fruits up into your personality. These fruits will be coming directly from Him. They will be His love, His goodness, His joy, and His peace that will start to flow into you. But you will still have to do your part in all of this. Once these divine attributes start to be released into your personality by the Holy Spirit your job will then be to start to walk and operate in them.

If the Holy Spirit starts to release His quality of love into your personality, but you start refusing to walk and operate in that love in your words and actions to others then He will start to pull it back from you after a reasonable length of time. If He starts to manifest His quality of self-control in you in an effort to try and take out some of the negative qualities that He will not want operating in your personality, and you refuse to rely on that self-control, and you override it and continue to operate in those negative qualities then again, He will pull it back from you until you are ready to work in cooperation with Him. This sanctification process is a two way street. God is more than willing and anxious to do His part but you will have to be willing to do your part. And your part will be to learn what changes God will want to make with you and then start to live, walk, and operate in those specific changes once the Holy Spirit starts this supernatural, sanctification process within you. This part God cannot do for you. Jesus gave Peter the power and ability to be able to walk on water. But there was one thing Peter had to do before that supernatural power was released to him. He had to get out of the boat and start walking straight forward on that power. It was only when he got out of the boat and started walking straight forward did the s upernatural power of God manifest that allowed him to literally walk on water! Its the exact same way in this sanctification realm with the Lord. God, through the Holy Spirit, will give you the supernatural power to change, transform, and sanctify you but you will have to be like Peter and be willing to live and walk in that supernatural power before it can really start to work to change and sanctify you. Jesus is coming back for a Bride that will be without spot or blemish. He is calling His Church to clean up their act and allow His Holy Spirit to begin this deeper sanctifying work in their lives. However, the choice is up to each individual believer. Sanctification is not something that can be forced upon anyone. God really respects everyones free will and He will never force His will or His ways on anyone. To those of you who will decide to enter into this sanctification process with the Lord realize that all of this will not occur overnight. The Holy Spirit will set the pace and timetable that He will want to work with you on. You can perfectly trust Him to handle each of the areas that He will want to get into. Though some of this may be a bit painful at times, since none of us likes to admit that we have anything that needs to be changed, let the Holy Spirit take you as far as He will want to go with you in this realm and I guarantee you that your life and your state of well-being will all be changed for the better much better!

God is the Potter We are the Clay

ne of the most powerful analogies in the Bible regarding our transformation and sanctification in the Lord has to be the analogy of the potter and the clay. The Bible says that

God is the Potter and we are the clay. It is up to God to mold, transform and sanctify us as we journey through this earthly life. Whenever God gives us a specific analogy in the Bible, this means that we have to seek into the revelation of that analogy in order to pick up what God is trying to tell us with the analogy. If we do, then we will see exactly what God is trying to tell us in reference to the actual analogy itself. In other words, we have to find out exactly how pottery is made if we want to fully understand what God is trying to tell us in this most incredible analogy. Here is the key verse from Scripture that will give us this specific revelation that God is the Potter and we are His clay: But now, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our potter; and all we are the work of Your hand. (Isaiah 64:8) I have never made pottery myself, so I had no idea of how it was actually made. But I always had a feeling that God would somehow bring someone along that would show and demonstrate how this process is actually done so we can see exactly how this analogy fits into what God wants to do with each one of us in our personal growth in Him. I recently received a DVD from a friend who had a pastor by the name of Pat Lazovich come to their church. Pat used to make pottery before God called him into full time ministry work. As a result of his previous experience in actually making pottery, God now has him traveling to different churches, giving real live demonstrations on exactly how pottery is made, and then how this analogy perfectly fits in and lines up with how God wants to mold and transform all of us in our personal growth in Him. I reviewed the entire DVD, and his demonstration and explanation of this analogy was excellent. I cannot recommend this man highly enough with his demonstration on the potter and the clay. If any of you would like to have him come to your church to do this demonstration for you, he is the senior pastor of Calvary Chapel in Sierra Vista, AZ. His website address is http://www.calvarysv.org/. In this article, I will give you the main steps on exactly how pottery is made, and then the appropriate explanations on how all of this fits into the analogy that God is the potter and we are His clay. Grab a hold of this powerful revelation, because it will both visually and dramatically show you not only how God molds and transforms us in this life, but exactly why God does some of the things He does with us in this molding process, as this process can be quite painful and unpleasant at times. I will break down the main steps on how pottery is actually made, along with the appropriate explanations as to how all of this perfectly fits into Gods actual sanctification with us under the specific captions below. 1. God Needs the Word in Us Before He Can Start the Sanctification Process The first thing Pat will show you is the lump of clay that he will actually use to make the piece of pottery with. Before Pat can put this piece of clay on an electric wheel to start the

actual molding process to make the kind of pottery he wants to make, he first has to add enough WATER into it in order to make it pliable and soft enough for him to be able to actually use it. If he does not add enough water into the clay, the clay will remain too hard and too rigid for him to be able to actually use. When the water is added into the clay, it makes the clay soft and pliable. If the clay is not soft and pliable enough, the potter cannot begin to use it to make the pottery he wants to make. The analogy for us to pick up on this first step is that the water used in this process represents the Word of God. Here is a good verse giving us the actual revelation that the word water in the Bible is symbolic of the Word of God. In other words, the Word of God is like water to our souls. Just like our physical bodies need water in order to be able to live and survive in this world, in the same way our souls need Gods Word flowing through us in order to feed us on the inside in our inner man. that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Ephesians 5:26) What this is telling us that God cannot even begin to mold and transform us in this life unless we are first willing do our part. And our part has to be to get into His Word and try to read, understand and assimilate what is in the Bible as best we can, with the Holy Spirit helping us to understand what we are actually reading. The Bible says that we are to grow in the knowledge of God, and one of the main ways that you grow in the knowledge of God is to re ad from the one Book that will give you this direct knowledge the Bible! There is no other way into the knowledge of God other than through the Bible. If you do not spend enough reasonable time in this life trying to read from the Bible and assimilate the actual knowledge that is in there as best you can, then God will have very little to work with in your own personal growth process with Him, and you will see very little, if any actual growth in Him in this life. The reason why so many of Gods saints are not spiritually growing in this life and being properly sanctified in the Holy Spirit is because they are not spending enough time trying to read and understand the Bible as best they can, and then see how the actual knowledge in this Book can be incorpo rated into their daily lives. The Holy Spirit needs something to work with in order to get this growth process kicked into full gear and that something is knowledge and that knowledge can only be gained by reading the Bible. There is no other way! Just as the potter cannot use the clay unless there is enough water added into it in the same way God cannot start the molding and transformation process in our lives unless we first start to get enough of the Word in us. The Word cannot start to effectively work in you and your life unless you first start to attempt to get it into you in the first place.

So without question, the first step you have to take, if you really want God to mold and shape you into the kind of person He really wants you to become in Him in this life, is to spend enough reasonable time in the Word trying to understand, with the help of the Holy Spirit, all of the knowledge that is contained in it, and exactly how all of this knowledge can be incorporated into your personal life and walk with the Lord. 2. You Have to Be Properly Centered in Jesus Christ After Pat adds enough water into the clay to make it soft and pliable so he can now start to work with it the next thing he will do is put the piece of clay in the center of an electric wheel. This wheel will then start to spin so he can then use his hands to start the molding and shaping process with the clay as it is actually spinning on the wheel. However, if the piece of clay is not properly centered in the middle of the wheel, then he will not be able to work with it and he will not be able to make the pottery he wants to make. He said having the lump of clay perfectly centered in the middle of the electric wheel is the first step in being able to actually make a pot. If he tries to make a piece of pottery with a lump of clay that is not properly centered in the middle of the wheel, it will eventually tear apart before he can finish the process. In the same way that the clay has to be properly centered in the middle of the wheel before the potter can even begin to mold and shape it we have to be properly centered in Jesus before God can start to mold and shape us. So what does it mean to be properly centered in Jesus? I believe what it means to be properly centered in Jesus is that you have to be under a complete and full surrender of you and your entire life with Him where He is now in full control of you and every little detail of your life. Jesus has to become both Lord and Savior in your life, not just your Savior. Too many Christians do not have Jesus as the real Lord in their lives. Again, this is all fully explained to you in our article titled The Full Surrender in the Bible Basics section of our site. In this article we give you all of the main verses from Scripture to show you exactly what this full and complete surrender is all about, along with a good, full surrender prayer that will actually get you in this realm with the Lord. Bottom line you have to enter into Gods perfect will for your life before He will start to guide both you and your life in the direction that He will want it to go in. God will not fully guide you to your divine destiny in Him and fully sanctify you to the degree that He would really like in this life unless you first come into this full surrender with Him. Its your all for His all. Just like the potter cannot mold the piece of clay into the piece of pottery that he is trying to make unless it is perfectly centered in the middle of the wheel in the same way the Lord cannot begin to properly work with us in this life unless we are perfectly centered in Him in this full surrender. Pat actually shows this with a piece of clay. With it not being properly centered in the middle of the wheel, he gets it about halfway to where it needs to go and then all of a sudden it rips and tears apart from the wheel all because it was not perfectly centered in the middle of the wheel in the first place.

In the same way, if we try to live our lives without Jesus leading and guiding the way, our lives will eventually fall apart and we will never reach and fulfill the divine destiny to which God has called each one of us in this life. That is why Jesus tells us in His Word that without Him we can do absolutely nothing in this life and that if we try to build our own houses in this life without His direct guidance that we will end up laboring in vain if we try to do it all through our own efforts and wisdom. Here is the verse that will give us this specific piece of revelation: Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. (Psalm 127:1) 3. Sanctification is a Slow, Steady and Progressive Process The next thing that Pat points out is how slow and steady the electric wheel turns as he is using his hands to mold the pot. He explains that to get the lump of clay to the pot he wants to make, that the wheel has to turn at this slow and steady pace. If he speeds up the wheel to any faster degree, the lump of clay will again tear completely apart before he can make it to the finish line. In the same way, we have to have patience with the Lord on how He wants to work and build our lives up and sanctify us through the Holy Spirit. In our fast-paced, self-centered world, we are use to instant everything. But in Gods realm, He usually works things out at a much slower pace and time frame than we are used too and if we do not learn how to go with His slower flows and slower time frames, we will get very frustrated and impatient, and we could eventually lose our peace and joy in Him, not to mention our possible calls in Him. Just as a teenager will get stretch marks on their skins if they grow too fast during puberty, in the same way we have to let God build, grow and develop us in this slow and steady manner. If we try to push the envelope too far and too fast with Him, different parts of our lives could totally unravel and fall apart. Not waiting on Gods timing on who you should be marrying in this life could cause you to marry the wrong person in this life. Not waiting on the next job you should be taking could cause you to take a major wrong turn in the divine destiny God already has planned out for your life, and it could cost you years of wasted and unproductive time, if not completely cause you to lose your calling in Him all together. Just as a good potter has to take his time when molding and forming out this piece of pottery as it is spinning on the wheel in the same way God has to mold, shape and transform all of us in this same, slow and steady manner. This is why one of the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit is the fruit of patience. We all need the patience of the Holy Spirit operating in us to help keep us in line and in Gods timing with how He wants to work things out in our lives, especially in the fast-paced world in which we all live in. 4. Gods Hand Will Personally Mold, Shape and Transform You The next thing you need to grab a hold of in your sanctification in the Lord, is that it is literally the hand of God Himself, operating through the Holy Spirit on the inside of you, that

will supernaturally transform and sanctify you. This is a direct, supernatural work done by the Holy Spirit Himself. Once Pat has the lump of clay properly centered in the middle of the wheel, and enough water has been added into the clay to make it soft and pliable enough to be able to work with, then Pat starts the actual molding process with the lump of clay. What he first does as the lump of clay is spinning on the wheel is to take his hand and push it down on the top of the clay to create an opening in it. Once this opening has been made at the top of the clay, Pats hand then goes down deep inside the middle of the clay as it is forming out, and he uses his hands to properly shape the piece of clay as it is building up during this spinning process on the wheel. Pats hands are thus working on both the inside and outside of the clay to mold, shape and transform it into the pot he wants to make as it continues to spin on the wheel. His hands are literally making and forming all of this out with this original, shapeless lump of clay. Pat says that he cannot make a pot unless his hands go down deep in the middle of that pot as it is forming out. In the same way, Gods own hand literally goes down deep in the middle of us right down in the middle of our souls and spirits where the inner sanctification work is actually done to mold and transform us into the saints He wants us to become in Him. That is why we have to give God the green light to do this type of inner sanctification work in us, as he needs our full cooperation in order to be able to get that deep down on the inside of us. Since God is doing the actual supernatural work on the inside of us, it can become rather painful and unpleasant at times, since God will be removing all of the bad and negative qualities that He does not want us to have operating in our personalities, and at the same time, instilling and imparting all of the good, positive and godly qualities that He will want us to have. Pat also has to apply a good amount of pressure with his hands as he is molding and shaping this lump of clay. In the same way, God has to apply some serious pressure on all of us from time to time in order to get us to change to become the kind of person He wants us to become in Him. Removing toxic qualities such as pride, arrogance, bad tempers and lust can all be very painful due to our flesh wanting to keep these negative qualities operating in our personalities. But let God do this inner surgery work in you through the Holy Spirit, and you will eventually be molded and shaped into the godly saint that God is calling you to become in Him and true joy, happiness and fulfillment will be all yours in this life. 5. Let God Develop You to Your Fullest Potential in This Life The next thing Pat will show you is that as his hands start to work with both the inside and outside of the clay, the lump of clay now starts to actually grow as it continues to spin on the wheel. It starts to get bigger and taller. However, he then all of a sudden stops working the clay, with it being about half-way to where it needs to go. He then points out that we all need to let God take us as far as He wants

to go with us in this life. He said no one is going to pay for a pot that is only half-done and half-completed. In the same with with the Lord, we should not quit and bail out on Him as we are about halfway up the mountain He is wanting us to climb in our calls and our divine destiny in Him. We always need to continue to press on and push the envelope with God, and let Him take us as far as He wants to take us in this life. Too many Christians quit and bail out on the Lord as they are about half-way up the mountain He is asking them to climb for Him. As a result, they never find out how much further they could have gone with God had they just continued to press further on. Pat says that once you start this process with the Lord, let Him decide how far He wants to take you in this life, and do not be afraid if God really wants to stretch your abilities and your horizons in the divine plan that He has already set up for your life. You only have one chance in the eternal scheme of things to leave your mark in this world in the calling that God has placed on your life. Let God take you as far as He wants to go with you in this life and you wont ever have to worry about having any second regrets once you leave and depart from this life and enter into heaven for all of eternity. You can leave this life knowing that you have fully accomplished everything that the Lord was wanting you to accomplish for Him if you just stay the course with Him and do not bail out due to fear or laziness. 6. God Knows Exactly What He Wants to Do With Your Life The next thing Pat will point out as he is building this piece of clay into the exact pot he wants to make, is that he knows exactly what kind of pot he is going to make before he even starts the process. He knows exactly how tall and how wide it will end up being, because he already has a perfect plan for the pot before he even begins to sit down to start to work with it. In the same way, God the Father already has our lives perfectly planned out for all of us. He knows exactly what He wants us to become in our callings in Him, who we should be marrying in this life, how many children He would like us to have if it is in His perfect will for our lives, and exactly how to get to all of these specific milestones so we can make it there safely and in one piece. Just as the clay needs to fully trust the potter to make it into the exact pot he wants to make in the same way we need to fully trust the Lord to mold, shape and transform our personalities, along with leading our lives into the specific directions that He will want to take them in. Since God is all-perfect and all-powerful and we are not then it only stands to reason that we can fully trust God to build the house of our lives in Him rather than us trying to do it all on our own efforts or wisdom, or the wisdom or efforts of anyone else in our lives. 7. Dont Stretch Beyond the Boundary Lines That God Has Set Up For Your Life The next thing Pat will show you is that even though you want to make this pot into what you had originally designed it to be, you need to be very careful that you do not make this pot too tall or too wide and go beyond what your original plan for the pot was. If you do, it will tear

apart and completely unravel, thereby completely destroying what you were originally wanting to do with the pot in the first place. In the same way with the Lord though we are to press on and go as far as God will be wanting to take us in this life in our specific callings in Him, we also have to realize that there is another side to this two-sided coin. We also have to make sure that we do not stretch beyond what God is actually calling us to do or stretch into positions that He does not want us going into. If God is calling you to be an attorney, a pastor, or a doctor, do not try and stretch into other callings that He does not want you going into. If God is calling you to play third base on His team, do not try and stretch into the shortstop or left-fielders positions. Stay in the boundary lines that God will be setting up in your life. If you stretch beyond those boundary lines, you will stretch beyond your calling, and there will be no anointing, no protection and no fruit for you in those other endeavors. God knows exactly how far He wants to take us in this life and we need to respect the boundary lines that He will be setting up in our lives. Billy Graham was called to be an evangelist and he perfectly stayed in that calling during his entire life. He did not try to be a musician or a pastor. He stayed within the boundary lines that God had initially set up for his life and as a result, he will end up going down as one of the greatest evangelists of all time because of all of the good fruit he has produced for the Lord in that specific calling. 8. Gods Eyes and Attention Are Always on You Another good point that Pat brings up is that his eyes are always on the clay once he starts to work it. If he takes his eyes and attention off of the pot as he is shaping and molding it, he could make a big mistake and damage the pot in the process. In the same way, once we come into this full surrender with the Lord, and we give Him a full and solid green light to start working our lives in the way He wants, God will never take His eyes and attention off of you. You will always have His complete and undivided attention, since He is omnipresent and no respecter of persons. God obviously has His eyes on everyone since He is omnipresent, but until you come into that full surrender with Him, He will not start to work and build up your life in the directions that He will want it to go in. What this means is that you can fully trust God to complete the work that He has begun with you until the day you die and depart from this earth. As a result, you will be able to leave this life with most, if not all of your divine missions fully accomplished for Him as long as you stay the course and do not bail out on Him anywhere along the way. 9. God Will Always Be Doing Major Pruning in Your Life The last thing that Pat will do is to take a knife and start cutting off any excess clay that has accumulated around the pot as he was molding and shaping it on the spinning wheel. What he is doing is smoothing out all of the rough edges so that the pot turns out complete and beautiful to the natural eye. In the same way, God will always be pruning out different things and different qualities in your life that He will not be wanting you to have in this life. God may want to prune out

some of the bad friends you are hanging out with due to the negative influences they may be having on you and your spiritual development in Him. He may also want to prune out some bad habits you may still have on you such as smoking cigarettes or the overeating of the wrong kinds of foods and He will definitely be pruning out some of the bad and negative qualities you may still have operating in your personality such as some of the ones mentioned above. Though this cutting and pruning can be very painful at times when it is actually done due to your attachments to some of the above things, realize that it is always for your own good in the long run, and you will be much better off by going with the Lord on anything that He will want to prune out in your life or in your personality. Resist Him on it and you may never reach to the heights, to the calling and to the person that He will want you to become in Him in this life. 10. Let God Mold You Into the Specific Person He Wants You to Become in Him After Pat completes the process of turning this lump of clay into a beautiful piece of pottery, he then makes the comment to let God mold and shape you into the specific person He wants you to become in Him, not what other people want you to become. You have been created by God to be an unique person unlike any other person that has ever been created and born into this world. Realize that only God can mold and shape you into the finished person that He wants you to become in Him. You cannot do it for yourself, your family members cannot do it for you, and your best friends cannot do it for you only God can! God, as our Father and Potter, is the only One who has the full knowledge, the full power and the full means to be able to truly sanctify us to become the beautiful, godly, and righteous saints He is calling all of us to become in Him in this life.

Conclusion
Watching Pat give a live demonstration on how pottery as actually made leaves you with a very good visual image in your minds eye on the analogy of the Potter and the clay. Watching Pats hands literally take a hard, rigid, and shapeless piece of clay, and then turn it into a beautiful piece of pottery, perfectly lines up with what God wants to do with each one of us in this life in our personal growth and sanctification in Him. Due to the fallen, sinful and corrupt state that we have all been born into this world with, only God can mold, shape and transform us into beautiful vessels of honor that will be fit for His use. Sanctification, when truly done by the Lord, is the highest state we should all be striving for in our personal relationship with the Lord. The Holy Spirit is already on the inside of us waiting and willing to do this type of inner work on us. In the Sanctification Section of our site, we have plenty of good articles giving you more information on what true sanctification in the Lord is all about and how to get this kind of show going with the Lord.

I will end this article by bullet pointing all of the above main pieces of revelation on the Potter and the clay so you can see how powerful and beautiful this analogy really is:
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God Needs the Word in Us Before He Can Start the Sanctification Proces You Have to be Properly Centered in Jesus Christ (The Full Surrender) Sanctification is a Slow, Steady and Progressive Process Gods Hand Will Personally Mold, Shape and Transform You Let God Develop You to Your Fullest Potential in This Life God Knows Exactly What He Wants to Do With Your Life Do Not Stretch Beyond the Boundary Lines that God Has Set Up For Your Life Gods Eyes and Attention Are Always on You God Will Always Be Doing Major Pruning in Your Life Let God Mold You Into the Specific Person He Wants You to Become

Once again, God the Father is giving all of us an incredible piece of revelation in His Word on this analogy of Him being the Potter and we being His clay.

Living a Good and Righteous Life Before the Lord

he Bible tells us in 2 Timothy 3:1 that as we start approaching the end times, that the love of many will grow cold and that lawlessness and immorality will start to abound. It also says in this verse that men will become lovers of self and money, along with becoming unholy, blasphemers, unloving, unthankful, disobedient to parents, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, traitors, headstrong and lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. As bad as the moral state of man is right now, believe it or not, it is going to get a lot worse in the coming years according to the above verse. When it comes to the real big picture with our Lord, the age old question is simply why why did Satan and one third of the angels have to choose with their own full free wills to go against God and His holy and righteous ways? Why couldnt they just do the right thing and stay loyal to the Lord and choose to live their lives on the good and righteous side of the fence with Him? And then when God decides to create a second race of beings, the human race, again, why couldnt Adam and Eve have chosen with their own free wills to obey one simple little command from the Lord to stay off of that one forbidden tree?

And then when they couldnt pass their one simple little test, and then the rest of the human race is created and born into a now fallen and cursed world, we now once again still have the same old problem. Again, why does a certain percentage of the human race still have to choose with their own free wills to go against God and all of His holy and righteous ways just like one third of the angels managed to do? As you will see in the verses I will list below, God has written His basic laws into the heart of every created being. We all know basic right from basic wrong, and yet so many of us still choose to this day with our own free wills to do the wrong thing at certain times, with some of the more evil people in this life doing some really bad and evil things that a normal person would never consider doing like robbing, raping, killing, kidnapping and tort uring. There is not a day that goes by that we do not see some kind of extreme evil being committed on some kind of a regular basis across the entire world. With all the advancements in technology, and with the world now becoming a much more smaller and closer space due to how inter-connected we all now are, many still have not learned from the history lessons of our past, and we still have many people who are out there acting out on their evil and fleshly impulses with no regard as to who they hurt, kill or destroy. Some people are as primal now as they were 5000 years ago. Many people who have had some type of evil crime committed against either them or one of their close loved ones have always asked themselves why when it happens to one of them? How can some people commit such horrible and evil acts on another fellow human being? Why cant we just all live in peace and harmony with one another? And not only can man not get along with his fellow man, but we also have nations always wanting to stir up trouble with other nations, as the Bible tells us that as we approach the end times, that there will be wars and rumors of wars, and that nations will be going against other nations and that kingdoms will be going against other kingdoms. When you step back and look at the real big picture, it is just heart-breaking to see all of this kind of carnage play itself out every single day across much of the world. And again, why cant most of the human race just get it right with the Lord and learn how to follow His holy and righteous ways so we can all learn how to live in peace and harmony with one another? God has given all of us a free will and we all have the ability to choose between the good and righteous side of this life or the evil and dark side of this life. Even though we still have demons who are still roaming in the air trying to get us to do their evil bidding, God will still hold all of us personally accountable for any kind of bad and evil acts we will end up committing in this life. Though Satan was the one who tempted Eve to disobey one simple little command, God still held both Adam and Eve totally responsible for what they did in the Garden of Eden, even though it was Satan who was the one who put the pressure on them to try and get them to do it. For most of us, the excuse that the devil made me do it will not be washing with the Lord once we die and cross over and meet Him head on for all of our own personal judgments. As we have said before in many of the articles in our spiritual warfare section, for the most part, demons cannot make you do anything against your own free will, as God will not let

them violate that space that you have within your own being. All demons can try and do is persuade you and tempt you to do evil things. But the choice will always remain up to each one of us as to whether or not we will fall for their evil suggestions. Just because a demon plants a thought and a desire in your head to go out and kill someone does not mean that you have to actually try and do it. Unless you are mentally ill to any serious degree, God will watch your response to these demons just like He did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, and He will then hold you personally accountable if you decide to act out on any of their evil suggestions. If you decide to act out on any evil thoughts or desires that are playing in your mind, your day of judgment will eventually come before the Lord, and you will then have to pay the full price for your sins if you do not get saved and get those sins forgiven by the blood of Jesus before you die and cross over. Even the apostle Paul, who I believe was the greatest of all of the New Testament apostles, had a problem in controlling his flesh and dark side. Here is the verse straight from this mans mouth on he himself having problems controlling some of his own actions and thoughts. This statement is a classic statement on the sin nature that we all have ingrained in us. For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. (Romans 7:15) In other words, Paul is finding out like the rest of us that we all end up doing things in this life that we know we should not be doing. We can all witness to this classic statement, as we all have problems from time to time in doing things that we know that are not right in the eyes of God. As we have said before, no man, no woman and no angel is ever going to become the 4th person of the Divine Trinity. Only God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are completely and totally perfect in Their divine makeups and personalities. They are completely and totally perfect all the way down the line in every single one of Their personality qualities. However, this now leaves God with a bit of a dilemma. This means that every single being that He will ever create is not going to be perfect like He is and they will now be capable of malfunctioning to the dark side. With one third of the angels malfunctioning to the dark side and a good percentage of the human race now doing the exact same thing, there is simply no other conclusion that we can come to. We are simply all fallen and sinful creatures and only the blood of Jesus Christ can make us righteous and clean enough before God the Father to get us into heaven, as the Bible tells us that all men and all women have sinned and fallen way short of the glory of God. As you will see in the one of the verses I will list below, we are actually born into this world through our mothers womb in sin and iniquity. In other words, we are all born doomed and damned right off of the bat unless we receive and accept the free redemptive pardon that Jesus Christ is offering to each one of us through His sacrificial death on the cross. Again, here are 7 very good verses showing us that we have all been born into this world as sinners in the eyes of God, but if we accept what Jesus Christ has done for all of us on the

cross, that His very own righteousness can then be imputed upon all of us where God the Father will now take us back and grant us entrance into heaven once we die and cross over. The first verse I will list below will perfectly spell that out. The rest of the verses will then show us how we have all been born into this world as sinners and that there is absolutely no one in this world who is truly righteous and holy before the eyes of God the Father. 1. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21) 2. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin my mother conceived me. (Psalm 51:5) 3. As it is written: There is none righteous, no, not one (Romans 3:10) 4. for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) 5. For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive. (1 Corinthians 15:21-22) 6. Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned (Romans 5:12) 7. But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness are like filthy rags; we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind. (Isaiah 64:6) Once you really think about and meditate on these specific verses, it just blows the human mind to think that God the Father would allow the very own righteousness of His one and only Son Jesus to be imputed upon us so we can all be made righteous enough before Him to be able to cross over into heaven when we die and cross over especially when we ourselves have done absolutely nothing to be able to earn or achieve any of this on our own. This is all simply a free and holy gift that is being given to us by the Lord. The last verse above says that even if we did try to be as good and as perfect as we possibly could before the Lord, that all of our good works would be nothing but like filthy rags before Him because we simply do not have the ability within our own natural makeups to attain His state of perfection and holiness. If we are really honest with ourselves, we can see how we are all really sinners before a holy and righteous God, and that no matter how hard we try, there is simply no way that we can ever achieve any state of true, perfect holiness that would be pleasing enough to God. And again, the apostle Paul in the above verse perfectly sums up that reality even for himself. However, as Christians, we now have something that the unbeliever does not have on himself. Not only are we born again with the Holy Spirit, who is now residing in our human

spirits, but we are now also clothed with the very righteousness of Jesus Christ Himself, which will now be good enough to grant us entrance into heaven once we die and cross over. However, there is now one more thing each Christian must get a real grip on after they have fully realized this astounding fact and revelation. Even though we are now all clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ Himself and we have now been given a free ticket to heaven once we die and cross over, this does not mean that we can try and abuse or take advantage of this grace and righteousness that we now have upon us from the Lord. We still have to make every concerted effort on our end to try and live a good and righteous life before the Lord. This new found righteousness that we now have in Jesus Christ does not give us the liberty, the right, or the excuse to be able to keep on sinning. We should all still be doing our best to try and live a good and righteous life before the Lord and staying out of any unacceptable sins. And when we do find ourselves falling short or having a hard time in staying out of certain sinful activities, we now have the Holy Spirit Hi mself, who can now give us His divine power to be able to pull put of any heavier sins that we may have fallen into. Bottom line once we have become saved and born again through the shed blood of Jesus Christ, we should all do our best to allow God to start the sanctification process within us. And once God the Father starts this sanctification process within each one of us, we should then do our bes t to live this life the way that He will want us to live it, not the way the world will want us to live it. The Bible very clearly lays out all of the ways and commandments of our Lord, and exactly what He wants all of us to do, and exactly what He wants all of us to stay away from in this life. We also have the Holy Spirit on the inside of us whose job is to not only guide us and teach us in this life, but to also convict us when we do start to stray and get off into any sinful activities that the Lord will not want us engaging in. Again, no one person will ever become the 4th person of the Holy Trinity. We will never become perfectly holy like God is, but we should still make every effort on our end to try and live good and righteous life before the Lord so that we can become well pleasing to Him, and so that He will then approve of the way that we have lived our lives down here and conducted ourselves among our fellow man. Before I get into the actual Scripture verses on how God wants all of us to have a good and righteous walk with Him, here are two good definitions on what the word righteousness means from some of the different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries:
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Without guilt before God, acting in accord with Gods laws Inherent or imputed guiltlessness before God

Now I will give you some very good verses from Scripture on the importance that we all try to do the best we can to try and live a good and righteous life before the Lord once we have become saved and born again through the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

The Scripture Verses

I will break these Scripture verses down under 4 separate captions so you can fully grasp what the Lord is trying to tell us on this topic. All of these verses mean exactly what they are saying and they do not need any kind of fancy interpretation. 1. Jesus Did Not Come to Destroy the Law But to Fulfill It This first verse I will now list will completely set the stage as far as the law is concerned and what God is expecting from all of us. Though the Bible says that we are no longer under the law, but under grace this does not mean that we are to fully do away with all of Gods moral laws, which are His direct commandments to us on how we are to live in this life. Granted, there are some laws back in the OT that would not apply in the kind of environment we are now living in. But many of what I call the basic, moral laws are still in full play today such as all of the 10 commandments, Gods laws on not engaging with anything having to do with the occult, along with staying out of such sins as homosexuality and fornication. In the OT, they did not have the Holy Spirit living on the inside of them. They thus did not have His power available to them in which to help them overcome some of the sins they were engaging in. Now all NT believers have the Holy Spirit on the inside of them and they thus now have His divine power available to them in which to help them overcome the temptation to sin, or if by chance they have fallen into any type of bad sin, the power of the Holy Spirit to actually pull them out of it and set them free. Here is this first very powerful verse direct from Jesus Christ Himself: Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-20) Notice that this is Jesus talking in the New Testament, not God the Father talking in the OT. Jesus is flat out telling us that He still wants all of us to still abide by His Fathers basic laws and commandments and that He will expect all of us to do so until all is fulfilled which is when we will get the New Heaven and the New Earth after Jesus millennial rule has ended. As you will see in the verses that I will list below, all of these basic moral laws and commandments from God the Father are all being given to us for our own good and for our own protection, as the Bible tells us that the wages of sin will be death. As such, we should all do our best to try and abide by them and keep them as best we can, and when we do run into any problems with any specific sin areas, we have the Holy Spirit Himself to help us get victory over any specific sins that are starting to drag us down. 2. God Now Has His Laws Written Into Mans Hearts

Not only did God the Father lay out the basic laws and commandments that He wants all of us to live by, but He has even gone one step further. He now has His basic laws actually written into the hearts of men, along with causing their conscience to actually bear witness to all of it. In other words, we all have Gods basic laws written into our hearts and we all know basic right from basic wrong when we are old enough to fully understand what it is all about. That is why the unsaved sinner will have no excuse on his day of judgment with the Lord. He will know, without any shadow of a doubt, that all of his sins were wrong and that they were going against the will and ways of God. As a result, he will not be able to plead any type of ignorance on his day of judgment with the Lord. Here are 6 very serious verses about Gods laws and why we are to take all of them very, very seriously in this life. The first verse is the one that will tell you that God the Father has His basic laws written into the hearts of men. 1. who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness (Romans 2:15)

2. I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, You shall not covet. (Romans 7:7) 3. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. (James 4:17) 4. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin. (John 15:22) 5. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live (Deuteronomy 30:19) 6. Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. (Matthew 7:13-14) First notice that God has to give us His laws. If He does not tell us what He will be expecting from us, then we will not know for certain what real sin is. But once we do have these laws from God, then we will know for certain what sin is and then He will expect all of us to stay away from it and abide by His commandments. That is why no one will have any type of excuse on their day of judgment with the Lord, as we will all know for certain what is wrong and sinful before the eyes of God. The second last verse from Deuteronomy is another in-your-face type of verse. In this verse God is telling all of us how it is going to be in this life whether we like it or not. He has laid out for us all the ways in which He will want us to live in this life and what we are to stay away from in this life.

All in all, God is setting before each one of us a choice to make in this life either we choose God and follow His ways and commandments, or we choose to disobey Him, go our own way and then end up reaping eventual death when it is all said and done. In other words, it is either Gods way or the highway for each one of our lives. There are no middle or neutral grounds with the way this specific verse is being worded by the Lord. The very last verse will then put the icing on this entire cake. This last verse seems to be talking about our salvation in the Lord. If it is, then the majority of people who have lived on this earth are not going to be making it into heaven. We obviously will not know for sure what percentage of the human race is going to end up making it into heaven until we get there, but with the words in the last verse stating that there are few who find it, this leads me to believe that the majority of the human race is not going to end up making it into heaven when it is all said and done. This last verse in particular has been one of the most bothersome and troubling in all of Scripture for me, as I cannot see how to interpret this verse in any other way other than God is referring to our salvation in Him and what is awaiting all of us at the end of our lives. He is flat out telling us that many people will be choosing the wide and broad way in this life, which is obviously a life of sin and going against the will and ways of God. The straight and narrow road represents the road that God wants all of us to travel on, which is a road of His will and His ways for our lives. As we look out upon this world and all of the people we can see, we can easily see who is trying to travel on the straight and narrow road that God wants all of us to travel on and those who are out there traveling on their own wide and broad roads. The people who are traveling on their own wide and broad roads are out there doing anything and everything they want in the flesh and they do not care who they end up hurting or running over in the process. But sooner or later all of their wide and broad roads will eventually end, and they will then have to face God Almighty Himself for their own final judgments and final fate. Again, this last verse could not be more scary, more alarming and more in our face with how God wants us to live in this life. That is why I had the title of this article to read, Living a Good and Righteous Life Before the Lord, so you will know exactly how God wants all of us to live in this life and what He will be expecting from all of us as we journey through this life. 3. God Still Wants All of Us to Practice Righteousness As you will see in the first verse I will list below, God still wants all of us to continue to practice righteousness in this life, even though we now have the righteousness of His Son Jesus already imputed on us. And again, this verse is coming from the NT, showing once again that we still have to do the best we can in obeying all of Gods basic laws and commandments, which will include some of the basic laws and commandments that were back in the OT.

The rest of the verses will really drive home the point on how important it is that we all seek to walk in the ways of our Lord, and that trying to live a good, holy and righteous life before the Lord will help bring us true life in this life. Here are some very good verses on how powerful of a thing it can be for all of us if we try to live a good and righteous life before the Lord. Being good, holy and righteous for the Lord may not be cool with the rest of the world, but it is definitely cool with the Lord, and that is what we will eventually be rewarded on once we enter into heaven and God then hands out His rewards based upon the good works we have done for Him down here, along with how we have lived our lives for Him. 1. In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother. (1 John 3:10)

2. In the way of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death. (Proverbs 12:28) 3. But to him who sows righteousness will be a sure reward. As righteousness leads to life, so he who pursues evil pursues it to his own death. (Proverbs 11:18-19) 4. Thus says the Lord: Keep justice, and do righteousness blessed is the man who does this and keeps his hand from doing any evil. (Isaiah 56:1-2) 5. The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord, but He loves him who follows righteousness. (Proverbs 15:9) 6. The labor of the righteous leads to life, the wages of the wicked to sin. He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, but he who refuses reproof goes astray. (Proverbs 10:16-17) 7. To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. (Proverbs 21:3) 8. The righteous man walks in his integrity; his children are blessed after him. (Proverbs 20:7) 9. When a mans ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness, than vast revenues without justice. (Proverbs 16:7-8) 10. Do not be deceived: Evil company corrupts good habits. Awake to righteousness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowledge of God. (1 Corinthians 15:33-34) 11. All unrighteousness is sin (1 John 5:17)

12. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, reprove the oppressor; defend the fatherless, plead for the widow. (Isaiah 1:16-17) 13. Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil. Avoid it, do not travel on it; turn away from it and pass on But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble. (Proverbs 4:14-19) 14. It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for a throne is established by righteousness. (Proverbs 16:12) 15. Mercy and truth preserve the king, and by lovingkind ness he upholds his throne. (Proverbs 20:28) Notice how many times the Bible says that righteousness will lead to lifeand that any kind of unrighteousness is actually considered sin in the eyes of God. This means that real righteousness is pretty well all black and white. There is only God and the devil, heaven or hell, and good and evil when you really sum everything up. It now becomes up to each person as to which side of the fence they are going to walk on in this life. Again, Joshua could not have said it any better when he said that you must choose this day who you will serve. You will either decide to serve God and follow His ways and live, or you will choose to follow yourself, other people, or the devil and eventually die. There are no middle or neutral grounds as far as God is concerned. God has made it as easy as He possibly could. But we only have one lifetime, and a very short lifetime at best, to make that one final and fateful decision which will then determine what the rest of our eternal life will be like once we die and cross over to the other side, which will either be heaven for the saved or hell for the unsaved. All of these verses are short, quick to the point, and very easy to understand. God simply wants all of us to walk in His righteous ways and again, when we start to run into trouble with certain types of sins, we have both Him and His Holy Spirit to help pull us out of any sins that He will not want us to be getting caught up in. 4. Keeping the Commandments of the Lord Part of having a true righteous walk with the Lord is to make sure that we simply obey all of His basic laws and commandments as best we can. These next set of verses will really drive this point home. Many in the world today want to scoff and make fun of the ways, laws and commandments of our Lord. They want to be able to live in their flesh, doing anything they can that will feed their flesh. They do not want to be told that adultery, fornication, homosexuality, abortion, and other alternative forms of spirituality are not acceptable to the one and only living God.

As a result, they will either try and make up their own little gods to worship, or they will try and say that they are a god and an island all unto themselves and that they do not need to answer to any type of Higher Power. This is all done so they can rationalize and explain away all of their sinful behavior before the Lord. Again, our Lord could not make things any more simp ler and any more easier than with the way that He has everything set up. All we have to do is accept the fact and reality that we are all fallen sinners and that we all need the shed blood of Jesus Christ to be able to receive eternal salvation from God the Father. From there we are to walk out the rest of our earthly life serving God in the divine destiny that He already has set up for our lives, along with trying to live a good and righteous life before Him. But so many people still to this day cannot see this simple and obvious truth, or if they can, they are still refusing to be told that they have to serve anyone, even if it is God Almighty Himself. Just as pride and major stupidity took out one third of the angelic race, I am afraid that same kind of pride and stupidity is going to be taking out a much larger percentage of the human race when it is all said and done. Again, these next set of verses are really going to drive home the point that we fully appreciate the basic laws and commandments that God has set out for all of us. These laws and commandments from the Lord will be telling us what is right and what is wrong in this life. They will act as a compass and a guide for us so that we will know how to live and act in this life for the Lord. These laws and commandments are again, all being given to us for our own good and for our own protection, for without them, we would just keep falling into one pit after another. 1. Now behold, one came and said to Him, Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? So He said to him But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments. (Matthew 19:16-17) 2. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Fathers commandments and abide in His love. (John 15:10) 3. This is love, that we walk according to His commandments. (2 John 1:6) 4. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep His commandments. For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome. (1 John 5:2-3) 5. Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. (1 John 2:3) 6. For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light; reproofs of instruction are the way of life. (Proverbs 6:23)

7. He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is careless of his ways will die. (Proverbs 19:16) 8. The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he who k eeps his way preserves his soul. (Proverbs 16:17) 9. My son, do not forget My law, but let your heart keep My commands; for length of days and long life and peace they will add to you. (Proverbs 3:1) 10. Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the Lord your God. (Deuteronomy 12:28) 11. My son, keep My words, and treasure My commands within you. Keep My commands and live, and My law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. (Proverbs 7:1 -3) 12. Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea. (Isaiah 48:18) 13. Unless Your law had been my delight, I would then have perished in my affliction. I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have given me life. (Psalm 119:92) 14. Oh, that My people would listen to Me, that Israel would walk in My ways! I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn My hand against their adversaries. (Psalm 81:13-14) 15. This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Joshua 1:8) 16. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes. The law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of skekels of gold and silver. (Psalm 119:71-72) 17. Open my eyes, that I may see the wondrous things from Your law. I am a stranger in the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me. My soul breaks with longing for Your judgments at all times. (Psalm 119:1820) 18. Great peace have those who love Your law, and nothing causes them to stumble. (Psalm 119:165) 19. Oh, let me not wander from Your commandments! Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against You. Blessed are You, O Lord! Teach me Your statutes I will meditate on Your precepts, and

contemplate Your ways. I will delight myself in Your statues; I will not forget Your word. (Psalm 119:10-16) 20. I will run in the way of Your commandments, for You shall enlarge my heart. Teach me, O Lord, the way of Your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep Your law; indeed I shall observe it with my whole heart. Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it. (Psalm 119:32-35) 21. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple; the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes; the fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever; the judgments of the Lord are true ad righteous altogether, more to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them your servant is warned, and in keeping them there is great reward. (Psalm 19:7-11) 22. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. (Psalm 1:1-3) When you read each one of these verses one right after the other, it is a real mouthful. God is simply trying to pound home the fact that we seek to obey all of His ways and all of His commandments. If we do, then note some of the incredible blessings that we can receive from the Lord:
y y y y y y y y y y y

We will receive life We will keep and preserve our soul We can have a long life here on this earth Great peace will be given to us and it will be like a river It will go well with our children It will keep us from perishing God will subdue our enemies Our way will be made prosperous and we will have good success Our heart will be rejoiced Our eyes will be enlightened The law will warn us and keep us out of harms way

Again, all of Gods ways and commandments are all being given to us for our own good and for our own protection. These commandments are not meant to stunt our spiritual growth or steal our joy in the Lord. They are all meant to increase our spiritual growth and increase our peace and joy in the Lord. As earthly parents, one of the first things we will do with all of our children as they are starting to grow is to tell them what they can and cannot do in this life. We know that if we do not give them fair warning ahead of time as to what they should be staying away from in

this life, that we risk them getting seriously hurt, if not possibly killed. We thus give them the basic commandments that they are to abide by in this life so we can keep them safe and out of harms way. It is the exact same way with God the Father. Except with God the Father, He has full knowledge on exactly what we should all be staying away from in this life since He has absolute perfect knowledge on all things. As such, we should all listen very carefully to what He is trying to tell us in these basic commandments, as they are all being given to us for our own good and protection. God is not trying to hurt us or harm us with all of these basic commandments, He is trying to help us and protect us. If you really want to see how important it is that we seek to obey all of Gods laws and commandments, just take your time and meditate on some of the above verses. King David especially was able to see how important it was that he try and learn the ways of God so that he could continue to spiritually grow in Him. That is why some of the above verses are telling us that we will find true life in this life if we can learn how to live righteous lives before the Lord.

Conclusion
As I said at the top of this article, it is just heart-breaking and gut-wrenching to see so many people in this life choose with their own free wills to walk on the dark side of this life instead of the good and righteous side of this life. Since God has given each man and each woman full free will to make their own choices in this life, He really has no other alternative but to sit back and watch this horror show unfold with the people who will end up rejecting Him, His ways, and His message of eternal salvation through His Son Jesus. To think that a good percentage of the human race is going to end up in the m ost horrible place imaginable when they die and cross over, when they could have easily chosen the Lord and His message of eternal salvation for them, is enough to break your heart into a million pieces. I do not believe there is a day or an hour that goes go by where God and Jesus are not crying and weeping for the souls who are descending down into hell with no chance of ever being able to make it back out again. God created all of these lost souls for Himself and He now has to watch all of them choose with their own free wills to reject Him and His Son Jesus during the course of their earthly lives. And then when they do die and cross over, He has no other alternative but to let them descend down into the pit of hell itself, as they now have to be held fully accountable for all of the horrible choices they have made in this life. As Christians, we do not have to worry about this kind of horrible and final fate. We will all be given full entrance into heaven the minute we die and cross over. But until that final and glorious event actually occurs with each one of us, we should all be doing our best to try and live a good and righteous life before the Lord so that He will be well pleased with us when we do meet Him for our own personal judgments at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

The Power of Love

his article will serve as a follow up to our article titled, The 9 Fruits of the Holy Spirit. In that article, I gave you the verse from Galatians where the Lord is telling us there are 9 specific fruits that He can transmit up into our personalities through His Holy Spirit. In this verse from Galatians, the very first quality that is listed as one of the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit is the quality of love and I do not think this was by accident! As you will see in the Scripture verses I will list below, there is no doubt in my mind that the quality of love is the #1 quality that God would like to get worked into our souls and personalities. Even nonbelievers, atheists, and agnostics can see the power of love and how it has the ability to change people and their lives when it is properly handled and walked out. Hollywood has made tons of movies just on the power of love especially the special love that can occur between a man and woman in a romantic relationship. Even hard, tough, grown men can be brought to tears when watching a real well made movie made about the power of love. The quality of love is truly universal as it literally transcends peoples, nations, and religions. Love is truly the universal language of t his world, and people from all different walks of life recognize it for what it truly is and understand the power that is in it. Then when you read and study the Bible you see the major emphasis God the Father is placing on it when He tells us that He wants us to love Him, love ourselves, and to love one another. So if the quality of love is recognized by all peoples and all nations, then why is it that throughout the course of human history there has been so many wars, so much hatred, so much crime, and so much inhumanity done to our fellow man? If everyone knows what love is, then how could so many people throughout the course of our human history commit the evil and atrocious acts they have committed? Even in our present day and age people still have not learned from the past, as there is just as much hatred and evil operating in this world today as there has ever been. The Bible even tells us that the love of many will grow cold in the latter days, which means things are going to actually go from bad to worst in the coming years. If man really knows what love is, then why cant more people act, operate, and walk in that love so they we can all live in peace and harmony with one another? Why do so many people have to rob, rape, kill, plunder and steal from one another? No matter what ones religious beliefs and ideologies may be there is simply no excuse for some of the horrible, barbaric acts of murder, assaults, abductions, robberies, and rapes that we see on an everyday basis. As Christians, we all know that part of the answer as to why men cannot love one another in the way that God would really like from us is due to the fallen sin natures that we have all been born into this world with as a result of the curse of Adam and Eve. The Bible tells us that every single one of us has been born into this world in sin and iniquity. This is why Jesus

had to come to die for all of us because we have all sinned and have fallen way short of the glory of our God. However, even born-again believers have problems in being able to walk in love to the degree that God would really like in our everyday lives. We all know that God is expecting us to be able to walk in His love but we still have problems in being able to love God, our families, our friends, and even own selves to the degree and intensity that He would really like from all of us. We read in the Bible about all of the verses that God wants us to walk very strongly in this quality, but we still seem to fall way short of being able to actually do it in our real lives. If we all have the Holy Spirit living and operating on the inside of us, then why is it that we cannot seem to draw more of His love up into our personalities so that we can all walk with more of this quality operating in our lives? I believe the answer lies in the last article I did under this section titled, The 9 Fruits of the Holy Spirit. Too many Christians are trying to walk in the quality of love operating out of their own strength, out of their own emotions, and out of their own flesh. Granted, God the Father wants us to do the best we can to try and put this quality into the core of our personalities. But our best is not going to be good enough in this area to get the job done with the way God would really like. The reason for this is that we have all been born with these fallen, imperfect, and sinful natures. This means that we are not capable of walking in perfect love, no matter how hard we may try in our own natural strength. So what is the answer if we are not capable of walking in perfect love in the way that our Lord would really like for us to be able to do? To those believers who are really wanting to learn how to walk in the real love of God in their lives there is only one way to be able to do this and that is to learn how to draw that love from the Holy Spirit. And the only way that you can get the Holy Spirit to release His love into you as one of His 9 fruits is that you have to be willing to enter into a true sanctification process with the Lord where He can then begin to start the process of transforming you into the express image of His Son Jesus Christ. There is no other way! There are no other shortcuts that you can take to get this accomplished. It is only when the very love of God Himself starts to flow into your personality can you even begin to love God, love yourself, and love other people to the degree and intensity that He would really like from you. Once the Holy Spirit begins this sanctification process in your life your job will be to learn how to live, walk, and operate in the divine qualities and attributes He will start to transmit into your personality. Once the Holy Spirit starts to transmit His quality of love into the very core of your personality, your job will then be to learn how to walk in that love in your words and actions with others. Actually, once the Holy Spirit starts to transmit and impart His

divine love into you, it will become much easier for you to be able to love others in the way God wants you to be able to love them. Once you start to feel Gods love for His people, you wont be able to help yourself in feeling that same love for them since Gods love will start to mesh with your own natural love. Once Gods love starts to flow and mesh into what limited love you already have in your personality then you will be able to start to love other people in the way that God had initially intended for all of us to be able to do. The missing ingredient in all of this is obviously the love of the Holy Spirit. It is only when the Holy Spirit starts to release His love into your personality as one of His 9 fruits can you truly begin to love God, love yourself, and love other people in the way God intended. Trying to love others with what limited, imperfect love you may already have operating in you will never get the job done either to your own satisfaction or to the satisfaction of God Himself. This is why Jesus has told us that without Him we can do nothing, especially in the area of being able to get properly sanctified in Him. In this article, I will give you some of the best verses from Scripture on the quality of love, and why God the Father is placing such a strong emphasis that we learn how to walk in it in our personal relationship with Him, with ourselves, and with the other people in our lives. God the Father is really raising the bar on this one specific quality as you will be able to see with the way that He has worded some of these verses. He is making some extreme and radical statements with what He is expecting from all of us with just this one quality. When you first read what these verses are telling us to do in reference to this particular quality, you will really be able to feel and sense your own shortcomings in this area. But again, realize this is where the Holy Spirit will be coming in big time. Just realize that God knows you cannot reach the level that He is really looking for and that it will only be possible for you to reach this level only if the love of the Holy Spirit Himself is operating and flowing through you. When you really study and meditate on the verses I will list below, you can sum all of them up in one simple statement. God is looking for you to be able to love in 6 different areas all with the love of the Holy Spirit being available to you to help you out in each of these areas. God wants you to be able to fully love in all 6 of these realms. You are to learn how to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Love God Love yourself Love your family Love your friends Love your neighbors Love your enemies

You will notice there are 6 specific areas that God will want you to really be able to love in. Bottom line God will want you to love right across the board from loving Him down to being able to love the worst of your enemies. The first 4 areas are much easier to learn how to

do than the last two areas especially the last one in being able to love your enemies and those who will try and hurt you in this life. Loving most of your family and friends is very easy because of the strong, natural bonds that we have already established with them. But learning how to love some of your neighbors who you have no real special bond with, or complete total strangers will be much harder for you to do, especially with the way that our world has become with so many more people keeping to themselves and being afraid to trust anyone. However, this can be done with the help of the Holy Spirit. Once you start to feel the love of God Himself for some of these people, it will then become much easier for you to befriend some of these people and help them out when the need may arise. Again, Jesus is the perfect example of someone who was always helping total strangers. When you study what He did as He was walking on our earth, He was always stopping and talking to people, along with helping, teaching, saving, healing and delivering some of these people when the need would arise. He was always there to meet their needs, especially their spiritual needs. Just as Jesus was able to walk in perfect love in His words and actions with other people so too can we learn how to walk in that same godly love if we will allow the Holy Spirit to enter us into this sanctification process where God the Father can then begin to work all 9 fruits of His Holy Spirit up into the very cores of our personalities. Though we will never be able to love in the perfect way that Jesus can since none of us will ever become the fourth person of the Holy Trinity we can still try to do the best we can in our dealings and relationships with other people. Now I will give you some of the best and most profound verses from the Bible on the quality of love, how powerful of a thing it really is, and exactly what God the Father is looking for from each one of us in this area. I will break these Scripture verses down under their appropriate captions so you can fully grasp the revelation the Lord is trying to give you in this area. 1. Love is the Greatest of All the Virtues These first two verses really set the stage on how high God is really ranking the quality of love. As you will see with the way these two verses are being worded, God the Father is placing the quality of love as #1 in the entire scheme of things. The first verse lists three specific virtues, with faith being one of them. And then it ends stating that love is the greatest of these three virtues including being greater than faith itself. Just stop and think for a minute what God is trying to tell us with just this one statement in that having the love of God operating and flowing through us is even better and greater than having higher levels of faith in Him. Without faith in God we cannot connect to Him. Without faith in God there can be no miracles. Faith is our lifeline to the Lord. Without faith in God, we would be spiritually dead in the Lord. So why would God say the quality of love is even greater than our lifeline to Him, which is our faith?

I believe God is trying to tell us something very important with this statement, and the apostle Paul perfectly captures what that something is in the second verse I will list below. Paul makes one of the most classic statements ever made on the importance of love and how this quality fits into the big picture as far as God is concerned. Paul says that you can have the greatest gift of tongues, the greatest gift of prophecy, the greatest understanding of all the mysteries and knowledge of God, have the highest levels of faith in God, and do some of the greatest works for God but if you do not have the love of God operating in your life, then all of this gifting, power, knowledge, and works in the Lord will all be for nothing! I repeat all for nothing! It will have all been for naught when you have to end up giving a full account of yourself to the Lord on your day of judgment with Him. Bottom line all of your accomplishments in the Lord, and all of the good fruit you may have produced for the Lord in this lifetime will mean absolutely nothing to Him if you did not walk all of t his out in the spirit of love. This is why each and every Christian should make it their #1 goal and priority in this life to learn how to walk in the love of God for their lives. Nothing will touch other people more deeply than having the love of God shining through you and your life. With the quality of love being an universal language that everyone can understand and witness to this quality, more than any other quality, will be the main one that can lead nonbelievers to salvation in the Lord, and lead other believers into a deeper walk with God. I do not think it is a coincidence that the quality of love is listed as the very first fruit of the Holy Spirit in the verse from Galatians on the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. Here are the first two profound verses that will show us how important the quality of love really is in the big picture. 1. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13) 2. Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become as sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. (1 Corinthians 13:1) This last verse from Paul perfectly puts the quality of love in proper perspective for all of our lives, in that everything we do for the Lord has to be done in love. 2. Walk in Love These next set of verses will tell us that we all have to learn how to walk in love, how to stir up love, and how to love from a pure heart. They tell us that everything we do for God down here has to be done with love.

These verses are all good, basic, foundational verses on the subject of love. Here they are: 1. Therefore be followers of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us (Ephesians 5:1) 2. Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith (1 Timothy 1:5) 3. Let all that you do be done with love. (1 Corinthians 16:14) 4. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works , not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together (Hebrews 10:24) 5. Finally, all of you be of one mind, having compassion for one another; love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous; not returning evil for evil or reviling for reviling (1 Peter 3:8) Simply put God wants everything that we do for Him in this life to be done in love. We simply have to learn how to walk with His love operating in our lives. There is no other way to live this life but walking it out in the love of God towards Him, towards ourselves, and towards one another. 3. What Love Is In my article on the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit, I gave you the definition on love from some of the different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries. For the sake of this article, I am going to go ahead and restate these definitions, and then add several more verses from Scripture on what some of the qualities that are in true love from a pure heart. Here are some of the definitions on love from some of the different Bible Dictionaries and Commentaries: 1. Unselfish, benevolent concern for another; brotherly concern; the object of brotherly concern or affection 2. The self-denying, self-sacrificing, Christ-like love which is the foundation of all other graces 3. Unselfish, loyal and benevolent concern for the well being of another 4. The high esteem which God has for His human children, and the high regard which they in turn should have for Him and other people 5. To love, to have affection for someone; to be a friend; the love of brothers for each other Now here are two very good verses on what is found in true love: 1. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. (1

John 4:18) 2. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does n ot rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8) This last verse from Paul is a real mouthful. True love will always be kind. True love will never flaunt itself for attention. True love will never be jealous of others and their accomplishments. True love will always be thinking of others and their welfare. True love will never rejoice or wallow in evil and sin. The first verse from John states that there is no fear in love. Those who are trying to love you by trying to rule over you in fear are not truly loving you in the way God has intended. Those husbands who are physically and/or verbally abusing their wives in an effort to try and control them with fear are not operating in true love, contrary to what they may be thinking in their warped and debased minds. They verbally and/or physically beat their wives down and then pick them up, and then tell them how much they love them so they can keep on perpetuating this cycle of violence and abuse. This is not true love this is pure evil! The above verse from John says that perfect love will cast out all fear. If these men truly loved their wives, they would not be physically or verbally abusing and violating them in the ways they have been. These kind of men are an abomination to the Lord and what they call love, God calls pure evil. So many peoples idea of love for another is to try and manipulate other people for their own personal gain and profit. The last verse from Paul says that true love will never think of evil, much less ever do evil to another and that it will not seek its own, which means it will never attempt to love another person for their own personal gain, profit or ego. As a result of all the contamination that is in this fallen world, many people have lost the ability to truly love other people in the pure way that God has intended. This is why all Christians need the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit started in their lives so God can begin to get them cleaned up in their thinking and in the way they act towards others. 4. Loving God Now that we know that love is the greatest of all the virtues and qualities, and that God wants all of us to learn how to walk in His love exactly where is the love to be aimed at? The very first thing your love should be aimed at and centered on is direct to God Himself! God wants to establish a one-on-on, intimate, personal relationship with each one of us and in this personal relationship God will want you to truly learn how to love Him from your heart and from your soul. These next set of verses are all very intense in the way they are being worded. God is using maximum intense wording in the way that He is expressing Himself on this issue.

The first two verses are telling us that God is wanting us to love Him with all of our hearts and with all of our souls. In other words, God is wanting you to love Him with maximum intensity from your mind, heart, and emotions. In the first verse I will show you, Jesus is telling everyone that the greatest of all the commandments of God the Father is that we learn how to love God with all of our mind, with all of our soul, and with all of our heart. When Jesus is telling us that this is the greatest of all of Gods commandments then you know the extreme importance that the Lord is placing on just this one commandment. The other verses are telling you that God is wanting you to press in and seek after Him with all of your heart and with all of your soul which again means to seek after Him with all of your mind, heart, and emotions. These two types of verses fit perfectly together with one another. If you truly love God with all of your heart and with all of your soul then you will want to press in and seek after Him with that same kind of intensity from your heart and soul. Many Christians say they love God, but they really do not prove it to Him by pressing in and seeking after Him in their daily walk with Him. If you really are in love with God, then you will have a strong, natural desire to want to seek after Him and include Him in every part of your daily life. Our God is a God of maximum intensity. The Bible says that His love for us is like a consuming fire. In the same way, God would like to have that love returned back to Him with some level of intensity from our mind and our heart. This can be done with the help of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit can begin to transmit His divine love into your personality as one of His 9 fruits so that you can then start to learn how to love God in the way and with the intensity that He would really like. Again, all of these verses are major, foundational verses on the love that God would like all of us to have for Him in our own personal relationship with Him. 1. Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law? Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all you heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. (Matthew 22:36) 2. And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all of your hea rt and with all of your soul, that you may live. ( Deuteronomy 30:6) 3. And you will seek me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. (Jeremiah 29:13) 4. and you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 4:29)

5. They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul (2 Chronicles 15:12) 6. you have not been as My servant David, who kept My commandments and who followed Me with all His heart to do what was right in My eyes (1 Kings 14:8) In this last verse, God the Father is paying a very big compliment to King David, who ended up being the greatest King that Israel has ever had. He says that David followed after Him with all of his heart which again is denoting someone who was following God with maximum intensity, maximum love, and maximum loyalty. If you are truly in love with God, then you will spend some type of regular, quality time seeking after Him, His ways, His knowledge, and His direct involvement in every aspect of your life. God will become your best Friend, your best Lover, and your one and only true loving Father. This is why Jesus is referred to as the bridegroom and we as His bride. This analogy that God is giving us is showing us the kind of intense and passionate love that He wants all of us to have in our own personal relationship with Him. 5. Loving Yourself In addition to loving God and others, God also wants us to learn how to love ourselves. This is one area where you can really get out of balance on, with many people either going to one extreme or the other. In the very self-centered society in which now live in, many people have gone to the one extreme of being totally narcissistic which means they are only concerned about their own personal well-being and their own agendas to the exclusion of anyone else. The world totally revolves around them and their own personal agendas, and they will do everything and anything they can to try to get their own way on things. Most of these types of people are incapable of bonding or loving anyone else but themselves. We all know people who are like this. Then you have the other extreme where some people literally want to annihilate their own personalities. They start misinterpreting certain Scriptures verses on what it means to die to ones self, thinking that God wants them to completely forget about themselves and focus entirely on serving Him and others to the total exclusion of their own selves. When Jesus tells us that we are to die to ourselves, I believe He is trying to tell us that we are to enter into a full surrender with Him so that He is fully free to guide our lives into the perfect will of God the Father. When you enter into a true full surrender with the Lord of your entire life you are putting to death all of your desires, all of your goals, and all of your wants as to how you should live this life. You are now turning the reigns of your life over to God the Father so that He can start to fully lead you down the divine path that He has set up for your life.

Dying to ones self does not mean that you try and totally wipe out or annihilate your personality with you who are in God. God wants to build you up in His grace, power and knowledge. He does not want to try and destroy who you really are in Him. There are some sects in the Body that are still into self-mortification type practices such as self-flagellation. It is just my own personal opinion that yo u do not have to engage in these types of extreme practices. You do not have to beat yourself into submission to God. All God is looking for is that you be willing to lay down your entire life for Him so that He can fully take over the reigns of your life and lead you into the perfect plan and destiny that He has set up for your life. The real answer in learning how to be able to love yourself in the way that God would really like is probably right in the middle of these two extremes. The Holy Spirit will always be there to help keep you in balance with the way you are loving and treating yourself. Just realize that you have to stay on top of this part of the game always making sure that you do not start to get too full of yourself and start sliding down to the one extreme of becoming too narcissistic and self-centered. But you also have to make sure you do not start sliding down to the other extreme where you start to begin to totally forget about yourself and start becoming a doormat for anyone and everyone who will want to try and use you for your goodness and generosity. Once you start to slide down into this type of extreme realm, other people will see it, and they will then try to start taking advantage of you in any way they can. With all of the physical and verbal abuse that goes on behind closed doors in many marriages and families throughout the entire world many people have had all of their healthy levels of self-confidence and self-esteem beat right out of them. They only do not love themselves anymore, they do not even like themselves anymore. After hearing how no good they are, how stupid they are, how unworthy they are, and how they will never amount to anything worthwhile in this life pretty soon they start believing in the lies of their enemy. And once they start believing in those lies, they will then start to lose all sense of healthy self-worth as to who they really are in the Lord. For those types of people who are living and operating in unacceptable low levels of selfconfidence and self-esteem the first thing God the Father will do with you once you enter into a full surrender with Him is to start to show you who you really are in Him and the real treasure and beauty that you really are in His eyes. The Bible says that God the Father is no respecter of persons. What this means is that every single one of us is on an equal footing with God, and that He loves each and everyone of us equally and unconditionally which also includes you! The Holy Spirit will really help you out in this area if you are open to receiving His help. He will show you who you really are in Christ, that you are not a nobody, that you are a somebody and that God loves you and cares for you just as much as He loves and cares for anyone else in this life.

Really study and chew on the wording of the verses I will now list. The two key words in these verses are the words as yourself. In other words, God wants you to love yourself to the same degree and with the same intensity as you would love anyone else. God is not excluding you from this equation He is including you. This is why He is specifically using the words as yourself in each one of these verses. Here they are: 1. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: You shall love your neighbor AS YOURSELF. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. (Matthew 22:38) 2. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: You shall love your neighbor AS YOURSELF. (Galatians 5:14) 3. You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor AS YOURSELF: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 19:18) I personally believe that you really cannot begin to love other people in the way that God would really like if you cannot learn how to first love yourself. This is why God is specifically using the words to love others as you would love yourself, with all of these words being in the same sentence. For those of you who are having major problems in this area due to coming from abusive and dysfunctional pasts there is one Bible teacher who really specializes in this part of the walk for believers. Her name is Joyce Meyer. Many of you already know who she is. For those of you who do not know her, it is just my own personal opinion that she is one of the best in dealing with the subject of being able to get inner healings from the Lord for those who have been severely abused in their past. She uses herself as her own punching bag and tells about her own abusive past and how God brought her out of it and raised her up to be the woman He wanted her to become in Him. Her story is a perfect example of if God did it for her, then He can do it for you, no matter how bad your past may have been. She has many good books and teaching cassette tapes on this subject. You cannot go wrong with all of her teachings on this subject. 6. Loving Others This will now lead us into the next section. God not only wants us to be able to love Him and love ourselves but He now wants us to be able to love one another. When God says that we are to love one another, that we are to love others, that we are to love our neighbor I believe you can bottom-line these statements saying that God wants you to be able to love all of the members of your own family, your personal friends, your neighbors that live around you, and then any total strangers you may ever run across. In other words, God wants you to be able to love everyone across the board of your life.

Remember, this is the second greatest commandment next to loving God Himself. This is how important this commandment is in the eyes of God. Can you imagine what would happen to this world if everyone would really obey and walk out these two specific commandments? Here are six key verses spelling all of this out loud and clear. 1. You shall not hate your brother in your heart You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. (Leviticus 19:17) 2. A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:34) 3. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. (John 15:12) 4. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. (1 John 4:11) 5. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. (1 John 4:7) 6. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the brethren. He who does not love his brother abides in death. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. (1 John 3:14) The last two verses from 1 John are making some maximum intense type statements. The first verse says that he who cannot love his brother does not truly know God. In other words, God will not know you if you cannot learn how to love other people in your walk with Him. The very last verse then takes it one extreme step further when it says that he who cannot love his brother abides in death, and that he is actually considered a murderer in the eyes of God, and as a murderer, he does not have eternal life abiding in him. This is about as intense of a warning direct from God Himself that you can receive on this topic. I believe the main reason God is really laying down the gauntlet on the way that He has worded these last two verses is because if we cannot learn how to love God and love other people in this life then we will never be able to live in harmony and unity with others. And if we cannot live in harmony and unity with other people down here on this earth, then God will not want us living up in His heaven causing strife and discord among His other children. This is why it is so important that each and every Christian work very closely with the Holy Spirit in this sanctification process so that we can all learn how to love God, love ourselves, and love all other people in the way that He would really like for us to be able to do.

With our own natural love not being enough to really grow in this area due to our fallen and imperfect natures we all have to learn how to rely on the Holy Spirit to get Him to start to release His love into us and through us so that we can begin to reach and touch others with that love. 7. Loving Your Enemies Without any question, one of the hardest commands that the Lord has given us is that we have to learn how to love our enemies. And when He says our enemies, He is including the worst of our enemies. How can you truly love someone who has raped you, who has severely abused you in your marriage, who has murdered someone in your family in cold-blood, or who has abducted and killed one of your children like what we see so much of in the local news with the pedophiles still being allowed to run rampant across this country? It is one thing to be able to forgive this type of criminal, and then let him go into the hands of God for His vengeance, payback and justice. But it is quite another thing to be able take a leap into this realm and actually try and love this person in the way that God would really like for us to love him. So how can this realistically be done with some of the really bad and evil people that are still walking on this earth? I only have two possible answers for you on this issue. One we simply have to rely on the love of the Holy Spirit to be transmitted and imparted into us as one of His 9 fruits. I do not think most of us have this kind of love to give to someone who is simply pure evil with some of the horrible and barbaric crimes we have seen committed in recent years. You are simply going to have to learn how to ride and flow with the love of the Holy Spirit to be able to love these types of evil people in the way that the Lord would really like. For most of us, our own natural love is not going to take us very far in this realm. This is why it is so important for each and every Christian get this sanctification process started in their life so God can begin to allow His Holy Spirit to start to release these 9 powerful fruits and qualities into the cores of our personalities. Second the only way you can even begin to try and do this with the worst of your enemies is that you have to attempt to see things from Gods point of view and perspective. In other words, you are going to have to learn how to see your enemy through Gods eyes and how He looks at them. And this is where it really gets deep and intense. The most perfect example of someone truly loving His enemies in the way God the Father would really like is Jesus Christ Himself. After Jesus had been beat to a pulp before His actual crucifixion, and then nailed to a cross to die a slow and torturous death over a 6 hour period Jesus makes one of the most mind-blowing statements ever made on being able to love and forgive your enemies. Before He dies, Jesus speaks out and tells His Father to forgive all of those who had just got done crucifying Him to that cross because they really did not know what they were doing!

Here is this most profound verse: Then Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do. ( Luke 23:34) This statement by Jesus is speaking volumes of revelation on just this one issue. You can tell by the words and tone of Jesus statement, that He was really feeling the love of God for these people, even as they watched and jeered as He was dying on the cross. In other words, Jesus was still loving all of these people even after they had just got done committing the worse crime that the world has even seen or will ever see again crucifying the living Christ! The Bible says that we are to think like Jesus and act like Jesus. We now have the mind of Christ as born-again believers. This means we are to imitate Jesus in our words, in our thoughts, and in our actions in our walk with the God the Father. If you carefully study the actual wording in the above verse, you might be able to pick up some deeper revelation as to how Jesus could have possibly made this kind of extreme statement after He had already been nailed to the cross and was experiencing the most extreme pain imaginable. The clue might be in the words for they do not know what they do. They obviously knew what they were doing by committing this horrible act against Jesus but the angle Jesus might be seeing all of this from is that they really did not know what they were doing in the big-picture, eternal scheme of things. If they really knew that there was a God and a devil, and a heaven and a hell, and that being cast into hell will be for all of eternity some of them might have thought twice before engaging in such a horrible and evil act. Some of Gods prophets and seers who have been given actual visions of what hell is really like such as the testimony of Mary Baxter all have come back with some of the same information. Some of them were allowed to talk with people who were actually down there. And many of them have said that if they had only known that there really was a hell and that their evil and wicked lifestyles would have led them down there, that they would have never done what they did to get themselves thrown down in there. If you look at all of the evil and wicked people in our world who have committed acts of pure, cold-blooded murder and who seem to have no real remorse for what they have done they all know they will end up in jail if they ever get caught. Yet this still does not deter some of them from committing some of these evil and horrible acts. But what they really dont know is if there is a hell or not and whether or not they will get dropped down into it the minute they die and cross over. If they really knew what was waiting for them on the other side and how horrible of a place hell really is some of them might have thought twice before committing some of their evil acts.

This might have been what Jesus was referring to when He made the above statement in that they really did not know what they were doing for if they did, and they knew it would get them thrown down into hell for all of eternity, they may have thought twice before actually doing it. I do not know if this kind of deeper revelation will be enough for some of you to really be able to love an evil and vicious criminal who may have killed or hurt one of your own. This is a very deep area, and you will have to be led by the Holy Spirit to really be able to love an enemy who has viciously wronged either you or a close loved one. But if you are able to step outside of your box for just a minute and see how this evil criminal fits into the big picture, and that he will go straight to hell if he does not get saved and get his sins forgiven before he dies then maybe you will be able to see him in the same light that Jesus was seeing those who were crucifying Him and love him with the love of God, just as Jesus was doing while He was hanging on that cross to die for all of us. Maybe the love of God can flow into you because you will then see that some of these evil people really do not know what they are really doing in the eternal scheme of things by choosing with their own free wills to commit some of their horrible and evil acts. But nonetheless, God the Father would like all of us to be able to do this by the way that He has worded the following two Scripture verses. Here are the two main verses, with the words coming directly from Jesus Himself that we learn how to be able to do this: 1. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. (Matthew 5:44-48) 2. But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you. To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise. But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to receive as much back. But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return ; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Highest. For He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful. (Luke 6:27-36)

Notice in the last part of the second verse it says that God Himself is kind and merciful to the unthankful and the evil. This may be why Jesus is telling us to love our enemies because He and His Father love everyone, including all evil sinners. Jesus ends the first verse above telling us that we should all strive to be perfect like our Father in heaven is perfect. If God can love these evil and unthankful sinners, then He wants us to try and be able to do the same thing in our walk with Him. 8. Be Doers of the Word Now that you know from the above Scripture verses that God is wanting you to love Him, love yourself, and love everyone else across the board of your life including any enemies you may have now God wants you to be able to show that love in your actions to others. There are a ton of verses in the Bible about how God wants you to act towards others. I will leave you with a few good verses showing you the importance that we all learn how to be actual doers of the Word and not just hearers in reference to being able to show love to others in our words and actions. 1. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. (James 1:22) 2. But whoever has this worlds goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. (1 John 3:17) 3. Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law. (Romans 13:10) 4. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. (Proverbs 17:17) 5. By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1 John 3:16) 6. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down ones life for his friends. (John 15:13) All of these verses are perfectly showing us what true love can really do in our relations with others. Just as Jesus was willing to lay down His entire life for all of us in order that we be able to be brought back to Him and His Father God and Jesus are wanting all of us to love others with that same kind of intensity and loyalty even to the point of being willing to sacrifice our life to save someone elses life if that kind of need should ever arise.

Conclusion
When you really study and meditate on all of the above verses one right after the other the message is coming through loud and clear from God the Father. God has purposely made the

quality of love the #1 quality that all born-again believers have to seek to get worked into their personalities. The quality of love operating in our lives is the only common thread that will bind all of us together with God and one another. Without the quality of love bonding and uniting all of us together, there can never be any true peace and harmony between men and countries. The main reason there has been so much death, destruction, hate and wars in our past, and currently in our present, is because man has never learned how to really love one another in the way that God had initially intended. And the sad part about this whole saga is that the Bible tells us exactly how it is all going to end up. Man is not going to learn from his past, and thus wars, murders, and evil acts will continue unabated until Jesus comes back to our earth to set up His 1000 year Millennium Kingdom. And until that final and glorious event happens, each Christian will have to do the best they can to walk in the calls and divine assignments that the Lord has given to each one of us. The Bible says that Jesus will be coming back for a bride that will be without spot or blemish. This will be a sanctified bride. Let God the Father start the process of getting you cleaned up and sanctified to the degree that He would really like to be able to do with you in this life. If you do, then you will be ready for the rapture if the rapture should occur in our lifetime. You will then be a part of the Bride that will be without spot or blemish fully ready for our Lords visible return.