Spiritual warfare (13) SPRITUAL OPPRESSION (STRONGHOLDS) - PRIDE - 17 November 2017
Spiritual ATTACK and spiritual OPPRESSION are not the same. Many believers think that an evil spirit cannot be inside of them. Although evil spirits can't reach the "spirit" of man which are the LORD'S (His BREATH IN US) - they CAN cause havoc in the BODY and THOUGHTS of man. Many times physical pain in the body, confusion, depression, sickness and ailment, etc. are NOT spiritual attacks but OPPRESSION.
SPIRITUAL ATTACK DEFINED:
To TRY to DESTROY - especially with VERBAL ABUSE -
To SET UPON IN A FORCEFUL - VIOLENT - HOSTILE or AGGRESSIVE WAY - with or without a weapon -
To START AN OFFENSE AGAINST -
To BLAME VIOLENTLY or BITTERLY -
To ABUSE VIOLENTLY or BITTERLY -
To DIRECT UNFAVORABLE CRITICISM AGAINST -
To CRITICIZE SEVERELY -
To ARGUE with STRONGLY.
Within this framework of a spiritual attack there are always verbal ABUSE: LIES playing in your HEAD over and over again:
You are stupid, ugly -
You are worthless -
God hates you -
You are a horrible parent -
You can't do anything right -
You can never make the right decision -
You will never find a husband or wife etc. etc.
SPIRITUAL OPPRESSION DEFINED:
The EXERCISE of AUTHORITY OR POWER in a CRUEL, BURDENSOME OR UNJUST MANNER -
AN ACT or INSTANCE of OPPRESSING or SUBJECTING to CRUEL UNJUST IMPOSTIONS OR RESTRAINTS -
The FEELING of BEING HEAVILY BURDENED - PHYSICALLY or MENTALLY.
SATAN RECEIVED POWER:
With OPPRESSION, Satan has GOT SOME SORT OF POWER to SUBJECT a PERSON to BEING HEAVILY BURDENED BY CRUEL MEANS, but how is it possible for Satan to obtain "power" in the life of a believer?
The answer is simple: By an OPEN DOOR that the BELIEVER HIMSELF OPENED by SIN (usually unknowingly because of lack of knowledge). It can be ANY SIN even the SIN of DISOBEDIENCE to the WORD of YHWH. It can also be unknown sin of the forefathers involved in Freemasonry, occult, witchcraft, false religions or cults etc. WITCHCRAFT is very prevalent in the modern societies, and more and more people get involved in it.
UNREPENTED SIN:
UN-REPENTED SIN IS the DOOR through which the enemy comes into our lives building up a STRONGHOLD or STRONGHOLDS. Once the STRONGHOLD/S are in PLACE - evil spirits can come and go as they please.
OPEN DOORS can ONLY be SHUT CLOSE and SEALED (and STRONGHOLDS BE BROKEN) in the NAME OF our SAVIOR - WHOSE BLOOD PAID FOR OUR SINS. Through prayer and fasting we can find the cause of any opened door in our lives only through the help of the Holy Spirit of YHWH God who will lead us into detecting the sin - own sin and/or generational sin. It is not straightforward. Some people has an open door or doors all their life and are totally unaware of it.
The DEVIL'S INTENTION:
TO BE UNAWARE of the STRONGHOLD is the devil's intention, and is an OPEN GATEWAY and FREE ACCESS for HIM AND HIS AGENTS into your life to TORTURE and OPPRESS as HE PLEASES.
GENERARIONAL SIN and CURSES ATTACHED to IT:
Ancestral sins and ancestral curses are huge open doors that comes down our bloodline. This is an unrecognized fact and is more like a plague that usually started with one person in a family line (usually the man who is the head of his house) to get involved in the occult - witchcraft - secret organization etc. and as SUCH GIVING AWAY the RIGHTS to EVERY GENERATION AFTER HIMSELF.
BLOOD RITUALS - SELLING YOUR SOUL and the SOULS of your entire BLOODLINE to the DEVIL:
FREEMASONS - ( and all BROTHERHOODS incl. of the "Young South Africa Brotherhood; the Ossewa Brandwag; the Jewish Caballah; the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging [AWB] etc.) and other cults are known to practice RITUALS with BLOOD INVOLVED (usually to GAIN POWER - WEALTH - SUCCESS etc) - while the person joining is usually unfamiliar with the intentions of the secret organization and UNDER DECEPTION SELLING HIS SOUL and the SOULS OF HIS ENTIRE FAMILY LINE to the DEVIL.
Numbers 14:18 "The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast lover, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but HE WILL BY NO MEANS CLEAR the GUILTY, VISITING the INIQUITY of the FATHERS on the CHILDREN, to the THIRD AND THE FOURTH GENERATION."
OPPRESSION can MANIFESTS in MENTAL, PHYSICAL and EMOTIONAL WAYS such as DISEASE, ILLNESS, MENTAL ILLNESSES, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, CHRONIC DISEASE, AILMENTS etc.
PRIDE:
PRIDE is the sin that most likely would KEEP people from being SAVED and/or properly CLEANSED by the BLOOD. It's a spirit of DECEPTION that DECEIVE people in thinking that all is ALLRIGHT. (Those who THINK that they are well, will not seek for a doctor.)
The STRONGHOLD of PRIDE is DANGEROUS - It is a SERIOUS "DISEASE" - and HARD to DETECT.
Those of us with the DISEASE of PRIDE will be HINDERED in "DIAGNOSING" our HEARTS and our "SICKNESS" will go UNDETECTED.
PRIDE CONTAMINATES and POLLUTES and PERVERTS the EYESIGHT causing us to VIEW OURSELVES through a LENS that PAINTS AND TWIST and ALTERS REALITY. PRIDE will even PAINT our SIN as LOVELY and ATTRACTIVE - and LOOKING FINE and GOOD.
When starting to "PAT YOURSELF on the BACK" telling yourself how "GOOD you are" are the moments that we should be ALARMED - leading to discovering of the TRUE INTENTION of our HEARTS.
PRIDE FILTERS OUT the EVIL we should have SEEN in ourselves and it DISTORTS the TRUTH of the WORD of YHWH.
SPIRITUAL OPPRESSION (TORMENT) versus SPIRITUAL WARFARE:
On the BATTLEFIELD of LIFE we are all faced with the spiritual warfare going on. Evil spirit-darts are constantly fired in our direction sometimes to hit and sometimes to miss - sometimes to fall away from our spiritual armour - depending upon the WORD OF YHWH GOD that should be IN US - our THINKING PATTERNS.
When HIT by the enemy it can OPEN a DOOR for ENTRANCE if we LET IT. IT IS OUR OWN CHOICE to DISGARD and REJECT the THOUGHTS we are hit with, or to PONDER ON IT - eventually to LET IT GROW and GROW into BELIEVING IT. At this stage it becomes PART OF OUR THINGKING PATTERN and eventually we will LIVE IT.
For example - thoughts of irritation and dissatisfaction (tormenting spirits) are "fired" at our minds that our spouse is an irritating - irrational person, for he or she did not agree with something we said. When the thoughts hit, we can make the choice to DISGARD and REJECT the THOUGHTS and LET IT GO COMPLETELY - or we can start to PONDER ON IT - until it has grown so BIG (now attached with other thoughts) that it ends up in a huge quarrel - separation or even a divorce.
DELIVERANCE:
The moment we accepted the thoughts - we have OPENED UP A DOOR for the enemy who will try to keep us captive (until it is found out) and get rid of ONLY through deliverance. The LONGER it WAS AT 'HOME' IN us - the HARDER it will be to GET RID OF - and once delivered, we should FILL the EMPTY SPACE IMMEDIATELY with THE WORD of YHWH GOD - otherwise it will COME BACK, find their old "home" clean and tidy and MOVE RIGHG BACK IN WITH MANY OTHERS WITH THEM.
IN THE WORDS OF MESSIAH:
Matt. 12:43 "When the UNCLEAN SPIRIT HAS GONE OUT of a man, it ROAMS THROUGH DRY [arid] PLACES in SEARCH of REST, but it does NOT FIND ANY.
:44 Then IT SAYS, I WILL GO BACK to MY HOUSE from WHICH I CAME OUT. And when it ARRIVES, IT FINDS the PLACE UNOCCUPIED, SWEPT, PUT IN ORDER, AND DECORATED.
:45 Then IT GOES AND BRINGS WITH IT SEVEN OTHER SPIRTS MORE WICKED THAN ITSELF, AND THEY GO IN AND MAKE THEIR HOME THERE. And the LAST CONDITION of that MAN BECOMES WORSE THAN THE FIRST. So also shall it be with this WICKED GENERATION."
ABBA - please help us to CLEAN UP OUR LIVES - to FILL OURSELVES with YOUR WORD - so that there is NO PLACE for ANYTHING ELSE to COME IN and TORMENT US. SATURATE US WITH YOUR HOLY SPIRIT and PLEASE FATHER let NO PRIDE GET HOLD OF US. Thank YOU FOR TEACHING US THROUGH YOUR WORD - for GIVING US LIFE and LIFE in ABUNDANCE. In YAHSHUA MESSIAH'S NAME. Amen.