Guilt is okay for the Proud.

“If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know a type of spiritual warfare that creates value in a daughter's spirit. It is called "Taking your Daughter out for tea" or "Going to Her Soccer Game", and it works in direct opposition to the agenda of hell and darkness that wants to destroy their lives.”
― Jim Anderson, Unmasked: Exposing the Cultural Sexual Assault


      My favorite subject - beating the enemy.  I was trying to sleep.  It was 1:30 in the morning and I could hear my friend downstairs on the phone.  She was doing battle.  On the phone she had a girl, a young girl who was being attacked by the enemy.  I in my selfish need for rest wanted her to be quiet doing it.  Yes, I still fight my selfishness.  But then she came up the stairs to my room, she was going to leave to do battle in person and wanted advice, wanted anything I had to give that would help her with this battle.  She asked me to go with her.  "No.  My God it's the middle of the night."  Yes, I am that selfish at times.  After she left my room and it was quiet, I heard the Lord.  Really?  Do you remember the nights you were under attack and alone.  The nights the dark spirits were dive bombing at you and you couldn't even think straight and how badly you wanted another human voice to say, "It's okay?"  The nights when the enemy could still shut out My voice? 
     I jumped up out of my bed and ran downstairs, "I'll go.  I will go.  Give me a minute to throw on clothes."
     It had been a while since I fought the enemy for someone else.  I clean my house of any ungodly spirits and fight personal attacks, but to go out and defend another, I have not done for quite awhile.  It was a 10 - 15 minute drive, so we prepared.  We asked God to go before us and prepare hearts, to give us direction and make his presence known.  This girl was very young and her aunt who was with her was not much older.  
     We did not leave there until after 5 am.  We found the aunt had a stronger spirit on her than the girl.  It still amazes me how this petite, beautiful little girl can look so innocent and then when you make eye contact, you see the enemy.  He is daring you.  I have found in my experience, the first and most important thing to do is lighten the mood.  We are all too serious when this doesn't have to be a big deal.  After lighthearted introduction didn't squash the fear of this thing manifesting in some scary way, the second most important thing to do is remind everyone who is in charge.  God's got this.  We have all authority and they only do to us, what we allow.  That's when you address the enemy.  You tell him how it's going to go down.  See, we don't allow manifesting.  He is not allowed to make a scene.  He leaves in a quiet little cough or a yawn and that is all he is allowed to do.  
     The Lord was talking to us.  He was telling us awesome things about these two girls.  How much He loves them, how precious they are to Him and what wonderful things He has planned for them.  Most of the warfare was done through explaining to these two daughters of the King, exactly who He sees when He looks at them.  It became obvious right away that these girls never felt heard.  We were there to listen.  They never felt like anyone cared what they had to say.  Their family had been beaten up by the enemy for several years through addiction, sexual abuse, witchcraft, etc. etc.  
     These girls weren't ready to let go of the familiar spirit they had lived with most of their lives, and if they aren't ready to let go, we can't force them.  But we did plant the seeds of love the Father had for them.  Quietly this fragile little girl who had been tormented by spirits her whole life whispered, "I want God to prove His existence to me."  By the look on her face, I believe she felt as though she were saying something wrong, but we prayed and we asked God, "Lord this little girl wants to know you.  Please show yourself, show her who You truly are."  I had to warn her to be prepared.  Pay attention to all that goes on around her, because He shows up in some awesome ways that leave you rubbing your eyes and asking yourself if that just happened. 
     It's so easy for society to believe in angels, because we want them to be around us.  It's not so easy for us to believe in demons because who wants them?  But they are real and some people are tormented before they are ever pushed from the womb.  They are scared into, beaten into believing there is something wrong with them.  But I take it as a compliment.  If the enemy isn't messing with you, you must not be living right. 
     Spiritual warfare is not only telling the enemy to go, it's more about inviting the Holy Spirit to come.  We want Him to take over our mind, body and soul so there is no room for the enemy.  We will be going back to pray for these girls again.  We will leave the seeds there to grow.  The hunger to know Jesus grows and the enemy will not like it. 
     The thing the Lord has been showing me lately is how these tormented girls are actually blessed.  When you have seen the dark side, it makes you run toward the light.  God has shown me lately how many people think that when this is over they have a ticket into heaven.  They think just because they believe, they are in.  Well, the enemy believes, he knows the bible inside and out and he isn't going to heaven.  It's not about believing, it's about following.  It's about getting out of bed at 1:30 because God sent you out.  It's about your own will being ignored and God's will being all that matters. 
     I watched a show the other night about a "deeply religious and devoted to Jesus family"  As I was watching the show I was totally blown away, but what they thought was okay.  The bible says that God will judge the unbeliever, but we are to judge our brothers and sisters in Christ.  We are to point out their sin IF God tells us too.  As I watched this family talk of bikini waxing and sex in a very vulgar way, I could feel the Father's sadness, because this was being portrayed as acceptable behavior on television. 
     I asked the Lord what He wanted me to know about this.  What did He want me to do?  If I still fight selfishness, how do I know that I will be with Him for eternity?  We are supposed to obey, obeying is loving Him.  We are forgiven if we repent.  Repentance is not talked about enough.  The willingness to allow God to shine His light into our hearts and show us where we need to change is the answer.  To be totally 100% submitted.  When we rebel, we must repent.  But we are supposed to give grace?  He guides the humble and teaches them His ways (Psalm 25:9)

James 4:6

New International Version (NIV)

⁶ But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:

“God opposes the proud
    but shows favor to the humble.

 

 

     To admit wrong, humble yourself and repent, change your ways, brings that grace He so much wants to give us.  He explained to me, why as a leader, as an example to others we must be healed, we must address our sin.  A church with infants as leaders is a place where the guilty can hide and feel safe from the condemnation of hell, but a church with leaders who have testimonies, true testimonies of how He brought them from sin to total redemption is a church with humble leaders who do not make those  who are still oppressed feel rejection.  We represent Christ and we can't do that if we give the message that sin is acceptable.  A sinful heart is changeable and striving for that is what brings us into a divine intimate relationship with our Lord and savior.  Denial of sin, refusal to change is rebellion, it is prideful and the Lord opposes those who do not humble themselves.  Someone who still drinks milk is not able to teach another how to chew meat.

     One thing the Lord had me tell these beautiful daughters of His, was that He knows exactly where they are at in their journey and given all that they have been up against He is pleased with them.  They have a lot to learn, they have a lot to realize about who they are in Him and the authority they have, but they are reaching, humbly reaching out to touch His robe.  That's all He wants. 

 

1 Corinthians 5 (NIV)

5 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that even pagans do not tolerate: A man is sleeping with his father’s wife. 2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning and have put out of your fellowship the man who has been doing this? 3 For my part, even though I am not physically present, I am with you in spirit. As one who is present with you in this way, I have already passed judgment in the name of our Lord Jesus on the one who has been doing this. 4 So when you are assembled and I am with you in spirit, and the power of our Lord Jesus is present, 5 hand this man over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh,[a][b] so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.

6 Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole batch of dough? 7 Get rid of the old yeast, so that you may be a new unleavened batch—as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old bread leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people— 10 not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11 But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister[c] but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people.

12 What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13 God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.”