'Spiritual
house-cleaning' is the process of freedom from demonic oppression. When
we are examining ourselves… find bad habits, bad fruit, evidence of
unrepentant sin and we begin to cry out earnestly with desire to not
only overcome, but to change at all costs… doors of access begin to
shut. Deliverance begins to happen.
When I began down this path
of deep self examination… I realized that I ‘had issues’. In reading
the Word of God and comparing my ‘Walk’ along-side of it... things
weren’t adding up. I found myself identifying oh--too--well, with Saint
Paul’s lament in Romans 7:15, “For what I am doing, I do not
understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am
doing the very thing I hate.”
I found myself needing a
deliverer because try as I might.... I still had my issues (I still HAVE
issues!) despite doing and saying ‘all the right things’. Despite all
the heartfelt repentance, forgiveness and reading the Word! The Lord
showed me in the scriptures…. Moses delivered the Israelites from the
hand of Pharaoh…. we can liken that to what takes place when we receive
Jesus as Lord. But were the Israelites completely free after that
point? No… what happened? They succumbed to influences and what were
the roots of those thoughts that turn to action? Ask yourself… was
there a root spirit of bondage, of fear, of distrust…. and you can go on
& on deeper into this meditation in seeing they had those same
things before the exodus.
The fact of the matter is,
is that walking out your salvation is an understatement to it's true
meaning church. There are a great many words that have changed meaning
these days.
Why is the word
‘Deliverance’ a dark and dirty word that society has programmed us into
believing that is a rare necessity only for little levitating girls with
spinning heads, foaming & cursing mouth manifestations? Maybe
because ‘Possession’ is a dark and dirty word that is often associated
with it.
In Chris Simpson’s guide
entitled: Deliverance from Evil Spirits, I found this interesting tidbit… Did you know...:
“In the New Testament, the
Greek word expressing the presence of demonic spirits within people is
daimonizomai (Die-mon-nye-zom-my). What this word means is to be
demonized; to be under the power or influence of a demon in certain
areas; to have a demon. In the King James Version of the Bible this
particular Greek word is translated 11 times as “to be possessed with
devils.” The word “possessed,” however, is a mislead-ing translation for
this Greek word. To English speaking people the term “possessed”
implies total ownership of something. This concept, when applied to the
relationship between a demonic entity and a person, has no support in
the scripture or in the original intent of the Greek word. There is no
suggestion in the scripture that a demon has totally taken over a person
as the word “possessed” implies. Even the Gaderene demoniac had enough
humanity to cry out to Jesus for help. Rather, close scriptural study
shows that the effect of demons upon people was usually in one or more
areas of the personality - not the whole person.”
Does the thought of demonic
access set well in comparison with what the ‘church’ has programmed us
with? Of course not. The devil is always making us do something... but
we have no part in it whatsoever, “Why, that sneaky devil just came
outta nowhere, no one is safe”. No, that's a Wrong mentality, that
gives the devil power and lessens the power of God. Or how about “We’re
all sinners with no good in us”; Wrong. God Justifies us through Christ
& uses us in the plan of salvation.
When you’ve tried
everything to no avail... full-well knowing that God is good.... maybe
it’s time to take seriously that ‘every penny must be paid for’...
Matthew 18:33-35 "Should
you not also have had mercy on your fellow slave, even as I had mercy on
you? And his lord, moved with anger, handed him over to the torturers
until he should repay all that was owed him. So shall My heavenly Father
also do to you, Peter, if each of you does not forgive his brother from
your heart."
Suddenly, it makes sense--
because we realize that the Word of God IS very true despite man’s
desire to pick and choose based on the pride in the mind or fleshly
desires. Sin opens us up to satan. The price for sin is the atoning
blood of Jesus. The glaring 'issues' we have… the ones that echo Paul's
Lament in Romans 7:15… the diseases, the repetition of failure in our
lives point to areas of access.
The bridge of
Sanctification is a marvelous structure that ‘Deliverance’ steadily
ropes us across. Even the smallest of undesirable fruit is not welcome
in the offering of our very selves unto the Lord.
This is some hard stuff and
I will be addressing it because this term 'Deliverance' and the concept
of 'Spiritual Housecleaning' is very broad. Some of the 'issues' we
deal with… we have no understanding where they have come from and why we
can't seem to break free…. those point to Generational Curses (sins of
forefathers) Soul Ties, and Curses (whether self induced or by others)
in general. This doesn't seem fair, but it's in the Word and if you
have these 'issues'… diving in to understand the 'Why' will help you
overcome.
Another hard area is that
the enemy is attracted to pain, just like an open wound in the ocean
attracts sharks…. so areas of wounding or trauma…. which aren't even
sins we have committed also give a doorway for the enemy to frequent in
our lives. How do we heal the wound? This is stuff I'm going to touch
on later in this series.
Another guide, prayers etc. on the subject can be found at my site under 'clean up your act'.
www.hearingGod.tv
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