Born Again in the Holy Spirit - Spiritual Housecleaning

You may have received Jesus as your Lord and Savior, but have you asked for the baptism in the Holy Spirit? "What?", you say, "You mean they aren't the same thing?"
No, they are not.

Continuing on this journey of Spiritual Housecleaning...
In my last video, I got you all hyped up about removing any spiritual invaders that might be oppressing you... and we'll get to it... but first we have to be sure that we are not only 'saved' but born again in the Holy Spirit.

In Luke 11:24-26 We can see how very important that it is to have our temple not only free of invaders but that we don't want the possibility of a far worse situation because that spirit came back to an unoccupied place. No, we want the Spirit of God filling up every pore of our being.

["When the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding any, it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when it comes, it finds it swept and put in order.
Then it goes and takes along seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there; and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first." Luke 11:24-26]

The rest of this series is all about removing the invaders, shutting the doors and then replacing what was once enemy occupation with more of the Spirit of God.
Remember the last video?...

[ "I will not speak much more with you, for the ruler of the world is coming, and he has nothing in Me;.." John 14:30]
Does the enemy have anything in you?

I could spend a lot of time creating a video, but instead of recreating the wheel... I'd rather refer you to a playlist that I quite frankly cannot top. If you are earnestly walking through Spiritual Housecleaning...whether you believe you are born-again or not, I explicitly request that you watch this series entitled: "Receive the Holy Spirit" by Derek Prince.
Please do not skip this series! Whether you know you have the baptism, are unsure if you do, or know you do not... This series is 52.5 minutes long, filled with teaching from the scriptures that will help you; will also help you in ministry with others and I assure you that I feel the anointing churning in my stomach during it! [The Holy Spirit within me confirming that the message has the approval of the Lord upon it!] And, the bonus for those of you that have not received it, is at the end where Derek will guide you through prayer that will help hold your hand and activate it!

Are you ready? Click the link already!

Baptism in the Holy Spirit - Spiritual Housecleaning
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Spiritual Housecleaning - Strongholds Edu

Do you have unsettling sinful habits, weaknesses, torments, recurring bad fruit character flaws?  I'm not talking about big things like murder or adultery… I'm talking about areas in your life, in your thought patterns that keep you barreling like a hamster in it's wheel instead of exhibiting Galatians 5 victory?

Spiritual Housecleaning is a series I'm doing to help expose all those dark, dirty little things that the enemy would rather you think is just a normal struggle in your life. 

You're here because you know there's abundant life, you've tasted it… but a taste just won't do… you want to live it!

Hi Freedom 1 here, with a little video crash course illustration about enemy access that ties us up from conforming into the image of Christ Jesus. I'll show how we get on the brink of agreeing with the devil… how to overcome when the pressure is on, what happens when we blow it and how the sins of our forefathers haunt us and wear us down. 

In 2 Corinthians 10:4&5 NAS we read, "…for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but  divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ." Other versions call those 'fortresses' - 'strongholds', and that's what we're talking about here.

In Mark 3:27 is the ever popular illustration that perhaps we've read and agreed with but never thought about in terms of those recurring troubles we have, that the Word says we shouldn't.  

I'll begin to flesh it out with our character Mr. Bitter as he's active on the job-site… later we'll send in  an interviewer as well…  Roll the Spirit-Cam!

FILM PARODY SEQUENCE

INTERVIEW SEQUENCE

*Note:  Generational curses or sins of the father…. wear us down, because they have legal access to do so.  The generational ties…. let's face it, it's like chinese water torture…. just always there nagging…. those thoughts, those voices in the head.  Remember in 2 Corinthians 10:5?  ["Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." ] This is not only talking about what our human minds come up with, but who else can influence our mind with those nagging 'voices' those contrary thoughts?

It's so simple though… appropriate what Jesus did…. and be done with it! 

But I don't know everything about my ancestor back 4 generations ago…. you say…. well, we'll save that for another video.

Recap…. how do we get a stronghold?

• Blatant unrepentant sin all by ourselves.

• If we agree with ANY lie…. we create a door.

Journey along with me in this series of Spiritual Housecleaning as we learn to dismantle every work of the enemy in our lives and be equipped to stop these cycles cold in our lives and all those around us, so that we can truly be free, FREE INDEED!

Scriptures used in sequences:

Ephesians 4:31

James 4:7

Numbers 14:18

Exodus 20:5

Deuteronomy 5:9

Leviticus 26:39-40

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Spiritual Housecleaning Part 1

'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'.

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