Can the enemy afflict or oppress or possess Christians?

Just to list a few!!

So, you say these are just acts of nature or behaviors or habits or just generalized sin? Then you must believe that angels aren't real and that God can't heal people and nobody can hear the still, small voice of the Holy Spirit. There is no other alternative.  If one side can bless you, the other side can curse you. If one side can whisper to you, they both can. If you can be filled with the Holy Spirit, you can be just as filled with evil.

YOU CANNOT BELIEVE THERE IS A WAR BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND THEN DENY ONE SIDE HAS ANY  INFLUENCE!!

• IF there is a war between Good and Evil, THEN both sides have weapons.
• IF the war between Good and Evil is over, THEN you sure better hope and believe that GOOD won.
• IF Good won, THEN why the heck is it so dark out there!?!?
• IF Good won, THEN why can't we keep kids in church? Why are we addicted to the world?
• IF Good won, THEN what's keeping us from preaching the Gospel to all nations already?
• IF Good won, THEN why do we start a whole new denomination EVERY TWO DAYS?
• IF Good won, THEN why are Christians sick mentally and physically and emotionally?
• IF Good won, THEN why aren't the blessings of Deut. 28 in full effect? (In fact, we're seeing the opposite!)
• IF the outcome is certain, but the battle is in our hands, THEN we better start shooting at something!!

It just flies in the face of the blatantly obvious observations around us. We are getting creamed by the darkness! Inside and outside the churches, the badness is closing in. How did spiritual evil get such a strong foothold on this country and on our own lives? Probably because we started preaching that demons weren't real and couldn't oppress Christians. That the war was over and we'd already won. Now who has benefitted most from that bit of theology? Has it resulted in Christians who are free and living victoriously? Has it resulted in transformations of towns and countries for God? No. It has resulted in week, oblivious, sickly, addicted, angry, divorced, oppressed Christians who are dropping out of church in droves because there is nothing there to really help them!

Now, given the state of things around you, how can it possibly be true that the battle is over? Did Jesus win the victory? YES!!!  The outcome is certain. But have we claimed it, embraced it fully and are walking in His power? NO!!!!  If we were, the Christians would be FREE!  And they're not. They're just not. For Pete's sake, we have people that are more addicted to football or NASCAR than to Jesus!  We have witches in our youth groups and nobody even notices. We have satanists sitting on the boards of our churches. We have pedophiles as priests and youth pastors. We have people cursing the pastor and the church in false tongues and nobody knows.

What happened to the gift of discernment of spirits? (I Corin. 12:10)  How come nobody asks for that one anymore?! If there is a war and somebody is shooting at you, wouldn't you want to see them so you can fight back? Particularly if you know your weapons are great and you could crush them like a bug and free lots of other people. There is no Goliath of hell that can stand against a fearless David full of Jesus and armed with wisdom and discernment of spirits.

People say we should just focus on love and not bring glory to satan by all this talk of demons. What?! Whose idea would that be?!  This is a WAR!  The Pentagon is going to have a strategy room where they get together but they NEVER talk about the enemy for fear of accidentally glorifying them and making it look like they're on the wrong team?!  NO!  They're going to learn where they are and how they act and how to best defeat them. They're going to assess their own strengths, amass forces in the places under attack, improve weapons systems that can counter the weapons of the enemy.  They're going to know how they think, what they eat, how they smell, when they sleep, where they hide – everything! They are never going to spend ONE SECOND debating about whether by gathering intelligence on how to crush the enemy they might be accidentally worshipping them! That's just dopey. In fact, it's a lie from the pit designed to keep us from talking about demons at all. Who benefits most from us avoiding the whole subject? Not Jesus. He didn't avoid it. He wasn't scared of them. He trained up His disciples on how to handle them and then sent them out to crush them.  In fact, He COMMANDED us to go crush them in the Great Commission.  It's not the Pick and Choose Commission. It's not the If-It-Fits-With-My-Theology Commission. It's the GREAT Commission. Be like Jesus. Go and crush the badness!  We're getting creamed out there because of so many people that insist the enemy isn't even real or that it's wrong of us to go after them!

I know, I've heard it, you're going to say that the Great Commission in Matthew doesn't say anything about casting out demons and that some scholars don't think Mark 16:9-20 was part of the original manuscripts. Well, tough beans!  It made it into the King James and you assert that this is the Authorized, inspired, infallible Word of God so you're stuck with it. You can't say the Bible is infallible and then dismiss the parts you are uncomfortable with as not being pure. Either God wanted it in there or He didn't. If it should be taken out, then what else would you like to edit out?  Maybe the whole book of Revelation where we CLEARLY see demons coming out of the Abyss and torturing anybody that has taken the mark of the beast (Rev. 9). Surely some of them prayed the salvation prayer at summer camp in 8th grade, but have now chickened out and taken the mark. Are they Christians or aren't they? Are they oppressed by demons or aren't they? Are demons real or aren't they? Is the Bible the Word of God or isn't it?

If I didn't convince you, you better stop reading now. It's just going to make your head hurt more.

OK!! Fine! You win. I get it. Demons are real. So what do we do about it?!

If you don't have Jesus in your heart, then you are defenseless against the badness. You better lay everything down and beg for Him to take over right now. And you better mean ALL, not SOME of your life. He's a King, pray with respect. He's not fire insurance, He's Lord. Jesus is the Savior and He died so that His blood could protect you from sin and from the enemy. Tell Jesus you're a sinner, say you're sorry and ask Him to free you of everything messing with you and take over ALL of your life right now. Go ahead, ask Him. He'll do it. He wants you. He's been calling you. How long are you going to put Him off? How long do you want to wait to be free? Believe He is big enough to break all the chains that bind you. In the Name of Jesus and by His redeeming Blood. Amen.

Whether you needed that or not, start praying for the gift of discernment of spirits – and don't stop. Maybe He'll give it you a lot or maybe a little, but ALL Christians need as much as they can get. The gifts aren't on/off switches, they are dials. As soon as you get SOME Holy Spirit in you, all your dials move off of zero. How much they move depends on your desire and the Lord's willingness. But the Holy Spirit in you can recognize all the other spirits around. It's just a matter of you listening really well.   He'll teach you how to use it and what to do with it if you'll listen. Some people sense the spirits in a vague way and some people see snarling black things sitting on people and can smell them and feel them in the spirit. Some people see them with their eyes open in the “natural” and can't shut it off. That one can put you living under a bridge smoking crack to make it stop if God doesn't help. Just ask for whatever He wants to give you and don't hold back or be afraid. He knows what He's doing.

In the meantime, you have to now how to deal with the stuff in your own head. We all hear things, we just mostly think it's us, but then we look back later and think, “What was I thinking? That was a HORRIBLE idea!”  Or sometimes we look back and realize that it was so beautiful and perfect and divinely inspired that it HAD to be God.

There are only three choices when you hear something in your head. It's either YOU, the white hats or the black hats. Now, you and the bad guys can sound a lot a like – cause neither of you are holy. And when they whisper in your ear they always put an “I” in front of stuff to make you think it's your idea. (“I'm gonna get even with that guy!” “I'm the best singer here.” “I could be like God!”) But what they are suggesting to you will always be anti-Christ in some way when projected out.

That is, we're to take captive every thought (2 Corin. 10:5), so when something pops into your head, just ask yourself, “Who is glorified most if I follow through with that?” If it's going to glorify you OR the enemy, then demolish it (crush with prejudice) in the name of Jesus and refuse it. “If you resist, he will flee.” (James 4:7)  He who? The enemy? Yep. My own thoughts and wants and selfish desires? Yep. Works the same way (Rom. 8:13).  In fact, if you resist the Holy Spirit, he will flee, too. If you harden your heart toward God, you won't be able to hear Him either (Job 9:4, Ps. 95:8, Prov. 28:14, Heb. 3:8, Heb. 4:7).

You need to have an armor-plated, indestructible, unbreakable, impenetrably hard heart – but just to the right stuff. It needs to be tender toward God and His still, small voice and rock hard to everything else – including your own wants and thoughts and pride and self. Only in this way can He direct ALL your paths. (I Corin. 14:20) Toward malice be as innocents, but toward God be mature and experienced. And regardless of the black hats, there's stuff in YOU that qualifies as “malice.”

Why is it important that we be cleansed of all the bad stuff?

I Corinthians 10:20-21 - But I [say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.  Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.

You can't play for both teams. You can't play footsies with the badness and walk with God in righteousness and purity. Pick a side and stick to it. Ask the Lord to help you take control of your own thoughts and turn your mind into the mind of Christ. Ask Him to let you see through His eyes, so that you see the temptations of the world the way He does. If you burst into tears for the salvation of these poor girls on the “Fantasy Ranch” billboard, it will be real hard to get overheated.

There are a whole bunch of books and programs out there that can help you get all cleaned out. Sometimes they're called Deliverance ministries or Theophostics or some other name. The Blood of Jesus is sufficient, so just stand on your authority and do what the disciples did, demand that it go RIGHT NOW in the name of Jesus. And expect results.

More on this in other chapters.

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Are you captive to something that won't let you go?  Maybe it's fear or addiction or anger or lust or something else.  Have you tried everything without real success?  Are you a Christian that knows you should be walking in peace and joy and victory - but can't seem to get there?

Or worse, are you hearing voices tell you awful things about yourself or trying to get you to do bad things? Nightmares? Seeing scary, unexplainable things show up in your house or happen around you? Are your children out of control? Is the anxiety and stress eating you? Maybe you're completely incapacitated and feel no hope at all. And those voices are probably screaming at you even now - just being on this website!

You need to understand that the Bible talks a lot about the enemy of our souls, the father of lies, and how demons are used to harrass and torture us and to kill, steal and destroy our lives and our quality of life.  Christians CAN be attacked - in fact, will be attacked by demons. Even Jesus Christ, alone in the desert, was attacked and tempted by satan himself.

There is a lie being spread - a doctrine of demons - and it is this;  "Don't talk about satan and demons, it gives them too much glory! If you talk about demons, you're worshiping them instead of Jesus! The battle is won. Demons can't attack Blood-bought Christians! We musn't talk about that in church, just talk about Love and Grace."

Yet the Word of God is clear that we are in a WAR - and while the outcome is certain, the battle goes on every day. And our battle is NOT against flesh and blood (or chemical imbalances or people or habits) but against powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12).  Jesus Christ himself did a lot of training with His disciples on how to handle demons and how to free people - and even commanded them to go into all the world healing, casting out demons, baptizing them and making disciples that will obey ALL His commands. (Mark 16:14-18, Matthew 28:18-20)

Can you imagine anyone in the Pentagon saying, "We must keep our focus on America and the flag and the national anthem. Let's just sing some more. We can't talk about Osama Bin Ladin because we don't want people to think we're worshiping him! Let's say the Pledge of Allegiance again."  No way!  There's just no chance that Generals and Admirals and men and women of war are going to worry for an INSTANT about accidentally worshiping the enemy that they are called to fight!  They will learn all they can about that enemy - where they hide, where they sleep, how they think, and most of all, how to destroy them!  And Jesus Christ told us a lot about the reality of spiritual warfare and the need to push back the darkness.

Unfortunately, the number of parts of the "church" that are willing to even consider the reality of demons is tiny - and those with enough spiritual authority to actually get them off is even smaller!   If you're going to get up on the front lines and take down big bad guys, you better be squeaky clean yourself because they WILL fight back!

There is another page here about the reality of demons - "Are Demons Real?"

But if you're on this page, you probably don't need convincing of the reality of it. You're probably desperate and just want help. That's what we're offering.

Here's how this works.

First, you need to understand that satan is the prince of this world. Because the world is fallen, he is in charge and we are all automatically under his control. BUT ... when Jesus calls us and we come under HIS kingship, then He gives us what we need to guard us against satan. That is, without Jesus, you're pretty much toast. You might have enough will-power to stop drinking, but the spirit of Lust (self-gratification) is just going to get you some other way, like overeating or smoking or porn. You're not free until it has no more grip on you - and you can't get free until JESUS gets you free.

So if you want us to help, you need to understand that we're not "spiritualists" or "psychics" or any other thing. We are radical Jesus lovers who hear His voice and do all we can to obey His commands - including casting out demons.  But we know that after something is cast out, then something better and stronger better take its place or else they will come back worse than before. We've seen people permanently freed from all kinds of things - and we've seen people that didn't keep the doors shut and things jumped back on.

We use the "Cup Model" to simplify this and explain it to people. You can read/watch that here - Fill My Cup, Lord.

The short of it is that we're going to help you get your cup cleaned out, break anything off that may remain - from generational things, involvement in witchcraft, family curses, demonic oppressions, filters, lenses, whatever - then show you how to get your cup full of Jesus and keep it full.  If you DON'T stay IN Christ, stay IN the Strong Tower, then you're not going to be able to really keep the bad guys from messing with you.

So, we're here to help, but understand where we are coming from.  Demons aren't ghosts or harmless spirits that just hang around - they are out to kill you and this is a real war and your only hope is to be FULL of Jesus - and stay that way.  So we're going to help get you fixed up, but we are not going to take responsibility for what happens if you get worse because you didn't follow the prescription.

We have seen people completely delivered from depression, panic attacks, phobias and fears, schizophrenia, suicidal thoughts, self-mutilation (cutting, etc.), anorexia, agorophobia, guilt, self-condemnation, worry, bitterness, unforgiveness, self-hate, anger and others.  We have seen people completely healed from physical problems like lupus, fibromyalgia, heart problems, broken bones, chronic pain, food allergies, epilepsy and seizures, infertility, addiction to Methadone and other drugs, brain problems (confusion, Alzheimers, dyslexia, etc.), and others - even autism in children.  God is good!

This is not about us. There is no power in us. There is only JESUS and He is the Great Physician.

If you need help, please email ( fotm@fellowshipofthemartyrs.com) or call (816-255-5766) and we will do all we can to help you. We do not charge anything - ever. If you are blessed and God moves on your heart to help us do this more, then you're welcome to donate, but there will be no mention of it from us or requirement that you do so.

Know that you're not alone. The days are evil and the enemy of our souls is doing all that he can to do maximum damage before his time runs out.  Hang on a little longer. If the voices are screaming at you to get away from this site (and whatever else they are screaming), then whether you believe in Jesus or not - just tell them to get away from you in the Name of Jesus Christ - and keep saying it until you get the strength you need to contact us.  It's going to be a fight to get free - and to stay free. But God is bigger than those things trying to kill you. Be strong.

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We'll start with the easy ones, OK? Probably not going to get any argument from you on these. Let's not argue right now about whether these will pass down spiritually to your children someday, let's just agree that if you DO this stuff and you have children, it will affect them negatively right now – including their relationship with God.

Unforgiveness

Verse Reference: Matthew 18:35 - “So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.” Mark 11:26 - “ But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Way to Get Under Curse: By not forgiving someone for something – worst of all by being angry at God and not forgiving HIM for something!! Like taking your Dad away when you were two or raising you in a rotten family or not rescuing you from that guy that raped you. VERY bad to have unforgiveness. Worst of all to have it toward God.

Effect of Curse: God will not forgive you for anything during the time you're not forgiving others. You may or may not be His anymore. He may not come and rescue you from demons that are oppressing you. This is a BIG wall between you and will likely clog up your ability to hear with God a LOT.

Way to Get Curse Off: Forgive them all the way and mean it. Ask God to help scrub it out. Say you're sorry for disobeying Him and not acting like Jesus – especially if you told people you were a Christian. Ask Him to forgive you. Look around your environment to see if you've opened the door to this and taught it to you children – that would make it a generational curse.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it's up to you.

Does it Affect Christians: You betcha. No exceptions. It doesn't look like there is any Biblical exemption that says that if you are “saved” and then later start holding an unforgiveness it's OK. By all indications, during the time that you are holding on to unforgiveness, you will not be forgiven by God. If you die with unforgiveness in your heart, you can't Biblically be sure you're going to heaven. I don't see any other way to read that.

This might help you see the danger here –

 http://www.shepherdserve.org/special_reports/daniel_main.htm

Illegal Soul Ties

Verse Reference: I Corinthians 6:15-17 - “15 Don't you realize that your bodies are parts of Christ's body? Should I take the parts of Christ's body and make them parts of a prostitute's body? That's unthinkable! 16 Don't you realize that the person who unites himself with a prostitute becomes one body with her? God says, “The two will be one.” 17 However, the person who unites himself with the Lord becomes one spirit with him.” (God's Word) Genesis 2:23-24 - “24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.” Exodus 20:14-17 - “14 Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15 Thou shalt not steal. 16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17 Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.” (KJV)

Way to Get Under Curse: Sex before marriage – or during marriage with someone other than your spouse. Because Jesus says that if you even THINK about having sex with a woman, you're guilty of adultery, it's possible to have soul ties with people you only fantasized about. What happens in your mind is very powerful. God holds you responsible. Spiritually, you became one flesh with that girl in the centerfold when you had sex with her – you created a soul tie and God will hold you responsible for fornication (or adultery).

Effect of Curse: Going to taint future relationships. Maintains a connection to a past love that can reestablish – in person or in the spiritual (thought life). If it happens after a time that a person has become “saved” there is no indication that it's consequences are invalidated. You became one with some flesh other that the one you were supposed to. That spot is taken and the right person can't fully fill that spot. And God is mad at you because you're unrepentant. Because of the effect it may have on marriage relationship, may also have substantial negative impact on children. If they grow up seeing illegal soul ties and lust and unrepentant hearts, they will likely respond to God likewise. (I see black umbilical cords coming from a persons back or neck.)

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it's up to you.

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and to others as needed, break the ties completely in the natural and in the spirit, make life changes as needed, cover in the Blood.

Does it Affect Christians: Surely. Yes, they are a new creation in Christ and these are broken and washed clean if they repented - but if the ties are new, then they're still active. It's a multiple violation of the Big Ten. If a kid grows up in a lust-filled home, it's likely that they'll related to God like this and be adulterous and disobedient.

Sin

Verse Reference: John 8:34-35, 44-47 - “34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.” “44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.”

Way to Get Under Curse: By sinning – in any of it's flavors or frequencies.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it's up to you.

Effect of Curse: Will make you the son of satan and you will do the lusts of your father the devil. Because you're no longer of God, you can't hear and understand Him anymore.

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent, if you can, and ask the Holy Spirit to help you stop sinning once and for all. Believe that it's possible and stop cutting and pasting parts like this out of the Bible. If you are doing this in your house and your children are watching, you're probably going to pass it down to them and it will affect their relationship with God and thus become a generational curse.

Does it Affect Christians: Not if you stop sinning. You're exempt and you will abide in the house forever if you are a servant and stop sinning. If you're a son of the devil, then you're in outer darkness. Probably going to reall keep you from hearing His voice, too. Unlikely you'll have peace and joy and victory and walk in the fullness of all God has for you – you can't drink from the cup of demons and from the cup of the Lord. Pick a team.

Hate

Verse Reference: I John 4:20 – “If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”

Way to Get Under Curse: By hating your brother – any brother.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it's up to you.

Effect of Curse: God hates liars. And you're a liar if you say you love God and hate your brother, PLUS you're hating your brother! This will REALLY clog up your pipeline to God. It's unlikely you'll hear His voice at all. Then you'll just have to lean on your own understanding and direct your own paths. You'll probably end up surrounding yourself with other men that will tell you what to do, who are also full of hate. If you raise your kids up around this, it will probably affect their relationship with God, fill them with hate and become a generational curse.

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and to the people involved. Make changes in keeping with repentance.

Does it Affect Christians: Not unless you're hating somebody that you're supposed to be loving. You are acting like One Body with all the other Christians, aren't you?

Fornicators, Idolaters, Adulterers, Homosexuals, Thieves, Greedy, Drunks, Haters,

Slanderers, Extortioners

Verse Reference: I Corinthians 6:9-11 - “9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

Way to Get Under Curse: Doing any of those things.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it's up to you.

Effect of Curse: You will NOT inherit the kingdom of God. That means you can't walk in the fullness of what He has for you right now and you won't go to heaven. Is there another way to read that?

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and those harmed. Make fruit in keeping with repentance.

Does it Affect Christians: Not unless they do any of those things. And if they do, they stop being washed, sanctified and justified and they get dirty again. They will get seperated from God by their sin and it will clog up their hearing really good. If they have kids that watch them and grow up around this as they get more and more depraved, but think they're fine because they go to “church” - the kids will surely grow up with a whacked relationship with God and will probably do many of these things themselves. Then it becomes a generational curse. Know any greedy Christians? Seen any on TV? Any drunkards? Doesn't have to be alcohol, could be donuts or fried chicken.

Are you getting this yet? You'll find lots of websites that say that talk of Generational Curses is a heresy because once we're washed with the Blood of Jesus none of that stuff can stick to us. I hope I just showed you that it can clearly still affect Christians. If you raise your child in a home full of rebellion, you can expect a rebellious child. My point is that people may want to dismiss Old Testament curses, but they don't get the very

practical, real world FACT that family systems cycle and repeat. There HAS to be something in play here. Never mind your theology and your interpretation and your desire to diminish and dismiss the Old Testament – what's happening in the REAL WORLD?

In a previous career I was Director of Residence Life and Student Life at a small private college. We had a freshman girl who was having a horrible time. She had attempted suicide twice (mostly to get attention), she was cutting herself, she started a fire in the student union. She had decided she was gay, but that was only because the idea of being with a man disgusted her so much. The lesbian students didn't want to have anything to do with her because she was so mangled up. She had been raped by her older brother from when she was five to about fifteen (as I recall). Nobody in the family had ever done anything about it. Mom was oblivious. Now, finally, just before she went to college, it all came out and the family was torn into pieces. The father was defending the brother, it was going to court, the brother was in jail, she was going to have to testify against him, and she was a wreck. I told the father that we couldn't have her on campus anymore because she was just too big a mess and

we weren't equipped for that. She was consuming six or eight hours a day of staff time by herself without any progress! He looked me in the eye and said to me, “We sent her to college here, now she's your problem.” Then the mother, between tissues, looked at me and said something I'll never forget. She said, “I just don't understand how this could have been happening all those years right under our noses. I should have seen it!

The same thing happened to me.” And they were ALL church members.

OK, so what is that?! Is that a bunch of demons in a family tree or what? Is that a house full of lust and adultery and rebellion or what? If there is such a thing as a generational curse, they got a big one. Way back then, I had no idea how to handle anything spiritually, so I recommended they put her into residential treatment and medicate her. That's probably what they did, because I never saw her again. I pray to God that she's still alive and there's a way for her to find peace and joy and victory in Jesus. And I'm sorry for not being better prepared to handle that the Godly way.

Those same people that say Generational Curses aren't real, also probably don't believe in witches or cursed objects or that satan has ANY effect on us anymore. They probably think the war is over and done with and there's nobody left to fight. Or you can just quote the Bible to anything that comes for you and they'll run away. I got news for you, they'll quote the Bible right back to you! If you're not walking clean before the Lord, you don't have any authority to be throwing around the name of Jesus any more than the sons of Sceva did. (Acts 19)

Here's another shocker for all those folks that don't believe Generational Curses are real.

The word “heresy” means “a difference in doctrine” or a “faction” and those who participate with them will not inherit the kingdom of heaven. For example here -

Galatians 5:19-21 (KJV) - 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21 (Amplified) - 19 Now the doings (practices) of the flesh are clear (obvious): they are immorality, impurity, indecency, 20 Idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger (ill temper), selfishness, divisions (dissensions), party spirit (factions, sects with peculiar opinions, heresies), 21 Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:19-21 (Darby) – 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, disputes, schools of opinion, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.

So try this Generational Curse on for size:

Denominationalism (Factions, party spirit, heresies, disputes, strifes, envyings, idolatry, hatred)

Verse Reference: See Galatians 6:19-21. I Corinthians 1:12-13, I Corinthians 3:1-4

Way to Get Under Curse: By being a part of, supporting, encouraging, agreeing with, or otherwise fomenting a division/sect/denomination within the Body of Christ.

Length of Curse: Indeterminate – it's up to you.

Effect of Curse: You WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. How much more clear does a verse have to be? And that's the New Testament by the way. You are carnal and you are worldly and you will not inherit the Kingdom of God. If you have made up your own doctrine and dogma that explains away this CLEAR, UNAVOIDABLE instruction in the Word of God, then you have cut and pasted the Bible and you're also subject to the curse in Revelation 22:19 that says you will be erased out of the Book of Life. You have created your own mystery religion, set up your own idols, followed men instead of God and you're off the reservation. You will not inherit the fullness of what He has for you right now and Biblically it seems clear that you're not going to go to heaven. Since it's likely that you will take your children into that same cult you joined and indoctrinate them into your mystery religion, it's likely that this generational disobedience and rebellion will continue and become a curse upon you and all your children. You are also under a Red Dragon curse from God (See Appendix B).

Way to Get Curse Off: If you can and you're eyes are still blinded, repent to God for not obeying Him and His Word, repent to all the people that are also trapped because of you, put all sects behind you and produce fruit in keeping with repentance. Listen to Him really good and do whatever He tells you.

Does it Affect Christians: ABSOLUTELY NOT. Biblically speaking as soon as you joined a “Faction” you went your own way and stopped inheriting the Kingdom anyway. So you're not really a Christian anymore and you're not in the Book of Life. Is there any other way to read this? If I were you, I'd be VERY afraid, just in case.

I Corinthians 3:1-4 (KJV) - “1 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able to bear it: nay, not even now are ye able; 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men? 4 For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?”

Rev 22:19 (KJV) - “And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.“

Did that get your attention? You don't think there are Generational Curses? Go look what people that said they were Christians have done to oppress and dumb down and make sure whole family trees were on the Broad Path to hell while they were all being told they could be absolutely sure they were “saved” and safe. Now, if you don't mind, I'm just going to proceed with my discussion of Generational Curses from the Old Testament. Just in case they might also be affecting people spiritually.

Witchcraft

Verse Reference: Exodus 20:5 (KJV) - “5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;”

Way to Get Under Curse: The best way to show you hate God is by worshiping false gods and messing with witchcraft. I'm not going to quote all the witchcraft verses here because they're in Appendix E. But ANY dabbling with stuff from foreign gods (which doesn't mean un-American, it means ANY God that ain't Jehovah!) will invoke this upon you.

Length of Curse: Three or four generations. About 100 to 150 years.

Effect of Curse: Increasing rebellion and distance from God. Increasingly difficult to turn back. Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God substantially and thoroughly. Wash it all in the Blood. Break any ties to Familiars. Get anything out of your house that is related. May require lifestyle or location changes. Repent to all the people you took down a path to hell.

Does it Affect Christians: If they mess with witchcraft, it sure does. Even if they washed it clean before, if they pick it up, it can still affect them. If a child was dedicated to satan, that child is tagged. The Blood of Jesus can wash it off, but not unless you ask Him to. If you don't have, it's because you don't ask.

Bastard Curse

Verse Reference: Deuteronomy 23:2 (KJV) - “A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD. 3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever: 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.

Way to Get Under Curse: Sexual illegitimacy either by babies born before marriage or babies born by people you're not married to. The Ammonites and the Moabites were the descendants of Bennami and Moab the sons of Lot's daughters that were conceived by incest. Later on, God curses them, not just because they are rebellious and fail to come to the aid of family, but also because they are illegitimate, bastard sons to the 10th generation. King David brought this curse on his family line by his relationship with Bathsheba – complicated by his murder of her husband – the result was increasing rebellion and perversion in his house for generations. Even though he repented for the act, and that particular child died, it remains an active curse on the family tree.

Length of Curse: Ten generations – minimum 400 years.

Effect of Curse: Rebellion, inability to get along in fellowship with others, inability to develop intimacy with the Lord, increasing sexual perversion, increasing problems in each subsequent generation. (I see this as a big fat black umbilical cord coming from a person's back.)

Way to Get Curse Off: Repent to God and confess your sins and the sins of your forefathers. Ask the Lord to break it and sever it on you and all of your descendants to the tenth generation. Cover it in the Blood of Jesus. It's important that you have legal ground for this. That means that you need to be the head, or the spiritual leader of the family. If the husband doesn't know Jesus, the wife can do it. It should be the first born or the eldest living male, if possible to scrub it out across all cousins and nephews and all.

Does is Affect Christians: I have definitely seen it affect Christians and make a huge difference in their walk with God when it's broken. The Blood of Jesus is sufficient, but if we're taught to disregard parts of the Bible and that they're not even real, then we don't ask the Lord to apply the Blood to those things and they remain “live”. If this is in play, it will really clog up communication with the Throne. It's like a glass ceiling, where people are trying to grow in Christ and have intimacy, but just seem to keep bouncing off of this ceiling and can't get any farther. MANY lives have been changed by breaking this one.

This particular curse is REALLY nasty and satan wants to get it instituted across all the world. The African- American community in America has been decimated by it. This trend of young girls having babies is creating massive spiritual problems and will keep many from the kingdom

if we don't start breaking this off of people. This curse can last 400 years!! We're talking about someone in your family tree that was a Christian but misbehaved even many generations ago. This curse isn't on the “world” for doing what the “world” does. This is a curse on the children of God for not obeying His laws about sexual behavior. People that say curses are real, but not on Christians need to explain why God keeps cursing His own children over and over in the Bible, but He won't do it to us? (Read Deut. 28!). He loves us more than He loved the children of Israel? We're the grafted in vine, THEY are the natural vine. Why should we think we're going to get more grace? If we was willing to whack them, He's willing to whack us just as hard. Those curses on natural Israel had natural consequences with spiritual after effects – the women actually did end up eating their babies in the book of Lamentations, just like Deuteronomy 28 said would happen. On spiritual Israel, those curses have spiritual consequences with natural after effects. We're still turning our children over to foreign nations, but we call them MTV and Wicca and Islam and Humanism and Evolution. They may not go in chains marching across the desert, but they're just as much in chains.

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Let's just start with what the Word of God says, so that you don't think I'm making this stuff up. All I'm doing is standing with faith like a child that the Word of God is true and this is a real thing, not justfigurative.

Psalms 18:29-42 (ASV)

29 For by thee I run upon a troop; And by my God do I leap over a wall. 30 As for God, his way is perfect: The word of Jehovah is tried; He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him. 31 For who is God, save Jehovah? And who is a rock, besides our God, 32 The God that girdeth me with strength, And maketh my way perfect? 33 He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: And setteth me upon my high places. 34 He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass. 35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation; And thy right hand hath holden me up, And thy gentleness hath made me great. 36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped. 37 I will

pursue mine enemies, and overtake them; Neither will I turn again till they are consumed. 38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise: They shall fall under my feet. 39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. 40 Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me. 41 They cried, but there was none to save; Even unto Jehovah, but he answered them not. 42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.

Psalms 35:1-10 (KJV) – 1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. 2 Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. 3 Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. 4 Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt. 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them. 6 Let their way be dark and slippery: and let the angel of the LORD persecute them. 7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. 9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD: it shall rejoice in his salvation. 10 All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?

Those who say that we only have the Sword of Spirit mentioned in Ephesians 6, need to note that here we see bows and spears and all kinds of offensive and defensive equipment and maneuvers – including calling up angels to help fight for you. These verses indicate that God Himself will teach you to do war (that's what He did with me). He will defend you. He will hide you. He will confuse them and distract them and have them turn their back and then He will help you smash your enemies into itty-bitty little pieces and grind them into the dirt! He will send them someplace from which they cannot come back. Go God! These are not figurative or theoretical shields or “hedges” - if satan can see them and has to respect them, they are very much real. It should be clear that these are not “natural” or physical enemies – David is talking about things seeking his soul, not just his life.

Job 1:8-10 (KJV)

8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? 9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? 10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Satan could not violate that hedge. It wasn't a three foot tall wall of evergreens like we think of a “hedge” out in front of the house. This was a mighty spiritual wall that fully surrounded Job and all of his house and his people. There were no cracks or seams or openings. This was a dome – more than a dome, this was a sphere. Fully compassed round about. More verses about that. We may think of a hedge as a little thing, or a shield as something you hold on your arm that the enemy could get around – but in the spirit, these are spheres that fully surround in every way and leave no access for the enemy.

Psalms 5:11-12 (KJV) – 11 But let all those that put their trust in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee. 12 For thou, LORD, wilt bless the righteous; with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield.

Here are lots more, so that you know I'm not just using a couple to make my point.

2 Sam 22:3 (KJV) – The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

2 Sam 22:36 (KJV) – Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation: and thy gentleness hath made me great.

Psalms 3:3 (KJV) – But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Psalms 7:10 (ASV) – My shield is with God, Who saveth the upright in heart.

Psalms 18:2-3 (ASV) – 2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower. 3 I will call upon Jehovah, who is worthy to be praised: So shall I be saved from mine enemies.

Psalms 33:20-21 (KJV) – 20 Our soul waiteth for the LORD: he is our help and our shield. 21 For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

Psalms 18:17-18 (ASV) – 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; For they were too mighty for me. 18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.

Psalms 28:6-8 (ASV) – 6 Blessed be Jehovah, Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications. 7 Jehovah is my strength and my shield; My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; And with my song will I praise him. 8 Jehovah is their strength, And he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

Psalms 84:8-12 (KJV) – 8 O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah. 9 Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

Psalms 89:15-18 (ASV) – 15 Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: They walk, O Jehovah, in the light of thy countenance. 16 In thy name do they rejoice all the day; And in thy righteousness are they exalted. 17 For thou art the glory of their strength; And in thy favor our horn shall be exalted. 18 For our shield belongeth unto Jehovah; And our king to the Holy One of Israel.

Psalms 115:11 (KJV) – Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

Psalms 119:114 (KJV) – Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

Psalms 144:1-2 (KJV) – Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight: 2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

Prov 2:7-8 (ASV) – 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to them that walk in integrity; 8 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.

Prov 30:5 (KJV) – Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

Eph 6:11-18 (KJV) – 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; 15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: 18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Personal Shields

OK, boy, I really don't want to do this. I've resisted this and it's just about the last thing to write on this book, but I'm told I have to lay it all out there, no matter how crazy it sounds, and I have to finish this today, so here goes.

Because we went through such a radical time of warfare and we were dealing with all kinds of stuff, we got REALLY motivated to understand everything we could about shields! We knew that by anointing the furniture store, we were setting up a wall (or sphere), but as Discernment of Spirits increased, I started actually seeing the sphere – like a shiny, opaque, white dome over the top (and under the ground). Sometimes someone would come into the shop and bring all kinds of nasty stuff in riding on them. And since they were invited to come in, we gave it legal ground to come in. There was no way around that. But we had to keep cleaning out the inside of the shield all the time. Sometimes they would jump on us and we'd have to deal with that. (At the time, I can't say that we all had all of our doorways shut.) If you wanted to blast the sphere out, you could pick the stuff off individually with the Sword, or just dialed your light up inside the sphere and find anything that was hiding. Or you could shockwave it with a big blast wave of the Holy Spirit by just taking everything in your cup and compressing it down real tight until it exploded like a supernova. (Well, that's how He taught us anyway.)

We began to also make sure that we each had a good personal shield working. The Word says that if you bind it on earth it will be bound in heaven. I know this is a little touchy, but the key to the spiritual realms and seeing what is happening in the “real” world is through the mind. That is, I asked the Lord for a personal shield and what I pictured in my mind was that it would be a perfectly round, white bubble all around my body. Since that's what I asked for, that's what I got. That was “Personal Shield Version 1.0.” If you had two people with bubbles, when they got together, the bubbles would kind of pop together into one, like reverse cell division or when you blow soap bubbles and two of them join together to make a big one. It kept the bad stuff out, so long as we didn't get too close to somebody – like hug them or shake hands – then their stuff would jump into our bubble. That got old really fast. You can't minister to somebody like that!

So we asked the Lord for an upgrade. We didn't really understand that we had dictated the terms of the shield by our own preconceptions of what it would do and look like. But the Lord was patient and walked us up through this progression to build our faith. As we learned more about the personal shields, that naturally influenced the shields we prayed up over the shop or homes or the city – or vice versa. We prayed for a harder shell so that demons couldn't suck through into our shields from other people. That was Personal Shield 2.0. If they got near enough it either bound them onto the person or pushed the demons off until they got back outside our shield. That worked better and we saw a lot of fruit from that. But we still had to be constantly maintaining our shields because the enemy would beat them down or crack them or sneak in somehow. Sometimes we would make an opening by disobedience or let them in some other way. He says that He compasses the righteous round about, the “mostly righteous” have a mostly intact sphere! Which is like a submarine with screen doors.

We were constantly having to defend the furniture store sphere because it was under attack all the time. I know that sounds crazy, but it's true. Lots of people can testify to it. There was just a constant flow of people needing help and lots of people getting saved and healed and delivered and lots of talk about being one body – even some of the pastors in town that were helping and starting to get on board. The enemy REALLY didn't like it! At one point, when we were out on the sidewalk repenting and confessing for the city for two days and nights in the summer heat (another long story there), we were getting spiritually pounded on and the people repenting couldn't really do warfare and repent before the throne at the same time. We had to have someone defending us, while we were crying out to God. At one point the person that was supposed to be doing that got distracted, our sphere got penetrated and repentance stopped. (You can't repent in spirit and in truth unless God pours it out on you and that's ALWAYS what the enemy wants to keep from happening.) Just then I got a cell phone call from a prophet I know from Jerusalem. He prayed for us and without asking or anything he prayed up a shield around us and asked the Lord to surround it with giant rings of Holy Spirit fire! Well, I had never thought of that, but as soon as he prayed it, I could see the sphere and the fire rings! That was COOL! And that sphere lasted a

LOT longer than what we were doing before. Eventually the combined force against it got through, but it lasted two or three times longer. So we started praying fire rings around the spheres. That was Personal Shield 2.5.

At one point I was still not satisfied that they required so much maintenance and really felt like there should be SOME way to have a permanent shield. So I pestered God to tell me how to get a shield that wouldn't be able to be compromised. He showed me a picture of the Spirograph game/toy that I had as a kid. Basically they are these little clear plastic gears and cogs that you put a pen through and they make intersecting arcs and spirals and make really complex, intersecting, overlapping flower shapes. The Lord showed me that picture and said, “Call up some fire angels and have them do laps around your sphere like the Spirograph. Overlapping, interlocking, rings of fire that are constantly self-renewing and by the time the enemy gets through one, the angels will be coming back over that area to renew the fire ring.” COOL!! But isnt' that kind of boring for the poor angels doing laps around me endlessly? Well, evidently not. They don't really seem to get impatient or bored.

So we started praying that and saw immediate results. No more stuff getting into the spheres, unless we purposely let it in or go in too close a proximity to it. Self-renewing fire rings around the shop also ended the need for constant maintenance on that shield. Made a difference for the city, too. That was Personal Shield 2.75.

Then at one point Lord just sort of whispered to me at one point and said, “You know it's just your brain that thinks shields that “compass round about” need to be a spherical bubble.” Huh? I hadn't really thought through how I was binding that, but I did totally put God in a box and impose my own filter on it. “Lord, so, a shield could be a square or a star or irregular or anything?” Yep. “How do the angels do laps at full speed around something that isn't round?” Don't worry about it. Physics don't work like that here. “So the shield could be skin tight, like spandex, so I can be close to people without them being in my sphere?”

Sure.

“GREAT!! Do it, Lord! Pretty please?”

So He did. We upgraded to skin tight shields with self-renewing fire rings. If something did get in, it was real easy to spot and feel because there was really nowhere to hide. You could just blast the sphere a teeny bit and clean it out because it was so tight. But it was still possible for stuff to get in. That was Personal Shield 3.0.

During all of this we're also getting instruction and revelation about how to get personally cleaned out. About the cups and the Jezebel and all the other strongholds. We're progressively getting each other more and more shiny by walking in righteousness, crucifying pieces of ourselves daily and pouring out all we have on the poor and the poor in spirit. So it's all sort of interwoven in ways I can't explain. I'm not suggesting that you take this path or that God will do it this way with you. I'm, frankly, hoping that you just skip right over all the intermediate steps and ask Him for the best possible shield right away. I'm just trying to show you how He built our faith and proved to us OVER and OVER that the shields work and that it's not Him that fails, it's us. When we were ready for an upgrade, He suggested to us that we ask and what to ask for. He directed all of the steps in ways I can't even describe.

Anyway, about this time He puts us through a deep, gut-wrenching, tearful curriculum about witchcraft and manipulation and how VERY, VERY dangerous it is to be a person with a prophetic calling and a big anointing (or just the average person made in the image of God) and then speak words that aren't from God. You can REALLY do a lot of damage and bind things that shouldn't be bound. At one point, my two little girls are fighting at home on either side of a door, both tugging on the doorknob. I said, “Be careful, somebody is going to get hurt.” BAM!! Just like that one of them catches the doorknob in the eyeball! And the Lord says to me, “You did that.” Huh?!! “Yep. You said someone WOULD get hurt, so they did. If you had said someone might get hurt you would have left my options open. But I'm going to honor the words of your mouth. You did that to your daughter.” OUCH!!

Then work one day, I'm walking one of the sisters to the front of the store as she's leaving to go get her kids from school. We're having a prayer meeting that night, so I say to her without thinking, “See you tonight.” She says, “No, I have something with my Mom we've been planning for a long time.... Uh, wait .... Now I'm hearing I'm coming to the prayer meeting. But I was sure that God wanted me with my Mom.” “Huh?! Lord, what just happened?” I say.

He says, “Well you said that you would see her tonight so now you have to see her tonight.”

“NO, NO, NO!! That's just not going to fly!! I can't be doing that!! I can't be making other people adjust their lives over an off-handed comment like that! If she was supposed to minister to her Mom and misses it because of this, it's my fault and all the blood of the missed opportunities is on my head! We can't be having this! I renounce that in the Name of Jesus. She can do whatever the Lord wants her to do tonight!” So she got a confirmation that she was free and off she went to get her kids and see her Mom. (A whole lot of the stuff we learned you could ONLY learn around people that understood the complete meaning of the word “ALL” and didn't take a step without God directing it. I really appreciate them for what they taught me about ALL.)

Do you see how dangerous this is? I asked the Lord if I had been doing that a lot and He said yes. Were people doing it to me? Oh yeah, all the time. Well, that just stinks!! How can anybody have a ministry or accomplish anything or even walk with God if people around them are speaking curses and it's sticking?! I had no idea that I was doing that! I wasn't doing it maliciously or intentionally, but just all kinds of things popped out of my mouth that I know were squirreling with things. We don't get that He will adjust His perfect will to us sometimes. We're joint heirs and adopted sons, He'll give us stuff we want sometimes, even if it's bad for us! I saw the horrifying, big picture consequences for this kind of stuff if you project it out, realized that it was not pleasing to Him – and impossible to accomplish all that He wants you to do – and I started begging and pleading God for an anti-witchcraft shield – incoming AND outgoing. I didn't want anybody binding me and I sure didn't want to bind anybody! Not just against witches and satanists, but against my own family and friends and others Christians. I don't want ANYBODY speaking words that are going to bind me except God Himself! And I don't want to bind anybody either and keep them from walking in His perfect will. So the Lord granted an really tough, really strong, hard shell, skin-tight, permanent fire rings, anti-witchcraft incoming and outgoing shield. That was Personal Shield Version. 4.0.

I was at a Sonic with a brother and he wanted to order his favorite – the Super Sonic Extreme Tots with jalapenos and chili and cheese – but he didn't have any Pepsid or Tums or anything and it always gave him heartburn. I told him that when I fast six or seven days without food OR water, I usually end the fast with a double cheeseburger with bacon, onion rings and a shake and I pray on it first and claim God's promises that we can drink deadly poison without it hurting us and it goes down just fine. So he order the Tots, prayed and didn't have any trouble at all.

I think that sort of planted a seed because I started asking the Lord for another shield upgrade that would protect us even more. We had been fighting some internal physical problems as we continued to get more cleaned out. The shields don't really do any good if you've got your own demons on you that you haven't dealt with! I asked the Lord if we could have an all the time internal and external shield. He said, “Yes.” But I gotta see it in the Word, so He sent me to this:

Mark 16:17-18 (KJV) – 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

I know that there are lots of times where the Bible refers to snakes or scorpions and they're talking about demons. We already had shields that allowed us to handle the “snakes” without them hurting us. We were ripping and tearing the bad guys off of people all the time. But this says that even if you get deadly things inside of you they won't hurt you. So I took this as a confirmation that it's possible to have an internal and external permanent shield. So we asked the Lord for it and said to just tilt my head back, open my mouth and believe in faith. And then He just smothered me with the Blood of Jesus inside and out. Just poured it in me until it was coming out my toenails and out every pore. Just saturated completely. Then two angels showed up with flamethrower looking things and heated it up and baked it all down. The end result was that in the spirit, it looked like a solid silver, skin tight shield. Like the “Silver Surfer” in the Marvel comic books (or movie), or the bad guy in Terminator 2. (This is the point at which normally I might apologize again for sounding crazy, but I just don't care anymore. Take it or leave it, that's what it looked like.)

And the shield works really well. It doesn't mean you can't get sick or nothing can still get in, but it's a much better protection that we had before. That was Personal Shield Version 5.0. That was around August of 2006. It held for a long time without and problems and I had no indication there was a better shield – or motivation to ask for one.

Just after Christmas of 2006, I was in Branson when God dropped this HUGE bombshell on me. Practically crippling. There are lots of times that He has put me on my face crying like a baby, but this was almost more than I could bear. The same sister whom I had bound about going to her mothers had a good anti-witchcraft shield and neither of had been binding each other (or others for months). But all of a sudden she has to drive to Branson to help me with something, but it makes no sense. What she says she's coming to do doesn't even need doing and I can't figure out what God is up to. But it's going to substantially inconvenience her and her three kids. I'm on the phone with her about it and seeking the Lord and I don't know what else to do, so I release her from anything in anyway that I might have bound her to have to go to Branson. And she gets released! I get off the phone with her and start really seeking God and pressing in for answers on this.

“Lord, is my anti-witchcraft shield still holding?”

“Yes.”

“So how did I bind her? What was this about?”

“It's a lot deeper than that. You both want to be a part of something, so I'm honoring the intentions of your heart. You want to be a team and build something for me.”

“HUH?! I didn't even SPEAK it and I'm binding stuff? I never even once thought that she needed to go to Branson! Was it me or her?”

“Both.”

“HUH?! I don't get it.”

“I'm going to honor your prayers.”

Well, at this point I'm in the bathroom at the hotel on my face crying and groaning like crazy. He gives me the verse that says, “May the words of my mouth and the meditations of my mind be acceptable to you, O Lord.” (Ps. 19:14) And that God judges even the intentions of our heart! (Gen. 6:5; Gen. 8:21; Hebrews 4:12)

“Are you KIDDING ME?!! You're going to bind people based on things I'm praying for that are SUBCONSCIOUS?! I'm binding people in ways I don't even know I'm binding them even though I'm not even speaking or THINKING anything?! That's horrible!! I mean, I love You, that's really sweet that you're granting the intentions of my heart and all, but I don't WANT THAT!! This is horrible!! You'll adjust Your perfect will to suit me because I want something I don't even know I want?”

“Yep.”

“NO, NO, NO!! That's no good! If I look longingly at my secretary's cleavage without even knowing I did it, You might just grant the intention of my heart and I'll have an affair?! NO! I have no idea what kind of consequences could result from all of this!! This could wreck everything!! How can we get anything done for You like this?!! This is horrible! How much of all of my life and ministry and relationships is based on You answering the intentions of my heart instead of really being Your Perfect Will?”

“Some.”

“NO! NO!! NO!!! Oh God, I'm so sorry!!! That's not going to work at all!! I love You. It's really beautiful that you give us stuff we don't even know we want or need, but this has GOT to stop!! I don't want You to be constantly adjusting Your perfect will to me – I want YOU to adjust ME to YOUR perfect will!! This is horrible! Do whatever you have to do and make this stop!”

“It's your birthright.”

“Well, I love You for it and it's really, REALLY pretty that You, the God of the Universe, would allow Your plans to be subverted to please me, even if it's bad for me and works counter to what You want, but NO, NO, NO!! This is HORRIBLE! We've ALL been doing this to You in some way, haven't we Lord?!”

“Everybody but Jesus.”

“Are you telling me that if He had even had an intention of His heart ANYWHERE deep down in there to call up 10,000 angels and get Him off the Cross, You would have answered it?! ANYTHING in Him ANYWHERE? He laid it ALL down, even that deep? He didn't even hold anything subconscious back?!”

“Yep.”

“OH, GOD!! OH, GOD!! I had NO idea He was THAT pure!! Oh, GOD!! How is that even possible!?! I had NO idea!! Oh, Thank You, Jesus!! I had NO idea!! Oh, GOD! Bless Your Holy Name!! You're so Holy!! I had no idea!” (Like that with lots of blubbering for a long time. Just trying to be transparent here.)

“Lord, I know that no man can take this from me. I know it's my birthright. But I lay it down right now. Jesus laid it all down. He said that He only said and did what You told Him to. He totally submitted to You on every possible level. He agreed to let You have Your way and not do anything that He wanted. He prayed that in the Garden with tears of blood! I agree Lord, I lay it down right now. Please, from now on, completely ignore ANY prayer I pray – outloud, mentally or in the deepest intentions or desires of my heart!! Ignore ANYTHING coming from me that didn't originate with YOU. Please ignore everything from me from now on that isn't YOUR perfect, pleasing will! Don't even answer the phone when I call unless it's YOU talking through me! I don't want anything of me to color any of this anymore. Please take everything in my life, every promise You've made me, all of me, my ministry, all of my stuff, my marriage, my kids, my friends – all of it and reboot it to the way YOU wanted it all along!! Whatever it takes. Even unto my own salvation, that You would be glorified in every way and set this right. I'm sorry, LORD!! OH, GOD!! Do it NOW!! Whatever it costs!! I mean it! I'm so sorry!!”

(And more blubbering for quite a while until He told me to get up and stop crying.) But as I was praying, at one point He said to receive it and watch, and He started pouring into me and I saw the silver shield start turning into gold, starting at my feet and working it's way up until I was totally gold all over, inside and out. I had no idea what that was at the time, but it wasn't over yet. Technically, He says that was Personal Shield Version 6.0.

That was December 30, 2006. What followed after that was three days of the worst brain-numbing, mind-pretzel

I've ever been through in my whole life. I've been through a lot in this walk with God – I've seen a lot – I've fought

a lot and had to work through all kinds of complex things, but NOTHING was like that! EVERYTHING around

me looked like it was completely unraveling. I had written Him a blank check and told Him to reboot it all back to

the way He wanted it before the intentions of my heart squirreled it up. There is NO telling what that looked like!

I could be in the wrong city, the wrong marriage, the wrong ministry. Maybe I was supposed to be dead by now.

Maybe somebody around me was supposed to be dead. Maybe I was supposed to be in jail. You can't possibly

get your head around how writing Him a blank check like that might throw your whole world into complete chaos

until the pieces all get reset! Of course, it's not chaos to Him, but it sure can feel like it to us!

Relationships with EVERYBODY started flipping and convulsing. Plans that I thought were firm were canceled then reaffirmed then canceled again.Best friends severing ties with me and dusting their feet off - literally! Others the Lord told me I couldn't contact anymore. I wasn't hearing Him the way I used to, there was just MASSIVE static and flux everywhere. For someone that is used to being plugged into the Source all the time (and having peace that passes understanding most of the time), even a momentary signal disruption is distressing, but this was for DAYS while everything did flip-flops in front of my eyes!! And I couldn't get anymore out of Him than, “Rest.” I didn't care a whit about the enemy or spiritual warfare, I understood that the biggest enemy to God's plans was ME!! I have a VERY high tolerance for change and for brain pretzels, but at the end of this, I spent about 20 hours sleeping because I just had to shut down before my head exploded. I told everybody and everything to leave me alone and crawled up into a ball in His lap and slept for a day. When I woke up, my shield as pure, spotless white. Not opaque, frosty white. PURE transparent white light. I have no idea how He did it, but those three days were like Jonah in the whale or Jesus in the tomb. At the end of it, something new came out.

He swept everything clean. All the way down to the foundation! I had my heartbeat, a van, a laptop and two little suitcases of clothes. That's it. Otherwise I had no idea what was going to be left. Then He started to put things back. This time I knew that if He put it there, it was His perfect will and not mine. Since January 2, my walk has been radically different. Things just happen. Doors just open or close. If I talk too long on the phone, God hangs it up. If I try to check my email when He told me not to, the computer crashes. I haven't seen anyone bind me or

me bind them in any way. I can't ask anybody for anything because I have to depend on Him completely. I havea freaky high Gift of Faith that is far beyond what I had before (which I thought was a lot then). I don't understand it and I don't know the limits of it, but I know that I'm ABSOLUTELY confident that I'm in His perfect will and I'm not coloring it or nudging it one direction or the other. Last night I was on a phone call that was about to run too long, so the fire alarm in the hotel went off! I said goodbye and hung up and the INSTANT I put the receiver down the alarm stops! The Lord sort of grinned at me and chuckled. Stuff like that is happening every day. Plus I'm hearing Him really good and it's been VERY reliable. A lot more than before. I don't expect you to believe me, but I know what I know. This is about faith after all. If you believe your shield will hold, then it will hold. If you believe that the enemy will get you and eat you, then he will get you and eat you.

I've seen other people pray the White Shield prayer, but it's not get to 100% coverage. And we're back to a submarine with screen doors. What good is a shield that blocks 93.5% of the intentions of your heart from binding things? Might as well have not bothered. The problem is that they don't actually want to give it all up or don't actually believe that God could KEEP them from sinning. But the Bible is clear that His intentions and desire is to have people that have such a heart for Him that they will willingly subvert ALL of their will to His and let HIM keep them from sinning. Read Deuteronomy 5:29 – Oh, that there were such a heart in SOMEONE that they would let me write my law on their hearts and keep them from sinning that it might go well with them and their descendants forever! He's desperate for somebody to be like Jesus and push ALL their chips – even the subconscious ones – out onto the table and bet it all on God, all the time, every day. That was Personal Shield Version 7.0 and He says that's as good as it gets. Go figure.

That's all I know. If you can and He says you're read, pray for the White Shield. But be ready for your whole life to be rebooted. There's really no telling how much of everything that you've built was YOU.

Personal Shield Upgrade Path

1.0 Bubbles

2.0 Hard Shell Bubbles

2.5 Fire Rings

2.75 Permanent Self-Renewing Fire Rings

3.0 Skin Tight

4.0 Anti-Witchcraft

5.0 Silver Internal/External

6.0 Gold

7.0 White Anti-Intentions of the Heart

Territorial, Regional and City Shields

Basically, the Word is clear that the Lord SEEKS people that will spiritually defend the ground and His people. He will always try raise up someone that will be instant in season and out of season with a correction or a reproof – so that God's people might grow up and be mature. He is actively seeking people to lay everything down if necessary and stand in the gap to defend the cities (and children and homes and nations).

Ezek 13:4-5 (KJV) – 4 O Israel, thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts. 5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

Ezek 22:29-31 (KJV) – 29 The people of the land have used oppression, and exercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and needy: yea, they have oppressed the stranger wrongfully. 30 And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none. 31 Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon

them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord GOD.

Here He is clear that even ONE MAN would have kept Him from having to pour out His indignation on the city and the nation. If ANYBODY had put Him first and believed in faith that God would be their rear guard, there's no telling how it might have been different. I believe God is finally raising up those people to save this generation. People that understand that SOMEBODY has to stand in the gap or we're all toast. “Saved” or not, if you're not standing in the gap or helping rebuild the wall, then you're not obeying Him. Odds are good that you're a friend of the world and not really as “saved” as you think you are.

You need to keep your own house, business, cars, etc. fully armored up. That means get it cleaned out, anoint it, ask the Lord to put up a shield and station angels round about and keep the sphere cleaned out. If something comes in, you need to be sensitive enough to the Spirit and to the environment (and the people in it) that you know something is wrong and you seek God about what to do about it.

I'm not going to deal with city, regional or national shields here. If you're qualified to do anything of that scale, then you're capable of having Him explain it to you Himself. (But If you're not walking in holiness, your prayers are probably bouncing off of brass. The enemy will try to get you to launch off on some critically important quest to save the world. Just make sure it's God and don't make it about YOU. If you have a Red Dragon, you're probably off track and don't even know it – and probably can't be convinced of it. See Appendix B.)

Cloaks

2 Kings 6:13-23 (KJV) – 13 And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan. 14 Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about. 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man;

and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha. 18 And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto the LORD, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha. 19 And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. But he led them to Samaria. 20 And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria. 21 And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them? 22 And he answered, Thou shalt not smite them: wouldest thou smite those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master. 23 And he prepared great provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. So the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

That's one of my favorite passages! We get to see how Elisha sees in the spirit, how he imparts that gift to his servant (by intercession), how he prays specifically against the enemy, how he marches out in faith to meet them believing God answered his prayer, we get to see how easy it is for God to blind His enemies, then we get to see mercy in the handling of them. And victory because they leave Israel alone after that! Here we see a great example of a “Cloak” in process. Elisha is right there in front of them, but the Lord blinds them. I've seen that happen personally. I've been standing in front of someone for an hour and they never saw me at all.

Richard Wurmbrand was the founder of Voice of the Martyrs and was imprisoned and tortured repeatedly over the course of decades in Russia for smuggling Bibles and for preaching the Gospel. He tells stories that he used to drive a car across the border with a special hidden compartment under the trunk to smuggle two or three Bibles at a time. God told him to fill the trunk and trust Him. So He did and the guards eyes were blinded. Then he would fill the whole back seat as well. The guards would say, “What are you coming in for?” He would say, “I'm smuggling Bibles.” And they would laugh and laugh at his funny joke and wave him through! THAT is a Cloak! Christians in countries undergoing lots of persecution absolutely stand in faith and depend on that God can hide them from the eyes of the enemy. I could give you LOTS of stories. Do a Google search for Richard Wurmbrand and read some of his books. Or go to www.VoiceOfTheMartyrs.com

Psalms 91:1-7 (KJV) – 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day; 6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. 7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Psalms 119:114 (KJV) – Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word.

Psalms 17:8-9 (KJV) – 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.

Psalms 27:4-5 (KJV) – 5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalms 31:20-24 (Amplified) – 20 In the secret place of Your presence You hide them from the plots of men; You keep them secretly in Your pavilion from the strife of tongues. 21 Blessed be the Lord! For He has shown me His marvelous loving favor when I was beset as in a besieged city. 22 As for me, I said in my haste and alarm, I am cut off from before Your eyes. But You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to You for aid. 23 O love the Lord, all you His saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, and plentifully pays back him who deals haughtily. 24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord!

Psalms 64:1-2 (KJV) – 1 Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy. 2 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:

Psalms 143:8-12 (KJV) - Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me. 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble. 12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.

Some people see it as a regular sphere that just goes invisible. Some see the Lord or angels hiding them under giant wings. Some see a “pavilion” or tent over them that hides everything from the eyes of the enemy.

Personally, I see an actual “cloak” of invisibility, because I read the Lord of the Rings as a kid (and far too many comic books – can you tell?). One of the girls read the verse about hiding a light under a bushel, so she saw the Lord putting a big basket over her to hide her. One of them would spiritually put on a jet black scuba suit. What you see in the Spirit is mostly affected by the “spin” or constraints you put on it yourself based on your conceptions or presuppositions or comfort zone. The effect in the spiritual realms is the same. A cloak hides you from the enemy when God wants it to. It's not your power or the strength of your brain. It's your faith that matters.

I can't find ANY Biblical references where the enemy makes someone blind or puts a spirit of stupor or sleep on anybody. Every time that it's referenced, it's always God that does it. His is the Power and the Glory, forever.

Exodus 4:11 (KJV) – And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

Psalms 146:8 (ASV) – Jehovah openeth the eyes of the blind; Jehovah raiseth up them that are bowed down; Jehovah loveth the righteous; And it doesn't matter where you hide or if the enemy tries to cloak it, God can see through it. That's why cloaks on the enemy or on witches or warlocks don't do any good at all when the God wants you to see what's going on. They have no defense against us, but our God is a great defense against them!

Jeremiah 23:24 (KJV) - Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.

Nobody can hide from God? Where will you go that He can't see you? Where can you sin that He won't catch you? If you get under the table, can you cheat on a fast and Him not notice? If you put your hand over the cookie, will He not see it? If He tells you to do something and you do 90% of it, you think that's good enough? The opposite of “cloaked” would be to go in fully “dialed up” – 300 foot tall, flares going off, swords flashing, armor shiny. It took 15 minutes for the pastor of one congregation to physically throw me out. I was just standing there praying (but dialed up high) and he said, “I don't know who you are, but you've got to go right now.” Wow!!

Empty-White-Space-Filler Personal Story

Sometimes the Lord will have me cloak up, drive somewhere, smash some stuff in the spirit, then cloak back up and go to wherever He really wanted me to be, but the enemy is still looking for my signature somewhere else. Misdirection and misinformation can be an offensive weapon. The Lord says He will have them turn their back so you can smash them to bits! :-)

I knew I was headed to Houston for several weeks, but He wouldn't even let me say it out loud or look at a map or call ahead or anything. I really needed a confirmation and the Lord said I could call my young friend Elijah who hears REALLY well. I called and asked Elijah if he knew where I was going on this trip.

He said, “Yeah, but I can't tell you. He won't let me say it out loud.” HA! Cute, Lord. OK, well that's a confirmation right there, but now we're in a fine pickle. “So, Elijah, how am I going to get a confirmation if you can't speak it and I can't speak it?”

He says, “Well, I heard to just pray.” OK, so we pray and the Holy Spirit is SCREAMING “Houston! Houston! Houston!” in my ear.

So I say to Elijah, “Brother, can you confirm that the thing being shouted at me in my ear is where I'm supposed to go?”

“Yep! I can confirm that!”

Ok, that probably sounds totally goofy to most folks and there are probably all kinds of logic problems with that, I know, but Elijah and I have been walking together for awhile now and I know He hears really good and God has confirmed it and built my trust in Elijah over and over. In fact, I'd be really hard pressed to find any time he didn't hear right. And he is very squeaky clean and Red Dragon free.

In Waco, Texas, the Lord had me tell EVERYONE I was going to College Station. I mean everybody, even people in gas stations. Then I drove to College Station making as much “noise” as possible. Smashing things, claiming the ground, praying and singing all the way. In College Station the Lord directs me directly the Baptist Student Union at Texas A&M (which is a natural place for me to go find people to pray with). I'm sitting in front

of it and He has me put a big, opaque shield up around the whole building and parking lot and shockwave it and make sure it was fully cleaned out and filled full of Jesus. Then cloak the van up extra good, turn off the radio, stop praying, (even mentally!), drive to Houston in complete silence and don't call anybody until He told me to. When I got to Houston a couple of silent hours later, the enemy had no idea I was there. I pulled off the

highway where the Lord told me, called the one guy I knew of in Houston. He knew I was coming and had a room ready for me – and his house was just a couple of miles from the exit where the Lord had told me to stop!

Deliverance Mistakes

First, you need to understand that I have this kind of “tough love” deliverance strategy. If you're an alcoholic but you won't admit it until you hit rock bottom and you're eating out of a dumpster and sleeping in the gutter, then let's just drive you down there right now. God says He will never let it go beyond what you can handle, so let's just load it up and see what it takes to break you. Whatever it takes to put you on your knees the soonest is fine with me. I want you begging for God and having nowhere else to go. So if I pull stuff off of you and it comes back seven times worse, if you're one of His, then He'll get you through it and it was all part of the plan. Whatever it takes to get you begging for Jesus and make you a broken and contrite vessel useful for His purposes. I've seen Christian Jesus-loving people delivered that were beating their wife and back on crack and cursing me and God forty-eight hours later! But it's all part of the plan. So I'm going to urge them to keep the doors shut, but if they're not ready to, then that too, was part of His big master plan. I've delivered Pride off of annoying pastors that are now completely insufferable. I don't worry about accidentally delivering someone that should be, because I'm not rebuking anything “in the name of Doug” - it's His authority and His Spirit in me, so if He doesn't want something off, it won't budge anyway. And I've seen that, too. He may say to leave them alone.

Sometimes the Lord has had us stand in front of the convenience store and deliver everybody coming and going of anything we saw. Maybe they'll get free long enough to make a decision for Christ, Maybe they'll just decide that was their LAST cigarette. Maybe they'll get meaner and nastier and more depraved until they end up in jail and find Jesus. Maybe they'll stop using their body to get what they want and put some decent clothes on. Maybe the broken soul tie will finally free them from that abusing boyfriend. They didn't know we did it and I don't care. It's not about me anyway. If they get worse, He'll get them through. If they get better, He'll get the glory. Now these below are just my opinion, you understand, maybe it's just because God didn't teach it to me this way. Maybe it's because I have a point, so just in case, you might want to try to have an open mind. I don't mean to deny the good work that's being done and the people that are getting free, but truthfully, there aren't many. We don't have many deliverance ministries and a LOT of the ones we do have are totally operating from a man-made instruction manual. If you're a deliverance ministry that totally agrees with me on this stuff, I'd like to meet you! If you're a deliverance ministry that wants to try to raise the bar, if we can help, we'd be glad to, even if that means giving you everything we have. I don't care who is the most dangerous to satan, so long as SOMEBODY starts pushing back the darkness a whole lot faster than what seems to be happening now!

Questionnaires

There are lots of deliverance ministries that will have you fill out a questionnaire ahead of time so that they can tell by your own self-revelation what demons are messing with you. OK, I have a Psychology degree and anybody with any sense at all should be able to tell you that if you let someone with lying spirits SELFDIAGNOSE you're not going to get any usable information! Give me a break! And they are ALL lying spirits! That's what they DO – all the time. I don't know who started this method of demonic identification, but I'm pretty sure some demon whispered it in somebody's ear and it took root.

I'll tell you exactly what will happen. If you haven't bound up everything on them ahead of time, they will let you get a bead on SOMETHING so that you will feel like you accomplished something – maybe a fear or a seduction or a lethargy. The lying spirits will use the “Sacrificial Lamb” strategy to give you something, but it won't be anything really big and really deep and it won't be something that is likely that they will be able to keep the doors shut well enough that the enemy will permanently lose that ground.

Are you getting this? Why would you have someone with a demon tell you what demons they have – and you're just going to believe them? This is a war! The enemy is sneaky! If you're not hearing God really well – and preferrably SEEING the bad guys for yourself – then you're just going to have to take the word of the person that you KNOW needs deliverance. Can you see the problem there? If you can't walk up to a person that you've never met, never spoken with and know nothing about and immediately diagnose the things on them and start getting them off, then you're not really ready for war. Pray hard and ask the Lord for a LOT more discernment and to hear His voice a lot better. I'm not trying to be harsh and I don't mean to belittle the success and effort of all the folks that are trying hard – I'm just trying to raise the bar and tell you that Jesus NEVER had someone fill out a questionnaire! And neither should we if we want to be like Him. Ask to see through the eyes of Jesus, not through the eyes of a 50 question survey.

Demons Need To Manifest So We Know This Is Working

This is a crutch for people that don't see the demons well enough to identify them and shred them without them having to show themselves. You understand, this is basically like the questionnaire. You have to expect them to honestly self-reveal. I don't think you understand that these are MASTERS of deception and camouflage and subterfuge! Read the Demonic Strategies section again. They will flare up and then duck and you'll think you accomplished something, but they may just be ducking and giggling at you. They love a big show, they like to perform. I think they get raises or promotions based on their lying and performance ability. Which means they are LOOKING for a chance to make a big show – and maybe spread more lies or do some damage physically.

During the warm-up worship time for a missions conference, I met a young girl here in Kansas City that was a part of a big Spirit-filled ministry (that things they're the hottest thing going). I offered to help her get free of the stuff messing with her and clogging up her pipeline. So I started naming stuff and she agreed with it all. In fact, the folks at the ministry had already identified and diagnosed most of the same ones that I had, but they had told her that they were going to leave them there until she was strong enough to keep the doors shut. HUH?! You DO NOT play footsies with demons!! Did Jesus EVER say that to someone?! Do you trust God or don't you?!

I asked her if she wanted to be free nd trusted that God would get her through, even if it got worse for awhile. She said that she did and she wanted them off. So I offered to pull them off. She said, “Don't I have to run around the room screaming or spit up or something? You can do it right here?” Sure. No biggie. So I start ripping stuff off very quietly. No waving or coughing or screaming, just praying quietly in the Spirit as I took my Sword and cleaned her off. And wouldn't you know it, it took about ONE minute for the religious spirits in the place to wig out and come try to stop me. Her “mentor” says, “You don't really believe you're doing anything do you? You're not delivering her of anything! You need to ask us before you talk to our people.” Oh, OK. Well, if it ain't working and I'm not dangerous, then why did it take ONE minute for the enemy to send somebody over to stop me from doing whatever I was doing that wasn't really doing anything anyway? Well I just went ahead and finished anyway. And then ripped some stuff off of him for good measure.

Please hear me. It doesn't have to be a big show. Sometimes they'll cough or have physical pain or shake. They will probably cry. But you don't have to yell at demons and wave your hands and shake your big King James at them. Our battle is not against flesh and blood and our battle is not WITH our own flesh and blood either! Get it? This war is happening in the spiritual realms. So take the battle there and thrash them. Don't let them rip her clothes and make a big fuss and embarrass her and curse through her and stuff. I've never seen ANY of that stuff happen in any deliverance I've done. Why? Because I have a reputation that if you don't shut up and hop off when I tell you to then I'm going to torture you mercilessly and grin while I hear you snap and pop. I am not kidding. I've felt them squish. I've heard them scream when I snapped them in half – right before I threw them into the Abyss from which they are not getting out. I asked the Lord for a branding iron of the Holy Spirit that said, “LIBERTY” on it, just so everybody in the Abyss would know where they came from. I've had people get delivered of stuff just sitting next to me. They don't like me and they want to get away from me or make me go away if they can. Jesus didn't fight with them for hours. He said, “Go” – and they went. Why? It's simple - fear.

One family's eight year old daughter wouldn't get anywhere near me when I first came in the door to stay with them. She would hide behind the sofa or behind her mom. She had always been shy, but it was unusual even to them for her to be this scared. They put her to bed and she couldn't sleep and was having terrible fears, so they brought her into the living room and prayed for her. I don't recall laying hands on her or getting anywhere near her, but I reached out with the hand of the Holy Spirit and ripped the Fear off of her and covered it in the Blood. Now she's not shy anymore. At ALL. Like not at all. Like weirdly not all. And now they realize that that Fear had just been dialed down and masquerading as a personality type, but it was really a Fear and it was entrenched and she was going to grow up with it and it would probably wreck her. Mom had been on antidepressants and anti-anxiety meds for a long time. Mom is off all her meds now and free of her migraines.

This isn't about me. I want more than anything to see tens of thousands of people that are twenty times more scary to the bad guys than I am. This is a WAR!!! Shred them with prejudice and if you're not seeing them well enough, find somebody that does and ask them to share – or pester God until He lets you see them better. Then believe in faith that your weapons and shields are mighty and wreck them. If you can't really get into this, then God will send junkies and prostitutes and cutters and anorexics that were tortured for years by the demons and they will be MORE than happy to see them and squish them in the meanest, most painful possible ways.

If you think I'm just talking tough or bluffing, and you can't hear God well enough to ask Him if I'm lying and get a straight answer, then come see me – if the stuff on you will let you get close enough. I'm used to being in a room for a matter of minutes before somebody starts getting twitchy. I usually send folks a warning before I stay at their house because if there is anything hiding, it's going to surface and I'm going to find it and squish it.

Talking to the Demons

There have been a handful of occasions where I needed to find out who I was dealing with. Jesus did talk to the demon Legion. So I'm not saying that it's wrong to ask their name or talk to them. But I'm not going to have conversations with them! They're liars!! We have theology and methodology about how to handle demons based on what people were told by demons!

Dude!! I don't care to take names! I'm don't give a flying fig if they're unhappy or what they want or what they have to say. I'm here to crush them into powder and making them STOP torturing my brothers and sisters!

People say that if we have them identify themselves as they're leaving by speaking through the mouth of the person, that it builds their faith and they'll be better able to keep the doors shut. That's ASSUMING that the demon that is leaving is telling the truth about what he's doing there, and that you actually got him all the way off. I find that it builds their faith and is a lot less traumatic if you just tell the person ahead of time what all their demons are, what they are whispering, where they are attached and what organic damage they've been doing. If you can walk up to a stranger and read them down a list of what's messing with them and what the voices that they think are their own have been saying, it will flatten them. They start crying and beg for you to get them off.

So you slice them off in one pass, seal it over, fill their cup and teach them how to keep it full. And you're done. Piece of cake. Why do we have to wrestle with them for hours and hours and yell at stuff? Nobody told me it had to happen that way, so I just assumed it didn't and let God teach me – and He taught me the fastest, most caring, most gentle way to do it. Which is what you would expect if the Holy Spirit was in charge. But behind the scenes, there is this seething wrath of God that is doing horrific damage – which is also a component of His nature. We can't understand the limits of either – the wrath or the love of God. Just know that He's REALLY not happy with the demons that have been torturing His children for thousands of years and it's time to stock up the Abyss.

Would you do deep deliverance on someone over coffee at Perkins or in front of the convenience store? I have. Bunches of times. Was I worried about them making a big show and her head spinning and throwing up and cursing coming out of her. Not in the least. Because I refuse to put up with that kind of showboating.

Leave Them There Until A Person Can Keep the Doors Shut

OK, if this was a war, can you explain exactly how that strategy makes sense? You have a saboteur on your nuclear submarine and you leave them there why? For what purpose? To catch them in the act? Hoping they repent and reform? As a spiritual strategy this is nonsense. This is God Almighty we're talking about and His weapons are more than enough for any enemy. You must not believe that He is big enough to help you get through. You must believe that if things aren't comfy and normal that is bad. That's just humanism. You want to be happy and content and for things to be peaceful, so it's better to leave the demons that you know instead of risking that a person might get worse. In the meantime, you've got a person that you KNOW needs deliverance in your congregation or assembly doing who knows how much damage?! When you identify the enemy and the Lord pulls the trigger, you CRUSH them! You do NOT play footsies with the enemy of your soul. What do you think “compromise” means?

Follow The Formula (Pray Just Like This)

Boy, when are we going to learn that man-made solutions aren't working? When are we going to get people that are led by the Holy Spirit and obey ALL the way? You can't write a “program” for handling spiritual things. I have never had two deliverance situations that were identical or that I thought I could whip out the same checklist and apply it to the next person. For one thing, that takes too long. For another, it doesn't show extravagant personal attention and love to the individual. Yes, there are some things that I use, like the Cup Model diagram to show them the need to get cleaned out, but from there it's entirely personalized and on the fly. I'm sure glad that when we go the Father for help, He doesn't run us through 100 point checklist to identify our need. He just KNOWS and then He custom tailors a solution to our faith, our willingness, our education level, our comfort zone and our strength at that particularly moment – all of which He knows better than we do! Please, be like Jesus. Show extravagant attention to the individual and customize to their needs – and the only way you can do that is to hear His voice reall well and obey all the time.

P.S. - If you just read a standardized prayer every morning covering every possible variant and possibility of any way enemy that might come against you all you're doing is reinforcing all the ways the enemy can get you!

I Need Jesus Prayer

Almighty God, I know this stuff is real. I know they're messing with me and I know I've never been able really keep them off. I believe that You are real and that You sent Your Son, Jesus to die for my sins. I believe that He was crucified and rose again and paid the penalty for my sins. I know that He has already taken on and beaten all of the demons. I don't want to fight them in my own power anymore. I want Jesus to be Lord and Master of my life. I don't want it a little bit, I want it ALL the way. Please come in and scrub me clean and take charge in every way. Please fill me so full of the Holy Spirit that nothing else can fit anymore and teach me how to stay full all the time. Please rip and tear and shred any demons that are messing with me and get them out and help me keep them out from now on. Please shield me all around and be God to me in whatever way You want to be God to me. I'm sorry it took me so long to acknowledge You. I don't want any other gods, just You. Show me people that will help me walk this out and are true to You. Thank You, Jesus. I know that I am Yours and You are mine. Help me hear Your voice real good all the time. I ask that You would cover me completely in the Blood of Jesus and set a shield all around me. In the mighty Name of Jesus Christ, my Lord. Amen.

Closing Prayer

Father, I thank You for all of those that You have given to me to minister to. Please let me be a blessing. Please equip me in every way to have all that I need to do as much damage to the bad guys as possible. I'm sorry I haven't been as dangerous as I could have been up to now. Please help me redeem all the missed opportunities – not for my sake, but for Your glory. I want to help get Your Bride pure and spotless without blemish or wrinkle. Start with me, Lord. Scrub me down and clean me out. Then show me how to help my Brothers and Sisters. I love You, Lord. I trust You. Have Your way with me, even if it hurts. Turn up the refining fire and get this turkey finished cooking. And when I bang on the glass and ask you to turn it down, ignore me completely. Have Your way. Show me anything that stands between me and You, so that I can repent – then help me repent. I love You, Lord. In the mighty Name of Jesus Christ, my Lord. Amen.

Blessing

Dear Jesus, this book is not by me, it's by you. Please forgive me for anything here that isn't pure or directly from You. I take responsibility for it, but please let it fall harmless to the ground, if possible. For those that ventured through this book in search of Truth and Wisdom and something that would make them more dangerous to the enemy and useful for Your kingdom, I just ask that You would bless them now mightily in whatever way You think best. If there is any good thing that I have, Lord, I ask that You would facilitate the transfer and give it to them right now. That they would have more discernment of spirits, more word of wisdom and knowledge, more faith, more love, more patience, more prophecy, more boldness, and whatever authority I have. The Body is welcome to anything I have. Please get it to whoever needs it, Lord. But no stones, Lord, just bread. In the might Name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

I love you all and I'm not going to stop. Doug Perry, servant of God

Parts Left Over After We Put the Bicycle Together

The 2 Peter 1 Ladder and the corresponding “Ports”

I AM Faith <-- --> Witchcraft/Control

I AM Virtue <-- --> Tongue Ports – lying, cursing, gossip, dissension (James 3)

I AM Knowledge <-- --> Red Dragon (Hosea 4:6)

I AM Self-control <-- --> Lust

I AM Perseverance <-- --> Wings + Double-mindedness

I AM Godliness <-- --> Pride

I AM Brotherly Kindness <-- -->Psyphon

I AM Love <-- --> Jezebel (anti-christ)

After Jezebel replacement, then fill all ports with Godly replacement. Screw in all the white light bulbs. :-)

Counterfeits

Faith <-- --> Witchcraft

Hope <-- --> Despair / Loneliness

Love <-- -->Jezebel

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