Monday, July 31, 2017

Adversary

     Standing in a hallway, full of iron bars and cubbyholes called cells, inside the maximum security women's prison in Gatesville to sow the love of God and the Gospel message seems like a long way off for most people, but for those called to that field it's where we feel alive!  There's something about the anointing on your life being struck by the presence of the Holy Spirit that is tangible and real. It's not something I'd put in to words well but if you have operated in this blessed time then you know what I'm speaking of. To some that place is the pulpit, to some it is mission, to some it is in service, but to all who experience Him, it is the fullest recognition of the real power of the presence of God this side of Shakana Glory: Hallelujah. 
     It was during this moment when speaking to an offender became a war for her soul. The presence of God was thick and there was a physical manifestation of the enemy and his attempt to divide. During strong ministry and deliverance this evil manifested as a wall like the heatwaves coming from a mid-August highway in south Texas.  Here is this broken soul fighting to conquer this demonic stronghold and a demon strong enough to physically hinder my sight for a moment and at the name of Jesus that thing folded up and fled. It was the faith driven utterance "go in Jesus name" that brought clarity and calm for a moment. Ministry began again and testimony was shares and the demonic presence returned!  I had to wave my hands in front of my face to fight off the disorientation and blurred vision, it was like we were in a loud windy tunnel and couldn't communicate to one another clearly. "The Blood of Jesus was shed to pay the price for sin! Devil you must go from here.  In Jesus' name." And peace returned for a moment.  This went on for a while and I felt prompted to ask, "Do you know if anyone who practices witchcraft?  Do you?"  Immediately the answer came, a dark craft from tribal grounds in Africa was exposed and a name was uttered. She had cast a spell on her, she told me she did, out loud, in front of her, to her face, cast a spell.
Now, a curse without cause cannot light is a phrase we use to define the finished work of the Cross in the Believer's life. Walking in the law of Love (done by faith alone and much repentance), brings to light the new nature (or original nature) of mankind. Adam was created in this nature and at the fall, sin-consciousness was birthed, The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was the wrong tree! Those are soulish choices and the soul was NEVER meant to govern the body, the spirit was!  The choices of the spirit are life and death, blessings or curses. Those are the real choices we make everyday! We think Good/Evil is all that is before us and when we do we are choosing death mostly with a little life in the mercy we might show as judge, but life is different! Life is alive, not condemning, liberating, not "fear to bondage", constraining in that we walk in choices the bring life only and those choices produce a pure Good that supersedes the good of good/evil!!!  All of this is accomplished IN us by Christ and none of it is of us alone. "As He is, so are we in this world."(1 Jn 4)    That being said, she was living in sin, walking out an alternative lifestyle, one contrary to the law of Love, one that cannot follow the commands of God to "Be Fruitful" so she had GIVEN cause for the curse to light!  She had no defense. No shield and buckler, no faith that God loved her enough to love her much less protect. She wasn't submitted. She just didn't know. It was her despair that continued to invite that demon back again and again, that and the curse spoken over her was consuming the Word of God for her at each moment. Thus producing the effect of the thief to kill, steal, and destroy!
     I would like to say that we were able to walk her through deliverance completely but we did not. I had never experienced such strength in manifestation of the enemy in battle for a soul but the Spirit of God's presence I recognized and He comforted me as not to fear but to conquer and sow seed into a ground only He is able to soften.   I pray that she went to the services and found repentance, I pray that even now faith is working in her that is founded and rooted in the Love of God for only LOVE conquers all things, from that puny dark and evil presence to the saving of a soul, God is Love and Love is God (1 Jn 4:8,16)

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