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Overwhelming Atmosphere
- hatred
- back-biting
- fighting
- cold
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Unusual Resistance To The Gospel
- forbidden to “evangelize” (witness to, or pray for, others)
- Christianity “forbidden”
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In prayer, ask the Lord for
- the neighborhood / environment / location
- that the Gospel would be proclaimed
- and bear fruit
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Pray and ask the Lord to
- restrain the powers of darkness in the place
- Numbers 10:35 - “Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee.”Numbers-10v35
- pray for the souls in this place
- pray and ask the Lord to stand in the gap for the area
- Ezekiel 22:30-31 - “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 no destroy it: but I found none. Therefore I have 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.”Ezekiel-22v30-31
- restrain the powers of darkness in the place
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LESSON -
- As a child of God, I have the right to ask God the Father, in Jesus’ Name, to correct my mistakes.
- Hebrews 4:16 - “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in the time of need.”Hebrews-4v16
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Learn to hear the Lord’s guidance more acutely hour-by-hour
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Fast and pray;
- ask the Lord to reveal the keys to deal with the problems
- rely upon the Lord to make our hand skilful
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Seek revelation from the Lord regarding circumstances
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Put on the whole armor of God
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Apply the Blood of Jesus
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Ask the Lord to
- bind the demonic power within the place
- bind the demonic power in people involved
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Take authority over every demon spirit in the place and
- bin them with the power of the name of Jesus
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Ask the Lord to protect the people
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Stand on Luke 10:19 - “Behold I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.”Luke-10v19
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Mark 16:17 - “And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils …”Mark-16v17
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Witchcraft and Sorcery can be sent against you to worsen, or put, illnesses upon you
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From The Spiritual Man, pp 216-219 by Watchman Nee -
- “Unless a Christian plainly knows his work is finished and he no longer is required by the Lord to remain, he should by all means resist death. If the symptoms of death have been seen already in his body before his work is done, he positively should resist it and its symptoms. To concede — by sizing up of our environment, physical condition, and feeling — that our time has come is an error on our part; we instead need to possess definite indications from the Lord. As we live for Him, so must we die in Him. Any call for departure which does not come from the Lord ought to be opposed. To overcome death believers must alter their attitude from one of submission to one of resistance towards it. Unless we cast off our passive approach we will not be able to overthrow death but will be mocked by it instead and finally come to an untimely end. Numerous saints today misapprehend passivity for faith. They reason that they have committed everything to God. If they ought not to die, He verily shall save them from it: if they ought to die, then He doubtless shall allow them to die: let the will of God be done. Such a saying sounds right, but is this faith? Not at all. It is simply lazy passivity. When we do not know God’s will, it is fitting for us to pray: ‘not my will, but think, be done.’ This does not mean we need not pray specifically, letting our requests be made known to God. We should not submit passively to death, for God instructs us to work together actively with His will. Except we definitely know God wants us to die, we must not passively permit death to oppress us. Rather we must actively cooperate with God’s will to resist it. Why should we adopt such as attitude as this? The Bible treats death as our enemy.”
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Resist Satan, and refuse to accept illness or death from him.
- rebuke the enemy
- command him, in Jesus’ Name, to leave
- refuse to accept any more sickness or disease
- refuse to accept death