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1. Willful Sin
If you are living in deliberate spiritual
rebellion, you are
open to demonic attack. God will only set you free from you enemies,
not your
friends. He will only set you free to serve him better. If you are
living in
sin, you must change your address. You must turn to Jesus with all your
heart.
You must build a good life with Him, which means spending time with Him
in
prayer and reading his word. You must say "Jesus, forgive my sins. I
repent and I renounce them and I turn from my sins to you with all my
heart". Then you are ready to ask him to deliver you from your enemies.
2. Involuntary Inheritance
Ancestral curses cause an inherited
vulnerability to demons.
Have you noticed that cancer and heart disease usually show up in every
generation when it starts in a family? Doctors know that some
sicknesses and
diseases pass from one generation to the next. The same applies to
spiritual
sickness. How many alcoholics have alcoholic children? Many times, no
matter
how the children try not to be like Mommy or Daddy, they turn out the
same. How
many abused children grow up to be abusers of their children? The
curses that
the children were born with, many times pass to their children and to
their
grandchildren. These curses can only be broken through the power and
the name
of Jesus.
Let's read Duet: 18:9-14. When you enter
the land the Lord
your God is giving you, do not learn to imitate the detestable ways of
the
nations there. Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or
daughter
in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens,
engages in
witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who
consults
the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord, and
because
of these detestable practices, the Lord your God will drive out those
nations
before you. You must be blameless before the Lord your God. Now let's
read
Duet. 28:58-61. If you do not carefully follow all the words of this
law which
are written in this book, and do not revere this glorious and awesome
name -the
Lord your God- the Lord will send fearful plagues on you and your
descendants,
harsh and prolonged disasters, and severe and lingering illnesses. He
will
bring upon you all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they
will cling
to you. The Lord will also bring on you every kind of sickness and
disaster not
recorded in this Book of the Law, until you are destroyed.
You say, "Didn't Jesus take the curse for
us?" Yes,
Jesus took the curse of the law, which was that there was no
forgiveness wider
the law. There was just atonement by animal sacrifice year by year. The
sin was
covered by the blood of the sacrifice, not taken away. Jesus became our
sacrifice
to be free from the curse of the law. Our sins are removed as far as
the East
is from the West, never to be remembered again. What we read here is
the curse
of the Lord. If we do the same things that they did, we will reap the
same
things that they reaped.
3. Occult Entanglement
Read Deuteronomy 18:9-14 once more. When
we become involved
in the things that God says "do not do" it is like signing a legal
and binding contract with the forces of darkness. Satan is the smartest
lawyer
that ever was, and if he has a legal right to torment you, you cannot
stop him
until you take away that legal right. This is done by forgiving and
asking
forgiveness from God. Also, the contract must be broken. This is done
by
renouncing the things of the occult and turning from them to God with
the whole
heart. What are these things? Some of the most common are: horoscope,
oujia
boards, water witching, fortune telling, psychic healing, tarot cards,
séances
and mental telepathy. (See the detailed list at the end of this
article.) Have
you ever wondered why God told Israel to destroy some of the cities
completely
when they came into the land of Canaan or Palestine? He said to destroy
all
belongings, all cattle, all people, men, women and children, all their
gold and
silver, every thing that they owned. It was because some of these
people were
so corrupted by occult sins and demon worship that God knew if His
people saved
any of their belongings or lived in their cities, they would become
corrupt
also.
Occult sins are not covered by the
general rule of
forgiveness. Sure, when we ask Jesus to forgive our sins, He does. Our
spirits
are saved and on their way to heaven, but many times our body and our
soul are
still tormented by the occult spirits that we have a legal and binding
contract
with. This causes a vulnerability to the forces of darkness. The
contract must
be voided. If an occult ritual was performed over us, it must be
undone. We do
this by saying, "Jesus I renounce all the occult involvement (name
them).
I repent for turning to your enemies about things in my life. I ask you
to
forgive me and cleanse me from all occult activity".
4. Abuse
When children are abused, the general
nature of the trauma
opens them to demonic activity. The five areas of abuse are physical,
verbal,
emotional, mental and sexual. Of the five, more children are demonized
by
sexual abuse than all the others. Statistics from "The Family Research
Council", a Christian oriented family organization based in Washington,
D.C., tells us that 40% of the people in our churches were sexually
molested or
raped before 17 years of age. This includes men and women both. Out in
the
every day world, the percentage is 17%. What does this tell us? Hurting
people
are coming into our churches looking for help. If we don't provide help
for
them, they will turn to drugs, alcohol, sex and the occult to try to
find it.
What happens when a child is abused? He or she, most of the time, grows
up to
be an angry, violent person. They can become revengeful, and feel
compelled to
take it out on some body else. School violence is a good example. You
say,
"It isn't fair. I'm the victim and I got the demon!" Nothing that
Satan ever does is fair. His kingdom does not play by our rules. He
will take
every unfair advantage to gain a foothold in our lives.
5. Addictions
Addictions always go deeper than just
addictions. Some deep,
underlying root of bitterness and rejection usually drives a person to
addictions. What was described in the abuse section, many times, leads
to drugs
and alcohol. Mind altered states from drugs and alcohol open us to
demons. You
gave him the right to come in when you yielded your will to the drugs.
This
opens the doorway to the soul so that demons can enter. If you are out
of
control, the demons will get in control! Drugs and alcohol shut down
the
process of your will and give a legal right for demons to enter!
6. Abandonment
Physical or emotional abandonment opens
a child to demons. A
parent who is not there, or doesn't care about the child when be or she
is
there, opens a child to Satan's kingdom. This brings rejection to an
unwanted
child. Rejection can create the most serious wound to the emotions that
the
child will ever suffer.
Now to the cure for all these things:
Repent, renounce, and remove.
Repent of all sin.
Renounce all occult involvement.
Renounce all family curses.
Forgive all who have hurt you.
Forgiveness heals the wound of rejection, resentment infects it.
Identify the enemy inside. If you are an angry person, for example,
begin to
resist anger.
Pray and ask Jesus to help you. Then begin to take the authority that
you have
in Jesus Christ to remove. "Anger, in the name of Jesus, I command you
to
leave."
LIST OF OCCULT RELATED OBJECTS AND ACTIVITIES:
NUMEROLOGY
FORTUNE TELLING
SORCERY
PSYCHIC HEALING
VOODOO
Santeria
TEA LEAF READINGS
MEDIUMS
HYPNOTISM
TABLE TIPPING
WATER WITCHING
HOROSCOPES
ASTROLOGY
PENDULUM
WHITE MAGIC
BLACK MAGIC
CONJURATION
FETISHES
NECROMANCY (TALKING TO THE DEAD)
TAROT CARDS
PARAPSYCHOLOGY
ASTRAL PROJECTION
LEVITATION
SOUL TRAVEL
PENTAGRAMS
ACUPUNCTURE
CHANTING
NEW AGE PHILOSOPHY
Ouija BOARDS
TALISMANS
WITCHCRAFT
FAMILIAR SPIRITS
PALM READING
CRYSTAL BALLS
HANDWRITING ANALYSIS
SOME INDIAN CEREMONYS
E.S.P.
ANY OCCULT BOOKS (Example) SATANIC BIBLE, EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD,
ETC…
DIVINATION
MANY VIDEO GAMES (Example) DUNGEONS & DRAGONS
ALL OCCULT MOVIES (Example) THE EXORCIST, THE OMEN, ROSEMARY'S BABY
AND MANY MORE.