Every Spirit You Serve Has Power Over You

For a long time, God has been showing me the importance of sanctification. Part of that is praying in tongues, which brings you into God’s presence and increases his influence in you. Another part is confession and repentance. Christians–and I mean Bible-thumping, tongue-talking Christians who think God has solved all their problems–get sick and die because they won’t confess.

Many Christians hate to hear this. That’s understandable. A demon that can make you sick and tempt you to sin can also make you angry at a knowledgeable Christian who threatens its power.

Christians are full of demons. We let them in by living like unbelievers. We live according to the world’s standards, and God is just a side dish. If God is a side dish to you, you will be a side dish to him. You may benefit a lot from an adulterous relationship with God, but you will have a lot of problems you can’t solve.

Remember the kings of Israel and Judah. Things went well under the ones who did a thorough job of fighting idolatry. The ones who chose to tolerate a few shrines caused problems for their subjects.

A Christian who is listening to a demon or fallen angel may tell you things that sound nice. That’s Satan’s default method. If he can make himself sound holy, he can put you on the defensive and shut you up. Remember how Jesus rebuked Peter when Peter disagreed about the need for the crucifixion. Peter sounded pretty holy. He was defending God against filthy people who wanted to abuse him physically and kill him. Nonetheless, he was speaking for Satan.

When I talk about confession, Christians tell me, “We are not under condemnation! God’s grace covers all!” They think they’re helping, but they’re trying to poison me with contaminated candy.

I don’t want to hear that crap. I want to be supported when I do the right thing. I’m not condemning myself when I confess. I’m setting myself free and receiving power.

My former pastor is in the process of being convicted of child molestation. They keep moving his sentencing date. He’s on for October 5. He had many chances to avoid prosecution. He could have fought his demons and won. God could have given him favor with the mother who offered him mercy, had he taken her up on it. God could have caused the cops, the prosecutor, or the judge to make mistakes that would have prevented his conviction. He would not listen.

His uncle came to visit me recently. We’re on very good terms. Pastor Albert drove him out of the church, just as his wife did me. He told me something Albert said. There was a service, and things were happening around the altar. When Albert walked away, he said this: “I think we have so much grace, we don’t even have to confess.”

He’s going to prison. His wife is dying from a brain tumor. His son is a drug dealer who hates God.

Albert’s problems could have been avoided through confession and repentance, but he was too proud to listen.

His wife’s former brother-in-law Ozzie had the same attitude. He had breast cancer. We prayed and fasted for him. We cast the disease out. He still died. I used to tell him repentance was crucial. He gave me the TBN happy talk about how there is no condemnation for us, misapplying scripture. He probably thought he was right on the day he died.

Without exception, the people who try to “correct” me are people who have major problems they can’t get away from. Meanwhile, I get healed right and left, and I am taken care of financially. I get revelation. Prayers get answered. Enemies get defeated.

Who are you going to listen to? The person who got results, or the person who is still on the bottom?

I’ll be blunt. No one should preach from a deathbed. No one under the age of 85. Don’t coach when you’re in the process of losing.

I’m a bad person. I’m not kidding. I have said, thought, and done all sorts of vile things. God doesn’t help me because I’m wonderful. If I were wonderful, I would not need his help. I’m not saying I’m better than people who can’t get help from God. I’m saying I get better results because they persist in mistakes I have decided to stop making.

I get more help than many people who are better human beings than I am.

Grace doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want. It means it doesn’t matter what you did in the past. You’re not allowed to continue sinning without consequences, and cancer and other major problems are all on the table.

God just helped me deal with a problem I needed to acknowledge. I was angry at unbelievers. The other day I wrote a piece about the new peace between my dad and me. I said I thought it came from the fact that God sowed enmity between his children and Satan’s. My dad was an unbeliever, and he was very, very trying. He made me angry all the time.

I was right to conclude that there was enmity between us because of God’s curse, but I was wrong to think it explained my own anger. My dad wasn’t a believer, so it made sense that he would be angry at God’s children and be our enemy. I, on the other hand, belonged to God, so I was not entitled to be angry at the lost. My dad was my enemy, but I did not have permission to be his.

A long time ago, God gave me this phrase: “I am no man’s enemy.” Now I see what it means.

I used to fight the anger I felt toward my dad, but my victories didn’t last long. I had to fight over and over. Today I realized I had to cast out the spirit that made me angry at all unbelievers, not just my dad. It made no sense for me to work hard to love my dad while making much less of an effort to love other children of darkness.

Unbelievers are very annoying. They say vile things about us. They persecute us like crazy. They get us fired from jobs. They hurt us physically. They murder us. Their hatred and aggression will always be with us. We have to react correctly. We have to stop screaming back. You don’t have to pal around with the lost. You should avoid dealing with them unnecessarily. You should not accept them; that’s not expected. But you shouldn’t rail against them or carry corrrosive anger toward them.

If my enemy does something to torment me, that’s a victory for him. If I carry anger because of it, and I get sick or die as a result, that’s another victory. I have to play to win.

Here’s a neat Tom Fischer video in which he talks about the way diseases come back to Christians who live in rebellion instead of confessing and repenting. I hope it brings you success and supremacy.