Mat 12:43 When
the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking
rest, and findeth none.
Mat 12:44 Then
he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is
come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Mat 12:45 Then
goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself,
and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than
the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
Mat 8:28 And
when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there
met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce,
so that no man might pass by that way.
Mat 8:29 And,
behold, they cried out, saying, What have we to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son
of God? art thou come hither to torment us before the time?
Luk 8:29 (For
he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it
had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake
the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)
PLEASE read God's
word! PLEASE read of Jesus and how often He and the apostles cast out evil
spirits from people. Not ALL of those people were like wild animals- as the
ones in the verse above. Many were people who suffered various illnesses and such because that is
how the evil spirits manifested themselves.
We don't know where or how the evil spirits will work around us but that
doesn't mean they aren't working. May
God HELP us to comprehend the working of the evil spirits around us and give us
ALL we need to be delivered from them! Please, Lord! Save us, help our
unbelief, please…please.
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'The Wiles of the
Evil Spirits
If his eyes have
been opened to see his condition, the believer will naturally search for
deliverance. Realize, though, that the evil spirits are not going to let their
captives go free without a fight. They will apply every ounce of strength upon
the person to prevent him from securing deliverance.
The evil spirits
will suggest many lies to serve as excuses: Those sudden beautiful thoughts of
yours are from God. Those flashing revelations are the fruits of spirituality.
That bad memory is due to your ill-health. It is natural for you to become abruptly
forgetful. Your over-sensitiveness is because of your temperament. Your weak
memory is inherited. Insomnia is an outgrowth of sickness. You are simply
tired. You cannot think because you have worked too hard. That incessant
contemplation at night stems from your mind’s
Over exhaustion in
the daytime. Impure thoughts arise from your sins. You already have fallen. You
cannot listen to others because of your particular environment and because of
their faults.
The evil spirits can
manufacture sundry other excuses. Unless God’s children realize they are really
being attacked and have actually fallen from the normal state, the enemy will
engage these and other excuses like them to cover up the ground they have gained.
But the true reason lies in the fact that the mind is passive and vacuous, and
thus occupied by these satanic spirits. Every one of
these phenomena is
the effect of their pernicious working. We grant the possibility of natural
causes being mixed in with these excuses, but the experience of so many saints
confirms that the powers of darkness are extremely subtle in operating
alongside natural causes so as to deceive the saints into accepting these
natural causes—such as temperament, physical condition and environment—as the
only explanation, forgetting altogether the subtle mixing in by the evil
spirits. The latter are very delighted in hiding their works behind some little
natural cause.
There is one test which can be brought to bear
here, however; and that is, that if the cause is natural the man’s condition
will be restored to normal once the natural factor is eliminated: but were
there something supernatural added to the
natural, then the
man will not recover even though the natural element is removed. If you have
insomnia, for example, the enemy will suggest it is due to your overwork and
your mind’s over exhaustion. You listen to this and cease working and rest for
a period without exercising your mind at all. Nonetheless thousands of thoughts
continue to crowd your mind and pass to and fro through
your brain during
sleep. This demonstrates that your illness is not entirely due to natural
cause: a supernatural one is mingled in with it somewhere. If you do not take
the time to deal with the supernatural aspect, your removal of the natural
element will serve no purpose.' (Excerpt
- The Spiritual Man by Watchman Nee
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