Power over the Enemy: Breaking Free from Spiritual Strongholds (12 page)

I was such a poor example of what I preached and believed. I was out preaching the great, good, free, full Gospel and praying for the sick. People were getting healed, and my own family was at home suffering!

Every time I was about to leave on a trip, symptoms would arise. One day, a holy anger came on me. It was the Holy Spirit within me, rising up at seeing the devil torment my family. My spirit rebelled against that sickness. As I stood in our den, I lifted my hands and declared, “It is enough! It is enough! It is enough! I am not going to allow this anymore. I am through with this sickness in the Name of Jesus!”

I gathered my family together. We prayed in every room of our house and decreed that the blood of Jesus prevailed in our home. Then we marched outside together in single file and declared the blood of Jesus prevailed over all our property, every inch of our land. We broke the power of Satan over our home! All sickness left! From that time forth, I never had a bad report from home!

You do not have to tolerate the attacks of Satan. You can demonstrate his defeat!

It is up to YOU to allow the power of God to flow through you by the Holy Spirit, so that
you will demonstrate to the world that Satan is a defeated foe!

Start in your own personal life.

YOU
must cast out demons in Jesus’ Name (Mark 16:17).

YOU
must lay hands on the sick and they will recover (Mark 16:18).

YOU
must resist the devil and he will flee from YOU (James 4:7).

YOU
must put on the armor of God (Ephesians 6:13).

YOU
must preach the Gospel to the world (Mark 16:15).

YOU
must arise and act—YOU must do it!

When you begin to experience this victory in your own life, you will want to begin to move out into the arenas of life and do something for other people. As you do, the Holy Spirit will rise up within you to
bring a demonstration
that Jesus will do what He says He can do in His Word.

Luke 4:28 reveals to us the secret of being used by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said that the Spirit of the Lord was upon Him, because He had been anointed by Him to:

•   preach the Gospel to the poor.
  
•   heal the brokenhearted.
  
•   preach deliverance to the captives.
  
•   preach the recovering of sight to the blind.
  
•   set at liberty them that are bruised.
  
•   preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
  

The Spirit of the Lord is upon you because He has anointed YOU to:

•   preach the Gospel to the poor.
  
•   heal the brokenhearted.
  
•   preach deliverance to the captives.
  
•   preach the recovering of sight to the blind.
  
•   set at liberty them that are bruised.
  
•   preach the acceptable year of the Lord.