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Who gets raptured, who gets left beind, can I loose my salvation, Jesus, Rapture, Perfect, Jesus Perfects Us to be saved & the rapture Article below or click link for downloadable PDF PDF Definition from Greek of “Perfect ”: complete, wholeness. In James repeatedly faith goes with good works but we are not saved by good works. Good works because of our faith in God deepens our relationship with God. It doesn’t save us nor equip us for the rapture. The only thing we are asked to do for the rapture is to “watch” - Luke 21, Matt. 24, Mark 13. And there is a crown that those who “watch” are given. Those that do not watch are not given a crown. It’s the reward. 2 Tim. 4:8 - in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing. Matt. 24:42 - Watch therefore: for you do not know what hour your Lord will come. (Verses 42-51 are about watching.) Mark 13:33-37 - Be on guard! Be alert! It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch. 35. Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back- whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. 36 If He comes suddenly, do not let Him find you sleeping. 37 What I say to you, I say to everyone: Watch! 1 Corinthians 1:7- So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ: Luke 21:34-36 - Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will come upon you suddenly like a trap (because they are not watching). 35 For it will come on all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36 Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man. One of my favorite scriptures that has really helped me is: 1 John 2:28 - Four different translations: New International Version - "And now, dear children, continue in Him, so that when He appears we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming." New Living Translation "And now, dear children, remain in fellowship with Christ so that when He returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from Him in shame." English Standard Version "And now, little children, abide in Him, so that when He appears we may have confidence and not shrink from Him in shame at his coming." Berean Standard Bible "And now, little children, remain in Christ, so that when He appears, we may be confident and unashamed before Him at His coming." Given that, cross reference other scrip’s: Ephesians 3:12 - In Him and through faith in Him we may enter God's presence with boldness and confidence. The bottom line is to abide, continue our relationship with Him. If we do not, it doesn't mean we aren't saved. What it will mean is we are open to attacks from the enemy, we will be extremely unhappy in this life and there won't be rewards in heaven at the Beama Judgement Seat, 2 Cor. 5:10 - "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each of us may receive what is due us for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad." When we are doing what He said to do out of heart because we love Him, not from “works”, we can be bold and confident at His coming and receive a crown of righteousness. If we do not, and are going our own way, for whatever reasoning we have...we will be ashamed at His coming because we knew what He wanted us to do but refused to. Jesus is Truth, (the Way, the Truth, and the Life) and Truth is instantly revealed when He is on the scene. Matthew 16:27 - For the Son of Man will come in His Father's glory with His angels, and then He will repay each one according to what he has done. There are scriptures that refer to the judgment seat or what is called the Baema (Greek) seat at the rapture. This is the reward ceremony for what we did that the Lord gave us to do. We get rewards for following out His plan, His calling on our lives. If we don’t do it we don’t get rewards. We are not “kicked out” of heaven. We are saved for good works, in our calling. We don’t have to do them but when we do it pleases the Father. Here’s another scripture that stings a bit...again, it doesn’t say we will be kicked out of heaven. But it does say the Lord won’t be pleased with what we did if we disobeyed. And if we “didn’t please Him” it means what we did was not in faith, because “faith pleases God”: Mark 8:38 - If anyone is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when He comes in His Father's glory with the holy angels. Jesus doesn’t come in His own glory, but in His Father’s. Beautiful. Jesus said, in Me I can do nothing. It is the Father in Me that does the work. Same with us! Notice in scriptures never sections out parts of the Body of Christ for the rapture. Never. He speaks of “you”, "we" or “our” - which means “all”. On the other hand for the rewards, yes - what did we do with what we were given. Colossians 3:4 - When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. 1 Thessalonians 2:19 - After all, who is our hope, our joy, our crown of boasting, if it is not you yourselves in the presence of our Lord Jesus at His coming? We see in 1 John we will be transformed just like 1 Cor. 15:51-52 . It’s God who does this in us, not us: 1 John 3:2 - Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. Colossians 3:4 - When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall you also appear with Him in glory. Again, scripture says “our” and “you” - never makes a differentiation between believers. We are theBody of Christ. Jesus wouldn't return for just one or two body parts. But wait...there’s more...I love that the Lord keeps putting these things in His Word for us!! 1 John 3:21 - Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. If our heart condemns us simply ask for forgiveness. It doesn't necessarily mean you will miss the rapture. But it does leave you open to attacks and troubles, and some that can cause death. Get the sin out to keep your relationship right with the Lord. Sin causes us to not hear properly. We want to keep our spiritual ears clean. Why do we have confidence? Because we are made right with Him because of Him. All we had to do is simply receive Him. He has made us in right standing with God the Father!! (2 Cor. 5:21 - “righteousness” means “right staining”. ) All we had to do was receive Him. He took our sin so we could receive His righteousness. We can never be right with God on our own. It takes Jesus!! 1 John 4:17 - Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as He is, so are we in this world. Isaiah 25:9 - And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for Him, we will be glad and rejoice in His salvation. Let’s address the “being holy” issue. Do you think you can do anything to “make yourself holy”? That is what the Pharisees were doing. They thought following the law to the last detail would make them holy before a HOLY God. Never going to happen. We cannot make ourselves holy by our behavior. We are in a sin fallen state on this earth. We have flesh (body) and a soul that needs to be renewed. The body will not be renewed until the transformation (1 Cor 15:51-52; 1 John 4:17; 3:2 ). The Lord has told us to renew our minds. We are to start this here per Romans 12. Holiness comes from the Lord. The more time you spend with Him in the Word and in prayer the more of Him "rubs off" on you. He is holy. Like Moses on Mt. Sinai who spend 40 days and nights with God, he had the holiness of God on him! God is who makes you holy. 1 Thess. 3:13 - May He strengthen your hearts so that you will be blameless and holy in the presence of our God and Father when our Lord Jesus comes with all His holy ones. Definition of Holy : to be set apart or separate from sin and evil. Deep within each of us is the Holy Spirit leading us. When we listen and obey we are living in holiness. But when we do not we are heeding the voice of sin and greivgin the Spirit of God. Get back on track by asking the Lord for forgiveness and changing your thoughts and actions about the thing that has been a problem. Always ask the Holy Spirit to help you. He is our Helper. 1 Peter 1:13-16 with Romans 15:16 Passion Translation: 13 So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! (*Note: we should prepare our hearts and minds for action. Doesn’t mean all believers will.) Stay alert and fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled (rapture), a greater measure of grace will be released to you (‘cause our bodies will be transformed). 14. As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desire that you followed when you didn't know better. 15 Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One who called you. 16 For Scripture says: "You are to be holy, because I am holy." *Let’s take a look at the word: “obedient”. In KJV verse 14 says As obedient children, do not be comforted to the passions of your former ignorance. Not all children are obedient. All parents can testify to that. Same with the Lord. We see “knowledge” is a part of “obedience” and what we do with that knowledge. We have a choice. Always. Ignorance means you do not know consciously - not willfully. Let’s look at Romans 1:5 - Through Him we received grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for His Name’s sake. “Obedience” comes from faith. Not by “doing” but by “believing”. When you receive Jesus you automatically want to do what is right. The Holy Spirit is there telling you right from wrong, and when we grieve Him we know it...maybe not instantly but we know something isn’t right. Where do we get faith from? The Word (Romans 10:17 ) and more than that faith comes from the Lord. He put it there from His word. We had nothing to do with it. All we had to do was believe. Ephesians 6:23 Faith from God and 1 Tim 1:14 faith and love are found in Christ Jesus. We are in Him and He is in us. WE have holiness in us because He is in us. But how much do we let His holiness be exhibited in our lives is up to us. It’s like the Eph. 3 prayer - according to the Power at work in you. How much of His power do we allow to work and bubble up from our Spirit through our soul (minds) through our bodies....that is up to us. How much do we cherish the Lord and do what He says? That is what get’s us the reward if we obey. I’m not saying that we don’t have to be obedient. We should. We are told all over 1 John to follow His commands. His commands are not grievous, they are to love the Lord your God with all your heart and to love your neighbor as yourself. Those are His commands. Do we do that? I’m sure you’ve noticed it’s hard to actually “hate” another believer. You don’t have it in you. Because He is in you. We may behave incorrectly because of stupid - soulish ways of thinking but it’s not in our spirit-man because the Holy Spirit is there. We are not the same as we were before we received Jesus. He is who makes us Holy. The Holy Spirit in us. A little leaven.... And the Spirit is called “Holy” - His Holiness is in us. Back to verse 13 So then, prepare your hearts and minds for action! Stay alert snd fix your hope firmly on the marvelous grace that is coming to you. For when Jesus Christ is unveiled, a great measure of grace will be released to you. 14 As God’s obedient children, never again shape your lives by the desires that you followed when you didn’t know better. 15 Instead, shape your lives to become like the Holy One who called you. 16 For scripture says: “You are to be holy, because I am Holy." Let’s add on to verse 17 - Since you call on Him as your Heavenly Father, the impartial Judge who judges according to each one’s word, live each day with holy awe and reverence through your time on earth. This again talks of the Beama Seat judgment. Okay....let’s unpack that. The Aramaic (notes from the Passion) can be translated: “no one will put on a face mask before Him.” Believers in Jesus will not be judged for their sins, since that happened once and for all when Jesus was crucified to redeem us. We will be judged, however, for our works in order to determine the reward (or lack of reward) that God gives to those who believe in Christ. See Isa. 53:4-5; Romans 14:10-12; 1 Cor. 3:12-16; 1 Peter 2:24. You’ll notice Romans and 1 Cor are about this Judgment Seat. Here are other scriptures that are part of all of this: Matt. 24:33 Hebrews 11:6; 10:39; 9:14 Rev. 1:5 Titus 2:13-14 2 Tim. 1:9 2 These. 1:10 - says “His saints”, doesn’t say a certain group. #40 Greek - to be a child by the Holy Spirit; set apart by and for God, holy, sacred. If we are set apart...what are we set apart for? We do know we are saved from wrath. Could be the rapture is before or could be we will be preserved like Israel in Egypt in the land of Goshen during the first Passover. I don't know. We do know the Church gets judged first according to 1 Peter 4:17 . Which is happening now. We are set-apart for God and set apart for the rapture. I'm not speaking to "when" the rapture is. But the rapture is a catching away, escape, set apart - harpazo in Greek. (Rev. 12:5 .) Whether that means a pre-trib rapture, or kept safe like Israel in Egypt, or like Noah and kept in safety, I don't know. I do know that no matter what, God has us! If God be for us, who can be against us!

How to use your faith for your family, believing for a baby, children, family, husband, wife, Christain, God, Jesus, Scripture, Bible, Teaching, Believing for a Baby Article below. For downloadable PDF click link. PDF Believing for a Baby All good things come from the Lord Has not the One God made you? You belong to Him in body and spirit. And what does the One God seek? Godly offspring. - Malachi 2:15. Having children is a blessing from the Lord. It’s all over Scripture. But when a couple struggles to have a child it can mean two things: a curse that typically comes from a generational curse; or it’s not the timing of the Lord. Ask the Lord what your situation is and respond accordingly. In this article we will deal with the curse and how to pray regarding it. First we will look at only a few scriptures about how the Lord blesses people with children. Until you are sure that this is God’s choice to bless you with, you will not think correctly about it. Deuteronomy 7:14 - “You shall be blessed above all peoples; there will be no male or female barren among you or among your cattle.” Exodus 23:26 - “There shall be no one miscarrying or barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.” Genesis 30:22-23 - “Then God remembered Rachel, and God gave heed to her and opened her womb. So she conceived and bore a son and said, "God has taken away my reproach.” There are many other Scriptures like these. And there are many Scriptures about barrenness that show it is always a curse. Let’s take a look at where the curse comes from. Genesis 20:17-18 - 17 Then Abraham prayed to God, and God healed Abimelek, his wife and his female slaves so they could have children again, 18 for the Lord had kept all the women in Abimelek’s household from conceiving because of Abraham’s wife Sarah.” All of Genesis 20 describes what happened. Remember this is before Moses. The Lord hadn’t given Moses His Word on the “do’s” and “don’t’s” , particularly Leviticus 18 about sexual relations (see chapters 16-20) — what is sinful and what is not. By giving his wife to Abimelek, (which you think he would have learned after what happened with Pharaoh in Genesis 12:10-20), it created a curse upon Abimelek and all in his household. Now before anyone gets hung up on the “do’s” and “don’t’s” - it’s not about the Law. Jesus took care of all of that. Our “doing” is to stay tight with the Lord and do whatever He tells us to do, and stay in love. Love with Him and love for others. That’s the “doing”. One more note about Genesis 20 - notice it wasn’t just the women who were barren. Abimelek also had the curse. It can do down the male side or the female side of families. Back to what creates a curse of barrenness. As Genesis 20:17-18 states, taking another man’s wife/another woman’s husband causes barrenness. In Leviticus 20:20-21 says if there is incest in the family it causes barrenness and if someone marries their bother-in-law or sister-in-law there will be barrenness. In Deuteronomy 28:15, 18, 45, 47 - says that if you do not obey the Lord when He tells you to do something - like in your prayer time and study time (not about the “do’s” and “don’t’s”of the Law) and if you do not serve Him with joyfulness and gladness of heart, that a curse can come upon the womb: "15 “But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutes that I command you today, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you…18 Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb..45 “All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you…47 Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things,” Sins of the forefather/foremothers get passed down from generation to generation - Numbers 14:18-20 - “18 ‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet He does not leave the guilty unpunished; He punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’ 19 In accordance with your great love, forgive the sin of these people, just as you have pardoned them from the time they left Egypt until now.” 20 The Lord replied, “I have forgiven them, as you asked. What to do about these things in prayer: Verbally repent of the sins of your forefathers/foremothers, and of your own sin. Receive forgiveness for your entire family, including yourself. Renounce and Break the curse in the all powerful Name of Jesus. Break all cords to the curse and family members, including you and your spouse. Release forgiveness of anyone who comes to mind. Renew your mind by replacing thoughts, attitudes, and action (what you think, say, and do) with what God’s Word says regarding these things. When an old thought or attitude comes up - cast it down in the Name of Jesus and replace it by verbally quoting the scripture regarding it. You don’t need to memorize scripture. As you keep the Scripture(s) in front of your eyes, over time they will come pouring out of your heart and mouth. Resist old patterns of behavior. Don’t allow yourself to go there, in Jesus Name. Again, speak the Scripture out loud to yourself regarding the situation. STAY IN PRAISE and THANKSGIVING TO GOD until the manifestation comes to pass! Until your little one is in your arms! You don’t need to repeat repentance for your forefathers etc. It’s done! Go to praise instead!

How to pray, How do I talk to God, How do I hear God, Can I hear God, What if I hear other voices Prayer Basics How to build your prayer life or add on to what you have. Article below or click link for downloadable PDF. PDF Prayer Basics How to build your prayer life or add on to what you have. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One: How It Works Part Two: Types of Prayer Part One: How It Works I. Although I had been saved for many years I didn’t have a clue “how” to pray. No one taught it. I knew the Lord’s prayer and to pray in tongues but that was it. Truthfully, I didn’t even “get” the Lord’s prayer until recently. (I’ve been saved since I was 5 and 5 decades have since passed since the time of this writing.) I desired to be closer to God but had no clue how to do it. I didn’t know it was done through prayer. I also didn’t know there were different types and depths to each prayer. It is vast, deep, and wonderful! The basic daily prayer is simply spending time with the Lord in the Word and following His leading. (*See article on “Intimacy with the Lord”.) The base of all prayer is to pray to the Father in Jesus Name: John 16:23, 26; 14:13, 26; 15:16. I’m grateful to the Lord for bringing people across my path to teach me how to pray and spend time with God. I praise God for it! God wants closeness with you and it’s done in prayer. You are trusting Him and He is speaking with you and leading you for that day, and then you do what He gives you. Somedays He gives you the gentle nudge of what to do for that day, or even that week, or the situation you are concerned with; somedays He gives you His gentle peace in your heart, and even at times when everything is crazy around you He definitely instills peace. You know He has got you. Other times He moves BIG. He may show you a vision, or talk to you from within your inner man about a circumstance. God never speaks to you outside of your head! Just because you hear a distinct voice doesn’t mean it’s God. Test the spirits - all those that deny Jesus Christ is the Son of God and deny He came in the flesh are not of God. These voices come “outside” of your head. NOT from within your inner man. 1 John 4:1-6. The Holy Spirit is within you! In your heart. And when He speaks it always gives you “peace”. Peace is how you judge things - Colossians 3:15 Amplified, “And let the peace, soul harmony, which comes from Christ rule, act as umpire continually, in your hearts deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds, in the peaceful state to which as members of Christ’s one body you were also called to live. And be thankful, appreciative, giving praise to God always.” We are to judge what we are “getting” by whether or not we have peace about it in our inner man (John 14:26-27). If there’s “uncertainty” or something seems “off” like it doesn’t settle within you - stay away from it. Ask the Lord if you are to stay away from it entirely or do you have to shift how you handle it. He will reveal it. In my experience, most of the time it was to stay away from it completely. There have been occasions where He wanted me to handle it differently. The “sense” had a different “weight” to it. It was still an “unsettled” weight, I could tell something was “off” but it was of a lesser degree than something He wanted me to stay completely away from. He than revealed “how” I needed to operate - sometimes it was changing how I thought about the situation or needed to just let go of the way I thought about it. ALL PRAYER STARTS WITH THE WORD OF GOD. BEGIN BY PRAYING A SCRIPTURE BACK TO GOD AND SEE HOW THE HOLY SPIRIT LEADS YOU. ACTS 10:44 - “WHILE PETER YET SPOKE THESE WORDS, THE HOLY SPIRIT FELL ON ALL OF THEM WHICH HEARD THE WORD.” As you are speaking scripture you can hear the words coming out of your mouth. (Proverbs 4:20-27.) The Holy Spirit moves on the Word. Sometimes it’s not right away. He is waiting until your faith gets hooked up with what you speak from the the Word of God. He is often waiting to see what you will do. How will you respond? “1. Draw close to God and 2. He will draw close to you” - James 4:8. He is waiting to see what you do. He will move as you move, on purpose putting Him first. Follow what He tells you to do. It may be a gentle hunch; or a thought “comes up”; or whatever the insight, follow it out. If you don’t follow the Holy Spirit’s promptings you will, at first, get gentle “nudges” regarding it and if your keep ignoring it you will notice a “dryness”. Almost like a staleness in your prayer time and you can’t hear from Him. Go back to what He last told you. Repent for not doing it. Mean it. You don’t want anything getting in the way of your relationship with God. It is the most important thing to your life. And ask what He wants you to do. Sometimes the timing is now off and there’s nothing you can do. Sometimes you can. Whatever it is, do it. He has to be able to trust you; and trust you will do what you said about “following Him”, and that you will follow His leading. The Word is always your “guard rail”. Just like John 4:23-24 all of our time spent with God is to be done in Spirit (Holy Spirit) and Truth. As John 17:17 says, His Word is truth. So it is done by spending time with the Holy Spirit and the Word. Start by telling the Holy Spirit that He can have His way with you in prayer and then go to a scripture if there’s a scripture you have been thinking of, or ask Him where you should go to in the Word. Get quiet and wait for His prompting - it may be a “hunch” or you’ll hear His still, small, quiet voice from within you telling you where to go, or you may see the words from deep inside you that come up to your mind. Go there. Then speak that scripture out to the Lord as you read it, you can pray it back to Him if you are led to. If you are led to pray it, go as far as you can with what you know in that scripture giving Him thanks for it working in you and then other scriptures will start to “come up” from within you. THAT is the Holy Spirit bringing things to your remembrance (John 14:26-27), see where He takes you. Speak them out loud as they are coming up. He will bring words and phrases to you; you can sense “something” - unction - on a part of scripture, follow the unction; He will bring other scriptures to your remembrance; or remind you of a vision or dream He gave you; or remind you of something you saw, or someone you know, however He leads you, follow Him. If a person comes up, ask the Lord how to pray for that person. He may have you stand in faith for that person in their situation. Sometimes you may simply pray: “ (For this person) Your will be done for them in the Name of Jesus. Whatever You are praying for them Lord (Romans 8:27) I put my agreement with you.” You can intercede for someone without them even knowing. Someone I know calls this “sneaky prayer”. It’s a good thing. The Lord will have you pray about things for this person to help them and they never need to know! I know I’m hammering this again…use scripture as guard rails. You will know what is appropriate to pray for and what is not. Scripture will keep you on track. I say this because prayer is supernatural. Let’s be real about this…we don’t know how to operate supernaturally. We exist in the natural realm and God has placed a barrier between the natural and supernatural realm on purpose. That is a part of what the Word and the Holy Spirit are for. To keep us on track and not get off in the proverbial ditch somewhere. We can’t base our prayer on anything in this world: what we see, hear, smell, taste, touch, emotions (including pride- it is an emotion), and thinking. Prayer is not governed by them. In fact, emotions and our thinking (sometimes it shows up as “justifying”) will get you off in a ditch every time! I know…I have experienced this myself and it wasn’t good. I had my focus on something my thoughts told me rather than basing it on the Word of God, of which I knew what the Word said but I was still leaning to my thinking rather than the Word. This is always how believers get “off” track. Yes, God gave us our thinking mind and our emotions - our emotions will get stirred by Him but don’t base your prayers on emotions or on what you think - ever. God’s Word takes priority and He is always right, regardless of how you think or feel. If your getting moved by your emotions or your thinking, things will “feel” off, stuck, heavy, and you won’t have peace. You can tell that something isn’t right. Beware you don’t make an excuse for things being off. That is a means of “justifying” which is linked to the emotion of “pride”. It always goes off the rails. That is how to tell when you are going off on emotions or thoughts, thoughts or emotions. One is linked to the other. Thus, not following the Word and Holy Spirit. We all experience it but you have to know how to get out of it and back on track. Go back to the Word that you know. Sometimes it may be the simplest of things, like you know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and died for you and you’re saved. Maybe it’s a scripture you’ve been standing on, or one you have used for prayer, whatever it is keep speaking it out. Speak it out to stir up your faith. Speak in different rhythms. Like emphasizing the first word as you speak the scripture out. The second time repeating the same scripture, emphasize the second word; third time - third word, and so on. THIS will give you revelation - which means the Holy Spirit takes hold on that part of the Word and starts showing you things. You’ll be reminded of other scriptures, how it all fits together, and fits and cleans up your life. This starts the water of the Holy Spirit to deluge you from the dry spell of disobedience. It’s a wonderful way of getting back on track AND staying on track. We all make mistakes. No big deal. Forgive yourself. Learn from them. We operate in a physical world, we don’t know how to operate spiritually. You will make mistakes somewhere along the line. It’s okay to do that but don’t stay there. Allow the Holy Spirit to teach you. His is our Teacher and Comforter. That’s why we have the Holy Spirit and the Word to keep us on track in the realm of the Spirit. That’s what God’s Word is for, helping you to operate Spiritually in a physical world. The Spirit realm changes what is in the physical realm. In all things and in prayer, no matter the type, allow yourself to be led by the Holy Spirit and the Word. There is a “flow” back and forth in prayer: Spirit and Word; Word and Spirit; sometimes you are spending more time in the Word before the Holy Spirit grabs hold together with you - when He does flow, follow Him, do what He leads you to do. Go as far as you can, then when He “lifts” - the unction is gone - go back to scripture. This is the root of everything, of how to follow the Holy Spirit moves with the Word and it deepens your understanding and relationship with the Lord. Ephesians 4:17-24 (NKJV and NIV) So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do; in the futility of their thinking, they are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality (the fives sense realm) so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. That, however, is not the way of life you learned when you heard about Christ and were taught in Him in accordance with the Truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds. (Be renewed in the Spirit of your mind.) and put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. We see in this scripture that this is a choice we have to make once we are born again. Someone can still be born again and never do this. They are still saved but their life will be difficult because they won’t follow the Word and the Holy Spirit. We have to choose to put on the new self. We do this by making a commitment to the Lord and ourselves to do this, to follow the Holy Spirit and the Word, the Word and the Holy Spirit. Always flowing from one to the other. They are not separate. If you are noticing a separation, then something is off. Ask the Lord for correction. He will show you. * II. The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation Knowledge (Ephesians 1:17-18). You can’t be around Him, giving Him the priority and obeying His voice without having Wisdom and Revelation Knowledge. That is “Who” He is. He is power. He is love. He is life. He is water - the washing of water by the Word (Ephesians 5:26. (That’s why when we don’t do what the Lord says things feel stale and dry.) He is the Word. He is truth. He is IN you! Lean into Him to lead your prayer. Always. He will guide you. Yes, you have to learn how He flows. Sometimes He will do something for a while like nudging you to stay in scripture for a longer period with shorter times in actual prayer; then He changes it up and it’s longer times in prayer and shorter times in the Word. Sometimes He may have you do confessions (from the Word) as your prayer time after reading the Word. Although He shifts things He never goes contrary to the Word. Whatever He has you do is the season you are in. * III. Most of the time prayer is done alone but don’t neglect praying with the brethren. There are a great many things you can learn in group prayer, or it is often termed “corporate prayer”. There is greater power of God in manifestation, greater anointing, greater moves of the Spirit, thus greater revelation from God, and miracles as God deems necessary, along with the other gifts of the Holy Spirit in manifestation with corporate prayer: word of wisdom; word of knowledge; discerning of spirits; tongues and interpretation of tongues in a corporate setting; prophecy; and healing. * IV. Our God is powerful. It’s staggering to me that the God that controls everything, the universes, all matter, all creatures, it’s all His…He can reach out to us through His Word and through prayer. He wants intimacy with His kids. That’s us. Crave a closeness with Him. All parents want a closeness, a trust with their own children. It’s like any Godly parent who is teaching their child, they do not lie to them, and they would be very frustrated if their child does not believe them. Same with the Lord. We can believe Him. He can’t lie. What He speaks is truth. Trust goes both ways, on both sides: the parent and the child - the child trusts the parent and the parent has to know they can trust their child. That takes time at first. Another example to think about: a parent will not trust their two year old to drive a car. This shows there are stages of development. Don’t neglect the stage you are in. There are important lessons in each one. In Strong’s Concordance "prayer" is #4335 - PROSEUCHOMAI - “properly, to exchange, to wish, pray, literally to interact with the Lord by switching human wishes (ideas) for His wishes as He imparts faith.” With the proper definition in mind you can see that prayer is most likely different than what you had previously thought. In prayer we are interacting with the Lord. We exchange our ideas and thinking for the Lord’s thoughts and thinking. His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9). What He says on the matter through His Word is His direction for us. We have to humble ourselves and let go of our pride and worldly way of thinking and think the way He thinks. He created everything, He knows how things truly work. And He gives us the faith to do it! He does this while He is showing us how to handle a particular situation and with what actions to take. Even if He gives you a vision, it will go with scripture. It always goes with scripture when He gives you things. He never leads or speaks apart from scripture. As you’re reading a particular scripture, a certain verse seems to “jump off the page.” This is the Holy Spirit highlighting something to you. It’s a scripture you get curious about or excited about. Write it down in your notebook. You may not get the answer right away but the Lord will show it in His time. All of this is the Holy Spirit helping you! He is the Teacher and this is one of the ways He teaches. Stay supple to Him, with Him, to His leading and promptings. And keep a prayer journal. Date each day, and put down the scripture the Lord gives you and what was revealed to you, and anything else for that time in prayer. It’s good to have it to look back on. * V. Devote yourselves to prayer… NIV Colossians 4:2; Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit…KJV Ephesians 6:20; …always wrestling in prayer. For you, that you may stand firm in all the will (Word) of God, mature and fully assured. Col.4:12. “Devote; praying always; always wrestling (with our flesh); standing firm in His Word”: this seems like an impossible task but it’s simple. It’s staying in an open conversation with the Lord all throughout your day, allowing Him to lead you in everything: driving to work - maybe He leads you to go a different way, could be because of traffic, or seeing someone you know and are to talk with, or avoid an accident, or simply enjoying the drive going in a different way; or going to the store - He may lead you to pick something up you didn’t know you needed, but you obeyed the unction and when you get home you find out it was something you needed; going to a coffee stand you don’t usually go to but again you see someone that the Lord is leading you to speak with. These are the types of things that will happen as you keep your “Spiritual antenna” up and be led by the Lord throughout your day. “Prayer” is simply conversation with the Lord all day and doing whatever He tells you to do. One last bit before we get into the different types of prayer: allow God to help change the way you do things. You do this by taking His revealed thoughts to you from His Word and make them your thoughts, and then follow them up with subsequent action. Don’t base anything on “how you feel.” You can’t trust feelings. But you can trust the Word. When a thought comes up that is contrary to His Word and what He has shown you, cast down that thought in Jesus Name and replace it with the scripture that speaks on that subject matter. As you are speaking with Him, you know He hears you because you are His sheep and you hear His voice (2 Corinthians 10:3-6; John 10:27; 1 John 5:14-15; John 9:31; 1 Peter 3:12). Yes, prayer is done by faith, like all things, to please God. We know what His Word says and we act on it, no matter what we “feel” like or what we “think.” As our Lord Jesus Christ said in the Garden of Gethsemane, “If it be Your will take this cup from Me. Nevertheless, not My will, but Yours be done.” As we submit our will, our “thinking and feelings” to God and His Word God imparts faith to us to accomplish what is needed. It is an “interaction.” He will let you know what He wants and then you are to follow it out. But it is up to you to allow Him to mold and shape you in your prayer time with Him. He gives you the faith, boldness, and strength to carry it out, just like He did with Jesus. God truly does love you and wants to help. Let the Helper help you. Part Two: Types of Prayer Basic prayer is conversation with God but there are particular types of prayer. It’s kinda like life. For specifics in prayer, like life, there are certain rules for things. Like opening a bank account - there is a way it has to be done, you have to bring in your ID, sign papers, deposit money. It is different than buying groceries - there is a particular way that is done. Or obtaining a drivers license. All have different protocols. Prayer is the same way. And like all things with God, no matter what it is, it all takes faith…which God has imparted to you! And faith comes from hearing the Word of God (Romans 10:17). Yes, you already have faith but you have to build it up by spending time in the Word and then acting on it. This is how to activate it. We believe the Word and act on it. It’s that simple. These types of prayers help you on your journey with God and continue building and growing your relationship with Him. And there’s such a joy from the Lord as you are standing on His Word knowing it will come to pass just as He has said. And as you see your prayers answered it is exciting. For you are His sheep and you hear His voice! John 10:27. And whatever you ask in Jesus Name it is given to you (John 16:23). All types of prayer require faith. This means we believe His Word because God spoke it and He is not a man that He should lie (Numbers 23:19). That’s what faith is and God put it in us. “Faith” means: believe. We all believe something. Including atheists. They believe there is no God (Romans 1:18-32). We use faith whether we know it or not. Everyone believes something. So faith, believing what God said, pleases God and when we approach His throne room in prayer, which is what we do when we close our eyes focused on Him, we do it with praise and thanksgiving from faith knowing we have our requests asked in Jesus Name (James 5:15-16; Hebrews 4:16; John 14:13-14, 15:23-24). All prayer is with the Holy Spirit’s leading - Romans 8:26. He will help you pray even when you don’t know what to pray. When you are praying using scripture the prayer doesn’t need to be long. It needs to be in faith on His Word. We don’t do the work. He does. We simply do the “believing”. God has already given the answer in His Word, and you are putting your agreement with Him. Now that’s a winning team! I view God as both my father and my best friend. He knows what is best for me. I would not have the same exact conversation with my father or best friend every day. I would instead have a variety of conversations - different lengths, different reasons for conversation, and more. Just keep in mind- God always knows best so His timing is best. Therefore the answer to your prayer is in His timing. * Here are the types of prayer. They are not in any special order. Use as seems appropriate. All prayer starts with a scripture - pray it back to God for the given circumstance then follow the type of prayer below. Agreement - Matthew 18:19-20. An agreement prayer is when two or more people pray together in agreement over a situation. When the Bible says, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” It is no joke. Mountains move when people come together in prayer. It is a prayer of faith, using the Word that you are agreeing on over a situation. It can also be done as a group petition prayer - corporate prayer. This is when people come together, agree on what they are asking God for from His Word, and then pray about the subject in agreement with the Word you are basing it on. Agreement prayers are powerful. You simply have to agree. That’s it. That is a powerful thing. When the brethren come together to pray for each other like James 5:14-16 and Acts 13:1-3, and Acts 2 were all powerful times of agreement prayers of the brethren. It’s interesting to think that our Lord Jesus was able to send His Holy Spirit down to earth after His resurrection, in Acts 2, because of their unity (agreement) in faith on the Words that Jesus spoke -“And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”” Acts 1:4-5. They were in unity, agreement in the upper room which I believe was necessary for the Holy Spirit to come upon all who were there. This was corporate. A group. Never happened before. Plus as people are in a group they can keep each other in check. Previously the Holy Spirit was on individuals in the Old Testament. This is what fellowship is for. Sometimes we need one another when things get tough or start to get weird. God is not weird, neither is His Holy Spirit. He is not the Holy Spirit of weirdness. He’s the Holy Spirit of POWER! Of Love. And of a Sound Mind. Even Jesus asked for His brethren Peter, James and John to pray with Him in Gethsemane. Jesus needed the prayer support. It is not a light matter. Know that when you are praying by yourself you can put your agreement with Jesus - He is ever making intercession for the saints and He is always leading us in triumph (Romans 8:34; 1 Corinthians 2:14). This is also agreement! You and Jesus, a winning team! 2. Faith - James 5:16 “The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.” “Fervent” means: mighty, effectual at work. We know our prayers are effectual and fervent. Don’t get stuck in wrote prayers. Be real with God. He will always lead you, and your prayer will “avail much.” And Mark 11:22-26 “So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them. And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses.” The prayer of faith is using the Word and believing what it says over your situation and be sure you don’t have any unforgiveness. That easy. Technically, you don’t really have to pray, rather “say” to the situation. Speak to the situation what God has already said about it in His Word. And as often you think of the situation, speak the scripture you are using regarding it. That’s what is referred to as the “scripture you are standing on.” Since God has already said it in His Word so you don’t have to ask. for it. It is already given. Now simply speak to the situation in your life and be sure to watch your words after you’ve prayed, that you don’t contradict your prayer. That is being “double-minded” as James 1:5-8. If you notice you said or did something that was contradictory to what you prayed, ask for forgiveness and cancel those words out in Jesus Name, and restate the scripture your standing on over the situation. Keep speaking over the situation until the situation changes. And be sure you don’t have any u unforgiveness. God cannot answer your prayer as long as there is unforgiveness. Unforgiveness acts like a wall blocking the answer from manifesting. Remember Hebrews 11:1, 6 says - “Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and the assurance about what we do not see...And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” 3. Praise and Worship - Praise and Worship is some of the most powerful prayer when you dip into your Spirit by the Holy Spirit. Allow Him to lead you. John 4:23-24 “God is a Spirit, and those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.” This means when you come to God do so in honesty of heart, praising Him with His Word that has “stood” out to you; and/or has come to pass for you. As He gives you thoughts that come up deep within you, speak them out as praise. There is usually a scripture He brings up and a memory of something…speak it out in Praise to the Father for bringing it to pass. At times Psalm 100 - “I will enter into His courts with thanksgiving, and I will enter into His courts with praise.” You can begin your prayer this way. With Praise and Worshiping the Father. There is no one like Him! And Hebrews 13:15 - “Through Him (Jesus) then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name.” Do a study on the Names of God. Worship Him with His amazing Names. Then see how the Holy Spirit directs you in this. Follow Him. Gifts of the Spirit will always flow when you pray this way. Don’t get “stuck” in emotionalism. That will ALWAYS get you off track. Keep the Word on the forefront of your mind and if things are getting off and weird, go back to that particular scripture and speak it out loud. Repeat it. Other scriptures may come up from within you, speak them out. This is the flow of the Holy Spirit and follow it, Him, as He leads you. Follow the Holy Spirit when you can sense His flow; then when it seems to get “dry” go back to scripture. As you speak those scriptures out the Holy Spirit will take hold together with you on those scriptures and then you’ll sense His flow again. He works like this, back and forth. Spirit and the Word, just like Scripture says. 4. Corporate Prayer - is known as praying together, like the prayer of agreement, or praise and worship. Can be done with 2 people or many more like an entire church. The flow of the Holy Spirit is different depending on the number of people. This is all over the Book of Acts where brethren got together for prayer. Read these to see what happens in corporate prayer: Acts 1:14; chapter 2; 4:23-31; 11:27-29; 12:5, 12-17; 13:1-4; 16:25-26, 21:4-14. It is group prayer in tongues like Acts 2 describes. Just in case someone was taught “this has passed away” - that phrase is not scriptural. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8). Besides all the above scripture and 1 Corinthians 14:18 (Paul was telling them how to hold a church service in chapters 12-14 and flowing with all the giftings of the Holy Spirit and not only emphasizing praying in tongues.) As with ALL prayer, you begin with a scripture. *For example: Whoever is leading the prayer read out loud Jude 20, Isaiah 28:11-12, with Romans 8:26-27 and Ephesians 1:17-23 - “Heavenly Father, we come to You today in the mighty Name of Jesus. We thank You for Your Word for Your Word is truth. As we are gathered together in unity to pray whatever you want us to pray in tongues corporately, we know as You have said in Jude 20 that this will build up our faith for what we are believing for in our personal lives by praying in tongues; and as Isaiah 28:11-12 that You have given us tongues for which You are to speak to this people and it’s a rest! We don’t struggle. We rely on You Holy Spirit. Have Your way. We simply open our mouths and release the Holy Spirit language that is within us in Jesus Name. We know as Romans 8 says that the Holy Spirit will only speak what the Father wants spoken, He quickens us as we pray, He bears witness that we are children of God, and the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness when we don’t know what to pray so we roll over our tongues to the Holy Spirit as He leads our mouths. Thank You Holy Spirit for making intercession for us according to the will of God. And we also are expecting Ephesians 1:17-23 for our eyes to be enlightened to what You want us to know. Giving us insight, wisdom and revelation knowledge in the knowledge of You!! We give You all the praise for it, in Jesus Name.” - The prayer leader and the corporate body begins in tongues and if the Holy Spirit is reminding you of other scriptures, pray them out loud, then when you go as far as you can in English, you start praying in tongues. Be cognizant of one another. Don’t ignore each other or “steam roller” over (“run over”) each other as you are praying together. Being “loud” is not better and can interfere with the move of the Holy Spirit. You can be just as effective if your more subdued. But there are times when the Holy Spirit may want you to do something in particular, like shout out a word like “NO!” And then words in English will start to flow out. Speak them as they come up. He usually gives a word at a time. A word. Then another word. Eventually a sentence will come out. Defer to one another. Meaning when you can tell the Holy Spirit is really moving on someone, pray quietly next to them. Hook up your Spirit with their Spirit intentionally. By choice. We each have a river of living water flowing inside each of us by the Holy Spirit. When you intentionally “hook up” with them, you are bringing your two rivers together into one. There is more power. More anointing. Follow the flow. You’ll notice the prayer becomes like a conversation. Agreement may come out of your mouth. Like you will respond to something he or she says, like “yes!” Or “that’s right.” You may even find yourself repeating words that they are speaking. Even in tongues. In general whether you are praying alone or corporately, slow down your enunciation. Words that come our of your mouth may be the same as the person you are listening to; or words that sound “odd” - write them down; words may come out in your birth language (if it’s other than English) or in another language you know. Write them down. You may be a person whom the Lord works through with visions. He may give you a vision as you are praying. Write it down. You may get scriptures with it. Whatever you get, even if it seems silly, write it down. One time when I was in corporate prayer, many years ago, with my church the words: “kitty, kitty, kitty” kept coming out. Then other people were getting it on occasion. (That’s corporate prayer.) None of us knew what it was about. Didn’t matter. We had all written it down. Then one day I was watching a documentary of something ( I won’t get into it all) but that word was used by the government to describe Iran. This made sense to me because the Lord aways brings up nations when I pray. It didn’t make a lot of sense to others because the Holy Spirit works differently with them. And there was another layer to it: “kiddie, kiddie, kiddie”. We all know what that means now. However the Holy Spirit works through you, you will find out as you pray in tongues. Some folks get things about people groups; others about states; others about individuals. How ever the Holy Spirit leads, follow. If you get a heavy unction with sobbing, follow it out, BUT don’t stay there! Keep going until you hit JOY! In His presence is fullness of Joy! Never stay in the heaviness and sadness. Yes, at times it’s appropriate because the Holy Spirit is grieved about a certain matter but He doesn't stay there and neither should you. It’s common in corporate settings for prophecy to come up. It may be spoken over the gathering of people praying, over your state, or nation. If someone is praying prophecy over you, keep in mind the source of where this is coming from. Is this person in tune with the Holy Spirit? Are they in God’s Word often? Is it a bold prayer, or does it line up with more of a “doctrine of men” type of preaching? If it doesn’t make sense to you - through it out. If :it’s important to you the Lord will bring it up again. This is where 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 is super important: “Do not quench the Spirit, Do not treat prophecies with contempt BUT test them all; hold on to what is good reject every king of evil.” Overall don’t lean to your own thinking. You have to dip into your inner man, into the Holy Spirit and follow His lead. He may have you do something that is not in your comfort zone, like hook up with another believer for a time in prayer. So important to keep Proverbs 3:5-6 in mind, “I trust in the Lord with all my heart and I lean not to my own understanding. In all my ways I acknowledge Him and He directs my paths.” Then when it seems like the unction has lifted on the corporate prayer and it gets quiet. Stay quiet. Sometimes the Lord likes this - “Be still and know that I am God.” When the time is right and you can tell that the prayer time is ended, everyone compare your notes with each other. We all see in part and know in part, so when we compare notes we get a bigger piece to the picture. If you have never prayed this way I encourage you to! There is nothing like it!! 5. Petition - A.) Petition prayer is when you ask God for something. Like the prayer of faith, you get a scripture that the Holy Spirit seems to be highlighting to you regarding your situation, and pray it back to God in faith, and believe you receive. Then praise Him for the answered prayer until it manifests. B.) There is another type of petition prayer. It is when you are not sure what the Word says about your situation OR you do know but you are struggling to get your will in alignment with God the Father’s - like Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane asking for the Father to take this cup from Him…”nevertheless not My will but Yours be done.” We need to humble ourselves to the answer God gives us even when we don’t like it and be obedient to do what He says to do. C). There is another type of petition, it is Habakkuk 2:1-3 (NKJV and NIV) - “I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. And the Lord answered me, and said, ’Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables (or upon a notepad), that he may run that reads it (a herald may run with it). For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie; though it tarry (linger), wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.’” If the Lord has given you a dream or vision of something, take that dream back to Him and pray over it, questioning what needs to be done with the information He has given you. There may be one of three ways He will have you pray: 1. to stop the dream or vision from coming to pass; or 2. He will have you pray to decrease the intensity of what you saw in the dream or the vision; or 3. He will have you pray in order to prepare people for what is coming. With this last one He may give you additional information about it. With dreams and visions, most of the time the person will have the interpretation right away but sometimes they don’t and need to ask the Lord for interpretation. He knows what it means and will tell you in the right time, it His timing anyway. Sometimes it’s not right away. Sometimes it may be a while. Other times if you are in corporate prayer the Holy Spirit may remind you of it - mention it at the appropriate time because we all have slightly different anointings and someone may have the interpretation of it. Or several people may have different parts the Lord will give them to interpret. 6. Deliverance - This may be done for yourself or someone else. Simply understanding your Authority in Christ Jesus and knowing what He did at the cross takes care of any mess the devil tries to throw at you (Luke 10:17-19; Genesis 1:26-28; Colossians 2:13-15; Ephesians 1:20-23; 1 Corinthians 2:5-8). Yes, there are specifics: 1. What “doorway” did you open to allow the demon access; Is it a family curse (shows up as cycles that keep repeating in your life); Is there unrepented sin; Is there unforgiveness; is it a curse that came from an item you bought or received from someone (yes, Romans 8:2 but if there is unrepented sin the curse has access). Whatever the doorway is, close it, in Jesus Name, and get rid of the item if it’s attached to an item in your possession. It may be from a movie you saw, or music you listened to, or a book you read. Whatever the doorway, repent of opening it and close it in the Name of Jesus; then loose all demons that entered through it in Jesus Name; then cast them out/off of you in Jesus Name, AND very important: cut all cords to the sin (Isaiah 5:18; 5:21-23). (Yes, being born again you can have a demon in your flesh. It’s not saved. Your Spirit is. And the demon can dwell in your flesh. Depending on the situation it can be in your body, in your thinking, tied up in your emotions. Especially if it’s a driving force and you can’t control the situation like addictions (demon of addiction, linked to unforgiveness and sometimes to a family curse) - that is telling you it’s demonic. The devil forces. And he has come to steal, kill, and destroy. You can always tell by what is showing up in your life. 1. Repent of the sin, whether it’s from you or generational family curse; 2. Cut all cords to the sin; 3. Loose and cast out and off all demons; 4. All done in Jesus Name, the Name ABOVE all names, and receive your deliverance in Jesus Name. *Don’t get caught up in this. People have become heavily involved in this, even as a ministry and yet, it’s not an official ministry from the Word (Ephesians 4:11-12 ”—apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors, and teachers for the perfecting of the saints (maturing) for the the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the Body of Christ.” And 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 doesn't say anything about deliverance as a ministry. Yes, deliverance is a part of the basic ministries of Ephesians 4 and 1 Corinthians 12, but it is not a stand alone ministry. I am saying this because many of the brethren have gotten hurt. Some, severely. There can be many reasons why. You have to know that you know your Authority that was given to you by Jesus Christ and you are coming from a place of victory because the devil is under your feet (1 John 4:4; Ephesians 1:20-23). REMEMBER: don’t make the devil out to be bigger than God. Never will be. Never was. Ain’t going to happen. He is under God’s feet. God has already defeated Him so don’t put up with any of his mess. Many believers are too focused on his shenanigans rather than on God. If that’s you, change your focus. Put your focus on Jesus - like Peter on the water- Peter got his eyes off Jesus and on his circumstances and that’s why he began to sink…he wasn’t really walking on the water per se…Peter was walking on the Word - Jesus said, “Come” - That’s what Peter walked on. The Word and eyes on Jesus! 7. Intercession - Intercessory prayer means praying on behalf of someone (1 Kings 13:6; Isaiah 59:15-16). This type of prayer is powerful because you are praying in behalf of someone and petitioning God for them. It may start in English praying a specific scripture for their circumstance, then you may roll it over into tongues to see where the Holy Spirit leads. Follow the Holy Spirit. You may simply get “peace” about the situation; or He may have you pray a scripture over them and receive it for them. Sometimes He may have you pray in tongues over the person for a while. Maybe even several months. Whatever it is, do it. Tremendous power is made available through the Holy Spirit to change things that may not happen any other way. 8. News prayers - This one may sound odd but there is a point. It’s a type of intercessory prayer. Again, if the Holy Spirit leads you to do this. You can look at your news feed or something that you saw during the day - something that “strikes you” or maybe it just bugs you, take it to the Lord in prayer. Ask Him about situation. You are interceding on behalf of the situation and people involved. You may be praying for an industry - like the medical industry; or space industry; or other businesses; or maybe for the dealings of countries with a war; or individuals in a circumstance that was reported like a building that blew up or a tornado. Whatever it is see the Holy Spirit leads you. He will bring up things regarding the situation to you. He may have you stand on certain scriptures to pray in behalf of the situation and people. Sometimes it can be intense. Nevertheless, always go until you hit victory. Joy. Even if it’s “on purpose” because you are praying from faith that He has the situation in hand. 9. Tongues - (See “Corporate Prayer" also.) In your private prayer time when you are by yourself it is a good idea to pray in tongues. At the very least because of what Jude 20 says, “But you, beloved, build up yourself in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.” Sometimes you simply need a Spiritual vitamin shot! It builds you up. If you're feeling worn down, it’s a good thing to do. As with all prayer, begin with scripture. I like Jude 20 and Isaiah 28:11-12. Speak them back to the Father in Jesus Name expecting to be built up in faith and having rest (meaning “don’t struggle”. You can’t do anything anyway - just open your mouth in tongues). Pray in tongues for as long as you are led to or have time to. Then when you end the prayer, thank the Lord for the answered prayer. You don’t have to know what you prayed. After all Paul says in 1 Corinthians 14:14 that when you pray in tongues your mind is unfruitful. Since we know our minds are unfruitful we can then keep our minds focused on scripture while tongues is coming out. Then listen to the sounds of the words coming out of your mouth. Slow down the words. Write down any that capture your attention. Especially a word or words that repeat. I find that if I do an internet search of those words that they mean something very specific. You’ll figure out the spelling, follow the unction of the Holy Spirit. What “seems” right. You will eventually learn “how” the Lord has you pray. For me, I pray for nations, sometimes political things that are going on; someone I know prays for the lost; another prays for Israel. Whatever it is, that is what you are called to do. Just follow the Holy Spirit. Sometimes words in English will come out, sometimes prophetic - depending on how someone grew up or what you have been exposed to, this type of prayer is sometimes misinterpreted, misused, or misunderstood. Whatever comes out, write down what you get. If you don’t remember that’s fine. Simply trust the Lord. He will do what needs to be done. There are some people that I know that when they pray in tongues they get “down loads” of teachings the Lord is giving to them, to the Body of Christ. There is no private interpretation of scripture (2 Peter 1:20-21). There are all sorts of things the Lord can do through tongues. All we have to do is let Him. And they are all important because the devil doesn’t know what you are saying and you are putting God’s Word into the atmosphere to bring to pass whatever He needs. A note on prophetic prayer : this simply tuning into the Holy Spirit at a particular moment in time and then giving it a voice and action but it is only when you are truly tuning in to the Holy Spirit and what God wants said or done and speaking it out loud. Notice in 1 Corinthians 12 it is a “word” of wisdom and a “word” of knowledge. It often starts that you get a single English word. Speak it. It will probably repeat. If it does, ask the Lord out loud what the word means. He will begin to show you with either a “knowing” in your Spirit, or remind of you of a scripture, or show you a vision, or prophecy will start flowing out of your mouth. Of course, this can be misused. You have to be “knuckling down” in your Spirit to get out what He wants said and not what you want. You won’t remember most of it. Guaranteed. Whatever you do remember, write it down. If the Lord wants you to remember, He will bring it to your remembrance (John 14:26). Since we are human and we are prone to sin, many times people try to pray prophetic prayers over what they want, or what they believe a person wants, instead of what God is telling them to say or do. You can tell by the “feel” of it (I hate using that word: “feel” but you get my point.) Something is “off.” Stop. Go back to the scripture you are standing on for this time of prayer, repent, and ask the Holy Spirit to instruct you. Be teachable. Find the way God wants to handle it rather than your own ideas. It’s about submitting your thoughts to His. There is one more element to praying in tongues : if you are obedient to moving as the Lord leads you. There can be a time, it’s a little hard to describe it properly but you will understand my meaning, where you are “unsettled”. It can be as if your “on edge”. Something is “not right”. You may even sense a “heat” coming from within your very depths. You have been following His leading. Reading the Word and praying. And yet there is this “unsettled-ness” or “uneasy” within you. This means the Holy Spirit is putting a “burden of prayer” upon you. Get alone and pray in tongues!!! Remember Romans 8:26 “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” Trust the Holy Spirit’s leading and just let the tongues flow! Sometimes it may be for 10 minutes, sometimes it may be for a few hours. Keep at it until the burden lifts. You’ll be left with peace or laughter in the the Holy Spirit (anytime praying in tongues, pray until you hit “peace” or laughter, sometimes the Holy Spirit will really put a laughing bit on ya! Go with Him! It removes “junk” that may have been sitting on you). Times like this are crucial. There is something urgent the Lord wants prayed over. The Holy Spirit will reveal some aspect of what you are praying over. You may not know the whole thing because He doesn’t reveal it entirely. But you will get the idea of what you are praying over. Simply follow His lead. When I have experienced this, and it’s only been a few times that it’s happened in my life, each time I was praying for a person who was in danger. One time, I knew the person, and praise God nothing ever happened to them because the apparent prayer enabled the event to be stopped. Thank You Jesus for making tremendous power available! On another occasion, the event happened. I didn’t understand at the time and was deeply concerned about it. In time the Lord showed me that there are three reasons why He has us pray. When the Lord gives you things, whether it’s in prayer, dream, or vision, there are one of three ways to pray about it: 1. To stop the event; 2. Decrease how serious the event will be; 3. Can’t stop the event nor can it be decreased but you can prepare the person(s) heart(s) for it. Whatever it is pray over it. The Lord has it worked out with how He wants it handled and He is leading you to do it. How amazing is it that the Lord is including us in these types of things! Yes, it is a type of intercession and it’s the Lord doing it in another way. 10. Confession - A confession prayer is taking something from the Word of God and putting yourself in that scripture changing pronouns and word to make it personal and speaking it out over your life. For example: 2 Corinthians 5:17-19 “Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature (creation): old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself in Jesus Christ, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing (not counting people’s sins against them) their trespasses unto them; and has committed unto us the word (the message) of reconciliation.” Now, take that word and put yourself in it by changing a few of the words to make it personal. Then speak it out to the Lord over yourself and your life: “Therefore, since I am in Christ, I am a new creature: old things have gone away and all things have become new, and all things are of God in me, Who has reconciled me to His very self, hallelujah! And all these things are of God - He has reconciled me to Himself by Christ Jesus and has given me the ministry of reconciliation not counting my sins against me and has committed unto me the Word of reconciliation. Thank You Jesus for Your astounding love for me!” 11. Guidance - A guidance prayer is type of prayer that asks God for both wisdom and direction. This is based on James 1:5 and Ephesians 1:17-18. If we seek God for both of them, not separate from each other, we can use His Word and His direction to make sure we are walking the righteous path to do His will. This is a prayer of faith. Simply speak the scripture in James and/or Ephesians and thank the Lord for giving it to you. Then wait quietly. He may tell you right then, or He may take a while. Stay in expectancy. He will show you. 12. The Lord’s Prayer - For me this was hard to fully understand because in my youth I was raised Catholic. So it didn't "mean anything" - it was something you said to appease the priests or nuns. But I have since studied it and it is helpful in learning the proper things to pray for when you are new to prayer or don't know what to pray. The Lord’s Prayer is an example of prayer that was prayed by Jesus in Matthew 6:9. I like it in The Scripture translation of the Bible (it's a word for word translation. It is below). In this prayer, Jesus gives specific step-by-step guidance on how we can talk to God. This doesn’t mean this is the only way we pray, but if you are wondering what type of prayer is best for you, this is a great place to start. Sometimes when you don’t know what to pray, go to this prayer. It starts with worship: “Hallowed by Your Name.” Because holy is the Name of the Father (*See study on the Names of the Father). His Kingdom HAS come on earth and remind the enemy of this, pray that His will be done (for the situation) on earth as His will is of course done in heaven. Ask that He give you direction in His Word (Jesus is the Bread of Life, Jesus is the Word) as well as food for the day; and ask for the Lord to forgive you of your sins and you forgive those who have done wrong against you; and ask that He not lead into trial, meaning not test you but deliver you from the evil one. For His is the Kingdom, the Power, and Glory, Forever!!. Matthew 6:9-13 "This, then, is the way you should pray: 'Our Father who is in the heavens, let Your Name be set-apart, 10. let Your reign come, let Your desire be done on earth as it is in heaven. 11. Give us today our daily bread. 12. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13. And do not lead us into trial, but deliver us from the wicked one - because Yours is the reign and the power and the esteem, forever. Amen.' 13. Praying the Bible - (*See “Foundation of Prayer” article.) Where there is God’s word, there is an ability to turn it into a prayer. I like using as a foundation all the prayers in the Epistles. These cover everything. But you can use any scripture, Old Testament or New. 14. Dedication - A dedication prayer is to dedicate a specific thing to God. Most often when we pray a dedication prayer, we are praying our dedication to God. A dedication prayer is a type of prayer that enables me to get back into focus and truly give it all to God. As John 3:30 says, “He must increase but I must decrease.” There have been times I haven’t kept on track and realize I haven’t spent my usual time with the Lord in prayer, or didn’t do what I said I would do (dedication) of praying if He wakes me up in the middle of the night. I got lazy and wanted to sleep. I had to repent. Then I asked Him what He wanted me to do. Rather than what I thought. Always ask the Lord if He wants you to make that dedication. It may be something that you think is important but God doesn’t. 15. Blessing - A blessing prayer is to ask for God’s favor, or blessing, over a specific part of your life or someone else’s life. A popular blessing prayer from the Bible is from Numbers 6:24-26: “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.” When we ask God to bless a specific part of our lives or upon someone else, may we remember that we do it to further enhance His kingdom, not our kingdom on Earth. Take a look at Luke 6:31, Matthew 7:12 and Proverbs 11:25. And another part is when you are visiting someone you can pronounce a blessing upon there home Matthew 10:12-13. There's also another blessing prayer in the Book of Jubilees. It was prayed by Abraham's father over him, Jubilees 12:29 - "Deliver him (me) from the hands of evil spirits who have sway over men's hearts. And let them not lead him (me) astray from You (Father God) And I pray that he (I) does not walk in the deceitfulness of his (my) heart, (in Jesus' Name)." 16. Breath prayers and Emphasis prayers - A breath prayer is a type of prayer that breaks down a Bible verse into breaths. It can help us when we are frazzled or stressed to bring it back to God and rely on God’s inner peace rather than our own. For example, Psalm 23: [Breathe in.] The Lord is my shepherd; [Breathe out] I shall not want. etc. Doing this with a short Bible verse can help us re-orient ourselves to the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and Savior when our emotions and/or our thoughts try to beat us (2 Peter 3:18.). Emphasis prayers - similar to the breath prayers, these re-orient ourselves and connect us directly to the Holy Spirit. Like the breath prayers, this is good to do with short verses because you will speak out the entire verse each time. Take the first word of the scripture and emphasize it on the first speaking of it. Then take the second word and repeat…etc. For example, (part) 1 John 1:5: (word in Bold is emphasized) GOD is light and in Him is no darkness at all. God IS light and in Him is no darkness at all. God is LIGHT and in Him is no darkness at all. God is light AND in Him is no darkness at all. God is light and IN Him is no darkness at all. God is light and in HIM is no darkness at all. God is light and in Him IS no darkness at all. God is light and in Him is NO darkness at all. God is light and in Him is no DARKNESS at all. God is light and in Him is no darkness AT all. God is light and in Him is no darkness at ALL. This can be done with any verse of scripture and restores you with the fire of God and His revelation about that verse. 17. Listening - This is something I saw someone post that I liked. I do this in my prayer time but I never gave it a name. It simply was my quiet time with God. What the woman said who posted this was: “It may be my favorite (prayer) because I avoided it for so long. For so much of my life, I constantly prayed to God like a genie and forgot to actually listen for His responses.” For me, this is all part of “Be still and know that I am God” - Psalm 46:10. Prayer is a conversation. Not just “you” talking. Listen to what He has to say. As always follow the peace in your heart - Colossians 3:15. “No peace” - stay away from it. “Peace”- then your good to go. Another note from the woman who has written about this: “I was praying over a tough situation for months one time, not knowing which decision to make. Finally, I felt a nudge from God that said, Hey, would you like my opinion? (God probably isn’t sarcastic like I am, but that is what the nudge felt like to me.) So I stopped and tried my best to still my mind. Every time I would lose focus, I would pray a breath prayer and redirect myself. It turns out that God didn’t want me to make a decision yet. I felt peace after listening to God. More than anything, I encourage listening prayers to be just as often as all the other types of prayer combined.” I concur about listening for what the Lord has to say, and not making a move until you know. I listen to God every time I pray. I ask the Lord how He wants me to pray. It may be different than what my thinking is or my understanding. He knows what’s best and He will direct your steps if you allow Him to. Conclusion Prayer is a constant, ever-evolving relationship with God. Like any relationship. Just because you can’t see Him doesn’t mean it’s not happening. You will find it is more real that any relationship you could ever have. Some of these ways of praying may feel weird and awkward at first, but sometimes it takes a bit of awkwardness to break through. Trust Him. As you use these new ways of being closer to God you will learn how to follow Him. If you want to see results in your prayer life, changing the way you pray can be a huge help. Just as you would not expect to see results in your physical fitness if you never changed your workout routine, you will not see results in your prayer life if you never change your prayer routine. There’s a phrase: “You are where you are because of the things you’ve done.” So change it up. Find a new way to connect with God and step out of your “comfort zone.” You’ll never be the same.

Soul ties, attachments to partners, cords, attached, curses, cycles, bad habits, how can I stop thinking about my partner Soul Ties Prayer for Release from Soul Ties Article below or click link for downloadable PDF PDF Soul Ties PRAYER FOR RELEASE FROM SOUL TIES (Also see N.R. Prayer) Soul ties occur from all sexual encounters. It is a very real tie to that person. Especially if it was a relationship that ended and you can't stop thinking about the person. Your life is a wreck because they are gone. THAT is an example of a soul tie. When this occurs outside of marriage or from a violent situation this can be a very dangerous thing. Whatever spirit is attached to the person now has rights to you and whatever spirit that is attached to you now has rights to the other person. It is because of fornication and abuse that emotional trauma comes. Always. Below is the prayer to release yourself and others from the soul ties that occur. PRAYER: Father, I repent for every ungodly soul tie that I have made through sexual union. I apply the blood of Yahshua to the soul tie that I made with ____________. I ask You to sever the cord connecting me to this person with the Sword of the Spirit. I bind any demonic attachments that came to me, and I command them to leave me, in Yahshua’s name. I loose the power of the Kingdom of Yahuah within me and around me to restore what was damaged by this soul tie. I ask You to seal the severed cord with the blood of Yahshua, so it can never be connected again, and I ask You to remove any foreign DNA from my body, in Yahshua’s name. Father, I ask You to deliver every person from any spirits that were transferred to them from me, in Yahshua’s name.

Who is the Holy Spirit, How to follow the Holy Spirit, How does He lead, Is tongues really from the Holy Spirit, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, God, Jesus, Are they real, Isn't the Bible just stories Holy Spirit He is in you and He is a person, He is the Spirit of God. Article below is long. Take your time. For downloadable PDF use link. PDF Holy Spirit He is in you and He is a person, He is the Spirit of God. Areas of discussion: 1. Who is the Holy Spirit 2. When do we receive the Holy Spirit? 3. How do we recognize Him? 4. Leading and Revealing by the Holy Spirit 5. Specifics: Let’s look at specifics of “Who” He is 6. The Holy Spirit Is the Spirit of God Almighty 7. He Counsels Us at Night While We Sleep 8. He Is The Spirit of Power and Spirit of Love 9. The Holy Spirit Guides Into All of the Truth, and He Speaks 10. The Holy Spirit Is Also Called “Water” 11. The Holy Spirit is your Comforter, Helper, Teacher 12. The Holy Spirit can be grieved: 13. Praying in Tongues 14. Spiritual Gifts 15. Spiritual Fruit: 16. Having “Utterance” and “Revelation Knowledge” Go Together 17. Spend time in reading Romans 8. 18. Test the spirits 19. The Holy Spirit is the Anointing 20. How to “Hear” 21. He Gives You Strength Other Scriptures to Note: 1 Corinthians 2 Romans 8 - ESV ...and so much more. 1. Who is the Holy Spirit Teaching on the Holy Spirit is sparse unfortunately and the Church as a whole doesn’t exactly know “Who” He is, how He operates, and how we are to work with the Holy Spirit. And yet there are over 800 scriptures that speak of Him. If we look to see how Jesus operated with Him we get a clear idea: He was always in prayer and obeyed what was given Him. It’s that simple. Here are some details that will help answer questions and build your relationship with the Holy Spirit. We need to know Him because as born again believers He now lives in us and He gives us rights and privileges we did not have before. Since there are over 800 verses in the Bible about the Holy Spirit we will only go into small portion of course. God wants us to know about Him, we need to know about Him. He is a Spirit. He is the Spirit of God. He is a “person” - if that is the correct term…maybe not…but you get my point. The Holy Spirit is God and He lives within you, the born again believer. Now how do we operate accordingly? He is Wisdom. He is Understanding. He is Might. He is Council. We will get into more of this later in “How do we recognize Him?”. 2. When do we receive the Holy Spirit? Ezekiel 36:26-27 - “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes and be careful to obey My rules.” When we received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior and as the sacrifice for our sins, God put in us a NEW heart and He put His Holy Spirit in our new heart. This is how we are born again. Our mind (soul) needs to be renewed and our flesh is corrupted. It will not change until the Lord resurrects our bodies and changes those who go in the rapture. Don’t we receive the Holy Spirit when hands are laid on us? I know many believe that you have to have hands laid on you and have a second prayer for the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. I used to think so too, but what I see is this is not clearly stated in scripture consistently. When you look at what happened in Acts you see that Peter took the one time God told him to lay hands on people to receive the Holy Spirit and he interpreted that as “do it every time.” Even Peter was shocked in Acts 11:15-17 - “15 And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning. 16 Then I remembered the Word of the Lord, how He said, ‘John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 If therefore God gave them the same gift as He gave us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?” and Acts 10:44-46 - “44 While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the Word. 45 And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God.” No hands laid on them. And particularly in the Epistles laying on of hands to receive the Holy Spirit is not mentioned. When there are scriptures that appear to “contradict” that means there is not enough understanding. Missing something. Because all of God’s Word is “yes” and “amen” and there are no contradictions. There are not two or three scriptures that say you have to have hands laid upon you to receive the Holy Spirit. It’s actually a “doctrine” of men that was taught from a misunderstanding. Peter and John, and the other apostles believed hands had to be laid upon people to receive the Holy Spirit as it says in Acts 8. In verses 14-17 - “14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the Word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria. 15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.” There “seems” to be a contradiction. But it is not. It was the apostles understanding. So many other scriptures talk of believing in Jesus Christ the Holy Spirit falls upon them. In the book of Acts it is clearly telling what the early church did. Like a journal. It’s not carried on into the Epistles, there’s not even one scripture there that says that is necessary. It is the book of Acts where doctrines have been built around this. But Acts simply states “what” occurred. Like I’ve said before in another article, all of God’s Word is truth. It is truly stated. Not all that is in the Bible is God’s Truth…meaning, some things are explaining what transpired. Just because something transpired doesn’t mean it was God’s will. Case in point, Adam and Eve. It was not God’s will for them to fall. Another is Samson and Delilah; David and Bathsheba; Peter denying Jesus, and many more. None of those were God’s will. But they are in the Bible. They are lessons for us to learn by. There’s one scripture where Jesus stated to ask for the Holy Spirit, in Luke 11:13 - “ 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Yes, we can absolutely do this. Jesus said so. But this should not be a doctrine in the Church because it is the only time in the Gospels where Jesus said this. And out of two or three witnesses let every word be established. (2 Corinthians 13:1; Deuteronomy 18:15; Matthew 18:16.) Meaning, we can’t make it a “doctrine” of the Lord unless it is stated more than 2 or 3 times. So what does scripture say? Above Ezekiel 36:26-27 - when we get born again we get the Holy Spirit. AND a second scripture: Ephesians 1:13 - “In Him you also, when you heard the Word of Truth, the Gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,” If you don’t give credence to the Old Testament, then look at John 3! In verses 1-21 shows Jesus speaking with Nicodemus and telling him that we must all be “born again” - and that this happens only by the Holy Spirit coming in and changing the “flesh heart” to a “God-heart”: verses 5-8 - “5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit. (Word and Spirit.) 6 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. 7 You should not be surprised at My saying, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” 1 John 4:15-18 - “15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 1 Corinthians 3:16 “Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you” and we have Him because we believe. We have accepted Jesus and made Jesus Christ the Lord of our lives. The Holy Spirit IS the Spirit of God Almighty. God is omnipresent - everywhere at the same time. This is far-out trippy stuff to think about because yes, God the Father is in heaven, Jesus is in heaven, and Jesus said He would not leave us alone and would send the Holy Spirit to us once He (Jesus) was resurrected, that the Holy Spirit is our down payment of what is to come: Jesus Christ in the rapture and our new immortal bodies. And He’s everywhere at once. Hard to wrap our minds around but it’s pretty cool. 1 John 4:15-18 - “15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.” When we are born again we are Born of the Spirit. Can’t have one without the other. God is the Author of the entire Bible. Not just the New Testament. It all matters. Just ask Him. 3. How do we recognize Him? Isaiah 11:2-3 - “The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him— the Spirit of Wisdom and of Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and of Might, the Spirit of the Knowledge and Fear of the LORD—3 and He will delight in the fear of the LORD. He will not judge by what He sees with His eyes, or decide by what He hears with His ears;” The Holy Spirit is: Wisdom The Holy Spirit is: Understanding The Holy Spirit is: Counsel The Holy Spirit is: Might The Holy Spirit is: Knowledge The Holy Spirit is: Fear of the Lord WE have this within us because the Holy Spirit is within us!! This is “Who” He is. He is in Jesus and He is in us. He is love. God is love. Holy Spirit is the Spirit of God. Always check your motivations. Should always be love. Proverbs 3:5-6 - “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.” With Proverbs in mind, always acknowledge the Holy Spirit. Talk with Him. He is in you!! It’s like being an adult and living with your parents. You are in the same house with them. But never talk with them. You ignore them. How does that make them feel? It’s the same thing. You and the Holy Spirit are living in the same place, within you. Don’t ignore Him. Talk with Him. All throughout your day. Acknowledge Him. Tell Him “thank You” when He leads you throughout the day. Those great ideas you get during the day, that help…that’s Him. Let Him know you appreciate it. As you acknowledge Him, He will lead you more, and more. And of course, let Him know you love Him. For He certainly loves you! God leads God reveals God stirs He gives light He gives life He is love These are part of how we judge what we are “getting.” As Isaiah said (scripture above) Jesus did not judge by His body - by what He saw or what He heard. He judged by the Holy Spirit deep within Him. We are to do the same. “Where” are you hearing from? By judging by what you see? By what you hear someone say? None of this is necessarily accurate. What is the Lord saying on the “inside” of you. These things are crucial to know when you want precision in following the Holy Spirit. He gives wisdom. He gives understanding. He gives counsel. He gives might. He gives knowledge. He gives fear of the Lord. All from deep within you. If you’re not seeing one or more of these then spend time in looking up scripture about the subject matter and take them personally. Because they are in you. This is ‘Who” the Holy Spirit is; how He operates; and these are things we can expect from the Holy Spirit within us. When we need God’s knowledge on a matter in our lives, ask the Holy Spirit. He will reveal it to you. When you need Godly counsel - ask Holy Spirit. He will reveal what needs to be done. When you need might, ask Him. He will do it. And if we want to continue hearing from Him we must act on whatever He reveals to us. What He reveals will leave us with light, insight, love, & joy. A good tree produces good fruit…fruit of the Holy Spirit. These things will be the result. This is how you can tell what is happening in your life by what is showing up. If there’s a sudden “thought” and it’s accompanied by “light” and “joy” That’s the Holy Spirit. God is light and in Him there is no darkness - 1 John 1:5. In God’s presence is fullness of joy - Psalm 16:11. God’s Words are life - John 6:63. This is how you judge the revelation you are getting. Does it bring light? Does it bring joy? Does it show you something you couldn’t have known any other way? Does it bring life? If it’s yes to all of these questions, it’s from the Holy Spirit. If only one of these questions has a “yes” throw it out. 4. Leading and Revealing by the Holy Spirit Definition of Reveal: to make known through divine inspiration; to make something secret or hidden known. Definition of Lead: to guide on a way especially by going in advance; to direct on a course or in a direction; to go through; to direct the operations, activity, or performance of; to have charge of; to go at the head of. Ask yourself this: “Do I allow the Holy Spirit to reveal and lead me? To direct me? Do I follow what He says?” Being brutally honest with yourself will help you tremendously and lead you to your next step. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 - “However, as it is written: ‘What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived’ — the things God has prepared for those who love Him, 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” Isaiah 11:2-3 (listed above) is how Jesus operated here on earth, by being led by the Holy Spirit. Matthew 4:1 - Jesus was led by the Holy Spirit to go into the desert to fast and pray. This particular “leading” by the Holy Spirit involved a test for Jesus. Read Matthew 4 and Luke 4. The devil was allowed to tempt Jesus. It was a test. It was a temptation for Him. Otherwise it wouldn’t be called the “temptation in the wilderness.” Even Jesus got tested by the Father. The trying of your faith produces patience - James 1:3 - written by Jesus’ brother James. Jesus’ faith was refined by fire. God has to allow this because Jesus had to go through every trial and temptation that man has to go through in order to pay the price completely for us. The Holy Spirit leads us too if we follow His leadings from deep within our inner man. Not from the outside. And Not from our emotions. (See article on “Spirit, Soul, & Body”) He is wisdom. He is understanding. He is counsel. He is might. He is knowledge. He is the fear of the Lord. And He is in us. If you’ve read many of my articles the Lord has had me write, you see often I talk about the emotions. This is a big subject matter that causes the most trouble for people. Everywhere and in everything. We think we are our emotions. No, we are not. Emotions are something we have . Not something we are. We are so easily swayed by our emotions, and if they can sway you, they can stop you. Case in point, if you “feel” depressed, you then think you’re depressed. No. Depression is darkness. You are light. You are in God and He is in you. Cast off that depression in the Name of Jesus, and ask the Holy Spirit what are the “doorways” you opened to let that thing in. Yes, it can be biological, chemical imbalance. Ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it and to help you with it. It is not who you are. If there is a chemical imbalance, pray over your med’s. Just like you do your food. Expect God’s blessing upon it to help you. (See article on “Healing.”) Pray about how He wants you to handle the situation. Don’t go on automatic pilot. Follow His leading. Same deal with all other negative emotions. Guilt. Bitterness. Lying/Deception. You name it. It’s not you. Ask the Lord what the deal is. Most of the time it is a spirit that has attached itself to you and is making you “feel” a certain way. Because if you are swayed by your feelings, it is likely you won’t fight it because you think it is “who you are” and the spirit can burrow in and make your life miserable. Take your Authority in Jesus Name and loose that thing and cast it off permanently in Jesus Name. (See article on “Taking Authority.”) There is likely a stronghold, an embedded way of thinking that needs to be changed by the Word of God. Ask the Lord how to handle it. Usually there is some unrepented sin, so repent of it, truly. Close the doorway in the Name of Jesus. Cut all cords to the sin in Jesus Name. And praise God for your deliverance. Then ask Him what scriptures to renew your mind with. This means every time an “old” thought shows up, cast it down in the Name of Jesus, and speak the scripture out loud to yourself to replace the old thought with the Word of God. Do this each time the old thought comes up. The first day is the roughest. The second day is easier. The third day it will only happen a couple of times. By day 4 it’s gone. This is how you renew your mind. When we need wisdom on a situation, ask Him. When He reveals it, I call these moments “ah-ha” moments. That’s because it’s like the “light” was turned on. Perfect phrase we have in our language. God is light. And when you get a “bright” idea…and it makes you smile…it’s revelation…that’s Him. The Holy Spirit. Haggai 1:14 - “So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,” I know this is Old Testament but God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (Hebrews 13:8; Malachi 3:6, John 8:58, & Hebrews 1:12) - The Lord stirs our spirit’s within us!! A “stirring” to do something. This comes deep down within our being. Not outside. You have to discern where the “stirring” is coming from: outside of your physical body; or within, deep within your physical body, within something you can’t quite figure it out where because it’s deep within you. This is your spirit. It’s imperative to recognize. Many fellow brethren I have encountered are “moved” from the outside and they interpret it as the Holy Spirit. It is not. And if you don’t know what the Lord has said in scripture well enough you will be deceived. Deep within your inner man is where the Holy Spirit is. It is where leadings will come from. A hunch. A deep-down knowing. Sometimes they percolate from deep within your inner man to your mind and a thought will come up that way. Pay attention to those. That is the Holy Spirit. Psalm 16:7 says, “I will praise the LORD, Who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.” God counsels us, the Holy Spirit Who is our Counselor, teaches us as night if we allow Him to. Deep within our inner being. Not outside of our body. When you feel as if you are “forced” or “can’t help” but do a certain thing…that is never the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a Gentleman. He never forces. Only the devil forces. Ask the Lord how to handle it. An evil spirit most likely needs to be loosed, sin repented of, cords burned, and ask the Holy Spirit for direction in the matter. (See article on Spiritual Warfare.) 5 . Specifics: Let’s look at specifics of “Who” He is: The Holy Spirit Is the Spirit of God Almighty 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - “16 Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? 17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.” 2 Chronicles 24:20 - “20 Then the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah son of Jehoiada the priest, who stood up before the people and said to them, “This is what God says: ‘Why do you transgress the commandments of the LORD so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, He has forsaken you.’ ” 1 Corinthians 2:12-13 - “12 We have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.” Genesis 1:2 - “2 Now the earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.” 6. He counsels us at night when we sleep. Psalms 16:7 - “I will praise the LORD, who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me.” 7. He Is The Spirit of Power and Spirit of Love Acts 1:8 - “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you.” 2 Timothy 1:7 - He is the Spirit of Love. He is the Spirit of Power, and a Sound Mind: “For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” As we pursue walking with the Holy Spirit, we pursue Him moving in us in these ways. Because these things are in us. They are Him. Romans 5:5 - The Holy Spirit has shed the love of God within our hearts; and God is love - 1 John 4:16. 1 John 4:15-18 - “15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.” 8. The Holy Spirit Guides Into All of the Truth, and He Speaks John 16:13 -“When the Spirit of Truth comes, He will guide you into all the Truth, for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak, and He will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take what is mine and declare it to you.” And John 17:17 says “Your Word is Truth.” - The Holy Spirit will guide you in the Word if you let Him. And John 16:13- God’s Spirit is the Spirit of Truth: “But when He, the Spirit of Truth, comes, He will guide you into all the Truth. He will not speak on His own; He will speak only what He hears, and He will tell you what is yet to come.” The Holy Spirit will guide you in the Word if you ask Him and let Him. The Holy Spirit “leads”: Luke 4:1 - ““Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,” Romans 8:14 - ““For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.” Galatians 5:14 - ““But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.” The definition of “lead” or “leading” - to go before or with to show the way; conduct or escort; to conduct by holding and guiding; to influence or induce; cause; to guide in direction, course, action, opinion; to bring; to take; to command or direct; to go at the head of or in advance of. All of these are ways to expect the Holy Spirit to “lead” you! The Holy Spirit will give leadings that are in line with the Word of God always. That is how you can check the leading or prompting within you. Sometimes it comes as a “hunch”. Sometimes it comes as a “thought” from deep within. Always test it by scripture. If you don’t know the scripture then ask the Lord. If you don’t get a scripture than let it go. Recall Paul in Acts 16 with the servant girl who was demonized with a spirit of divination. Paul didn’t do anything about it for weeks. Not until he was so bothered in his spirit by the Holy Spirit that he acted on how the Holy Spirit led him which was to cast the thing out of her. See also Ephesians 1:17-19 & 1 John 2:20,27. The Spirit and the Word, they go together ALWAYS! - John 4:23-24. Never one or the other by itself. And as the Holy Spirit leads you there are results: Peace - 1 Corinthians 14:33, Colossians 3:15; Light - 1 John 1:5; Joy - Psalm 16:11. When the Holy Spirit is leading you always look at what you are left with? If it’s heaviness, questioning, confusion = FORGET IT! It’s not the Holy Spirit. God is peace, light, love, joy. This is what you are left with when the Holy Spirit is leading you. 9. The Holy Spirit Is Also Called “Water” John 7:37-39 - “37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to Me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in Me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.” 39 By this He meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.” And John 4:13, - “13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The Holy Spirit and the Word are equated to “water”. Ephesians 5:26 - “(That He would) make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the Word.” Need a bath? Get into the Word! The world is dirty. Too much time in it you can tell you need to go for a “swim”. 1 Corinthians 12:13 - “For we were all baptized by One Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the One Spirit to drink.” Holy Spirit = Word = Water = Truth. You can also put “love” in this mix. God is love. His Spirit is love. Want to knock your socks off sometime with revelation from the Holy Spirit: substitute one of those words for the one of the others in your study time. Like every time you see “Word” - substitute Holy Spirit. Or every time you see Holy Spirit - put in “love.” And so on. Major revelation!!!! The Word = Spirit. The Spirit is the Word. The Word is Spirit. Like John 4:23-24 that we are to worship God in Spirit and Truth. They always go together. If you try to do one more than the other, things will go off kilter. Too much “spirit” can get one off into “spiritualism” which will be effected by the devil and his angels - you have to balance “spirit” with the Word. Always. And rightly dividing the Word. I say that because I have seen fellow believers who get off track because of wrong doctrine and then when they “hear” a voice, or a so-called “prompting”, this false voice and false “prompting” uses scripture incorrectly the way the person believes it and it throws them way off base. (Think of Jesus when He was tempted. The devil used the 91st Psalm incorrectly. Jesus responded with how to correctly use the Word in that situation. Luke 4.) The Word, rightly seeing through revelation knowledge by the Holy Spirit what God has said, is your guard rail. Out of two or three witnesses - complete witnesses, complete understanding of the scripture (2 Corinthians 13:1) let every Word be established. Meaning, when you have a prompting or leading, or “hear” a voice - Check all of Scripture and what God has said about it on that subject matter and see if it goes with it or against it. Nothing contradicting. Pay attention to the contradictions if they are there. That means something is off. The Holy Spirit will NEVER lead you contrary to the Word. Never. That’s how you judge what you “heard” or “saw”. Not every vision, dream, or word is from God. What does it leave you with? There is also the pendulum going the other way and you can get too heavy in the Word and it will be “dry” and intellectual. No Spirit. Word without the Holy Spirit is simply written intellectualism. The Spirit isn’t in it. Just Rules. No Spirit. Just like the Pharisees. The two go together - Spirit and Word; Word and Spirit. Always. And where the Spirit is there is wisdom and revelation knowledge so that your eyes are enlightened to what He wants you to do. (Ephesians 1:17-18.) God IS wisdom! He IS revelation! He will enlighten your eyes as to what needs to be done. If there’s no “light” happening for you, ask the Lord what’s the deal. Have Him show you where you missed it. We all miss it. The important thing is to have a willing heart to be corrected. We can’t do life successfully without Him. If you’re around “Christians” or a church where there is no revelation and Godly wisdom, get out! Quick. Because He’s not there. And there won’t be any “joy,” “light” or “peace” - in God’s presence is fullness of joy , Psalm 16:11; God is light - 1 John 1:5; and God is the God of Peace , He keeps us separated unto Him wholly - spirit, soul, and body, and His peace settles our minds - guarding them . (1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Thessalonians 3:16; Philippians 4:7.). Jesus is the God of Peace . These are the markers. These are what you “look” for. These are what you are left with when He is present! Not bondage. Galatians 5:1 - “1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” 10. The Holy Spirit is your Comforter, Helper, Teacher John 14:26 “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” One translation says: Helper, Comforter, Advocate, and Standby. He is all of these things for you. He is there, within you, to help you. He is there, within you, to comfort you. He is there, within you, to be your advocate…most often to yourself. Because we always tear ourselves down. Once you are saved, the Blood of Jesus covers you. If you get off into sin, then He will let you know you shouldn’t be doing that particular thing. If you keep on doing it and ignoring Him, He will just stay quiet and let you deal with whatever outcome will come upon you because of your actions. He will never leave you or forsake you even to the end of the world. (Hebrews 13:5) If someone is led to intercede for you, then you will be given grace. The ultimate of it, sin, will be the death of your physical body so that your Spirit may live with the Lord (1 Corinthians 5:1-5). God never turns His back on a prodigal son or daughter. Ever. 11. The Holy Spirit can be grieved: Ephesians 4:30 “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by Whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” You are sealed by the Holy Spirit. Sealed means sealed. The seal cannot be broken. But you can grieve the Holy Spirit by not obeying Him. That scratchy, uncomfortable feeling you have on the inside of you when you are about to do that “thing” that you want to do. That is grieving the Holy Spirit. Sometimes there can be a “heaviness”. Heaviness can also be demonic oppression. Whatever the situation, get on your knees and repent of it and ask the Holy Spirit how to clean this up. He will lead you. If you have repeatedly disobeyed the Holy Spirit’s leading your heart gets hardened. You won’t be able to “hear” Him. There needs to be repentance if your heart has gotten hard. Talk with the Lord about it and follow His lead. 12. Praying in Tongues: Let’s clear up some questions about this subject because there are many. All believers can pray in tongues, whether they do or not is up to them. It is part of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that we received when we got born again. And for those who do not they will only have a certain depth in their relationship with the Lord because they are relating to the Lord in physical terms and not by means of the Spirit. God is Spirit. Those that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth. (John 4:23-24.) Let’s look at a few Scriptures: Mark 16:17 - “And these signs will accompany those who believe: In My Name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues;” We see signs accompany ALL those who believe - speaking in tongues is one of the signs. It’s the Holy Spirit that gives us utterance to speak: Acts 2:4 -“All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.” You have to enable the Holy Spirit to speak through you, you are using your voice with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. It may be done in your known language, or in wordless groans, or most often it is in another language. Sometimes in God’s heavenly language, sometimes in another known language that will minister to someone who hears you, just like Acts 2. But you have to allow it. You have to release it. You are the one speaking, the Holy Spirit is giving you the utterance. He is enabling you. Ephesians 6:19-20 - (Paul asking for the Ephesians church to pray for him) “And for me that utterance may be given to me so that I will fearlessly make known (in boldness) the mystery of the Gospel….Pray that I may declare it fearlessly, as I should.” We can pray to access utterance and boldness through the Holy Spirit. But if you want to go a step further…simply expect it. He’s already in you. You have all of the Holy Spirit within and all His giftings. Your expectation creates God’s manifestation in your life!! And we see this in Mark 13:11 - “11 Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say. Just say whatever is given to you at the time, for it is not you speaking, but the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit inspires the words we speak! How can you tell? What is your “joy” level and “peace” level? He will always leave you with joy and peace. And you’ll tend not to know what you are saying until you say it. Always check your joy and peace level. 1 Corinthians 1:5, 7 - “5 For in Him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge—7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.” You don’t lack any spiritual gift. He’s given you everything. Now what are you doing with it? Are you using what He has given you? Isaiah 56:6-7 - “And foreigners who bind themselves to the Lord to minster to Him, to love the Name of the Lord, and to be His servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to My Covenant—7. These I will bring to My holy mountain and give them joy in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar; for My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. Romans 8:26-27 - “26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. 27 And He Who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.” Notice the Holy Spirit has a “mind”. He is a person. Not an enigma. And He is a Spirit. We are physical. We have to learn how He operates and work with Him. Sometimes we don’t know what to pray regarding a situation. Let’s face it, we don’t know everything. We don’t have all the facts. But God does! That’s the perfect time to pray in tongues!! Talk with Him about the situation in your natural language just like you would with a friend. Then begin speaking in tongues and by faith trusting the Holy Spirit will give you what needs to be prayed in tongues according to God’s will, as He has said in Romans. Sometimes we wind up praying for something completely different than what we started out. Case in point: One time I was concerned regarding a personal matter, so I spoke to the Lord about all my concerns - I know He knows my concerns but when I speak them out loud often He gives me revelation about the situation. Sometimes I don’t even need to pray in tongues over it when that occurs. Sometimes He reveals scriptures to stand on for the situation. So that is what I will pray, using those scriptures and by faith receive it. But there are other times I don’t get anything as I’m talking with Him. So I kick it over into tongues. In this situation I was praying along and suddenly the word “Puerto Rico” comes out. (Often the Lord has me pray over nations/geographical regions, so this isn’t unusual for me.) This wasn’t what I was intending to pray over. Never crossed my mind to pray for that island. But I don’t know what is important and what should be prayed as Romans 8:26-27 says. I know the Holy Spirit does. I trust Him and keep praying. The Holy Spirit often reveals something of importance and gives me direction regarding something entirely different than the thing I had started praying. And the entire notion of the original request simply goes away and I know He’s got it handled. The situation resolves as the Lord simply takes care of it without me messing with it. I love that. I simply trust He has “got my back” so to speak. And so, the Lord had me pray for Puerto Rico instead. In this prayer the Holy Spirit showed me a vision. He does that often with me while praying in tongues. The vision comes from deep inside me. I saw the area, looked like rural areas, covered in water. Things floating in it. I saw bodies floating in it. And I saw heavy rain falling. I was led to pray for the island for people’s protection. Within a few months the island had the most sever hurricane it has ever encountered in recorded history. Not blowing smoke up my skirt. It was all the Holy Spirit. He knows what’s what. We just simply follow Him. I shared this as an example of how to trust Him and what He gives you. Just do what He gives you to do. We trust whatever He gives because we know it is according to God’s will that the Holy Spirit leads us to pray. It is what He sees as important, not necessarily what we “think” is important. You can trust the Holy Spirit will give you capability to pray in another language and it is always in line with the will of God according to Romans 8:27, Mark 16:17, Acts 2:1-14. He’s got the facts and He knows how to lead you in praying what is needed and bring scriptures to your remembrance to use for praying over them in English, (or whatever is your natural tongue) using your faith that He has given you. It’s nothing you have to muster from within yourself. Simply trust He will do what He has said He will do. He is not a man that He should lie - Numbers 23:19. This is a “dimensional” thing and Authority thing. Meaning God gave us Authority on this planet. What we say, goes. In this dimension God gave us this Authority. He will not interfere or intervene in this dimension unless asked by a person. He can’t. Legally. That’s how He set it up, that man has dominion on the earth. That is why God is looking for people who will pray in tongues, to intercede for people, nations, people groups, families because we have Authority to ask Him. God is looking for prayers to intercede, stand in the gap for those who can’t or don’t know how to pray. Ezekiel 22:30-31 - “30 “‘I looked for someone among them who would build up the wall (in prayer) and stand before Me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found no one. 31 So I will pour out My wrath on them and consume them with My fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done’, declares the Sovereign Lord.” Very important: when the Lord gives you something in prayer, whether it comes out in the words you speak (prophecy), or a vision - He gives it to you to pray about! There are one of three possible reasons why: 1. Through prayer you can stop it from happening; 2. Through prayer you can’t stop it but you can decrease how bad the event will be and how many it will effect; 3. Through prayer you cannot stop the event or decrease it but you can prepare people for what’s coming. As you are praying over the event the Holy Spirit will give you the impression of which one of the three it is. And if you are to prepare for what’s coming, He will tell you. He will give you details of what needs to be done, just like He did with Noah, and Joseph in Egypt with the famine. One more part. Sometimes you will be so excited as you pray you’ll sense the “excitement” and you want to move. Like jump, run, or dance. DO IT!! Sometimes the Holy Spirit expresses Himself that way through people, through you. You know it’s correct when your joy goes even higher. And you feel like a huge weight got lifted. That is all a result of the Holy Spirit breaking stuff off of you. And yes…even this in scripture: 2 Samuel 6:16-23 - “16 As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul (David’s wife) watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart. 17 They brought the ark of the Lord and set it in its place inside the tent that David had pitched for it, and David sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings before the Lord. 18 After he had finished sacrificing the burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, he blessed the people in the Name of the Lord Almighty. 19 Then he gave a loaf of bread, a cake of dates and a cake of raisins to each person in the whole crowd of Israelites, both men and women. And all the people went to their homes. 20 When David returned home to bless his household, Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and said, ‘How the king of Israel has distinguished himself today, going around half-naked in full view of the slave girls of his servants as any vulgar fellow would!’ 21 David said to Michal, ‘It was before the Lord, Who chose me rather than your father or anyone from his house when He appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel—I will celebrate before the Lord. 22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes. But by these slave girls you spoke of, I will be held in honor.” 23 And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.” * So many times I have experienced people going off the rails and getting WAY WEIRD!!! The Holy Spirit is not weird! Inspired - yes! Doing things that are not normal - yes. But you won’t have this weird feeling, like you just feel like you jumped into dirt and need a bath. You can sense something is “off.” Trust that! That’s Holy Spirit letting you know you got off track. It happens to all of us. But we have to learn how all of this works. Praying in the Spirit is …well, Spiritual. We are not. Not yet. We are physical. We cannot naturally see into the Spirit realm. We do not know how it operates. This is why we have to rely on the Holy Spirit. He will lead and guide us in the way that we should go. Psalm 32:8 - “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My loving eye on you.” When things start to go off the rails, prayer will get hard. Tough. Like you gotta push through something heavy. Can even seem like there’s “nothing” there. Dry. This shows the Holy Spirit has lifted! If there’s dryness, that’s a sign, a warning. That’s not being led by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit and the Word are water!! You need to “take a bath” in the Word. How you get back on track is get to scripture once again. Use the ones you started your prayer with, or whatever the Holy Spirit is leading you to. Speak it out. Repeat it. Knuckle down into your spirit and pull out words out of your heart by using the Scripture itself. Go as far as you can in your native language, then roll it over again into tongues. Order of praying in tongues: — Use a scripture to start with , can be any that you will go back to during your prayer time if and/or when you need it. Personally I tend to go to: Jude 20-21 (part) - “20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God,”; and Isaiah 28:11-12 - “'11 For with stammering lips and another tongue He will speak to this people’, 12 To whom He said, ‘This is the rest with which You may cause the weary to rest,’ And, ‘This is the refreshing’;” Ephesians 1:17-19 - “17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power” As I pray I go into prayer praying one or all of these, and any others the Holy Spirit is reminding me of, and praying them back to God and then I add something like this: “Father God, in the Name of Jesus, I thank You for Who You are and Who You are within me. I trust YOU with every ounce of my being. And I thank You that as I pray in tongues in the Holy Spirit, that I am edified. I am built up on my most holy faith on things I am standing for from Your Word in my life, my family, my situations, as I pray in tongues. I thank You Father God that You will reveal answers to me as I pray in tongues and I keep myself focused on Your love. For that is Who You are and Your love strengthens me and gives me insight. I am standing on what these scriptures say that praying in tongues is a “rest” - means I don’t have to work hard at it and you cause me to rest and not to stress; and I have wisdom and revelation from the Holy Spirit regarding stuff that I’m praying and regarding situations in my life, or anything else the Holy Spirit wants to show me, and I thank You for it.” Then I open my mouth and utter the strange sounds that come out of my mouth. — Slow down your words so you can hear them . Pronounce them. Speak clearly. Write down any that catch your attention. Sometimes a word or phrase will repeat. Write it down as best you can - because it’s in tongues you won’t know exactly how to spell words but the Holy Spirit will reveal it to you. Words in your own language may start coming out. Write them down. Sometimes a scripture comes up. Write it down. You can look it up when the time is right. If a word or phrase “bugs” you, ask the Lord right then and there, out loud, about that phrase or word and then roll it back over into tongues. Sometimes the Lord will reveal it to you right then. Write it down. (Sometimes He reveals it later.) You can look up some of the words with an internet search later. This is showing your faith. Acting on the Words He is giving you. He will then give you more when you pray. Be watchful of pride. It likes to seep in. The only reason you can pray in tongues is the Holy Spirit, it has nothing to do with you. You are simply being obedient to His leading. — Keep your focus on your words as you continue to pray. And when you don’t, no worries. Sometimes our minds drift off into random stuff like, what you need to do that day; what you need to pick up at the grocery store…you get my point. This is why we used scripture to start with. Go back to that scripture, speak it out loud again. You will now, on purpose, be focused once again on the Holy Spirit and see what Holy Spirit gives you to say in addition to it. Maybe repeating that scripture. Maybe adding other scriptures that come up out of your heart. There may be other things He gives you directly out of your heart. Phrases. Words. Keep hitting them. Repeating them. You’ll find a flow of the Holy Spirit. This is typically when prophecy comes out. You go as far as you can in English, then kick it over into tongues again. Often this gets “deeper” in Him. Trust the Holy Spirit is speaking into the atmosphere whatever He needs spoken into this reality. It’s that “dimensional” thing I spoke of earlier. — Groanings: As Romans 8:26 says. Sometimes groanings come out. Deep. Guttural. Follow it out BUT don’t be moved by your emotions! You may even wind up sobbing, uncontrollably. DON’T GET WRAPPED IN THE EMOTION!!! EVER!!! I REPEAT - DON’T GET WRAPPED UP IN THE EMOTION! E V E R!! PRESS THROUGH IT UNTIL you wind up laughing!!! THIS is vital! In His presence is fullness of Joy! There’s joy in the house of prayer!!! DON’T stay stuck in sadness, or heaviness, or grief, or sorrow. PUSH THROUGH until you hit the flow of the Holy Spirit in laughter and Joy!! I say this because I’ve seen so many prayers get off track because they “like” the emotion. The heaviness. The sadness. They “feel” like they are really doing something. No. They are not. They are getting pulled off by their emotions and ultimately getting hoodwinked by the devil. If they continue in this ultimately their life will be in torment. It never has a good outcome. Push through until you hit joy in the Spirit. Tears will turn to smiles. Then chuckles. You will start laughing. As you keep “following” it, you will wind up laughing in hysterics. No burden. And lightness of heart will come and you will absolutely know the presence of the Lord is with you. — Always date your prayer journal each time you pray . Sometimes when we pray we are able to stop things. Sometimes we can’t stop them but we can decrease how bad they will be - like that Puerto Rico prayer. I knew it was going to happen but I also “knew” that I could decrease how bad it would be for some people. That is what is called “standing in the gap.” (Ez. 22:30.) In your prayer journal you can always go back to see what the Lord has given you. Be sure to write down any “impressions” you get from the Holy Spirit. — Burdens of prayer. When the Holy Spirit knows He can trust you to pray, there will be times when you get a “burden” to pray. Sometimes it may start where you just “know” something is up, and you gotta pray. Do it! Sometimes it shows by you being “restless.” An uneasiness that you can’t shake off. All of this means something big is about to happen to you or someone you love; perhaps to your town, city, or state. And as you pray about it, you may not be able to get a “release” from the Holy Spirit about it. Means it’s not prayed through until you hit “joy” and you get the release. Keep staying with it until you do get the release. You know that you know in your spirit by the Holy Spirit that it’s done. For example: At one point in my life I had told the Lord that if He wanted me to get up in the middle of night to pray, that I would. So as I was sleeping one night He woke me up! He said, “Get up and pray. Now.” So I got out of bed. Went to the living room. I was about to sit on the couch but the Lord said, “Get on your face on the floor.” “Yes, Sir.” I replied. I could sense the urgency with this. As I began praying in tongues deep groans came out. I was quiet about it. I didn’t want to wake up my husband. It was like a silent movie. My mouth was moving but no sound. Spiritually it was intense. Deep weeping came out. And at the same time I was thinking, “Wow, this is strange. I wonder what’s up.” I stayed with it. And then the Lord showed me a vision. I knew it was the person I was praying for. I didn’t know who they were. I saw the face. They were engulfed in flames and screaming a blood curdling scream. As I was watching this I too was as if I was screaming her scream. Then it all STOPPED. Suddenly. Nothing after it. The burden was gone. The vision gone. The tears gone. I got up to my knees and asked the Lord “Was that it? Is that all. Am I done now?” He said, “Yes. Go to bed now.” So I did. The next day on the news I saw a report of someone who had died horribly from something that had burned. (I won’t disclose the detail of it.) I was shocked. I was very upset because I didn’t think I had done enough. (Notice “my thoughts” verses what the Lord had said. This is why you can’t trust in only your thinking.) The Lord said that prayer was enough. I trust Him. I knew by the Holy Spirit that the Lord wanted her to receive Him before she died. I knew that in the prayer. I didn’t have to figure it out. And I knew at the time of praying that the event was going to happen. I didn’t think it was anything I would ever know about. I didn’t need to. I simply trust Him. He got done what He needed. I’m sure He had others besides me praying for her and the others involved. It is only an example of how the Lord will use you, if you allow Him. He will do this with you too. 13. Spiritual Gifts Yes, they are for today, they did not “die away.” The teaching about spiritual gifts no longer a part of the Church is no where in scripture . Try to find two or three scriptures that say so. Spiritual gifts come from the Holy Spirit. You cannot have the Holy Spirit and not have His giftings. It’s not possible. They are the result of Him within you. The more you spend time with the Holy Spirit and being obedient to His leadings, the more the giftings will manifest. Spiritual gifts are in 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14. And as you read the New Testament you can see the giftings of the Holy Spirit in operation through people. God puts these things in His Word to teach us how they operate so we know when they are operating in us. Giftings are for other people. They are not for yourself. And they should operate by love . All the spiritual gifts when in operation correctly will be operating by love. If you don’t, then the gifting(s) that the Lord has created you with can be used incorrectly out of ego and deception. Ultimately be twisted by the devil. All people have at least one gifting. It’s how the Lord created us. And when someone is not born again and has Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge operating in their life and they never turn to the Lord, the devil will use that gifting his way. The person will be deceived by deceptive spirits and be a “clairvoyant” or “fortune teller” and such like. It’s simply the gift the God gave that person being used in the wrong way. How you reflect on what your gifting is, ask the Lord. And reflect on your life. Especially as a child. The things you liked and wanted to do, what you're good at and are usually related to that gifting. Go to 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 and see how that “job” fits into the gifting(s). Every job does. 14. Spiritual Fruit: Comes from spending time with Him. Not simply a “Sunday Christian.” You have to put what you know to work. The result of the fruit is from spending time with Him, giving heed to Him and doing what He says to do. Galatians 5:16-26 - “16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other. Notice in verse 16 we have a choice. We can walk by the Spirit or not. When someone does not walk by the Spirit they are automatically walking by the flesh. And there are the outcomes listed of each. Again…look what is showing up in your life. When we see something we don’t like we have to ask the Lord where are we off track and make any corrections He gives us. 15. Having “Utterance” and “Revelation Knowledge” Go Together Acts 4:23-25 - "23 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, Who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 Who through the mouth of our father David, Your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,” then the Holy Spirit gave them a scripture that Peter and spoke….continue on to verse 31 - “31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.” The Holy Spirit gives you words to speak from the Word of God, whether it be in your known language or in tongues; and He gives you boldness and revelation about what the Holy Spirit is talking about! This is what He does. It is light. He is light. He is the light of the world. This is a result of having Him within your spirit. Utterance, revelation knowledge, light! - this is what you look for to see if the Holy Spirit is present. 1 Timothy 4:1 - “The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons.” In 1 Timothy we can see that Paul was given utterance and revelation knowledge by the Holy Spirit. I say that because there’s no clear Old Testament scripture that states what Paul says. This was direct revelation from the Holy Spirit. And this most likely happened through prayer. Revelation from the Holy Spirit most often comes through prayer and studying Scripture as He leads. It is not the only way but it is the most frequent. It can come through teaching of the Word, or dreams, or visions, but the biggest way the Holy Spirit gives you revelation knowledge is through prayer and the Word. And as you are praying in tongues, He will at some point give you utterance in a known language. Write down whatever He gives you if you can. He will also give Scriptures along with it. If you didn’t get Scripture with it, ask Him. Sometimes He may want you to look up a subject matter in the Word. Another place where we see the Holy Spirit revealed something to someone is Luke 2:26 - “It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.” The revelation corresponded to action and to speaking. This was Simeon, the priest in the Temple that year. The Holy Spirit was upon Simeon and revealed this to him. Most likely this was done while Simeon was in prayer. He had “gotten” that he was waiting for the “consolation of Israel.” He knew…by the Holy Spirit. There are so many places in the Word about when God revealed things to people, including Jesus. Recall how Jesus would suddenly “know” what people were thinking. Jesus would then respond with speaking. Speaking the revelation from the Holy Spirit sometimes. Everything the Holy Spirit reveals is not necessarily to be shared. Many times it is to pray about for someone else. It’s part of Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge (1 Corinthians 12.) 16. Spend time in reading Romans 8. (Printed at the end of the article.) And then re-read it. Read it in different translations. You’ll get more insight. And then do the same with John 10, 14-17. And then re-read it again. There is a wealth of Spiritual knowledge about the inner dwelling of the Holy Spirit within you and how to follow Him. Another really interesting thing Paul says so many times is to “follow your conscience.” Don’t violate it. When you do, you step out of faith. Romans 14:22-23 - “22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.” See about the conscience: 1 Corinthians 10:25, 27-29; 1 Timothy 1:19; 1 Peter 3:16; Hebrews 13:8; 1 Corinthians 8: 7, 10, 12; Acts 24:16; 2 Corinthians 1:12; 1 Timothy 4:2; Romans 9:1; 1 Timothy 3:9; 2 Timothy 1:3; Titus 1:15; Hebrews 9:9, 14; Romans 2:15; 1 Timothy 1:5; Hebrews 10:22; 1 Peter 3:21; 2 Corinthians 4:2. 17. Test the spirits Not all spirits are of God and they always have a con game going to “seem” like they are from God, looking like an angel of light 2 Corinthians 11:14. 1 John 4:1-6 Any spirit that does not say Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not a spirit of God. 18. The Holy Spirit is the Anointing Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He has Anointed Me… This was after Jesus’ baptism with John the Baptist and the Holy Spirit came upon Him and within Him. The Holy Spirit IS the Anointing! Isaiah 10:27 The Anointing removes burdens and destroys yokes. The Anointing is a person. The Anointing is the Holy Spirit. “Christ” is the Greek word for the Hebrew word “Messiah”. “Messiah” means “The Anointed One”. So the term “Christ Jesus” or “Jesus Christ” refers to different aspects of the Holy Spirit Anointing on Jesus and how He is working in a particular manner. For example: “Christ Jesus” means The Anointed Jesus - scriptures with this term are specifically showing how the Anointing works. “Christ Jesus” is usually about the Anointing of Jesus in operation while He was in His earthly ministry, of which we have access to because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. It is how the Holy Spirit works on Jesus - thus how He can work on you if you stay in repentance (because not doing so hardens one’s heart and clogs up the “hearing.”); and stay in prayer and the Word and follow Him. It’s simple. The second usage: “Jesus Christ” - has to do with the Resurrection. The epitome of the Anointing is the Resurrection with the changed mortal body. We see this in Romans 8:11 -“But if the Spirit of Him that raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He Who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of His Spirit Who lives in you.” And Ephesians 1:19-20 - “19 and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power 20 which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places,” “Jesus Christ” is talking about something that has been given to us in the Anointing by Jesus’ Resurrection from the dead. “Christ” means the Anointing which is the Holy Spirit. So if we word that passage like this: “and what is the exceeding greatness of His power, because His power is the Holy Spirit, toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power through the Holy Spirit which He worked in the Anointing when He raised Jesus from the dead by His power through the Holy Spirit in the Anointing and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places.” We see more to that passage than we did before. Every time you see the word “Christ” by itself it means all of what it can mean: The Anointed Jesus; the Anointing—the Holy Spirit; and it can mean the ultimate of Resurrection Power. You have to pay attention to the inward leading of the Holy Spirit about a passage to see what He specifically wants to show you. I have found that “Christ” when it’s by itself usually means the Anointing (through the Holy Spirit) and how it works. Ephesians 3:16-19 AMP - “16 May He grant you out of the riches of His glory, to be strengthened and spiritually energized with power through His Spirit in your inner self, [indwelling your innermost being and personality], 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through your faith. And may you, having been [deeply] rooted and [securely] grounded in love, 18 be fully capable of comprehending with all the saints (God’s people) the width and length and height and depth of His love [fully experiencing that amazing, endless love]; 19 and [that you may come] to know [practically, through personal experience] the love of Christ which far surpasses [mere] knowledge [without experience], that you may be filled up [throughout your being] to all the fullness of God [so that you may have the richest experience of God’s presence in your lives, completely filled and flooded with God Himself]. Notice the words “Christ” - The Anointing, and “His Spirit” are grammatically used interchangeably. They are the same. The Holy Spirit is the Anointing, and they are love within you. And God wants you to know about this, His Power…WITHIN you! Now look at these scriptures with the word “Christ” interchanged with “Holy Spirit”: 1 Corinthians 15:22 - In the Holy Spirit I am made alive. Colossians 1:27 - the Holy Spirit is in me and is the hope of glory. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 - Now it is God Who makes both us and you stand firm in the Holy Spirit. He Anointed us, set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. 2 Corinthians 2:14 - Now thanks be unto God Who always causes me to triumph in the Holy Spirit, and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere. Galatians 5:1 - I stand fast in the liberty where the Holy Spirit has made me free and I am not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Philippians 4:13 - I can do all things through the Holy Spirit Who strengthens me. Romans 6:7-8 - For he that is dead is freed from sin. I am dead to sin and alive with the Holy Spirit. *There is a difference in these two passages: Galatians 2:20 - I am crucified with the Anointed One; and I no longer live, but the Holy Spirit lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself for me. Ephesians 2:5-6 - Even though I was dead in sins, God has quickened me together with the Anointed One through the Holy Spirit. By grace am I saved; and made me sit with Him in heavenly places. Now the next time your in the Epistles keep this in mind and see what deeper revelations you get from the Holy Spirit by reading them like this! 19. How to “Hear” Like previously stated you are to judge what you heard or the prompting you got by several factors: “Where” did the voice come from? Outside of your head. Inside of your head: if it’s inside, did it come up from deep within your inner being; or did it just “pop” in. From outside of your head is NOT the Holy Spirit but another spirit. Sometimes it may seem like someone is speaking into your ear. If it’s inside your head it is either from a spirit or your own thinking. When it comes from deep down within you, like it’s bubbling up from the depth of you into your head, it’s the Holy Spirit. Does it go in line with all of scripture; or does it contradict some? The more you know of the Word the greater the tests. And the devil is sneaky. There are times he will use scripture to attempt to deceive you. Don’t go against any inner warning. It’s like this gut feeling like you got punched. Sometimes it shows up as a subtle warning. Quieter. Like this uneasiness about what you heard and it ALWAYS brings questions up to your mind. “Questions” always show that you DO NOT have peace in your conscience. So let go of what you heard cause it’s not God. What does that “word” leave you with: joy, peace, knowing what to do - insight, light, does it strengthen you. Or does it leave you with questions, confusion, not understanding, fear, uneasiness, consternation: Psalm 16:11 ESV - “You make known to me the path of life; in Your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” 1 Corinthians 14:33 AMP- “33 for God is not a God of confusion and disorder but of peace and order.” Colossians 3:15 AMP - “15 Let the peace of Christ [the inner calm of one who walks daily with Him] be the controlling factor in your hearts [deciding and settling with finality all questions that arise in your minds]. To this peaceful state indeed you were called as members in one body [of believers]. And be thankful [to God always].” Romans 15:13 - “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.” 1 Timothy 4:1 - “Now the Spirit expressly says …” - in this passage when you look for any other passages like this about what people will be like in the last days, there are none. This one speaks of “how” the Holy Spirit can communicate something: “The Spirit expressly says”. Restating: He speaks from deep within you. Not outside of you, your body. Visitations can happen but they are not common. If a visitation from the Lord occurs, always test the spirits as 1 John 4:1-4 says, ask the Spirit/spirit: “Did Jesus Christ come in the flesh?” The reason why you want to ask this question is evil spirits do not acknowledge that they have lost the eternal battle. They still think they can win. Seriously delusional. As 1 Corinthians 2:7-8 - “7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.” God had us on His mind before we were born! Before God created “time” - this was when we were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life - Revelation 17:8 - “The beast, which you saw, once was, now is not, and yet will come up out of the Abyss and go to its destruction. The inhabitants of the earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the creation of the world will be astonished when they see the beast, because it once was, now is not, and yet will come.” And a second passage, out of 2 or 3 witnesses - Revelation 13:8 Berean Standard - “And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.” And Psalm 139:16 - “Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” 20. He Gives You Strength Ephesians 3:16-17 - “That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened with might by HIs Spirit in the inner man; that Christ…” John 14:16-17 AMP - “16 And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper (Comforter, Advocate, Intercessor--Counselor, Strengthener, Standby), to be with you forever-- 17 the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive [and take to its heart] because it does not see Him or know Him, but you know Him because He (the Holy Spirit) remains with you continually and will be in you.” Here’s another verse of scripture that shows the Holy Spirit is not taken away. He remains within us — forever!! He is the Spirit of Truth. He is our strength. The Joy of the Lord is our strength…Nehemiah 8:10. How to judge what you have happening in your life: questions, confusion, unhappy, killing, stealing, destroying; or is it joy, peace, strength, life, love…these are markers of “Who” or “who” is active in your life - John 10:10. Other Scriptures to Note 2 Corinthians 5:14 (TPT, TMT, KJV, NIV)- “14 For Christ’s love compels us…” He compels us; He constrains us - doing so with urgency, a pressing necessity; He fuels our passion and motivates us; He moves us to extremes. 1 Corinthians 14:15 - “So what shall I do? l’ll pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding.” - As a statement of faith. Focus on scripture as you are praying in tongues. That is praying with your understanding. Then the Holy Spirit will give you tidbits of insight. And then you simply trust Him by faith that He has it handled. 1 Corinthians 14:4 - He that speaks in an unknown tongue edifies himself …. 1 Corinthians 14 - verse 19, Pauls said he spoke in tongues more than the Corinthian church. And they were prolific in it and got off track because there was no order to it. They were undisciplined and only leaned in to that part of the Spiritual gifts. That’s why Paul wrote 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14. Back to 1 Corinthians 14:14 - “For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prays but by understanding is unfruitful.” We make our understanding fruitful by using scripture to start the prayer with and go back to it if things go off , you get distracted, or if there is a lull. Speak the Scriptures out loud to the Lord and keep going as far as you can until you can’t go any further in your language, then go into tongues. Numbers 11:24-27 - So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and had them stand around the tent. 25 Then the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and He took some of the power of the Spirit that was on Him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied —but did not do so again. 26 However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp. 27 A young man ran and told Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.” I love this scripture in Numbers!! The Lord came down and took some of His power of the Spirit that He had put on Moses and put it on the 70 elders, including the dudes who were back in camp! And they all prophesied. It sure is interesting that when the Spirit is on people, He talks. And He’s got a lot to say. He is a person! Nowadays it’s tough because there are so many false prophets BUT the Lord told us there would be in the end times chapters of the Gospels; and in 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 He told us to weigh prophecies and throw out what is not right and hold on to what is good: “19 Do not quench the Spirit. 20 Do not treat prophecies with contempt 21 but test them all; hold on to what is good, 22 reject every kind of evil. ” And we test them by what the Word says: are we left with joy? - Psalm 16:11; are we left with peace? - John 14:28; are we left with light, revelation? - 1 John 1:5 and Isaiah 11:2. Ephesians 3:19 - God the Father wants us to know the love of Christ, the love of the Anointing, the love of the Holy Spirit which passes knowledge so that we will be filled with all of God’s fullness. The Love of God gives knowledge. We can’t have Godly knowledge unless we allow the love of God to flow and glow in our lives!!! Love and knowledge go together! ! Philippians 1:9 that our love would abound (because we choose to) more and more in knowledge and in all judgement. We can’t judge things correctly unless we are operating in the Love of God. Verses 10-12 we will then be able to approve things that are excellent, Godly, and sincere without offense and filled with the fruits of righteousness which are by Jesus Christ and all of it is to the paise and glory of God!! 1 John 2:20, 27 - AMP “20 But you have an Anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the Truth. 27 As for you, the Anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His Anointing teaches you about all things and as that Anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it (He) has taught you, remain in Him.” “Remain” - #3306 meno - abide, wait, remain. It’s the same word as abide and wait. Wait on the Holy Spirit’s leading, on His teaching you; abide - live with Him by obeying what He leads you to do. When we don’t we grieve Him. When we do grieve Him we won't have any peace. Just repent. Clean it up. Do whatever He is leading you to do. He never leaves us even if we don’t repent but He’s not happy. So make it right with Him. God said He would be with us even to the end of the earth! He would never leave us nor forsake us. So…yeah…once you have received Him, you are His! Now that we understand more of “Who” the Holy Spirit is, how He operates, and that He is in us, we can understand more depth in scripture - the Holy Spirit IS love, He has poured it out in our hearts, love is what teaches us, and He is this power within us, the power to raise mortal bodies and create universes!!! Let’s look at the Ephesians 3 prayer: Ephesians 3:16-20 - “16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him Who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,” The part of the sentence in bold - Paul is praying that we would grasp ALL the dimensions (length, height, depth) of the love of the Holy Spirit-His Anointing that is WITHIN us!!! And the more we allow the Holy Spirit to reveal it to us, the more that is activated within us!!! What we don’t know, we won’t have. What we have revelation about is what we will have! 2 Timothy 1:7 - “7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” John 14:26-27 - “But the Advocate, the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My Name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; My peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” 1 Corinthians. 2:3-16 - “3 I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling. 4 And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. We have the mind of the Anointing. We have the mind of the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 6:11 - “…But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” John 14:16 - “And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever—” This is another very important verse to those who have thought you can loose your salvation. If you have thought that, read John 14:16 again. And put it with other scriptures like: John 10:28-30; Ephesians 1:13; & 2 Corinthians 1:20-22, listed below. Out of 2 or 3 witnesses let every Word be established: “28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, Who has given them to Me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of My Father’s hand. 30 I and the Father are One.” “When you believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit,” “20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are “Yes” in Christ. And so through him the “Amen” is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He Anointed us, 22 set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.” If you still don’t believe that salvation is eternal, you need to allow the Holy Spirit to show you in way you can receive it. God’s promises are “yes” and “amen”. You will either believe what He has said, or you won’t. Not believing something God has clearly stated will make your life miserable. “Choose you this day Life or death; blessing or cursing.” What will you choose? John 6:63 - “It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.” 2 Corinthians 3:17-18 - “17 Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.” 1 Corinthians 12:13 - “For we were all baptized by One Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the One Spirit to drink.” John 4:14 - “but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Philippians 1:19 - Supply of the Spirit - "19 for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,” We serve God by His Spirit, Philippians 3:3 - “3 For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh—“ 2 Timothy 1:13-14 Keep the Word which is in you by the Holy Spirit - “13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. 14 By the Holy Spirit Who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.” 2 Corinthians 3:17 - “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” John 10:30 - “30 I and the Father are one.” 1 John 4:6 - “We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of falsehood.” Titus 3:5-7 - “5 He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by His grace, we might become heirs having the hope (absolute expectancy) of eternal life.” Galatians 5:4-6 - ‘4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” Galatians 5:17 - “For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.” 2 Corinthians 3:17 - “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” John 6:63 - “It is the Spirit Who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The Words that I speak to you are Spirit, and they are Life.” Matthew 12:28 - “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” Ephesians 1:13 - “In Him you also, when you heard the Word of Truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in Him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,” Acts 4:31 - “And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the Word of God with boldness.” Matthew 28:19 - “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,” Mark 12:36 - “David himself said in the Holy Spirit, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand, Until I put Your enemies beneath Your feet.”’ Mark 13:11 - “When they arrest you and hand you over, do not worry beforehand about what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour; for it is not you who speak, but it is the Holy Spirit.” John 15:26 - ““When the Helper comes, Whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me,” The word: "proceed" - means to come from the source. Romans 8:9 - “You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him.” 1 John 4:1-2 - “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,” 1 Corinthians 2 “1 And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. God’s Wisdom Revealed by the Spirit 6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love Him— 10 these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. 11 For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. 13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words. 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 15 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ. Romans 8 - ESV 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death. 3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. 5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. 6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. 10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. Heirs with Christ 12 So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. 13 For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” 16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, 17 and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him. Future Glory 18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. 22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. 23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. 24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? 25 But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience. 26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. 27 And He who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. 29 For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those whom He predestined He also called, and those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified. *(If this gives rise to questions for you read the article on “God’s Calling.” God’s seed He foreknew and wrote our names in the Lamb’s Book of Life, we are who He has called, justified by the Blood of Jesus, and will glorify upon death and resurrection.) God’s Everlasting Love 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He Who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God Who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the One Who died—more than that, Who was raised—Who is at the right hand of God, Who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For Your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him Who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Spiritual Warfare, Rules of engagement, is there a right way to do it, is there a wrong way to do it, Jesus is my savior, cross, Authority over all the power of the enemy including fallen angels and nephilim What is Spiritual Warfare What is Spiritual Warfare - (for PDF click link) PDF TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. What is Spiritual Warfare 2. Authority 3. Recognize the enemy 4. As the Lord leads you 5. Motivation 6. The “How” and Scriptures 7. How you can tell the demonic is involved 8. Deliverance - prayers in this section cover entirety of deliverance including dreams 9. Basics prayers in dealing with attacks 10. Demons listed in Scripture 1. What is Spiritual Warfare Ephesians 6:12 - “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” ALWAYS PRAY ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS before you launch a Spiritual attack in prayer. You need to get the Lord’s battle plan first because the situation may not be how it seems. To get started - first - don’t go out and look for a fight. Spiritually speaking. You can get in serious trouble. Spiritual warfare is not a singled out ministry. Meaning, ministries that solely focus on spiritual warfare are not part of the 5-fold ministry giftings according to scripture, which are: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. Ephesians 4:11-13 states, “11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying (building up) of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect (mature) person, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of people, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him Who is the Head—Christ— 16 from Whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the Body for the edifying of itself in love.” No where in that scripture or in 1 Corinthians chapters 12-14 does the Word speak of spiritual warfare as a ministry. However, it is a part of every believer’s life. We live in a sin-fallen world, with the devil and his bunch roaming and seeking whom they can devour - 1 Peter 5:8 . And we know the devil’s devices - 2 Corinthians 2:11 . I know some may ask, “What about John Ramirez?”. I’m glad you asked. He is an evangelist and teacher first! And teaches on Spiritual Authority. Thank God!!! The Body of Christ needs it because so little has been taught about it. And when “young” in the faith believers or unsaved have questions about this kind of stuff, most Christians don’t have the answers because it hasn’t been taught. Consequently, they go to the new age “world” to try to get answers. This always leads to more spiritual problems. I speak from personal experience and part of the result I had was a massive stroke in 1995. * In Mark 16:17-18 we are given by our Lord Jesus Christ the great commission: 17“And these signs shall follow them that believe: In My Name they shall cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues. 18They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.” In order to do these things as the Lord leads - always - it is important to REMEMBER, JESUS did not go out on His own and do this. He spent entire evenings in prayer prior and then did what our God and Father Jehovah told Him to do. And You must know the Authority that Jesus gave you and how to use it in spiritual warfare. Always refresh what you know by looking at the Scriptures in the Gospels with how Jesus handled it. Ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom in all things, and especially in this subject. The Holy Spirit will show you - and we “judge” it by assessing our joy level and peace. No joy or peace - stay out of it. I say this because dealing with spiritual stuff can get weird… fast. You can’t operate in it successfully without following the promptings of the Holy Spirit. * 2. Authority Luke 10:17-20 - “17 The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, ‘Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your Name!’ 18 And He said to them, ‘I saw satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 Behold, I have given you Authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over ALL the power of the enemy, and NOTHING shall hurt you. 20 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” The demons are subject to us in His Name - Jesus’ Name!! “Demons” are the offspring of the fallen angels that do not have bodies because of the flood - the nephilim! (First Enoch and Genesis 6-9 .) I don’t care how fierce and big they are, 7 feet, 12 feet, 30 feet, or 200 feet. Who cares. Jesus gave us Authority. This is all evil spirits! Including the devil! Jesus said we have Authority over ALL of them! And we have Authority over ALL the power of the enemy (including their witchcraft and all of their actual weapons) - including the fallen angels no matter how grotesque or beautiful they look. This includes “aliens” (demonic hybrids), monsters (are also hybrids), and all giants (nephilim). Jesus has already beat them all, they are under His feet and we stand in the victory that He has already won! Greater is He that is in us than he who is in the world! (1 John 4. ) In Colossians 2:15 - "Then Jesus made a public spectacle of all the powers and principalities of darkness, stripping away from them every weapon and all their spiritual authority and power to accuse us. And by the power of the cross, Jesus led them around as prisoners in a procession of triumph. He was not their prisoner, they were His!" This is a part of what Jesus died for on the Cross! To give us Authority over the devil. In 1 John 3:8 He came to destroy the works of the devil. And in Genesis 1:26,28 God the Father gave us Authority over every creature that moves upon the earth. God didn’t say only the creatures we can see. And God said to have dominion (Authority) and to subdue! Dominion means: to tread down, subjugate, to crumble off. Subdue means: assault; brought them into subjection; forced into bondage; forcing; trample; tread under foot. When you take Authority over the devil you are “forcing” him into submission to the Word of God by using the Name of Jesus and standing in what Christ Jesus has already done and what He says is yours! Because you are redeemed from the curse of the law! Galatians 3:13-14. But sometimes you have to stand for the victory in a battle. The victory is already won by Christ Jesus! So STAND in what He has given you. 1 John 4:4 & 5:4-5 - “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world;…For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that overcomes the world, our faith. Who is he that overcomes the world, but he that believes that Jesus is the Son of God.” Hallelujah!!! God Almighty spoke of Spiritual Authority! Genesis 1:26, 28 is one of the scriptures Jesus Christ stood on to cast out devils and heal the sick! Everything Jesus did was based on scripture!! He had to do it that way, otherwise if He operated according to His personal Authority as the Son of God, then we couldn’t operate that way. Christ Jesus had to operate within the confines that we operate in, He did this so we can operate the same way as Jesus did!! And not put up with the devil’s mess. Christ Jesus showed us how! In fact, even His Name, “Christ Jesus” means the Anointed Jesus. The Anointing removes burdens and destroys yokes! Isaiah 10:27 KJV. Burdens and yokes of bondage, illness, demons, lack, and so on. He operated in the Anointing of God, which is how we operate - Colossians 1:27 “To them (us) God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” Praise God! We have that Anointing WHICH IS the Holy Spirit, within us! Jesus was baptized and received the Holy Spirit and spoke about what that Anointing was to do in Luke 4:18-19 - to preach to the poor (in spirit, soul, and body - wherever the poverty has shown itself), to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance, and healing, and to set us free! And as 1 John 2:20,27 says the Holy Spirit is the Anointing and it/He Teaches us. The Holy Spirit is called our Teacher! John 14:26 and 16:13 . We have the very same Anointing Who is the Holy Spirit that Jesus has! The Spirit of God Himself!!! The devil and his mess is under our feet because of what Jesus did, and we are the Body of Christ but it doesn’t mean he won’t try to get out from under our foot. That’s what scoundrels do. The 2 ways the enemy gets involved in someone’s life: either the person opens a “doorway” through sin by things they say, watch, or do; or it is the time for a test like Abraham with the sacrifice of Isaac, Hebrews 11:17-18 - “By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He (Abraham) who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though God had said to him, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” Abraham had to “see” in the Spirit that God would raise his son from the dead in order to make the promise that God spoke come to pass. It was this vision that God gave Abraham that was the root, the seed, that caused Jesus to be raised from the dead! This test was vital to God’s plan of Redemption! There is always a reason for the test. Zechariah 13:9 ESV - “And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon My Name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The LORD is my God.’” John 6:6 NLT - “He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do.” In Berean Literal in James 1:3 - “knowing that testing of your faith produces endurance.” You can read more on Authority by reading the article: Taking Authority. * 3. Recognize the enemy As Ephesians 6:12 states there is a spiritual hierarchy. It’s like the military. There are different ranks and files; and there are “gangs” or “special op’s” teams, so to speak. One is in charge - a strongman, who is a “power” as Ephesians 6:12 mentions - while there are others in operation underneath that leader. Many times you may only have to deal with “strongman”. When you take out the strongman, all those in his team are cast out too. Look at Matthew 12:29 ESV - “Or how can someone enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man? Then indeed he may plunder his house.” A strong man is a “power”. Ephesians 6:12 - principality, power… Powers are to be “bound” as we see Christ Jesus stating in Matthew 12:29. When you bind the strong man, all of its cohorts cannot do a thing. There are other times, in fact many times, of dealing with specific spirits. Depending on the situation you may have to deal with the particular spirit only; other times you will also have to deal with the strongman. Follow the Holy Spirit’s leading. * 4. As the Lord leads you Joshua 7-8 (I recommend you read it to build your faith), Joshua went into battle BEFORE he got the strategy from the Lord. This caused 36 of his warriors to die and Joshua’s army of 3,000 lost face in the battle. When he saw what happened, he pulled away and got before the Lord, asked for forgiveness, and asked what the Lord wanted to do. (This is the basic of all prayer. Be humble. Ask for forgiveness. Then ask the Lord what to do.) Consequently, in chapter 8 we see that Joshua and his army, through Almighty God, defeat the army of giants at Ai. WHENEVER you know there is something that has to be dealt with spiritually ALWAYS get God’s battle plan for it, before you jump in. Always ask for forgiveness if you’ve opened any doorways through sin; close the doors in Jesus Name; and cut the cords to the sin in the Name of Jesus and burn them up with the Fire of the Holy Spirit. God is a consuming fire! Hebrews 12:29 . People can get hurt if this isn’t handled correctly in prayer first. Ask the Lord how He wants to deal with the situation. It’s about strategy. Not flying off the handle simply because you know what the Scriptures say. There may be a particular way the Lord wants it fought. The strategy of the Lord is key. Case in point, Acts 16:16-18 ESV - “16 As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling. 17 She followed Paul and us, crying out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to you the way of salvation.” 18 And this she kept doing this for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the Name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And it came out that very hour.” Paul didn’t cast out the demon immediately. He waited. We don’t know exactly what happened according to Scripture but by the statement, “Paul, having become greatly annoyed…” is likely the Holy Spirit within him had enough. And it was after “many days” of the same behavior. It was very likely Paul had been praying about it before he acted by leading of the Holy Spirit. Notice when he cast it out of the young woman it didn’t leave immediately. It came out that very hour. When you cast a demon out the result may not be evident right away. Don’t let that sway you. Once you’ve cast it out, move on. Don’t keep repeating the prayer. That shows you don’t believe and then the demon will start to argue with you. Don’t play that game. Even if it writhes and throws the person around, move on to something else. It's trying to make you back down. The Word was spoken, it’s done. * 5. Motivation Every person is motivated by one of three persons: God; devil (any in the demonic realm); or themselves. When you are in a situation that doesn’t “set right” within you, pay attention! The Holy Spirit is letting you know something is up. Don’t make a move until you “know”. Ask Him what you need to do. Much of the time it may be binding the demon that is motivating that person while you are around them, so that it cannot be in operation while you are there. Other times it may be you need to completely disassociate from that person; maybe it is to cast it out. Whatever is needed the Lord will show you. Be aware that you don’t want to be casting a demon out of someone unless the Lord tells you to, or you have a direct leading from the Holy Spirit to do so. Sounds weird but sometimes people like what is happening. They are comfortable with it. And if you do cast it out their latter position will be worse than their former as Matthew 12:43-45 says, 43 “When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. 45 Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.” The person of whom you are casting the demon out of may do things to invite it in again with its 7 other spirits who are worse. Be sure the person receives Jesus Christ in their heart and makes Him Lord. This way the demon can’t get back into their spirit. BUT…NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THIS…THIS COMES FROM EXPERIENCE: when a person is saved they can still have a demon in their flesh or attached to their soul! It cannot be in their spirit because the Holy Spirit is there, BUT it can be in their flesh or attached to their mind, will-power, emotions, and/or personality. Yes, this can happen. I have personally experienced it and underwent my own deliverance. And I used to think there was no way a believer in Jesus could have one, or many. Little did I know that one was one of the spirits I had to get rid of in the Name of Jesus. It’s the spirit of pride. This can happen. It’s called “demonization”. They can attach to your thoughts. Create behavior patterns. Make life miserable. So if the Lord tells you to cast a devil out of yourself, do it. Or if the Lord tells you to cast a devil out of someone else be sure they get saved if they are not. At least it won’t return to their spirit. Their spirit will be in union with God, with the Holy Spirit, Who cleanses it and makes them brand new on the inside, spiritually. Keeping any from returning requires cutting cords to the sin that allowed it in, burning it up with the Fire of God and staying away from the sinful behavior by renewing your mind with the Word of God. (See article: Taking Scripture Personally.) * 6. The “How” and Scriptures Much of the time “binding” is what needs to be done. Matthew 18:18 - “18 Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” When the Lord leads you to bind a demon that’s influencing someone or a situation, what happens in the realm of the spirit is you are literally arresting it in the Name of Jesus. It is tied up and cannot move. It’s tied up spiritually, It doesn’t usually talk either. Unless it “sees” you waiver. Then you can tell it to “be quiet” in the Name of Jesus. Sometimes they do try to talk initially before you even speak, to get you distracted. Tell them to be quiet in the Name of Jesus and then take care of business. Much of the time if I’m going into a situation meeting with people or family who I know are demonized, before we meet I pray and bind those demons in Jesus Name for as long as I am with those people. It makes things go much more smoothly. I also ask the Holy Spirit to reveal Himself to the people in any way He needs to. Super important to pray over situations, like job interviews, meetings with family members, going on vacations, any type of thing where you want to inhibit the devil’s actions. Now this doesn’t need to be done all the time. ONLY do it if the Lord is leading you!!! I say this from the point of understanding “who” you are in Christ Jesus and what He has done for you. If you’re not aware of Psalm 121 that you are always under God’s protection, when your relationship is right with Him, then you will struggle with this and be praying about these things 24/7. Psalm 121 - “1 I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? 2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. 3 He will not let your foot slip—He who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 5 The Lord watches over you—the Lord is your shade at your right hand;6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. 7 The Lord will keep you from all harm—He will watch over your life; 8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.” If you’re taking Authority over everything everyday that’s exhausting. It means your faith is weak and you don’t know what’s yours. Every place you set your foot you have dominion (Joshua 1; 1John 4:4 ). If this is an area of difficulty for you spend time in Scriptures about how much He loves you. Read the articles on the The Depth of the Crucifixion ; God is Love and So Are You ; Taking Authority , and anything else the Holy Spirit leads you to do. You judge what the Lord is leading you to by whether or not you have joy and peace. That’s how you judge it. There are other ways to pray over situations and speak the Word of God over them to change how they operate, like praying Colossians 4:3-4 - “…that God may open to us a door for the Word, to declare the mystery of Christ…that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak.” Always go to God first, and see how He wants it handled. It’s not always casting out demons, binding and/or loosening. Sometimes it is simply speaking the Word of God over situations. Next part of Matthew 18:18 is to “loose” a demon. Take a look at Psalm 10:10 AMP - “he crushes [his prey] and crouches; And the unfortunate fall by his mighty claws.” And another in Psalm 22:20 in AMP and in the Aramaic - “Rescue my life from the sword, My only life from the paw of the dog (the executioner)” AND “And save my soul from the sword, and also My Only One from the hand of dogs!” In Genesis 15:11 where Abraham had to shoe-away the vultures…which have claws. Some demons have claws. With them they pierce into a person. This happens often with illness, where the infirmity is lodged. The spirit of infirmity has its claws in the region of the problem and it needs to be loosed in Jesus Name. Loosing can also be done from cords of a demon - a bondage for the person - they have been wrapped in cords, or we would say ropes. Sometimes it shows physically like being bent over - Luke 13:16 . Any bondage is preventing the person from being free. See Psalm 140:5 . They need to be loosed from the evil spirit and all cords cut. Many times this goes with generational curses/family curses - these are things that repeat in a family line. Repent of the sins of your forefathers and foremothers, cancel out all oaths and contracts, and cancel all family curses in Jesus Name, and sever all cords to the sin and curse; and burn them up with the Fire of God. Taking Authority in the Name of Jesus is not allowing the devil to have his way in situations and in your life. Whether the Lord leads you to bind, or to loosen, or break family curses, or the Lord may have you cast the devil(s) into outer darkness to await their judgment - Jude 1:6 ; He may even have you forbid them to ever return. All is shown in scripture. Whatever God gives you to do, do. * 7. How you can tell the demonic is involved Manipulation Control Intimidation Isolation Soul Ties - occur with friendships and romantic relationships, ties that bind. You “can’t” stop thinking of the person. Fear Confusion Loss of Personal Identity Sickness Prophetic Divination Spell Casting Divination Negative Herbal Practices - (ingredients for spells) Sacrifices and Rituals Singing and Dancing to Generate Energy (think of Astroworld concert; or the movie Matrix in the Zion cave scene.) Curses Satanic Healing Cults and realms of occult Conversion of people into animals Lying and Deception Every geographical region has a Strongman. It is a “power”. 8. Deliverance - prayers in this section cover entirety of deliverance including dreams Conditions Necessary For Deliverance To Take Place. You or the person must be ready to be delivered: To get delivered, you must be ready to send out everything that is not of God out of you; and let go of every unclean thing. Prayer and fasting: Pray and fast to receive breakthroughs and deliverance. Faith: Know that you are getting your deliverance. Abstinence from sin: Stay away from all forms of sin and anything that can re-invite the casted out. Good relationship with God: Maintain a good relationship with God, pray and serve God to continually be in His presence and shelter. Recognize that there is a demonic activity or an open door. Repent of any known sins. Renounce all contact with the devil and the occult, and any contracts made, known or unknown. Remove any demonic objects from your house. Relinquish unforgiveness and bitterness. Release yourself of it in the Name of Jesus & sever all cords. Resist the devil who will seek to gain control again. Replace whatever the Lord has delivered you from with God's Word. Renew your mind in your new identity in Christ. Remain rooted in the local church and/or a small group. You always need the fellowship of other believers who can help keep you on track. *Deliverance prayers can also involve “cages”. These are the same as any yoke of bondage. They hold you as prisoner to the behavior. You can break it with the Name of Jesus and His Blood of which are holy and Anointed AND YOU WEAR THEM, you are a child of the King! The Anointing removes the yoke! You have simply submitted to the wiles of the devil. Stop him from making your life miserable. And as you are praying deliverance prayers it is common to feel sick, like you have to throw up. Do it! It is a part of the demon leaving your body. * 9. Basics prayers in dealing with attacks *You can also use the numbered items above listed in Deliverance for all of the prayers here, below. However, there are particular things listed in the situation below and with it the prayer for each one. Again, see how the Lord leads you with this. Often the demonic realm shows up in dreams. When you know what is happening you can take immediate Authority over it in the Name of Jesus. And close all open doorways, like what you are exposing yourself to, either what you watch or read, what your listening to including music, and what you speak, or items in your house that may have demonic ties that need to be gotten rid of. The Lord will lead you. A basic tactic each night before bedtime is to loose all the fiery darts of the enemy (Ephesians 6:16) from you, and the entirety your life and household in Jesus Name, and wipe clean all residue of them with the Blood of Jesus. PRAYER : "I loose all the fiery darts and arrows the enemy has thrown at me and my family. Holy Spirit, I ask You to cleanse all the residue from those darts and arrows from our bodies and minds; and seal us in the Blood of Jesus. And I thank You for it. In Jesus Name I loose all the attacks from the enemy not only in our bodies but our souls: our minds, our wills emotions, and personalities; purging all the areas in us that have been affected by these attacks. And I seal our bodies and souls in the Blood of Jesus and by The All Powerful Name of Jesus. He has borne everything for us so we don’t have to. I thank You Lord Jesus for Your great gift! I ask You to send forth Your Holy Spirit Fire to purge all our property and everything that belongs to us and clean us of all residue, and seal it in the Blood of Jesus by the Authority of the Name of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savour. I thank You Lord, that the Angel of The Lord surrounds about us and keeps us from every evil way, no evil shall befall us, no plague or calamity will come near our dwelling. I thank You that we have sweet sleep. In the Name of Jesus I pray.” (Psalm 34:7 ; Psalm 91:10 & Proverbs 3:24 . ) When you have dreams with water - like in the sea, or lake, etc, or filling up in your house, etc: This means the marine kingdom has its hold on you. It’s a part of the demonic realm and is all throughout Scripture like Psalm 74 & 77:16; Ezekiel 27:33-34; and Jeremiah 5:22 ESV- “Do you not fear me? declares the LORD. Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it.” And the planet has much water besides oceans, seas, lakes, rivers. It’s in the air we breathe. It’s the largest of the realms. The heavenly realms that surround our planet like our atmosphere are not as large as this one. Interesting note…Revelation 21:1 -on the new earth there is no sea. And when you are having dreams of this nature there is some sort of doorway that was created for this devilish realm to operate in your life. PRAYER : “Father God, please forgive me of opening doorways to the enemy. I close those doors and cut all cords in Jesus Name. Holy Spirit cleanse me with your fire and burn up the cords and I pull out all darts of the wicked. And I receive all of this in Jesus Name. I renounce all contact with the devil and all contracts I made known and unknown (which can come easily by “agreement” with someone.) I cancel them out with the Blood of Jesus. I renew my life and commitment to You, Lord Jesus. I release forgiveness in Jesus Name and refuse to be offended. Holy Spirit help me with this so I never open up another doorway to this realm, in Jesus Mighty Name I pray.” When you have sexual dreams, this means you have a spirit spouse. Pray the prayers above under “Deliverance”. Also need to renounce the marriage and cancel it out in the Name of Jesus. These types of things always occur if you look at porn or are involved in homosexuality; or have been raped or molested. If this was the opening to cause the situation there may be other parts to the deliverance prayer, like casting out the spirit of addiction, spirit of masturbation, spirit of lust, and spirit of harlotry, spirit of Ishtar and others. PRAYER : “Lord Jesus, forgive me for opening the door to a spirit spouse and wash me clean with Your precious Blood. I cast out all spirit spouse(s) and cancel the marriage I ignorantly got into. I cast out the spirits of lust, lasciviousness, homosexuality, addiction, bondage, masturbation, harlotry, Ishtar, and all others, in the Name of Jesus, and I bind the strongman in this region from ever coming against me. I include the spirit of unforgiveness. I release forgiveness now for the perpetrators, in Jesus Name, and refuse to hold on to it. Holy Spirit help me. Show me what else needs to be done. I cut all cords to this in Jesus Name and burn them up with Your mighty Fire, in the Name of Jesus. I break all cages of the demonic realm that attempted to keep me in bondage. I break them with the Name of Jesus and His precious Blood. I thank You for the deliverance that You paid for me. Thank You, Jesus!” Now after this prayer you may feel nausea. You may need to throw up. Do it. It’s a means of getting rid of the spirits that had attached onto your body. Dreams where you are fed food. This has to do with a witchcraft curse. In the dream realm the food is poisoned and will show in this natural realm as odd and undiagnosable illness. PRAYER : According to Ezekiel 17:7-10 , and In the Name of Jesus, I completely and fully destroy all wickedness that is over my life from high places, in the Name of Jesus. I destroy all evil dominion. I bind the strongman. I break poverty and unemployment. I break misery. I break every curse, hex, vex (anything that is demonically plaguing or vexing you), spell, enchantments, and all voodoo over my life through demonic and satanic dedications and agreements, in the Name of Jesus. I let the Blood of Jesus destroy every satanic dedication and agreement that came through practices whether religious or worldly involvements wrapped in satanic influence. I break and destroy the cords that are wrapped around me, in Jesus Name. Loose me now, in Jesus Name! And I cancel all evil dedications in Jesus Name. I give notice to all demons associated with any evil dedications, known and unknown, and agreement that I once entered into or someone else dedicated me: I hereby break every contract and every legal right formerly associated with those dedications and agreements, in the Mighty Name of Jesus Christ. And by the Blood of Jesus that covers me, I cancel my connection to every demon that vexed or cursed me, hexed, vex, charm, enchantment, or voodoo, and such like; that brought frustrations, hindrances, delays, or blockages; that involved me in associations of practices, devotion, or allegiance; that accepted loyalty promised by any family member on my behalf; or that was part of any friendship that invited me or that I accepted, surrendering myself to the dark and demonic forces. They are severed today, the cords are burned up with the Mighty Fire of God in Jesus Name. I curse all evil dedications, agreements, evil ordinations, demonic ceremony dedication, demonic prayers, known and unknown, and all legal rights - whether it was for me, a family member on either side of my bloodline, or any brother of sister in the Body of Christ. I break, destroy, and curse them to the root, and uproot any evil mystical alignments in the Mighty Name of Jesus . Let them burn up and die by the Fire of God, in the Name of Jesus." Dreams with wolves/dogs/birds like vultures or owls: you are under an assigned attack. Wolves/dogs/birds represent demons that have been assigned to attack you. PRAYER : “In the Mighty Name of Jesus, I cancel all demonic assignments on me in Jesus Name. I cut all cords of the demonic realm that have been wrapped upon me and I bind the strongman in Jesus Name. I put you on notice in the Name of Jesus, you cannot touch me in Jesus Name and I’m covered in His Blood.” Flying - note: not all flying dreams are demonic, always pray about it and see how the Lord leads. When it is demonic it means some sort of curse and you are being pulled out of your body and taken somewhere during sleep. PRAYER : “In the Mighty Name of Jesus, I break all curses that are assigned against me. All assignments against me I cancel out, in Jesus Name. Holy Spirit let me know if there is anything in which I created the curse or assignment. Forgive me if I’ve made any evil allegiances or assignments in Jesus Name and wash me clean from all residue and burn all cords with the Blood of Jesus.” Plane crash, can also be flying upside-down and on fire: means a very huge test or attack is coming to you and your family. You can’t always stop it. It’s may be a test but you know how to use your faith and have the Lord lead you through each step. Stay in prayer with the Lord until you know which it is, either a test or an attack. Then pray accordingly as listed above for attacks; or if it’s a test the Lord will tell you what scriptures to stand on for you and your family. * 10. Demons listed in Scripture If you notice one of these spirits is plaguing you, ask for forgiveness of the sin that opened the door, cancel its assignment and cast it off you, in Jesus Name. You may need to loose it. And cut all cords. See how the Lord leads. 1. The Spirit of Fear - 2 Timothy 1:17 The spirit of fear is a demon that overwhelms people with anxieties, such as the fear of failure, death, or isolation. This demon can restrict believers from realizing God’s full plans for them. 2. The Spirit of Death - John 10:10; Exodus 12:23 This spirit manifests through constant thoughts of suicide, murder, self-mutilation, abnormal grief, and convulsions. 3. The Spirit of Harlotry or Lust - Hosea 5:4 Behind acts like adultery, fornication, pornography, homosexuality, and prostitution is often the spirit of lust. Associated with rape and molestation. 4. The Spirit of Bondage or Addiction - Romans 8:15 The spirit of bondage drives addictions. While some habits can be formed naturally, this spirit further entrenches them so that the behavior is forced on you by the spirit. “You can’t help yourself” is the common phrase used. 5. The Spirit of Infirmity - Luke 13:11 While not every sickness is caused by a demon, many sicknesses are caused by one, and thus, they should be addressed both spiritually and physically. 6. The Spirit of Pride - Proverbs 16:18 Pride is not just an emotion; it can be a spirit causing arrogance, revenge, rebellion, a lust for power, cruelty, vainglory, and jealousy. 7. The Spirit of the World - 1 Corinthians 2:12 In Scripture this one is likened to the Holy Spirit. Which means it’s a big one in the kingdom of darkness. 8. Spirit of Error/Deception - 1 John 4:6 This one works with python spirit/spirit of divination. 9. The Spirit of Python or Divination - Acts 16:16 (same as Leviathan - Psalm 18:8; 74:13-14; Isaiah 27:1; Job 3:8, and chapter 41 ) This spirit's main assignment is to deceive. It is also in fortune tellers, false prophets, tarot readers, palm readers, and other “main stream” occult practices - the person is hearing from this spirit. They can also put spirits on assignment to seek out people who they can attach cords to, because the person gives ear to them, or agreement with them. Can operate through cults like Free Masonry, Mormonism, Scientology, New Age, and Jehovah’s Witness. The main thing to be aware of if your in dealing with someone involved in this, or when you know this one is around by being involved with the above: communication is always altered and misconstrued; and deception is the primary motive and all the ways deception comes about like double speak - saying one thing then saying something opposing; creating division in yourself which causes confusion, and creating division in groupings of people, family, workers, friends. A kingdom divided against itself will fall. **The Following is Only a Brief Excerpt from John Eckhardt’s Book: Demon Hit List. The title in all bold font is the strongman. The others listed with it are the demons that work in it’s grouping. You don’t always need to the names of the spirit. But if the Lord is leading you regarding a certain situation, this may be of help: ABANDONMENT: Rejection, forsaken (Isaiah 54:6 - “grieved in spirit), deserted, cast away, neglect, orphan, hurt, deep hurt, widow, orphan, unloved, outcast, unwanted, loneliness, isolation. Operates in widows/widowers, orphans, and adopted children, making them feel abandoned by loved ones. ABORTION: Molech (Leviticus 20:1-5), spirits of Ammon (Amos 1:13), miscarriage, murder, premature termination of fetus. Works with adultery, death, destruction, and hatred of children. ABUSE: Offense, mistreatment, torment, criticism, cursing, exploitation, perversion, hurt; sexual abuse (rape, incest, molestation); mental abuse (mind control, domination); physical abuse (beaten, bruised, cruelty); religious abuse (legalism, control, guilt, shame, cults); emotional abuse (hurt, deep hurt, wounds); doormat (makes others walk all over a person); unforgiveness, bitterness, hatred (of abuser), anger, resentment, fear (of hurt, of being abused), memory recall. Break curses of abuse and cast out related spirits of abuse. ACCIDENT: Spirits causing casualty, disaster, calamity, injury, catastrophe, mishap, misfortune, trauma. Often operates through a curse. ACCUSATION: satan (accuser, slanderer), diabolos, accuser of the brethren (spirits that work through believers to accuse one another), slander, suspicion, schizophrenia, betrayal, jealously, envy. Paranoia, faultfinding, bitterness, hatred, finger-pointing, judging, false accusation. ADDICTION: Compulsion, obsession, alcohol, drugs (illegals and prescription), nicotine, caffeine, sugar, exercise, spendthrift, food, craving. Addiction spirits lodge in the appetite, stomach, mouth, throat, taste buds, and nose. They enter through rejection and inheritance. ADULTERY: Lust, fornication, unfaithfulness, promiscuity, immorality, lying, deception, harlotry, whoredom, extramarital affair, infidelity, deception, carnality, backsliding. Lodges in the eyes (2 Peter 2:14); works with Jezebel (Revelation 2:20). Destruction (Proverbs 6:32), wounds, dishonor, reproach, shame, a marriage-breaking spirit. Operates through curses of lust and adultery. ALCOHOLISM: Bacchus (god of drunkenness), drunkenness, addiction and craving for alcohol; delirium tremens, intemperance, intoxication. Works with pride (Isaiah 28), rejection, poverty (Proverbs 23:21), wounds, hurt, bruises, bruises, sorrow, contention, lust, perversion, insomnia, violence (Proverbs 23:29-35), rage, mockery (Proverbs 20:1), escape. Break all curses of alcohol and addiction. ALLERGIES: Asthma, hay fever, respiratory problems, bronchitis; spirits operating in the sinuses and lungs. Works through curses of infirmity and inheritance. ANGER: Animosity, choler, fury, gall, hatred, rage, resentment, temper, indignation, wrath (gives place to the devil: Ephesians 4:26-27); violence, murder, cruelty (Genesis 49:6), bitterness, unforgiveness, retaliation, spite, revenge, outrage, hostility, enmity, foolishness. Command anger to come out of the bosom (Ecclesiastes 7:9). ANGUISH: Suffering, torment, pain, agony, distress, affliction, heartache, grief, misery, sorrow, torture, grief, anxiety, cruelty, bondage (Exodus 6:9), dire straits. ANIMOSITY: Hostility, enmity, contention, hatred, anger, strife, resentment, revenge, retaliation, spite, gall. ANTI-SEMITISM: Hatred of jews, bigotry, prejudice, Ishmael, Nazi. ANTI-SUBMISSIVE: Stubbornness, rebellion, disobedience, self-will, pride. ANXIETY: Worry, apprehension, dread, fear, nervousness, panic, restlessness, uneasiness, tension, fretfulness. APPETITE: Spirits operation in the appetite include addition, gluttony, lust for food, eating disorders, anorexia nervosa, bulimia, starvation, loss of appetite. ARGUMENTATIVE: Debate, dispute, contention, strife, quarrelsome, discord, disagreement. ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT: Spirits that hinder form growing into adulthood: immaturity, hindrance, blockage, obstruction of the personality, foolishness, infantile, juvenile, adolescent; bound and blocked personality. (Common with family curses; and in special needs children.) ARROGANCE: Rahab (Pslam 89:10), Leviathan (Job 41), pride, insolence, conceit, disdain, ego, haughtiness, high mindedness, loftiness, self-love, self-importance, vanity, presumption, scorn, overbearing pride, pretension, exaggerated opinion of oneself. ARTHRITIS: Enters through unforgiveness and inheritance; pain and torment. ASTHMA: Allergies, respiratory problems. BACKLASH: demons retaliate and attack those who attack and destroy satan’s kingdom. This is called backlash, reaction, repercussion, resentment, resistance, response, and retaliation. BARRENNESS: Fruitless, unproductive, unrewarding, vain, useless, sterility, impotence. Barrenness is the result of a curse. Barren spirits can operate in the womb causing infertility in woman. BETRAYAL: Deception, dishonesty, treachery, Judas Iscariot, treason, sedition, disloyalty, hypocrisy, jealousy, cruelty, rebellion, mutiny. BIBLE: Spirits that block and hinder people from reading and understanding the Bible; debate (makes people argue the Bible); closed Bible (“I won’t let him learn”); logos (“I misquote the Bible”); spiritual blindness; tiredness (while reading the Bible); confusion (while reading the Bible); lawyers (spirits who study Scriptures for the purpose of argument and debate; hatred of the Bible, fear of the Bible, unbelief (“I don’t believe the Bible”); no understanding, no revelation, darkness, veil (2 Corinthians 3:15); boredom (while reading the Word); wrestling and twisting the Word (2 Peter 3:16); dogmatic (teaching and preaching of the Word); tradition (making the Word of no effect; Mark 7:13). BITTERNESS: Unforgiveness, resentment, revenge, retaliation, root of bitterness (Hebrews 12:15), hidden bitterness, gall, wormwood, poisonous root, hard bondage (Exodus 1:14), complaining, murmuring, backbiting, envy, strife (James 3:14), wrath, anger (Ephesians 4:31), cursing (Romans 3:14), jealousy. Opens the door for sickness and infirmity. BLINDNESS: Natural and spiritual, darkness, groping, veiled, lacking vision, hidden, covered, cataracts (natural and spiritual), hardness of heart, spiritual dullness, undiscerning, ignorance, deception, Pharisee. Many religious spirits operate to keep people in the dark concerning the truth and spiritual things. BONDAGE: Slavery, servitude, subjection, yokes, chains, shackles, fetters, captivity. BURDENS: Heaviness, heavy burdens, anxiety, albatross, hindrance, load, sorrow, stress, care, false burdens, guilt, oppression. CARNALITY: fleshly, earthly; lewdness, sensuality, worldliness, lust, lasciviousness, immorality,; strife, envy, division (1 Corinthians 3:3). CONDEMNATION: Guilt, accusation, blame, judgment, legalism, Pharisee, religious control, false doctrine, salvation by works, false holiness. CONFUSION: Disorientation, chaos, mind control, befuddlement, Babel (Genesis 11), idolatry (Isaiah 41:29), sexual perversion (Leviticus 18:23), schizophrenia, insanity, madness, envy, strife (James 3:16), frustration, incoherence, forgetfulness, mix up, tailspin (“I confuse her thoroughly”), puzzle (“I mix him up”). CONTROL: Possessiveness, dominance, witchcraft, Jezebel, Ahab, matriarchal spirits, religious control, control from the pastor, denominational control, mind control, manipulation, intimidation, fear. CURSES: Ancestral and generational curses, the result of the sins of the fathers; curses of death and destruction, sickness and infirmity, lust and perversion, incest, rape, mental illness, schizophrenia, poverty, witchcraft, idolatry, destruction of the family priesthood, Ahab and Jezebel, rejection. Signs of curses include: 1. Mental and or emotional breakdown; 2. Repeated or chronic sicknesses (especially hereditary); 3. Barrenness, a tendency to miscarry, or related female problems; 4. Breakdown of marriage, family alienation; 5. Continuing financial insufficiency; 6. Being accident-prone; 7. A history of suicides and unnatural or untimely deaths (from Blessing or Curse by Derek Prince); 8. Abuse and mistreatment from other people; 9. Vagabondism and a wandering lifestyle. Evil, misfortune, calamity, trouble, plague, affliction, torment, harm, vexation, jinx. CURSING: Blasphemy, coarse jesting, gossip, criticism, backbiting, mockery, belittling, railing, profanity, abuse, swearing, bitterness, hatred, anger, pride. DEATH: Termination, premature death through accidents, heart attacks, strokes, cancer, sickness and disease, murder, abortion. Operates through curses of death and destruction, angel of death, Grim Reaper, black horse, king of terrors, rigor mortis, murder, deathblow, Molech, suicide, fatality, lethal. Works with hell (Revelation 20:13-14). DESTRUCTION: Ruin, devastation, calamity. Works with pride (Proverbs 16:18), poverty (Proverbs 10:15), death (Job 28:22), misery (Romans 3:16). Also operates through generational curses (Lamentations 3:64-66.) DIVORCE: A marriage-breaking spirit; harness of heart (Matthew 19:3-9), separation, bitterness, hurt, rejection, anger, fear of marriage, guilt, shame, condemnation. DRUGS: Legal and illegal; addiction, reaction, dependency, sorcery (Greek word: pharmakeia - meaning drugs or sorcery - Revelation 9:21). Names same as drug (e.g., Heroin, Marijuana, and so on); rebellion, disobedience, hallucination, depressant, stimulants, narcotics, sedatives, anti-depressants, hypnotic. EMOTIONS: Emotional problems, bound and blocked emotions, grief, sadness, crying, anger, hatred, rage, uncontrollable emotions, hurt. Command spirits to come out of the emotions. FEAR: Of: making wrong decisions, rejection, being hurt, judgment, authority, failure, man, darkness, being alone, death, witchcraft, heights, demons, deliverance, losing salvation, disapproval, accusation, being wrong, spiritual gifts, responsibility, marriage, having children, pain, sickness, confrontation, cancer, driving, insanity, heart attack, the future, crowns. Horror, panic, fright, sudden fear, terror, dread, apprehension; causes torment (1 John 4:18). GUILT: Condemnation, unworthiness, embarrassment, self-condemnation, cults, false doctrine. Operates strongly with religious spirits. HABIT: Compulsion, addiction, lust, nicotine, alcohol, drugs, nervous habits. HINDRANCE (Blockage & Obstruction): Spirits that hinder, block, and obstruct: no love, no help, no friends, no success,, no lodging, no pity, no understanding, no wisdom, no relief (torment), no rest, no solution, no power, no ability, no light (darkness), no healing, no deliverance, no happiness, no joy, no victory, no control, no future (hopelessness), no liberty (control), no discernment (blindness), no prosperity, no breakthrough, no direction, no name, no identity, no confidence, no peace. No open doors (closed doors), no money (poverty), no job, no sense, no way, no value, no worth, no presence of God (Ichabod), no anointing, no blessings (curses), no communication, no growth, no order (confusion), no support, no morals, no escape, no commitment, no faithfulness, no self-control, no chance, no opportunity, no family, no transportation, no mobility, no break, no time, no room, no space, no health, no strength, no home, no satisfaction, no vision, no counsel. These spirits are also the result of curses. HOMOSEXUALITY: Perversion, uncleanness, confusion, lust, rebellion. HURT: Wound, brokenhearted, deep hurt, bruised, grief, abuse, cruelty. INCEST: Spirits of Moab and Ammon. Operates through curses of incest, lust, perversion, taboo, illicit. INFIRMITY: Disease, illness, sickness, ailment (by name), affliction, any sickness or disorder. Chronic sicknesses and diseases are the result of curses of infirmity, death, and destruction. (Not all sickness is from a demon, although many are, and it includes unforgiveness and bitterness, and often guilt.) INSANITY: Madness, confusion, lunacy, mania, delirium, deranged. JEALOUSY: Envy, suspicion, covetousness, resentment, spite, bitterness, distrust, paranoia, insecurity, schizophrenia, selfishness, hatred, bedlam. JEZEBEL: Female dominance, rebellion, witchcraft, control, manipulation, whoredom, seduction, false doctrine, idolatry, fornication. Operates through a curse destroying God’s order and the family priesthood; works with Ahab in males; name meaning untouchable, non-cohabiting, without husband, adulterous, base, licentious (2 Kings 9:22). LACK: Poverty, insufficiency. Break curses of poverty and lack. LICENTIOUSNESS: Debauchery, lewdness, nymphomania, concupiscence, lust, promiscuity, lawlessness, incontinence, unrestraint. LIEUTENANT: Assistant, aide, helper, deputy, second in command, right hand, group captain, squadron leader. Satan has many demons that act as lieutenants under his command. LUST: Sexual (see sexual spirits), materialistic, greed, ravenousness, covetousness, avarice, appetite, ambition, grasping, longing, desire, passion, craving, abuse, adultery, burning passions, concupiscence, femininity (in males), frigidity, homosexuality, lesbianism, immorality, sexual impurity, uncleanness, lasciviousness, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, lust for power, lust for position, lust for money, masturbation, incest, raper, lewdness, prostitution, whoredom, sodomy, incubus, succubus, pornography, voyeurism, wandering eyes, perversion, fantasy. LYING: Hypocrisy, guile, double-dealing, dishonesty, perjury, misleading, falsehood, little white lies, big liar, deceit, exaggeration. MANIPULATION: Control, deception, deceit, lying, rejection. MARITAL: Divorce, separation, strife, division, Ahab or Jezebel (marriage breaking spirits), witchcraft. MASTURBATION: Self-gratification, self-abuse, self-defilement, fantasy, lust, pornography, Onan (Genesis 38:9), self-love. MEMORY: Memory loss, flashback, memory recall, bad memories, hurtful memories, painful memories, blocked memories, trauma, denial, Alzheimer’s disease, past. MIND-BINDING: Confusion, fear of man, fear of failure. MIND CONTROL: Octopus and squid spirits having tentacles; confusion, mental pressure, mental pain, migraine. Ask the Lord to sever the tentacles of mind control. MISCARRIAGE: Premature birth (operates through curses), abortion, failure. MOLESTATION: Abuse, pain, hurt, rape, sodomy, incest, violation, offense, wound, bruise, torment, mistreatment, confusion, guilt, shame, bitterness, fear, anger, hate (of abuser), mind control. NERVOUSNESS: Tension, fear, anxiety, apprehension, restlessness, worry, distress, timidity. OBSESSION: Domination, control, mania, passion inordinate affection, preoccupation (with people, things, thoughts), fixation. OBSTRUCTION: Obstacle, hindrance, blockage, barrier, resistance, difficulty, block (many spirits of blockage and obstruction including choking, closed doors, cut off, cut off at the source, gag, muzzle, shackle, bind, check, halt, bring to a standstill, and so on.). OPPRESSION: Heaviness, iron hand, iron fist, heavy hand, pressure, strain, burdens, heavy load, weights, torment, affliction. PAIN: Tormenting spirits of pain including headaches, migraines, mental pain (caused by octopus spirit of mind control), stomach pain, arthritis, rheumatism, back pain, neck pain. Pain sprits can operate throughout the body, loins (Isaiah 21:3). Perpetual (Jeremiah 15:18), affliction (Psalm 25:18), hurt, painful memories, emotional pain. PARALYSIS: Very powerful spirit controlling the spine; disability, stroke, palsy, atrophy, depression, sadness, suicide, hopelessness, despair, crippling, paraplegic, lameness. PASSION: Rage, blind rage, temper, fit, anger, fury, vehemence, lust. PERFECTIONISM: Pride, vanity, ego, frustration, criticism, judgment, irritability, intolerance, rigidity, exactness, fussiness, overcritical, schizophrenia, anger. PERSECUTION: Unfairness, fear of judgment, condemnation, accusation, rejection, paranoia, sensitiveness. PORNOGRAPHY: Erotica, hard-core, x-rated (books, movies, videos), peep shows, obscenity, fantasy, lust, perversion (homosexuality, lesbianism, orgies, bisexuality), mind control, lewdness, lasciviousness (1 Peter 4:3), uncleanness (Ephesians 5:3), sensuality, carnality, whoredom, prostitution, voyeurism, lust of the eyes, masturbation, nudity, a marriage-breaking spirit, curiosity, shame, guilt, condemnation, sexual impurity, defilement. PREJUDICE: Bigotry, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, hatred of black people, hatred of white people, apartheid, white power, black power, racism, intolerance, bitterness, anger, accusation, bias, Jim Crow, narrow-mindedness, ignorance, pride of race, premature judgment, religious prejudice, cultural prejudice, racial prejudice, rejection, self-rejection, fear. PRIDE: Leviathan (Job 41), arrogance, little pride (“Everybody has me”), hidden pride, harness of heart, stubbornness, rebellion, rejection, anger, rage, pride of (knowledge, success, color, race, position, power, culture, religion, family name), vanity, ego, self-righteousness, haughtiness, importance, judging, arrogance, self-importance, self-conceit, self-love, self-exaltation, superiority. PYTHON: Divination (Acts 16:16-18). A large constrictor. (These spirits squeeze the life out of relationships, churches, and so on.) RAPE: Assault, abuse, molestation, ravishment (Lamentations 5:11), defilement, hurt, bitterness, anger, murder, revenge, retaliation, hatred (of men or abuser), fear (of being raped or abused), torment, confusion, guilt, shame, memory recall, trauma, shock, abortion, suicide, insanity, breakdown. Opens the door for spirits of harlotry, prostitution, frigidity, and whoredom to enter. REBELLION: Anti-submissiveness, self-will, selfishness, self-deception, self-delusion, self-seduction, accusation, judgmental, pride, unteachable, suspicion, distrust, persecution, confrontation, control, possessiveness, disobedience, stubbornness, witchcraft (1 Samuel 15:23), sedition, defiance, hatred of authority, anger, hatred, violence, murder, resentment, unforgiveness, retaliation, memory recall, paranoia, bitterness (root of), hurt, rejection (opens the door for rebellion), nonconformity. *REJECTION: (This is a major one that is most active in society today.) From mother, father, siblings; self-rejection; rejection from the womb. Hurt, deep hurt, wounded, bruised, low self-esteem, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, lust (a substitute for true love). Fantasy lust, harlotry, pride (a compensating spirit for rejection), envy, jealously, inferiority, insecurity, inadequacy, sadness, grief, sorrow, self-accusation, self-condemnation, depression, hopelessness, despair, despondency, striving, achievement, performance, competition, withdrawal, loneliness, independence, isolation, selfishness, criticism, covetousness, self-pity, possessiveness, perfectionism, outcast, castaway, black sheep. Rejection can open the door for a multitude of spirits: including rebellion, pride, bitterness, self-pity, escape, guilt, inferiority, insecurity, fear, hopelessness, fear of judgment, defensiveness, distrust, discouragement, disrespect, hardness, perfectionism, false compassion, false responsibility, material lust, sexual lust, perverseness, self-accusation, compulsive confession, self-promotion, attention-getting, control, withdrawn, fear of love, self-deception, suicide, unworthiness, shame, vanity, intolerance, frustration, impatience, unfairness, pouting, unreality, daydreaming, vivid imagination, self-awareness, timidity, shyness, sensitiveness, talkativeness, nervousness, tension, inordinate affection for animals. RELIGIOUS: Doctrinal obsession, denominationalism, legalism, conservatism, intolerance, dogmatic, tradition, religious prejudice, divisions, deception, control, mysticism, religious pride, imbalance, idolatry, sectarianism, heresy, false doctrine, error, confusion, unbelief, resistance to the truth, argumentativeness, cults (Jehovah’s Witnesses, Christian Science, Mormonism, Theosophy, Scientology, Spiritualism, Eastern religions, Hinduism, Islam, Bahaism, Unity, Freemasonry). Hypocrisy, Pharisee, self-righteousness, holier-than-thou, false holiness, false tongues, false prophets, salvation by works, metaphysics, wolf, hireling, bondage, another Jesus, another spirit, another gospel, angel of light, philosophy, itching ears, seducing spirits, doctrines of devils, orthodox, icons. Praying for saints, false baptism, salvation by baptism, rigid, strict, stern, exact, over-religious, guilt, condemnation, schismatic, apostasy, bigotry, fanaticism, papism, popery, eminence, preeminence, ceremonies, rites, Mariolatry, relics, backsliding, skepticism, materialism, superstition, ceremonial, false priesthood, fear of losing salvation, fear of backsliding, formalism, religiosity, judgment, seduction, intolerance. RESENTMENT: Bitterness, spite, revenge, retaliation, cruelty, anger, hatred, unforgiveness, offense, gall, wormwood, disgust, rage, murder, malice, jealousy, envy, suspicion, animosity, irritation, annoyance, indignation. RETARDATION: Impediment, handicap, hinderance, obstruction. SCHIZOPHRENIA: Double-mindedness, instability, confusion (James 1:8), rooted in rejection. The schizophrenic’s personality (the real personality) has never developed, due to demonic interference. The demonic personalities of Rejection (inward) and Rebellion (outward) have taken over, causing a split personality. Spirits operating under Rejection include lust, fantasy, perverseness, suicide, guilt, pride, vanity, loneliness, fears, attention-seeking, inferiority, withdrawal, sensitivity, frustration, impatience, inordinate affection for animals, self-rejection, envy, despondency, despair, discouragement, hopelessness, unworthiness and shame. Spirits operating under Rebellion include accusation, selfishness, pride, hatred, resentment, violence, disobedience, suspicion, distrust, persecution, self-will, stubbornness, bitterness, anger, un-teachableness, control, witchcraft, possessiveness, unforgiveness, retaliation, self-deception. SORROW: Grief, sadness, hurt, anguish, weeping, crying, lamentation, heartache, brokenhearted, despair, discouragement, loneliness, hopelessness. SOUL TIES: Ungodly soul ties, false friendship, witchcraft, control, manipulation, deception, self-deception, blindness (spiritual blindness), false love (formed through fornication), adultery. Ungodly soul ties need to be broken in Jesus Name and evil spirits need to be cast out. STIFF-NECKED: Stubbornness, obstinacy, rebellion, disobedience, pride, Leviathan. STRIFE: Contention, arguing, fighting, confusion, envy (James 3:16), discord, anger, bitterness, unforgiveness, pride, competition, hatred. STRONGMAN: Matthew 12:29 - Strongman of fear; rejection, rebellion, lust, infirmity, witchcraft, and so on. SUICIDE: Self-destruction, depression, gloominess, discouragement, death, kamikaze, Russian roulette, murder, despondency, despair, hopelessness, death wish, insanity, madness, confusion, rejection. TRANSVESTITE: Perversion, deviant, homosexuality, confusion, rebellion, rejection. TRAUMA: Shock, anguish, suffering, turmoil, accidents. (Traumatic experiences open the door for spirits to enter, including fears, hurt, and bitterness.) UNBELIEF: Doubt, harness of heart, rebellion, disobedience, fear, skepticism, distrust, agnosticism, faithless, perverse, suspicion. UNTEACHABLE: Pride, stubbornness, rebellion, schizophrenia. UNWORTHINESS: Inferiority, worthlessness, rejection, guilt, shame, condemnation, schizophrenia. WHOREDOM: Prostitution, lust, Jezebel, perversion, uncleanness, rejection, seduction, rape, molestation, pornography, uncleanness, carnality, nakedness, lasciviousness, homosexuality, lesbianism, sodomy, idolatry, adultery, fornication, Gomer (Hosea 1:2-3). (See Hosea 5:4.) WITHDRAWAL: Escape, isolation, introvert, rejection, fear, discouragement, passivity, sleepiness, alcoholism, drug addiction, hopelessness, despair, day dreaming, fantasy. WORRY: Anxiety, fear, dread, apprehension, timidity.

How do I know I'm born again? Characteristics of believers, How to tell someone is born again, 5 Characteristics of the Born Again Human Spirit PDF Article is below. For downloadable PDF click link. 5 Characteristics of the Born Again Human Spirit 5 Characteristics of the Born Again Human Spirit - The bible gives us a way to identify the new birth: 1. The Born Again SPIRIT Can Not Sin - John 3:6 KJV “That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.” What is born of God in a man is his spirit not his flesh nor his soul. His soul (mind, will, emotions) must be renewed by the Word of God. His flesh must be put into submission to his born again spirit and his renewed mind. We have been conditioned to let the flesh lead us which leads to sin, followed by the soul and lastly our spirit. This is not how it should be once we are born again. That way only leads to sin, darkness and defeat. When we are born again our spirit is hooked up to God and we must disciple ourselves to be led by God in His Word, by His Spirit, and our Prayers. 2 Corinthians 4:16 NKJV “Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.” This born again spirit, also called the inner man, cannot sin. Our inner man has the nature of God just as Christ has the nature of His Father God, so it was impossible for Him to sin. As we pursue our relationship with Jesus, we start to die to our flesh and its’ worldly ways. As we feed on the Word of God, our inner man starts to gain strength leading us to putting on the Mind of Christ, putting our flesh into submission to the Mind of Christ. 1 John 3:9 NKJV “Whoever has been born of God does not sin, for His Seed (that is God’s seed) remains in him; and he cannot sin, because he has been born of God.” Because your born again spirit cannot sin, it is therefore impossible for those who are born again, though in the flesh to make a practice of sin. Because we are still in the flesh, we will occasionally give in to the flesh, and in those instances we confess to God and ask and receive His forgiveness. 1 John 5:18 (NIV) We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; The One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. 2. The Born Again Man Listens To The Doctrine Of The Apostles: 1 John 4:5-6 (NIV) “They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit of Truth and the spirit of falsehood.” Those who are born again will naturally connect with the Words of God through the apostles because they are of the same spirit. Those who speak worldly things have the spirit of the world. 3. The Born Again Spirit Will Love God And Jesus 1 John 4:7 (NKJV) “Beloved, let us Love one another, for Love is of God; and everyone who Loves is born of God and knows God.” We cannot love God and hate our neighbor, our coworker, our family member etc. Love is a Fruit of the Spirit. If you are born again, Love will come naturally as a Fruit from the Holy Spirit in you. Remember when you are mistreated and abused this is being done under the influence of the darkness of this world. Through Jesus you have the authority and dominion. 4. The Born Again Man Will Believe That Jesus Is The Christ: 1 John 5:1 (NIV) “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is Born of God, and everyone who Loves the Father Loves His Child (Jesus) as well.” 5. The Born Again Man Will Follow The Commandments Of Christ And OvercomeThe World: 1 John 5:2-4 (NKJV) “By this we know that we Love the Children of God, when we Love God and keep His Commandments. 3 For this is the Love of God, that we keep His Commandments. And His Commandments are not burdensome. 4 For whatever is Born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith.” Overcoming the world actually means we stop thinking the way the world thinks. We no longer seek the worlds’ approval. We not longer share their attitudes. We no longer try to lift ourselves up in the eyes of men but we lift up Jesus so He may draw all men to Him. We long to be with our King of Glory and seek to do His Will not ours. We spend time with Jesus in His Word, in prayer and worship of The Father. We know that earth is not our home. We know we are a colony of heaven on this earth. Luke 6:22, 27-31 (NIV) 22 “Blessed are you when people hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man. 27-31 But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. If someone slaps you on one cheek, turn to them the other also. If someone takes your coat, do not withhold your shirt from them. Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.” We live in an age of evil being called good and good being called evil. When terrible things are said about us or done to us we know we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. We combat all these things by the Word of God and our Shield of Faith. And having done all we stand. We are justified before God by our faith, our believing, in Jesus. Good works will not build our faith. If we exercise complete faith in God, good works will naturally flow. Faith only comes by hearing, and hearing by The Word of God.

faith, for children, protect my children, keep them from harm, What does God say about my children Believing Stuff for Your Children Article below. For downloadable PDF click link. PDF Believing Stuff for Your Children As a parent it’s your responsibility to pray for your children. But what do you pray? The Lord understands the yearnings of your heart for your children. He is there and knows exactly what your child needs even if you don’t. As stated in other articles, God can’t lie - Numbers 23:19 - what He has said is a guarantee. Yet it is difficult when our emotions are so involved. Don’t lean to your emotions. They cause the worst trouble. Instead lean into the Word of God and His promises for your children. There are two parts of “what” to be aware of with your children: 1. praying the promises of God as a means of rejoicing, not asking. Because it’s already given; 2. Is knowing when the Holy Spirit is giving you a warning for your kids. We will get into both. They are vital to know. 1. Praying in thanksgiving the promises of God for your children When you pray a scripture regarding your child, make it “yours.” Put your child’s name in the scripture. Let the Lord speak to you through that scripture. He will show you insights. They may come up as “thoughts”. He may “show” you something specific. Whatever He shows, hold on to it. If you have questions, ask Him. He will reveal it. Sometimes right aways. Sometimes not, it may take a while until you get it. Either way, trust Him. Realize that your child/children are God’s children first! He gave them to you. You are to be their “steward”. To train them in the things of God, teach them to obey God, teach them a relationship with God. Children copy their parents. That’s how it goes. So when your relationship and life is strong with God, theirs will be also. Including when they rebel. “Train up a child in the way that he should go and when he is older he shall not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6. As long as you did what you are supposed to do they will turn around. If you didn’t for whatever the reason, maybe you hadn’t received Jesus yet, or maybe you simply didn’t know - TRUST GOD! They are HIS kids first! Pray these prayers over them. It will change things! I will place 4 scriptures with a prayer using the scripture. You’ll get the idea. Subsequent scriptures are listed without the prayer and you can add a prayer as you’re using the previous examples. Romans 12:2 - “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.” “Father God, in the Name of Jesus, I pray for my son/daughter. Lord Jesus, help him/her not to be conformed to this world, to his/her friends and going with the crowd and their ungodly notions. Cause him/her to lean in to You. To trust You in every situation - especially when he/she won’t tell me. That’s normal. But he/she can talk with You. Lead him/her. Talk them through each situation. And I thank You for it, in Jesus Name.” Psalms 103:17-18 - “…The Lord’s love is with those who fear Him, and His righteousness with their children’s children—18 with those who keep His covenant and remember to obey His precepts.” “Father God, in the Name of Jesus, I want to thank You that Your love is to (child’s name). You love him/her even more than I do. I thank You that You watch over them and that Your righteousness is with him/her. Lord Jesus, lead him/her in everything. If he/she is not listening to You, Holy Spirit lean on him/her, convict them if what (they) are doing is not right. Show them the way out. I thank You for taking care of (name). He/she is yours first. I am his/her steward. Show me what else I need to do to help in the situation. And I give You all the praise and glory for it, in Jesus Name.” Ephesians 1:17-23 and 3:14-21 - “17 I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know Him better. 18 I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious inheritance in His holy people, 19 and His incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength 20 he exerted when he raised Christ from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, 21 far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. 22 And God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, 23 which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills everything in every way.” And “14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from Whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its Name. 16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 20 Now to Him Who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, 21 to Him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.” “Father God, I ask You and thank You for giving (name) Your wisdom and revelation knowledge and that (his/her) eyes are enlightened to Who you are and (his/her) place within in You! That they fall in love with YOU! And know what Your calling is for them. And that (he/she) knows, that (he/she) knows, that (he/she) knows what YOUR inheritance is, that is in (him/her) and what is YOUR amazing power that is IN (him/her) because they believe in You. I pray Father God that You show (him/her) how bid You are and how powerful You are and that You are within them! This is the same power that raised Jesus from the dead!! That (he/she) knows that the very same power of You is IN them! And that (he/she) knows this power is in all of the Body of Christ of which (he/she) is a part of and fill it up with Your glorious Self! I thank You Father God that we have Your Name! The Name of Jesus is Your Name and we have it to. It’s not something we only say. It’s part of “Who” we are in Christ Jesus and I thank You for revealing this to my kid(s). I pray Father God that You strengthen them with Your might in their inner man, the Holy Spirit Power in their inner being, so that the fullness of the Anointing - the Holy Spirit - can display Himself through (him/her), in Jesus Name, because (he/she) knows that You are there! I pray and I thank You for it that (he/she) is ROOTED and grounded in Your love and Your love passes Your knowledge to (him/her), and that (he/she) is filled with ALL the knowledge and fullness of You. Now I give YOU all the glory for this because I know that You do even more than what I ask or think according to Your Power that is at work within me and within (name).” Psalm 127:2 - “"It is vain for you to rise up early, To sit up late, To eat the bread of sorrows; For so He gives His beloved sweet sleep." “Father, it says in Your Word, that You give Your beloved sweet sleep. So in the Name of Jesus, I pray that You give (name) sweet undisturbed sleep. I loose all the fiery darts and arrows the enemy has thrown at them during the day (Ephesians 6:16). Holy Spirit, I ask You to cleanse all the residue from those darts and arrows from their bodies and seal my girls in the Blood of Jesus. I ask that You loose all the attacks from the enemy not only in (his/her) bodies but their souls: our mind, will and emotions; purging all the areas in us that have been affected by these attacks. I ask that You seal our bodies and souls in the Blood of Jesus and by The All Powerful Name of Jesus. I know there is nothing with more Authority than the Name of Jesus and His Glorified Blood which He spilled for us. Father God before I sleep I place my spirit into Your hands for safekeeping as I know that You love me and will take care of me as I rest.” As you can see how you “put yourself” and those whom you are praying for into scripture, you can do this with any scripture and use it as a prayer. Below are some scriptures that are useful. It’s not all of them by any means - that would be the entire Bible. Also read Proverbs. There are many passages there that are helpful. And remember to go on to part 2 - following the unction of the Holy Spirit when He is giving you a warning about your children. Joel 1:3 - “Tell it to your children, and let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.” Psalm 51:10, 12 - “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.” Philippians 4:4-7 - “4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Deuteronomy 4:9 - “9 Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them.” Mark 10:14 - “When Jesus saw this, He was indignant. He said to them, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” 2 Corinthians 12:14 - “After all, children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.” Proverbs 18:24 - “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” John 13:34-35 - “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.” Proverbs 17:9 - “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.” Psalm 91 Jeremiah 29:11-13 - “11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.” 2. Knowing when the Holy Spirit is giving you a warning for your kids As a parent, it’s a God-given ability, when you just “know” what’s going on with your kids. When you have that “knowing” it is not random. God is letting you know so you can pray to stop what is happening. “Knowing” or a vision, or a dream are all ways He can let you in on what is happening or about to happen. You may already have insight how to pray and what scriptures to use. If you do not, ask Him. Stay quiet until you know. Have your Bible because He will direct you to certain passages. For safety always be ready to plead the Blood of Jesus on your child and on the situation they are in; cancel any assignments the devil has launched against them; and pray the 91st Psalm over them…and anything else the Lord tells you to do. Let me share something from my own life. Many may know that I had a stroke when I was 26. That attack of the stroke was intended to take me out. I was in a coma for 3 days. Recovery was tough. Couldn’t read. Couldn’t write. Very difficult time speaking. Paralyzed on the right side of my body. And at that time I was a professional dancer. My entire life changed in a moment. Prior to this event, like 8 or 9 months, my mother had been led by the Lord to pray particular scriptures over me - confess them over me: Psalm 91:16 - “With long life I will satisfy him and show him My salvation.” Psalm 118:17 - “I shall not die, but live, And declare the works of the Lord.” Isaiah 54:13 - “All your children shall be taught by the Lord, And great shall be the peace of your children.” The Lord had been impressing her to pray these over me each day for 8 or 9 months! He wouldn’t let her off of it. As she did this she was planting these scriptures in her heart by speaking them over me each day for all those months, and she could handle what she was about to be told. When she received the phone call about what occurred and was told that I would die, she immediately spoke these scriptures out of her heart to the person who had called her. Good thing too. She had to negate the words that were being spoken around me from friends and doctors. speaking - that I “wasn’t going to make it.” She spoke the Word over the situation in my life, took Authority over the negative words by speaking the Word of God. She cancelled out the words of death and destruction others were speaking. Words create. Words can activate the demonic realm to bring them to pass or God's realm to bring them to pass. And mom had to stop those words of death that were be spoken with the Word of God. You see, when people are in life threatening situations most do not know what to do. They freak out. They speak what they fear. And they attempt to be “sympathetic” saying, “oh, poor Rina (or whomever). (She) used to be such a great ……”. Instead my mother would retort: “No, she will not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. Great is her peace, her wholeness, in Jesus Name. And she has a long life because of what the Lord Jesus has done!” Usually there was silence on the other end of the phone. And a quick, “Oh, ok.” It wasn’t much different when she got to the hospital. They all thought she was nuts. But who cares when you’re trying to keep your kid alive. Speak the Word of God! It changes things! “Let there be light. And it was so.” That’s how you handle crisis situations. No matter what it looks like. No matter what you think. No matter what it feels like. Words create life or death - what kind of words will you speak over your children?

How do I pray for my family, how do I believe for my family, How do I believe for my husband, How do I believe for my wife, How do I believe for my children, will my child go to hell, will my husband go to hell, will my wife go to hell, will my children go to hell Believing for Your Family to be Saved Article below. For downloadable PDF click link. PDF Believing for Your Family to be Saved It’s not what you think. It’s much easier than you think! When the Lord gives you insight into this, you’ll never be the same. Depending on what church you have learned about the things of God, or people who have imparted “Christian” ideas/ideals into you will form the kinds of “doctrine” you have held on to. We all have them. Even the unsaved think certain things because of what they have heard from the believer’s camps. We don’t want to base anything on “doctrine of men” - instead, we want to see what God says about it. Because that is all that matters. As a foundation, “what do you believe?” Meaning, that “God has got your back, no matter what?” I hope so. Because He does. No matter what, God can’t lie. He doesn’t have the ability. Yes, there are some things God can’t do. He can’t lie. He cannot go against His own Word. If He said it…now hold on to your hats…If He spoke it, yes, it’s a promise… which means it’s a covenant! And God doesn’t break His covenants. Psalm 89:34 - “I will not violate My covenant or alter what My lips have uttered.” What God has said - He has said. It cannot return void but will accomplish that which He pleases and it will come to pass!! Isaiah 55:11 . And there’s one more bit to add, if this wasn’t enough: Hebrews 6:13-15 - “13When God made His promise to Abraham, since there was no one greater for Him to swear by, He swore by Himself, 14saying, “I will surely bless you and give you many descendants.” 15And so after waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.” What this means is the covenant God made with Abraham, a promise, God made it to Himself! Track with me on this. When two people make a promise to one another, they are basing it on themselves to keep that promise. God did exactly that. Because He couldn’t swear to a greater power. He IS the Greater Power. Since He swore His Own Word to Himself this means the promise CANNOT be broken. It will come to pass. No matter how long it takes! This being said, God has promised us that ALL of our family and household (or those who are our circle of friends) will be saved - Acts 2:39; Acts 16:31; John 6:44 . He also said in 1 Timothy 2:4 that He would have ALL men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. And again in 2 Peter 3:9 - “9The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” What I’m saying is this - relax. Your family and friends will be saved. God promised and He is not a man that He should lie, Numbers 23:19 . It may not happen in the timing you like, but that doesn’t really matter. God has a plan. Trust Him. He’s got it. And if you haven’t read the article on the Second Death and Great White Throne Judgement , do it. It is not easy to read but all who are God’s will be back with Him for eternity! God is not going to loose any of His kids. Like the parable of the Prodigal Son, God is not going to loose any! We can trust Him. So when you start getting nagging thoughts and feelings about loved ones not being saved, start praising God and rejoicing in Him because He will bring His Word to pass. A person cannot. It’s God Who does it. So praise and rejoice in Him for already having done it, even if you don’t see it yet, because it is surely coming to pass!

Faith, What is faith, how do I use faith, how do I know if I'm using faith Whatever is not of Faith is Sin What do you believe? ...That is faith. Article below or click link for downloadable PDF. PDF Whatever is not of Faith is Sin What do you believe? - That is faith. God will meet you where your faith is. Meaning, some can believe to truly move a mountain; others can believe to get their fussy car to start; others are simply believing to get out of bed in the morning…yes, being slightly humorous…but you get my point. Wherever your faith is, God will meet you there! The faith of one person is in a different place than another and God will meet you according to you using your faith. For example, if someone has a medical background and their faith is in the medicine from the doctor, fine. Simply pray over the medicine each day when you take it, just like you pray over your food, expecting God to work through that medicine to deliver you from whatever the issue is. God meets you where your faith is. When you are new to living Godly, it’s like being a young child. God doesn’t expect a 4 year old to drive a car. He nurtures them closely. There’s more grace - meaning they can get away with things a mature believer cannot. Just like that 4 year old child. The parents know they have to help bathe and clothe the little one each day but as they get older the parents expect the child, who is 10 or 16 to bathe and clothe themselves. It’s the same. Faith is simple - it is whatever you believe. Everyone believes something. Including atheists. They believe that . Back to the example of healing: when your young in the faith you may not know how to take Authority over your body to be healed. Or you may not be aware of blessing your food to keep the toxic chemicals among other things, away from your body. There’s many things a young believer may not know and the Lord will protect them. However, as a believer matures, God’s expectation is greater. Perhaps you have always had someone pray for you for healing and it’s worked each time. At a certain point in time the Lord expects you to pull up your faith-boots and stand for your own healing. You can tell because when you have had people pray for you and it hasn’t worked. This is a means of the Lord letting you know you have to stand on your faith, not someone else’s. God is faith. Faith, hope, and love - the greatest of these is love and God is love, so God is faith and hope. And He is in us. Therefore His faith is in us. And it’s like a muscle. It needs to be worked. Hebrews 11:1, 6 Says faith is the substance of things hoped for - or expected from the promises in the Word of God - and it’s the evidence of what your hoping for before you see it. It’s the evidence that it exists because God spoke it, just like He spoke the earth, moon, and stars. And faith pleases God. We always want to please our Father. We simply take scripture regarding a situation and stand on it - this means to read it, speak it out loud over ourselves and our lives until manifestation comes. Use it. Believing. Using God’s faith to bring it to pass. You stay on that scripture each day until it comes to pass. And you don’t really have to ask for it. God already spoken it into being. Simply believe. That’s what a “disciple” is: disciplined one - stay steady on the Word - confessing the Word as a “disciplined one” until it comes to pass. But when we operate in fear, that is not faith. And whatsoever is not of faith is sin - so CAST DOWN THAT VAIN IMAGINATION and replace it with your faith filled scripture you’re using - Romans 14:23 . Let’s look at the entire verse: “But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.” Symbolically “eating” is eating from the Word of God, it is our “food.” Our Spiritual meal. That’s why Jesus called Himself the “Bread of Life.” John 6:35 . Let’s look at this a bit deeper. What is your “conscious” telling you? That’s where the doubts are. Sometimes it comes from our thinking - which may be true or may not be, but we think they are. Everything we think is not truth. 1 Corinthians 4:4 ; & 1 Corinthians 8 is about abiding by your own conscious even if it’s not the Truth. Whether conviction is coming from your own mind or coming from the Holy Spirit, OBEY it. If it was coming from you own thinking, the Holy Spirit will show you at the proper time. You are still operating in faith by obeying your conscious. Because if we do not, we sin. Whatever your conscious deems as sin, if you do it, it is sin. (I Corinthians 8:7 .) For instance: If you believe having a glass of wine is sinful, then it is. (I know I may have to address this for some. Jesus said, “All things in moderation”; and in Titus 2:3 to not be addicted to much wine.” You can be addicted to sugar. Whatever the addiction is, is the sin.) Jesus BECAME SIN, ENTIRELY for us and PLACED ALL of it in hell! ALL OF IT!!! FOREVER. ALL SIN HAS BEEN BOUGHT AND PAID FOR! ALL we have to do is put our bodies into subjection to the Word and change our way of thinking to what the WORD SAYS ABOUT IT. If we sin He is faithful and just to forgive us. In fact He has already forgiven us of all sin, otherwise if He didn’t Jesus would have to die on the cross again. What sin does is block you from hearing God. And now more than ever we NEED to hear God. Stay in faith, abide by your conscious, and stay in the love of God and in love with God.

Identity, In Christ, in Christ Jesus, Who am I in Jesus, Who am I in God, Bible You Are Not Your Personality, You are Who God Says You Are PDF Article below or click link for downloadable PDF. You Are Not Your Personality, You Are Who God Says You Are. What? What do you mean I’m not my personality?? Huh? You’ve been told or you have said it yourself: “That’s your personality. You are who you are.” But what if you aren’t? We’ve been told we have to change our thinking, to “think positively rather than negatively.” Blah, blah, blah. Never were we told how to actually achieve it - no matter the recordings, YouTube videos, documentaries and books on “Self Help”, and seminars…it doesn’t help. In fact it makes things more frustrating. It’s a battle within ourselves as we are getting more frustrated without any true help. There is still a part to our personality that is just “the way it is.” It doesn’t seem like we can change it. “That’s just who I am.” And because we keep thinking the same things and doing the same things because “we can’t change who we are,” we get the same results. But what if this can change? When you find out that a part of the crucifixion of Jesus was to deliver you from your mind, from your personality, it changes everything. Here is the freedom from something we never knew we could be free of. That’s shoutin’ ground right there!! Jesus delivered you from your personality! Jesus sacrificed all areas of Himself for us. (*See Crucifixion article.) We know He died for our sins and most know He died for our sicknesses. But we aren’t taught the fullness of everything He died for including our mental state and our personality. That’s what the Garden of Gethsemane was about. Jesus sacrificed His personality, His thinking mind, His emotions, and His will for the Father’s…and He did so to the point of sweating Blood! If there was anything left out, then His death wasn’t complete for us - wasn’t enough. He needed to sacrifice every part of Himself for every part of us. Oh, and His death is more than enough! Let’s get in to our “personality” since that is what this article is about. Our personality is part of our soul. And our soul is a part of our spirit. It is not our spirit, but a part of it. That’s why God spoke Hebrews 4:12 - For the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. If the Word can divide the soul and spirit that means they are together. But they are two different Greek words and are used differently in scripture. Most often when scripture uses the word “heart”, it means “soul”. Jesus paid the price for the human soul. Yes, there is our Godly personality the way God made us and there is also the characteristics of our personality that are developed by the curse of this world, sin. This is what we are free from! We call these “traits”. For example, if someone is habitual in lying, it may be in little things. Their personality developed around this trait. It is not who they are. Same goes with a husband that habitually cheats on his wife. He may think that is just who He is. May in fact think that monogamy is an outdated idea. And his entire personality is built around this behavior. Or someone who constantly second-guesses themself - they never trust themselves to make the right choice and have developed an entire personality around that trait. For another, they are constantly looking for approval, getting accolades, and yet when they get them it never sinks in and they need more. None of these “traits” are who these people really are. These are traits of “fallen man”. And Jesus has paid the price for all of this!! Let’s take a look at a few things more closely and then I’ll get into how to change it. Like everything else with the Lord there is a pattern of how He does things. It is the same here! But because our “personalities” are so close to us, we never thought they could change so we didn’t think to consider that they could. Strong’s Greek for “soul”, #5590 psuché; and #5591 psuchikos: 1. #5590 Psuché - “(a) the vital breath, breath of life, (b) the human soul, (c) the soul as the seat of affections and will, (d) the self, (e) a human person, an individual. psyxḗ (from psyxō, "to breathe, blow" which is the root of the English words "psyche," "psychology") – soul (psyche); a person's distinct identity (unique personhood), i.e. individual personality.” “5590 (psyxē) corresponds exactly to the OT 5315 /phágō ("soul"). The soul is the direct aftermath of God breathing (blowing) His gift of life into a person, making them an ensouled being. Heart (2), heartily (1), life (36), lives (7), mind (1), minds (1), person (1), persons (3), soul (33), souls (14), suspense* (1), thing (1).” * Here are some scriptures on how the Lord sees the soul: Matthew 11:29 - Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, AND you will find rest for your souls. When we are staying tight with the Lord, learning of Him and how to live our lives His way and doing it, we find rest for our souls. We are “submitting” our personalities, our thinking, to His way of thinking and doing. We exchange our way of operating for His. This changes our “personality”. “Lowly in heart” means: describes the person who depends on the Lord rather than self. When we do this our personality changes. The old carnal nature falls away. Matthew 12:18 - Berean Literal Bible - Behold My servant, whom I have chosen, My beloved, in whom My soul has found delight. I will put My Spirit upon Him, and He will proclaim justice to the Gentiles. This scripture in Matthew was first said in Isaiah 42:1 . We see this is God the Father speaking of His Son Jesus. And we see that God the Father has a soul! The Father’s soul delights in what Jesus did! (Interesting this scripture may have been one that “spoke” to the Apostle Paul - Jesus and Gentiles!). Also notice that as Jesus was doing what the Lord wanted, it allowed for His Spirit to be upon Him, and we know He had the Spirit without measure! We too, as we obey the Lord, His yoke is easy, it allows the Holy Spirit to move more within us! 1 Thessalonians 5:23 - May God Himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is one of my favorite scriptures! We see God is the God of peace. That is Who He is! And He is the One Who separates us - “sanctifies” - entirely. Our whole spirit. Our whole soul. Our whole body. And He keeps us - blameless - because of the Blood of Jesus! It is nothing we can do on our own. It’s all Him. There is a little more to this Greek word Psueche: “the soul, a. the seat of the feelings, desires, affections, aversions (our soul, heart, etc. the (human) soul in so far as it is so constituted that by the right use of the aids offered it by God it can attain its highest end and secure eternal blessedness, the soul regarded as a moral being designed for everlasting life.” 3 John 1:2 - Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. We prosper in all things, including in our health - as our soul is prospering in the things of God. If we aren’t active, doing what the Lord leads us to do, we will be struggling with our souls, our personalities, and it will show up in every area of our lives - health, relationships, business. “From psucho ; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only; thus distinguished on the one hand from pneuma , which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from zoe , which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew nephesh , ruwach and chay ) -- heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.” Psueche and Zóé are the two words used for “soul” and “spirit” showing there is a differnce between the two. Zóé is defined as the “Life of God”. “Life (physical and spiritual). All life (2222 /zōḗ), throughout the universe, is derived – i.e. it always (only) comes from and is sustained by God's self-existent life. The Lord intimately shares His gift of life with people, creating each in His image which gives all the capacity to know His eternal life.” This clearly defines what Hebrews 4:12 is about - For the Word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Soul: Psueche/Pneuma and Spirit: Zóé. 2. #5591 Psuchikos: “natural, of the soul or mind Usage: animal, natural, sensuous. psyxikós (an adjective, derived from 5590 /psyxḗ, "soul, natural identity") – properly, soulish, i.e. what is natural, as it relates to physical (tangible) life alone (i.e. apart from God's inworking of faith). 5591 /psyxikós ("natural") typically describes the natural ("lower") aspect of humanity, i.e. behavior that is "more of earth (carnality) than heaven. 5591 (psyxikós) then sometimes stands in contrast to 4152 /pneumatikós ("spiritual") – the higher, spiritual aspect of humanity that develops through faith (4102 /pístis).” 1 Corinthians 15:44-46, 50 - it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual…I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. #5591 “is natural, of the soul or mind, natural (5), worldly-minded (1).James 3:15; Jude 19 a. having the nature and characteristics of the ψυχή i. e. of the principle of animal life, which men have in common with the brutes (see ψυχή, 1 a.); (A. V. natural): σῶμα ψυχικόν, 1 Corinthians 15:44 ; substantively, τό ψυχικόν (Winer's Grammar, 592 (551)), 1 Corinthians 15:46 : since both these expressions do not differ in substance or conception from σάρξ καί αἷμα in 1 Corinthians 15:50 , Paul might have also written σαρκικον; but prompted by the phrase ψυχή ζῶσα in 1 Corinthians 15:45 (borrowed from Genesis 2:7 ), he wrote ψυχικόν. b. "governed by the ψυχή i. e. the sensuous nature with its subjection to appetite and passion (as though made up of nothing but ψυχή): ἄνθρωπος (equivalent to σαρκικός (or σάρκινος, which see 3) in ), 1 Corinthians 2:14 ; ψυχικοί, πνεῦμα μή ἔχοντες, Jude 1:19 (A. V. sensual (R. V. with marginal reading 'Or natural, Or animal'); so in the following example); σοφία, a wisdom in harmony with the corrupt desires and affections, and springing from them (see σοφία, a., p. 581b bottom), James 3:15 . (In various other senses in secular authors from Aristotle and Polybius down.) natural, sensual. From psuche ; sensitive, i.e. Animate (in distinction on the one hand from pneumatikos , which is the higher or renovated nature; and on the other from phusikos , which is the lower or bestial nature) -- natural, sensual. see GREEK psuche " We can see soul can often mean the mind, or the beast like nature, or nature of fallen man which is what corrupts our God-given personality. And we are to retrain our minds: Romans 12:2 - Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will. There are two parts to the soul - the God made part; the sin fallen part that creates the bad “traits”. The Lord gave us power over them! If we want breakthroughs we then need to put this into action. It’s the same no matter what you’re doing: retraining your mind; believing for a spouse; believing for your healing; etc. Always ask the Lord for help and direction: Go search all the scripture regarding the area you are dealing with. Write down those scriptures. Rewrite those scriptures with “you” in them, as “confessions” (*See article on Confessions). Speak them over yourself every day until your thinking changes. Keep giving God the praise for who you are as you speak the scriptures over yourself and for the victory He has given you in all things 1 John 4:4; 5:4 ; and Romans 8:31 . In the beginning it will be more than once per day because you have to change your thoughts 2 Corinthians 10:3-6 . Each time an old “personality” thought comes to your mind, talk out loud to yourself, and say: “No, I refuse that thought in the Name of Jesus and I cast it out.” And then replace that thought with the scripture that opposes it. I will finalize this with a few more scriptures that help for more insight to how the Lord sees our souls: Hebrews 13:17 - Obey those who rule over you (pastors etc), and be submissive, for they watch out for your souls, as those who must give account. Let them do so with joy and not with grief, for that would be unprofitable for you. 1 Peter 2:11 - Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. 1 Peter 2:25 - For “you were like sheep going astray,” but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. James 1:21 - Amplified Bible - So get rid of all uncleanness and all that remains of wickedness, and with a humble spirit receive the Word [of God] which is implanted [actually rooted in your heart], which is able to save your souls. James 5:20 - Berean Literal Bible - let him know that the one having brought back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death, and will cover over a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 1:9 - for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls. 1 Peter 1:22 - Since you have purified your souls in obeying the Truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart (soul) 1 Peter 4:19 - Berean Standard Bible - So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should entrust their souls to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.

What is discernment, how to do I know God is leading me, Do all believers have discernment, How do I hear from God, Discernment Article is below. For downloadable PDF click link. PDF Discernment Discernment - How to Listen to the Holy Spirit 1Corinthians 2:14 - "But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God : for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. " Discernment : Noun - the act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment ; to distinguish one thing from another; the power of viewing differences and their relations and tendencies; judgment; to distinguish between things; perceive differences that exist; the condition of understanding.i How to Listen to the Holy Spirit - is the Key to Discernment. The key to Godly Discernment is listening to the Holy Spirit. He is the One Who will judge the rightness or wrongness of situations from within us. How do we “hear” from Him? First we have to have a foundation of “how” we hear from God. Spending time in God’s Word is a “must have” to hear from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit works with the Word. No Word, No hearing clearly from the Holy Spirit. And if you don’t know “how’ God speaks by spending time in His Word, you won’t be able to judge if what you “heard” or what impression you got was from the Holy Spirit or not. The Word is how we are to judge. God’s Word is truth and God can’t lie. Everything God has spoken in His Word is actually a covenant - it is truth and it can’t change - John 17:17; Titus 1:2; Numbers 23:19. And God is always right. Once we have made that decision in our minds that God is always right, we won’t doubt what He has said. We may not understand it but He will reveal it to us when the time is right. Therefore we take John 10:1-5, 27 as a fact. More than that, as truth: “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for Him, and the sheep listen to His voice. He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When He has brought out all His own, He goes on ahead of them, and His sheep follow Him because they know His voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice. 27 My sheep hear My Voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” There are very important things in this passage for us to embrace: Jesus is our Shepherd, We listen to His Voice, He calls us by name; He leads us out and goes on ahead of us; We follow Him because we know His Voice; We will never follow a stranger and will run away from a stranger because we do not recognize the stranger’s voice; We hear Jesus’ Voice, He knows us, We follow Him. That’s a home-run right there!!! Notice how much the Lord is speaking to us in that passage and leading us. That’s amazing. So now trust that. Now that we know we hear His voice, there are other elements. John 14:26 - “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My Name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.” Psalm 143:10 - “Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground.” The Holy Spirit is teaching us , deep inside of us, and He reminds us of things the Lord has told us . You know how there’s something the Lord gave you a while ago and you had forgotten about it, but then suddenly it “pops” up and you remember it? That is the Holy Spirit. Romans 8:14 - “For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.” Psalm 31:3 - “Since You are My rock and My fortress, for the sake of Your Name lead and guide me. As the Holy Spirit is bringing things to your remembrance He is leading you. Sometimes the “leading” comes as a “hunch.” How you judge it is: “is this thought/action in line with God’s Word?” If the answer is yes, then do it. If it is not, get rid of the thought by casting it down in the Name of Jesus, then replace that thought with the Word of God that is contrary to it (2 Corinthians 10:3-6). As the Holy Spirit leads you, you will have “peace” about it in your inner man and a “light” sense to it - no heaviness, and you’ll have “joy” because you now have insight to something that you hadn’t had before. John 14:16 - “And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter (Helper), that He may abide with you for ever;” As the Holy Spirit is leading you another scripture that shows more to this is Philippians 1:9-11 prayer - pray this over yourself! “And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God.” And then praise God for having done this! Expect to be led by the love of God throughout your day. Another way of recognizing the Holy Spirit is that He is our comforter. You will be comforted when you are being led by Him. He leads you in ways you weren’t thinking about before and it’s a help. He is also called the Helper. And He certainly helps. Ephesians 4:30 - “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” When we do something that is not God’s will for us we will have an “uneasy” sense within us. That is the grieving of the Holy Spirit. When you notice it, repent of it right away and receive your forgiveness. Then ask if there is something you should do about it. It all depends on the circumstance. Follow His leading. Follow the hunch. And when we don’t repent we will not be able to hear from God. In fact not hearing from God is for one of three reasons: sin; not spending time in the Word; or during a test. We know if we have been in the Word and most of the time we know when we’ve sinned. There can be times where it’s not on the forefront of our minds and we forget that we didn’t do what the Lord had asked, or didn’t respond to a dream/or vision He gave us in the correct manner like a warning dream or vision. Whatever the situation get into prayer. Ask the Lord for where you missed it. Ask for forgiveness. Receive it. And go into praise. Sometimes simply spending time is praise is the easiest way to “clean” ourselves up. Colossians 3:15-16 AMP - Let the peace of Christ [the inner calm of one who walks daily with Him] be the controlling factor in your hearts [deciding and settling questions that arise]. To this peace indeed you were called as members in one body [of believers]. And be thankful [to God always]. 16 Let the [spoken] word of Christ have its home within you [dwelling in your heart and mind--permeating every aspect of your being]…” When we are being led by the Holy Spirit don’t move on the leading until you have peace about it. If you have questions about it in your mind, this means you do not have peace. Luke 12:12 - ESV “for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.” Trust the Holy Spirit in everything. He’s our Helper. Our Comforter. He gives us Peace. He will give you the right words to say, if you let Him. It’s in: Ephesians 6:20 and 1 Corinthians 1:5-7, with 1 Corinthians 12:7-8: "19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel,” "5 For in Him (the Holy Spirit) you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds of speech and with all knowledge— 6 God thus confirming our testimony about Christ among you. 7 Therefore you do not lack any spiritual gift as you eagerly wait for our Lord Jesus Christ to be revealed.” "7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,” So far from the scriptures we have seen, the Holy Spirit: Teaches us Brings to our remembrance the things the Lord has told us He leads us He guides us He comforts us He helps us He seals us until the Day Jesus comes He gives us words to speak to others. Many times we will find ourselves speaking and not knowing what we are saying. We are hearing the Words as they come out of our mouth. He gives us boldness He gives us knowledge that we couldn’t have gotten any other way. We have all the Spiritual Giftings that He has. Important to note: giftings are always for other people through you. He doesn’t give them to you for yourself. He gives you wisdom and revelation knowledge He gives you peace. Something else important to note, Ephesians 3:16-19 - “16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Let’s briefly unpack two parts to this passage: Holy Spirit strengthens you and grounds you in the love of God WHICH passes His knowledge. Romans 5:5 says the Love of God has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Since we have the Holy Spirit, we have the Love of God inside of us. As we give heed to His promptings, leadings, thoughts - which all go in line with His Word - we will have His knowledge. Godly knowledge. Not the world’s knowledge. 1 Corinthians 1:6-16 - “6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God [c]ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 9 But as it is written: “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.” 10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. 13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the Mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the Mind of Christ. The Holy Spirit knows the deep things of God and He is in you leading you! That’s amazing! And we weigh out what we are “getting” deep within us, we weigh it against the Word. And whatever He tells you to do, do. This is how you operate in “discernment.” Another way the Holy Spirit leads us is by revealing things. I call these “ah-ha” moments. It’s when something “pops” up within you or a thought from within you that answers the question your pondering. It’s like the “light-bulb” turning on. Usually we say, “ah-ha! I got it!” 1 Corinthians 2:10 - “these are the things God has revealed to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” He guides us through our own consciences Romans 9:1 - ESV “I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit—“ It’s very important to follow your “conscience.” If we violate it that can cause damage to our heart and inhibit our “hearing” from the Lord, hinder our growth, and our lives: 1 Timothy 1:19 - “holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith.” 1 Peter 3:16 says to keep a clear conscience. No matter what, keep a clear conscience. Conclusion: Discernment is about weighing out right from wrong by weighing these things against the Word of God and the Holy Spirit - John 4:24 And THE most important way to hear God’s Voice is through knowing His Word. God only speaks in line with His Word. Knowledge of God’s Word can help us to discern whether or not our desires come from the Holy Spirit. We must test our inclinations against Scripture—the Holy Spirit will never lead us to do anything contrary to God’s Word. If it conflicts with the Bible, then it is not from the Holy Spirit and should be cast down as a vain imagination in the Name of Jesus, and then replaced with the Word of God that opposes it. As 1 Thessalonians 5:17 says stay in prayer always. How I use this is I keep the Lord on my mind all day long. I speak with Him all day long and I let Him lead me all throughout the day. Not only does this keep our hearts and minds open to the Holy Spirit’s leading, but it also allows the Spirit to speak on our behalf: “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And He who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God” Romans 8:26–27 . We can tell if we are following the Spirit’s leading by looking for signs of His fruit in our lives Galatians 5:22–23 . If we walk in the Spirit, we will continue to see these qualities grow and mature in us, and they will become evident to others as well. You’ll begin to notice how people speak of you and say things like how you always are happy, and trustworthy, and they always feel good around you. This is all part of the fruit of the Spirit. It is important to note that we have the choice whether or not to accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance. When we know the will of God but do not follow it, we are resisting the Spirit’s work in our lives Acts 7:51 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:19 , and a desire to follow our own way grieves Him Ephesians 4:30 . The Spirit will never lead us into sin . Habitual sin will cause us to miss what the Holy Spirit wants to say to us through the Word. Being in tune with God’s will, turning from and confessing sin, and making a habit of prayer and the study of God’s Word will allow us to recognize—and follow—the Spirit’s leading. As you do these things and follow the Holy Spirit you will be able to discern right from wrong. And the challenges in the not-so-easy things to discern like, “Is this where my daughter should go to school? Should I take this job? Is this where I should be living?” Will go easy as you keep “leaning” in to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. He will always lead you right.