INTERFERING WITH HELL

Our lives, our words, and actions should interfere with hell’s agenda. Yet, all the trappings of religion are roadblocks to experiencing or demonstrating God’s power. It is easy to hide behind the prison bars of religion. We can meet for Bible study, prayer meeting,...

WHY JESUS SAID WE WILL CAST OUT DEMONS

I got saved when I was 8 years old. But it wasn’t until age 29 that I allowed Jesus to become my Lord. I knew that to be saved was a complete work, but it also meant I had entered a process of being saved from the things that stood in the way of my knowing...

EXPANDING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF DEMONIC POSSESSION

We can think that demonic possession only occurs in people. God wants to expand our understanding of this subject. The goal of demons is to possess anything – people, politics, governments, systems of commerce, even some churches whose theologies are being used...

NEGLECTING EVIL SPIRITS

For some followers of Jesus, the influence of demonic spirits is neglected and not addressed. It can be too uncomfortable for some in this modern age when we think that, under the influence of our logic, we have no place for such a consideration. As a result, a...

DEMONIC TEACHING AND A SEARED CONSCIENCE

Most of us are aware of Paul’s warning to Timothy about what will happen in the last days, “Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times, some will turn away from the true faith” (I Timothy 4:1). We quote this verse with regularity but...