I wanted to put a super-spiritual title to what amounts to a request for prayer. I post all the time about how awesome the power of God is and how wonderful it is to be used to further His kingdom but in all honesty there is another side to it. There is the cost.
About six weeks ago I got a word in prayer that I was under a satanic attack. If I remember correctly, I believe that He told me that someone was doing witchcraft against me. And when He said that, I understood that there was a witch, that was casting spells against me. This is not the kind of word that I rejoice over. A couple of days later I was on the way to my Friday night meeting and was feeling the effects of the attack. I only get headaches when I am under attack. This night they were splitting. I told the forty or so people at my meeting to pray for me because I was under a satanic attack. At the end of worship there was a prophetic anointing in the room and I told the group that the Holy Ghost was going to give visions. I prayed then asked everyone what they received
There is an interesting manifestation that happens in my meetings where several people will get visions. When I have the people share the visions, they spell out a complete message. And almost always, the message follows the order of the visions as they were shared.
The message came forward that there was an opposition to the anointing and that an evil spirit sat on top of a man made kingdom but in the end, Jesus would triumph over this thing.
After this I went into preaching on the Spirit of Elijah and the resistance to anointed ministry in the book of Acts. I ran through about five instances where people came against the anointed messengers ending with
These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also, (Acts 17:6)
I declared that this is the testimony that I want. I want to be counted among the people that troubled the religious and the ungodly. That Hebrews 11 is not done because I am not in it. That I want to be listed with the great “apostates” of this day like Steve Hill, Benny Hinn, Reinhart Bonke, Rodney Howard Browne and the likes. I want people who are away from God to cry out, “That guy who turned the world upside down is here now! We have to do something!”
I then had an altar call after sharing a few words of knowledge. Just then a woman walked into the room. As the anointing fell in the room she began to manifest, and I don’t mean the Holy Ghost. This woman began to shake and almost yell, “This is not God. This is not God.” Her son was in the meeting and had answered the altar call. I prayed for him and he kind of stumbled backwards and fell. I am pretty sure he tripped but he went down none the less.
I found out later that she went to the senior pastor and told him that I grabbed her son and threw him into a stack of chairs. She said some other things but they are not important. (point of interest: her husband is a man of influence in the church).
I knew this was a manifestation of the demonic attack. I was praying this through and the Lord spoke to me. He actually toyed with me. He said, “Now where in the Bible does the immodest wife of a leader attack a prophetic minister?” I said, “Lord you know that was Jezebel and Elijah.” He then reminded me that I was preaching on the spirit of Elijah.
Selah
That whole thing blew over in a little more than a week. I knew the attack was coming. It came. I was ready. It blew over. Some would shout victory but I knew in my spirit that the enemy just went into hiding. He was going to attack again.
Not two weeks later we got a letter from our condo association stating that if we did not pay some back fees they are going to begin foreclosure on our home. About two weeks later my web server had major issues costing me almost a weeks pay. Funny timing huh? Tonight the neighbor who lives below me knocked on my door. It turns out that my washer was flooding his bathroom. Yeah, my washing machine flooding my bathroom so bad it flooded his bathroom.
Selah
On top of this I have had other issues that I don’t even want to enumerate. Last week I wondered if God was moving us out of this home into something better. If this storm was from Him. After tonight I believe firmly that this is the devil.
Would you pray for us? We need God to come through with a significant amount of money. At the same time we have felt like it is time to have another child but if we have another we cannot legally live in our home and will be forced out. At the same time as these, I feel like God wants me to launch a new ministry.
I have gotten a handful of prophetic words in the last year, more than one from David at RevivalJournal and Mark H at MadetoPraiseHim that make us feel like we are on the right path but this is not fun.
I know people don’t often share this stuff because it is embarrassing and they really don’t want a pep talk. But I think it is important to note that just because someone walks in a little anointing and sees a few bells and whistles that does not mean that they have a special God bubble around them. And while I hope someone can glean something from this, I hope greater than anything that I won’t lose my home.
Not sure how to end this post other than to ask you to pray.
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