I believe according to the Holy Bible that the main thrust of the devil’s attacks against people will be in the MIND and EMOTIONS and for this reason, it’s not surprising that mental/emotional health is such a huge problem in society.

EPHESIANS 6:11 NLT Put on all of God’s armour so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil.

From my observation, it’s usually during times when people are feeling vulnerable that evil spirits are given an opportunity to bring affliction.

2 CORINTHIANS 2:11 MESSAGE After all we don’t want to unwittingly give Satan an opening for yet more mischief we’re not oblivious to his sly ways!

2 CORINTHIANS 2:11 AMPC To keep Satan from getting the advantage over us; for we are not ignorant of his wiles and intentions.

The Apostle Paul also warns in EPHESIANS 4:27 NIV And do not give the devil a foothold.

What is he doing? He’s looking for an opening, an opportunity a moment of weakness or vulnerability.

It’s like when the door is open and someone is trying to get in so they put there foot between the door and the door frame to stop the door from closing. You know something, if you keep the door closed spiritually speaking the devil will have nowhere to put his foot into.

I’m not sure where you are all at. I pray that everyone is living in victory and has the joy of the Lord ruling and reigning in your hearts but maybe that’s not you.

Maybe you don’t have a relationship with God and you feel the emptiness that only God can fill or maybe you love Jesus but your struggling right now and you don’t know what to do.

I want to fast forward to Jesus’ first sermon in the Synagogue because it reveals some very powerful things about finding answers in our desperation.

LUKE 4:16-18 NKJV

16 So He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. And as His custom was He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read. 17 And He was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah. And when He had opened the book He found the place where it was written: 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, Because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.

Right here you have Jesus’ mission statement.

1. Teach God’s economy and how to get out of POVERTY.
2. Heal the BROKENHEARTED of spirit and soul.
3. Bring liberty to those that are CAPTIVE mentally and emotionally.
4. Bring liberty to those who are being demonically OPPRESSED.

Jesus Christ specifically came to earth to SAVE and DELIVER us or you could say RESCUE us from these demonically inspired attacks.

The only way to break the power of these afflictions is to REPENT of sin and ACCEPT Jesus Christ into your life and be BORN AGAIN. Start fresh but this time with God in your life and His Word guiding you into making the right decisions.

HOW SATAN OPERATES AGAINST US 1 PETER 5:8-9 NKJV Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. 9 Resist him steadfast in the faith knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world.

The Lord has shown me that there are what I call TEN D’s and each D stands for a word that has the potential to demoralise us.

1. DISCOURAGEMENT
2. DISAPPOINTMENT
3. DEFEATED
4. DIVISION
5. DOUBT
6. DISBELIEF
7. DISCONTENTMENT
8. DISTRACTIONS
9. DECEIVE
10. DESTRUCTION

These 10 D’s I just read can be empowered by EVIL SPIRITS and the only solution is they must be EXPOSED and they need to be CAST-OUT.

1. DISCOURAGEMENT
   This means to remove or lose courage in you. Evil spirits come to remind you of past failures and mistakes. Maybe things have not turned out the way you thought they would. Maybe you were let down or wounded by someone.
2. DISAPPOINTMENT
   This is huge in Church. There are so many disappointed Christians who feel that God has let them down or has not come through for them but actually evil spirits can get into our lives when we are vulnerable and make us believe that there is no reason to keep believing.It is so important that the basis of your belief is not based on some kind of BARGIN or DEAL for example ‘God you do this for me then I will believe and serve you’.
   This can lead to an enormous amount of frustration and disappointment because the motive is not right or sincere.
   The basis to believe and worship God is simply because He exists, He is our Creator and Saviour everything else is a bonus.
   Whilst I have Jesus I have nothing NO-THING to be disappointed over. If you get this right it will keep your faith in check.
3. DEFEATED
   Discouraged and Disappointed people usually go on to feel DEFEATED and believe me there are evil spirits to keep you feeling defeated in life. It’s one of the causes for people contemplating suicide. They feel like they just can’t go on. December has the highest spike in suicides in the whole year.I believe that behind every suicide attempt or suicide there is an evil spirit behind it without question. It compels a person into believing that the only solution is to end it all. This is why Jesus said that Satan is a murderer.
4. DIVISION
   The Bible says that unity brings a BLESSING and this is why evil spirits are always seeking to divide you from relationships.
   One of the strengths of a happy and successful life is having long-term established relationships with people it’s also a sign of a stable and loyal person because they have such long-term relationships. Evil spirits are always seeking to divide you from others and keep you in hostility.
5. DOUBT
   This is one that entraps so many Christians. It’s an Unbelieving spirit causing you to doubt or question God’s Word and His Promises.
   The Bible says in HEBREWS 3:12 NKJV Beware brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.
   Doubt or Unbelief is also an evil spirit that can keep you from receiving revelation from God. It can be a generational spirit where a whole family is just bound with demons that are blinding them to the truth.
   Even the Bible says in ACTS 9:18 NKJV Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales and he received his sight at once.
6. DISBELIEF
   Disbelief is different to Doubt even though they are similar but differ in that Doubt is sometimes 50×50 or it believes but always questions whereas Disbelief has a stubborn, refusal to accept the truth.
   Many atheists have this spirit that has usually come from some disappointment in life or a refusal to accept moral judgments.
   Atheism is an implausible and illogical position because it makes no sense that the entire universe, earth and human being just accidentally happened without any intelligent design.
   A more sensible position would be to say ‘Who is this intelligent designer?’
   Well I can tell you who the intelligent designer is His name is Jesus.JOHN 1:1-3 NKJV
   
   1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
   2 He was in the beginning with God.
   3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
   14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.COLOSSIANS 1:15-16 NLT
   15 Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation,
   16 for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him.One word destroys an atheist’s argument and that word is ORDER. Order can’t come from chance there must be someone who creates the ORDER.
7. DISCONTENTMENT
   Takes away your peacemaking you compare yourself to others always thinking what you have is not good enough.
   Chronic or constant discontentment can lead to you being demonically afflicted where you are always critical, highly jealous, easily intimidated by what others have or do and just generally always miserable.
8. DISTRACTIONS
   Church listen to me on this one. If there is one thing that Satan is a master of it’s distractions. He knows how to hinder you from God. Even the Apostle Paul said in 1 THESSALONIANS 2:18 NKJV Therefore we wanted to come to you even I Paul time and again but Satan hindered us.In the Short term, distractions keep you always busy and away from God.
   In the Long-term the distance from God will eventually lead to poor decisions about your faith to ruin your destiny in God.
   Most of if not all of Satan’s tactics to distract you will be REALLY GOOD ONES they rarely come in the form of something bad.
9. DECEIVE
   Evil spirits attack your mind trying to convince you that God’s Word is not true. Satan did this with Jesus in the desert. Constantly questioning Him with ‘IF’.
   JAMES 1:16 NKJV Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren.1 TIMOTHY 4:1 NKJV Now the Holy Spirit tells us clearly that in the last times some will turn away from the true faith they will follow deceptive spirits and teachings that come from demons.
   Any message that is not Christ-centred and by that I mean central to the faith is the Cross of Christ. The death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ as the only means unto salvation then it’s nothing more than deception that has originated from demonic spirits.
10. DESTRUCTION
    Satan knows he cannot rob you of your salvation spiritually speaking but he can attack your soul and body.
    He knows he can hinder and immobilise you from serving the Lord by causing trauma to get you off track perhaps being accident prone.
    We see this in the Gospels when Jesus and His Disciples were on a boat in the Sea of Galilee and a huge storm out of no where came to destroy the boat.
    We know this because they would never have gotten into the boat if the storm was already happening right and where were they headed to the Region of the Gergesenes where the two demon possessed men were it was also the Region of the 7 Pagan Tribes that attacked Joshua.

Now tell me are all Christians immune from these things? Of course not!

The problem today is that Christians are being told it’s all psychological it’s all in the mind and most ministers have ceased teaching on the reality of spiritual warfare of curses and demon spirits.

And you know this has left many good Christian people in Churches frustrated and totally bound with problems that they are being told don’t worry in time it will all go away just pray harder, worship harder, and give more.

Now the truth is that many problems do originate from an UN-RENEWED MIND that requires your thinking to change however what we find in the Gospels is Jesus confronting many of these issues head-on by taking authority over evil spirits.

These 10 D’s I just read can be empowered by EVIL SPIRITS and the only solution is they must be EXPOSED and they need to be CAST-OUT.

You know after 25 years of ministry in this area of Healing and Deliverance and in particular, observing the nature and activity of demon spirits I have discerned that there are some demons that behave just like unruly children in a playground causing havoc but when the teacher comes by they go very quiet, passive and have the appearance that they are so well behaved so as not to draw attention. Why? Because they don’t want to be confronted, exposed and disciplined or in our case CAST-OUT.

You can be free from demoralising thinking in Jesus’ name.

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MATTHEW 8:16-17 NKJ “When evening had come, they brought to Him many who were demon-possessed. And He cast out the spirits with a word and healed all who were sick, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying: ‘He Himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses.”MATTHEW 8:16 NLT “That evening many demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus. He cast out the evil spirits with a simple command and he healed all the sick.”

MATTHEW 8:16-17 LIVING BIBLE “That evening several demon-possessed people were brought to Jesus and when he spoke a single word all the demons fled and all the sick were healed. This fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah ‘He took our sicknesses and bore our diseases.’”

MATTHEW 8:16 TPT “That evening the people brought to him many who were demonised. And by Jesus only speaking a word of healing over them they were totally set free from their torment and everyone who was sick received their healing!”

The Holy Spirit has shown me that with just a WORD the demonised today will be delivered and the sick will be healed.

One of the most distinguishing features of the Holy Bible is God providing DELIVERANCE for His people. DELIVERANCE means to be SET-FREE. It means to be taken from one place and released into another. DELIVERANCE means to be RESCUED.

In the Old Testament God delivered His people out of the bondage and slavery of Pharaoh in Egypt to the freedom of God’s Promised Land in Canaan. This was a physical DELIVERANCE which was led by Moses the deliverer.

God’s people were set free from bondage and freed from slavery.

In the New Testament God uniquely delivered His people out of the bondage of Satan to the freedom of a New Creation. This was a spiritual DELIVERANCE which was led by Jesus Christ.

Pharaoh in the Old Testament was a type and shadow of Satan in the New Testament both causing God’s people to be bound.

As we will see the DELIVERANCE is from spiritual bondage as it affects people physically through oppression, depression, sickness, mental torment, and addictions.

This teaching is to show you DELIVERANCE ACCORDING TO THE HOLY BIBLE specifically FREEDOM IN CHRIST as found in the New Testament.

I will preach and teach and give people an opportunity to respond by faith to be saved, healed, and delivered. I will do this with a simple Word that the Holy Spirit has given me for your deliverance.

The Bible is clear about the reality of spiritual warfare.

EPHESIANS 6:12 LIVING BIBLE “For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood but against persons without bodies the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and great evil princes of darkness who rule this world and against huge numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world.”

1 PETER 5:8 NKJ “Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.”

We are not given much information in the Bible of the origin of demons only that they exist, Jesus confronted them, rebuked them, and commanded that His Church cast them out of people.

EXTERNAL demonisation can be resisted personally.
INTERNAL DEMONISATION must be cast out by another person.

Demons are evil spirits which the Bible says come to torment people with three main objectives.
1. To keep you in sin and bound by a curse.
2. To keep you away from knowing Jesus Christ.
3. To keep you distracted from serving the Lord and His Church.

I want to stress that only through faith in the Cross of Jesus Christ can a person be DELIVERED from SIN, CURSES and DEMONISATION.

This teaching will be divided into 3 parts for the sake of time as we have multiple services today.

1. EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE DEMONISATION.
2. OPEN DOORS THAT LEAD TO DEMONISATION.
3. DELIVERANCE FROM DEMONISATION.

1. EVIDENCE OF POSSIBLE DEMONISATION.

DEPRESSION accompanied by mental and or emotional turmoil. This depression as with all the other evidences can also be generational that is affecting not only the individual but a parent, grandparent, sister, auntie etc in others. It’s seen in many members of the same family tree.

POVERTY that once again is rampant within the household and previous generations. An on-going insufficiency financially. Constant lack and no ownership of any property.

SICKNESS disease and infirmity which is unexplained and is usually always terminal. Something is in the bloodstream or DNA causes the same symptoms and illness to reoccur in the family tree. Science calls it hereditary the Bible calls it a generational curse.

ADDICTIONS which are always driven by a spirit of death to prematurely cut short the person’s life such as alcoholism, drug-taking, immorality, adultery, and divorce. It can also be evident in the family with multiple members struggling with addictions.

2. OPEN DOORS THAT LEAD TO DEMONISATION.

SIN is the OPEN DOOR for demonisation and is directly connected to Satan’s kingdom. Deal with the sin through repentance and Satan’s grip over your life is diminished.

1 JOHN 3:4 NKJ “Whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.”

1 JOHN 3:8 NKJ “He who sins is of the devil for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested that He might destroy the works of the devil.”

EPHESIANS 4:27 NKJ “Nor give place to the devil.”

OPEN DOORS that give Satan legal right to demonise.

1. PRE-NATAL ABUSE – Parents cursing, rejecting, drug-taking.
2. SINFUL ACTS AND HABITS – Addictions, being drunk or high, violence.
3. IDLE WORDS – Towards oneself or receiving from others.
4. FORNICATION – Sexual relations outside of marriage.
5. DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD’S WORD – Wilful or ignorantly.
6. FALSE WORSHIP – Seeking alternate ways to be spiritual.
7. OCCULT INVOLVEMENT – Tarot cards, astrology, clairvoyants, new age activities, witchcraft.

I want to add to that EPHESIANS 4:27 AMPLIFIED BIBLE “And do not give the devil an opportunity to lead you into sin by holding a grudge or nurturing anger or harbouring resentment or cultivating bitterness.”

Any UNFORGIVENESS which you keep in your heart will give Satan legal found to demonise you. It is essential that you FORGIVE and allow yourself to be purged from any bitterness.

HEBREWS 12:15 NKJ “Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.”

These open doors to sin have consequences which the Bible calls CURSES. Curses are invisible powers of evil that come to restrict, bind, and hinder any blessing of God from manifesting in your life.

Many people have described a curse as being constricted in life with nothing ever going right for them. The curse may have been present since childhood or after a certain involvement with a person or activity, things begin to go wrong.

Curses are usually accompanied with depression, confusion and constant resistance to ever being able to move forward in life. It just feels like invisible chains holding you back from the increase.

Curses are the consequences of disobedience to God’s Word. There are many sources of curses including God, disobedience, lawless living, negative words, a work of witchcraft and idolatry.

PROVERBS 26:2 NKJV “Like a flitting sparrow, like a flying swallow, So a curse without cause shall not alight.”

The Bible clearly outlines the curses that afflict people as a consequence to disobedience in the Book of Deuteronomy 28.

Here is a list of the 7 indications of a curse.

1. Mental and/or emotional breakdown.
2. Repeated or chronic sicknesses.
3. Barrenness a tendency to miscarry or related female problems.
4. Breakdown of marriage and family alienation.
5. Continual financial insufficiency.
6. Being accident-prone.
7. A history of suicides and unnatural or untimely deaths.

Curses must be repented, renounced and rescinded in the name of Jesus Christ before a person can be released from any curse. They just don’t go away on their own and the worst thing a person can do is to consult witchcraft or some other new age practitioner to have the curse removed…listen satan can not cast out satan only the Blood of Jesus Christ shed on Calvary’s Cross has the power to dissolve any curse.

3. DELIVERANCE FROM DEMONISATION.

LUKE 11:20 NKJ “But if I cast out demons with the finger of God surely the kingdom of God has come upon you.”

Deliverance is God’s Kingdom overthrowing Satan’s Kingdom in your life but first you have to make a choice which Kingdom you want to abide in. God’s or Satan’s.

1 THESSALONIANS 5:23 NKJ “Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely and may your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

When a person is BORN AGAIN their SPIRIT is filled with the Holy Spirit and can not be possessed by an evil spirit but a person’s SOUL (Mind, Will & Emotion), and BODY can be.

The Bible says in MARK 6:7 NKJ “And He called the twelve to Himself and began to send them out two by two and gave them power over unclean spirits.”

MARK 6:12-13 NKJ “So they went out and preached that people should repent. 13 And they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many who were sick, and healed them.”

LUKE 10:1 NKJ “After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also.”

LUKE 10:17 NKJ “Then the seventy returned with joy, saying ‘Lord even the demons are subject to us in Your name.’”

MARK 16:16-18 NKJ “He who believes and is baptised will be saved but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name, they will cast out demons they will speak with new tongues they will take up serpents and if they drink anything deadly it will by no means hurt them they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover.”

Prayers to pray…

SALVATION Lord Jesus Christ I believe that you are the Son of God. I repent of all of my sins. I renounce all lawlessness and rebellious living. Lord Jesus Christ come into my life. I want to be saved in Jesus’ name.

HEALING Lord Jesus Christ I believe that your Body was broken on the Cross for my sicknesses and by faith, I accept your healing power in my life today for by your stripes I am healed in Jesus’ name.

DELIVERANCE Lord Jesus Christ I believe that your Blood was shed on the Cross for my demonisation and by faith, I accept your delivering power in my life for the Blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin.

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MARK 7:25-28

Syro-Phoenician by birth and raised in a Greek family. Their religion was most likely pagan worship of false gods, idols, and the occult perhaps what we would call the New Age Movement today including astrology, clairvoyants. The little girl most likely was dedicated at a pagan ceremony.

These practices are forbidden in the Bible because they bring a curse over your life and your children.

DEUTERONOMY 18:9-14 and MESSAGE 9-12

When you enter the land that God, your God, is giving you, don’t take on the abominable ways of life of the nations there. Don’t you dare sacrifice your son or daughter in the fire. Don’t practice divination, sorcery, fortunetelling, witchery, casting spells, holding séances, or channeling with the dead. People who do these things are an abomination to God. It’s because of just such abominable practices that God, your God, is driving these nations out before you. 13-14 Be completely loyal to God, your God. These nations that you’re about to run out of the country consort with sorcerers and witches. But not you. God, your God, forbids it.

ACTS 10:38 “How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.”

When the woman asked for her daughter to be healed Jesus replied by saying that it was not good to give the ‘children’s bread’. What does ‘bread’ or ‘crumbs’ refer to? It refers to the HEALING she was asking for. The ‘bread’ was really himself that brings salvation, healing, and wholeness.

On the night of the PASSOVER, I believe the disciples understood what Jesus meant when He said…

MATTHEW 26:26-27 26 “And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” 27 Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. 28 For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.”

The disciples knew that Jesus wanted to impart into their lives health, strength, and wholeness. In fact, the BODY of JESUS was so anointed that even His clothing pulsated with power with people only having to touch the hem of His garment.

LUKE 6:19 “And the whole multitude sought to touch Him, for power went out from Him and healed them all.”

Partaking of COMMUNION today is partaking of the very health, wholeness, and salvation of Jesus Christ – DO YOU DISCERN THIS TRUTH?

The power of COMMUNION is released in discerning this truth.