DELIVERANCE

In my country there is something called a spirit of heaviness. Not to be mixed up with a suicide spirit. Nor a spirit of depression. What it does, is roams and while a person sleeps it lies down on them pressing them down. The victim feels like it is impossible to move or cry out for help. Immobilised and helpless. 

The solution is simple. Identify when it is coming. It usually has an atmosphere of fear around it. I became very sensitive to its presence after falling victim to it a number of times. As I learnt more about the victory I have in Christ, I learnt to ignore it. 

Not give it power over me. Often times I would feel it by my windows looking in at me. That is when I would turn my back to it and close my eyes and pray. I am not saying ignore it, I am saying deal with it. But not in fear. We should fear nothing and no one but God.

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. Matthew 10:28

Life throws many tough situations at us. Sometimes, we face things we did not think we would have to. Many times we deal with situations we do not understand. We may not know the cause of the situation. 

I have learnt that it is best to get to the root of the problem. I have learnt that to deal with something I have to stop it from happening again. Be honest and call it by the name. You do not have to be politically correct in prayer. Here are some steps that may help:

• Keep asking why until you reach the root of the problem
• Pray and call it by name, call out the root problem by name. Rebuke it in Jesus name
• Ask God to give you wisdom and understanding in dealing with it
• Observe the environment that allowed it to happen e.g. I would feel the fear in the atmosphere when the spirit was near
• Do not be fearful, instead lay it at God's feet, believe that God is bigger. Expect to see God handle it.
• Cut off everything that the problem feeds on to get bigger, do not allow it to grow or escalate

Every time you see the symptoms starting to come together for the situation to re-occur stop it. It will try to come back like a reoccurring nightmare. Do not give it room. We learn from the parables.

When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walks through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.

Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.

Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. Matthew 12:43-45

It will leave and come back. You have to recognise it when it is coming. Trust God and rebuke it again in Jesus name. Every time it tries to come back cut it off. Most importantly when you clean it out of your life, fill the space with Jesus.

I pray you put Jesus in every part of your life. I pray you have courage to face your enemies in Jesus name. 

If you have not accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour you may say this prayer;

Dear Heavenly Father,

I ask you to forgive my sins in knowledge or ignorance. Please forgive me. I accept Jesus as my Saviour. I ask that Jesus comes into my life as I live to be a witness for Him. Please change my life and make me into the person you want me to be, in Jesus name I pray. Thank you.