LIST OF SCRIPTURES
Ezra 3:10-13; (Account of triumph and joy at
the destruction of idol worship
6:16-22 and renewed worship of God.)
Prov. 4:23 (Guard your heart - life flows from it.)
Matt. 12:35-36 (You are what flows out of you!)
Prov. 18:21 (Death and life are in your tongue - watch
it, man!)
Prov. 12:25 (Anxiety - heavy heart, encouragement,
good success.)
Phil. 4:8 help.) Joshua 1:8 (Formula for 4:8 (Think on
these things!) Col. you.)
Mark 11:23 3:16 (Let Christ's words live in (Have what
you believe and say.) conversation rightly; if
Psalm 50:23 (Order your you say with your lips "yea",
but in cancelled!)
II Tim. 3:2 your heart "nay", you just (Ungrateful is
high on the list of signs personal life. God told me:
of the end times in "Earline, have an 'attitude of of
gratitude'".)
WALLS BETWEEN PEOPLE
How can you help yourself and your family
members get and keep deliverance? After my
deliverance, I was praying and asking God what had
happened to the closeness our family always had. I saw
a large brick wall. This wall was constructed in such
an manner that it kept us from seeing each other and
understanding each other. Each of us had placed bricks
in the wall.
Because I had asked to understand, one
brick called "no understanding" had come out of the
wall. I saw names on all the other bricks facing me
and I realized these were the names of the things I
had done intentionally and unintentionally that had
placed invisible barriers between my family members
and myself. I repented for my part in building the
wall and prayed to obtain knowledge to remove the
other bricks I had put in the wall. As I began to
remove my bricks, the others began to remove theirs.
We found that, in trying to protect
ourselves from being hurt, we had placed invisible
barriers around ourselves and cut the other person off
from us. I have observed that some of ladies sit in
the deliverance meetings like knots on a log but up in
the ladies meeting they don't. Why do you act
differently in the large meetings when your husband
and children are present? Don't look so smug fellows
because I believe you are doing the same thing. We do
this because we are unable to feel the need of the
other family members and share their desire to be
free. We have become hateful, gotten behind our wall
and do not feel the pain nor desire they have to be
free, we're too centered on ourselves. Don't be like
the husband who told his wife during deliverance,
"You'll never overcome this one". Instead of beating
each other down, try helping.
You may need to spend time in prayer and
fasting to obtain the information you need to help. In
Isa. 58:3-6, vs. 6, (Rather,) is this not the fast I
have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo
the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free,
and that you break every (enslaving) yoke? See also
Acts 8:23. Study these scriptures and you will see
that bitterness enslaves those who give it, those to
whom it is aimed and then all those around them.
Bitterness is the result of rejection; if it is not
destroyed, rebellion will set in.
Parents, if you have rebellious children,
search out the place where you dealt them a deadly
blow of rejection and undo it. Parents need to know
that the demons are present at all times; they take
every occasion given them to lie to the children about
what you just said or did. If you tell your child by
word or action that you do not have time for him right
now, the demons will tell him you don't love him or
you would like it better if he was not around. As soon
as possible, talk with the child and explain why you
could not take time at just that moment, and give
quality time to him. I have found that children
understand if you will just take time to communicate
with them.
Just as the bitterness has enslaved all
of those around it, so all must be active in undoing
it's yoke. As we go through the teaching and the
deliverance, think about your family members, not just
yourself.
HOW DO YOU KEEP DEMONS OUT?
1. Begin to know your God. He is greater than
you think. Study your Bible and use what you have
learned. He keeps covenant with you.
2. As your understanding of God grows, your fear of
demons will lessen.
3. Know your rights. When demons come to seek entry
again, rebuke them in Jesus Christ's name.
Immediately, say that you have a few things to tell
them. A good place to start is the Lord's Supper, his
Death, Resurrection and Ascension. Remind them that it
was all done for you. They do not like to stay around
to hear of your salvation, etc. Talk out loud when
necessary.
4. Seek God to know where you may have given them the
right to attack; correct your thinking or actions.
REMEMBER, they want the right to try to reenter you.
They will try to get you to cooperate with them and
give them the right to reenter.
5. Continually rejoice that God loves you, Jesus did
all this for you and the Holy Spirit is willing to
live in you.
GENERAL
Sometimes to understand what something is, it
is good to know what it is not. Let's consult
Webster's Dictionary: Ingratitude - n.,
ungratefulness, lack of gratitude; adj., unthankful,
unmindful, thankless. And what it is: Gratitude - n.,
thanks, thankfulness, appreciation, indebtedness;
adj., to be beholding, indebted, in one's debt.
"Thanks", "thanksgiving" and "thankful"
are used 137 times in the Bible. If the ingredients of
gratitude were counted, it would include praise, joy,
rejoicing, etc. If all these were counted, the number
of times "gratitude" appears in its many forms would
be staggering.
My first encounter with God's "attitude
about gratitude" came one day when I was doing a
"duty" reading of the Bible. These verses, Deut.
28:47-48, seemed to jump out at me almost as though it
were being thrown at me. I read it over and over. The
Holy Spirit began to deal with me immediately. You
see, I had just been complaining about my house (it
was not big enough), my daughter (she was fighting and
beating up all the boys in the neighborhood), and my
husband (he wasn't giving me enough - you name it, I
didn't think he was doing enough). After all, it's a
little embarrassing to have your friends see that you
only have three bedrooms, your daughter whips all the
boys her age, and your husband suddenly has changed.
In II Cor. 10:5, we are told to bring all
our thoughts into subjection to Jesus Christ. This
means we have to control our thoughts. Isa. 55:8 tells
us that God's thoughts are not ours. As I saw my
thoughts as God looks at them, I didn't feel so holy
anymore. The truth was getting through. I was the one
failing, more so than them. But most of all, I failed
to be thankful to God for His blessings and
provisions. As I was so thinking, I remembered that
the Bible says I am the best reward Gene will have on
earth (Ecc. 9:9, Living Bible). Question: What kind of
reward are you, Earline? I was very grieved at my
answer for I had made his life a grief to him in the
past one and a half years.
Then, God reminded me that He supplieth
all my needs. Since I was not thankful for them, He
could remove all of them instantly. In my mind, I saw
Gene and Marie as gone. That was enough, I didn't even
get to possessions; I was much grieved. I repented as
fast as I saw my mistakes and was cleansed. Then I
began a study about gratitude to God. This is what I
found: I Chron. 16:4, The first account of God's
people (Levities) 7-11 appointed to give praise and
thanks to God continually. II Chron. 20:21 Shows
praises go before the people for victory & 22
against overwhelming odds. Acts 16:25 Says Paul and
Silas were delivered out of prison after they
continually sang praises to God.
Read these accounts for realization of
the value of gratitude to God: Deut. 28:47-48,
Amplified Bible, "Because you did not serve the Lord
your God with joyfulness of mind and heart in
gratitude for the abundance of all with which He both
blessed you, therefore, you shall serve your enemies
whom the Lord shall send against you, in hunger, in
thirst, in nakedness, and in the want of all things:
and He will put a yoke of iron upon your neck until He
has destroyed you."
See James 4:7-8 and Hab. 3:17-18. The
Devil does not flee from you because you have not
submitted yourself to God. You should rejoice in your
salvation even if all else fails.
It is very important to serve the Lord
with joy; joy being a large part of gratitude: Eph.
5:20, Amplified Bible, "At all times and for
everything giving thanks in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ to God the Father." I Thes. 5:18, "Thank God in
everything no matter what the circumstances may be, be
thankful and give thanks; for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus concerning you." Here thankfulness is
emphasized by its double usage. Many times the
entrance of demon activity may come about by so small
a thing as ungratefulness. It was so for me.
Study these examples: Deut. 1:26-28, vs.
26 - brought rebellion against God; vs. 27 -
punishment, discontentment with God, lying to self;
and vs. 28 - cringing fear, ineptness, fear of
failure. Romans 1:19-32; vs. 27 - knowing God yet not
honoring or glorifying Him or giving thanks becomes
futile, godless, vain, foolish, stupid; vs. 22 -
claiming wisdom but becoming fools and simpletons; vs.
23 - worshipping demons; vs. 24 - God gave them up;
and vs. 24- 32 - a listing which is shocking in its
reality of what happens to people who have known and
recognized God but do not truly obey and have
gratitude towards God.
In this account in Romans, we are treated
to an example of how the Devil gradually draws us away
from God until we reach a point where God gives us up.
I have witnessed this in many Christian lives and
Spirit-filled Christians as well. This trick or wile
of the Devil is called gradualism. It is used on us in
our spiritual life as well as our political and
financial life. We have lost much of our personal
freedom and purchasing power, not to mention our
spiritual power by just this trick.
Joy, praise, gladness, thankfulness and
reverence for God are all a part of gratitude. As soon
as I began to be grateful in my mind and heart for all
God's goodness to me, I felt joy, peace, praise,
gladness, reverence and honor for God spring up inside
of me. I began to look at each problem I faced with
excitement. It's such an opportunity to watch God
work. You will never escape the fact that you are in
charge of your attitudes. Attitudes reside in the
mind. You are in charge of that mind in your head (II
Cor. 10:5). The way you allow your mind to think will
eventually become YOU (Matt. 12:35-37)!
LIST OF DEMONS TO CAST OUT IN THE
NAME OF JESUS you may recognize. They are
partners with ingratitude. These are Godward
(repentance is an absolute necessity):
INGRATITUDE TO GOD, DISHONOR OF GOD,
REJECTION OF GOD & HIS DEALINGS WITH YOU,
THANKLESSNESS, HATRED TOWARDS GOD, ANGER TOWARDS GOD,
THESE ARE TOWARDS OTHERS (THESE NEED
REPENTANCE ALSO):