THIS MEANS WAR-DON'T LET THE DEVIL PICK YOU OFF-LEARN HOW TO DEFEND YOUR HEALTH-PART 1-WE’RE IN A SPIRITUAL WAR
Ephesians 6:10-12 (KJV)
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
I have believed for the last year or two that Satan is on an all-out attack against Christians. He is coming at them with deadly diseases. He is especially after those who are making strides in the Kingdom. He is trying to pick people off. His batting average is pretty good because Christians don’t know how to defend their healing. You can win thousands of souls and still be picked off by the devil if you do not understand Divine Healing. There is no time to waste! The time to prepare is now. You have to learn to heal a cold before you can heal Cancer in the name of Jesus. Why do people learn Tae Kwon Do or Karate, etc. to defend themselves. Shouldn’t we learn how to defend our health?
Those of you who know my testimony know that I spent Ten Years in Hell where I was in constant pain and God graciously opened up the Promises and Principle of Divine Healing, so I could teach others. Part of my testimony was that the Devil tried to kill me four times. As I was preparing to teach this, the Lord spoke to my heart and said there was a fifth time. I will get to that later.
The first attack took place in November of 1977. I had come back from an early class and had a break before my next one. My roommate John wasn’t there. I was all alone. I got up on my top bunk. I lived at the far end of the fourth floor of the Men’s Dorm. I was just sitting there thinking and relaxing; fully awake when I felt this cold evil presence come into the room. I was petrified and paralyzed with fear. I never say anything but something very strong grabbed my hands and turned them towards me and was beginning to press them toward me to choke me to death. I finally blurted out; I can still remember “Rebuke you in the Name of Jesus.” I couldn’t get out the first word I, but it didn’t’ matter. It was gone.
Years later, as I reflected on this, I thought what would have happened if the devil would have been successful and killed me. If I wouldn’t have rebuked him he would have.
I can just see the headlines now. “Man chokes himself to death.” The perpetrator and the victim were one in the same=News at 10. It certainly wouldn’t’ have been good press for the school.
The second attack on my life and those with me was during a winter storm and the roads were very icy. I don’t remember what we were going to do if it was to get something to eat or what. Roger was driving, and his wife Mary Jo was in the front passenger seat. I was in the back seat. There was basically no traffic. This was in downtown Minneapolis. Then one of those giant city snowplows came across and Roger, who was an excellent driver, try as he may couldn’t stop because of the icy conditions.
The driver of the snow plow was at fault. Roger’s car needed repairs, but we were all right. The driver said that he didn’t really expect to see anybody out and spaced the light out and went through it. I think he had been up all night.
He said he saw us and was going to pull the lever to raise the front plow. He thought he could get it up and we would have cleared it and there wouldn’t have been a collision. He went on to say that something stopped him and if he didn’t get it up high enough it wouldn’t have been good. At the time, it didn’t really register, I was just glade we were all alright.
I hadn’t thought about that day it probably over thirty years. Then I was working out at the local YMCA. It was some 35 years later and just out of the blue, I had this quickening to my spirit and I say in my mind that seen again. The Lord spoke to my heart and said remember when that driver of the snow plow was going to putt that lever to life the front plow, I sent an angel to stop him. That’s why he couldn’t do it. If he would have followed through all of you would have been decapitated. So, Satan was trying to take me and my friends out with one swipe.
During this ten-year period, there were two other attempts on my life by the enemy.
The third attack came in the fall of 2011. I had a demon manifest. I was sitting in the living room and could hardly move. Then this old guy who looked like he had just escaped from a mental hospital appeared and kept saying, “I am going to take you to hell with me.” This was one of the worst periods of pain and fatigue and sickness of all.
I tried to call out to my family who were in the bedroom “help” and all that came out was a whisper. I finally mustered up the energy and strength and rebuked the demon in the name of Jesus. He left right away. I asked my family members, but they hadn’t heard anything.
The fourth attack came in May of 2014. I was delivering Pizza for Dominos. I came around the corner of a highway. I can still remember it as if it were yesterday. The road was straight then. All sudden, this white car coming in my direction starting rapidly coming over into my lane. He was to my left still. Logically, you always go right towards the ditch and try to go around him. The Lord spoke to me and said swerve to the left and you will miss him.
Now if this wasn’t the Lord and I did this, and he corrected himself back into his lane we would have hit head on. I hate to admit this, but I was so worn out from the years of this trial I thought about not doing that. I decided to obey the Lord’s leading and swerved and missed him. Our eyes met, I do believe it was the same demon who was in my living room. It sure looked like him. I am grateful for God’s mercy.
I was thinking about these four attacks by the enemy on me. They just came into my mind. I don’t think about these a lot; I am focused on other things that God is doing in my life’ knowing him better and what he wants me to teach others. So, I may not think about these attacks for weeks and months at a time. Then the Holy Spirit quickened to me that these attacks on me were because of Spiritual Warfare and that the devil was trying to pick me off.
As I was thinking about them; the Lord spoke clearly to me that there was a fifth attack on my life. I was aware of this incident but had just chalked it up to bad human behavior. Then I remembered that the snow plow incident I had just thought of that as a natural occurrence only because of bad weather until God revealed to me that it was an attack on my very life.
The fifth attack took place in May 2011, I had just been healed, for the first time in April 2011. Again, I had three collapses and subsequent healings before I was strong enough to defeat the enemy and walk in Divine Healing and Health in the Name of Jesus. So, this was a month after I was first healed and a month before my first collapse which took place in June 2011. I was working my job at Dominos Pizza. Let me say this. I am sure there are some who think so that is what you did; worked managing and delivering at Dominos Pizza. It is. I used to feel like a major underachiever; which I was. I have worked there for 22 years. This was my back side of the dessert experience; where God took me through the humbling and painful and joyous rebuilding me as a naturally minded with no confidence and a list of failure into a man who went 10 years in hell and was forced to sink or swim. I choose to not quit, and swim and he made me and is making me into a man of faith who can heal the sick, etc. I would never want to go through that again, but I am sure glad I did.
Anyway, the fifth attack, ironically took place at almost the exact spot where I would meet that car three years later that tried to hit me head on. I was delivering a pizza to a local resort. I went around the bend and there were four college age guys in this nice Volvo car. They had slowed down and waved for me to pass them. I thought maybe they were having car trouble or were going to turn around or something. So, I went to go around them. As I did they sped up. They would speed up and slow down, so I was unable to pass them or get behind them. I guess they thought this was funny. This was a two-land highway. Then to my horror as we turned another corner, I noticed a car coming towards me and would soon hit me head on. I thought they would end this and just speed off. This wasn’t a game to them; they just kept doing the same thing. They were willing to cause a head-on collision at highway speeds.
Then something came into my mind. I now believe it was God who put it in there. I remember seeing a similar scene in a TV show and I did what they did. I kicked the pedal to the medal as they say and exaggerated my body movement forward and they gunned it too and as soon as they gunned it; I stepped on the brake as hard as I could; fooling them and was able to move to the right just behind them and the oncoming car came through. Guess what they did? They high tailed at about 100 mph; to flee the scene and looking back probably so I wouldn’t be able to get their license plate number.
After the attack at North Central by the demon who tried to kill me when I would think back on that over the years I would think this. Why would the devil waste his time trying to kill a loser like me? That is how I thought of myself and to a large degree that is how I lived my life.
So, why was the devil trying to kill me??? Now I know why! It’s not because I am anything special or more important than any other person, it was the message God had given me. He had called me to teach the Church how the Promises of God Work when it comes to Divine Healing. He also showed me how we can access the Power of the Holy Spirit.
Please join me for part 2 and three as I talk about what’s at stake and how do you defend your healing
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil.
12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.
I have believed for the last year or two that Satan is on an all-out attack against Christians. He is coming at them with deadly diseases. He is especially after those who are making strides in the Kingdom. He is trying to pick people off. His batting average is pretty good because Christians don’t know how to defend their healing. You can win thousands of souls and still be picked off by the devil if you do not understand Divine Healing. There is no time to waste! The time to prepare is now. You have to learn to heal a cold before you can heal Cancer in the name of Jesus. Why do people learn Tae Kwon Do or Karate, etc. to defend themselves. Shouldn’t we learn how to defend our health?
Those of you who know my testimony know that I spent Ten Years in Hell where I was in constant pain and God graciously opened up the Promises and Principle of Divine Healing, so I could teach others. Part of my testimony was that the Devil tried to kill me four times. As I was preparing to teach this, the Lord spoke to my heart and said there was a fifth time. I will get to that later.
The first attack took place in November of 1977. I had come back from an early class and had a break before my next one. My roommate John wasn’t there. I was all alone. I got up on my top bunk. I lived at the far end of the fourth floor of the Men’s Dorm. I was just sitting there thinking and relaxing; fully awake when I felt this cold evil presence come into the room. I was petrified and paralyzed with fear. I never say anything but something very strong grabbed my hands and turned them towards me and was beginning to press them toward me to choke me to death. I finally blurted out; I can still remember “Rebuke you in the Name of Jesus.” I couldn’t get out the first word I, but it didn’t’ matter. It was gone.
Years later, as I reflected on this, I thought what would have happened if the devil would have been successful and killed me. If I wouldn’t have rebuked him he would have.
I can just see the headlines now. “Man chokes himself to death.” The perpetrator and the victim were one in the same=News at 10. It certainly wouldn’t’ have been good press for the school.
The second attack on my life and those with me was during a winter storm and the roads were very icy. I don’t remember what we were going to do if it was to get something to eat or what. Roger was driving, and his wife Mary Jo was in the front passenger seat. I was in the back seat. There was basically no traffic. This was in downtown Minneapolis. Then one of those giant city snowplows came across and Roger, who was an excellent driver, try as he may couldn’t stop because of the icy conditions.
The driver of the snow plow was at fault. Roger’s car needed repairs, but we were all right. The driver said that he didn’t really expect to see anybody out and spaced the light out and went through it. I think he had been up all night.
He said he saw us and was going to pull the lever to raise the front plow. He thought he could get it up and we would have cleared it and there wouldn’t have been a collision. He went on to say that something stopped him and if he didn’t get it up high enough it wouldn’t have been good. At the time, it didn’t really register, I was just glade we were all alright.
I hadn’t thought about that day it probably over thirty years. Then I was working out at the local YMCA. It was some 35 years later and just out of the blue, I had this quickening to my spirit and I say in my mind that seen again. The Lord spoke to my heart and said remember when that driver of the snow plow was going to putt that lever to life the front plow, I sent an angel to stop him. That’s why he couldn’t do it. If he would have followed through all of you would have been decapitated. So, Satan was trying to take me and my friends out with one swipe.
During this ten-year period, there were two other attempts on my life by the enemy.
The third attack came in the fall of 2011. I had a demon manifest. I was sitting in the living room and could hardly move. Then this old guy who looked like he had just escaped from a mental hospital appeared and kept saying, “I am going to take you to hell with me.” This was one of the worst periods of pain and fatigue and sickness of all.
I tried to call out to my family who were in the bedroom “help” and all that came out was a whisper. I finally mustered up the energy and strength and rebuked the demon in the name of Jesus. He left right away. I asked my family members, but they hadn’t heard anything.
The fourth attack came in May of 2014. I was delivering Pizza for Dominos. I came around the corner of a highway. I can still remember it as if it were yesterday. The road was straight then. All sudden, this white car coming in my direction starting rapidly coming over into my lane. He was to my left still. Logically, you always go right towards the ditch and try to go around him. The Lord spoke to me and said swerve to the left and you will miss him.
Now if this wasn’t the Lord and I did this, and he corrected himself back into his lane we would have hit head on. I hate to admit this, but I was so worn out from the years of this trial I thought about not doing that. I decided to obey the Lord’s leading and swerved and missed him. Our eyes met, I do believe it was the same demon who was in my living room. It sure looked like him. I am grateful for God’s mercy.
I was thinking about these four attacks by the enemy on me. They just came into my mind. I don’t think about these a lot; I am focused on other things that God is doing in my life’ knowing him better and what he wants me to teach others. So, I may not think about these attacks for weeks and months at a time. Then the Holy Spirit quickened to me that these attacks on me were because of Spiritual Warfare and that the devil was trying to pick me off.
As I was thinking about them; the Lord spoke clearly to me that there was a fifth attack on my life. I was aware of this incident but had just chalked it up to bad human behavior. Then I remembered that the snow plow incident I had just thought of that as a natural occurrence only because of bad weather until God revealed to me that it was an attack on my very life.
The fifth attack took place in May 2011, I had just been healed, for the first time in April 2011. Again, I had three collapses and subsequent healings before I was strong enough to defeat the enemy and walk in Divine Healing and Health in the Name of Jesus. So, this was a month after I was first healed and a month before my first collapse which took place in June 2011. I was working my job at Dominos Pizza. Let me say this. I am sure there are some who think so that is what you did; worked managing and delivering at Dominos Pizza. It is. I used to feel like a major underachiever; which I was. I have worked there for 22 years. This was my back side of the dessert experience; where God took me through the humbling and painful and joyous rebuilding me as a naturally minded with no confidence and a list of failure into a man who went 10 years in hell and was forced to sink or swim. I choose to not quit, and swim and he made me and is making me into a man of faith who can heal the sick, etc. I would never want to go through that again, but I am sure glad I did.
Anyway, the fifth attack, ironically took place at almost the exact spot where I would meet that car three years later that tried to hit me head on. I was delivering a pizza to a local resort. I went around the bend and there were four college age guys in this nice Volvo car. They had slowed down and waved for me to pass them. I thought maybe they were having car trouble or were going to turn around or something. So, I went to go around them. As I did they sped up. They would speed up and slow down, so I was unable to pass them or get behind them. I guess they thought this was funny. This was a two-land highway. Then to my horror as we turned another corner, I noticed a car coming towards me and would soon hit me head on. I thought they would end this and just speed off. This wasn’t a game to them; they just kept doing the same thing. They were willing to cause a head-on collision at highway speeds.
Then something came into my mind. I now believe it was God who put it in there. I remember seeing a similar scene in a TV show and I did what they did. I kicked the pedal to the medal as they say and exaggerated my body movement forward and they gunned it too and as soon as they gunned it; I stepped on the brake as hard as I could; fooling them and was able to move to the right just behind them and the oncoming car came through. Guess what they did? They high tailed at about 100 mph; to flee the scene and looking back probably so I wouldn’t be able to get their license plate number.
After the attack at North Central by the demon who tried to kill me when I would think back on that over the years I would think this. Why would the devil waste his time trying to kill a loser like me? That is how I thought of myself and to a large degree that is how I lived my life.
So, why was the devil trying to kill me??? Now I know why! It’s not because I am anything special or more important than any other person, it was the message God had given me. He had called me to teach the Church how the Promises of God Work when it comes to Divine Healing. He also showed me how we can access the Power of the Holy Spirit.
Please join me for part 2 and three as I talk about what’s at stake and how do you defend your healing