YOU HAVE DOMINION OVER SATAN AND EVIL SPIRITS
PART 2
Seven steps of Satan’s destructive plan.
Regression, repression, suppression depression, oppression, obsession, possession.
1. Regression
Regression is the first step of the devil’s attacks. It is a battle against a person’s God given abilities of release and expression.
To regress in human personality is to go backward in spiritual force and power.
We are created for progress, advancement and understanding. When this goes into reverse, it is the first warning that negative powers are evident.
The devil then adds heavier bonds until the victim is helplessly bound by complete possession.
Only then can a fearless servant of God break the bonds and set the person free by the power and authority of God.
We must know these signs about demon power and understand them before we can combat the devil and be victorious.
2. Repression
God desires expression from us. Anyone who represses that function is doing the work of the devil.
One who represses is to destroy the natural expression God gave us at birth. A repressed personality takes away the joy and gladness of life.
God did not create human lives to be restrained by an abnormal environment.
The second step toward demon possession is often found in churches and religions.
Some people go to church and never experience the joy of salvation. They walk into the church, sit down and when the meeting is over, they leave. They have done their duty for another week.
Many church members go to church as though it were a funeral parlor. If God did manifest himself in any way it would scare them to death.
It is the devil that makes people act like this. Satan wants to steal all the joy and happiness from every human.
3. Suppression
Suppress means to abnormally crush as to suppress information.
Satan is very smart on suppression. It represents another step toward deterioration of emotions, and the destruction of complete personal happiness.
When feelings are not expressed, they are suppressed or held back. Let us realize that the devil causes suppression of the spiritual life.
Suppressed people are not energetic about anything, even disinterested in what goes on around them.
4. Depression
It is very sad that a great number of people in America today are so depressed.
Depression is a broken spirit, a person who is so pressed down until their spirit is crushed.
God does not want anyone depressed and sad. The devil takes advantage of those people and moves in with conflict and confusion. That will destroy their happiness, their home, their business and maybe even their lives through suicide.
Depression can reach a point in a person’s life to where they have lost all hope.
This is where people see no need in even trying any longer. This is a big step toward complete satanic control of a person.
God does not depress mankind; the devil is the depressor of human life.
5. Oppression
The fifth stage is one through which the devil drags a person down to destroy and possess him. This is oppression.
Acts 10:37-38 37 That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
To oppress someone is to weigh him down with something he is not able to carry.
Millions of people are oppressed with every kind of bug and disease. I believe it is natural to be healthy, and un-natural to be unhealthy.
Disease is one of the devils tools. Some worry about going out of their minds and that is what the devil wants them to think about.
But Gods word says Satan is a liar and the father of lies.
John 8:43-45 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
Satan wants to torment people, he wants to hurt them, he wants to mock and laugh at God while he does it.
But Gods people do not have to suffer this terrible fear. One of the great blessings of Christianity is a strong mind that is capable of rejecting the unreasonable demand of fear.
Romans 8:14-15 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
Fear is bondage. Bondage is not of God. Fear is a spirit and Satan loves to use it against us.
2 Timothy 1:7 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Satan wants to burden you with a feeling that all your trouble and misfortune is punishment from God for some great sin you committed.
All of these fall into the category of demonic oppression. Oppression can be overcome by exercising your Christian dominion and authority over the devils’ power.
You do this by faith, prayer and action. Ask God to give you divine power in your life to strengthen your inner being.
6. Obsession
A negative obsession always destroys the human personality…totally…
At this stage of demonic domination, it is doubtful that the person hurt by Satan can be delivered without the assistance of a strong spirit filled believer.
At this stage of obsession outside help is necessary. The reason is that obsession changes the mind. Black becomes white and white becomes black.
A straight thing is now crooked and a lie becomes the truth.
The loss of perspective causes the person to be out of step with everybody else around him or her. They don’t realize that their obsessed with some kind of wicked thing.
So, what is obsession? By definition it is an act of an evil spirit in causing a person or impelling him or her to an unreasonable action. It usually has no relationship with reality.
Obsession can come through as jealousy, hatred, sin and many other avenues, to invade a human’s personality.
An obsessed person eventually has no willpower. He or she has no strength to resist and they become as a slave.
Their mind gets on one track and it is impossible to change their thinking.
Only the divine power and the name of Jesus Christ and the deliverance of the prayer of faith can set them free.
Obsession can and will lead to possession.
7. Possession
Possession is an area where extreme caution is necessary. The step from obsession to possession is a big step.
The devil would like to push every obsessed person fully and finally into his clutches of full possession.
Up to this stage a person is not totally demon possessed.
A demon possessed person is under total complete jurisdiction of the devil.
At this point he has no mind or control of his own. Satan is not just the master of all that persons thinking and doing. He has full control of that life.
The person has no spirit to reach out for God. No soul to pray for help. He is helpless in the hands of a diabolical monster.
A demon possessed person can not look at a born again Christian and people that are sold out to God, he can not hold up his head to you, for the devil will not allow it.
So the first stages of demon possession often result from the association with others already under the devils control.
This problem can be made free by the anointing power of God through prayer, fasting and the name of Jesus.
The Holy Spirit can resolve all problems. The church is commissioned to cast out devils. We must fulfill this commission.
The same power in Jesus who set the captives free two thousand years ago can set them free today.
Can a Christian have a demon?
Depends!
The bible teaches very strongly about the security of the believer. No devil ever wanted to get inside Paul. They wanted to run as far away from him as they could.
Nowhere does the bible tell anyone to be afraid of the devil.
James 4:7 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
We have a right to make him run. When we start playing in his territory we are in danger. So stay out of the devils territory.
When a Christian goes into the devils territory, unless intending to do battle and rescue a lost soul, that Christian becomes vulnerable to whatever satan offers. Even to being invaded by evil spirits.
When you play with sin, you can cancel the covering of the blood that keeps you safe. It gives permission to Satan to do as he pleases.
There are lots of evil spirits. Anger without restraint, can be a real danger of entrance of a spirit of anger.
Ephesians 4:26-27 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
27 Neither give place to the devil.
Adultery is a spirit. Don’t let the grip of the spirit of adultery enter into your life or mind.
Proverbs 6:32 32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Only a prayer of deliverance can set you free, because demons can pass from one person to another, in and through the act of adultery.
There are all sorts of demon spirits. There are too many to put into this lesson. Some are jealous spirits, blasphemy, lying spirits, all these evil spirits must be cast out before people can be totally free.
So, what is a Christian?
A Christian is a person that has asked God to forgive them for their sins, accepted His son Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and believes that he died to redeem you by the shedding of his blood as a sacrifice, was resurrected and is sitting at the right hand of the Father making intersession for you.
John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Taking authority over demons
Every Christians right by the blood and the name of Jesus, is to have dominion over Satan and his evil spirits.
A Christian is one who exercises dominion, knows how to appropriate the fullness of Gods provision. He lives a victorious life above and beyond fear, superstition and evil curses. He or she is forceful in Christ. They are warriors.
When Jesus answered Satan during the great temptations, He declared “it is written”.
It is written is the way we defeat the devil.
Luke 10:19 19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Man has never fully taken advantage of the true power of faith. God still waits for some heroes of faith to use the divine dominion he gave in the Garden of Eden.
Another instrument of dominion is action. God does not give power to the inactive. Jesus said, he that believeth on me, these works that I do shall he or she also do.
It is not enough to know Gods will you must do it.
