In Your Bible
Read This
Revelation 12, 7-12; Daniel 10
Here Is Your
Memory Verse
They overcame him by the blood of
the Lamb, and by the word
of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much
as to shrink from death. Revelation 12.11.
Afterwards Talk
About This
Look at the characteristics of the thief and tell each other how
you have
seen each of these in life and society. Finish by thanking God
that he has delivered you.
Something
To Do Before Next Time
Organise a special time of prayer
with experienced pastors and prayer
warriors and asking for the help of the Holy Spirit; to receive
ministry that
will ensure that you are free from the grip of Poneria.
Written Diploma
Work
Write a page to identify what is
the dominating territorial spirit over
your city, and describe his manifestation in the life of the
population.
Meditate Word By
Word On This Verse
Colossians 1.13
- Spend
a Minute to Change the World
- Pray For
Ireland - 4,000,000 Celtic people
- 92% Catholic,
Protestants in decline, major missionary sending nation
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Be sure to
teach this lesson to others.
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Always pray
and prepare well adding
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your own verses and stories to
bring it to life.
Two Kingdoms
And Two Plans
The Bible clearly teaches the
existence of two kingdoms and two rulers. The kingdom of God is
the realm of Gods authority and government, and its
entire nature is good. The other kingdom is ruled by Satan and
his forces of darkness whose nature is uncompromisingly evil. Gods
kingdom is a place of blessing as seen, for example, in Jeremiah
29.10-14:
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I will come to you to fulfil
my gracious promise, verse 10.
I have plans to prosper you
and not to harm you, verse 11.
My plans will give you a hope
and a future, verse 11
I will listen to you, be
found by you.
I will bring you back from
captivity. Verses 12, and 14
But the thief only comes to steal,
kill and destroy,John 10.10. Satans kingdom is:
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A kingdom of doubt, unbelief,
confusion, despair, depression, rejection; diversion,
temptation, enticing and defiling; deception, lying,
accusing and robbery; dominance, control, rebellion,
false worship, occult and enslaving; destruction, murder,
devouring, torment, fear and division. All these are
Bible descriptions.
The Invisible Opposition
It is the job of the Church having
been rescued, Colossians 1.13,14, to then submit to God, and
resist the devil through militant, intelligent spiritual warfare.
War With A
Warning
This is better done by the church,
or by groups of dedicated intercessors than by individual
believers. James 4.7; Romans 12.21; 1 Peter 5.9. This subject and
this lesson is full of scholarly controversy and more than a
little speculation, but we will make an attempt from Ephesians 6.12
to identify three levels of enemy forces and suggest some
appropriate responses.
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World rulers in a
general, universal sense.
Territorial spirits-the
spiritual powers behind nations.
Hosts of spiritual powers
assigned personally against groups and individuals.
Well known scholar Dr. Peter
Wagner, discerns ground level evil - typically what was happening
in Samaria, Acts 8.7; occult level evil - typically Simon the
Sorcerer, or Elymas, Acts 8.9; 13.6, and strategic level evil -
such as Artemis of Ephesus, the divine majesty, Acts 19.27
Overcoming Invisible World Rulers
The word is Kosmokrator, a world
lord, (Vines) or powers of this dark age, (NIV). A world lord
grips whole populations in huge spiritual deceit. 'Kosmokrators'
may promote the anti-Christ spirit of Islam, or
materialism, Hinduism, Buddhism and New Age. The chief world
ruler is Satan himself, the strong man of Luke 11.21, and he is
the model for all the lower ranks.
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Decisions Are Spiritual
Warfare
In Matthew 4, 1-11, Jesus
overcame Satan by the spiritual warfare of uncompromising
decisions.
He refused the temptations to
use his power to bless himself, and chose self-denial and
sacrifice, 3,4.
He refused presumption mixed
with human/satanic wisdom, and chose to act in a way that
would bring honour to his Father, 5-7.
He refused to take a short-cut
past the Cross of Calvary and chose the will of God
including suffering, to redeem others, 8-10.
The devil went away and was
finally defeated at the Cross by the same weaponry of
uncompromising decisions.
Overcoming Arche And Exousia
These are the rulers and
authorities of Ephesians 6.12, (NIV). They are the controlling
prince-ipalities, powers and rulers over nations, regions and
cities.
For example the unclean spirit
of Amsterdam. Japan's principality promotes
worship of the sun. One of San Francisco's spirits is homosex-uality.
Spain has an age old spirit of religion,
confusion and division. In Africa the spirit of
witchcraft is linked with a spirit of grinding
poverty. Job 38,7; Rev 12, 7-9,4; Gen., 1-7; 6,1-6; 11,1-9;
10.5; Deut 32.8; Psalm 82; Daniel 10.13, 20
Daniel 10 gives us
considerable revelation about the fight with principalities
and powers and how constant prayer brings the necessary
revelation and angelic help.
Overcoming The Evil Against You
Jesus resisted evil in society and
he also often cast unclean spirits out of individuals with
unreasonable behaviour. The Bible word is 'Poneria,' the
spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (NIV) Paul in
Ephesians 6,10-14 also tells us a sure way to gaining and keeping
our victory:
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Be strong in the Lord and in
his mighty power.
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Actually wear Gods
armour, for example actually speak truth which defends
you and offends the devil.
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Resist the devil.
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Pray in the Holy Spirit
Prayer in the name and authority
of Jesus will break all Poneria evil power, but the
battle will be shorter and easier if the oppressed person will do
the following:
Recognise that the
cause is spiritual.
Repent of sins, turning
away from them with God's help, and choosing to follow Jesus
as Saviour and Lord.
Receive forgiveness in
Jesus name and forgive everyone that has sinned, abused
and hurt you in Jesus name.
Renounce Satan and all
of his works.
Then remind Satan of
Christs blood and his defeat by Jesus on the Cross.
Then you rebuke every
evil spirit, command every demon to go and every curse be
broken in Jesus name.
Lay hands on the person to
refill their life with the Holy Spirit. Ask them to
praise Jesus, and live in the Spirit and Gods word.
Taken from the
Joshua Project Unreached Peoples List
these people have no church and as yet
no cell, church or mission has committed themselves
to prayer, adoption or church planting among this people.
Thailand
|
People Name |
Language |
Population
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Nyong |
Yong |
12,000
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