Overcoming Demonic Harassment I

Friday 20 March
READ: Matt.10:1-8
MORE LESSON: Mark 5: 1-8

In order to be free from demonic harassment, we need to understand who demons are and how they operate. Apostle Paul warned that the devil will take advantage of us if we are ignorant of his devices (2Cor.2:11). It is pertinent that believers understand who demons are, and how they operate in and around men's lives.

Demons are spirit beings. You may recall that Apostle Paul said in Eph.6: 12: We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Demons are wicked spirits. Although demons can dwell in anything - animate and inanimate, human beings are their ultimate targets if they are able to gain access. Their goal is to de-humanize the life they control, reduce the life and destiny of such individual to a sub-human being. That is why in scriptures demons are also regarded as unclean spirits. Have you wondered why during prayers of deliverance a human being begins to wriggle and move like a snake, crawl like a cat or bark like a dog? That is a demon whose mission is to reduce the destiny of that life to that of an animal whose characteristics are manifested at deliverance. Demons are wicked and must not be allowed to take over any life.

Jesus gave ample time of His ministry casting out demons:
And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them: Matt. 4:23-24.

Jesus also gave His disciples power and authority to cast out demons. And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease: Matt. 10:1. As wicked as demons are, they are subject to the believer at the name of Jesus. Therefore, do not fear or beg demons; they are to be cast out. You are ...to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath spoken: Deut. 6:19.

Prayer/Action
* I take authority over every unclean spirit operating in and around your life today, in Jesus’ name.
* I command every demonic harassment against your life to cease now, in Jesus’ name.
* Ask God to anoint you for signs and wonders like the apostles in Matt. 10:1.
Take time to pray in tongues today for a minimum of 30minutes .

PROPHETIC PRAYER
Oh Lord, encourage me with a miraculous surprise before this month runs out, in Jesus’ name.