Scriptures: Galatians 5 v 19-20; 1 Samuel 15 v 23; Isaiah
53 v 6.
Isaiah 53 v 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have
turned everyone to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of
us all.
Satan’s nature is proud, rebellious, jealous, angry,
bitter, lying, deceiving, controlling, manipulative, tormenting and
fearful. The demons and fallen angels
have inherited his evil nature and he inflicted it on us. (See 10 part Vision
on our blog (http://www.propheticfire.co.za)
- especially The Six Day Realm Unpacked.)
He has a head start because we are all born into sin because of the fall
of Adam and Eve, and have to conquer his sin in us before we can enter into the
righteousness of the Lord.
Jesus had a solution to the sin problem; He conquered sin
and Satan on the Cross, and made a way for us to come to the Father through the
power of His shed Blood. In 1
Corinthians 2 it says that if Satan had known what Jesus would accomplish on
the Cross, He would still be alive today. Jesus conquered all rebellion to
enable us to submit to the love and goodness of the Kingdom of God.
A lady once came to me for deliverance from smoking, and
we went through the forgiveness and bitterness prayers. She had her two year old grandson with her,
amusing himself with his toys. When we
dealt with the nicotine I said, quite loudly and firmly, ‘Satan I rebuke you,
In Jesus name and I command the demon of nicotine to leave.’ I had to say this a few times until I was
sure it had gone. The next day this lady
phoned me laughing and crying all at once.
She had survived twenty four hours without a cigarette but was about to
light up when this same grandson walked over to her and said ‘Satan I buke you
in Jesus name’ - he could not quite get
the rebuke bit right. She said
immediately all desire for smoking left her and she was free. It really does not take years of mature
Christianity to see the devil off. Just
put your faith in the name of Jesus and command him to go.
Satan aims his strongest attack at teenagers, as they are
most vulnerable when they are becoming independent from parental
restraints. Rebellious music, clothes
and culture (peer pressure) as well as movies, drugs, discos, raves, sex, and
hairstyles, moulds teenagers in a certain way that gives Satan the least line
of resistance from them. We need to pray
earnestly for our children from an early age to protect them from the wiles of
Satan. Teach them the right way to live,
and even if they wander off the track for a while to see how the other half
lives, they will wander right back to righteous living when the sin and evil
offends them sufficiently.
Rebellion, teenage or otherwise, means a total lack of
submission to the Lord Jesus Christ, or to any kind of authority. It’s battle cry is “Do your own thing!” If children are not disciplined in a Godly
way from an early age, they become spoiled (i.e. ruined, destroyed) and the
seed of rebellion takes root - the crop is harvested in about 14 years
time. Parents will cry: What did we do to deserve such horrible
children? The answer is - you failed to
discipline them properly and teach them respect.
Looking at pictures of Ariel Castro - the man who
kidnapped 3 girls in Cleveland 10 years ago, and photos of his sobbing mother
horrified at her rebellious son, brings into focus what this Tree of Rebellion
is about. It also sharply illustrates the Six Day Realm where we were held
hostage and tormented exactly like these three girls. We have no memory of it
so we cannot understand why these things happen, or why God allows such evil.
God knows we will experience at least some of the events we suffered in the Six
Day Realm as these have been programmed into us. The only way of escaping it is
to be born again.
Prayer: Father, I release John/Jane into your hands as
your own precious child/ren. I messed up
with them, Father and I ask forgiveness and pardon for this. Please take them to yourself and restore them
to the way You created them to be. In
Jesus' name. Amen.