To Hell with the DEVIL

Prayer is about focus. Focus your prayer power on the positive. Avoid energizing negative thoughts, bad goals or evil spirits with over much attention. For my fuller guidelines for safe 'spiritual warfare' prayer see: my discussion of Authority over Territorial Spirits in my articles on HealMyLife.com

The Prayer Series

Learn how to pray effectively - 9 lessons.

1. Spiritual Warfare:

One of the most toxic practices in your life can be so called 'spiritual warfare." See: Guidelines for 12 principles for 'safe' spiritual warfare.

So, "To Hell with the devil," focus on God and the good.

As in hand to hand combat using certan martial arts one can use the energy of your enemy against himself. Christians are ignorant of the enemies' strategy:

1. We get suckered into fighting when we should disengage.
2. We encourage demons to be present with the amount of attention we feed them.
   
3. We feed them attention when we bow our heads and pray against them.
4. We feed them by naming demons in prayer rather than invoking God.
5. We foolishly believe that because demons are present we have to 'bind' them.
6. We focus our faith imagination on the problem rather than on God's promises.
7. The enemy is successful if he can turn all the creative saving holiness of the presence of Christ in the believing Christian toward energizing demons and empowering problems.

Remember Nehemiah. To establish Israel, Jerusalem need to be rebuilt as a walled city. Those who opposed the rebuilding of Jerusalem tried to distract Nehemiah. He refused to be sidetracked from the main task of rebuilding the walls. He refused discussions with his enemies in order to focus his energy on the rebuilding of the wall.

Jesus spoke of a house in relation to deliverance. There is no point casting out demons if the 'house' remains empty. In my experience the 'house' is empty if one lacks a strong spirit and a strong sense of your identity. Therefore, healing of the heart and spirit of the person takes priority over casting demons out of them. Premature battles with the demons result in a worse problem according to Jesus' discussion. The first job is rebuilding the walls of the personality and the spirit (identity) at the core of that personality.

Therefore, I refuse to give deliverance and demons high priority in Life Transformation. Inner healing comes first. Identity consolidation is imperative. Focus on the truth of who you are in Christ and to Hell with the demons.

My articles on prayer provide more information. They are listed under articles on www.HealMyLife.com. Also see my new web site on Christian Prayer listening-prayer.com