This morning I was reading Rick Joiner’s “Overcoming the Spirit of Poverty”. I ran across this truth:
“Strongholds are maintianed by what the Scriptures call principalities. We can cast out demons, but we must wrestle against principalities (See Eph 6:12)… Principalities will not flee just because we command them to. We must push them out by walking in the light…”
I then began praying agains the principalities in my life, since immediately following the above quote was the statement, “Truth, spoken by the annointing is the most powerful weapon there is, and we have been entrusted with it.”
So while praying, a common housefly was buzzing around my feet. I tried to shew it out the open window which was about 2 feet to my left, and it would not go. I watched as the fly came up and landed on the front of my right shoulder, right next to my face. I turned my head, and it did not move. I looked at the fly, and said out loud “You demon creature, I command you to leave this house right now in the name of Jesus.” About one second later, the fly flew straight out the window.
Big deal, right? Maybe, if you believe the natural is just that… natural. But if you believe in the prophetic, and that the natural is under the authority of the spiritual, it takes on a whole new meaning. I said to God, “Really? A fly? I’ve been asking you for a face-to-face encounter, to reveal your widom to me, and you send me a fly?” You know what he said? “Selah”
- check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selah for wiki’s meaning
- and http://biblestudyplanet.com/what-does-selah-mean/ for another
So what about the fly? Yes, to me, flies, spiders and snakes, wasps, scorpions and the like represent creatures on earth that are evil, and I think that if the devil ever had any creative ability, these would be his handiwork. There are plenty of first-hand accounts of people going to hell and finding lots of these creatures there. So for me, the fly clearly represented a demon, and was used to demonstrate that my own physical attempt to get it to fly out the window was useless. The fly, while being smaller than me, is quicker. You can argue whether it is smarter, but in general, we have the power to kill them, and not the other way around. However, it would have taken great effort on my part to get up and chase that sucker down and swat it dead, and there’s about a 70% chance that it would have left on it’s own if I had tried.
But when I used the “weapon I have been entrusted with”, the annoyance was instantly removed. This fly didn’t move when I spoke, and it didn’t take a curved or indirect route out the window. It paused, and flew straight out. How many times do we fail to use the weapons entrusted to us to remove evil influences in our spiritual lives?
I look forward to the revelation that is coming about principalities.