OPEN HEAVENS DAILY DEVOTIONAL. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 22 2015.
THEME : WHEN PIGS ARE WISER.
MEMORISE : And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the
tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. MARK 5 : 5.
READ : MARK 5 : 1 – 13.
1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the
Gadarenes.
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the
tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not
with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains
had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither
could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying,
and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus,
thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me
not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is
Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the
country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine
feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may
enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and
entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the
sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : LEVITICUS 8 – 9 AND 1 CORINTHIANS 6 : 12 – 7 : 16.
MESSAGE
It is great to experience deliverance from demons, but it is better to never be
repossessed by them after being delivered. A better option than these is not to
have being possessed by demons at all. If you have never been possessed by
demons all your life, you do not know what God has done for you. These two
things are common to all those who have been possessed before: they suffered
great losses and went through hell. Take for instance the Gadarene demoniac
in our Bible reading: what he would never do to himself in his right senses, he
did while demons were inside him. He cut his body with sharp stones, bled and
felt the pain, and yet he compulsively repeated this often. In other words, the
demons in him told him to hurt his own body as if it was the body of an enemy,
and he obeyed even though he felt the pain. The demons tried to use him to
destroy himself. Do you know that even today, demonic spirits still compel their
victims to destroy themselves? We should not be surprised of this, as Jesus in
John 10 : 10a already revealed their mission to us :
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:”
All over the world today, demons of addiction gradually lure people into taking
degenerative substances such as cocaine, heroin, Indian hemp, cigarettes,
tobacco powder (snuff), etc. After a while, such people discover that they are
unable to break away from these substances. The aim of these demonic spirits
of addiction is to destroy their bodies. In the same manner, these spirits get
people into drinking alcohol, and before long, they become alcoholics. The
operations of the demons of lust follow the same pattern. They get their
victims into immorality, sodomy, lesbianism, and other sexual sins, so as to
make them destroy themselves. 1 Corinthians 6 : 19 says :
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
The objective of these demons is to make their victims destroy their bodies to
the extent that the Holy Spirit will not come near it, not to talk of entering
in. Unfortunately, do you know that some people are happy to harbour demons
because of certain benefits they derive from them; for example, practitioners
of witchcraft? The pigs that were at the receiving end of the demons cast out
of the Gadarene demoniac were more sensible than such people. They preferred
to drown rather than to allow demons inhabit them. Are you as wise as these
pigs? If you have any spirit other than the Holy Spirit inside you, you need help
through deliverance.
ACTION POINT :
Ask God to deliver anyone under the manipulative influence of demons in your
local church.
# AUTHOR_Pst_E_A_ADEBOYE .
tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones. MARK 5 : 5.
READ : MARK 5 : 1 – 13.
1 And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the
Gadarenes.
2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the
tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
3 Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not
with chains:
4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains
had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither
could any man tame him.
5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying,
and cutting himself with stones.
6 But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and worshipped him,
7 And cried with a loud voice, and said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus,
thou Son of the most high God? I adjure thee by God, that thou torment me
not.
8 For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
9 And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is
Legion: for we are many.
10 And he besought him much that he would not send them away out of the
country.
11 Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine
feeding.
12 And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may
enter into them.
13 And forthwith Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out, and
entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the
sea, (they were about two thousand;) and were choked in the sea.
BIBLE IN ONE YEAR : LEVITICUS 8 – 9 AND 1 CORINTHIANS 6 : 12 – 7 : 16.
MESSAGE
It is great to experience deliverance from demons, but it is better to never be
repossessed by them after being delivered. A better option than these is not to
have being possessed by demons at all. If you have never been possessed by
demons all your life, you do not know what God has done for you. These two
things are common to all those who have been possessed before: they suffered
great losses and went through hell. Take for instance the Gadarene demoniac
in our Bible reading: what he would never do to himself in his right senses, he
did while demons were inside him. He cut his body with sharp stones, bled and
felt the pain, and yet he compulsively repeated this often. In other words, the
demons in him told him to hurt his own body as if it was the body of an enemy,
and he obeyed even though he felt the pain. The demons tried to use him to
destroy himself. Do you know that even today, demonic spirits still compel their
victims to destroy themselves? We should not be surprised of this, as Jesus in
John 10 : 10a already revealed their mission to us :
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy:”
All over the world today, demons of addiction gradually lure people into taking
degenerative substances such as cocaine, heroin, Indian hemp, cigarettes,
tobacco powder (snuff), etc. After a while, such people discover that they are
unable to break away from these substances. The aim of these demonic spirits
of addiction is to destroy their bodies. In the same manner, these spirits get
people into drinking alcohol, and before long, they become alcoholics. The
operations of the demons of lust follow the same pattern. They get their
victims into immorality, sodomy, lesbianism, and other sexual sins, so as to
make them destroy themselves. 1 Corinthians 6 : 19 says :
“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
The objective of these demons is to make their victims destroy their bodies to
the extent that the Holy Spirit will not come near it, not to talk of entering
in. Unfortunately, do you know that some people are happy to harbour demons
because of certain benefits they derive from them; for example, practitioners
of witchcraft? The pigs that were at the receiving end of the demons cast out
of the Gadarene demoniac were more sensible than such people. They preferred
to drown rather than to allow demons inhabit them. Are you as wise as these
pigs? If you have any spirit other than the Holy Spirit inside you, you need help
through deliverance.
ACTION POINT :
Ask God to deliver anyone under the manipulative influence of demons in your
local church.
# AUTHOR_Pst_E_A_ADEBOYE .
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