Are you more loyal to your selfish way of living than you are to God?
Have you openly rebelled against wise counsel and found yourself stuck in a rut, going nowhere?
Does a war break out in your flesh every time someone in authority tells you what to do?
If so, you have likely declared:
- “No one is in charge of me!”
- “I didn’t ask for your advice and I don’t want it!”
- “No one tells me what to do!”
Destructive rebellion can be fleshly resistance to change or a full out war with an evil spirit that is intended to thwart your destiny with God.
Paul talked about that fleshly battle with a sinful nature in Romans 7 & 8 as an inward struggle with sin.
My Personal Story
To be honest, I struggled this year with wise advice that was given to help me advance. It set a fire alarm off in my soul because it meant giving up most of my free time and becoming submitted to extensive training. I am grateful that I confined my kicking and screaming to my prayer closet and listened for Gods guidance instead of crossing over into sinful anger.
But it hasn’t always been that way!
In my past I dealt with an evil spirit of rebellion that caused me to refuse all advice and left me very unteachable, angry, and stuck in a rut. My way was the best way, because it was the most comfortable!
Rebellion is easy to agree with because it lines up with your selfish desires!
One of my clients told me her heroin addiction was due to her grandmother saying, “I would rather have you addicted to heroin than dating a girl.”
That rebellion sabotaged this young woman and left her broken and in a battle for survival every day. In hindsight, she knew the word curse her grandmother had spoken over her caused her to rebel and sin. She confessed it had gained a stronghold in her teens.
Fleshly battle? Evil Spirit? Either way it is most likely holding you out of the fullness of your future.
If you are feeling the conviction of this war, here is a prayer you can pray today to get your feet back on the road to your future.
Prayer of Release from Rebellion
Lord, I confess and repent for willfully choosing not to listen to your direction for my future. I know that you speak through your word and through many wise counselors you have placed in my life. Today is the day that I will no longer lean on my own understanding, but instead trust that you will order my steps as I walk on your path. I take every angry and rebellious thought captive today to the obedience of Jesus Christ. I plead the blood of Jesus over my mind, will, and emotions. I promise to listen, be slow to speak, and slow to anger. I forgive those who have offended me and I forgive myself. Thank you God that you are merciful, even to rebels, if we confess our sins and return to you. Amen.
If rebellion is something you have dealt with most of your life, and you can see how it has stagnated your walk with God, then deeper understanding of its roots are necessary for your freedom.
It may be tied to a generational sin that you have seen repeating in your family bloodline, a word curse, or an act of revenge. No matter its origin, God always provides a way out.
Remember obedience brings blessings, disobedience brings curses, and Deliverance brings freedom!
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How timely.
Thank you!
You are welcome! Blessings Phyllis
Your website, counsel and YouTube videos have been helpful and anointed. I’m a little confused about the word curse from the grandmother: same sex “dating”, or heroin addiction? Seriously trying to walk away from some rebellion myself. Thanks
Mark, Sorry for the confusion, I think that word curse hit both. This young lady was involved in same sex attraction and the grandmother’s curse added addiction to heroine. Blessings Phyllis
Testimony Time!
Thank God for His use of your vital ministry. Knowing that my whole Family of five is on its way to complete reconciliation and healing, I cannot fail to come back to thank you for sending by email this link to the Prayer of Release from Rebellion.
I had long suspected that I carried a spirit of rebellion, as passed down from my father’s Ojibway Indian ancestry. I prayed to cut that off years ago, but without incident or confirmation. I just assumed it was gone. Last week, however, I jotted down in my prayer journal “spirit of rebellion” with nothing more than that, but asked the Lord to reveal its source – when it entered – if it was still there.
When your email came out of the blue, on the 9th of October (I don’t remember ever signing up to receive them…?), I knew this was “of God.” Of course I prayed this Prayer of Release from Rebellion, out loud, and in obedience to His leading, on Friday or Saturday, the 10th or 11th.
Smoking was the first sin I was convicted of by the Holy Spirit, as a brand new believer 30 years ago (at the age of 26). I did not quit, then. But, rather, struggled with that be-setting sin for many years as a born again Christian. I had a glorious baptism in the Spirit, four months after I’d quit, in 1998; but picked them back up again when my marriage (to an unbeliever) was not the least bit improved, even then. I left my husband in 2005, but have waited on the Lord for His promise to Re-Raise our marriage from the dead, since March 8th, 2006 – my ex’s birthday and the day I smoked my last cigarette.
My ex husband received a prophecy of Isaiah 9:4, the year before I left him, by a proven prophetess in our lives which the Lord later confirmed. So, I am confident that he will be born again – perhaps any day, now, thanks to your email!
After praying that prayer, I woke with a start on Sunday morning, the 12th of October. I’d had a dream in which my ex-husband had fallen down and I suspect that it caused me to gasp, which caused me to start coughing, hard. As I was coughing, in my mind’s eye I saw a day from my childhood (age 13, or so) when my brother and sister and I were standing in the alley at the back of our home, at night, “learning” to smoke cigarettes that we’d stolen from our father.
I knew immediately that THIS was when the spirit of rebellion entered into me. But because I was coughing so hard that clear phlegm came out of my mouth, I know also that I was delivered of that demon, that morning.
Glory to God!!
Thank you for your vital ministry, which I will not stop recommending to others in need.
Sharon,
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! It helps encourage us to keep on writing and sharing. Blessings to you in your new walk without that pesky spirit of rebellion! Blessings Phyllis
I would like to write up a shorter version of this testimony for your general use. I’ll leave it here.
Sharon, if we could use your testimony as a blog reader, we would love to post it on the website. Please email it to me at [email protected] Thank you for being such a loyal reader! Blessings Phyllis