Above & Beyond Christian Counseling
Christian Counseling, Deliverance Ministry and Spiritual Warfare
Have you ever felt like your mind won’t shut off?
Are you locked into a negative thought cycle that keeps repeating in your head?
Are you easily distracted by intrusive thoughts?
You are a victim of a mind-binding spirit that is purposed to destroy your peace! [Read more…]
“I am sick, and I will never get better. My life has no hope.”
“What if I die young and never get to see my children grow up?”
“I made a mistake, so now I am condemned to the consequences.”
The lie at the root of your fear is now an idol driving obsessive/compulsive thinking.
There is a lot to that statement, so let’s break it down.
At the root of obsessive/compulsive thinking is a lie. Something you have agreed to that does not line up with the truth of God’s word. The facts of your current circumstance are not the defining truth for your future. Demons use facts to magnify an anthill until it looks like a mountain. It is the nature of these devils to lie. Anything you let consume your thoughts obsessively is an idol keeping you from God. Let me give you an example
A client told me she had to go back to the doctor due to something seen on her mammogram. Her mother died of breast cancer. That reality was all the enemy needed to convince her she was under a generational curse, and she was dying. Thoughts of death swirled in her head daily until she came to my office saying, “It’s time for me to die. My life is over.”
That may seem like an extreme conclusion, but the “what if” worrier runs way ahead of God. Worry takes you out from your umbrella of grace given for today. Instead, it clobbers you with scary scenarios of your future. Grace is like manna; you only get enough for today.
Let’s go back to my original statement: the lie at the root of your fear is now an idol driving obsessive/compulsive thinking. People don’t think of infirmity as an idol, but it has a loud voice. Pain screams over the truth of your healing. Dread that accompanies sickness brings hopelessness and wants you to fall into apathy, so you give up like my client. Demons network to kill, steal and destroy.
A spirit of legalism is the golden child demons use to bring in self condemnation. They remind you this problem began with a mistake you made. They convince you it’s all your fault, and now you are condemned with no way out, but God is a deliverer. He never abandons his children. He knows the plans he has for you, and there is hope for your future. (Jer. 29:11)
Idols cause you to rehearse the lies until they become your truth. It is a process of deception that demons employ to get you to disagree with God’s word.
You can’t drink from the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can’t feast at the table of the Lord and feast at the table of demons. (1 Cor. 10:21 TPT)
The word “feast” in this passage also means to participate, which is the Greek word metaecho, or to “echo with.” In other words, you can’t feast at the table of the Lord in Psalm 23 with your head anointed with oil and your cup of joy running over if you repeat the lies of the enemy.
That kind of repetition makes you the feast of demons who use sharp steak knives of anxiety, dread, and self-condemnation to chew on you.
Are you reliving past trauma?
Do you see things from your past like a scrapbook full of old pictures?
Have unhealed issues suddenly become raw and tormenting?
Demons are looking for a vulnerable place in your soul to resurrect torment to destroy your future.
You resuscitate demons by meditating on past wounds, lost opportunities, old anxieties, and depressions. When you recite the past, you give demons a royalty check for the original torment song they created in your life. They eagerly join your current circumstance because you invited them. You are hosting a party for past and present demons, and its price tag is your freedom.
We can see this operating in our country today. Revisiting history is stirring up anger, contention, and hatred. Demons are rejoicing by using unhealed wounds from America’s past to incite greater torment for our future. We need to recognize the diabolical plan in operation and rise in unity to defeat this darkness.
The enemy knows you by your past because it’s the only resource demons can access. Holy Spirit alone knows your future.
When Paul landed on the Island of Malta, the natives of the land immediately shouted out that he was a murderer when he was bit by a snake. That was Paul’s old mantle. The demons knew him as a murderer, but it was not his new name. When he shook off the snake, they called him a god. (Acts 28:4-6).
God has a new name for you, but you can’t get there struggling with the “Lot’s Wife Syndrome.” Looking back over your shoulder will cause you to fall apart like a pillar of salt. You cannot erase history, but you can allow God to use it for good!
When the Israelites were trapped at the Red Sea, they looked over their shoulders and saw their past slavery chasing them. But God put the angel of the Lord behind them in Exodus. 14:19 to shed darkness on their past and light on their future walk.
At the beginning of this year, I heard the Lord speak to me through this scripture:
Do not call to mind the former things or ponder things of the past. (Isaiah 43:18).
God is doing a new thing, and the enemy is doing everything he can to get us to repeat our history.
Your past sins have been removed from you as far as the east is to the west. The Hebrew word for east is Kedem. It means infinite or everlasting. We do not have an East or West pole with a set number of miles between them. Your sin is removed to infinity.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us. (Ps 113:10-12).
Our past is on a cross of forgiveness and grace freely given to us by Jesus Christ. If your past is still haunting you, it is time to take it off life support and connect with us. Rise up over the worldly roar and walk in victory this year. Remember, we are only one intake form click away.
What have you missed that is feeding spirits of anxiety, depression, misery, and anger?
Do you allow people to control, manipulate, and wreak havoc in your life?
Are there unresolved issues with people from your past?
When you cry out, “Lord, why have you not delivered me?” Is it because you have allowed an ungodly soul-tie to remain as a food source for demons?
Ungodly soul-ties are the open doors to the inhabitants in your land, God told you to drive out!
But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. Moreover, it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.'” (Numbers 33:55-56).
Severing the soul-tie is step one. Next, you must drive out the spirits associated with those soul-ties to experience freedom. One without the other is pointless.
But don’t be surprised by what may happen next!
One of my clients was authoring a book on pastoral abuse in the church was seeking deliverance. She wanted her testimony to bring healing to her readers. All the soul-ties and demons associated with abuse had to go.
Her deliverance was peaceful but profound. When we finished, she felt confident she could write the last chapter and from a place of victory.
The abuse took place three years prior, and this deliverance session was the finishing work on a long journey of healing. The client had had no contact with the pastors over those three years, but before she left my office, they tried to contact her on her cellphone!
I let her know that was not unusual. When we break a soul-tie and cast the demons out, an alarm triggers in the spirit realm. It sounds like this: “Oh, no! My food source is gone!”
The soul-tie will try to reattach quickly because the demons are frantic over the lost connection.
I experienced a similar situation when I broke a soul-tie with an old boss who used to harass me. We had not spoken in years, but minutes after breaking that soul tie, he was calling me on the phone!
I also noticed my cellphone would continually pocket dial one of the soul-ties I broke. Here’s a hint, if the soul-ties you are canceling are people you do not want in your life, eliminate them from your contact list. Do not give the enemy avenues to re-establish a connection.
Pray aloud, “Thank you, Jesus, for dying that I might be set free. I forgive and loose, in the freedom of my forgiveness, those with whom I have ungodly soul ties. I now break and sever, every ungodly soul tie with (names). I now use the authority I have in Jesus Christ to command all demon spirits to have no further right in me through these relationships in the name of Jesus.”
Remember, if you are still struggling, we are only one intake form away from your freedom!
Does your thought life sometimes seem like a runaway freight train? Or, is it more like a boat that is sinking – you try to bail out the evil thoughts, but it’s a losing battle as more rush in?
Controlling one’s thought life rests at the center of a happy and contented life. As believers, we are encouraged to take every thought captive to the obedience of Christ, and it can be a daunting task.
One has to dig a little, but the bible does lay out the framework of how we are made and how different minds indwell us and fight for dominance. [Read more…]