One Demon Spirit by Morris Cerullo

Author:Morris Cerullo
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Demonology & Satanism, Religion
ISBN: 9781931887595
Publisher: Morris Cerullo World Evangelism
Published: 2001-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

THE INVISIBLE WAR FOR YOUR MIND

In the invisible, spiritual war for our minds, we will see how the spirit of fear leads us directly into unbelief; and unbelief prevents the promises of God from being received in your life.

By studying Satan's operations we can see that all fear is based on his success in planting seeds of deception in our minds, (particularly our imaginations), and getting us to act on them.

In the Church today we hear so much about faith and living the life of faith. But do you know why most people can't exercise true faith? Because they don't have their minds and their imaginations under control.

Do you know what the Bible says about faith? It says that "faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). When you hope for something, you know exactly what you are hoping for because you picture it in your mind. What you visualize actually shapes what you will become! (Proverbs 23:7).

Therefore, faith is the manifestation (or the evidence) of whatever mental pictures you build up in your mind.

Yet, many of you are living in such a state of defeat in your minds that you can't imagine that you really are the overcomer that God says you are! You can't imagine that you have total victory over the fears within you. You can't even imagine how you would act if you were fearless.

You do not have the mental picture of yourself that God wants you to have, based on His Word. Instead of seeing yourself as a new person in Christ (fully trusting Him to empower you to overcome), you see only the negative things that dominated your old nature. You are possessed with the past.

In your mind's eye you see a whole life of failures based on fears...fears that keep cropping up in your imagination as you yield to them and feed on them.

I don't believe there's a person reading this book who hasn't been attacked by fear in his imagination.

For example, from earliest childhood we are programmed by the devil to expect (see ourselves in) poor health in our old age. In our imagination we just know that we will end up with arthritis. We expect our joints to tighten up, our minds to get dull, and our hearing to go bad.

People are constantly telling me, "This illness runs in my family. My father had this pain all his life, and now I've got it. I always knew I'd get it."

Where do they get such vain imaginations? Not from the Spirit of God! They are all fueled by fear.

This is why the Spirit of God specifically told Paul that we must rise up and cast down every vain, foul imagination that comes against us (II Corinthians 2:5). Our imagination is the first stronghold that we must bring under control if we are to thoroughly conquer fear.

Did you know that most people who commit adultery picture it first? Sin first comes as a thought in our imaginations.

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