Ridding Your Home of Spiritual Darkness by Chuck D. Pierce; Rebecca Wagner Sytsema

Author:Chuck D. Pierce; Rebecca Wagner Sytsema
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: spiritual warfare, Christian Life, General, Exorcism, Religion, Demonology & Satanism, Spiritual Growth, Demonology
ISBN: 9781585020089
Publisher: Wagner Pubns
Published: 2000-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

5 Ibid. p. 10

6 Pierce and Sytsema, pp. 175-176.

7 Cindy Jacobs, The Voice of God, (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1995), pp. 65-67.

8 For further study on Freemasonry, we recommend reading Chapter 10 of Noel and Phyl Gibson's Evicting Demonic Intruders, (Ventura, CA: Renew Books, 1993).

9 Dean Sherman, Spiritual Warfare for Every Christian, (Seattle, WA: Front-line Communications, 1990), p. 107.

chapter seven

Protecting our Children from Spiritual Darkness

He who fears the LORD has a secure fortress, and for his children it will be a refuge.

(Prov. 14:26, NIV)

We have looked at many issues that allow spiritual darkness into a home. The goal of this chapter is to help parents understand some issues that are specific to their children. Securing your children's spiritual freedom is an important step to ridding your home of spiritual darkness.

The Importance of Order

Now that we have briefly discussed generational sin, let's look at God's order in the family, primarily focusing on children.

In Larry Christenson's book The Christian Family, he says, "The secret of good family life is disarmingly simple: cultivate the family's relationship with Jesus Christ. There is no phase of family life left outside this relationship. There is no problem a family might face which does not find its solution within the scope of this objective."1 The most important way to cultivate your family's relationship with the Lord is to establish God's divine order in your home. God's divine order has to do with relationship and authority.

In both the Old and New Testaments, we find one key statement for children's relationships, and that is to obey their parents, for this is pleasing to the Lord and will create long life for them (see Col. 3:20 and Ex. 20). A child's relationship to the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit usually thrives and prospers in direct proportion to their obedience in the home and to their parents. If you can teach your child obedience as prescribed in Hebrews 12, they will not only become a child filled with joy and freedom, but they will mature into adults filled with faith.

The word "order" means to command or give orders in sequence to produce a specific result. Order also means the arrangement of position and rank resulting in the ultimate accomplishment so that peace occurs in one's person or environment. The word, therefore, includes both relationship and authority—the very things we need to cultivate the family's relationship to Jesus Christ. Order also brings boundaries. I believe the real key for a child's life is to show them the boundaries that have been established for their prosperity. Those boundaries include being aware that owning certain things could give place to the enemy, who longs to steal their peace and prosperity from an early age. It is very important, therefore, that we teach children to remove anything that enters their boundaries that would cause their peace to be lost or their prosperity to dwindle.

God's purpose is for us to be whole. The sooner we teach this to our children, the better off they will be.

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