Beware of Seducing Spirits by Mark Barclay

Author:Mark Barclay
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion, Faith, Pentecostal & Charismatic, Christianity
ISBN: 9780944802250
Publisher: M. Barclay Ministries
Published: 1995-09-24T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

THE SPIRIT OF THE TEN SPIES

"The Contagious Spirit of Unbelief and Quitting"

BEWARE ... This spirit will cause you to doubt God, resist your leader, and turn back to Egypt.

"Behold, the Lord thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and possess it, as the Lord God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear not, neither be discouraged.

And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.

And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.

Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God:

And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us."

Deuteronomy 1:21-27

The spirit of these ten spies is one that will cause you to die on the wrong side of the river—the wrong side of the promises of God.

These ten spies stirred up the whole congregation to the degree that those walking in faith could not change the people's minds. Caleb, Joshua, and Moses couldn't even calm the crowd.

One of the major contentions of this demon is that it causes people to quit and expect God to do it all. Don't even try to tell me that this spirit isn't whispering to people today—yes, even church people—in fact maybe mostly church people.

You see these ten spies were disturbed that they had wandered for a year, and now they have found the promise land just to discover that God wasn't just turning it over to them. They thought that they had done enough to inherit the promises. They were put out that God wasn't just going to hand it to them.

They recognized that it was the land God promised, but they were afraid of the giants and the fortified cities. Joshua and Caleb took it as a righteous challenge and wanted to go possess it.

When you let this demon minister to you, you become weak in faith and expect God to do it all. "If God wanted me to have it, He will just come right down here and give it to me." Wrong!

This spirit causes you to have a very small and twisted view and opinion of yourself. These men said that their enemies saw them the same way they saw themselves—as grasshoppers. Listen to yourself. Do you have grasshopper reports that stir up

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.