What Is Fasting And How Does It Work? — Part 2

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In our previous blog article we discussed what fasting is. In this part of the series we are going to take a look at what fasting does for us, and how it works on a spiritual level—as well as identify what it doesn’t do. Then, I will explain multiple reasons why I believe fasting is an important spiritual discipline and thus why I make it a regular personal practice.

How Does Fasting Work?

Fasting is actually pretty profound in how it works, but there are things fasting does and things it does not do. First, it has been commonly taught that fasting is a way to move God’s heart. Look, starving yourself doesn’t make God more interested in you, take more pity on you, or listen to your prayers more. Fasting doesn’t show God you are desperate more than the other guy to ensure God answers your prayers, and it most certainly does not hold God hostage to deal with whatever you are fasting about. That’s what it doesn’t do. Nevertheless, fasting is powerful and effective, so let’s look at not just what fasting accomplishes, but how it does it.

Fasting, abstaining from something, gets results by means of spiritual laws, and one in particular which I refer to as the Law of Sacrifice. All throughout scripture we see that people sacrificed animals to accomplish certain spiritual goals. Usually it was to get their sins forgiven or remitted (i.e. to cancel out the punishment for sins), but any kind of sacrifice releases spiritual power. Why? When it comes to animal or human sacrifice, the Bible says that blood carries life with it, so when you kill a living being for a sacrifice, when set up in certain ways with specific rituals, the power can be harvested and put to other use. Not only do Christians not do blood sacrifices, largely because Jesus is the perfect blood sacrifice that works far better than any others, but human sacrifice is also just plain evil, so we clearly aren’t going to do that. Nevertheless, those in the occult who do sacrifices do it for power.

Fasting is another form of sacrifice. It involves making a trade in the spirit realm of our desires for worldly things and using the energy we would put toward those things for spiritual use. In short, when we fast we invoke the Law of Sacrifice, which is why fasting works in the first place. If we don’t pay attention to what we are doing, I believe we can simply be starving ourselves with no spiritual benefits, so I generally start each fast out with a short prayer where I outline why I am fasting on that particular occasion. This is known in some circles as “setting your intention”, but it is an important part of fasting, as it basically helps choose a focus for the spiritual energy we are releasing during the fast. Often I write it down on a notecard or on my cell phone somewhere so I can review, in my times of prayer, what I am praying and believing for.

Many people in Christian circles have been taught that fasting moves God’s heart, but it doesn’t move it any more than any other kind of prayer does with one caveat—fasting adds extra power to our prayers, so while it doesn’t move God’s heart more, it does make our prayer more powerful and thus more effective. Fasting also doesn’t make God pity us or get us to strong-arm Him somehow. If that’s how fasting worked, then starving people in famine-swept countries would have their problems solved simply because they all fast for such long periods of time. No, starvation without any kind of spiritual goal or prayer behind it is just starvation. If one knows he or she is going to starve anyway (due to poverty or whatever) and decides to turn it into a time of purposeful fasting, I consider that both wise and beneficial, but otherwise starvation doesn’t move God.

Fasting is about changing and transforming us. In the process of abstaining from food, our physical bodies don’t like it and start to complain. I often get low back pain (more than normal) when I fast. In some ways, this process of purposeful and metered deprivation of our physical bodies could be viewed as “putting the flesh to death” so that our spirits can be more preeminent over our flesh. Fasting is one of the best ways to accomplish this, and it works even better, again, when combined with prayer. In my mind, fasting is somewhat pointless if prayer isn’t going to be involved in some way anyway.

A Personal Practice

I began this series by explaining that I have begun to start a regular practice of fasting again like I used to years ago. When we understand what fasting is and how it works, this might make a little more sense to people, but not everyone will understand why I want to do it as a regular practice, so I will attempt to give some insight on this choice of mine.

First, fasting is very clearly present throughout scripture. Even when Jesus acknowledged the apostles didn’t fast, he identified that they would at a future point in time. While some note that in Matthew 9:15 Jesus says “and on that day they will fast” points to a single day, not a period of time, the actual Hebrew words can mean “then” or “at that time” or “on that day”. It doesn’t have to specify a specific day, although it can be read that way. The version written in Luke 5:35 is more broad and while it could be translated as on a specific day, it also can be correctly translated as a broad generality of a period or age of time. Thus, while the argument can be made that the disciples were supposed to fast for only one single day total, the sum of all the ways one can translate those words simply doesn’t have a strong enough support behind it to rule that option in and all others out, and in fact would likely go the other way. Thus, as a scriptural precedent, it seems prudent to me to engage in the same spiritual disciplines the early church found to be important.

Second, fasting releases spiritual power. I believe that in order for us to partner with God, we need to become spiritually powerful people, and fasting helps grow us from one level of power and glory to another level. Thus, I fast.

Third, Jesus said in Matthew 17:21 (and Mark 9:29) that some demonic spirits only come out through prayer and fasting. Both as someone who does inner healing and deliverance, and as a believer who simply recognizes spiritual combat and dealing with demons is part of the normal Christian life, if certain spiritual entities require fasting to deal with, it seems prudent to me to fast on an ongoing regular basis to be prepared.

Fourth, I prefer to be prepared and responsive instead of unprepared and reactive. Fasting as a discipline means I remain “fasted up” over time instead of waiting until a problem comes along and then having to fast reactively. Don’t get me wrong—if a big problem comes along, one of the first things I will do is fast anyway, but I believe that having a lifestyle that includes regular fasting is a much wiser and more proactive approach, going on the offensive with the enemy instead of waiting for attacks and having to play defense.

Fifth, witches, warlocks, Luciferians, Satanists, and the like who are serious about their practice also fast. If they fast, in spite of not serving God, then it’s because it does something other than moving God’s heart, which I assure you their fasting does not do. Fasting releases power, and if the enemy’s people do it, then I strongly believe that followers of Jesus would be foolish not to. As such, I believe it is prudent to develop a lifestyle of fasting.

Sixth, history has shown us that fasting has played a role in many revivals and moves of God in various regions around the world. If fasting helps usher God’s power and glory into a region by even 1%, then it seems like something we should be excited about doing.

With all of these factors in mind, I have stepped back into a lifestyle that includes fasting on an ongoing basis, and I encourage you to do the same as well. In the future we will also be looking at some basic and practical details about fasting, and how to go about actually doing a fast, so stay tuned in the future for more updates!

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What Is Fasting And How Does It Work? — Part 1

Years ago, I used to have a somewhat regular practice of fasting, and then I got married, and since then it’s been an ongoing struggle to try to maintain any kind of lifestyle that involves regular fasting. I should clarify before going further that it isn’t my wife’s fault. One of the things about marriage is that it changes your life in a lot of different ways, both big and small. You start developing new habits, live in new places, and now you aren’t just doing “you” anymore, but “you-and-spouse.” At any rate, I recently began a practice of fasting regularly again. There are a lot of questions people have about this subject, so I will answer the questions “What is fasting and how does it work?” in this two-part blog series. There are other common questions, which I will tackle in the future.

What is Fasting?

Fasting is the practice of abstaining from something for a pre-set period of time. Usually, at least in scripture, fasting involves abstaining from food, but it also vaguely references abstinence from sex in 1 Corinthians 7:5. Fasting can be done as a practice for physical health, and can be very beneficial for physical health, but in Scripture, fasting is done primarily for spiritual reasons. When I fast, I naturally get the health benefits that come with it, so it seems like a waste to fast for physical reasons only and not include a spiritual component. Thus, it is rare to see me fast without doing so.

The most commonly referenced scripture passage about fasting is Isaiah 58. Almost the entire chapter refers to fasting, but verses 6-12 speak most clearly about the spiritual benefits. We can identify a number of spiritual benefits of fasting in this passage, which says:

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk, and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings.”

Fasting can destroy injustice, bondage, and oppression. And if you combine it with actions, it causes spiritual light to be released, and it releases healing, power, and God’s glory. It makes it easier to get prayers answered and hear God’s voice, brings spiritual guidance, physical health and vitality, and brings provision into your life. It also releases spiritual protection and fixes problems. According to Isaiah 58, all of this can happen when we fast.

In scripture, this practice is very closely linked with prayer. The way I understand it, if we are going to spend time in fasting, we should also spend some of our time in prayer. If we fast and don’t pray, I almost don’t see the point. While not always possible, depending on one’s life situation, a “best practice” during a fast would be to spend the time we would normally spend eating in prayer instead.

There are lots of different opinions about fasting—whether we should fast, what we should fast, how long to fast, how to manage the fast, and how to break the fast. I plan to answer these questions in a future article, but for now let’s keep it simple: consider that we should generally fast from food for a predetermined time that we prayerfully decide (1-3 days is common), and spend our time in more prayer than normal during the fast.

In the second part of this article, we will discuss how fasting works and what it accomplishes on a spiritual level. Stay tuned!

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Worship, Energy, and the Home Field Advantage

I was buying groceries at the store yesterday when I saw someone wearing a Raiders shirt, and that instantly got me thinking about how tons of people gather readily and happily in stadiums to cheer for their favorite sports teams on a level that almost trumps religious piety. I then began to ponder what the influence of that radical devotion is on a nonphysical level, and further considered what effect playing on the home field might have in that regard. So, today we are going to look at worship, energy, and the home field advantage.

“Worship” means to give worth to something, but tends to mean to give adoration or reverence toward a deity. However, what actually happens when someone worships someone or something? I’ll tell you: they give them energy. This concept of energy may be super vague to some, but all living beings possess a certain amount of energy or power, even animals, as blood contains power. Spirit beings also possess power even without blood—it’s simply how things work. We constantly receive a flow of power from God that we use on a daily basis (see Acts 17:28). In every interaction we have in life, we give and receive that power. When we feel energized around people, it is usually because we are on the receiving end, bolstered by their energy, whereas when we feel drained by others they are usually taking more of our energy than we are receiving.

When we engage in worship, we take that energy and send it back to God, which lets Him do whatever with it that He chooses. Albeit from an unexpected source, this article, part 2 of a 3-part series, gives what I find to be a revealing explanation of how we send our energy to Jesus when we worship Him. I should clarify that this experience is written by witches who visited a Charismatic church (who I neither know nor condone/support), so their perspective on what is happening and why is not the most accurate. For example, the “aggressive” feelings the one witch felt that was trying to “reverse the triple soul alignment” cultivation probably was God trying to realign her to Him, not actually harm her as she perceived. However, I find they do make some very interesting and highly useful observations, especially related to the part about us giving ourselves and our energy freely to Jesus (which they unsurprisingly don’t understand).

At any rate, what these women accurately identified was that when we worship God, we are sending the energy and power He has entrusted to us back to Him to transform the world as He pleases, which they didn’t understand. Nevertheless, this same dynamic happens in any worship environment—when we give adoration or reverence to someone or something, we send them a portion of our energy. Knowing this, I formulated a hypothesis about sports teams, fans cheering them on, and what is known as the “home field advantage.” What I suspect happens is that when fans get together at a sports game, they form what is essentially a corporate worship setting. With two teams, it is essentially two sets of worshippers worshipping gods who are fighting one another for supremacy, and the team who has more worship-power being fed to them is going to perform better, and ultimately win. Mind you, this could also potentially include those who are watching the game remotely as well, but those who are present presumably will have the most direct influence on the game via their collective energy. In fact, this same dynamic occurs at concerts and other places where people gather in large groups to focus their energy, emotions, and attention in one unified direction.

Another interesting component about this collective, corporate worship, also observed by the witch at Bethel in the above article, is something that happens in any similar group setting. Regardless of the situation when surrounded by people with such a pervasive corporate energy, you can find yourself getting pulled into it. It’s almost like you are standing on dry ground and all of a sudden a flash flood forms around you, and suddenly you are in the middle of a river that is trying to carry you away in its flow. It is certainly possible to resist that flow, but it takes a combination of awareness of what is going on and the ability to mount a resistance. One of the reasons I often avoid movie theaters is that I find the pervasive flow of energy is very difficult to deal with. I find watching sports uninteresting, so it is harder for me to get sucked in and the flow of energy doesn’t bother me half as much as a movie I actually want to see and enjoy but not get energetically sucked into. This principle is also behind the “mob mentality” phenomenon, where people can literally lose themselves in their emotions and make really bad choices as a group as a result. So, to close out this article, I’m going to share with you how to keep from getting pulled in when you don’t want to.

It mostly involves making a conscious choice in one’s heart to detach emotionally from the situation. A river of energy works to pull you in by first inciting your emotions, and as your emotions get engaged, you unconsciously start feeding your energy into that river as well. Thus, begin by withdrawing your emotions. Once you do that, you will want to protect yourself from the river and keep it away from you, otherwise you will have to keep fighting the emotional pull toward it. I usually do this by envisioning (also known as imagining or visualizing) a barrier of golden glory light around me, but you could also accomplish the same by picturing God as a pillar of rock underneath you that lifts you up out the energetic river, or any other visualization method that you find helps. The key to visualization is that it helps you to engage your faith and direct your own energy (which in reality is faith energy, among other things) to accomplish the desired effect. Once you do that, the sucking feeling should diminish considerably if not cease bothering you entirely. If it doesn’t stop, you may want to consider either changing your location, or if that is not possible, to ask God to send angels to assist you. Someone who is less visual than me might prefer to pray instead of visualizing, but the end result is the same. Simply pray that the corporate energy has no power over you, is unable to touch you, and it loses all ability to try to exert its influence upon you. If the desired results are not reached, continue to pray until it becomes effective.

I hope this helps shed a little light on some of the spiritual interchange that happens around us, especially in corporate gatherings, as well as equips you to deal with it when it occurs in unwanted fashion. And if nothing else, I have given you a little glimpse into the spiritual world as I encounter it! Blessings!

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The Kingdom Within—The Reality Of The Inner Dimension

In my growing experience doing inner healing, I have come to understand that Inside each of us is a dimensional space of some kind. In this space, we actually have far more activity than we might imagine. For those who have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), this is where the various personalities exist when they are not the presenting part that is using the body at that moment. This is also the realm where demons inhabit if they are inside someone. It might be known as an “Inner World” or “Inner Dimension”, but it has a variety of names. I personally refer to it as one’s “System” simply because that is what my friends call it, but any of those three names are equally relevant, as might many more.

Luke 17:21 references this inner realm, saying, “nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Consider what that might mean. The Bible says that we each have the Kingdom of God inside of us. That passage doesn’t say that Jesus lives in us (although He does for those who are saved), but that within us is an entire realm of the Kingdom of God. Let that sink in. We know the Kingdom of God isn’t a tangible location on the earth. I can’t buy a plane ticket and fly there for the weekend, but we know it still exists, so its location must be other-dimensional. Some argue that it is a dimension that overlays ours, others think it is in outer space somewhere. I think it is probably both and more, but it is clearly also a dimension within each one of us.

This has some interesting implications. As I mentioned above, this inner System is where demons go when they are inside someone. Luke 11:24-26 says, “When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when he comes, he finds it swept and put in order. Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter and dwell there; and the last state of that man is worse than the first.” Also echoed in Matthew 12:43-45, this passage contains some interesting secrets. While I will not delve into the Greek here, there are some interesting details having to do with translation—ultimately the passages should say that the house is swept, ornate, and empty (read this article if interested in the Greek)

When we cast demons out of a person, if all we do is cast it out and do nothing to influence how the demon was able to get inside the system to begin with, then the demon will simply return later, find that the system it left earlier was cleaned up a bit and made nice and pretty for it, and it will bring roommates with it. When I cast out a demon, I first find out how it got access to begin with, and we remove the point(s) of access, often through prayers of renunciation. After making the demon leave, I pray for Holy Spirit to fill up every place the demon vacated. In doing so, it stops being swept clean and empty, but rather the door locked to the demon, swept clean, and filled with God’s glory.

This inner dimension can fit a lot of stuff because it isn’t relegated to the size of our bodies. Angels can be in there, demons can reside there, and Jesus can be enthroned in that dimension as well. This inner dimension is where strongholds are located. The Bible speaks in 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 about them, saying “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” At first glance it appears that Paul is talking about demolishing arguments other people are making, but if you read the sentences more closely, it actually seems Paul is talking about the inner world. We cannot take other people’s thoughts captive; only our own, so Paul is clearly talking about our own inner soul here, at least to some extent. Thus, if we understand that strongholds are some kind of castle or fortress, it makes far more sense that we can have strongholds inside us when we realize they exist inside the System. When we use the power of God to demolish those strongholds, we are waging war internally against the demonic, taking over Kingdom ground within us.

One observation about the Inner System is that we can create anything there that we want, literally by saying it. Job 22:28 says, “You will also declare a thing, and it will be established for you; so light will shine on your ways.” We create things with our words, and the workings of the System is a very good indicator of this. For example, I was recently working with one of my granddaughters, and this particular part was upset because she felt God doesn’t answer her prayers. I had this part ask God why her prayers aren’t answered, and from what she relayed to me, one of the reasons had to do with a lack of faith. She wasn’t sure what to make of that, so I began to explain what the Bible says about faith being a tangible force and energy, and then said “There is faith right in front of you. Look at it and tell me what you see.” This part, who is looking in front of her while inside the system says “Oh, I see this glass vial with blue liquid and it has a cork in it.” My declaration that faith was in front of her caused this spiritual item, a small glass bottle to appear inside her System. We must remember that God spoke and in speaking created myriads of realms, and we are made in His image. When I am doing inner healing with someone and speak something in faith, I release it into their inner system, and they can verify that it is there. This happens consistently, not just with that vial of faith (which, by the way, I had that fragment drink and she informed me it tasted like strawberries, cherries, and chocolate. What fun!).

When we decree a thing into the System, we establish it in the inner dimension. Because I know this when I start working with someone I make sure to add a few things that will help them. I decree a spring of the water of life appears in their system, that continually flows and turns into a river that runs throughout the entire system. I decree the Tree of Life is planted inside the System as well, and oftentimes parts who like gardening will grow them in their garden, which is again located inside this inner world. I have a friend who had one fragment who likes to garden, and this part began to weave small rafts of willow leaves and sends plant starts down the river into other areas of the System that we haven’t been able to access yet. The third thing I usually do is I decree a Healing Center into existence, and if the person doesn’t have any fragments or alters who are good at doing inner healing work (such as with my grandchildren) I staff the Healing Center with angels. By decreeing it, God assigns angels and they get sent into the System to staff the Center. All of these things have long-term positive benefits and ensure that healing is taking place inside even if we aren’t doing inner healing prayer at that time. And all of it occurs simply by declaration! No wonder the power of life and death is in the tongue!

I began pursuing inner healing and deliverance around fifteen years ago, in my early twenties, and working with the System is the fastest, easiest, and most effective manner of ministering inner healing I have ever seen. The reality of the Inner World is important to understand, and it helps provide a practical backdrop to understand where demons reside in a person before they are cast out and how multiple personalities can function. In general it helps us understand how we can work with the functions of the multidimensional reality we live in to help bring the healing power of Jesus Christ to the individual.

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SRA, CIA, DID: It’s Time To Get Ready

There is a lot going on politically in the US right now, and one of the subjects the media is unlikely to talk about is Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) and one of the resulting problems it creates in the victims, namely Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). To learn a little more about fragments and where they come from, you can read my blog article titled ‘”Fragments – Part 3 of Divine Healing That Works”

http://www.thekingsofeden.com/2016/05/divine-healing-that-works-part-3/

It is expected that in the next year or so, although probably much sooner, we are going to see a lot of new information come to light about sex trafficking, satanic ritual abuse, mind control, ritual human sacrifice, and other perverse activities occurring in the highest levels of the US government, media, and entertainment. What I believe we are going to see is that there are a great many SRA victims that no one knew about. How is this possible?

SRA involves, among a slew of demonic rituals and other dark activities, what is essentially a combination of brainwashing, hypnotism, and subconscious Pavlovian suggestions, creating what is termed a “program”. Many SRA alters are the results of this purposeful programming, such that they respond in very directed, predictable ways depending on the external stimuli such as special words or symbols. These victims also have a lot of curses and demonic control that further complicates the issue, but intentional fragmenting of the soul to create alternate identities that can be brainwashed is a key part of this process. It is believed that some of the perpetrators of recent school shootings may have been victims of such programming. The CIA used to run Project MK Ultra, a set of mind control programming experiments, to learn how to do this very thing (For those who have seen the movie The Manchurian Candidate, this is a perfect example of people who have undergone MK-Ultra level mental programming but who are not SRA.). You can read the Wikipedia entry on MK Ultra here for those who are interested. While the CIA publicly acknowledge that they shut down the MK Ultra program, which is technically true, it has moved past the experimental phase and simply has another name.

Whether SRA, CIA programming, or a combination of the two, the end result is going to be the same—alternate personalities (alters) that are essentially a fractured-off part of the individual’s soul that has formed its own unique identity. These alters may have programs that are very damaging, while others are more mundane—it varies from person to person, situation to situation, and alter to alter. I have an SRA friend who gave me her new cell phone number once, and later gave me a different one. Why the two numbers? The first time, an alter who isn’t usually responsible for handling that sort of thing gave me the number, and gave me the wrong one. Whoops! I remember hearing a story of another friend who walked into her kitchen and realized she had received some inner healing because all of her kitchen cabinet doors were open—she had unknowingly integrated the part who was responsible for shutting them. These are mundane stories but demonstrate experiences one might have if he or she has DID. Different parts do different things, and they don’t always share memories, so sometimes someone will have gaps in their memory because their core self wasn’t “awake” at the time an event occurred—an alter was and the core self didn’t have that memory.

I believe we are entering a new phase in history—a Great Awakening. I expect it will be filled with liberation of many of the governments of this world from corruption, as well as a mass-freeing of many who have been subjected to sex slavery, satanic ritual abuse, mind control, and much more. As this happens, however, we will need to have the right tools to help those around us who are struggling with demonic curses, split personalities, and mind programming. To do this, I believe we can do four things:

1. Become more aware of the problem. This can be done in a variety of ways, but even a cursory internet search will yield useful and helpful results. Amazon has a plethora of books on the subject as well. I have coauthored a book on the subject of fragments, alters, and inner healing titled “Broken To Whole“, available on Amazon. Two of the coauthors, Matt Evans and Diane Moyer, have written another book along similar lines, titled Divine Healing for Spirit, Soul, & Body.

2. Become aware of our own parts. As touched on in some of my other articles on the subject of fragments, alters, DID, and SRA, every person has fragments, but most people are unaware of them. Self-awareness and working on self-integration will help the individual prepare for working with or even just befriending others, as it gives perspective on what someone else could be experiencing. My article titled DID Self-Healing; Integrating Fragments and Alters is a useful resource to help move forward with this. A caution, it doesn’t work well for people who are SRA victims, as they tend to pass out and are unable to actually do the exercise. If anyone wants to work with a prayer counselor of some kind, you can go to our Resources page for a list of possible options.

3. Help others become more aware of the issue. With the advent of social media, this is very easy. For example, sharing this article or any of the others I have written on this subject on social media is a simple way to raise awareness with minimal effort. A simple internet search will yield a plethora of articles and information that can be shared with family and friends with the click of a button. Not everyone will gravitate to these subjects, but we all owe it to ourselves and those around us to become aware of the basics of this subject, if for no other reason than to not be caught unaware in the future. There may be people you or I know who have mind-programming and aren’t even aware of it until they read something you shared about the signs and symptoms of SRA. Dan Duval and Bride Ministries are a great resource for both personal learning and raising awareness. I also highly recommend the following informational resource: SMART – Ritual Abuse

4. Pray. Prayer is the foundation for anything we want to see happen. If we want corruption and evil exposed in the government, media, and entertainment industries, we pray. If we want to see people set free from this kind of bondage, we pray. Regardless of the situation, irrespective of the need, prayer should be the first solution to every problem. Let us pray for God to open our eyes to the truth, and show us how to walk in freedom and life.

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Define Your Vision – Bring Your Future Into Your Present

A few weeks ago I spent a little time praying about the direction God is taking my wife and me regarding our ministry and another health-related business we are building. I have been feeling a bit lost of late, not sure how to proceed in any direction, in spite of having a list of items I could accomplish, all of which would “get something done.” Somehow, this hasn’t felt like what I needed, so I took a short walk and began to talk to God about it. As I walked past a bush on a path, the Holy Spirit highlighted it to me, and he said to me, “Define Your Vision.”

As I looked at this bush, Holy Spirit spoke to me—not just in clear words, but through an inner knowing in my heart what the message was, and the message was this:
“That bush has tiny little buds all over it, that will grow into branches, with their own buds and branches and so on. The seed doesn’t know exactly what is going to happen every step of the way, but that doesn’t matter. The seed contains within itself the blueprint for the entire bush and its growth process, regardless of what happens. I want you to define your vision, your mission, to be like the seed. Define the DNA of what you are doing and where you are going. Define your vision, your end-product, from the beginning—as you grow the vision will guide you on your path.”

Interestingly, this word the Lord spoke to me is similar to something He shared with the prophet Habakkuk in Habakkuk 2:2-3, saying:
“Then the Lord replied:
“Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that he who reads it may run with it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it lingers, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.”

There is something that happens when you define your vision—it creates a clear path. This may be part of why I have felt a little unclear of late as to where we are headed and where we are growing to. I do see God growing The Kings of Eden, and I am excited with where I see us going to this point, but how long can a visionless, planless thing sustain itself? Not far. I used to think company mission statements were stupid. Typically they are incredibly broad and vague, not offering specific ideas or concepts. Over the past few years, I have realized that a mission statement is often broad and vague for a reason—it is the outline, the outermost parameters of an organization, not the individual goals that define the path. Certainly goals are important, and planning is what moves you from one phase to the next, but if goals are a single step each, then the mission is the journey of a thousand miles.

A mission statement helps define the vision in valuable ways, but the main one is actually pretty simple, and very straightforward. When any new idea comes forth, you simply have to ask one question “How does this forward the mission?” There are trillions of great ideas in the world, but if a great idea doesn’t forward the mission, then it is not the right idea—or at least not the right idea for that group. For example, consider that a business is about the pursuit of health. While someone might have a great idea about how the business can help people enhance personal prosperity, unless it is somehow tied into health, it doesn’t match the mission. Mind you, it might be a great idea for another company, and that individual may even go on to form a new company with that idea in mind, but then he or she will design a mission and vision that match with that idea.

I personally believe this idea is applicable in far more areas of life than it might seem at first glance. You don’t have to have a mission statement for everything you do, but at least define your vision—get clear about those things that are important to you and those that aren’t. Figure out the things you want to focus most on in life, and purpose to make time for them. Identify those things that really are somewhat extraneous, and see how you can reduce or even eliminate them entirely. This even works when spring-cleaning, clearing out clutter to get ready to move, or with any other project. What belongings do you own that don’t fit with where you are headed? Define your vision, then dump the extra baggage! You will be glad you did.

There is something about putting definition to something, framing it and making it real in your mind, that gives it life and energy and helps it to spring forth into reality. If you have been feeling unclear about where you are headed in any area of life, take time to define your vision. We are in the process of doing that now, and I believe it will only help us as we move forward. I’m excited, actually, because I believe this is the beginning of many new things to come!

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Missing The Mark – When Prophecies Fail

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I had a private discussion recently with some friends regarding prophecy, and specifically when they don’t come to pass. While we didn’t all see eye to eye on every point, I thought it was an enlightening discussion, and I want to share some of what we reviewed with you all.

First, we looked at why prophecies might fail. The most obvious reason is that the word wasn’t from God to begin with, and therefore had almost no chance of coming to pass in the first place. While this is a definite possibility, even if a word doesn’t originate from God, we have creative power and can speak forth words of life, calling things that have not yet existed into reality by faith. Thus, whether a word originates directly from God or not isn’t a guarantee whether it will happen or fail.

Sometimes prophecies fail because there was demonic resistance. Actually, I personally think this is the primary reason they fail. When God speaks destiny to someone, the first thing the enemy wants to do is steal it so they can destroy it. If a prophetic word is given to us, it is so we can apply our faith and action to it, pray over the realities contained therein, and engage heaven to see it come to pass. It’s often not sufficient to let a word sit there and expect it to work all by itself.

On the other hand, some words simply don’t need an action. A word that is encouraging or comforting often doesn’t need any response other than to receive God’s goodness in our hearts, but then, those words aren’t in danger of failing to happen either. If a word does require a response, our best answer is prayer. As we continue to pray over what God has shared with us, we empower angels to remove all demonic resistance against it, and in doing so we create room in the spirit for it to occur. On the other hand, failure to do this may result in the word failing. Does this mean the prophecy was false? Not necessarily, which is hard for some to hear. It could be a missed opportunity.

Likewise, as mentioned above it is also possible that the word was false, and therefore didn’t come to pass. In these situations it means we might have failed to use adequate discernment in the first place. It’s a fact that people make mistakes, and the prophetic is no different. I have given people prophecies before that were obtuse-sounding but extremely accurate, and some that were very simple but I couldn’t have missed it further. On rare occasion I will give a word in a situation where I physically cannot correct myself as the person has already left, and I later think to myself “Wow, how did I miss that so badly?” It happens. We all must learn to walk in both grace and discernment. Grace for when people miss it, and discernment so we know when we are hearing from God and when a word just isn’t what it seems to be.

I remember a while back when someone posted a very drastic prophetic word with specific dates. He had received confirmation after sign after sign after confirmation that everything he was hearing was correct. The dates came and went and literally nothing happened. He was pretty badly beaten down by other people when this happened, which I don’t think was kind or appropriate, but was also somewhat unavoidable. When prophecies have dates attached it can be that we either heard wrong, misinterpreted what we heard, or heard correctly and something changed. Prayer alters reality, and even in the face of doom and disaster we can pray and see things change. Does that mean the man heard correctly? In spite of the signs it is possible he missed it. It’s also equally possible he hit it square on and prayer changed the outcome, averting potential disaster. How do we know which it is? We don’t—which is why I believe it is always best to extend grace to people when they mess up. It could be me in that position someday, and I’d rather receive grace, so I should probably give it to others. We reap what we sow.

One of the pitfalls of the prophetic is that there are so many variables. More often than not a prophecy is an invitation from God to engage with Him to see His will manifest on the earth. It’s rarely a statement of absolute that says what will or will not come to pass without fail, and more often it is a telling-forth of God’s highest plan and purpose. If we engage with God then those plans will probably occur, and if we do not adequately engage then we might miss out. We could engage heavily and the warfare might just be so intense that it still fails, or the situation could change in prayer and the whole scenarios just ends up very different than we originally thought. Or, we could sit on our laurels and do nothing and it still happens. When we hear the original word do we ignore it, or do we activate our faith? And how much of a difference does that even make?

My purpose in making this as confusing as possible is to point out that there are a number of spiritual dynamics at play when a prophecy is given. It is rarely as cut-and-dry as some try to make it seem, and very rarely is a failed prophecy the result of a false prophet who intentionally misleads. More often than not it’s the result of any or all of the dynamics mentioned above and then some. Regardless of the reason that a word doesn’t come to pass, I encourage you to keep your head up and don’t let disappointment get the better of you. God has good plans for you to bring health, life, and abundance your way. He doesn’t cause bad things to happen to you, and He only works toward your good. Draw a bit nearer to Him today and listen with your own heart at the things He would share with you. Let Him minister to your soul in every place of disillusionment and frustration. Let Him lead you beside still waters and restore your soul.

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Don’t Fear Demons—Make Demons Fear YOU

Last weekend we had an AWESOME time hosting the 2018 Portland School of Resurrection (Head over to Oneglance.org if you want to host one yourself). At the end, we had a fire tunnel, which is basically a cross between a gauntlet and a prayer line. You walk between two lines of people and everyone lays hands on you as you go, with the expectation that you will continue to be filled with the Holy Spirit and power until you reach the end of the line. At one point, a friend walked through and as people laid hands on her, she began to choke. I had felt led to keep an eye on her as she went through, and it turned out this was why—I could see her mouthing “I can’t breathe” as she held her hands to her neck and was crying.

Normally this might seem like a medical emergency, but under the circumstances, it was something different. This friend has a history of Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA), and as a result has what is commonly termed Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID. This condition involves the fracturing of the soul into different pieces, fragments and alters, to try to protect the individual from the pain of trauma. While everyone has fragments, in SRA this is done on-purpose for a variety of reasons, but mostly it is to use the soul like a spiritual battery. If you want to learn more about fragments and alters, DID, SRA, or just effective inner healing as a whole, check out my coauthored book Broken To Whole.

Back to my choking friend, I pulled her out of the prayer line immediately as I commanded the demons to let go of her, and sat her down on a seat next to us. I then asked her who I was talking to. The first thing she did was scrunch up her face and hiss at me. I immediately began to call her core personality up, saying “_(Name)_, come up!” I did this because I wasn’t quite sure how to get the demons to stop harassing her, or where to go next, and getting her back up seemed like a good place to start. While I rapidly got one of her main alters back up, as her core self was unavailable, I believe I missed out on an opportunity to bring her into greater freedom.

In hindsight, I probably should have taken a few minutes to interrogate the spirit who was hissing at me, as I probably would have discovered its entry point and been able to get rid of it once and for all. After all, what was it going to do—hiss at me some more?? I think sometimes we get afraid when we start dealing with demons. We wonder what is happening to the person inside when the demon is up and controlling the face or body. We wonder if the demon is going to hurt us (and in all reality, some can, so it’s not an absurd notion to consider), or other concerns or fears. The problem is that if we give in to those fears, try to avoid the demons, or otherwise freak out, we will miss out on opportunities to help people, like I believe I did.

While a good friend did spend some time praying with her afterwards, and I believe some good was done, she had been afraid the entire time that this episode was going to scare someone there. And in fact it had scared someone, but the truth is that demons exist, they like to hide their presence in people, and don’t want people to get rid of them. If someone gets scared because of a fairly weak, hissing demon, then how is that person going to be very effective against powers of darkness? I believe this encounter could have been not just a time of deliverance for my friend, but possibly even a time of practical training for some of the other people present—a moment where they could encounter a very real spiritual being and discover just how far the authority and power of Jesus Christ in us extends.

In Matthew 28:18-20 Jesus said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Jesus both taught and commanded his disciples to cast out demons, so how is it any different for me and you? As the Church, we need to help people grow to a place where you don’t fear demons—but rather make the demons fear you.

When Our Prayers Go Unanswered

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Some of you who have followed my goings-on this past week on social media know that last Monday a friend’s husband died, and that since then we have steadfastly pursued his resurrection from the dead. I wrote an article about it last week here, titled Staying The Course To Raise The Dead. Well, the funeral was yesterday, and unfortunately he wasn’t raised. I’ll be honest, I’m rather upset about that fact, and I’m really not okay with it either. With that said, when things don’t go our way, and our prayers aren’t answered, how do we respond? What can we do? There are a variety of responses people have, but I think there are a few things we need to keep in mind in any situation when situations go wrong and our prayers go unanswered.

God Is Never Wrong

The first thing we have to remember is that God is perfect. Getting angry at God never solves anything, because the fact is that He is never wrong. Get angry at the devil, get angry at the situation, get angry at whatever, but getting angry with God is just silly. He’s the only one who can fix things anyway, and getting upset with Him only puts up another roadblock between you and the Ultimate Solution.

Unanswered Prayer Isn’t Necessarily a “No”

God and I discussed this failed-resurrection on the drive in to work last evening, and He said this to me: “There are far more things going on in the spirit realm that influence your prayers than you have any concept of.” Usually when prayers go unanswered people assume God actually *did* answer—but the answer was “No”. I am pretty sure that is rarely the case. Certainly it does occur, as it did with Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:7-8, but more often than not, what we assume is a No is actually God sending an answer that got waylaid along the way. Remember back to Daniel 9 where Daniel prays, and then in Chapter 10 where he fasts for three weeks, and after doing so an angel visits him. This angel explains that he had been held up by the Prince of Persia, a demonic ruling spirit in the heavens, and this angel had to get help from Michael the Archangel to break through the demonic resistance to get to Daniel. This entire process of spiritual warfare took 21 days to occur, during which Daniel remained in fasting and prayer. Consider what might have occurred if Daniel hadn’t fasted and prayed until the angel got breakthrough and showed up. Presumably, he never would have gotten his answer. I really like something that Apostle John Mulinde wrote titled “How Satan Stops Our Prayers: Combat In The Heavenly Realms“. Similar to what happened in Daniel 10, it outlines just a few of the things that occur in the spiritual realms that influence whether our prayers are answered or not.

God Doesn’t Cause Bad Things To “Teach Us”

One of the more irritating things I hear people teach others is that God either directly causes or passively and indirectly “allows” bad things to happen to us so that we can learn. Right alongside that is that He doesn’t answer our prayers because He wants us to walk through the problems and experience the pain, difficulty, and suffering so that we can grow. Often cited is Paul’s thorn in the flesh in 2 Corinthians 12:7-9, where it is presumed God gave Paul an affliction of some kind in order to help him remain humble—which is basically the same as saying “to teach him a life lesson.” The Bible is full of references to God’s overarching goodness. No truly good God would engage in what is essentially abusive behavior to “teach” his kids to grow into maturity. This means that either God isn’t good, which is untrue, or that God isn’t abusive, and thus doesn’t cause or “allow” calamity to teach us lessons. I can think of a number of more constructive ways to teach my grandkids not to touch fire than holding their hands to a flame to burn them, thereby teaching them its dangers. Humans go to jail for that sort of thing.

I find it frustrating and difficult when prayers aren’t answered—I think we all do. But we have to choose the correct response to the situation. Sometimes all we can do is say “We’ll just have to get the next one.” It’s a highly unsatisfying answer, but sometimes that’s the only choice we can make (because I don’t consider giving up to be an option). Sometimes we have to continue to persevere in prayer, recognizing that if we continue long enough, we should eventually get the breakthrough. Sometimes we need to spend some time talking to God to learn what we should do differently in the future. While unanswered prayer doesn’t occur as a purposeful lesson, we can still learn from our experiences, and grow for the future.

At the end of the day, we must be rooted and grounded in the goodness of God, His love for us, and an understanding that even when our prayers aren’t answered how we want, we are sowing into a higher reality that we are pressing toward, and that our prayers never go to waste. As we continue forward, we will step into higher realms of power and authority, and eventually we will see things come to pass in a timely, and even easy manner.

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The Mechanism of a Vow

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A few weeks ago I was jumping on our trampoline with the grandgirls, when one of them, playing make-believe, announced that she was vowing something. I couldn’t even tell you what it was, nor what pretend game she was playing, but I immediately stopped her, then explained to all of them that they are never to make vows under any circumstances. This is uncommon, and unpopular, but I find it very important, and very scriptural. Most people make vows when they get married—my wife and I did not. If people understood vows, I believe they wouldn’t make them, ever, and believe the reason most people do is because they don’t understand the mechanism of a vow.

To explore this subject we need to look at what a vow is, what it does, and why we shouldn’t make them.

What is a Vow?

A vow is a promise that carries spiritual weight behind it. It is best understood as a legal contract that requires payment. Vows are agreements to perform some kind of action, and the payment is the action that the vow states one will do.

Numbers 30:2 says, “If a man makes a vow to the LORD, or takes an oath to bind himself with a binding obligation, he shall not violate his word; he shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.”

A vow is a binding obligation that requires one to do everything that he or she has stated in the vow, as it says above. Some other verses related to paying vows are as follows:

Psalm 50:14 “Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving and pay your vows to the Most High;”

Psalm 66:13 “I shall come into Your house with burnt offerings; I shall pay You my vows . . .”

Proverbs 7:14 “I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.”

What Does A Vow do?

Because a vow is a legal agreement, it carries weight of authority behind it. If the vow is fulfilled, the person is released from it. If not, they reap the consequences of failing to fulfill the terms of the contract.

For this reason Deuteronomy 23:21-23 says, “When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you shall not delay to pay it, for it would be sin in you, and the LORD your God will surely require it of you. However, if you refrain from vowing, it would not be sin in you. You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised.”

It is important to follow through and keep the vows we make, as they are legally binding in the spirit realm and the laws of the universe are designed to enforce the vows we make. A vow essentially creates a covenant between you and the cosmos, and the spiritual laws of the universe expect you to fulfill that which you have vowed. It is a bit like how nature abhors a vacuum—a vow is a bit like creating a vacuum, and nature expects you to fill it.

Why We Shouldn’t Make Vows

Jesus was very clear when he spoke about vows, as was James.

Matthew 5:33-37 says, “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’ But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.”

James 5:12 says, “Above all, my brothers and sisters, do not swear—not by heaven or by earth or by anything else. All you need to say is a simple “Yes” or “No.” Otherwise you will be condemned.”

The reason James exhorts people not to make vows is that when you fail to fulfill the vow, you bring yourself under condemnation because you have broken a spiritual agreement. Jesus explained that we are not to swear oaths or vows for any reason because we don’t have control over making anything happen no matter how hard we try. Thus, if we say something we should simply make an effort to keep our word without creating spiritually binding legal contracts. If we do, we are playing into the plans of the enemy, as they will attempt to prevent us from fulfilling the terms, placing us under condemnation and giving them an easy ability to attack us.

There are some other passages that give us wisdom in regards to vow-making, or rather not making them at all.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-5 says, When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools; fulfill your vow. It is better not to make a vow than to make one and not fulfill it.

Proverbs 20:25 – It is a trap for a man to say rashly, “It is holy!” And after the vows to make inquiry.

Malachi 1:14 “But cursed be the swindler who has a male in his flock and vows it, but sacrifices a blemished animal to the Lord, for I am a great King,” says the LORD of hosts, “and My name is feared among the nations.”

These three verses show us that
1) it is better to not make a vow than to make it and fail it
2) It is foolish to make vows without knowing what you are getting into in advance
3) if you don’t follow through with your vow, you come under a curse.

Conclusion

When we understand that vows are a spiritual contract that legally binds us to either complete the vow or suffer under a curse which opens doors for the enemy to attack us via sin (the sin of breaking the vow), we will understand that making vows is foolishness. The mechanism of a vow is incredibly important. Consider the negative effects that can occur in one’s marriage if you make a vow that you end up breaking somewhere down the line. Will the judgments that the cosmos sends your way due to your actions help or hurt your marriage? How is making that vow actually going to help you be a good spouse if those things aren’t inside your heart already—and if they are inside your heart anyway, do you really need to make a vow?

Jesus and James both instructed people not to make vows for a reason. The simple solution is to not make them, no matter what tradition tells us we should do whether at a wedding or in any other situation. We must become people of integrity who are known for keeping our word. This is evidence of the fruit of the Spirit at work in our lives, and is our responsibility as sons and daughters of God.

How How To Get Free From Past Vows

Most people have already made vows sometime in the past, whether a “pledge” to a group or organization, even harmless ones like the Boy Scouts, or even to a nation. While personally I support my country, I don’t believe in pledges because they are simply a vow by another name. If you have already made vows and want to get free, it is usually fairly simple, and can be done in four easy steps through prayer.

1. Acknowledge that you made a vow

2. State that you repent (which means to change your thinking) from doing so.

3. Break agreement with the vow

4. Decree that the blood of Jesus makes it null and void and releases you from it.

In some cases, such as with Freemasonry, you may feel led by the Spirit to do more specific and in-depth prayer, but in most cases the above four steps should suffice. As with all things, pray as you feel led by God in the moment, and pay attention to other prompts you may feel such as praying over an article of clothing related to that group, or even destroying documents you may have signed your name to in a pledge. (Please note this does not apply to legal documents such as wills, mortgages, and such. I am only referring to those pledges and vows that are to groups and organizations, not legal agreements which are the equivalent of you putting your “yes” down on paper, and which you will need at a later date.)

You might pray this prayer or something similar:

Heavenly Father, I acknowledge that I have made vows to (the group or person you vowed) saying (state the actual promises you made if you can remember. If not, skip this part). I repent for making them, and choose according to your Word to no longer make vows, and let my “yes” stand alone. I break agreement and come out of alignment with those vows, and apply the blood of Jesus to cover and protect me. I decree that the blood of Jesus has already paid every penalty for breaking these vows, and I thank you Jesus for your shed blood that sets me free from every mistake. I receive the forgiveness and freedom that comes from you right now. Amen.