Purify What You Believe

There’s a strong connection between bad habits and demonic influence, and frankly, they flow into each other. The human person is a spirit, and so, if he has a habit, it’s a spiritual habit. Habits are formed from the repetition of actions. There are good habits, and there are bad habits. If you practice good actions, they result in good habits; if you practice bad actions, they result in bad habits.

Satan often takes the opportunity of bad habits to manipulate people. However, he can’t force his will upon anyone ordinarily; rather, it’s about a man yielding himself to the devil or refusing to do so. If he yields himself to the devil, then the devil takes advantage of him. Most people yield themselves without realizing they’re doing it. Hence, walking in the spirit and the knowledge of the Word is vital to a victorious Christian life.

Jesus said, “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.” This means the Word of God is a cleanser; it purifies you. If you take the Word of God and meditate on it, it’ll rid you of anything that’s unwholesome or unclean. It’ll eradicate the darkness from your life.

Once, I was ministering to a lady and rebuking the devil from her, and there was a young man standing behind me among those who were watching. When I was done, he got my attention and said, “Pastor, I used to have the same problem that you just dealt with in that lady. I had those same evil spirits in me.” I said, “So what happened?” He said, “Through meditation on God’s Word, they all left me.” That’s the power of God’s Word!

You don’t need to have deliverance services to cast out devils from Christians; teach them the Word. The Christian is superior to Satan; he’s seated with Christ, far above principality and power. So, if you’ve been under some demonic attacks or influence, if you’d consciously meditate on God’s Word, you’ll free yourself. You can say, “In the Name of Jesus Christ, I break the influence of Satan and evil spirits over my life and my actions and refuse to yield to their sway henceforth!”

The irony we see in Christian churches and belief system today is this obsession with demons, demonology, curses, spiritual attack, village people, family battle, enemy of father’s house, enemy of mother’s house, principalities and powers, prince of Persia, spirit husband, spirit wife, reincarnation, divination and other strange beliefs which were never part of the wholesome gospel of salvation which we all confessed to that brought us into the Kingdom of God.

These belief systems have become institutionalized in African churches, so that the average African believer does not believe he is a Christian if he is not mention these things in the place of prayer, buy books written about them, or go for deliverance, either to cast out demons or as a preventive measure so that he or she does not become inhabited by demons

When we believe wrong things, we think wrong thoughts, we come to wrong conclusions, and we take wrong actions.

The purity of our faith demands that we purge ourselves of everything that is not listed as part of our reality in the Epistles.

A man can be demon-possessed as an unbeliever, but as soon as he gives his life to Jesus and confesses Jesus as Lord and Savior, he or she is instantly translated out of demonic reality into Christ.

He can roll on the floor, vomit, shudder, and shiver during this translation process, but once that is done, he or she does not need to do any form of deliverance again

If he or she is taught the word of God as instructed, he or she will be made whole.

Why then do some believers who have been born again for several years still exhibit signs of demon possession and mixed realities? The problem is their polluted belief systems.

They believe they are saved, and at the same time, they believe that the devil is powerful and can harm them, thus they have given a foothold to the devil and open up their spirits unto strange afflictions like dreams, nightmares, trances and night terrors.

*…but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God (1 Corinthians).

In Christ Jesus, we’ve been washed, sanctified, and justified in the Name of the Lord and by His Spirit so we can serve Him in holiness and righteousness all the days of our lives. Luke 1:74-75 says, “…we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.”

Some Christians want to manifest the glory of God in their lives, yet they don’t believe in the right things.

They don’t maintain the purity of the Spirit.

Christianity is a call to righteousness. The Christ-life in you must be lived accordingly, and the Word of God is your light. You can’t believe anything you choose.

You must only believe the Word of God and the Reality of the Holy Spirit at work in you

The Lord Jesus in John said, “And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.” Here, He emphasized the power of sanctification; the power of separating yourself from the wrong beliefs; the power of purifying your mind and your life.

There’s a way of life that’s not right for a Christian, and if you’re going to fulfil the purpose of God for your life, you must live a pure and holy life. You’re God’s vessel; you’ve been sanctified to be in fellowship with the Holy Spirit on a clean life. Don’t jeopardize that communion because of a bad attitude, behavior, or worldly lifestyle.

Don’t live in sin, for the Bible says sin shall not have dominion over you: “Remember this: sin will not conquer you, for God already has! You are not governed by law but governed by the reign of the grace of God” (Romans TPT). You’ve been called into liberty to live righteously for the Lord. Yield to the authority and Lordship of the Word and submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in your life. Romans TPT says, “The mature children of God are those who are moved by the impulses of the Holy Spirit.”

Don’t live in sin, for the Bible says sin shall not have dominion over you: “Remember this: sin will not conquer you, for God already has! You are not governed by law but governed by the reign of the grace of God” (Romans TPT). You’ve been called into liberty to live righteously for the Lord. Yield to the authority and Lordship of the Word and submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in your life. Romans TPT says, “The mature children of God are those who are moved by the impulses of the Holy Spirit.”

-GSW-