There seems to be rather a lot of intense spiritual attack going on against those involved in 24-7 right now. In the last couple of weeks, several people have been having unusual nightmares (at least 3 people), people have had trouble sleeping, a couple of people are feeling undervalued, one person has been feeling extremely low for no apparent reason, several people are feeling disempowered, one person is being hassled by someone who won’t leave them alone, there’s been a car crash, and two people have had to go to hospital, resulting in one being hospitalised.
On one level I’m encouraged that we’re drawing this level of spiritual flak – it suggests to me that the discussions we’re having about the future of the 24-7 movement, and the things that we’re doing right now, have the enemy worried. Jesus makes it clear that we are to expect this kind of opposition. However, we’re only human, and we need to be experiencing Christ’s victory over all this in the here and now. Please pray that the Lord would give us the prayer strategies we need to bring us through to the green pastures of Psalm 23.
pete – you’re absolutely right – I should have been praying more – not just for myself but also for the movement. thanks for all that you do and for being strong for the rest of us. Take care
Each year when October rolls around we’re reminded of the need to cover each other in prayer a little more. Its the witching month. There’s been a rash of narly dreams and wierdness on our side of the pond as well.
oh, I’m not the only one having a hard time sleeping? weird dreams and such?
hey there Pete, i was at the ILG and before the session on the first night i was pinned into my bed at my hostel by a demon… At the same time, back home in Canada, my little 9 month old boy vomitted 20 times in one hour.
When he was three months old i was preaching on a first nations (indian/ native/ aboriginal) reserve in Alberta. Two kids in the room were foaming at the mouth. Three fell asleep when i mentioned Jesus. The youth worker who I was travelling with started choking relentlessly at the back of the room. When we left the reserve my wife called on my mobile to tell me she was rushing our youngest boy to the hospital because he could not breathe. He was sick for six months…
Today, I’m heading into a seven day fast. Last night the enemy came at me in bed again. Every day and night is a fight. And we must keep watch and have eyes to see through the dust clouds on the battle field. It’s just shadows and dust. All power is in Christ. His light pierces through.
I tell you all this to get to this point. My little boy was finally healed. He was healed the day I quit my job with Billy Graham. The night before I quit I had an extensive vision and then God led me to a passage in Joshua where Joshua speaks over the fallen Jericho and says that anyone who tries to rebuild the ruins will do so at the expense of their first born and youngest child.
There was a principle there for me. I wasn’t going to rebuild some ruin at the expense of my children. I put in my letter of resignation and came home and as a sign of my obedience, my son had been healed.
Now, I’m not saying everyone in 24-7 needs to resign. I just spent the last four days in B.C. praying for people non-stop for three of those days…on behalf of 24-7. Hours of intercession a day, away from my wife and kids (with their permission and blessing).
But, the principle is that we have to be careful with boundary stones and access and permission and boldly going where God is and not foolishly going where he may not be.
God is bringing you deeper into his heart, not further into the world. The focus has to be Him. With Him as your center you enter His world. Be careful of your justice at the expense of his righteousness. Be careful to identify key boundary stones set up by your forefathers. Be careful to get permission, whatever form that takes, before crossing over into that new place. Zechariah saw that Jerusalem was a city without walls and the wall was blazing fire… supernova “with” a center.
Centred in the worship of our Father at His throne.
Grounded in the word of Christ at His cross.
Launched into the witness of His Spirit into His world.
In spiritual warfare I barely ever talk to evil spirits…be it a curse or a stonghold or whatever. I’ve been in multiple car accidents, had my body racked with mysterious illnesses and near death moments, seen those i love suffer under oppression and broken bodies and minds. If I must speak with spirits, I send them to Chirst. I’d rather meet the angel in the room than the demon. I also annoint things and people with oil. My 5 year old boy and 3 year old girl were annointing an Indie band in our living room a few days back. My little girl with her oily finger putting a cross on a guys forehead saying, “You belong to God.” Very precious.
Stand your ground brother, let nothing move you. Stand still and watch the Lord your God deliver you. As you still and quiet your soul like a weaned child with its mother, the waters will part, you will walk onto dry ground, enter the land promised, and witness the chariots of the enemy engulfed in heavens fury.
Every chariot you and I construct is a thought that has not been brought captive to Christ. Any thought I have outside of Chirst is a chariot.
God, in the depths of your pressured seas lie all the chariots I have ever made. I am free of them. The racing, the inertia, the anxiety. All gone in Jesus name. I am on the other side of that. I turn my back on it and view the land before me…Ai will have its test. And Jericho will seem insurmountable. I am about to meet the angel of the Lord and He is about to tell me to get in line behind him and march.
Hey Pete :o) I just read your newsletter and thought I’d check out your blog … I can totally relate to this post! Spiritual warfare comes with the territory of being a Christian – particularly with what you are doing at 24/7 and the huge impact the ministry is having on so many people.
Here at Viva Network ( http://www.viva.org ) we have so much spiritual warfare whenever we are breaking through in heavenly terms – sickness, accidents, sleep disruption, nightmares, computer systems crashing – and particularly around the annual World Wide Day of Prayer for Children at Risk. Satan seems to get seriously worried about the impact we’re having. What we’ve found is that we need to take so seriously the need to wear our armour and fight.
I live in an area where there are high levels of witchcraft at work and I often find I have to call on angels for help – it is an awesome thing to witness when they have been commissioned into action! … And I frequently experience backlashes whenever I’ve had speaking engagements (e.g. sharing my testimony on BBC radio last week). It seems to be worse in October, because of Halloween. But we have all authority in Christ to bind and silence the demonic and there is immense power in the name of Jesus. “For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds” (2 Cor.10:3-4) …
May God bless you Pete and give you and all of you at 24/7 courage, discernment and wisdom as you fight :o)
Amen to that!
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