They picked us up at the airport in Kinshasa, Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of Congo). A wealthy man in the government was hosting a gathering of Christians in his home. We drove up to the house but we couldn’t go in. We waited and found out why the delay.
Our host and his family drove up. They had just buried one of their sons. He’d died of tetanus poisoning. Though our host was a wealthy man and had the means to put the word out that he urgently needed the vaccine, there was none to be had in the entire country and his son died.
The leader of his country had riches beyond belief, but he who served him could get no help for his son. Why not?
The man at the top chose his priorities and set up a system that worked for his benefit, but the people under him suffered. This kind of despotism has not only invaded the political realm, but we see it in education, business, entertainment, religion and almost every institution of life. I’ve seen it in heads of departments in the school system. I’ve seen it in top training positions of certain organizations. I’ve seen it even in lower level managers in small businesses.
These people, who God calls sons of Belial are not just interested in the top levels of the mega organizations. Anywhere they can get a position of decision-making, they will try to get in. Their oppressive ways trickle down to effect everyone under them if possible. They need to be stopped. God shows us how we can be involved.
The Lord exposes them and shows us through the life of His beloved David, what we can do to bring them down.
God trained David early to be a fighter of giants. As a shepherd boy he fought for the life of his sheep when he killed a bear and a lion. As a young man, he killed Goliath to protect the people of Israel. As an adult he fought the devil spirits working in the sons of Belial, or as Dale Sides calls them, SOBs!* We often think of how awesome it was that he killed Goliath with only a slingshot and a small pebble, but we miss the first weapon he used in the battle—the WORDS he fired against Goliath:
David answered, “You come at me with sword and spear and battle-ax. I come at you in the name of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel’s troops, whom you curse and mock. This very day God is handing you over to me. I’m about to kill you, cut off your head, and serve up your body and the bodies of your Philistine buddies to the crows and coyotes. The whole earth will know that there’s an extraordinary God in Israel. And everyone gathered here will learn that God doesn’t save by means of sword or spear. The battle belongs to God—he’s handing you to us on a platter!” MSG
These words of David were powerful and when he spoke them, they came to pass. When David became king, many SOBs come against him. Just like God gave David words to speak against Goliath, He gave him (and us) strong words to speak against the spiritual Goliaths we encounter.
These words are violent and they are for those who are ready to battle a strong Goliath that must be taken down. The following are just a few of the Psalms David prayed against the sons of Belial:
Psalm 58: 6-8 “Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord. Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.”
Psalm 7:11-16 “God is angry with the wicked [SOBs] every day. If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready. He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors. Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood. He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made. His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.”
Psalm 109: 6-12 “Set thou a wicked man over him [the SOB]: and let Satan stand at his right hand. When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him.”
2 Thessalonians 1:6 “Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you.”
There are many more of these prayers in the Psalms that you’ll now be able to recognize and use. This will help you in personal attacks and also enable you to go to battle for others. I pray several of these every day out loud.
I’ve only been able to give you a brief overview of this powerful weapon against an enemy who effects so many and yet is still so well hidden from most Christians. We are in a spiritual war and the devil is getting bolder and more viscious the closer he gets to the end. We can turn his tactics back on him and help rescue our fellow Christians from his destructive ways.
*I highly recommend getting Dale Sides’s book, Exposing Sons of Belial: Identifying and Overcoming Children of the Devil. See Liberating Ministries for Christ International http://www.lmci.org/index.cfm e-store, under booklets. It is a powerful revelation and well worth the reading for anyone who wants more knowledge, wisdom and training in this area.
Love, Carolyn
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