CONFINING TOWERS OF BABEL,
HINDERING THEIR INFLUENCE
Living so close to the Las
Vegas Strip, we’ve noticed that when certain conventions or events come to town,
they can have a bad influence on the spiritual atmosphere and it starts to
affect us. When lots of people come together to participate in something that’s
contrary to God’s Word, their demons get stirred up and they like to extend
their influence into the community at large. This isn’t unique to Las Vegas. I’m
sure if you think about it, you’ve seen it in your own cities, towns and
villages as well.
But the Lord has given us
some revelation on how to contain and confine the devil spirits and prevent
them from affecting us.
Sometimes we take things
too personally. Often when we feel bad, it’s not even us; it’s demons in the
atmosphere pushing at us. I don’t know what was here this weekend, but yesterday
was so agitated outside, it was dangerous and this morning was particularly
heavy, really oppressive. I didn’t feel like doing my hair, didn’t feel like
writing and my brain was foggy. It just wasn’t like me. But I’ve felt this so
often before on a Saturday or Sunday morning, I finally realized it isn’t me.
It’s a group of demons come to town.
The Lord gave me revelation
on this by reminding me of Nimrod. In Genesis 10:9 we learn that King Nimrod
was “the mighty hunter before the Lord.” When it says “before the Lord,” it
means he was in His face, against the true God. Nimrod got the people together
and “they said, ‘Let us build a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven;
and let us make a name [for ourselves]’” (Gen. 11:4).
“And the Lord came down to
see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. And the Lord said,
‘Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and now nothing
will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Let us go down,
and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s
speech’” (Gen. 11:5-7). When the people were together, they were united in the
words they spoke. It’s like when you agree with someone and you say, “You’re
speaking my language.”
The awesome thing here
is that when the Lord God confounded their literal language, they couldn’t
communicate with each other. When people can’t communicate, especially when it
comes to getting a project done, they can’t agree and that brings envy and strife.
James 3:6 says, “Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil
work.”
So the Lord showed me
that we could pray for this to happen with whatever demons had come to town. I
prayed that God’s strong angels would surround them and that the agitation, the
envy, the strife and the confusion would happen within the confines of the
convention or event and that it would not penetrate the angelic walls put up by
the Lord to surround them keep them in one place. It’s like putting those devil
spirits in detention, so they couldn’t get to us anymore.
Within minutes of
praying this, my mind was totally clear and I had plenty of energy to get going
on the day. The difference is astonishing and it works every time. It will work
for you too.
Another Biblical
example of this is found in Second Chronicles 20. It’s the story of Jehoshaphat
and his people. Three different nations came together for a type of convention
or event in the wilderness of Tekoa: It was called war! They all got together
to take what Jehoshaphat had. But Jehoshaphat and his people prayed and “when
they began to sing and to praise [for the victory they anticipated], the Lord
set ambushments.”
“For the children of
Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of mount Seir, utterly to slay
and destroy them; and when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir,
every one helped to destroy another” (2 Chron. 20:22-23).
When Jehoshaphat and
the people came to see what was going on, “behold, they were dead bodies fallen
to the earth, and none escaped” (v. 24).
That’s the thing about
some demons, they are so stupid, they start to fight and kill each other!
So if you sometimes
feel the pressure or heaviness of the spiritual atmosphere, or you sense a
strong agitation, don’t automatically think it’s something wrong with you. Ask
the Lord what’s going on. It could very well be that there is some kind of
gathering near you that you can spiritually confine and keep at bay.
Though we would love to
deliver everyone from the demons that manipulate them, it’s not always
possible. But it is possible to detain the demons, confine them to a certain
areas and prevent them from affecting us. Through Jesus Christ we have the
authority and ability.
Love, Carolyn
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