HOW TO MAKE EVIL GATHERINGS INEFFECTIVE
In Las Vegas we’ve noticed that when certain 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
contrary to God’s Word, their demons get stirred up, and they like to extend
their influence into the community at large. I know you’ve seen this kind of
thing in your own cities, and communities. But the Lord has given us revelation
on how to make these gatherings ineffective.
Sometimes we don’t recognize the influence of gatherings such as
witches’ covens and Satan worshipers on full moon nights, or gatherings of
terrorist pods, or the aftermath the morning after a considerable hedonist
party in town. We tend to think it’s us being agitated, depressed, annoyed and it’s
not even us; it’s demons in the atmosphere pushing at us.
We need to be able to discern what’s in the atmosphere around us.
Is the way we feel coming from something personal or is it coming from a group,
motivated by demon activity? Once we learn to discriminate in this field, we recognize
the difference between feelings that are coming from within us, and what
feelings are the result of outside pressures. Then, if it’s something outside
of us, we rebuke it in prayer and we’re able to block the atmosphere from affecting
us. We won’t go around thinking there’s something wrong with us every time the
devil spirits swirl up a bad vibe!
Some weekends here in Las Vegas, we can feel the agitation in the
air, and it makes people drive especially dangerously. Sometimes the atmosphere
feels overly heavy and oppressive. I’ve had mornings I didn’t feel like doing
my hair, didn’t feel like writing, my brain was foggy, and I was grumpy about
everything! It just wasn’t like me. At first I thought maybe it was me, but the
Lord showed me what to look for, and I’ve learned that most of the time I’m
just reacting to the group of demons come to town.
God gave me a 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 remarkable 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 stay within the confines of the group, and not able to penetrate beyond.
It’s putting those devil spirits in detention so that 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 my day. The difference is astonishing, and
it works every time. It will work for you too. It’s our job to catch the
demons of the group and arrest them as soon as we become aware of their
presence. The minute we know a group is gathering, a group that is against the
principles of our God and His Bible, we need to take action in prayer
immediately.
We find another Biblical example of this 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 each other and kill their host!
So if you sometimes feel the pressure or heaviness of the
spiritual atmosphere, or you sense an intense 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 specific areas and prevent them from affecting us.
Through Jesus Christ, we have that authority and ability.
Love, Carolyn
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