Satan's Strategy — Spiritual Warfare: Training Your Hand for Battle, 13(1)

Satan's Strategy — Spiritual Warfare: Training Your Hand for Battle, 13(1). Another lie is that perhaps it's God's will that you not be healed. When people go to pray, oh, little brother, little brother, maybe we just pray. It's if God wants him to heal. When we think this way, unfortunately, I don't want […]

Another lie is that perhaps it's God's will that you not be healed. When people go to pray, oh, little brother, little brother, maybe we just pray. It's if God wants him to heal.

When we think this way, unfortunately — my purpose is obviously not to humiliate anyone or make anyone feel bad, but the truth will set you free — it's a different thing to say we don't have enough authority, because we lack more revelation, because we lack more fasting, because we need more time, more perseverance, than to say it's not God's will to heal. Welcome, all of you, to our church, Jesus King of Kings.

Today we are on part number 3. We are exposing Satan's strategies, the weapons Satan uses to fight against us, against the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. In the previous teaching we talked briefly about many of Satan's various strategies, but today we will focus on three of them. We will be talking primarily about lying, deception, and accusation — false accusations.

Those are three of the primary weapons Satan uses to try to steal, kill, and destroy. In other words, Satan uses these strategies to accomplish his purpose. Deception together with lying is what he used, from the very beginning, to trip up the first two people who were in the Garden of Eden.

In Genesis 3:13 we see how it says — deception and lying, together with false accusations. There are many lies the devil has created, lies that exist even within the church itself, and he has taught those lies with the obvious purpose of deceiving, because that way, if we are deceived, we will not fight against him, we will not destroy his works. And if we fight in deception, we will not destroy his works either, because in deception we cannot be victorious, since he is the father of lies.

Some of the lies — because there are so many different lies he has planted in the church today — meant to prevent us, to rob us of authority, so that we don't fight the battle effectively, are: that he doesn't exist, that there's no need to pray against Satan. In many churches they say, don't even mention that name, you don't bind Satan, there's no need to fast, or there's no need to do long fasts. Fasting a few hours a day is enough, you don't need to pray that much, there's no need to pray for many hours.

Jesus Christ rebuked the devil with a single word. And I want to clarify something important. Many of these things are true — certainly the Lord rebuked the devil with a word, but the Lord also says, pray without ceasing.

So what Satan does is take something that has truth in it, but he gives it a twist, he distorts it so that we don't understand it correctly. Because certainly, if we grow a great deal in authority — especially those who have a calling as an apostle or a prophet, and have already paid the price in fasting and prayer, so that their faith has been perfected — it is possible to heal a person with a single word. Of course it's possible; the Lord did it. But we also see how the disciples could not heal the boy, and the Lord told them, this kind does not come out except by prayer and fasting.

In short, yes, the goal is for all of us to reach that perfection in faith, authority, and anointing, so that we can heal people with a single word. But the truth is I don't believe most of you are at that place, and I humbly admit I am not there yet either. I have to say maybe 70 times, devil, come out, devil, come out, until finally he listens and leaves — many times over.

And I say this with humility; it's the reality. But what matters is that with a little perseverance, if we pray, whether for 10, 15, 20 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, people are healed. So what matters is that the healing takes place.

If we don't have enough authority to cast it out at once, then let us persevere in prayer. What matters is that we cast it out and destroy its works. At the end of the day, the Word commands us to pray without ceasing.

So we are not sinning if we pray a lot. We are doing what God commands us, and doing what He commands is not a sin. One of the other things I've taught — Jesus has already set us free.

That is, I don't need to become free, because I am already free. But the Lord told the Pharisees, who wanted the same thing, if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Whoever sins is a slave. Everyone who has sinned — and that includes the whole world — is a slave. To be truly free, someone has to come with authority and cast those demons out.

The spirit — Satan and his armies — they enter through a lie, they enter through sin, and they enter through many other ways we will be exposing. But in order for them to leave, someone has to come with authority and cast them out. Now, the fact that deliverance is needed does not mean that the person's sins have not been forgiven.

When we repent, our sins are forgiven. But the demons do not leave simply because the sins have been forgiven. They have to be cast out.

To the daughter of Abraham who was in the temple, the Lord said, should I not set free this daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound for eighteen long years? The Lord is saying that she was a daughter of Abraham — that is, a daughter of the promise. She had faith, but she was not yet free. Being a son or daughter of the promise is a good thing, because of course the most important thing is salvation.

Salvation is the most important thing. If we are children of the promise, if we are truly children of Abraham, we are saved. But even so, there are sicknesses caused by the devil that do not go away on their own.

There are various problems that do not go away, even though we are saved. It requires someone with authority to come and cast those things out. What is not necessary is to fast.

We already know that many demons do not leave without fasting. If we believe fasting isn't necessary, then we are limiting what we can do — practically we won't be able to cast out any of them. The disciples, even being apostles, and the Lord having given them authority — go and heal and set free — and the seventy came back saying, Lord.

Even the demons submit to us in your name. But the twelve came to set this boy free and could not. They had power and authority.

The Lord told them, this kind does not come out except by fasting and prayer. If we do not fast, there are many demons we will not be able to cast out. So we must fast.

And Satan creates lies like that one, because he knows that if we believe that lie, how are we going to destroy his works? If there's a demon we cannot cast out without fasting and prayer, and we don't fast, then we will never be able to cast it out. And that's all Satan needs to keep people enslaved.

We must fast. Another lie is that perhaps it's God's will that you not be healed. When people go to pray — oh, little brother, little brother — maybe we just pray.

It's if God wants him to heal. When we think this way, unfortunately — my purpose is not to humiliate anyone or make anyone feel bad, but the truth will set you free — it's a different thing to say we don't have enough authority, because we lack more revelation, because we lack more fasting, because we need more time, more perseverance, than to say it's not God's will to heal.

In the case of this boy in the Bible, the disciples prayed and could not heal him. But the Lord Himself came, and He didn't even need to say a word to me — what was the difference? Did the Lord perhaps not want to heal five minutes before, and then suddenly want to five minutes after? No, that wasn't it.

It's that the disciples had not fasted. The Lord had fasted 40 days before He began His ministry. When we pray for someone and they are not healed, the Lord is merciful.

In my experience, I've even prayed for warlocks. Unbelieving people, and the Lord heals them. The only reason, when I pray for someone and they are not healed — really, in 99% of the cases — I blame myself.

I blame myself in the sense that I lack more authority against that demon. Or perhaps I don't have enough time. Sometimes I lack the authority for the person to be healed quickly, but if I have the whole day available, some 8 hours, and I pray for 8 hours for that person, they are healed.

Sometimes 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 hours. Sometimes more authority is needed, and sometimes that needed authority can be made up for, a little, with a lot of effort, many continuous hours of prayer. For that same case, until those demons soften and leave.

So, is it the will of God? By His wounds we are healed. He received those lashes on His back — for what? So that you and I could be healed through Him.

I tell His disciples, go heal the sick in my name. Go. That is a command He gave them.

Go heal them in my name. He didn't say, go find many sick people, and when you find them, call me and I'll come down and heal them. No.

Go heal them in my name. If we — if we want to and we understand the Word — this is part of another problem, another deception in the church. It is not that we have no authority to heal anyone.

It is God who heals. It is God who heals, but through us. He told His disciples, go, I give you power and authority to heal the sick.

It is we who heal in His name. If we don't understand this part, then how are we going to exercise the authority He gave us? But if we're not understanding this, we're in deception.

If we cannot walk in the authority God gave us, we're in deception. So false doctrine is a problem that prevents, that blocks, the power of God. But when we understand the truth, the truth sets us free.

That's why the seventy-two said, Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name. They submit in His name.

They submit to them in His name. The demons submit to me in the name of the Lord. Because I walk with understanding, and because I have understanding, because I am His disciple, I have authority against demons.

In His name. Not authority in the name of Paul, or of Peter, or in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some of the points we'll be covering in this part — some of the points we'll cover are: Jesus Himself was accused, and accused a great deal.

The first disciples were also falsely accused. Satan uses false ministers to deceive, to lie, to try to steal souls. But Satan also uses anyone who is close to us and who has a spiritual weakness.

Especially if they are unbelievers, if they are not walking in God's way, subtly, quietly, with little words in different ways, Satan uses them to try to trip us up. We will also talk about how to overcome deception — that is, how we ourselves are not to be deceived.

We will also talk about how to overcome it when lies and deceptions are raised against us. Yes, Satan rose up against the Lord, he rose up against the disciples, and he will rise up against some of us — or many of us — in this end time. Satan is the father of lies, as the Word says in John 8:44. He is a liar and the father of lies.

In other words, he is the king of lies and deception. And we must be gentle as doves and shrewd as serpents. Because we do not wish to walk in deception, we do not wish to be part of Satan's deception.

The first point we'll cover, so that you can see how, being God and the Christ, being spotless, without sin, He was falsely accused again and again, and in many ways. If Jesus was falsely accused, what will happen to you, and what will happen to me? Well, if He was accused, it is enough for the disciple to be like the master. If false testimonies, false witnesses, rose up against Him, what will happen with you and with me? The Word says in Luke 5:21, then the scribes and Pharisees began to think, saying, who is this who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone? There — they already called Christ a blasphemer; they accused Him.

But there was also a lie there. Lying, deception, and accusation go hand in hand. There they falsely accused Him, they called Him a blasphemer, they called Him a liar.

Who is this? They also degraded Him further. Who is this who forgives sins? But that happens when people do not know the Word or the power of God. So there, Jesus Christ was already blasphemed, already accused of blasphemy; they lied against Him — this is in John 9:24-28.

So they called the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, give glory to God. We know this man is a sinner. They are asserting — there they accused Jesus Christ of being a sinner.

But the Word teaches us that He never sinned. Yet the religious leaders are saying, we know this man is a sinner. They were asserting it, they were confident of themselves, they were supposedly confirming that the Lord was a sinner.

But there was no sin in Him; He was clean, He was without blemish. So he answered and said, whether he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see. They said to him again, what did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? He answered, I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples? And they reviled him, saying, you are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

They got angry — you're going to become His disciple? That blind man lacked the wit to reply, thank you for telling me I'm a disciple of the Lord, because that is exactly what I want to be. But you see, they said "you're going to become His disciple" as if to demean him, to belittle him, as if to say, look how small you're going to be, look how you're going to amount to nothing, you're going to commit the crime of being His disciple, as if that were something evil.

But there they already said, we know this man is a sinner — they already accused the Lord of blasphemy, they already accused Him of being a sinner, all because He opened someone's eyes. Look how things go: the Lord heals a man blind from birth, and they want to accuse Him, they are looking for a way to condemn Him for having done good. John 8:12, 14: again Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world; whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

Then the Pharisees said to him, you are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true. Once again they call Him a liar, saying His testimony is false, because He testifies about Himself, because He said He is the light of the world. But the Lord was not lying; He is, He was, He is, and He will continue to be the light of the world, because He is the true one, the first and the last, He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is the beginning and the end, the Lord Jesus Christ is the Almighty.

Jesus answered and said to them, even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going. The Lord spoke with such wisdom — who could not rejoice hearing the wisdom of God as He answered them? But once again they accused Him. In Mark 14:1, two days later it was the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to arrest Him by stealth and kill Him.

Look at the devil's wickedness. The chief priests, the leaders of the different religious factions that existed at the time, were looking for a way to arrest the Lord through deceit in order to kill Him. The Word says, and the time is coming, that whoever kills one of my disciples will think he is doing God a favor.

There it is speaking of the religious leaders, who believed themselves to be children of God, who believed they knew God, who considered themselves very wise, who considered themselves very holy, who went around saying, we are children of God. And they were looking for a way to arrest the Lord through lies and deceit in order to kill Him. In John 18:30 they answered and said to him, if this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you.

There they already accused the Lord of being a criminal. You are seeing how many accusations there were. I am simply presenting some of the various accusations that were made against the Almighty Lord, the one who is holy, the one who is true, the one who never sinned.

In Luke 23:2, they began to accuse him, saying, we found this man misleading our nation, forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king. Here again, another false testimony. Here they are accusing Him, saying He misleads the nation, that He is teaching people not to pay taxes, that He claims to be the Christ and the King — when in truth He indeed was the Christ, and indeed He is King, King of Kings.

But they, with lies and deceit, accused Him, saying that He perverted the nation, that He was inciting people not to pay taxes — but the Lord did not do this; it's a lie. Matthew 26:59-61: now the chief priests and the whole council were seeking false testimony against Jesus so that they might put him to death, but they found none, though many false witnesses came forward.

But at last two came forward and said, this man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and rebuild it in three days. The religious leaders, once again, were seeking a false witness, seeking false testimony — for what purpose? To take the life of the giver of life. But with deceit, they sought false witnesses.

That's how the devil works, sometimes even within the church — he can even use church leaders, as in this case, to raise up false testimony and to seek out false witnesses. That obviously shows the wickedness that can operate in some people if they harden their hearts. So many false accusations against the Lord. All of this, because He spoke the truth.

All of this, because He did good. All of this, because He healed the sick. All of this, because He cast out demons.

All of this, because He destroyed the works of the devil. All of this, because He came so that all of us who believe in Him would have life, and have it abundantly. But the religious leaders, who were themselves in chains, believed they were free, because they were slaves of the devil — they could not stand the truth, they could not stand the light that was in Him, and that is why they lied against Him.

In Mark 3:22, the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, he has Beelzebul, and by the prince of demons he casts out demons. Now they accuse the Lord of having demons, of having demons, and of saying that the power that worked through Him was from Beelzebul. How many lies were spoken against the Lord? We'll be talking about how the disciples were also falsely accused.

And the other points I wanted to cover are that Satan also uses false ministers to deceive, to try to steal the souls of those who are seeking God. He also uses those close to us when they are weak, or primarily those who are not walking with God. That's why, as far as possible, we should not be unequally yoked, because Satan uses those who are not with God, or those who have a weakness, to try to trip us up. We'll also talk about how to overcome deception, because you and I can be deceived.

The Word says that yes, the devil would try, if possible, to deceive even one of the elect in this time. If you feel this Word has been edifying to you, please be so kind as to give the video a like, share it, subscribe to our channel if you haven't already — it's a way to support us, to support the work we're doing, or that God is doing through us. Also, below each video you will find different links for how you can support our work.

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Thank you, Heavenly Father, because Your Word is a light that guides our path, Your Word protects us, Your Word gives strength, Your Word gives understanding and revelation. Today we saw how You, though holy, were blasphemed, accused again and again and in many ways, but You also showed us how we must overcome. We are searching Your Word, Lord, because we want to be like You, we want to respond like You, we want to be victorious like You, we want to do Your will, and Your Word is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword.

I cover every person listening to me with the blood of Jesus Christ. May fire come down and destroy every work of darkness that stands against the name of Jesus. The gates of Hades shall not prevail against the church of God; he who is with us is stronger than he who is in the world. Every spirit of lying and falsehood, every demon of false accusation, of false testimony against the disciples, may they catch fire and burn in the name of Jesus.

There is power in the name of Jesus Christ. The gates of Hades shall not prevail against the church of God; he who is with us is stronger than he who is in the world. Every spirit of lying and falsehood, every demon of false accusation against the disciples, may they catch fire and burn in the name of Jesus.

The gates of Hades shall not prevail against the church of God; he who is with us is stronger — may they catch fire and burn in the name of Jesus. The gates of Hades shall not prevail against the church of God; he who is with us is stronger — may they catch fire and burn in the name of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is a consuming fire.

We have received power and authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm us. I strike all darkness with light; every spirit of lying, burn in the name of Jesus. Every magical veil so that people cannot see the light of the Gospel clearly — falsehood — may it be disintegrated by the blood of Christ.

May everything that blocks spiritual eyes be burned in the name of Jesus. I strike all darkness with light in the name of Jesus Christ. May a storm of fire come down upon the whole army of the enemy in the name of Jesus.

I strike all darkness with light, may all darkness be disintegrated by fire. Lie, come out in the name of Jesus Christ. Falsehood, come out in the name of Jesus.

Deception, come out in the name of Jesus Christ. Lying tongues that rise up against the disciples, we rebuke them in the name of Jesus. Every person who is being manipulated by darkness to lie against — against the disciples of God — we cover with the blood of Jesus Christ.

May there be fire and light upon every person who has spoken against our name for evil, in the name of Jesus. May those lying demons who manipulate them into raising false testimony against us catch fire in the name of Jesus. We have received power and authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means harm us.

The gates of Hades shall not prevail against the church of God. They will gather against us, but not by Him, and those who gather against us will fall because of us. It is written that the enemy will come against us one way and flee before us seven ways, if God is with us.

Who can be against us? May there be a storm of fire upon all the demons of lying, deception, and falsehood in the name of Jesus. Every spiritual mark that darkness has placed, whether through dreams or through witchcraft, on any of those listening to me, so that slander, accusations, false testimony, and false witnesses would rise up against us — may those diabolical marks be erased by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Every curse against us meant to bring criticism, blasphemy, and slander against us, I break it in the name of Jesus. May the terror of God fall upon every power of darkness that rises up against us, in the name of Jesus Christ. May the fear of God fall upon every person who allows themselves to be used, or who has been used, against us by darkness, in the name of Jesus.

I strike all the darkness that binds those people with light, in the name of Jesus Christ. May those chains and shackles that bind them, that manipulate them against us, be broken in the name of Jesus. I strike the whole army of darkness that enslaves those people with light, in the name of Jesus.

There is power in the name of Jesus Christ. Those who trust in Him will not be put to shame. May there be fire and light upon every person who offers themselves for evil against us, in the name of Jesus Christ.

And I cover each one of you who is listening to me — I cover your homes, I cover your children and your whole family with the blood of Jesus Christ. Thank you for being with us. Until next time.

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