they have to answer their name
And these signs shall follow them that believe In my name shall they cast out devils they shall speak with new tongues
Mark 16:17
Rhapsody of Realities Daily Devotional For Sunday 9th January 2022
Once, I asked a devil to come out of a certain fellow and the devil said, “I’m not going” and turned violent. The ushers were trying to hold the man back, but I beckoned on them to leave him. As he charged at me angrily, I remained calm and said, “You’re gone!” Suddenly, the man became very calm and fell down as the devil left him.
One of the officials who was with me later said to me, “Pastor, I don’t understand exactly what happened. You asked the devil to go, but he didn’t go. Then you said, ‘You’re gone’ and then he went out.” So, I said, “Well, every word of God is a name and what He says is what becomes.”
We find a very inspiring, similar scenario with Jesus in Mark 7:25-30. A Syrophenician woman had come to Jesus and besought Him to cast the devil out of her daughter. Jesus said to her, “…go thy way the devil is gone out of thy daughter” (Mark 7:29). That devil had to answer the name that Jesus just called him— “…is gone out.”
The Bible says the woman got home and found the devil was gone from her daughter. Sometimes, you need to know how to address demons when you cast them out. There’re times you’re led of the Spirit to say to that devil, “Come out and return no more.”
Even in praying against their activities in the nations, it’s important to say the right things: cut off their influence on your nation and tell them, “You’re gone from this nation! Your influence has been broken your dominion has been stopped!” Hallelujah!
Someone said what we see around the world now (referring to the activities of devils) are mere kicks of a dying horse. But we’re full of power and have the dominion over them. They’re frustrated, and paralyzed their works have been brought to nothing. We’re triumphant we’re victorious we’re reigning through Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit over Satan and his cohorts of darkness. Hallelujah!
Confession
Dear Father, thank you for the authority granted us in Christ with which we exercise dominion over Satan and his demons. Their influence is cut off from the nations! We put an end to their rampage. The Church is triumphant, reigning through Christ in the earth by the power of the Holy Spirit, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Studies
Mark 7 25-30
25 - For a woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of Him and came and fell at His feet.
26 - The woman was a Greek, a Syro-phoenician by race. And she begged Him that He would cast the demon out of her daughter.
27 - But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled. For it is not right to take the children's loaves and to throw it to the dogs.
28 - And she answered and said to Him, Yes, Lord, yet the dogs under the table eat of the children's crumbs.
29 - And He said to her, For this saying go, the demon has gone out of your daughter.
30 - And when she had come to her house, she found the demon had gone out, and her daughter lay on the couch.
Luke 10 19
19 - Behold, I give to you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the authority of the enemy. And nothing shall by any means hurt you.
1 Year Bible Reading Plan
Matthew 7 7-29,Genesis 23 1,Genesis 24 1
2 Year Bible Reading Plan
Acts 7 54-60,Nehemiah 13 1
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