"When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, seeking rest but finding none. 44 Then it says, 'I will return to the person I came from.' So it returns and finds its former home empty, swept, and in order. 45 Then the spirit finds seven other spirits, more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there." Matthew 12:43-45 NLT
I was cutting my lawns recently, when I suddenly thought, 'This grass is going to grow again.' This led my mind to wander off into a daydream about why do we do things like cutting the grass or having our hair cut - it only grows again. (I have these silly daydreams). I then went on to ridiculously think about going to bed and getting up again, washing clothes only to get them dirty again. I suddenly recognised that I wasn't far off being a copy of Ecclesiastes and decided to refrain from this negative way of thinking and looked for a positive side of thinking about similar things.
I looked at the above verse and pondered it. We may ask for deliverance from a certain sin in our life, just for an example let's say it is pornography. As we are prayed for, we receive that wonderful feeling of release and we are able to get on with our day to day walk with Jesus. However, somewhere down the line, we begin to be dragged back into our old habits and find that we begin this process again. Why is this?
Paul mentions in Galatians 2:20: 'My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.' We need to die to self and live for Jesus. Notice what Jesus said in verse 44 above. He said that the evil spirit returns to the person it was cast out of and finds it swept clean and empty, so it goes and brings more evil spirits. What had happened? The person had been delivered - swept clean but the person failed to be filled with the power of God, the filling of he Holy Spirit. If the evil spirit had seen this, it would have fled, not wanting to deal with this kind of power.
Therefore, my thoughts became more of a precursor to what God was saying. We must be filled daily with God's Holy Spirit and we must ensure that we put on the Armour of God. A soldier does not go into battle without a weapon and neither should we. It is a recipe for disaster. With the Holy Spirit inside of you, you have a hedge of protection around you, if you stray into enemy territory, there will be a gap in this hedge that Satan can come through, and that's when your problems begin.
Ensure that you die to self and are always filled with the Holy Spirit on your Daily Walk with Jesus.
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