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Deliverance and Hitting a Wall

MELISSA GABLER—Over the past year I have been walking through deliverance and feeling like a new person until I hit a wall recently. I asked the Holy Spirit what this was and at first I heard to renounce old wives’ tales. So I started renouncing old wives’ tales I had come into agreement with. I hit the wall again and then I asked the Holy Spirit a couple of times what that wall was and I heard, “doctrines of demons”. I am familiar with that passage in 1 Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit expressly says that in latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons,”. I thought I knew what that meant: witchcraft, new age, dark arts, occult, etc, until the Holy Spirit proceeded to show me there is more to it than I thought. Let’s look at 1 Timothy 1:1-2, “But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,” verse 7-8, “But stay away from worthless stories that are typical of old women. Rather, discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; 8 for bodily training is just slightly beneficial, but godliness is beneficial for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.” First of all, my mouth dropped open when I saw “stories that are typical of old women” in that scripture. That’s the ‘old wives tales’ the Holy Spirit told me to renounce so this was confirmation that He was leading me down a path of eye-opening awakening and deliverance! To put these scriptures in my words: In these last days we can fall away from the faith if we listen to (and embrace) those who are very deceived or purposely spouting the plans and intentions of evil – that they were taught, influenced by, brainwashed with by deceitful spirits and demons.
(Look for more excerpts from Melissa’s article in the next few days)


Have You Been Setup?

KATHY GABLER—As we have seen in Hag.1:5-9, Judah was set-up to cower under pressure. We can understand why they shrunk back.  They had been captives for generations. We can live under hereditary curses and generational outlooks on life that “set us up” to suffer loss financially or physically or relationally simply because that is the only experience we have known.  We can be programmed for defeat and have mindsets that keep us prisoner to the same beliefs, appetites, reactions and choices of prior generations.  If that is the case, we are likely to spend our lives merely surviving, not winning, not increasing, not taking any spoils.  If we examine our lives, we might discover that is why we survive instead of advance.  Have we, like Judah, been conditioned by our experiences instead of the Truth?


Participating in Resurrection Life

MELISSA–What are some practical ways to go about participating in resurrection life? Colossians 3:1 is a great place to start. It simply says to seek the things above. In our modern culture what that means is to put down the phone, turn off the TV and make time with God and His word our number one priority. Is that easy? No. I get it. However, our enemy’s major tools in keeping us occupied so we don’t find out our identity are the news, media, social media and entertainment industries. These have been the primary ways evil has kept Americans brainwashed and zombified. We have trusted our lives with celebrities of all kinds that are paid to spew agenda and twist truth. Turning these influences off will help you to be part of the biggest overturning in history. That overturning is a matter of taking dominion on this earth.