Month: August 2015

I don’t watch TV much. Just cable news. Definitely not extreme leftist MSNBC. But while in Canada last week, I kept the TV on in the background (when I wasn’t doing Personal Spiritual Encounter sessions) to get the latest word on the Chattanooga, Tennessee shootings. On came an ad for an outfit called Cougar Life. A buxom blonde, barely clothed, strutted down the street followed by lustful young men half her age. You get the idea.

Then I get back to America this week and find that Cougar Life is part of a stable of dot-com sexual hook up sites, including Ashley Madison and Established Men. The parent company, Avid Life Media/ALM (a Toronto company-no wonder I was bombarded with these ads in Canada) had their data base hacked. Thirty-seven million users of the sexual hook-up service had lots of personal stuff stolen, including financial records. The company’s slogan, “Life is short. Have an affair,” could leave a lot of people with a whole lot of explaining to do if the hackers make the stolen data public.

Do any of you feel sorry for ALM or its customers? Not me. They aren’t victims. Their spouses are. ALM’s Chief Executive Noel Biderman lamented, “This is a criminal act.” Spare me. Biderman has been victimizing innocent wives, husbands, and children, to make his millions. The hackers threaten to release all ALM’s customer’s sexual fantasies and names and addresses. This sexual trafficking site, which is essentially a prostitution ring for married partners, could have seen this coming a long time ago if they had read Numbers 32:23, which says, “Be sure that your sin will find you out.”

 An encouraging word:  HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST

“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus.” So says the apostle Paul in Philippians 2:5. Now, that’s a tall order. As Christian we have the Spirit of Jesus, by and through the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit when we are saved. We have the resurrection life in Christ to spend eternity in heaven. But that is what Jesus does for us. What we have to do for ourselves, no small feat, is to strive to have His thoughts and feelings, the “mind” of Christ. It’s not something to be achieved all at once. But today, may I suggest you read again the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew chapter five and start with the “blessed.” Do your best to adopt at least one a week, and in no time you’ll be a lot nearer than you are now to the mind and thinking which was in Christ Jesus.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

A one-night-stand and it’s over. A hook-up at a party and you move on. Right? Not so fast. What you may not realize is that the person you had sex with could stay with you for a very long time. And whatever curses that person has embedded in their DNA could become your permanent spiritual companions. Sound far-fetched? Don’t take my word for it. Medical researchers have discovered an interesting genetic quirk. A significant amount of women today have a Y chromosome in their blood, the chromosome belonging to men. This condition has a name, microchimerism. How did it happen? There are several possible sources, such as a past pregnancy of a male child, whether the child was aborted, miscarried, or carried to full term. There is also the possibility of a vanished male twin pregnancy. But the most interesting source of the Y chromosome, according to researchers at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Center, is sexual intercourse. That’s right, ladies, the genes of that lover under the cover may stay in your organs and blood stream the rest of your life!

From a standpoint of spiritual warfare, the findings of this research back up what those of us in deliverance ministry have long known, the power of soul-ties, especially sexual ones. My book CURSE BREAKING (To order CLICK HERE.) reveals the dangers of soul-bonding on any level, socially, economically, spiritually, and sexually. My book JEZEBEL (To order CLICK HERE.) also addresses this danger of sexual soul-ties.

It’s important that the effect of all past allegiances of this nature, especially past sexual dalliances, be terminated. CURSE BREAKING has special prayers that help the reader to break off these bondages from the past. The bad news is that your past indiscretions can come back to haunt you and future generations. For example, what if that past partner was involved in witchcraft or had an ancestor who dabbled in the occult? You can get the kick-back without even knowing what is happening. The good news is that you can break every curse of your past by faith in the power of Christ and confessing the curse to be null and void. You can’t change the past, but you can change how the past affects who you are today. Break those soul-tie curses now!

 An encouraging word:GOD BROUGHT YOU FORTH

Life has become cheapened today. From termination by abortion to the callousness of surrogacy and genetic selection via sperm banks. But the Bible teaches that every life is precious, and that God is the author of that life. “You brought me out of the womb, you made me trust in you,” King David said (Psalm 22:9). Though some see this as a messianic psalm, it has larger implications for every newborn child. Any parent, such as me, who has been present at the birth of a child (I have three daughters.) understands the mystery and awe of birth. No matter what the intentions of your parents, planned pregnancy or casual sex, you are wanted and loved by the Lord. It is He who brought you forth unto life.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

One thing you have to say for Satanists, they don’t give up easily. Worshippers of Lucifer want to erect in Detroit, Michigan a nine-foot, one-ton bronze statue of the devil in Baphomet form. This half-human, half-goat symbol of Satan, complete with wings, cloven-hooves, and horns, is an ancient depiction of the devil. A group called the Satanic Temple wants to display this hideous representation. The statue is backed by an inverted pentagram and flanked by two young children gazing awe-like into Satan’s face.

The choice of the Motor City comes after Temple followers weren’t successful in getting this Satan symbol situated next to a statue of the Ten Commandments on Oklahoma State Capitol grounds. To make matters more bizarre, the Temple doesn’t want the Baphomet to stand there alone. They specifically want it next to the Commandments, in their words to send a message of the “reconciliation of opposites” and a “call-to-arms” against “self-serving theocrats.” Some church leaders in Detroit are understandably upset. In a city beset with bankruptcy and violence this certainly isn’t a step in the right direction.

How much should Christians be concerned about such things? Bishop Charles Ellis III, pastor of the 6,000 member Greater Grace Temple, says he’s not worried since America was “built on freedom of religion.” But wait a moment. Is the Bishop saying that symbols mean nothing? I suspect this same pastor was in favor of the confederate flag coming down from the South Carolina Statehouse. The flag, the cross, the Ten Commandments, Lady Justice gracing the Supreme Court – these are all powerful images that in a glance convey values embodied in their presence. Putting the devil in Detroit, if not vigorously opposed, is giving demons permission to further disgrace this great city.

An encouraging word: HIS GRACE IS SUFFICIENT

 No matter what you may be facing today, as with the apostle Paul, the Lord’s “grace is sufficient” (1 Corinthians 12:9). But it’s the second part of that verse which really drives home this truth. Paul writes that the strength of Christ is perfected in our “weakness.” What a seeming contradiction. But the biblical teaching is that when we are weak in ourselves, we are strong in Jesus. Think of your own life. When things were going good, you may not have been so conscious of needing the Lord’s guidance. But in times of trials, you were likely more aware of your dependence on Him. The key to success in Christian living is to realize we need to be weak in ourselves and strong in the Lord no matter what our circumstances.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

This past July 4, President Obama delivered his message to America. Several conservative commentators noted that he failed to give the usual Presidential sign-off to such speeches, a hearty “God bless America.” All he mustered was, “From my family to yours, have a safe and happy Fourth of July.” Whether the omission was deliberate or not, it certainly reflected the godless tenor of his tenure. But that apparently doesn’t bother most Americans. A Gallup poll released the week before the Fourth revealed that an astonishing 58%, well over half, of Americans would be willing to vote for an atheist candidate. That is a 40% difference from when the question was first asked in 1958, just 18% back then. According to the Pew Research Center, 23% of Americans believe in nothing, a group larger than Roman Catholics.

We truly live in a post-Christian world in the home of the free. And what does that mean for those of us who believe in spiritual warfare? Our work just got a lot more challenging, but with a lot more opportunities to demonstrate the reality of Christ’s power. In these last days, we’re seeing a return to the tenor and times of the early church, faced with a majority pagan, hostile culture. Lost is a societal consensus about morality or a transcendent deity who speaks to man with moral authority. It’s every Bruce Jenner for himself, each one free to define his own belief, gender, even ethnicity. In fact there is a certain edginess in claiming to be an atheist, as if it were some cool calling card. Without a spiritual awakening of some kind in our land, we’ll likely soon see a man or woman in the White House who ignores all deference to deity. But though God may be expunged from public conversation, demons are not going away. Their victims will be more tormented than ever. And these tortured individuals will look for relief and turn to those of us who are unashamed to say both “God bless America” and “Out in the name of Jesus!”

 An encouraging word: DO WHAT IS RIGHT IN GOD’S EYES

 In our world of moral shifting sand, we are once again becoming like those in the time of Israel before the kings, when it was said that, “Every man did that which was right in his own eyes” (Judges 17:6). In other words, every man was a law unto himself with no externalized, objective criteria to evaluate behavior. That led to disaster in Israel, and will lead to abject moral failure in any individual’s life today. How do you decide to live? In what are your values rooted? Without God and His Word as a guide, it is every man for himself. Don’t let the shifting sands of personal entitlement decide your ethical decisions. Determine to reflect the righteousness of God in your own life. Do what’s right in God’s eyes.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

Coming soon to a theater near you (This fall, actually.) a cartoonish glorification of Hindu gods (read that “demons”) just for kids. Director Sanjay Patel has reached back to his childhood in India to form a team of superheroes based on three Hindu gods, Durga, Vishnu, and Hanuman. The Hindu deities help an alter-ego child, also known as Sanjay, to defeat a scary monster. It’s not enough that so-called Holy Yoga and Yoga for the Soul have invaded evangelical church, but now our children will get a Pixar-inspired version of eastern occultism packaged in the motif of The Avengers.

For those unfamiliar with Hindu gods, a primer. Durga is a goddess also known as Shakti, a sexual spirit/demon awakened in kundalini yoga. Durga is the sexual consort of the Hindu destroyer-god Shiva, one of the Hindu trinity of major deities. Durga also manifests as Kali, a.k.a. Jezebel. (My latest book JEZEBEL: Your #1 Spiritual Enemy has a more detailed explanation. To order CLICK HERE.) Durga also goes by the names Saraswati and Lakshmi. Vishnu is the so-called “Preserver” god in Hinduism. He’s blue with four arms. Then there is Hanuman, the half-human monkey god. He is an incarnation of the more violent and hideous Hindu deity, Shiva.

During exorcisms I’ve faced all of these demon deities, Durga, Vishnu, Hanuman, Shakti, Lakshmi, Shiva, and many more of their ilk. In simple terms, these Hindu gods are archetypes of demons, and those who worship them may become possessed by them. Without realizing it, this is what Hollywood will be doing to our children, creating vulnerabilities to demonic possession via a short subject to preview in front of the likely hit film, “The Good Dinosaur” (Disney). Imagine a Hollywood film about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Not likely to happen. But Durga, Vishnu, and Hanuman will have their day. It’s just one more sign of Satan’s corruption of our culture and the anemic spiritual inclusiveness that is so P.C. today. Either fight it or get one of those COEXIST bumper sticks and join the march to Armageddon.

An encouraging word: EXPOSE EVIL

“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them,” wrote Paul in Ephesians 5:11. That can be difficult. How can one expose (“reprove” KJV) without being judgmental? How does one condemn the sin and not the sinner? It’s not easy, but that doesn’t mean it should be avoided. How can this be handled graciously? First, “have no fellowship.” Reproof begins with non-association. Don’t consort with sinners and then expect to condemn their evil. Second, don’t be afraid of calling darkness what it is: “darkness,” evil, detestable, and damning. Exposing Satan’s work will take wisdom and balance, but don’t avoid it all together.

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

First Peter 5:8 warns, “Your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. Resist him . . .” Tell that to the guy above on the left, and the guy on the right. Left, a man on a British safari in South Africa (just days ago) being attacked by a leopard that grabbed his arm while in a safari vehicle. He sustained serious injury and had to be hospitalized.

Now, an explanation about the guy on the right. After an exhausting series of recent meetings in South Africa, I relaxed for a couple of days on a safari, the same kind of activity of the man attacked by the leopard. Same kind of vehicle, similar game park, not far away from the leopard incident. Moments after I shot this selfie, the elephant over my left shoulder, with his back to me, suddenly turned and came on a full charge toward our vehicle, trumpeting loudly. Quick thinking and a fast retreat by our driver avoided a violent crash with this huge pachyderm. Lesson to learn? When on safari beware. A wild animal can become a life-threatening danger at any moment.

Leopards. Elephants. Lions. Whatever the beast, in the jungle beware. Python. Leviathan. Jezebel (That’s one really wild beast!). Whatever demonic form the devil is using to stalk your life, be aware that he can turn on you in a moment. Our guide and ranger had no idea what made that elephant suddenly decide charge us. It doesn’t matter. Like animals in the wild, you can’t predict the devil’s behavior. The only protection is to do what Peter said, “Be sober, be vigilant” (“self-controlled and alert” NIV).

 An encouraging word: RESIST BY FAITH

In 1 Peter 5:9 and in James 4:7 we are told to “resist” the devil. How is that done? Peter explains in verse 9: “Standing firm in the faith.” Resisting Satan isn’t about shouting at him or wishing him away. You can’t make the devil leave by prayer and fasting alone, even church attendance and tithing. These things are all good, and necessary for a victorious Christian life. But nothing takes the place of faith. Hebrews 11:32 reminds us that the spiritual heroes of old actually closed the mouths of lions by faith and “through faith subdued kingdoms.” If you want to put the devil and his kingdom on the run, then resist by the gift of faith which God has given you. 

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

Is it possible to cast out the demons from an entire country? You’ve got to give Mexican Catholics credit for trying. At the cathedral of San Luis Potosi, Cardinal Juan Sandoval Iniguez, the archbishop emeritus of Guadalajara, performed an “Exorcismo Magno,” a huge exorcism on the whole country of Mexico. The Cardinal, and his associates, concluded that the devil had such a grip on Mexico, with rising interest in witchcraft and the violence of drug cartels, only a really big exorcism affecting all of Mexico would work. To avoid a media frenzy, the exorcism was done in private last May 20. Fr. Iniguez was joined by demonologist and exorcist Fr. Jose Anontio Fortea. Said Fortea, “To the extent there is more witchcraft and Satanism going on in a country, to that extent there will be more extraordinary manifestations of those powers of darkness.”

This effort to get the devil out of a nation, as opposed to casting out demons from a person, is worth considering. Fr. Fortea points out that he doesn’t expect immediate, dramatic results, but does anticipate “positive repercussions” to at least make “a great number of the tempters [of Satan] flee.” Fortea concludes, “In any case, if this ritual were to be carried out in more countries once year, this would put an end to any extraordinary manifestations which would show us the rage of the devil. Because, without a doubt, the demons hate to be driven out of a place or to be bound with the power of Christ.”

Good for him. His heart is in the right place. Who among the Protestant or Catholic leaders of America has had the guts to suggest anything like this? The Assemblies of God? The Southern Baptists? Methodists? Presbyterians? ANYONE? To my Protestant compatriots I ask this question. If you don’t like the way the Catholics do exorcism, what are you doing? Who wants to join me in an exorcism of America? God knows we need it!

 An encouraging word: WAR IN HEAVEN

“And there was war in heaven.” That passage from Revelation 12:7 seems a bit unusual. Most picture heaven as a place of pure bliss, all pastoral with never-ending blue skies and serenity as far as the eye can see. But the Bible says that once there was war, when Lucifer rebelled against God and His holy angels. That war still rages, not in heaven, but here on earth. The battle is for souls, and the devil and his demons haven’t given up yet. Are you aware of this war in your own life? Do you realize that Satan is seeking to tempt you each day, and that only the power of Christ will allow you to endure? The devil will flee in the name of Jesus, but only if you take action to battle in His name!

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.

This last week news surfaced about yet another brutality under so-called ISIS, Islamic-State, rule. Children were being crucified alive for supposedly violating Muslim rules about fasting during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, commemorating the revelation of the Koran to Mohammed. Thirty-eight tourists, mostly British, were slaughtered on a Tunisian beach by a proclaimed “soldier of the caliphate” who targeted vacationers labeled as indulging in “vice and apostasy.” ISIS also released a pamphlet explaining how to capture and rape female non-believers, including children, and use them as sex slaves. In Kuwait radical Muslims blew up a mosque, killing 27 people, simply because they belonged to the wrong branch of Islam. Homosexuals under ISIS rule were thrown to their deaths from tall buildings. Christianity is rapidly disappearing from Syria and Iraq, early cradles of Christianity.

And what was President Obama doing? Gloating over his Supreme Court victories on health care and gay marriage issues. If you’re a member of the LGBT community or a previously uninsurable individual in need of medical attention, you may have celebrated; but let’s put things into balance. Why all the political attention to social agenda issues and by contrast mostly silence on America’s, and the world’s, #1 threat to peace and stability, which is the brutality of radical Islam? And why does the President and his Administration still refuse to use the term “radical Islam?”

A President, and our government, has limited time and resources to focus on keeping the public safe. Wise choices must be made about where the emphasis for peace and security needs to be. Satan has blinded the eyes of our leaders to the horrors of radical Islam to the extent that the death and suffering of so many goes unnoticed. This avoidance of forcefully confronting militant Muslims is truly demonic. As an American I am embarrassed that our President this past week was more concerned about bragging rights than the lives of innocent women and children. The truth is that all Americans, gay or straight, insured or uninsured, face an enemy that wants us all dead. This is a spiritual war, a clash of faiths and values. The enemy knows it, why don’t we?

An encouraging word: CHRIST WILL RECEIVE YOU

“Whoever comes to me I will never drive away” (“in no wise cast out” KJV). These words of Jesus in John 6:37 represent one of the most enduring promises in Scripture. We often speak of the sinner “receiving Christ” but it’s equally true that no matter what an individual’s spiritual condition, Christ is ready to receive that person with open arms. Some people avoid repentance because they think they’re unworthy of salvation or that they must somehow morally improve before the Lord will take them into His fold. But God wants you just the way you are, even broken and spiritually bruised. If you’re never received Him, do it now, because today is the day He will receive you. 

Bob Larson has trained healing and deliverance teams all over the world to set the captives free and Do What Jesus Did® (Luke 4:18).  You can partner with Bob and support this vision to demonstrate God’s power in action by calling 303-980-1511 or clicking here to donate online.