Month: September 2015

This past weekend, my good friend pastor James Vivian brought to my attention something that had slipped under my spiritual radar: a demonic invasion at the highest realm of modern science. The European Organization (EU) for Nuclear Research (CERN) operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, located near Geneva Switzerland. CERN with 2,513 staff represents 608 universities and research facilities. CERN features not only the world’s largest particle accelerator but it is also the birthplace of the World Wide Web. It might be considered the premiere scientific research center of the world. And what do you see when you walk through the doors of this prestigious place of science? An idol of the Hindu god Shiva, in his incarnation as Lord Nataraja, Lord of the Dance (also known as Shakti, a.k.a. Jezebel). Some definitions will help:

SHIVA: One of three main Hindu gods; the destroyer of worlds; spirit of death

SHAKTI: The energy of the universe; the feminine divine (archetype of Jezebel); psycho-sexual serpent power of the kundalini in yoga

NATARAJA: Two-legged, two-armed Shiva as Lord of the Dance; he dances to destroy the universe

There you have it, Shiva as demon of Death, sexually cohabiting with Shakti to achieve spiritual enlightenment. Strange. The nations of the EU owe their economic, political, and scientific advancements to the Christian faith, but now choose to celebrate a Hindu demon whose worship has, in part, kept India bound to poverty, disease, and a racist caste system for millennia. Imagine the public and political outcry if CERN had placed a Christian cross where Shiva dances death. The protest would have been horrendous. All this is one more reason for this ministry, and our International School of Exorcism (To enroll CLICK HERE.), to increase our efforts to teach and train an army of Holy Ghost warriors to battle this nonsense and spiritual capitulation! Will you join us today?

An encouraging word: GIVE DOUBLE HONOR.

There is an anti-clerical attitude in our culture. Ministers are often ridiculed in the media, and when polls are taken, they are often at the bottom of respected professions. With all the infidelity of megachurch pastors, and child abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, perhaps this is to be expected. But don’t let a few rotten apples determine your perspective. Paul told Timothy (1 Timothy 5:17) that those who direct the affairs of church life are “worthy of double honor.” Take time today to say something nice about your pastor. Call or send him an email, thanking him for his sacrifices on behalf of the gospel. Give double honor to those in spiritual authority who are genuine in their calling, and God will bless 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

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Let me say up front that I don’t want to insult the good folks of Detroit. I was there last weekend and met some amazing Christians. Two powerful, public exorcisms took place Friday night. The Personal Spiritual Encounters were incredible; miracle after miracle of healing and deliverance. But let’s be real, the devil is at work in Detroit. Recently, Satanists erected a huge idol to worship Lucifer, a nine-foot, one-ton bronze statue. (Read our blog of July 16, 2015, “Devil in Detroit” by CLICKING HERE.) For decades, Detroit has been a mecca for the worst of heavy metal music. When I lectured in public schools before I went into the ministry, I dreaded speaking in Detroit schools. They were hotbeds, even back then, of extreme leftist politics and social anarchism. Now to Detroit’s problems of inner-city decay and bankruptcy, add another example of the devil’s debacles in Detroit.

The photos above were taken at the new Detroit airport as I passed through this past weekend. Remember the days when airports had chapels for souls seeking solace on their journeys? Then they added yoga rooms for the weary travelers. Now, it has morphed into simply “reflection” centers, whatever that is. I looked inside this one in Detroit. It was a small, round room. Empty. No cross. No Bible. Not even a Koran. Not a single thing. A bare, quiet room to, well, what else, reflect. But on what? Whom? And what’s the point? I guess if a traveler is looking to get away from the hustle and bustle, why not be someplace that is quiet? But what if an airplane passenger is seeking help from something or someone transcendent? Like God? Out of luck. The leaders of Detroit apparently have given up on Divine intervention. Just go inside and look inside . . . yourself.

This is the culture of America. Churches designed to make you feel comfortable. No mention of sin, hell, or Satan and demons. And our societal approach to religion is equally anemic. No need to pray. No need to rebuke the devil or cancel curses. Just reflect. How sweet. How diabolical.

An encouraging word: BE SAVED FROM PERVERSITY   “Be saved from this perverse generation!” Wow, that’s a bold way to deliver a sermon. It’s not the kind of thing you’d hear in most churches today. We’ve accommodated all kinds of evil in our culture to the extent that nothing is perverse any more. But these words of the Apostle Peter in Acts 2:40 comprise the message of the first sermon preached in New Testament times. The result was 3,000 souls coming to Christ as Savior. Think about your own life and what kinds of perversity you may have allowed. If you want to be obedient to the life with Jesus demanded by Christians in the beginning, start by being “saved” from the evil that is around 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.

Remember the seven sons of Sceva in Acts chapter 19? These “vagabond,” roaming self-styled exorcists, watched the Apostle Paul cast out demons by the name of Jesus and tried to do the same thing, with disastrous results. When they tried to invoke Christ’s name, the demons jumped on them, ripped their clothes off, beat them up, and sent them running naked and wounded. A bit of exorcist humor, unless you were one of the seven sons. Well, it’s happened again, another ill-advised exorcism. Only this time, someone got killed. Stabbed to death. This past week in London, an Islamic exorcist named Zakariyya Islam was murdered while trying to cast demons out of a man by quoting the Koran at a “black magic” healing center. An associate of Zakariyya was quoted as saying, “We do have enemies in this field because there are a lot of people who don’t like our work.” What the associate didn’t mention is that the Muslim exorcist’s so-called healing center also offered advice on sorcery, witchcraft, and the evil eye. And they even do this by Skype! (Wonder if they reading my web site?) Said the associate who lived to tell, “Listening to the Koran you can get rid of it all [demons].” Well, apparently not.

Perhaps this Muslim exorcist meant well. Maybe he thought that calling on Allah could free the man who was to murder him. But he was wrong. DEADLY wrong. As the sons of Sceva tragically learned, there is only one name under heaven that has the power to set people free from demons – Jesus of Nazareth! Philippians 2:9 tells us that the name of Jesus is a name which is above every other name. And at the mention of that name those “under the earth” must bow and confess that Christ is Lord. As the seventy disciples, sent by Jesus to cast out demons, declared upon return from their mission, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in Your name.” It’s too late to get across that message to Zakariyya Islam. But it’s not too late to tell everyone everywhere that only Jesus, the Son of God, has the authority and power to make demons flee. And we in whom He dwells can do what He did!

 An encouraging word: KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS

Many people may claim to be a follower of Christ, but there is a sure test for confirmation that one is a Christian, 1 John 2:3: “We know Him if we keep His commandments.” That’s very straightforward and simply put. The test of Christian character is not what someone says, but what they do. Not what they profess, but what they possess on a daily basis. While we are cautioned about judging (Matthew 7:1) with unrighteous and condemnatory judgment, there is a litmus test as to whether an individual is walking with Christ – whether they are obedient to His teachings. Do you know Him, and are you keeping His commandments?

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.

As we all know, Hillary Clinton is having her problems in the polls. But I came across several reports that indicate an even more serious problem. Not with the electorate, with evangelical Christians. To a decidedly liberal audience she referenced conservative Christians by saying, “Deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” I supposed she is referring to issues like abortion and gay rights, and she is certainly entitled to confront these topics. But what’s disturbing is the idea that deeply-held religious beliefs “have to be changed.” I’m not sure what that means. Change isn’t necessarily bad, depending on the issue, but what’s scary is the idea that government should be in the business of enforcing the change of faith beliefs. If her ideas don’t concern you, note that she also said, “I don’t believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws.” We’re not talking about debate and persuasion by open discussion. We’re talking about political proctors roaming the American landscape, looking for deviations from what’s politically correct, or at least that is what her views seem to imply.

Is she talking about some old Soviet or Orwellian-style system? She’s vague, but it’s not comforting to read between the lines. As for me, suppose some bureaucrat decides that exorcism is a medieval practice deleterious to the emotional health of recipients and should be outlawed? Would I get a midnight knock at the door from the thought police? If my “structural bias” is that many problems relegated to the psych ward are actually better dealt with by casting out demons, would I have to change or else? Every minister of the gospel is in the business of changing hearts. Are we supposed to forgo the gospel and be coerced by state planners who decide what we can and cannot preach? Perhaps Hillary’s intentions are more benign. I certainly pray so. But I’m not so sure that we aren’t on the cusp of a need kind of intolerance aimed at beliefs as well as actions.

 An encouraging word:  THE WORD IN POWER

Paul said that the gospel he preached “did not come in word only, but also in power” (1 Thessalonians 1:5). It seems to me that we have a lot of words today, but not a lot of power. We live in a time where there has never been more preaching of the gospel on radio, TV, in print and in person. But most of it is just words, words, words. Are you like me and long to see the “power?” I don’t mean talking about power and telling stories of some mission field far away. I mean power here and now, right where we live.  That’s why the ministry of deliverance is so important. It demonstrates spiritual power in the here and now. I encourage you to make a goal of pursuing real power, the power of spiritual warfare.

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.

An atheist web site recently displayed an unusual bit of honesty. In fact they trumpeted a fact that should have been an embarrassment. They reported on an original letter, written by Charles Darwin, the father of the evolutionary hypothesis, that is about to be auctioned for an estimated $70,000 to $90,000! The missive, hand-written, was Darwin’s response to a November 23, 1880 question from a young lawyer. The barrister, Francis McDermott asked, “Give me a Yes or No to the question, ‘Do you believe in the New Testament?'” Darwin replied the very next day: “I am sorry to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation and therefore not in Jesus Christ as the son of God.”

On the face of it, this is no great shock. Darwin’s antipathy toward Christianity was clearly a motivating factor behind On the Origen of Species. His father was a so-called “freethinker” (a more polite English way of describing 19th century atheism) and his mother was a godless Unitarian, those folks who believe in nothing and everything. Ironically, Charles Darwin’s father had him baptized as an Anglican, perhaps hedging his bet on eternal life. At the time, the Senior Darwin, as the parent of Charles, would have had to renounce the devil as part of the liturgy. Such a confession was obviously not taken seriously, as the baby Darwin was to become one of the best evangelists for Satan in human history.

The purpose of this blog isn’t to debunk evolution. There’s no room for that debate here. Suffice to say that, despite some elements of logic and truth, the ultimate point of Darwin’s theory is flawed and diabolical. According to the Bible so despised by Darwin, humanity DID NOT arise from lower life forms, directed by chance and “natural selection” rather than the hand of God. If Darwin was right, there is no God and no devil. And everything that I do every day to fight demons is a pointless sham, because according to “Origen” there is only the material world and nothing supernatural exists. There is no compromise here. You cannot be a Darwinian evolutionist and a deliverance minister. Impossible. They can’t coexist. I know of no one who casts out demons who discounts the creation account of Genesis. If such a person exists, very real demons would make short work of this individual and drag him to the same hell where Darwin likely exists in eternal torment.

An encouraging word:  DON’T BE ASHAMED OF CHRIST.

“I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,” Paul wrote in Romans 1:16. In America today, with pervasive Christian media and thousands of Christian organizations that’s not a remarkable statement. But in Paul’s time it was revolutionary. Christians were being killed for their faith. It was a crime not to worship the Emperor of Rome. Believers literally met in underground catacombs. To say that we today have it easier is an understatement. Think for a moment. If you lived in the time of Paul, would you be as bold as he was? If such times of persecution come again, will you be ashamed of Christ?

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.

When I first heard about it I thought it was a sick joke. No joke. The Hindu demon goddess Kali, a.k.a. Jezebel (a hideous evil spirit I’ve battled many times) was actually projected, August 1, on to the Empire State Building. The 3-D image was put there by visual artist Android Jones as some kind of environmental protest about man’s destruction of nature. The idea was that endangered species would be saved by this act of spiritual transformation. This satanic image of a demon god was intended to “make the point that Mother Nature now more than ever needs a fierce avatar to fight the angers of pollution and extinction.” Seriously?

Here’s what my book JEZEBEL: Defeating Your #1 Spiritual Enemy has to say about Kali: In one hand she holds a sword, and the other holds the head of her decapitated lover. Around her neck is a necklace of human skulls of her victims. She stands with one foot triumphantly placed on the back of the corpse of her murdered paramour. She is famous for seducing lovers and then, at the moment of orgasms, taking their lives. (To read more about Kali and Jezebel, get my book JEZEBEL by CLICKING HERE.) My book says more, but you get the idea.

In 19th century India, the Thugee cult of murderous assassins killed countless people in India as an act of blood sacrifice to Kali. Even today in remote sections of India, the Kali cult practices ritual human sacrifice. And the Big Apple chose this as an ecological icon? I’ve dealt with Kali countless times and can attest that in the kingdom of darkness this is one of the most powerful and bloodthirsty demons. Imagine if Christians would have projected a cross instead. The ACLU would still be filing lawsuits against the sponsors. If anyone had doubts about demons being in control of the whole Save-the-Planet-Global-Warming agenda, all skepticism is now erased. What happened in New York wouldn’t happen even in New Delhi or Mumbai. We truly are a nation in danger of judgment. Lord Jesus come quickly!

An encouraging word: SANCTIFICATION IS GOD’S WILL

“This is the will of God, your sanctification” (1 Thessalonians 4:3). Those are strong words from the Apostle Paul. Sanctification seems like such an ancient word. It’s not even on the radar of most churches today. Easton’s Bible Dictionary calls it “more than a mere moral reformation of character: it is the work of the Holy Spirt bringing the whole nature under the influences of new gracious principles.” The dictionary says it is to “make holy, set apart as sacred.” Most important, IT IS GOD’S WILL. Growing in grace and constantly surrendering more of one’s life to the Lord daily isn’t an option, it is a command. Sanctification is to make holy, to separate from the world, to set apart unto the Lord. That is a tall order, the “venti” of spiritual aspirations. 

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.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Last week I reported on recent psychiatric research that proves curses are embedded in DNA and can be passed from generation to generation. YOU MUST read PART #1 of this series before reading below. To read this previous blog of September 3, 2015, PLEASE CLICK HERE.

My previous blog about the scientific verifiability of generational curses is must reading before proceeding further. I reported on research in the new scientific field of epigenetics, the study of how one’s DNA is affected by circumstances. Psychiatrists have discovered that severe trauma releases hormones called glucocorticoids which reduce the body’s ability to handle stress. Thus, for example, a victim of childhood sexual abuse who doesn’t receive counseling and spiritual healing may over-secrete these hormones which alter DNA, a modification which may be passed on to the children. The children could then suffer depression and various mental illness and concurrently be more vulnerable to sexual abuse themselves. And this mutated pattern could continue for many generations until the curse is spiritually broken and God supernaturally modifies the DNA.

According to Lee Bitsoi, PhD. Research Associate in Genetics at Harvard University, epigenetic changes may be linked to the “development of illnesses such as PTSD, depression, and type 2 diabetes.” The findings of Bitsoi has been extended to high rates of addiction, suicide, and sexual violence. This Harvard researcher is saying exactly what I’ve declared in my book CURSE BREAKING. The evil that happens to one generation is transferable to the next. Demons know this and stalk the vulnerable, attacking them with various mental, emotional, and physical problems. And though science may come up with drugs to counter the effect of glucocorticoids, prayer to break curses is an important form of immediate intervention that must not be overlooked by Christians. My book CURSE BREAKING includes 25 pages of detailed curse-breaking prayers that confront hundreds of infirmities, psychological difficulties, and spiritual impediments. Critics of curse breaking need to be better informed before they pass harsh judgments on those of us who very day see the effects of generational curses, and also witness the power of Christ to cancel all the evil committed by bloodline ancestors.

NOTE: You must read Bob’s book CURSE BREAKING: Freedom from the Bondage of Generational Sin. To order CLICK HERE.

 An encouraging word:  DON’T BE TROUBLED
“Let your heart not be troubled,” Jesus said in John 14:1. That so often seems hard to do, especially in our world where indecency is rampant and violence lurks around every corner. How can we not be troubled by beheadings in Syria and bombings in Boston? Read the next few verses. Jesus speaks of the place in heaven He has prepared for Christians. We can “not be troubled” because this world is not our final destination. Though we should be troubled by war, violence, and crime, that troubling should incite us to action to right such wrongs, knowing that some day it will all end and heaven will be our home.

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

In spite of the testimony of church history and theology, plus the witness of thousands of ministers of deliverance, the concept of generational curses still meets resistance from mainstream American evangelicalism. In other parts of the world, such as Africa, this idea is more or less accepted. Cultures which are but a few generations removed from idolatrous practices recognize that the bloodline carries powerful proclivities toward evil which are spiritually embedded and must be removed. Ironically, if some Christian pastors won’t yield to the obvious evidence, psychology and science may come to the rescue.

Epigenetics is a new study of how the factors of one’s environment can actually change a person’s DNA, and that these alterations can be inherited! Recently, “Biological Psychiatry” published a study of Holocaust survivors and their adult children. According to the study, high stress releases hormones called glucocorticoids. Continued exposure to these hormones eventually reduces an individual’s ability to handle trauma. The hormones turn off certain genes which would normally handle stress. In other words, the effects of severe trauma have a powerful impact of the sufferer’s actual DNA, a condition which then affects the ability of future generations to handle difficulties. One generation’s maladies can become the next generation’s emotional hindrances. We’re talking science and genetics here. Researchers with no interest one way or another in proving that curses can be passed on to offspring, are now saying what Scripture has taught for millennia!

As cases in point, researchers found that Dutch women who were pregnant during a famine after WWII gave birth to children with an above-average risk of developing schizophrenia. From what those of us in deliverance know about Inner Healing, we see the same thing happen to victims of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Clearly, demons understand the effect of glucocorticoids and take advantage of the vulnerable in successive generations.

There is much more to say about this, which will be covered in my next blog, Part #2 of this interesting revelation.

NOTE: You must read Bob’s book CURSE BREAKING: Freedom from the Bondage of Generational Sin. To order CLICK HERE.

An encouraging word: PAY ATTENTION TO GOD’S WORD.
Have you spent time with the Lord today? Have you read the Word to give guidance in life? The writer to the Hebrews warned, “We must pay careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away” (Hebrews 2:1). I’ve observed through many years of ministry, that the slow slide into sin and compromising behavior is always accompanied by a neglect of hearing and reading God’s Word. When people seek my counsel about spiritual bondage I often ask directly, “How often do you go to church and how much time do you devote to regular reading of the Bible?” The answers is always the same: “Not much, lately.” How much attention to Scripture will you give today?

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.