Month: October 2015

It’s that week again. Everywhere you look. Grocery stores, clothing retailers, coffee shops, and even doctors’ offices are strung with cobwebs, festooned with spiders, populated with witch hats, and regaled with skeletons and skulls. It’s Halloween this week, and as usual, Christians are split regarding their thoughts on the matter. One Christian blog that I read this week said that it is actually biblical to celebrate Halloween. The logic of the blog writer? “It’s a holiday, and as long as you’re not celebrating the demonic but just having fun, it’s not a big deal. Everybody just needs to chill out. Bless every child who comes to your door dressed like a zombie.”

Another Christian blog entitled “Why Christians Absolutely Should Not Celebrate Halloween” declared, “Setting aside a day to celebrate evil, darkness, witchcraft, fear, death and the demonic brings disdain to God.” C’mon, now, try real hard to guess which blog I agreed with.

I don’t know about the spiritual persuasions of the second writer, but I can certainly tell you something about the first blogger. He’s never done deliverance. Actually facing down demons changes everything. One thing being in deliverance ministry does is to make one aware of how heightened demonic activity is this time of year. Satan operates by something I’ve dubbed “Larson’s Law of the Conservation of Demonic Power.” Say what? Here’s what I mean. God is all powerful all the time. Not the devil. So he has to focus his energies in certain situations and at certain times. For unknown reasons concealed in antiquity, Satan choose the night of Halloween to marshal his forces and concentrate his finite power. It’s not the only season of evil on Satan’s calendar, but it’s his most important one. And we should go along with his imagery and cooperate with his deviltry? I think not. Halloween is a time to stand in contrast to all the evil accoutrements of the day. In fact, what a great time to engage in Christian witness when friends and neighbors wonder why you aren’t beating down doors with the kids dressed as a ghosts and mom looking like Elvira.

An encouraging word:THE LORD IS YOUR SHEPHERD

The Lord is many things to those who follow him. He is an omnipotent God An all-powerful Creator. The sustainer of life. God’s only Begotten Son. Sinless. Perfect. Healer. The Truth. The Way. A Savior. Coming King. Alpha and Omega. But Psalm 23:1 declares Him to be our Shepherd. That beloved psalm has endured through the ages because it the Lord’s role as one who shepherds our lives which becomes more precious with time. The Lord may be many things to you, but today trust Him as a little lamb, and let Him be your Shepherd.

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.

Lamar Odom has demons. I’m glad that it appears he survived a close brush with death in a Nevada whorehouse, but his problems aren’t over. Not only has he forever tarnished his already shaky image, terrified those who love him, and shamed his reputation as a former NBA star, he has also dodged a bullet that nearly took his life. Strong words? Look at the facts of this unseemly saga that played out in the news all last week. Odom was found on Tuesday, passed out and unconscious, in a Nevada brothel called, and this is a misnomer if there ever was one, “The Love Ranch.” In case you haven’t gotten the facts yet, in addition to a lot of sex over the course of four days, Odem consumed at least 10 sexual-performance pills, untold quantities of cocaine, plus plenty of hard liquor. Odom spent more than $75,000 on the sex binge. Comatose and on life support for several days, he eventually revived over the weekend.

Finding the root cause of this sex and suicide mission is easy. His mother died of cancer when he was 12 and he was left with his irresponsible dad, a heroin addict. He also suffered the tragic death of a seven-month old, illegitimate son and his best friend who died from infected drug needles. He once said, “Death always seems to be around me.” He’s right. From where I see things, there was obviously a death curse on his life. But who was going to help him? Certainly not the Kardashian family he married into. Certainly not any pastor of a major pulpit in America. So, he spiraled downward until his demons made an eternal bid for his soul. Of course he had demons. His dad opened the door, and more were added at that hellhole of prostitution in Nevada. If he fully recovers and regains his senses, I have some advice. Don’t listen to Kanye and Kim, they can’t help you. Momma Kris has no spiritual wisdom to offer. Khloe may still love you, but she can’t cast out your demons. If you get out of that hospital, you’ll likely be in trouble again before too long until you get delivered. Lamar, only Jesus can keep you away from ill-repute and out of hell.

An encouraging word:THREE DAY DIFFERENCE

“He is risen!” Those resounding words of Mark 16:6. The words of the angel to the two Marys seeking to anoint the body of Jesus are the foundation of our faith as Christians. But think of this. Three days earlier, it was all gloom and doom. Jesus had been crucified, and He was dead. What a difference three days made. With God, that’s all it takes. You may be facing something that seems unsurmountable. Your challenges may feel like they’ll take years and years to resolve. But God is the God of the three-day-difference. Before you give up on your dreams, turn your situation over the Lord and give Him a little time to come through. May I suggest that you wait at least three days?

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

Last week there was another senseless shooting. This was closer to home, my home. It occurred at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, a little over two hours from where I currently live. A freshman, Steven Jones, 18, has been charged with first-degree murder. According to police, Jones got into a fight with other students, took a handgun from his car, and started shooting. Three were wounded and one was killed. They were all shot multiple times. The victims were members of Delta Chi fraternity. Jones was a pledge at another fraternity, Sigma Chi. It all happened the same day that President Obama was in Roseburg, Oregon to console the families of nine who were killed at Umpqua Community College just eight days earlier.

Here’s what makes this case unique. Our family knew who the shooter was. Jones was a Christian homeschooled kid who had attended many of the same Phoenix-area homeschool functions as my wife and three daughters. Once it was known who did the shooting, homeschoolers who knew Jones simply couldn’t believe it. Obviously, all the information about this incident isn’t known yet, but I’ve already cited that Jones was born-again. Perhaps he suffered some kind of mental breakdown. But the facts are that he was raised in a solid-Christian community, and shot four people, killing one. It seems that some kind of rage overtook him. The roots of that no one knows yet.

I don’t wish to pass any stern, unwarranted judgments about this situation, and certainly don’t want to reflect on what might have gone wrong in his family. But good Christian kids just don’t shoot four people unless . . . . You know where I’m headed. Unless the devil is in the details somewhere. When I entitled this blog “Demons Make Christians Kill” I didn’t mean to suggest that people with demons are robotic zombies unflinchingly doing evil deeds on command from demons. Demons “make” them do evil by pushing them to the edge of insanity and irrationality. Knowing what I do about similar such cases, it’s not hard to imagine that Steven Jones was under severe demonic oppression for some reason we’ll never know. It wasn’t dealt with and this is the result.

If you know someone who is exhibiting erratic behavior or seems to be losing touch with reality, get them help. If they tell you of past trauma which hasn’t been processed through counseling and healing prayers, get them to someone who can intervene. Christians can go over the edge and commit terrible deeds. And yes, even if they are Christians they can have demons who “make” them kill.

An encouraging word: GOD’S WONDER AND AMAZEMENT.

When the lame man at the Beautiful Gate in Acts 3:10 was healed, the Bible says people were “filled with wonder and amazement.” Look around today. Our culture seems to be filled more with cynicism and outright hatred toward the things of God. Perhaps one reason is that we’ve lost the demonstration of His miraculous power, silencing the critics. Tragically, all too many churches have what John and Peter did not have, “silver and gold.” But in accumulating the riches of this world, some Christians seem to have lost the riches of Christ’s power. Will you agree in prayer with me today that Christians will recover what we lost and once again impress a lost world with “wonder and amazement” at the demonstration of God’s might?

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

“You’re the reason God made Oklahoma,” sang David Frizzell and Shelly West, back in 1981. “Losing you left a pretty good cowboy with nothing to hold on to.” Nearly 25 years later, the Supreme Court of Oklahoma has determined that God didn’t make anything in Oklahoma and nothing that He says matters much anymore. As I head to Oklahoma City next week for seminar on October 16 (CLICK HERE for seminar information.) something will be missing: a massive granite monument on the grounds of the Oklahoma State Capitol. Installed in 2012, by an act of the state legislature, the monument, engraved with the Ten Commandments was removed this week. Thanks to a lawsuit filed by a Baptist – that’s right I said BAPTIST – minister fought to have it eradicated. The minister, Bruce Prescott, a professor at the University of Oklahoma, said he was concerned that people of other faiths, or no faith, might be offended and their rights as citizens infringed upon.

And which of the “Shalt Nots” on the monument were so offensive? God’s commands to refrain from murder, adultery, stealing, lying, coveting? But some argued, “What if Satanist want to display Lucifer (Actually, they tried to.)? It wasn’t Luciferians who pledged their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to establish this great republic. And which other religion to be accommodated has such a codified moral code that speaks so clearly to the most noble virtues of humanity? None. Let me see if I understand this correctly. In an age when Planned Parenthood harvests fetuses, rape and molestation are epidemic, and the rate of illegitimacy in the U. S. is over 40% of all live births, a Baptist minister should actually be worried about a stone carving saying DON’T DO IT?

From my perspective of spiritual warfare, that Baptist preacher is an agent of Satan, I care not what his stated motives. His actions, aided by atheists, have pushed the Oklahoma Supreme Court to allow demons the right to attack the good citizens of Oklahoma in unprecedented ways. God DID make Oklahoma, as He did all of us. To deny the Almighty Creator his role in human affairs is to grant license to Lucifer to wreak his havoc on the Sooner State.

An encouraging word: SIN NEVER SATISFIES

As I was recently reading about the life of King David, I was reminded again of that awful account in 2 Samuel 13:15 when David’s son Amnon raped and incested his sister Tamar. After Amnon’s scheming to consummate the awful act, the Bible tells us that Amnon’s feelings toward Tamar were such that “the hatred with which he hated her was greater than the love with which he had loved her.” That’s the way with sin. It never delivers what it promises. Whatever evil desires may be in your heart today, repent quickly. Even if you get what you sinfully want, it won’t satisfy afterwards and you will sorely regret that you did it.

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.

The somewhat wacky attorney who represented Madalyn Murray O’Hair before the Supreme Court in 1963 died September 26 at age 88.  It was Leonard Kerpelman who made it possible for O’Hair to get prayer kicked out of public schools. Kerpelman is a testament to what one evil man can do to change the course of history. He defended his actions at the time by saying, “I see no constitutional objection to the study of religion, history of religion, or the study of the Bible as literature.” But the devil had other plans. The practical effect of that decision has removed any reverent references to God from the education of our youth. Though Kerpelman argued that he was only objecting to what he called a “sectarian ceremony” the result has been to ban baccalaureate services, prayer at the beginning of football games, and even personal declarations of faith by graduates.

Life didn’t end well for either Kerpelman or O’Hair. The woman he defended ended up murdered by her former office manager. Kerpelman ended his legal career disbarred for disrupting a legal proceeding in court.  At his passing, his deceived daughter said, “My father loved and stood up for his country and the intent of the Constitution of the United States from the start of his career until the end of his days.” Another perspective would be that he shredded the meaning of American freedom by removing God from educational discourse. One look at any day’s newspaper headlines shows that the moral world around us has gone downhill since then. Today, you can’t read a Bible in the classroom but the nurse’s dispensary can give you free birth control pills to pursue fornication without parental consent.

Ironically, the O’Hair child over whom Kerpelman’s  battle was fought, William, later became a Christian and an outspoken opponent of both Kerpelman and his mother. In this case God had the last laugh. In terms of where Kerpelman is likely spending eternity, Satan is having the last laugh.

An encouraging word: DON’T BE A FOOL

Psalm 53:1 – “The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” In our culture we elevate those whose skepticism questions God’s existence. But this ancient truth can’t be discounted. William Murray, the son of famed atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, wrote in his book My Life without God, “My mother was not just Madalyn Murray O’Hair, the atheist leader. She was an evil person who led many to hell. That is hard for me to say about my own mother but it is true. When I was a young boy of ten or eleven years old she would come home and brag about spending the day in X-rated movie theaters in downtown Baltimore. She particularly enjoyed hiring convicted murderers who had served their time but were unrepentant about what they had done. She got a sense of power out of having men in her employ who had taken human life.” Ms. O’Hair was eventually murdered by one of these men. Truly, she was a fool. Don’t be a fool like her by denying God in your 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.

I’ve heard of instances in which mentally disturbed people have actually gouged out their own eye(s) in response to Matthew 5:29: If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. But a North Carolina woman has taken this a step further. Jewel Shuping, age 30, suffers from a mental malady called Body Identity Integrity Disorder (BIID). She’s in excellent health but doesn’t want to be. She desires disability. Shuping says, “This is the way (blind) I was supposed to be born.” But Shuping didn’t stop with wishing blindness on herself; she sought out a psychologist who helped her achieve blindness by pouring drain cleaner in each pupil until she lost her eyesight.

How do I explain this? Clearly this is the work of Satan. Putting a fancy name on it like BIID obfuscates the fact that self-inducing blindness isn’t just aberrational, it’s downright wicked. Demonic. Perhaps Shuping has demons who induced her to do this. Or she may have a generational alter. (Ancestral Generational Dissociation, explained thoroughly in our International School of Exorcism®. Enroll now by CLICKING HERE.) For example, that ancestral, dissociated identity state, inherited genetically as a memory imprint by Shuping, may have actually been blinded at some time in history. This started a curse, passed on through the DNA, disposing future generations to want to be blind. A typical scenario would be this: Shuping did something to open the door to demons in her life, which then activated the ancient curse, compelling her to want to be blind. Don’t underestimate what demons can do if given the chance. This case of deliberate self-blinding also gives a new slant on the words of 1 John 2:11: “He who hates his brother is in darkness . . . the darkness has blinded his eyes.”

 An encouraging word:  GOD BLESSES ABUNDANTLY

What is your need today? Do you think that God is too busy to respond or that others may have greater challenges than you? We often fail to ask of the Lord for illogical reasons such as these. Ephesians 3:20 reminds us that Jesus wants to bless us “exceedingly, abundantly above all that we ask or think . . .” That’s pretty big. Stop what you’re doing and ask largely of the Lord. Expand your faith beyond your personal efforts to succeed, and live with the expectation that God will intervene on your behalf in an abundant way. He wants to and He is waiting for you to ask.

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.

CONUNDRUM: A Confusing or difficult question.

In my Personal Spiritual Encounter sessions I am constantly amazed at how many people who seek my help have dabbled in the occult. We’re talking Christians here, not those who are ignorant of biblical teaching. They tell of calling psychics or going to fortune tellers. Even seeking séances. When I ask if they knew such actions constituted witchcraft and opened them to demons, they often shrug their shoulders as if it were no more serious than a parking ticket. The first reason for this disconnect is the lack of warnings from the pulpit. Most church congregants tell me they’ve never heard a sermon about such things. And they’ve certainly not heard a message about the dangers of getting demons from occult investigation. All such things go under the heading of divination, and it’s not a minor infraction to God.

Simply put, divination is searching for what can’t be determined by the natural senses. The very word “divination” is found in most Bible translations such as the Authorized King James Version (KJV) and the New International Version (NIV). See, for example, the condemnations of Deuteronomy 18:10, 2 Kings 17:17, Jeremiah 14:14, Ezekiel 12:24, 13:6, 21:23, and Acts 16:16 in the KJV. In the NIV consider Genesis 44:5, Leviticus 19:26, Deuteronomy 18:14, 1 Samuel 15:23, and Isaiah 2:6. Examples of such indulgences would be horoscopes, fortune telling, palm reading, Ouija Boards, séances, Runes, and consulting tarot cards. These examples are by no means exhaustive. Satan lures victims to attempt pulling back the veil of the unknown. The devil wants humans to dispense with our trusting God for the future instead of peering into the realm of reality beyond what can be discerned by bodily senses..

Our International School of Exorcism® has several of its 30 courses devoted to explaining what’s behind this search for the supernatural, apart from God and His Word. Courses such as “Introduction to Spiritual Warfare,” “Satan & the Origin of Evil,” and “A Survey of Demonic Activity” lay all this out in understandable teaching that is essential information of those who want to drive back the devil. Knowledge is power over the confusing, conundrum of the occult. Isn’t it time that you enrolled TODAY? To enroll CLICK HERE.

An encouraging word: GOD IS WISER THAN MEN.

“The foolishness of God is wiser than men,” Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 1:25. I think about this scripture every time I hear some pompous pundit of science declare there is no God; all that exists somehow happened by fortuitous accident. Whether it is the creation of the universe or the moral law of God, mere men somehow think they know better. But take all the accumulated wisdom of all the ages, add it together and you are nowhere near the wisdom of the Almighty. That alone should spur us to read His Word with greater enthusiasm. How much of the Lord’s wisdom have you put in your heart 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

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