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Month: December 2017

A Child Shall Lead Them.

A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM!
“For unto us a child is born” (Isaiah 9:6)
This Christmas season, Latasha came nearly 1,000 miles to find deliverance in a Personal Spiritual Encounter at our new counseling facilities in Phoenix, Arizona. When our time of prayer was over, she declared, “This is what freedom feels like. I’ve never had it.”
 
But the real Christmas miracle, was how she got there.  Her eight-year-old daughter, Jamilla, found me on YouTube. She told her mother, “You need to go see Bob Larson.” (“Out of the mouth of babes, You have perfected praise.” – Matthew 21:16)  
 
Then, Jamilla asked her mother to order online our Cross of Deliverance, which she holds in the picture above, with her sister. Truly, a child shall lead them (Isaiah 11:6).
 
What a beautiful Christmas story. Like the Christ-child in the manger, Latasha’s children led her to the freedom that is found in Jesus.
 
Lead someone you love to Jesus by scheduling a Personal Spiritual Encounter in 2018! 
 

And remember, there’s no better time to give your tithe and offering to the Lord, especially before December 31, so it will income-tax deductible for the entire year.

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Recovering Shame

The Harvey Weinstein debacle, followed by a series of high-profile cases of flagrant disregard for personal prudence, such as Al Franken and Matt Lauer, raises the question of whether our society has lost its sense of shame. Is there an increase in such boorish behavior or has the tip of the iceberg of moral decay finally emerged above the din of a coarse culture? The problem of this moral dilemma won’t be solved by firing a few movie producers and actors or forcing the most egregious politicians to resign. The answer is this: as a nation and as a church, we must recover a sense of shame. How did we get to this place? Down several pathways. The lack of person and societal shame is an evil produced by decades of throwing off self-restraint and quieting our collective conscience from the idea that there is evil and there are absolutes. At the same time, market-driven Christianity has lost a sense of the sacred, faithfulness, dependability, modesty, and restraint. What’s left is a lack of organized, national conscience, no sense of what it means to blush at something without being mocked as prudish. Self-restraint has been replaced by self-indulgence. Religious confessionals by therapeutic psycho-babble. The sense of sin by the tyranny of the perverse. To recover the sense of shame, we must learn again to blush, to be embarrassed at wardrobe malfunctions and scandalous behavior. The prophet Jeremiah said it well (Jer. 8:12): “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed, Nor did they know how to blush.” Recovering shame means that once again we must make our churches places of repentance instead of temples of self-satisfying worship with inoffensive preaching. And most important, we will not know the shame of our sins until we accept the shame of the cross. (Hebrews 12:2 – “Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”) Jeremiah 8:6-7: I have listened attentively, but they do not say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Each pursues his own course like a horse charging into battle. Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD. NIV

An encouraging word: OPTIMISM OR PESSIMISM

It seems in life that we often have only one of two choices about what happens. Assume the role of an optimist and believe things will get better no matter what, or believe the worst is about to happen because Murphy’s Law all too often seems to prevail. (“If it can go wrong, it will go wrong.”) But there is a third choice, Romans 8:28: And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Christians shouldn’t be either full-fledged optimists or depressing pessimists. We are simply believers who trust the Lord to bring the best in all things as we patiently wait for His purposes to be fulfilled.

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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Are Tattoos Christian?

I’ve had my say on this issue of tattoos many times in previous blogs: “Demonic Tattoos 12/14/15 (To read click here.) and “Cremation Tattoos 11/03/14 (To read click here.). My book “Curse Breaking” has a lengthy subject on this topic, pages 108-112. (To order click here.) What I’ve set forth there is clear and concise. Lest the reader think I’m a legalist, I state in the book that I’m not opposed to medical tattoos and leave open to conscience tattoos with biblical themes. I also pull no punches that tattooing may, in certain instances, give an opening to demonic curses, and I provide anecdotal evidence. Make no mistake, body inking has its root in pagan cultures and has long been associated with “mana” energy, the tattoo providing the portal of demonic entry.

What gives me cause for this blog is the recent comment of Carl Lentz, Hillsong pastor in New York, who publicly, and somewhat arrogantly, put down Christians who hold to an anti-tattoo position by saying that the biblical permissibility of tattoos is a “no brainer.” With questionable exegesis, he declared that it’s time to “die” to any theology opposing tattoos. I’m not here to pick a fight with Lentz, nor to discredit the good done by Hillsong. Philippians 1:18 admonishes us to rejoice wherever Christ is preached, whether with “false motives or true.” I am not judging Lentz, but neither do I appreciate being labeled among “brainless” believers for suggesting caution with tattoos. (For an additional perspective on tattoos go to: https://www.crosswalk.com/family/singles/is-it-biblical-for-christians-to-get-tattoos.html)

Most tattoos aren’t artistic renderings of John 3:16 but rather witchcraft and pagan symbols, images of death and skulls, or dragons and mystical motifs. I have documented scores of case studies of instances when demonic possession was facilitated by tattoos. Such empirical evidence carries cautionary weight, and isn’t “brainless” but rather prudent. If tattooed Christians wish to look like a walking billboard for “L. A. Ink” they have the latitude to do it, but please don’t condescendingly lecture those of us who differ as if we were lacking in intellectual acuity. In the rush of cool Christian to attract the world, “Tattoo-you” (inside Stones reference) believers may run the risk of cultural compromises that are spiritually poisonous.

An encouraging word: GET GOD’S COUNSEL

I encourage many people to get counseling. They often need it after deliverance to further resolve issues raised during an exorcism. Often the counseling people receive before deliverance paves the way to a more successful time of ministry; this is true if the individual has already, by wise counsel, worked through painful times of trauma. But the most adept therapist or prudent counselor can’t match the wisdom of God. “The counsel of the Lord stands forever,” declares Psalm 33:11. The educated and experienced human mind can give good direction, but only what the Lord declares survives the test of time for eternity.

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

Cassidy’s Wasted Years

On November 22, two weeks ago, teen idol, David Cassidy, aged 67 died. To an older generation raised with “The Partridge Family” it was hard to believe that one of America’s most famous youth idols had passed. The fresh-scrubbed face of his youth, eventually gave way to struggles with alcohol and erratic behavior, including leaving the scene of an accident and driving on a suspended license. (He was in trouble with the law several times because of his alcoholism.)

Finally, he succumbed to dementia, a fact he made public earlier this year. He declined rapidly and eventually died from liver and kidney failure. He was put in a medically induced coma, but briefly regained consciousness. It was during that time, according to his estranged daughter, Katie, that Cassidy uttered his last words: “So much wasted time.”

What did he mean? Had he wasted his youth as a cultural icon without experiencing the normal joys of growing up? Had he wasted his relationships, failing in three marriages and having his daughter Katie illegitimately from a fourth relationship? Had he wasted a legacy of personal success apart from his TV appearances and record sales? Had he wasted an eternity without God because he apparently made no profession of a personal faith?

I wish that during those tumultuous and frenzied years of adolescent stardom someone had quoted to Cassidy the words of Ecclesiastes 12:1: “Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you say, ‘I have no pleasure in them.'”

You don’t have to be a pop star and make millions to waste the best opportunity in life, surrendering to Christ as Lord and Savior. If by chance you read this and are not a Christian, make your peace with God now lest you too waste precious time living in sin and pay the price of sin’s consequences. It’s too late now for David Cassidy to get back his wasted time, but not too late for you to experience God’s perfect peace and the abundance life that Christ promised those who believe in Him.

An encouraging word: WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN

While using the lavatory on a plane recently, I noticed the hand soap provided by the airline. It was called Philosophy, and the label said, “With clean hands we find our grace. We realize the slate can be as clean as we allow it to be.” I have no idea whether the company bottling the soap is expressing a New Age sentiment or a biblical worldview, but the words are Scriptural. Grace is wiping the slate clean. Isaiah 1:18 puts it like this: Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool. It’s a good idea to wash your hands in the lavatory. It’s a great idea to wash your soul in the blood of 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

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