Month: September 2021

I am often asked, “What is the difference between deliverance and exorcism?” Deliverance doesn’t always attempt to destroy demons. Deliverance can refer to many kinds of spiritual intervention. That’s why I call myself an exorcist because I do exorcisms. An exorcist destroys demons. Deliverance doesn’t necessarily require demonic manifestations or confirmation. Deliverance can be quiet, calm, and unperturbed. Exorcism is often rowdy, loud, and in your face. And I don’t do deliverance lite. I do heavy deliverance. Militant deliverance. Defiant deliverance. Bold deliverance. Aggressive deliverance. I name demons, and I bind them. I torment them, and I cast them. I find the source of family bloodline curses down to the exact number of generations. Exorcism which means interrogation, torment, expulsion, purgation, purification, and the demon’s abdication. That’s why I am an exorcist. By God’s grace and the power of Christ, I destroy demons!

I’m getting a little tired of hearing puffed-up pastors call themselves apostles and prophets. We have far too many apostles and prophets and too few exorcists. We have so many who want the prophetic that it has become pathetic. What we need are spiritual warriors who fight demons, not deliver ambiguous prophetic messages that sound like they were ripped from the headlines of Fox news. I read this week that some prophet is seeing orange and purple angels. What we need to see are fiery red demons and send them back to hell where they belong. Consider these scriptures.

MARK 1:23-24:  Now there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit. And he cried out, saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us?”

1 JOHN 3:8: For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

Like the word deliverance, the term “spiritual warfare” means many different things to both Christians and non-Christians. New Agers use these words to describe combat against “negative energies” or “dark, alien forces battling against the light.” (Whatever that means.) Even among evangelical Christians it can have a watered-down application. Spiritual warfare, to those who don’t actively practice deliverance and exorcism, often signifies almost any kind of prayer or Christian activity that is moderately opposed to evil. But real spiritual warfare address demons directly by name and assignment and strips these evil powers of their ability to torment, consigning them to the Pit, spoken of in Revelation 20. Here is yet another scripture to consider.

MATTHEW 8:28 -29: When He had come to the other side, to the country of the Gergesenes, there met Him two demon-possessed men, coming out of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could pass that way. And suddenly they cried out, saying, “What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time?”

In these Last Days, more than ever, we need anointed men and women of God who will destroy demons, before the time of God’s final judgment.

Is the world we know real? What if we’re all trapped in a simulated realty? How would we know if we were? Suppose we were all created by artificially intelligent machines using our minds and bodies as energy sources? How would we get out of this matrix of dystopian evil? That was the theme of the 1999 science fiction film “The Matrix,” starring Keanu Reeves. The movie featured an experimental form of filming in which the action taking place moves in slow motion while the camera appears to project at a normal speed. If you had seen the original film, as I did, you’d know what I mean. Matrix #1 grossed nearly $500 million and was followed by the 2004 release “The Matrix Reloaded” and the later “The Matrix Revolution.” Comic books and video games followed. Now, the world awaits the soon-to-be-released 2021 version, “The Matrix Resurrection.”

In the original film, the hacker-hero Neo (Reeves) was offered a choice of two pills—a red one to tell the truth about the Matrix or a blue one to return to normal life. He swallowed the red and reality disintegrated. He then awakened in a pod, along with other humans, attached to an electrical system harvesting their bioelectric power. Biblical terms are a crucial part of the Matrix. The anti-hero Morpheus (the Greek god of sleep and dreams) flies a spaceship called the Nebuchadnezzar, named after the ancient, evil Babylonian king. The last refuge of rebellious free humans is referred to as Zion, which means “the city of God” in the Bible. Morpheus convinces the rebels that Neo is the “One,” a savior prophesied to free humanity. True to typical Hollywood plot lines, a female name Trinity falls in love with the One. He then controls the Matrix, defeats the villains, and declares a world where “anything is possible.”

Critics and fans have theorized that the Matrix is really based on philosophical ideas borrowed from such disparate sources as Plato, Immanuel Kant, and even Descartes. Demons would be a more credible source. Neo was supposedly virgin born. He was prophesied as a coming savior. His love interest Trinity completes the mockery. Some fans have even created their own Matrix religion.

The film’s depiction of a dream world that is more real than physicality is consistent with the Hindu concept of “maya” (the illusory nature of matter). The Matrix also resembles the Buddhist idea that what we think is real is only a projection of reality known as “dharma.” True reality is “samsara,” freedom from the moral debt of karma. In Hinduism nothing of the material world is real. In Buddhism reality is the endless existence of impermanence. The theology of the Matrix is far more mystical than Christian, despite the biblical buzzwords.

The belief system of the Matrix is warmed-over paganism, borrowing Judeo-Christian words and themes to deceive the unwary. The Apostle Paul warned of such in 1 Timothy1:4 when he said we should not give ourselves to things that “promote controversial speculations rather than advancing God’s work which is by faith.” In other words, avoid the Matrix and its demonic doctrines referred to in 1 Timothy 4:1. You may say that watching this film isn’t an evil act, but according to 1 Corinthians 5:6 it only takes a little leaven to affect the whole lump. Not only does the Matrix lack biblical spirituality, it also deliberately promotes a demonic worldview.

September 11 this year marks the 20th anniversary of what has become known as simply 9/11. Say those numbers and every American knows what it means: 2,977 lives lost in a single day; 4 highjacked planes, 3 attacks at Shanksville, PA, the Pentagon, and the World Trade Center. The human toll was immense. Two thousand children lost a parent. The NYC fire department lost 343 firefighters; 7 in 10 Americans said the attack caused them depression. And America was changed forever.

Most of those whom we call generation Z, 68 million Americans, weren’t born yet. So let me tell these individuals about the America that used to be. You could arrive at an airport 30 minutes before a flight and walk straight to your gate in time to board. I know, I used to do it. If a plane was landing with a loved one, you didn’t need a ticket to meet and greet them. No body scanners or metal detectors. No bored TSA agents staring into an X-ray machine looking for a lethal weapon. It only took 19 men, Islamic Al-Qaeda terrorists, to change how we live. On that day, a permanent fear was instilled in Americans. With Al-Qaeda now joined by the Taliban, ISIS, and ISIS-K the words of Jesus in Luke 21:26 seem foreboding: “Men’s hearts failing them for fear and the expectation of those things which are coming on the earth . . .”

With our humiliating exit from Afghanistan, many think it’s only a matter of when, not if, something as bad or worse will happen again. Now the enemies of freedom have billions of dollars’ worth of our weapons. Over 20 years, the U.S. spent $2 trillion dollars, $300 million a day on a state-of-the-art embassy, a world-class airport, and armaments including 22,174 Humvees, 33 Black Hawk helicopters, and nearly 360,000 assault rifles. Now, that hardware is in the hands of those who hate us and want to kill us.

Is this the beginning of the Apocalypse? Will an inevitable decline of America as the world’s protector of freedom lead to Armageddon? At the very least we are much nearer to the End Times than many imagine. So today, we pray for America; for our leaders; for the comfort of God’s grace upon those who lost loved ones on 9/11 and still feel the pain. We pray for Americans still trapped in Afghanistan. And we pray for a spiritual awakening in America that will shake us to our moral core.

Targeted curse breaking. What’s that? It’s a challenge to get Christians to understand any form of curse breaking. Most American believers attend churches that teach there are no curses on Christians. Every curse was supposedly canceled at the cross. Consequently, every confessing Christ has total freedom by faith according to Galatians 3:13. My book “Curse Breaking” explodes that myth. Get a copy and read what I have to say. This theological viewpoint is uniquely American. Much of the rest of the world, especially places such as African, India, and Asia knows better. With many generations of paganism and witchcraft in their genealogy, they understand the negative influence of unbroken curses.

Once a person accepts the concept of confessionally canceling the curses of one’s forebears, what then? Being born again means that the new follower of Christ has the right and authority to cancel the residual effect of all past bloodline evil. This is usually done in a general sense by declaration. “Curse Breaking” includes 25 pages of prayers to break specific curses that may befall any individual. This is a great place to start. But real freedom from generational bondage requires taking things further. This is what I call “targeted” curse breaking, renouncing specific evil that is connected uniquely to the inherited evil of a specific person’s ancestry.

A starting point is renouncing the known evil actions of ancestors who were evil. For example, the parent who was physically abusive. The grandfather who was an adulterer. The grandmother who practiced witchcraft. The uncle who molested. The aunt who was an alcoholic. The great-grandparent who engaged in criminal behavior. The murderer. The drug addict. The blasphemer. The atheist. Targeted curse breaking names individuals and cites their specific ungodly actions. These evil ancestors and their acts are specifically declared (targeted)and the inherited curses canceled.

You can’t know all the evil of every ancestor to nullify such actions by prayer, but you can cancel the iniquities of those you are aware of. In addition, question members of your extended family regarding what they know about sins and sinners in the family tree. You may be surprised what you uncover. Then, according to Matthew 18:19, agree with a godly Christian to eradicate targeted bloodline evil. Our YouTube Members Only Channel contains videos you can watch and declare curse breaking prayers along with me. Enroll today. Break free from the consequences of ancestral evil. Pray curse breaking prayers. Better yet, target definitive sins and the individuated source of those moral failures. You’ll be amazed at how free you’ll feel and the new intimacy you’ll have with Christ once you engage in targeted curse breaking.