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What Ray Rice Should Have Done

Thursday, Sept 11, 2014

 

By now, most alert observers of American life are well aware of the sad saga of the Baltimore Ravens’ running back, Ray Rice. With a football he helped the Ravens to win a Super Bowl; but now with a punch to the face of his then-fianc�, Janay, he has sullied his reputation. He has also raised serious questions about the truthfulness of National Football League officials and local, Baltimore prosecutors. This tragedy has raised public awareness about domestic violence, which may be the one good thing to come out of this lamentable melodrama. So much has been said that there’s no need for me to add to the millions of words spoken and written in recent days. What I want to focus on is the statement of Rice’s now-wife, the woman he knocked out and drug out of a hotel elevator. In an Instagram yesterday, Janay Rice said she was devastated, not by what her wife-beating husband did to her, but by the pain caused by the focus of the media on this story. She said she was “hurt” and “embarrassed” that her husband — a certifiable criminal who should be prosecuted to the maximum extent — has lost his lucrative job as a football player.

Janay concluded, “Just know we will continue to grow & show the world what real love is.” Sadly, this woman doesn’t really know what real love is.  In my ministry of counseling and deliverance I’ve dealt with countless battered wives and girlfriends. Most of them talk like this, meekly assuming the role of enabler to their batterer. They live in an unreal world of lies, distortion, and revisionist personal history. Let me be plain. Outside of having a life-changing commitment to Christ, this isn’t likely to be the last time Janay will be beaten. She’s another Rhianna, coddling a criminal (Chris Brown) and making it possible for men like this to become anti-heroes to pseudo macho-men, abandoned by fathers and trying to prove their manhood. Ray Rice needs to man-up, not hide behind his wife’s skirt. He should admit what he did, donate some of his millions to programs that help battered woman, get some serious therapy, and undergo an exorcism. I’m ready, Ray. Are you man enough to get rid of your inner demons? 

 


An encouraging word:  HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES

“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it” (Ephesians 5:15 KJV). Those are tough words for any husband to live up to. He gave himself. He died for the church. I wonder, how many husbands and fathers would literally be willing to die for their families? Many would. Many would not, and they prove it by spousal physical and emotional abuse, and the neglect of their children. No wonder the devil makes it so hard on so many families. We need many things in our immoral, love-starved world. But one of the things we need most are husbands who truly love their wives.


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.

 

They Want the Anointing!

Wednesday, Sept 10, 2014

 

They want the anointing! That’s one of the reasons I love to minister in Eastern Europe. After 100 years of Communism and atheism, people in Russia and the Baltic states are hungry to experience the power of God. When they see me cast out demons, they want to do it too! When they witness people weeping because of God’s inner healing, they want that touch of the Lord.

During our recent mission to Ukraine to teach at our local European campus of our School of Exorcism, we concluded the training with a time of spiritual impartation. By the hundreds they pressed against the foot of the stage, desperately reaching out for the anointing. I placed holy oil on their foreheads. I grasped their hands. I touched their arms and heads. At one point, it became potentially dangerous for me. In their urgency, people began to grab at my shirt and my pants and pulled me off balance. For a moment I thought I might “stage dive” (rock concert goers will understand) into the audience. They didn’t mean to harm me, but their fervency was all-consuming. THEY WANTED THE ANOINTING.

They wanted the power to set people free. I had given them the teaching. I told that that Christ had given them the authority. But they wanted the power that flows through this ministry. It’s not my power. It’s God’s power. And it rests upon this ministry because we dare to boldly confront the devil without fear. If that’s the anointing you want, reach out to the Lord with the same desperation that those in Ukraine did, and you’ll receive it too!


An encouraging word:  THE PIT OF SIN

“He made a pit and dug it out, and has fallen into the ditch which he made” (Psalm 7:15). Such is the plight of a wicked man. No matter how long he takes to dig a pit in his life, a few hours or a lifetime, the outcome is inevitable. He digs it; he falls into it. There’s no one to blame but himself. And when he falls, he must wonder why he dug it so deep in the first place. Sadly, for some that pit is the Pit, the Abyss, and it is deep indeed. Beware how your actions are digging a hole for your future when sin has taken a toll. Stop digging your way into sin and destruction while there is still time for the Savior to pull you out.


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.

 

Devil in Detroit?

Tuesday, Sept 9, 2014
Satan as seen by Satanic Temple members.

As if municipal bankruptcy, a jailed mayor, abandoned and burnt-out neighborhoods, and their most famous son being Eminem isn’t bad enough, the stalwart citizens of Detroit now have to contend with Satanist. A New York-based group of Anton Lavey wanna-bes wants to build a temple to Satan in Ted Nugent’s Motor City. This is the same group who are holding that so-called Black Mass in Oklahoma City. Now before you become too concerned, this isn’t exactly a mass movement. Out of the five million or so citizens of the greater metro Detroit area this publicity-seeking sect of satanists only has 20 members. And that’s according to them; and since satanists have no qualms about lying that is probably an inflated figure. More likely it’s a motley crew of a dozen or so malcontents looking for their 15 seconds of fame, generated by the hysteria of concerned Christians. I’m not saying we should take this lightly. If they deceive one soul with their antics and draw even one innocent kid into their ranks, that is one person too many. Still, let’s not get too worked up over this and give them the recognition they are seeking. My advice is to pray for these people; issue calm, non-alarming warnings; then, ignore them as a small band of misfits who need our vitriol to survive. Don’t give them the pleasure of creating collective Christian heartburn.


An encouraging word:  WHAT YOU START, GOD CAN FINISH!

Psalm 138:7-8 (KJV) says, “Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me. The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever.” The word “perfect” in the original language means to “accomplish” or “complete.” When you start down the road to freedom, you sometimes can’t imagine what the end will look like. There may be battles along the way, but if you trust the Lord’s plan and process, He will bring it to completion to accomplish His purpose 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.

 

Bernie Madoff Death Curse?

Friday, Sept 5, 2014

There will be no heirs. Wednesday, at the age of just 48, Andrew Madoff died after a long battle with cancer. His brother Mark killed himself at age 46 by hanging in 2010. Bernie Madoff, 76, is still alive, in prison, serving a 150 year term for swindling investors out of billions of dollars. Both brothers said they were not aware of the fraud and neither were ever formally charged. Former Madoff employees claim that the brothers knew what was going on and tried to hide the truth from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Now, the truth will likely never be known. Is there some kind of spiritual connection between these events?  Certainly Mark’s suicide can be traced to the fallout from his father’s thievery. Andrew? Perhaps he just had cancer like millions of other people.

Perhaps not. How uncanny that both died so young and untimely. My speculation goes back beyond the brothers having possibly inherited a curse from their father. I wonder what drove the elder Madoff to do what he did. Bernie is still alive, but spending the rest of his life in prison in infamy, having lost everything he might have held dear, a kind of slow death. If it could be known, there’s some kind of Madoff curse that goes back beyond Bernie. That’s how these things work. From my experience in spiritual warfare, and what I know about curses, someone in the Madoff bloodline, maybe way back, did something terrible. It may or may not have been stealing, but it was bad enough to reap a terrible toll on two very rich young men, and their families. With this dramatic example in mind of what curses can do, make sure that you, my blog reader, are doing all you can to break your curses. Read my book CURSE BREAKING. (To order CLICK HERE.) Call my office, 303-980-1511, and meet me for a Personal Spiritual Encounter as soon as you can in some city where I will be. Together, we can break any curses that may keep you in poverty, sickness, and suffering.


An encouraging word:  PASSING ON EVIL

When Israel transgressed against the Lord, the effect of their cursed conduct was far-reaching. The prophet Jeremiah said (Jer. 1:9) that God would bring “charges” against not only those who had disobeyed; the Lord also said “I will bring charges against your children’s children.” Some Christians who have a hard time accepting the idea of generational curses, need to read their Bibles again. The principle of suffering being passed on to successive generations of offspring is well-established in Scripture. Even Shakespeare said, in Julius Caesar, Act 3, “The evil that men do lives after them.”


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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Granny’s Having a Baby?

Thursday, Sept 4, 2014

 

Having a baby — 46 years age difference!

 

 

In our world of increasing sexual options, who knows what’s next? This may be it. And it’s off the charts. A 72-year-old grandmother, Pearl Carter, is having a baby by using a surrogate mother. Weird but legal. What makes this story even stranger is that the father is Pearl’s 26-year-old grandson, Phil. If you missed this story, it’s bizarre. Pearl put her daughter Lynette up for adoption when she was 18. (It would be interesting to know why, but Lynette was likely illegitimate.) When Phil’s mother Lynette died, he looked up long, lost grandma. Presto, the two fell in love. Not just “like,” love — sexual love.

Says Phil, “I’ve always been attracted to older women.” Yeah, Phil, really older. Like 2.77 times your age. Using her pension funds, Peal spent $54,000 to have Phil’s sperm implanted in a child-bearing woman named Roxanne. And she’s 30, still older than Phil. Meanwhile, Phil is head over heels, incestuously in love with grandma. As for Pearl, she says “God’s given me a second chance.”

I’m shaking my head too. Where do we start to understand this depraved coupling? This is worse than the prohibition of Leviticus chapter 18 regarding a man having sex with his mother. That brought the death penalty in ancient Israel. This is not mom, but grandmom. Just think of all the curses at work here on the poor, innocent child to be born. Illegitimacy, rejection, incest, fornication, perversion, abomination; take your pick, and I’m sure lots of demons have. As to a God-given “second chance,” what about the baby who will enter life full of demons and cursed to suffer the consequences of this forbidden love?


An encouraging word:  CONSIDER

Much has been said about David’s description of God’s creative genius that fashioned the heavens, spoken of in Psalm 8:3; but I’d like to focus on the first three words of that Psalm: “When I consider.” Consider. That’s what too few do today. They rush pell-mell on in life from one thing to another without stopping to consider. That’s a spiritual art. Today, stop for a moment to consider. Consider the love of family. The kindness of a friend. The beauty of the world around you. A blessings God has given. Most of all, consider that God so-loved the world He gave His son to save 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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Drugs, Demons, and Now Jesus!

Wednesday, Sept 3, 2014

 

Perhaps the most dramatic deliverance of our entire Ukraine School of Exorcism mission took place during the very last meeting. I should have known my work was cut out for me when a woman named Ina assaulted me, drew blood and knocked my Bible, cross, and microphone from my hand. “I hate you,” the demon screamed over and over.” Like the woman at the well in the Bible, Ina already had gone through four husbands and was only 40-years-old with three children and one grandchild. In the midst of the chaos, I stopped and ministered inner healing for her life of pain and addictions. She was in rehab for drugs, but had never accepted the Lord. So, in the midst of the battle I led her in a sinner’s prayer. Then I had her break a 10 generation curse of blood sacrifice. With the power of the demons broken, the final stages of the exorcism, though still very physical, were far less combative. Her freedom won, Ina posed with the Cross of Deliverance and a big smile of liberation.


An encouraging word:  THE GLORY AND HONOR OF MAN

“You have made him a little lower than the angels,” David of God creating man (Psalm 8:5). David seemed amazed that out of all the immensity of the universe, Jehovah seemed more concerned about his seemingly less significant creative miracle, man. Perhaps that’s because humans had what nothing else in creation had: the power to make choices. What’s more, God crowned you and me with “glory and honor.” No wonder the devil hates us so much. Today, live up to your created expectation. If you are tempted to feel discouraged, remember you’re almost an angel, and full of glory and honor. God said so.


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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Ukraine Report #4

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
SACRIFICED TO SATAN AT AGE 5!

 

 

What happens during an exorcism can sometimes appear to be fantastical. But the relenting of a demon and the freedom of a tormented soul is proof enough that truth can truly be stranger than fiction. During the Ukraine School of Exorcism many deliverances took place. One stood out, the exorcism of Marina. A lovely lady in her early 40s, Marina had been through four marriages, had two children, and was tormented day and night. In the midst of the exorcism I sensed that someone other than Marina was looking at me. Her face took on the demeanor of a child. It was a child, or at least a dissociated memory of a child, just five-years-of-age, named Rebecca. (This is a phenomenon I have coined Ancestral Generational Dissociation. For further information consult our web store for DVDs about how this takes place from a psycho-spiritual standpoint. CLICK HERE for further information.)

I ministered healing to the memory of that child and then confronted the spirit of Jezebel. But this time, Jezebel was hiding an even more powerful demon named Mammon. (The same spirit I wrote about in my blog last Friday. (To read CLICK HERE.) Many generations ago, Marina’s ancestors wanted wealth and power. A mother in Marina’s bloodline had sacrificed her own child to appease this hideous demon. The mystery of Marina’s possession unraveled and the demon Mammon, along with all those in his kingdom, was cast out.

 


An encouraging word:  EXPECTATIONS ARE GONE AT DEATH

I’ve noticed recently in the news that some older men are fighting very hard to expand their empires. All are in their 80s and worth millions, if not billions, of dollars. If they started now to spend at the rate of huge sums each day they could never spend it all before they die. What can drive such ambition to acquire more and more wealth except pride? Proverbs 11:7 warns, “When a wicked [one who doesn’t know the Lord] dies, his expectations will perish.” There is no more getting beyond the grave. It would be so much better to give it away now. At death, all hopes of having more are gone.


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.
Thursday, August 27, 2014

 


Energodar, Ukraine. I had never been there before, but as we drove into town I was informed of its fame. It’s the site of the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, third largest in the world. Huge cooling towers loom on the horizon, plus a massive facility used to train personnel of nuclear power stations from all over the world. I didn’t realize at that time that I was going to need all of God’s power that would be available for a violent spiritual battle that night. After my message, as I walked through the audience of more than 500 people (standing room only and all they could get in the building), my eyes became fixed on a young man named Anton. Even among so many people, his stare had the intense hatred that only comes from a demon.

I brought him on stage and he immediately erupted with almost uncontrollable violence. I called for seven of the largest men in the room to hold him. When his demons were down, Anton was unassuming; but approaching him with my cross or Bible resulted in violent tumult. I learned that he was going through drug rehab, but had never surrendered his life to Christ. After he prayed a sinner’s prayer, the battle began. There were tense moments when I wondered if we needed more muscle to prevent me and others from being injured. At other times he stood on stage emotionless.

Finally we uncovered a multi-generational curse rooted in infant, blood sacrifice. (This was something we seemed to encounter more frequently than usual on this mission.) The curse was renounced, and Anton was set free in one final, fight that exhausted me and the seven men assisting. (At one point, as I spiritually struck the demon with God’s judgment, the entire auditorium went unexplainably dark; all power went off instantly for a space of about 10 seconds, causing everyone to wonder if this unusual timing was more spiritual than electrical.) No matter, once again, Christ was eventually victorious. That night, Energodar, had a power surge it had never seen before.

 


An encouraging word:  EVIL BACKFIRES

There is so much wisdom in the Bible that is practical, such as Psalm 7:15: He who digs a hole and scoops it out falls into the pit he has made. The trouble he causes recoils on himself. Amen to that. David speaks of those always doing evil to succeed, but success alludes them. Why? God’s word is true. They bring back on their own heads the bad things they plan for others. Prisons are filled with people like that. They are paying the price in their lives for the hole they dug for others. Think twice before you devise evil. It will inevitably come back to haunt 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.

 

Life and Death in Ukraine

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

 

I’m writing this blog sitting in a Ukraine airport. Everything seems normal, but right now I’m in Western Ukraine. The war (that’s what it is, but American and European politicians won’t admit it) is hundreds of miles away. While here, I have been as close as 100 miles or so to what they call the “war zone.” As usual the media isn’t telling the truth about what’s going on, and Christians in American are clueless as to the effect this has on our brothers and sisters in Christ. Some thoughts:

  • Last night I met with a pastor who has to remain nameless. There is a price on his head, put there by the Russian backed rebels in the Donetsk region where people are dying every day. A pastor friend of his was trying to escape the war and a sniper shot him in the leg while he was driving. The pastor was taken to a hospital but knew he shouldn’t stay there. The rebels make the rounds of hospitals and abduct people for ransom. My pastor friend sneaked into the hospital and secretly got the wounded pastor out by bribing the hospital staff.
  • Christians are being deliberately targeted. The rebels believe that the Russian Orthodox Church should be the only religion in their illegally occupied region of Ukraine. The group that I work with has had to shut down nearly 40 thriving churches. Fifteen thousand U. S. dollars: that is the current going price to be paid for killing a Protestant pastor, especially Pentecostal or Baptist.
  • In spite of such persecution, the New Generation churches are setting up tents as close as possible to the border of the area where fighting is taking place. There are no church building left in that area where it is safe to preach. The dangers of constant bombs and missiles are drawing people to Christ. I met with the pastor who is organizing these outside, tent meetings and prayed for him.

I’ll say more in future blogs. Just know that the possibility of World War III starting in that part of the world is still very real. Pray for Christians who are risking so much. Over and over they expressed to me how much they appreciate my teaching them spiritual warfare so they can fight back against the darkness that looms over their land!

 


An encouraging word:  A THOUSAND SHALL FALL

“A thousand may fall at your side . . . but it will not come near you.” That promise of Psalm 91:7 is mostly metaphorical to Americans. But recently a young soldier fighting in the Ukrainian war asked me to pray for him, just as he was being deployed to the front. He was leaving behind a wife and three children. I quoted that verse as I looked into his brave eyes. It was very literal to him. We who live in peace should be grateful that we do not have to apply that scripture in fact. But spiritually, it happens every day because of temptation and sin. When the enemy forces of Hell attack you, make sure you are not one of those who falls.


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.

 

Christians Murdered by Communists!

Friday, August 22, 2014

 

UKRAINE MISSION REPORT #1, AUGUST 2014

 

UKRAINE MISSION REPORT #1, AUGUST 2014:

The whole world is watching the tragedy that has unfolded in eastern Ukraine; the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner, war waged in the beautiful city of Donetsk (I’ve been there.), and fear of a full-scale Russian invasion. There’s even more to this story that I’ve learned in the little time since I arrived here. There is much that the U. S. press isn’t telling: Christians targeted by Russian rebels for kidnapping and torture; church members forced into slave labor by the rebels or be killed; Pastors and entire churches fleeing to cities in western Ukraine; a massive relief effort, not by Russian “humanitarian trucks,” but by churches taking in refugees from the war zone to feed and shelter them. But the seeds of this go way back to Communist Russia.

The first day of sessions at the Ukrainian School of Exorcism I taught for 5 hours and then came back for an evening public rally. Out of the hundreds there, the Lord led me to a woman on the front row, Anastasia. The demons first said that Death was the chief. But I knew the look of Jezebel. I finally uncovered the truth. Three generations ago in Soviet Russia, Anastasia’s ancestors were Christians. They were persecuted by the Communists because of their faith in Christ. The women were raped and murdered; thus the door was opened for Jezebel (by rape) and Death (by murder). We also learned that Anastasia had been sexually violated, just as her ancestors had been. Because the Christ-hating curse was broken, her seven-year-old daughter can now live a life free of demons, delivered from this inherited evil of a godless, murderous regime of evil.


An encouraging word:  PRAY FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

Paul told Timothy (1 Timothy 3:12), “All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.” Christians in America don’t realize what that means. Yes, we are sometimes persecuted but not unto death, as happens to many Christians in other lands. I’ve met Christians in other countries who have been tortured and lost loved one because of real, life-threatening opposition to their faith.  American followers of Christ need to stop feeling sorry for themselves when things don’t go their way and instead get on their knee and pray for truly persecuted Christians around the world.


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.

 

Rock Music Rebellion

Wenesday, August 20, 2014

 

Rebellion in rock ‘n’ roll isn’t news. But when it’s one rock star rebelling against another, that’s news. And when the rebellion is Nicki Sixx of Motley Crue against Gene Simmons of KISS, that’s REALLY news. The occasion was comments by Gene Simmons in regards to public discussions regarding suicide in the aftermath of the death of Robin Williams. In a ridiculously unguarded moment, Simmons (he of tongue-extended fame) said of those battling suicidal depression, I don’t get along with anybody who’s a drug addict and has a dark cloud over the head and sees themselves as a victim. For a putz 20-year-old kid to say, ‘I’m depressed. I live in Seattle’. F*** you, then kill yourself.”

As a former heroin addict who battled suicidal depression, Sixx went on the offensive against the self-proclaimed God of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Said Sixx, “I like Gene but in this situation, I don’t like Gene. I don’t like Gene’s words, because there is a 20-year-old kid out there who is a Kiss fan and reads this and goes, ‘You know what? He’s right. I should just kill myself’.”

Bravo! Mind you, Nikki Sixx hasn’t exactly been a paragon of virtue, especially in the wilder days of Crue stardom and “Girls, Girls, Girls” fame (insider Crue reference). But now sober and a father of four (even some rock stars grow up someday) he more sanely sees the importance of public personalities watching what they say. Simmons, who once questionably bragged of bedding “thousands” of women, will hopefully keep his tongue in and mouth shut when it comes to life and death issues.


An encouraging word:  BEWARE CARELESS WORDS

“Men will have to account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.” That warning of Jesus in Matthew 12:36 is very serious. We’ve all said regretful things in careless moments of frustration or anger. Harsh words, condemning words, bigoted words, and for some lukewarm Christians even curse words. Thank God that He is merciful when we confess our sins. If we all had to answer for every instance of impudence with what we say, we’d be in grave spiritual danger. Right now might be a good moment to stop and ask the Lord to forgive you for every “idle word” you’ve spoken in haste.


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.