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He’s become known more for his bad behavior than his music, a male Miley Cyrus. Wild parties, strip clubs, smoking weed (and maybe more), temper tantrums, sexually alluring photos,  DUI arrests, erotic gestures on stage, arrogance, and now using the “N” word and talking about joining the KKK and killing black people. Okay, the latter comes from a video he did five years ago. He has issued the spin doctor requisite apology and supposedly has Will Smith and Usher on his side. This will probably blow over, but what’s really upsetting is this. He’s using the Bible and his supposed Christian faith to gloss it over. The Instagram post above was sent to his millions of followers, using Scripture as a grace cover for his stupidity. His mom, Pattie Mallette, claims to be a Christian and has even written a book about her and her boy, Nowhere but Up. In the book she describes constant sexual abuse as a child, starting at age three. She was date-raped at 14. She also used drugs, including LSD, shoplifted, and attempted suicide. In a mental ward she became a Christian, but fell into a sexual relationship and conceived Justin illegitimately. Bieber has been seen attending cool, seeker-friendly, hip churches in New York and Seattle in the midst of his outrageous escapades.

What is to be made of all this? First, I’m not judging the relationship with Christ he and his mother may or may not have. God alone knows. But behavior can certainly be judged, and the facts can be considered. From my perspective as an exorcist, Justin Bieber lives under an unbroken curse of illegitimacy. The churches he frequents deny such curses exist so he won’t get help there. His mother’s vulnerability to sexual abuse and suicide indicates a huge generational curse in her family bloodline. My heart goes out to both of them. They are only going to experience more and more dysfunction until someone with the knowledge of spiritual warfare steps in and takes action on their behalf.  Bieber can tweet and Instagram all the Bible verses he wants, but until he is delivered from the demons that torment his destiny, expect more erratic, bad boy behavior.

He’s become known more for his bad behavior than his music, a male Miley Cyrus. Wild parties, strip clubs, smoking weed (and maybe more), temper tantrums, sexually alluring photos,  DUI arrests, erotic gestures on stage, arrogance, and now using the “N” word and talking about joining the KKK and killing black people. Okay, the latter comes from a video he did five years ago. He has issued the spin doctor requisite apology and supposedly has Will Smith and Usher on his side. This will probably blow over, but what’s really upsetting is this. He’s using the Bible and his supposed Christian faith to gloss it over. The Instagram post above was sent to his millions of followers, using Scripture as a grace cover for his stupidity. His mom, Pattie Mallette, claims to be a Christian and has even written a book about her and her boy, Nowhere but Up. In the book she describes constant sexual abuse as a child, starting at age three. She was date-raped at 14. She also used drugs, including LSD, shoplifted, and attempted suicide. In a mental ward she became a Christian, but fell into a sexual relationship and conceived Justin illegitimately. Bieber has been seen attending cool, seeker-friendly, hip churches in New York and Seattle in the midst of his outrageous escapades.

What is to be made of all this? First, I’m not judging the relationship with Christ he and his mother may or may not have. God alone knows. But behavior can certainly be judged, and the facts can be considered. From my perspective as an exorcist, Justin Bieber lives under an unbroken curse of illegitimacy. The churches he frequents deny such curses exist so he won’t get help there. His mother’s vulnerability to sexual abuse and suicide indicates a huge generational curse in her family bloodline. My heart goes out to both of them. They are only going to experience more and more dysfunction until someone with the knowledge of spiritual warfare steps in and takes action on their behalf.  Bieber can tweet and Instagram all the Bible verses he wants, but until he is delivered from the demons that torment his destiny, expect more erratic, bad boy behavior.

A recent issue of National Geographic featured an article entitled “The New Science of the Brain” exploring the latest research on brain function. Above, on the left, is the cover of that issue. On the right is an actual photo of a cross-section of a mouse brain. Each of the rectangular dots is less than 1/1,000th the thickness of a human hair! Small, very small. Ten thousand of these photomicrographs form a 3-D model no larger than a grain of salt. Now it gets really interesting. At this level of detail, human brain tissue the size of that grain of salt would contain an amount of information equal to all the written material in all the libraries of the world! (This is not my assumption but the conclusion of evolutionary scientists, published in this prestigious journal.) So, the entire human brain has the capacity of . . . . well, it’s unimaginable.

This information raises the obvious question, to any honest, inquiring mind: “Is there a God?” Could something so complex and so unbelievably magnificent have just happened? Suppose that one’s “god” is the process of evolutionary time, the passing of millions of year? Are there enough epochs, enough mutations, enough survival-of-the-fittest momentum for the human brain, let alone the mouse brain, to have gradually produced this complexity? And keep in mind, that’s just in brain, let alone considering the rest of the human body’s intricacy. No wonder the Psalmist said, in the classic King James Version, “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Wonderfully, indeed, and with enormous brain power potential to know and worship God. How sad that many have used that same intellectual ability to deny the existence of any intelligent design.

Yesterday, in Part 1 of this blog, I discussed what depression is and how it affects sufferers. I also analyzed the various types of depression, how they develop, and how they are treated. (CLICK HERE to read Part 1.)  Based on my decades of counseling, I listed seven basic causes of depression. Today, I offer a prayer that encompasses these root issues of depression. This prayer is not a substitute for proper medical attention and appropriate therapy and medication. My purpose is to treat the spiritual nature of such overwhelming hopelessness and rejection. Before saying this prayer, I encourage you to hold a Bible and our Cross of Deliverance (if you have one). Anoint yourself in the center of your forehead with the sign of the cross, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Submit yourself to Christ (James 4:7) as you speak these words audibly or silently:

PRAYER TO BREAK THE SPIRITUAL BONDAGE OF DEPRESSION

In the name of Jesus, I ask the Holy Spirit to seek the spiritual root for my feelings of depression. I trust the Lord that I will be kept in perfect peace as my mind in centered on Him (Isaiah 26:3).  If there is any unresolved trauma in my past, I ask the Holy Spirit to go there now and heal that part of my emotions. I ask for physical healing in those part of my body which may be causing or contributing to my distress. If there are circumstances in my life which intensify my anxieties I trust God to intervene and resolve these difficulties. To what extent my depression has been influence by any form of past mistreatment, I forgive those who have wronged me to remove any bitterness in my heart. If there are any hidden, painful memories contributing to my condition, I ask the Holy Spirit to bring them forth so that I may submit them to God’s sanctifying grace. Every generational curse, resulting from the evil of my ancestors, which causes or increases my depression, I renounce, and I declare it broken by the blood of Christ. By Christ’s authority, and in the power of His name, I command that every tormenting spirit of despair, despondency, and worthlessness stop oppressing me, along with every thought of death, suicide, self-harm, and self-destruction. I also break every curse of negative responses to depression such as addictions to alcohol, drugs, gambling, pornography, as well as obsessive compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders and post-traumatic syndrome. I claim the promise the Proverbs 13:12: “Hope deferred makes the hear sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life!”

The picture above certainly describes how depressions feels, if you’ve ever experienced it. Who hasn’t? That sunken feeling of sadness, gloom, dejection, withdrawal. And often for no definable, objective reason. In true clinical depression there is nothing to put your finger on that causes it; especially when reaction to an unfortunate life circumstance is blown out of proportion, like the loss of a relationship or even the death of a loved one. The passage of time and intervention by friends doesn’t correct it. Even reading the Bible doesn’t get the desired result. Depression is clinical when pep talks and positive thinking just don’t work and clinical intervention is needed. Medical attention. Perhaps medication. In severe cases at least temporary hospitalization.

If it’s just a matter of feeling low, depression may pass with time. But Major Depression, Chronic Depression, Bipolar Depression, even Psychotic Depression isn’t likely to go away easily without professional attention. The sense of “feeling low” and aversion to activity will intensify unless something is done. Warning: if you are experiencing depression with symptoms of fatigue, hopelessness, insomnia, even suicidal impulses, get help. It may or may not be a psychiatric disorder, but don’t wait to find out when there’s no choice but medication and some kind of institutionalization. At the very least, begin talking to a priest, pastor, counselor or trusted friend.

Here’s what I’ve discovered in decades of ministry through inner healing and deliverance. Depression can be caused by:

• A traumatic life situation that isn’t being resolved.
• Biochemical imbalances that haven’t been medically treated properly.
• A sense of helpless to change one’s circumstances which are threatening or dangerous.
• Mistreatment in the form of bullying; emotional, physical, and sexual abuse from which there seems to be no escape.
• Past trauma that is buried subconsciously in denial or Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personalities which hold the painful memory).
• Generational curses that genetically carry on the memory imprint of an ancestor who suffered.
• A demon of Depression whose inflicts the symptoms of its identity on the sufferer.

Tomorrow I’ll explain how to spiritually resolve these possible sources of depression.

Yesterday’s blog was about my weekend Chicago seminar which was attended by Satanists. The seminar was in a hotel and was a public meeting. I welcomed the Satanist as a way to reach them with the message of Christ. They weren’t using my money or my property to dispense their message. Such is not the case with Harvard University. Word leaked over the weekend that Harvard, one of America’s most esteemed educational institutions, originally founded to train ministers of the Gospel, was going to permit a campus group to hold a satanic black mass, a perversion of the Christian Eucharist. The Harvard Extension Cultural Studies Club was behind the event, which it planned to hold in a local bar. The ensuing outrage proved even too much for this liberal institution. The controversy also bothered the bar and they refused to hold the event But, the Club says it will go ahead with the offending ritual at an undisclosed location in an effort to “reaffirm their respect for the Satanic faith and to demonstrate that the most powerful response to offensive speech is to shame those who marginalize others by letting their own words and actions speak for themselves.”

While we may celebrate the temporary shutting down of this demonic event, the fact it could even be considered by a legitimately recognized campus organization is beyond the pall. Undeterred, Club representatives argued, “The flawed assumption seems to be that because Satan is the representation of evil incarnate for some faiths, that Satanists are part of a hate group and their practice devoted toward denigrating Catholicism.” It’s hard to believe that someone said that balderdash with a straight face. That this debate took place is a commentary on how far our nation has fallen spiritually. Whatever the supposed motive of the Satanic Mass organizers, and whatever their intellection justifications, this entire episode was not about academic freedom. It was about giving undo attention to demonic bondage.

Is there any truth to the ancient myth of so-called Amazon women, a race of warlike female conquerors? Leaving aside Wonder Woman, the idea, borrowed from Greek mythology, is intriguing to feminists. According to Smithsonian magazine, the origins of the debate can be traced back to a Swiss law professor and classical scholar named Johann Jakob Bachofen. In 1861 Bachofen published his thesis that the Amazons were not a myth but a fact. In his view, humanity started out under the rule of womankind and only switched to patriarchy at the dawn of civilization. Freidrich Engles and Karl Marx believed such balderdash, that there was a pre-patriarchal age when the evils of class, property and war were unknown. As Engles put it, with typical Communist spin, “The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became the slave of his lust and a mere instrument for the production of children.” Freud joined the fray, declaring that such tales revealed the neuroses of Greek males and that the women riding horses were actually astride phalluses. Seriously?

Fast forward to pop culture today. Beyonce bounces her way across the stage with barely concealed titillation. Gaga, whose fame is fading quickly, writhes nearly naked and sings of sex with Judas. Katy, Britney, Miley – well, you get the picture. These divas aren’t exactly warriors, though they do have their sights set on conquering the ticket-buying masses. All these examples, from the wrecking-ball (insider pop culture awareness test) of Ms. Miley to the Egyptology (another awareness test) of Ms. Perry, point back to Lilith-the first female power symbol of history and an actual demon. Jewish mystical legend has it that Lilith was Adam’s true first wife, and Eve was a usurper. This legend carries on with Aphrodite, Venus, Diana, Isis, et al. including the demon which now embodies this evil we call “Jezebel.” While stories of Amazons may seem exotic and ideas of demons may not be taken seriously by many Christians, I must issue a warning. Mothers, don’t let your girls grow up to be fans of pop music female icons. These are modern-day Amazons who will indeed conquer the spiritual values of your female offspring.

Dateline New Generation Bible College, Day 2
I experienced more miracles this one day than most ministers in a lifetime. I can’t tell all. Not enough space. Taught curse breaking to 500 students plus hundreds more pastors. My book CURSE BREAKING is in Russian language. Most have read it. 60% of students have seen me on YouTube. One lady came all the way from Kazakhstan for deliverance. Others all across Russian and Siberia. Team also ministered privately to hundreds with scores of real, dramatic, and often violent exorcism. Marina’s deliverance, above, was just one of several public exorcisms demonstrating God’s power in action.

Dateline New Generation Bible College, Day 1
More than five hundred students gather for first day of training in spiritual warfare. Finale to the school year. New Generation movement asks us for second year to train future pastors and Christian leaders. Sessions today include: Basic Spiritual Warfare (me); A Pastor’s Perspective on Deliverance (Mike Dennigan, pastor from Kentucky who moves in deliverance ministry); The Long Process of Deliverance (Edra Hayes DWJD� national leader); Healing the Wounded Soul (Savannah Scherkenback (only Teenage Exorcist able to join me this time-OK she’s no longer a teenager but labels stick). After full day of teaching, I address special group of present pastors who want to know how to start an exorcism and deliverance ministry in their churches. Nowhere else in the world would I be able to do this. Certainly not in America. People here haven’t been spoiled by seeker-friendly, U. S. A. style comfortable Christianity. They are on fire for God and want to know how to deal with the devil. So refreshing. Still, not far from their thoughts is the political situation. Many wonder what the future holds. Half of pastors I taught in special session were from Russia. Here Russian and Ukrainians worship Jesus side by side. If only our politicians could see this. Jesus is the answer to world problems. New Generation churches (500 and counting) have 126 rehabilitation centers for addicts–49% completely recover; work in 108 prisons; 17 centers for homeless; 52 cities with centers where hungry are fed; ministry to sick and elderly in 102 cities; 94,509 counseling appointments annually – THESE PEOPLE ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. I am so honored to be part of what they are doing and to be the point man to train their churches in spiritual warfare.