Break that Evil Influence | Healing Springs Church, Basingstoke

Further Meditation: Mark 4:35 – 5:20, Luke 8:22-39

What is an unclean spirit?

It is a demonic spirit of perversion and self-harm – deriving pleasure from acts that dishonour, defile, damage and destroy the body
An unclean spirit influences a person to do filthy, shameful, twisted, vile, crazy and harmful things to their body, Romans 1:24
It promotes the perversion of gender and sex (acts or behaviours that corrupt the male-female gender distinction and the male-female sexual relation), Romans 1:24-27
It promotes self-harm (e.g. body-cutting and body-piercing, which are usually symptoms of internal depression)
It promotes cross-dressing/adornment (e.g. males feminising [weaving] their hair, wearing earrings and/or using lipstick), Deuteronomy 22:5, 1 Corinthians 11:14
It promotes unnatural sex acts

What are the characteristics of unclean spirits according to Mark 5:1-20?

They love to oppress, obsess and possess humans who practice uncleanness, Luke 8:29
They love to torment their hosts
They can invite more of their kind to live inside their hosts
They are intelligent and manipulative
They are religious and hypocritical
They are loud and audacious
They are strong and do not like to be restrained
They are stubborn and intimidating
They are territorial and organised
They promote nudity and insanity
They are wasteful and promote self-destruction
They are sadistic and masochistic: deriving pleasure from defiling and harming their hosts

What opens the door for unclean spirits?

Practicing uncleanness, Galatians 5:19
Living in habitual sin
Resisting the truth
Resisting the Holy Spirit
Refusing to repent
Seeking after signs and wonders
Dabbling into occultism and witchcraft (sorcery and divination – includes palm reading, tarot reading and witchcraft books e.g. Harry Potter!)
Blaspheming the Holy Spirit
Matthew 12:22-45, Romans 1:24-27

How can a person be delivered from unclean spirits?

Willingness and repentance
Faith in the Name Jesus! (Faith is a firm decision to trust/rely/depend on God)
Power in the Holy Spirit (the anointing can be increased by prayer and fasting)
Matthew 17:18-21, KJV/NKJV
Renounce the unclean spirit
Rebuke the unclean spirit
Receive prayer for deliverance from a genuine minister of God (involves binding and casting out of the unclean spirit)
Submit to the Lordship of Jesus
Be filled the Holy Spirit
Commit yourself to holy living, 2 Corinthians 7:1, 1 Peter 1:15-16
Stay in active fellowship with true believers
Stop practicing uncleanness!, John 5:14

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