How Religious Spirits Attack
Spiritual Warfare and Prayer
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How Religious Spirits Attack
Religious spirits offer some of the greatest spiritual warfare you will face. Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God (Luke 9:60 KJV). How is it that so many get caught up in seeking the living among the dead? Jesus said, "let the dead bury their dead and preach the Kingdom of God." Could it be that the religious spirit needs to be discerned? Let’s review more of their characteristics.
Religious leaders like still waters. They have a caretaker mentality with a don’t-rock-the-boat mindset. There services are cold, quiet and formal. As already mentioned a religious pastor may have been selected by a pulpit committee based solely on his religious education, affiliation or degree.
One of the most deadly spiritual assignments against the Church’s ability to advance the Gospel throughout the world has been the religious spirit. I believe this spirit to be a murdering influence that is anti-Christ in nature and will be exposed by the Holy Spirit in these last days. Thousands of good people have been taken captive by it and made ineffective by this spirit’s deceptive influence. In my book, 30 Pieces of Silver we teach you how to discern the religious spirit and overcome its ability to stop God’s best from coming into your life and ministry.
In today’s society we have a dangerously false perception of Church and many of the dynamics surrounding it. Through the years we have come into a religious understanding of what a ministry and a church is. Because of false perceptions the existing Church will be powerfully challenged in the days ahead by the reforming voice and ministry of the emerging apostolic ministries.
NO CHALLENGE, VOID OF CONVICTION, WITHOUT PASSION
The religious church is where people live out their lives unchallenged, unchanged and just waiting for the rapture.
This is the church where one can listen to a nice ten minute motivational teaching or the reading of a prayer and expect an apology from the pastor if he doesn’t end the service on time. It is a church that sends people back into a hostile world with no conquering spiritual impartation.
This is the church that acknowledges everyone’s birthdays and anniversaries during service times on Sunday morning, repents if they forgot one but can’t hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. They put more importance on Homecoming, fish fry’s, bake sales and chicken dinners than they do on “what saith the Spirit of the Lord?”
It’s a place where the pastor is expected to stand at the door after service to kiss babies and shake everyone’s hand. This is the church where the pastor is pressured to visit all the people each week and make sure he is everybody’s best friend. It is the place where one attends church only four times in their lifetime, to be dedicated, baptized, married and buried.
ALL SHOW, NO POWER
It is full of programs run by businessmen, Type A personalities, controlling Jezebels and entertained by the occasional Sunday morning or Christmas Cantatas. It is a place where one can comfortably fulfill their sense of religious obligations. It has a caretaker mentality with a don’t-rock-the-boat mindset. It is cold, quiet and formal where the pastor has been selected by a pulpit committee based on his religious education, affiliation or degree. Whose office walls are filled with plaques of men’s recognition confirming that they had made the right choice.
In this church the leadership is hired by people to do what they think is fitting rather than a man who was sent forth by the Holy Spirit. This is the church where the pastor is abused for twenty years, retired with a gold watch for faithful service and sent off to some trailer park to die, only to repeat the same twenty-year pattern over again with someone else.
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