Daily Rhema: Overcoming evil spirits

Mark 1:34 KJV
And he healed many that were sick of divers diseases, and cast out many devils; and suffered not the devils to speak, because they knew him.

Evil spirits are satanic spirits who attack, oppress and, if they can, try to possess the minds, bodies and circumstances of men (Eph. 6:12).

Their purpose is to hinder the will of God from coming to pass in our lives, which is that we might have life more abundantly, prosper and be in health as our souls prosper (Jn.10:10; 3Jn. 2).

We are told to cast out demons and overcome evil spirits (1Jn 4:3-4).

Mark 16:17 NKJV
And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues;

We overcome them by being strong in the Lord and the power of His might, using the whole armour of God (love), and effectual, fervent prayer in the Spirit with all kinds of prayer on a regular basis, to cast them or the spiritual forces they are releasing, out of our souls, bodies and circumstances, destroy their works, and resist and bind them. In binding them we render them temporarily inoperative (Eph. 6:13-18).

Now, in casting out evil spirits that possess the mind (causing insanity), or body (causing sicknesses), we need to learn how to operate in faith like the Lord Jesus did.

Let us look at two examples: –
1. In Mark 5:1-13, the Lord Jesus asked the evil spirit for its name because the gift of the discernings of spirits was in operation. Do not talk to evil spirits except this gift is in operation: just command them to get out, addressing them based on the oppression they are causing like the Lord Jesus did.

2. In Mark 9:16-29, notice that the Lord did not ask the spirit its name; rather He called it by the manifestation it was causing: a deaf and dumb spirit!

He simply commanded it to come out and it did, even though with a lot of violence making it look as if the child was dead. The Lord Jesus ignored the antics of the devil and lifted up the boy healed and delivered.

Furthermore, Jesus said ‘This kind does not come out but by fasting and prayer’. Now the Lord did not have to go and fast and pray before He cast out the devil: He was already fasting and praying regularly as a habit, so the power to cast out the devil was already available to Him.

If we will walk in love, pray regularly, fervently and effectually in the Spirit, fast regularly and live a fasted life, we will easily overcome any evil spirits that either attack us or the people we minister unto.

Remember: greater is He that is us than any evil spirit we may come against, but we must allow the Greater One to work through us by love, prayer, fasting and the Word!

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