Victory Over Your Ruling Spirit

Victory over your ruling spirit

The existence and reality of ruling evil spirits is well documented in the scriptures. Daniel chapter ten makes it clear that evil spirits can and do rule over nations. Jesus made it clear that the evil strong man over any adverse situation must be removed before that situation can be changed.

Matthew 12:28	But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.
29	Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.

The classic example of a hindering ruling spirit is that between David and Goliath

Goliath’s challenge to Israel is recorded in 1Samuel 17:2-11

1 Samuel 17:4	And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.
8	And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why are ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
9	If he be able to fight with me, and to kill me, then will we be your servants: but if I prevail against him, and kill him, then shall ye be our servants, and serve us.

The country of the Philistines was ruled by five Lords who reigned over five cities, Josh 13:3.  Goliath had five brothers who also were giants and it was necessary that all of these giants be defeated before they could secure the Promised Land. See 2 Samuel 21:19-21.  David along with his men defeated all five of these giants.

Goliath challenged Israel for forty days

1 Samuel 17:16

And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

For many Christians the enemy has challenged and ruled over them for a many years in specific areas of their lives, a stronghold that has kept them back from being free to move on in God. Often these are hereditary strongholds which greatly hinder the person limiting their experience in God to that of mediocre, often it is in the area of health problems, Goliath roared for forty days, forty is an interesting biblical number.  There is a biblical principle called the “the law of first mention”  which states that where a topic or truth or number is mentioned for the first time in scripture in that first mention are the basic fundamental of the meaning of the subject.  Forty days is first mentioned in Genesis 7:4

Genesis 7:4

For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

It rained for forty days and nights  

Genesis 7:17

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

We see that this occurred in the days of Noah and it is interesting to note that in the days of Noah there were giants in the land. Genesis 6:4. God said to Noah that the end of all flesh is come Genesis 6:13. In this first mention of forty days the context revolves around giants and the end of all flesh and incredible violence in the land. This is an accurate picture of the day and age in which we are now living.  The Apostle Peter liked the age in which the flood occurred to this present age: 1 Peter 3:20-21 and the need for putting way of the flesh.

The next significant forty occurred during the time of Moses

A giant in Egypt had held Gods people captive for generations.  But God had a deliverer by the name of Moses, who after forty years was released to set the captives free. Moses spent forty years in the wilderness being prepared for this great deliverance. After the forty years he was ready to take on the strongman.

Next we see Israel forty years in the wilderness

Deuteronomy 2:7

For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

One whole generation died off in the wilderness, this generation new the blessings and the provision of God but never entered the Promised Land. They never entered all that God had for them. A generation is scripture is considered to be Forty years. Num 32:13

40 years ago today history was made when man placed his feet on the moon

The prophetic words “one small step for man one giant step for mankind”

I first heard these words when my wife and I were working as missionaries in French New Caledonia, a tropical Island in the South Pacific Ocean. At that time the church was poised on the brink of a new move of God which proved to be a giant leap for the church, within twelve months the church was experiencing a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit which came to be known as the “Charismatic Move” Now forty years later one whole generation later. We are poised on the brink of a great new move of the Holy Spirit which will transcend all that has gone before.

Giants are about to be defeated and dethroned 

These giants are personal as well as principalities, and powers ruling nations. The spirit of the Lord is about to raise up a standard against the enemy and if you flow with it you can have victory over those ruling spirits in your life.  There are special times in God which in the Greek language is called a Kairos time, these are special times of visitation which can bring profound change for good if we embrace what God is doing. Great liberation is coming to those who will accept it this next move of God and flow with it. Don’t be like those who missed Gods visitation.

Luke 19:44

And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

Many in Jesus day missed their day of visitation because the thought it would be different to what they imagined it would be like

We see Jesus the son of God defeating the ultimate strong man Satan after forty days in the wilderness. Luke chapter 4

Jesus then made this statement;

Luke 4:18	The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
19	To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
20	And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.
21	And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

The church is coming out of a forty year period in which many sons will proclaim the year of the lord and freedom to the captives.

Just as in the days of Noah when all flesh came to an end, even so God is about to remove the flesh from the church in a preparatory move to bringing forth the bride the helpmate of the Lord, and together they will bring in the harvest and close out this present age.

Blessings
Neville Johnson  Monday, July 20, 2009