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Originally Posted by Aquila
Spiritual "knowing gifts" will be of great assistance, but I've not really operated in them in several years. So if Word of Knowledge is needed, I pray God will provide.
I'm focusing on the armor of God:
Christ as Truth
Christ as our Righteousness
Christ as our Peace with God through the Gospel
Christ as the author and finisher of our Faith
Christ as our Salvation
Christ as the Living Word of God
Christ as the Spirit within through which we pray Also focusing on how to guard the "gates" (eyes, ears, nose, mouth, touch).
When the tabernacle was consecrated to God they had seven seven items that symbolically represented various spiritual truths:
The Gate
The Altar
The Brazen Laver
The Golden Candlesticks
The Table of Shew Bread
The Altar of Incense
The Veil
The Ark of the Covenant The spiritual realties are:
The One Faith (Access to God)
The Sacrificial Atonement of Jesus (propitiatory)
The Cleansing of Baptism and Washing of the Word
The Light and Truth of the Holy Spirit
The Word of God
The Praise & Worship of the Saints
The Barrier of Sin being Destroyed at Calvary
The Very Presence of God If this made God's house "holy"... perhaps declaring and reckoning these truths in my home, and over my guests, will make our house too "holy" for the spirit to remain.
Just something I've been meditating upon for some reason. |
Sounds like you have a very thorough approach happening. I love the spiritual realities you have laid out. Declaring the Word is so powerful!
One thing that I sort of connected with from my past experience was the book on serial killers. Before we came to church we had a lot of problems like you have mentioned (visitations etc.) and I do believe that something particularly evil (like what would be attached to a serial killer) used to come around when I got curious and started reading a book about Jack the Ripper that was loaned to us by an acquaintance. Also the books that you already disposed of would be a kind of permission for something to come or stay around.