No. 1636: WHY DOES SATAN RAGE AGAINST HEALING BY PRAYER?

No. 1636:

WHY DOES SATAN RAGE AGAINST HEALING BY PRAYER?

Jesus healed all the sick.
Acts 10:38 how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him.
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By Aage Samuelsen

Clipping from Vekkeropet no. 10/1982

There are three reasons in particular why Satan rages against those who pray for the sick:
1. Because it is an open declaration of war against Satan's destructive work against humanity. Through illness comes despair, sorrow, suffering and death and then accusations against God. And never in history have the powers of disease had such free rein as today. Hospitals and clinics are overflowing, and new unknown diseases are constantly appearing. Doctors stand helpless, while in despair they ask: What shall we do?

So what is the cause of all this? Some say it is pollution in the air. Others say it is malnutrition, and health food has never been more popular than it is now. But people will not believe that it is Satan and his spirit army raging against God’s creation—man.
2. Satan knows that his time is short, and is doing everything he can to turn the hearts of men away from Him who came to destroy all the works of the devil.

The body that was supposed to be a temple for God has, through false and unbelieving preaching, through unbelieving preachers, become a temple for disease powers and poisonous medicines that are slowly but surely breaking down God’s temple into complete destruction. Preachers of all kinds praise medical science and recommend seeking a doctor rather than doing what Jesus told his witnesses: “CAST OUT DEMONS AND HEAL THE SICK!” Why do they do it? Because they believe more in what Satan says than in what Jesus has commanded.
3. When Jesus raises up witnesses and gives them power to cast out demons and heal all kinds of sickness, Satan and his demonic army rise up in a fiery hatred and fury, together with unbelieving preachers, and wage a merciless war against such witnesses.

God has his witnesses all over the earth whom he anoints with the power and authority of the Holy Spirit, who are ready to revolutionize the world with a miracle revival the world has never seen before. It is God's nuclear power against Satan's spiritual army in the sky. And these will be witnesses who do not bask in the revival, and sit on a high pedestal, but who are willing to sacrifice even their lives in the fight to save people, and who by the preaching of faith give children bread instead of stones.

God has abandoned churches and church organizations because they trample on the command of Jesus Christ to cast out demons and heal all kinds of sickness. The world needs to see evangelical power in full action, and preachers who give themselves entirely to the ministry, without regard to religious organizations and religious leaders who spew lies and all kinds of devilry against those who dare to believe in, and practice, the message of faith. Something is about to happen the like of which the world has never seen.
Jesus is not coming to get a defective church, but a church that is fully restored by the power of the Holy Spirit, both in spirit, in soul, and in body, the temple where Jesus sits on the throne of the heart. God Himself will shut the mouths of all enemies of the message of deliverance. Their religious services will collapse like a house of cards before the eyes of the people, and will become a laughingstock to the public. Their outbursts of rage, with lamentations and cries, will be drowned in loud shouts of joy from people whom Jesus heals of deaf-mute spirits, of the blind, the lame, the paralyzed, and of every kind of disease. From those who are raised from the deathbed, and from those who jump out of wheelchairs.
And I believe as it is written in the Acts of the Apostles that many of the priests will come to faith.

This is not wishful thinking, but it is already happening. There will be no nuclear war until all this happens. It is the Lord, who by his almighty hand, is preparing his temple, so that he can fill it with his divine glory. And just as quickly as the change came on the day of Pentecost, just as quickly will the change happen with his church before he comes with all his angelic host and takes his beloved bride. AMEN!

No. 1635: Pastor Geir Stomnås is not remarried himself, but defends them that are!

 No. 1635:

Pastor Geir Stomnås is not remarried himself, but defends them that are!

 

Picture of Stomnås who is a liberal preacher who opens up for sin, remarriage and demonic activity in the congregation with his defense against what God's word speaks against.

 

Geir Stomnås is Pastor in the Pentecostal church Filadelfia Vennesla in the South of Norway.

 

2 Tim 4:2-3 Preach the word, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching! 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but after their own lusts, they will heap to themselves teachers, because they have itching ears.

 

The problem is not that they do not understand that divorce/remarriage is wrong according to the sound doctrine of the Scriptures, it has never been the historical position and teaching of the church that divorce/remarriage is the "sound doctrine", but they cannot endure/suffer to hear the sound doctrine, i.e. they will not come to terms with the fact that they have made bad choices with their spouse or they will not suffer for the sake of righteousness and remain single after divorcing/being abandoned, being the so-called innocent party. They go from being an innocent party to becoming a guilty party by remarrying after divorce.

 

The main problem is that they cannot endure, they cannot come to terms with the fact that they must be single for the rest of their lives while the divorced spouse is still alive. This is the same carnal spirit of lack of self-control that we find in sodomites who demand their right to exercise their form of “love,” it should be a “human right.” It is no human right to be married or to be able to acquire a new wife or husband when the marriage is broken by divorce.

 

1 John 4:8 He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.

 

Everyone wants to declare their love and that God is gracious/full of love, the prerequisite for love is to know God, when they reject sound doctrine they are unable to love as God loves because they reject what God thinks about love. It is love for God that is shown by remaining single after divorce/being abandoned/innocent party.

 

Now that almost all preachers are either divorced and remarried or stands by that divorce/remarriage is what the Bible teaches and allowes, it is not easy to turn the tables. When the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch. The ditch warned against is: remarriage for believers, eternal damnation, separated from the Lord Jesus Christ forever, no wedding feast in heaven for these.

 

Titus 1:7-9 For an overseer must be blameless as God's steward, not self-willed, not quick-tempered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for filthy lucre, 8 but hospitable, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, temperate, 9 holding fast the faithful word according to the doctrine, that he may be able both to exhort by sound doctrine and to rebuke those who contradict.

 

Another thing most people do not understand is that there is a difference between grace and forgiveness being available to everyone who comes to God based on the Blood through the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace and forgiveness are not the same as if I have become blameless in the eyes of men and in the eyes of God. There are higher requirements for those who are to be overseers. The integrity we are talking about here is our righteous walk/lifestyle as representatives/ambassadors on behalf of Christ. We find the same principle in the rest of the secular world that has certain criteria that must be met for different offices/positions/occupations.

 

The Lord Jesus Christ never said to the divorced, “I give you forgiveness and grace to remarry after divorce” but what he said to all who had heavy burdens was:

 

Matthew 11:28-29 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

 

As a church and the body of Christ, we are in a very bad condition to suffer for Christ's sake if we want revival and persecution, when we cannot even control our feelings of loneliness/being single and sexual urges. How can we stand with the Lord in tough times when the Lord is not enough in times of peace. Most people do not want to live godly because it arouses the wrath of the ungodly/religious.

 

2 Tim 3:12 And all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

 

Titus 2:11-15 For the grace of God has appeared to bring salvation to all men, 12 teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works. 15 Speak these things, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise you!

 

Final comment:

 

With such a doctrinal standpoint, one pushes out those who are not part of this unbiblical and carnal slippage that this is.

There is no room for both God and Satan.

For light and darkness.

Right and wrong.

The choice is made, when one first opens up for remarriage among us Christians!

 

2 Cor. 6. 19 Since you have received these promises, beloved, cleanse yourselves from every filthiness of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.