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60 The Believer's Authority
authority over that evil spirit the first day?"
Jesus said, "He had to wait for the manifestation of the
Spirit; he had to wait until the Spirit of God gave him discerning
of spirits."
You see, you can run the devil away from you or your house
anytime. If a person is on your premises, you also have authority
over him. But when you get away from where your domain is,
the evil spirits have a right to be there, because Satan is the god
of this world!
That's the reason Paul had to wait many days to deliver the
demon-possessed girl. He didn't command that spirit to leave her
the first day she began following him. He waited, and when the
right time came, he spoke to that spirit, and it came out of her.
When I laid hands on the woman in the healing line, I didn't
see any spirits, but I had a word of knowledge. I didn't have
discerning of spirits operating in my ministry then but I had the
word of knowledge operating. When I laid hands on her, her life
ran off in front of me as if I were seeing it on a television screen,
and I knew the whole story.
I said to her husband, "I'm not going to minister to her. Take
her to the pastor's study. When the meeting's over, I'll bring the
pastor with me and I'll talk to both of you." So he took her away.
The pastor and I went to his study. I found out that the
woman's husband was a deacon in this church. I told him, "I
wanted the pastor here as a witness. He'll tell you he hasn't said
one word to me about your wife. I don't know anybody in this
state but this pastor. I never saw you or your wife before.
"I'll tell you why I did not minister to your wife in public.
When I laid my hands on her, I knew on the inside of me—I
could see it all in an instant—that your wife once heard an
evangelist say the Lord had spoken to him in an audible voice.
She began to seek that God would speak to her in an audible
voice, too.
"What she failed to realize was that the evangelist didn't say