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Authority Over Demon Spirits, Not Human Wills 67<br />
But if you have to, the Lord will show you. The way I see it,<br />
God's an intelligent Being, and I'm an intelligent being, and He<br />
can tell me if an evil spirit is present. I go as much by what He<br />
doesn't say as I do by what He does say. If He doesn't say<br />
anything, I don't try to deal with an evil spirit. I go on and<br />
minister healing to the person.<br />
What is strange is that I'll be led to minister healing in one<br />
instance and then in seemingly an identical case I'll have to deal<br />
with a spirit. I don't understand it, but I know from experience it<br />
works that way. You can't judge one case by another.<br />
Helpless people need to be helped. Sometimes you can carry<br />
them on your own faith. But people who know—people who are<br />
enlightened—have to walk in the light of what they know. Some<br />
people are more enlightened than others. The more you know,<br />
the more is required of you.<br />
You can be released from oppression to your body and your<br />
mind. You can exercise spiritual authority over others as long as<br />
they are in your presence. You can take authority over all unseen<br />
forces.<br />
If you learn how to exercise spiritual authority like this, it<br />
will work in your home as well. I've heard of women who<br />
exercised their spiritual authority when their unsaved husbands<br />
came home arguing and fighting. The women had learned how<br />
to quietly and calmly rebuke the evil spirits behind the situation<br />
and claim authority over them—and the situation changed.<br />
I learned how to do this years ago when some of my<br />
relatives would get extremely angry. I simply took authority over<br />
the situation. They knew when I did it, because they looked at<br />
me with a startled expression—and they straightened out<br />
immediately. I wasn't exercising authority over their will,<br />
however, but over the spirit that made them act the way they did.<br />
Jesus once told His disciples that He was going to Jerusalem to<br />
suffer many things and to die. Peter objected. Jesus immediately<br />
rebuked him, saying, "Get thee behind me, Satan...." (Matt.
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