Deliverance Ministry - Fire and Ice Ministries River of Life Fellowship

DESTROYING THE WORKS OF SATAN
over the waters of death and dry them up. We see in Jeremiah
50:38 “A drought on her waters! They will dry up.” I take authority
many times and say “I dry up the enemies waters against me.” I
can feel the enemy losing strength.
The strongman
Also, the “strongman” is a scriptural term I want to explain. In Luke
11:21­22 it says: “when a strong man, fully armed, guards his own
house, his possessions are safe. But when someone stronger at­
tacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the
man trusted and divides up the spoils.” Fasting seems to remove
the armor of the strongman. Fasting is great preparation for battle.
A strongman is the prevailing ruling spirit from which all other spirits
draw great strength. For example, in a city the principality over that
city is the strongman. All demons in that city are empowered and
draw strength from the strongman. There are spiritual cords that
release power to all spirits under the strongman’s sphere of author­
ity. It is exactly like a puppet master that moves a wooden cross
with strings attached to a puppet. If you take authority and break
the cords, the power the puppet master has had over the demons,
and individuals is severed! This is what we see in Psalm 2:3 “Let us
break their chains, they say, and throw off their fetters.” This same
principle works in individuals. Many times there is a ruling spirit in
them that all others draw strength from. If you bind him, sever his
cords, and drive him out, the others will be easy to displace. But if
he remains, the others will continue to draw strength from him de­
laying a deliverance. Attack the strongman first.
Binding and loosing
We see again in Matthew that whatever we bind is bound and
whatever we loose is loosed. The word bind is the Greek word deo.
It means to tie up as one would with ropes or chains. The word
loose in the Greek is the word luo which literally means “break,
destroy, dissolve, melt, or put off.” When I pray over people and
take authority, I will almost always say “I break this or that.” I am
loosing the works of satan off them. There is so much authority and
power available to us. We can have authority and power in our
mouths to lift up our voices and completely shatter the works of
satan. There is such authority and power available for our hands
that melt satan’s strongholds. I have brushed my hands over
someone’s shoulders and literally felt a yoke breaking off them, and
I never said a word! We can have so much in our hands. There can
be such authority in our feet that we can walk into an area and take
that land for Christ. When a believer lives holy and gets an anoint­
ing from being baptized into the death of Christ so that the resurrec­
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