Series: Youth for Jesus
Number: Vol. 9, No. 12
“”When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.” (Matt 12:43-45NIV)
In our opening bible text, the Lord Jesus draws our attention to a number of things about evil spirits, so that we can know how to handle them. And the very first thing He tells us about them is that they can occupy people’s lives. In other words, they can live inside a person or with a person. Where that, then, is the case, the life of that person is bound to manifest the character of the evil spirit or spirits living in them or with them and also experience their activities, to one degree or the other. So, a spirit of madness will cause the one it has possessed to do crazy things, just as a spirit of blindness will make blind the one whose eyes it has possessed.
The second thing the Lord tells us about evil spirits is that they can be driven out of people’s lives or space. So, they do not have absolute power over anybody’s life or over any environment. Their power can be broken. Their activities can be ended. But the only ones who can do so are our Lord Jesus Christ and all those who believe in His name. That is because the name of Jesus is greater than every other name. So, He is the head over every authority and power. (Cf. Luke 10:19, Col 2:10; Phil 2:9-11)
The third thing the Lord reveals to us about evil spirits is that they can come back to where they have been driven away. And not only can they come back to where they have been driven away, they can also bring other evil spirits along with them. All this, of course, is showing us that they are intelligent beings and should be treated as such.
Sadly, even many of those of us who call ourselves believers in Christ Jesus don’t face life with the consciousness of the points raised by our Lord Jesus Christ in our opening text. That is why certain problems have remained adamant and unyielding in our lives for months or years, in spite of all that we have done to handle them. It is also why certain problems have been resurfacing in our lives, homes or families for years, following or exhibiting the same patterns.
But if we will begin to pay attention to what our Lord says to us about evil spirits in that text and act accordingly, we will be able to break the power of all the evil or unclean spirits harassing us over our lives and affairs and wherever we find ourselves. Not only that, we will be able to firmly resist them, if they should show up again at any point in our lives.
Well then, if you are dealing with any persistent problem or any problem that keeps coming back to your life, understand that you may just be dealing with an evil spirit. So, lose no time at all to command it in the name of Jesus to stop its works in your life or space and get out. And it will obey you because Jesus is Lord over every one of them.
Then don’t ever assume that a problem cannot resurface in your life, simply because you have dealt with it once. If it is an evil spirit that is behind it, he can personally bring it back or ask some other wicked spirits like himself to bring it back to you. That is why our lives must not be empty of the presence of God. And if we are children of God, our lives are not empty but full of His presence.
Therefore, we should not accommodate any new, returning or recurring problem at all in our lives. Instead, we should drive it away in the name of the Lord Jesus, letting it know that there is no room for it in our lives. And may you always be strengthened to remember to act on these things wherever you find yourself, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Cheers!
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