The Bible says, “When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seek­ing rest, and find­eth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he find­eth it empty.….” Matthew 12:43–44Matthew 12:43–44
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43 When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seek­ing rest, and find­eth none. ⁴⁴ Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he find­eth it empty, swept, and gar­nished.  

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Don’t let the enemy gain reen­try into your life. We he comes seek­ing rest, Put out your “NO VACANCY” sign! Keep your house filled! Here are some prac­ti­cal steps to take to be sure, you are filled when he comes.

How do you keep your house filled and/or pro­tected (you are the tem­ple of the Holy Spirit)?:

1. Pay atten­tion to your thought life espe­cially thoughts of the past. The past should stay in the past.

What does that mean?  Con­tinue to look at the promises of God — He Came to Heal All Dis­eases Ps. 102:2Ps. 102:2
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2 Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trou­ble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speed­ily.  

WP-Bible plu­gin.  Some peo­ple reverse this.  Their faith waxes weak while they look at their symp­toms and for­get the promises of God.  God’s Word is the only solid basis for our faith.  But the enemy, after you get healed, will throw symp­toms and you can­not look at the symp­toms and allow doubt to come back in that God healed you.  The enemy throws symp­toms to get your eyes off of Christ so that you will loose faith and look at the symp­toms instead of the Lord.  You stand on the Word that Jesus is the Healer and that you’re healed.

We will miss or loose our heal­ing if we allow our symp­toms to hin­der us from expect­ing what His Word promise is.

Hebrews 11:1Hebrews 11:1
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11 ¹ Now faith is the sub­stance of things hoped for, the evi­dence of things not seen. sub­stance: or, ground, or, con­fi­dence  

WP-Bible plu­gin faith is the things not seen.  Symp­toms are not eter­nal but God’s Word is eter­nal and alive to do what it says to do.  Spir­i­tual War­fare is not believ­ing those symp­toms but believ­ing God’s Word that Christ died on the cross for our sal­va­tion and sick­ness and dis­ease.  So stand and believe with­out wavering.

2. Make sure you are right with God.  Our redemp­tive bless­ings are con­di­tional after we hear the Gospel.  Jesus said repent ye and believe the gospel.  Jesus great com­mand­ment has to do with rela­tion­ships with God, oth­ers and self.  Check to see if you have any bit­ter­ness towards any­one, are you in fear and out of faith, etc.  Dis­ease comes from sep­a­ra­tion and sep­a­ra­tion opens the door for the enemy to inflict.  James says to con­fess your faults to one another.… that ye might be healed.  If I regard iniq­uity in my heart the Lod will not hear me.

3. Areas you are weak, mem­o­rize spe­cific scrip­tures to fight the fiery darts! Exam­ple: I used to project fear for tomor­row. I learned to cast my cares to the Lord accord­ing to 1 Peter 5:71 Peter 5:7
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7 Cast­ing all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  

WP-Bible plu­gin. Where do fiery darts come from? Jesus with­stood Satan’s temp­ta­tion by using scrip­ture. The word is a mir­ror to the soul (James 1:22–25James 1:22–25
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22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hear­ers only, deceiv­ing your own selves. ²³ For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man behold­ing his nat­ural face in a glass: ²⁴ For he behold­eth him­self, and goeth his way, and straight­way for­get­teth what man­ner of man he was. ²⁵ But whoso looketh into the per­fect law of lib­erty, and con­tin­ueth therein, he being not a for­get­ful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. deed: or, doing  

WP-Bible plu­gin); it is a lamp unto the feet for guid­ance( Psalm 119:105Psalm 119:105
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NUN. ¹⁰⁵ Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. lamp: or, can­dle  

WP-Bible plu­gin); it is two-edge sword lay­ing bare the heart (Heb 4:12Heb 4:12
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12 For the word of God is quick, and pow­er­ful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, pierc­ing even to the divid­ing asun­der of soul and spirit, and of the joints and mar­row, and is a dis­cerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.  

WP-Bible plu­gin); it is food for the spirit (1 Pet 2:21 Pet 2:2
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2 As new­born babes, desire the sin­cere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:  

WP-Bible plu­gin; Matt 4:4Matt 4:4
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4 But he answered and said, It is writ­ten, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that pro­ceedeth out of the mouth of God.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) No per­son can keep up deliv­er­ance apart from the Word of God as a pri­mary cause in his life!

4. Put on the Whole Armour of God The Christian’s spir­i­tual armour is set forth in Eph­esians 6:10–18Eph­esians 6:10–18
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10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. ¹¹ Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. ¹² For we wres­tle not against flesh and blood, but against prin­ci­pal­i­ties, against pow­ers, against the rulers of the dark­ness of this world, against spir­i­tual wicked­ness in high places. flesh…: Gr. blood and flesh spir­i­tual…: or, wicked spir­its high: or, heav­enly ¹³ Where­fore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to with­stand in the evil day, and hav­ing done all, to stand. hav­ing…: or, hav­ing over­come all ¹⁴ Stand there­fore, hav­ing your loins girt about with truth, and hav­ing on the breast­plate of right­eous­ness; ¹⁵ And your feet shod with the prepa­ra­tion of the gospel of peace; ¹⁶ Above all, tak­ing the shield of faith, where­with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. ¹⁷ And take the hel­met of sal­va­tion, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: ¹⁸ Pray­ing always with all prayer and sup­pli­ca­tion in the Spirit, and watch­ing there­unto with all per­se­ver­ance and sup­pli­ca­tion for all saints;  

WP-Bible plu­gin. There are seven pieces: (1) Loins girt about with truth (2) The breast­plate of right­eous­ness (3) Feet shod with the prepa­ra­tion of the gospel of peace (4) The shield of faith (5) The hel­met of sal­va­tion, (6) The sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God, and (7) Pray­ing in the spirit! Pay spe­cial atten­tion to the hel­met for guard­ing your thought life. Most demons seek­ing to re-enter assail the thoughts. Become watch­ful of any thought that could be con­sid­ered neg­a­tive; they are from the enemy. Sep­a­rate their thoughts from your own. Refuse the thoughts they give you and replace them with pos­i­tive thoughts. (See Phil 4:8Phil 4:8
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8 Finally, brethren, what­so­ever things are true, what­so­ever things are hon­est, what­so­ever things are just, what­so­ever things are pure, what­so­ever things are lovely, what­so­ever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. hon­est: or, ven­er­a­ble  

WP-Bible plu­gin) Resist the devil at the first sign of attack.

5. Make Pos­i­tive Con­fes­sions - Power in the Tongue brings life or death to oth­ers or to self. You can self curse or curse oth­ers with your words. Are you a neg­a­tive per­son? Do you see the world half empty instead of half full? Neg­a­tive con­fes­sions are lack of faith but doubt and unbe­lief which char­ac­ter­ize demonic influ­ence. Pos­i­tive con­fes­sions are faith expressed. Any other con­fes­sion will open the door for the enemy. (See Mark 11:23Mark 11:23
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23 For ver­ily I say unto you, That whoso­ever shall say unto this moun­tain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have what­so­ever he saith.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). Do you speak neg­a­tive words over your spouse, your chil­dren and so on?  It is more than pos­i­tive con­fes­sion but it is trust­ing and believ­ing in God’s Word and then con­fess­ing it.  It has to be true  in your heart — a real­ity of truth.

6. Know Who You Are In the King­dom of God! Why Did God Cre­ate You? Who are you in the King­dom of God? What is your Pur­pose? What is your call­ing? What is your des­tiny? What is the Body of Christ’s pur­pose? What is the Lord want­ing to restore? Com­ing Soon!

7. Cru­cify the Flesh Take up your cross daily and fol­low Jesus. (Luke 9:23Luke 9:23
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23 And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny him­self, and take up his cross daily, and fol­low me.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) Break old habit pat­terns. If fleshy appetites, desires and lusts are not brought to the cross a way for demons to return will be left open (Gal 5: 19–24Gal 5: 19–24
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19 Now the works of the flesh are man­i­fest, which are these; Adul­tery, for­ni­ca­tion, unclean­ness, las­civ­i­ous­ness, ²⁰ Idol­a­try, witch­craft, hatred, vari­ance, emu­la­tions, wrath, strife, sedi­tions, here­sies, ²¹ Envy­ings, mur­ders, drunk­en­ness, rev­el­lings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the king­dom of God. ²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long­suf­fer­ing, gen­tle­ness, good­ness, faith, ²³ Meek­ness, tem­per­ance: against such there is no law. ²⁴ And they that are Christ’s have cru­ci­fied the flesh with the affec­tions and lusts. affec­tions: or, pas­sions  

WP-Bible plu­gin). From Romans to Jude is all about San­tifi­ca­tion. What is Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion? Def­i­n­i­tion of Santification:

Sanc­ti­fi­ca­tion is that con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion of the Holy Spirit, by which the holy dis­po­si­tion imparted in regen­er­a­tion is main­tained and strengthened.

8. Be Will­ing To Go Into The Fire!

What are areas you are not able to still walk through? Make a list to dis­cuss. See notes!

9. Develop a Life of con­tin­u­ous Praise and Prayer Praise silences the enemy. Praise is not an atti­tude of heart; praise is the expres­sion unto God of thank­ful­ness, ado­ra­tion and joy by speak­ing, singing, shout­ing, danc­ing, leap­ing, play­ing musi­cal entrust­ments, clap­ping the hands, etc. Pray in the sprit (in tongues) and also in the under­stand­ing. (1 Cor 14:141 Cor 14:14
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14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my under­stand­ing is unfruit­ful.  

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17 Pray with­out ceas­ing.  

WP-Bible plu­gin). Get a jour­nal and write down your vic­to­ries, bless­ings, etc. This is help­ful when times are tough. Com­ing Soon!

10. Main­tain a Life of Fel­low­ship and Spir­i­tual Min­istry!  It is the sheep that wan­ders from the flock that is most endan­gered. Find and ful­fill your func­tion within the body. (See 1 Cor 12:7–141 Cor 12:7–14
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7 But the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. ⁸ For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wis­dom; to another the word of knowl­edge by the same Spirit; ⁹ To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of heal­ing by the same Spirit; ¹⁰ To another the work­ing of mir­a­cles; to another prophecy; to another dis­cern­ing of spir­its; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the inter­pre­ta­tion of tongues: ¹¹ But all these wor­keth that one and the self­same Spirit, divid­ing to every man sev­er­ally as he will. ¹² For as the body is one, and hath many mem­bers, and all the mem­bers of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. ¹³ For by one Spirit are we all bap­tized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gen­tiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. Gen­tiles: Gr. Greeks ¹⁴ For the body is not one mem­ber, but many.  

WP-Bible plu­gin) Keep your­self under author­ity. Com­ing Soon!

11. Com­mit Your­self Totally to Christ Deter­mine that every thought, word and action will reflect the very nature of Christ. Abide in Christ that the fruit of the Spirit might come forth in abun­dance. Demon spir­its are ene­mies of the fruit of the spirit. Faith and trust in God is the great­est weapon against the devil and his lies. (See Eph. 6:16Eph. 6:16
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16 Above all, tak­ing the shield of faith, where­with ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.  

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12. Choos­ing friends who are like minded. Think of times you were influ­enced neg­a­tively from oth­ers who are not like minded.

Look what the Bible says about choos­ing friends…

“Do not be bound together with unbe­liev­ers; for what part­ner­ship have right­eous­ness and law­less­ness, or what fel­low­ship has light with dark­ness? Or what har­mony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in com­mon with an unbe­liever? Or what agree­ment has the tem­ple of God with idols? For we are the tem­ple of the liv­ing God; just as God said, I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. There­fore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE, says the Lord. AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will wel­come you. And I will be a father to you, And you shall be sons and daugh­ters to Me, Says the Lord Almighty” (2 Corinthi­ans 6:14–182 Corinthi­ans 6:14–18
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14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbe­liev­ers: for what fel­low­ship hath right­eous­ness with unright­eous­ness? and what com­mu­nion hath light with dark­ness? ¹⁵ And what con­cord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infi­del? ¹⁶ And what agree­ment hath the tem­ple of God with idols? for ye are the tem­ple of the liv­ing God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my peo­ple. ¹⁷ Where­fore come out from among them, and be ye sep­a­rate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, ¹⁸ And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daugh­ters, saith the Lord Almighty.  

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“Do not be deceived: ‘Evil com­pany cor­rupts good habits.’ Awake to right­eous­ness, and do not sin; for some do not have the knowl­edge of God. I speak this to your shame.” 1 Corinthi­ans 15:33–341 Corinthi­ans 15:33–34
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33 Be not deceived: evil com­mu­ni­ca­tions cor­rupt good man­ners. ³⁴ Awake to right­eous­ness, and sin not; for some have not the knowl­edge of God: I speak this to your shame.  

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“And do not be con­formed to this world, but be trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and accept­able and per­fect” (Romans 12:2Romans 12:2
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2 And be not con­formed to this world: but be ye trans­formed by the renew­ing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and accept­able, and per­fect, will of God.  

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“Keep your behav­ior excel­lent among the Gen­tiles, so that in the thing in which they slan­der you as evil­do­ers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glo­rify God in the day of vis­i­ta­tion” (1 Peter 2:121 Peter 2:12
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12 Hav­ing your con­ver­sa­tion hon­est among the Gen­tiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evil­do­ers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glo­rify God in the day of vis­i­ta­tion. whereas: or, wherein  

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“He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the com­pan­ion of fools will suf­fer harm” (Proverbs 13:20Proverbs 13:20
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20 He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a com­pan­ion of fools shall be destroyed. destroyed: Heb. bro­ken  

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John said in 3 John 2 “Beloved, I wish above all tings that thou mayest pros­per and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”

That means sub­mit our­selves to God before He says “resist the devil,” because no one can suc­cess­fully resist the devil until he sub­mits him­self to God.

The con­di­tion of heart that was respon­si­ble for the com­ing of those dis­eases as men­tioned in Deut. 28 is not the right con­di­tion for their removal.  In other words, the con­di­tion of the heart that was respon­si­ble for the curse in that day is not the con­di­tion of heart in which to come to Him for the removal of the curse in our day.