C. Peter Wagner continues: Not only can we bring the idea of
spirits occupying houses back from the mission field to the United
States, but I can also tell of spirits in my own home in Altadena, California.
Back in 1983 my wife, Doris, and I hosted an intercessory prayer group in our home once a month.
One night two of the women who have gifts of discernment of spirits mentioned that they sensed a special presence of evil seemed to be located in the master bedroom.
Not too long after that, one night when I was away, Doris woke up suddenly in the middle of the night with a powerful fear gripping her whole being.
Her heart pounding furiously, she looked across the room and saw a shadowy form, about nine feet tall, with luminous green eyes and teeth.
Her fear turned into anger, and she rebuked the spirit in the name of Jesus, commanding it to get out of her room and not to enter the children's rooms.
It left.
Some weeks later we were both in the bed when Doris awoke, this time with a piercing cramp in her foot. I laid hands on, prayed for healing, and tried to go back to sleep.
In about ten minutes I asked how her foot was. She said, "The pain will not go, and I think it is a spirit."
This time I rebuked the spirit in the name of Jesus. It apparently obeyed since the pain was immediately relieved and did not come back.
Two friends from our Sunday School class in Lake Avenue Congregational Church, Cathy Schaller and George Eckart, prayed fervently for Doris and me and were led of the Spirit to go into our house for warfare prayer.
We gave them a house key one afternoon while we were working at the seminary. When they got out of their car they knew they were in for a battle since some invisible force physically prevented them from entering the patio surrounding the front door!
They decided to go into the garage where they discerned several evil spirits, one so strong that Cathy could actually smell it. After casing them out, they could easily enter the patio and go into the house.
They found spirits in three of the rooms, the strongest, predictably, in the master bedroom. In the living room they sensed that a spirit had attached itself to the stone puma we had brought as a souvenir from our missionary work in Bolivia.
When we got home we destroyed the puma as well as some animistic ceremonial masks we foolishly had mounted on our living room wall.
The next time the intercession group met, they felt the atmosphere had changed and the house had been cleansed.
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#44 Spirits in the Wagner House
By C. Peter Wagner
(pgs. 781-82) Regal Books
 Mark I. Bubeck shares with us from his book (p 222) The Satanic Revival [Let's pray with Mark:] "May the Holy Spirit so open people to the spiritual seeing and hearing of Your Word that they again will cry out in repentance. Thank You, also, that the Holy Spirit exalts righteousness by revealing the righteous things of Your Word. I ask Him to do that with powerful persuasion."
Today’s Bible verse: Is. 41:10 "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: yea, I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."
Today’s quote:
"Jesus longs to turn our mistakes into
amazing examples of His grace."
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Some thoughts today: We're not to depend upon others for our walk with God. Neither are we to look to them for our fulfillment in life.
- Remember Leah, Jacob's wife? (beginning with Gen. 29:31) She took care of her family, and 5 books in the Bible list her descendants as follows: King David, Aaron, (first high priest), Simeon, (who was waiting for the consolation of Israel), Anna, (daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser) , and Jesus. - Most of us are more like Leah, we've got our hurts and wounds, not necessarily good looking or talented, and ones who struggle with life. Leah did her best to build the house of Israel. With our own limitations we can be faithful too, and we can help build the house of God right where we live. We're to do our best!
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