How to Deal With Evil SpiritsSpirit of the Lord. But I like to be sure about things I
see in the Spirit and check up on them. I don't just
accept everything that happens in the Spirit and run off
with it and accept it or try to build a doctrine on it.
This pastor, this woman's former husband, had
since remarried. I didn't know his first wife had been
threatening to cause trouble for him. Of course the devil
in this woman wanted to cause trouble for him in his
church and in the community to deter him from the
work of the ministry. That's what the Lord meant when
He said an evil spirit operating through this woman
was harassing and intimidating His servant.
When this pastor had eventually remarried, his
denomination wouldn't have anything more to do with
him because he was divorced. But when the Lord spoke
to me in the vision, He called this pastor "My servant."
Isn't it strange that the Christians in that
denomination wouldn't even call him brother!
Harassing the Church
In the vision, Jesus explained to me that a person
doesn't have to operate in the gift of discerning of
spirits in order to deal with the evil when the devil is
harassing, intimidating, or deterring a member of the
Body of Christ. We have authority in those situations to
command the devil to stop in his maneuvers against a
believer.
It doesn't take a gift of the Spirit in those situations
in order to take your stand and to exercise your
authority over the devil. Jesus also said a believer
doesn't need a word of knowledge or to be a minister in
order to exercise authority over the devil. Every believer
has the authority to use the Name of Jesus and to take