Distinguishing the Difference Between Oppression, Obsession,
and Possessionauthority over it. We have a right to stand against fear
and rebuke it.
Learn to stand in the power of God's might and use
His glory and power, which is His Word, to fight against
the enemy. God never said you had to fight the enemy
(2 Chron. 20:17). You are to fight the good fight of faith,
which is standing against the enemy by faith in God's
Word (1 Tim. 6:12). When you stand against the enemy
with the Word, fear has to depart from you.
Fear isn't a friend; fear is an enemy. It isn't to be
accepted, nurtured, or endured. Stand against it and
avoid it like you would avoid sickness and disease.
Speak God's Word to fear and take your authority over
it in the Name of Jesus, and it must depart.
Anyone's body, even that of a Christian, can be
oppressed by an evil spirit from within or without. Let
me give you an illustration of physical oppression.
Physical oppression can be the direct result of an evil
spirit afflicting a person's body.
I was ministering in a church once, and a Christian
man came forward in the healing line for prayer. He
said, "The doctors told me that I have a cluster of ulcers
in my stomach as big as a wasps' nest." The doctors
were fearful that his condition might worsen, but the
man wouldn't let them operate on him.
I said to this man, "Matthew 8:17 says, ... Himself
took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.'" Then I
laid hands on him and prayed. The minute I laid hands
on him, I had a manifestation of the word of knowledge
—a supernatural revelation by the Holy Spirit (1 Cor.
12:8). I knew this man's body was being oppressed by an
evil spirit, and I knew that I had to cast the evil spirit
out of his body before he could be set free from this