The Triumphant Churchthe sword of the Spirit and the Name of Jesus in the
victory Jesus won over him and put him to flight!
When Jesus appeared to me in this 1952 vision, it
was the heyday of the healing revival, and some people
in that day had gotten off in this area of the devil and
evil spirits just as they have today. Because of this
error, Jesus had to bring correction in the area of
demonology in order to get the Body of Christ back on
track and in the middle of the road again.
Our problem has been that we want someone else to
take care of the devil for us. Notice that Peter wrote his
epistle to Christians; he didn't write it to sinners. In
other words, he was telling Christians to resist the
devil. He wouldn't tell them to resist the devil if it was
impossible for them to do it.
After Jesus pointed out these scriptures proving
that believers have authority over the devil, He said to
me, "If Peter had been like some believers today, he
would have said, 'Word has come to us that God is using
our beloved brother Paul in an unusual way. Paul is
laying hands on cloths and handkerchiefs, and diseases
and evil spirits are departing from people. Therefore, I
suggest you write to Paul and get one of those
handkerchiefs.' But Peter didn't tell believers that.
Peter told believers, 'You do something about the devil
yourself.'"
Look again at First Peter 5:9: "Whom [YOU] resist
stedfast in the faith...." "You" is the understood subject
of that sentence. "You resist the devil and he will flee
from you." "You resist the devil steadfast in your faith
in God's Word." That comes right back to the fact that
you are the only one who can resist the devil in your
own life. You resist the devil by your faith in what God
says in His Word.