Good or Evil

This afternoon as I was sitting at my computer writing, as I usually do, minding my business, when I heard something fall on the floor…I got up from my computer and looked and saw that this flower (artificial) I had sitting on top of my bookcase had fallen. It’s been up there for weeks. There was no wind, no vibration, nothing that could explain why it had fallen…all of a sudden the hairs on my arms stood up and chill bumps rolled over my being…it was fear…I could run out the door or I could stand my ground.

I chose to stand my ground in the power of God and I said, “If you are a demon I command you to go right now in the name of Jesus…but if you are a Holy Angel sent from Father God, then you are welcome.” I proceeded to pray in the spirit and gave God praise!

I picked the flower up and set it back on-top of the shelf and I walked into the kitchen…I was not going to let the devil get a stronghold in my home. My home is peaceful and it is quiet. I spend a lot of time in prayer and in fellowship with the Lord it was unusual for me to feel that kind of fear.

Our warfare is not against flesh and blood…we cannot fight the enemy in our flesh…it has to be done in the spirit by the authority of the name of Jesus…He gave us that authority…but we have to know how to use it. Don’t be like the seven sons of Sceva. (Acts 19:11-20 see below.)

There have been times when I was praying and I sensed the presence of Holy Angels and I’ve even heard sounds that sounded like fluttering wings…and people say Angels don’t have wings…well I can tell you some of them do…

I have encountered many strange, wonderful, and even freaky things throughout my walk with the Lord…and I know that when there is peace, it is of God, and when there is fear, it’s most likely from the dark side…

God is greater than any demon, we just need to know that, and know that as a Child of God we have been given power through the name of Jesus to cast them out and they have to go…

Recently I asked God to put a guard on my mouth and I had just spoken something negative to myself when the flower fell…afterwards I even said, “Lord is that you, reminding me to watch what I say?” Either way I learned the lesson.

All I know is that the invisible world is watching…we can know these things by reading God’s word…we must be aware…we must be alert…and we must be prepared to fight this battle in the Spirit…and let God sort it all out! Amen!

If you want to walk closer to God and you want the gifts of the Holy Spirit to operate in your life…then seek and search God’s word and ask him to fill you with more of Jesus and never stop asking…He wants to give you more of Him…so don’t be shy…dig deep…there are so many treasures He is longing to give you. But not for self-gratification…they are to be used for His glory and His purposes…amen!

Let me close by saying this, even if there is no one else around listening…the invisible’s are always listening…the demons and the Holy Angels…so if you talk to yourself…make sure it is uplifting and positive…God just might send an Angel to remind you…to watch your words!!!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill 8/10/2017

Acts 19:11-17 English Standard Version (ESV)

The Sons of Sceva

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul, so that even handkerchiefs or aprons that had touched his skin were carried away to the sick, and their diseases left them and the evil spirits came out of them. Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists undertook to invoke the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Seven sons of a Jewish high priest named Sceva were doing this. But the evil spirit answered them, “Jesus I know, and Paul I recognize, but who are you?” And the man in whom was the evil spirit leaped on them, mastered all of them and overpowered them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. Isaiah 6:2

I also heard the sound of their wings like the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the Almighty, a sound of tumult like the sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. Ezekiel 1:24

And there came a voice from above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood still, they dropped their wings. Ezekiel 1:25

Each of them had four faces and four wings. Ezekiel 1:6

Each one had four faces and each one four wings, and beneath their wings was the form of human hands. Ezekiel 10:21