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Sickness Is A Spirit
And he was teaching in one of the
synagogues on the Sabbath.
And, behold, there was a woman
which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen
years, and was bowed together, and
could in no wise lift up herself.
Luke 13:10-11
From the original Greek text,
Astheneia is the name from where the
word “infirmity” came. The word
Astheneia is the common Greek word
for sickness.
For eighteen years that spirit of
sickness was oppressing the woman!
So, sickness is a spirit.
This means that there is a spirit of
deformity, a spirit of fever, a spirit of
cancer, a spirit of migraine, a spirit of
kidney failure, a spirit of fibroid, a
spirit of blood disease, a spirit of
lameness, etc.
Infirmity means sickness. So when
they say someone has a spirit of
infirmity, it means he has a spirit of
sickness.
We see also in Mark 9:25:
When Jesus saw that the people
came running together, he rebuked the
foul spirit, saying unto him, Thou
dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee,
come out of him, and enter no more
into him.
When God made you, you were
perfect. You were very good. Then
Satan came and sowed his evil seed,
and the good creation of God became
evil. Until Jesus came, and then the
tables turned!
SATAN LOST HIS THRONE!
He that committeth sin is of the
devil; for the devil sinneth from the
beginning. For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that he might
destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8
Every sickness is a work of the
devil. Every deformity is a work of the
devil. Every blindness is a work of the
devil. Every lameness, every disease, is
a work of the devil.
But praise God, Jesus came, that He
might destroy the works of the devil.
Listen to this:
And there was in their synagogue a
man with an unclean spirit; and he
cried out,
Saying, Let us alone; what have we
to do with thee, thou Jesus of
Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us?
I know thee who thou art, the Holy One
of God.
And Jesus rebuked him, saying,
Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
And when the unclean spirit had
torn him, and cried with a loud voice,
he came out of him.
Mark 1:23-26
It is an unclean spirit that makes a
man feel good when he is dirty; that
makes a man misbehave in public. That
is the spirit of madness! A foul spirit
that makes a man behave foul!
Look at this for instance:
And when he was come out of the
ship, immediately there met him out of
the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Who had his dwelling among the
tombs; and no man could bind him, no,
not with chains:
Because that he had been often
bound with fetters and chains, and the
chains had been plucked asunder by
him, and the fetters broken in pieces:
neither could any man tame him.
And always, night and day, he was
in the mountains, and in the tombs,
crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Mark 5:2-5
But then, he came in contact with
the One that has the power to destroy
every spirit of sickness.
For he said unto him, Come out of
the man, thou unclean spirit.
Mark 5:8
And the man was set free. By the
time the people who used to know him
as a mad man saw him again, he was
“sitting, and clothed, and in his right
mind ...” (Mk. 5:15)
Friends, in our generation, every
spirit of sickness shall be destroyed!
God’s creation shall be redeemed from
corruption, by the power of God. We
are going to push the devil out of
business!
In 1983, one of my cousins was
struck with the spirit of madness.
When I arrived home to see him, as I
entered the room, he stood up and
prostrated to greet me (in his
madness)!
Before then he had not been able to
recognise nor speak to anyone, not
even his mother. But he welcomed me!
They asked him if he knew who I was
and he said, “That’s my brother.” All I
did was enter the room! I hadn’t even
prayed or laid hands on him.
You know why? A General doesn’t
need to be in uniform before you know
he’s a General. Whether in his
sportswear or his pyjamas, a General is
still a General.
Friends, all you need to floor the
devil, is a consciousness that you are
greater, that you are stronger. A
superiority complex, that puts him
where he belongs. You need a
knowledge of your redemptive position
in Christ, that will give you your place.
Now, by the time I was leaving, I
told them to put the young man in my
car, and let me see the devil that will
dare follow him into my car!
Friends, that was the end of the
madness! The young man has now
graduated from the university, born
again, and full of the Holy Spirit,
serving God with excitement! The
unclean spirit left him fast, at the
instance of my appearance and my
command.
Listen to me, by virtue of your
redemption in Christ, Satan has no
final say in your life any more. The
choice is yours.
Jesus came to destroy all the works
of the devil! All his works!
When Jesus therefore had received
the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and
he bowed his head, and gave up the
ghost.
John 19:30
After taking that bitter drink, He
said, “It is finished” — finished with
anything that is making life bitter for
you, finished with sorrows, with pains
— and He bowed His head and gave up
the ghost.
That may sound like defeat, but in
Hebrews 2:14-15, the Bible says:
Forasmuch then as the children are
partakers of flesh and blood, he also
himself likewise took part of the same;
that through death he might destroy
him that had the power of death, that is,
the devil;
And deliver them who through fear
of death were all their lifetime subject
to bondage.
When Jesus gave up the ghost,
death was overthrown! The one who
had the power of death (Satan) was
destroyed, and man’s liberty from
every of his oppressions was sealed.
Friends, when Jesus gave up the
ghost, Satan lost his throne! When
Jesus descended into hell, Satan’s
throne was destroyed and man’s liberty
was established!
“It is finished”! No force in hell
can change that!
The dominion of Satan over your
life and destiny came to an end! The
dominion of the wicked over your body
came to an end!
Know this then, Satan is too weak
to make you sick! Power was taken
from him when Jesus went down to the
grave, and the scriptures cannot be
broken.
If Jesus hadn’t destroyed Satan, He
couldn’t have been Lord over your life.
Satan lost his throne! Oh, yes he did!
Matthew 15:13 says:
But he answered and said, Every
plant, which my heavenly Father hath
not planted, shall be rooted up.
That sickness in your body is a
planting of the devil. But everything he
has ever placed in your body, Jesus has
come to root it out. That’s the reason
He came. So, the only sickness that
won’t leave you alone, must be one that
is stronger than God. And of course,
there’s no such sickness!
If God says “Yes!”, the enemy
cannot say, “No!” God has already said
“Yes!” concerning your healing.
But if the Spirit of him that raised
up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he
that raised up Christ from the dead
shall also quicken your mortal bodies
by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Romans 8:11
There’s something in you that
guarantees health. It is the Spirit of
Him that raised Jesus up from the dead,
the same Person we call the Holy
Spirit. He has a mission to supply the
virtue for divine health to your body.
So your body is quickened by Him.
He is the same Spirit in the Healing
Balm. Get set for an encounter with
Him, that will end all your aches and
pains forever!
Chapter 4