Challenge The Powers Of Darkness!

A while back I came across a new song that caught my attention. The words of this composition have stirred the Holy Spirit within me to challenge the powers of darkness that attempt to subvert the commission of the Church of Jesus Christ. The title of the song is “Hear The Roar,” and I have included a link here, www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJL3wfrp1Cs. Take time to listen and allow the Holy Ghost to challenge YOU!

We must continue to focus on what God is speaking to us and to the Body of Christ. It is imperative that we hear His voice and heed His calling. God is calling us to take back what belongs to Him. It is time to take back our nation, our schools, our churches, our families and our children. We have allowed the covering or mantle of the Holy Spirit to slowly erode and thereby give access to the spirit of darkness in each of these areas of our lives.

God is calling us, the Body of Christ, to rise up in the power and authority of the Holy Ghost. He has embedded the Holy Ghost in His Church to empower the Body of Christ to finish His Work. God is calling us to confront and engage this invasion of darkness and evil that dares to challenge His perfect plan. However, we must use the weapons God has given us to defeat the powers of darkness. 2 Cor. 10:4, “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds; 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;”

We cannot win against Satan if we are walking in the flesh! As local church congregations, we will not succeed without the leading and anointing of the Holy Spirit. Carnality cuts our connection to heaven. We can promote our plans and dreams but if they are not born from the heart of God, they will not have God’s favor.

So many churches have become social connections and financial institutions. The Church of God should be an entity of prayer. Matt. 21:12, “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. 14 And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.” The religious had made the house of God a place of merchandise and personal gain. After the commercial aspects of religion were removed, many came to Jesus in the Temple and He healed them!

The Holy Spirit is calling His Church to refocus on prayer. He is calling us back to our knees for a fresh anointing of Pentecostal power that will change lives around us for eternity. That kind of power will come through intercessory prayer born out of the heart of God and implemented by the Holy Spirit as He seeks the will of God through us. 

By the power of Almighty God, we, the Church of the Living God, can pull down the strongholds of Satan. He has no place to hide in the presence of God! Darkness is illuminated by the Light of His presence. When we come to God in faith, submission, and obedience, our victory is assured in Jesus Christ. God wants to bring us back to His original relationship with man where God and man walked together in perfect peace without the influence of darkness and evil. And, that will be the result for all who will follow Him in submission and obedience. It is time to Challenge The Powers Of Darkness!