CLOSING DOORS TO DEMONS, RALPH PORTER’S TESTIMONY

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Chaplain Dan

INTRODUCTION

Our long time friends, the redeemed family, Renda, wife of Troy, Marine officer, with daughters, are serving on Okinawa in these months.  Renda asked the following question on how can the redeemed  be tormented by demons?  She read the testimony of our daughter Rebecca’s battle with the demon whose name is “destruction”.   The demon sought to take credit for killing Rebecca in a car accident in February 1988 in Ontario, CA.  Our Lord Jesus and Faithful Father delivered her by taking her home to glory with Him.

“If you cast the demon out of Rebecca, how was it able to keep tormenting her? Did she have the Holy Spirit? “He who is in us is greater than he who is in the world.”  (The demon was delivered from Rebecca through prayer and the power of our Lord Jesus and His blood testimony in December 1979.)

Dear Renda and Troy,

How can a redeemed be tormented by demons if they have the Holy Spirit indwelling in them?

The redeemed cannot be possessed by demons, but they can be attacked, demonized, by demons throughout their lifetime.  You are in the battle of our Lord Jesus, near the frontlines of Satan’s warfare; you will know demons and fight them regularly!

Let me first share my own testimony of my battle for years with demons that had access to my life.

I was a missionary in 1975, and we had just returned from a four year tour on Okinawa at the Hansen Center and the Kadena Center.  I was saved in 1959, graduate of Moody Bible Institute 1965,  began with Cadence International mission, 1965, and I had been ministering to the Army, Marines, Sailors, Air Force on Okinawa and the Philippines since 1968.  Our family was on furlough in Denver, Colorado, and I shared with Bob Bingham, a missionary with Cadence, served many years in the Philippines at the Clark Air Base Servicemen Center, and he has worked for years in demoniac deliverances.  I shared with him that the deliverances we experienced in others were also affecting me, as I had disturbances also?

I asked Bob Bingham and Sid Henry, the missionary who led me to Christ Jesus at Subic Bay, Philippines, December 1959, to pray for me to see if I was demonized.  Their prayer manifested several demons in me, and they were all related to my season of life before I was saved.  I do not remember the whole incident, as the demons had me gagging, rolling on the floor, and in great agony.  I remember one demon had to do with my grandmother who was into reading tea leaves in the bottom of a coffee cup – demonism.  Another identified with the demoniac game, do not know how to spell it, that my parents and friends were playing in the other room of their friend’s home.  My friend and I were playing in the next room, and we were quite young in age.   They were raising the table by demons in answers to their questions.  I do not remember the number of demons that were delivered from me that day, but I knew afterwards the great peace, freedom, and joy in my heart from their leaving me.  I had been tormented by demons while at Moody Bible Institute, especially in the seeking of our Lord Jesus’ will on the question of the marrying of Wilma. I was greatly tormented in the Philippines where demons were very active in the City of Olongapo City, Subic Bay.  At the time, I just believed this was the “normal Christian life” to be under attack, and I did not know how to be delivered or overcome the demoniac attacks that came at different times and seasons.  After the demons left from Bob’s and Sid’s prayers in their claiming the Name of our Lord Jesus and His blood,  I then enjoyed daily my walk with our Lord Jesus.  My prayer life was  free from the demons troubling my communion with our Lord Jesus, and it was glorious to have daily the freedom from their unending attacks. From that day, the living in communion with our Lord Jesus was so much easier, and I wondered how anyone could backslide from Jesus if they had this peace and freedom daily as I was then enjoying?

Renda, I have since through the years closed the doors in other areas of my life which were used by the demons to seek to control me.  One does not only have the joy of deliverance from demons, but they also need to close the vows, oaths, commitments they have made to demons in their years before they were saved. They need to agree with our Lord Jesus and break their commitment and their entanglement in demonism in idolatrous Clubs, small groups who identify with Satan (Wicca etc), organizations (Masonic Lodge), especially their commitment to all areas of sexual immoral activity.  Those commitments, if not broken officially between you and our Lord Jesus, are still open doors for the demons to have a right to attack your redeemed life.  You made previous commitments to demons!

May this testimony begin to assist you in understanding how the redeemed are demonized, not possessed by demons.  Christ Jesus our Lord was attack by Satan, Matthew Chapter Four, and He certainly had the Holy Spirit, He is God, Three in One!  We are rejoicing with you in your deliverance of your daughter from a demon there on Okinawa, and I am praying for the Blood of Christ Jesus protection over your whole family.  I pray this prayer daily for my family as they are “in the battle of our Lord!”

I did not know, Renda, for years how to close the doors to demons.  Rebecca’s battle, our oldest daughter, with the demon, “Destruction” was never fully dealt with, and I believe the demon continued to control, invade, and persuade Rebecca to make several of her wrong choices in life till they took credit for killing her!  I did not either know how to close doors to demons till many years after Rebecca’s death? I then had to work years on my own life in understanding also generational sins, covenant commitments, various strongholds of sin in my life which permitted demons to demonized me, etc.  It took years to be where I am today in the true freedom in Christ Jesus.  This is why I learned too late in life how important it is too fully, being lead by the instructions of the Holy Spirit, to close officially in yourself those doors which the demons have the right to your life!

Keep abiding in the glorious, powerful, covenant keeping love and Blood testimony of our Lord Jesus,

Ralph & Wilma Porter

THE REDEEMED CLOSE THE DOORS IN THEIR LIVES TO DEMONS AND THEIR ATTACKS

BY OUR LORD JESUS AND THE TESTIMONY OF HIS BLOOD, PRAY AND PROTECT YOUR WHOLE FAMILY

Job 1: 10 Have You (Our Lord) not made a hedge around him, around his household, and around all that he has on every side?  You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.

Job 1: 5 So it was when the days of feasting had run their course, that Job would send and sanctify them (Family) and he would rise early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all.  For Job said, “It may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.”  Thus he did regularly. (The Blood of our Lord Jesus protects our family through prayer)

Revelation 12: 11 (Tribulation saints) “And they overcome him (Satan) because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even to death.”

WORHIP OUR LORD WHEN UNDER THE ATTACKS OF SATAN

Job 1: 20, 21, 22 Then Job arose, tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there.  The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”  In all this Job did not sin nor charge God with wrong.  (For the sufferings and afflictions from Satan)

OUR LORD IS OUR DEFENDER AND ADVOCATE BEFORE SATAN

Job 2: 3 … And still he (Job) holds fast to his integrity, although you incited Me (Our Lord) against him to destroy him without cause.

Job 2: 4 And the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but spare his life.”

STAND AGAINST THE ATTACKS OF OUR ADVERSARY.

Job 2: 10 “Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?”  In all this Job did not sin with his lips.

James 4: 7 Submit therefore to God.  Resist the devil and he will flee from you.  Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double – minded.

I John 4: 4 You are from God little children (Christians), and have overcome them; because greater is He (Jesus our Lord) who is in you than he (Satan) who is in the world.

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Public or Private School?

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Chaplain Dan

Dear Trisha,

Wow!  Thank you for wanting to contact me (Sharon, Daniel’s wife) and ask about the kids education.

I think this is a tough question, at this point in time.  For our family personally, our kids are going to public school, except for Caleb who is a freshman at Biola University – an AWESOME Christian Bible Teaching University.

Nathan is a Jr. in HS, Bethany is in 7th grade in middle school, and Lilly is in 2nd grade in elementary school.  My husband, Dan, has said that we need to have Christians in the public school and as long as our kids are being the “light” and not getting pulled into darkness, they will go to public school. I fought this idea when our oldest, Caleb, went into 7th grade jr. high.  I was scared for the influences and exposure that he would come across.  Caleb definitely got exposed to more than what I would have wanted him to know but I realized it was a good slow realization of what “the world” is like. It has been an opportunity, as situations arise at their level, for me to train them in what scripture says is right and wrong.  With the kids being in public school, I know that I must be home when they get home, watch their demeanor and attitudes when they walk in the door, be available for when they have questions or need to share something that happened at school, and PRAY, PRAY, PRAY!  (I am involved with Moms In Touch at the schools they go to. I am confident that the consistent prayers have kept them from many opportunities that we knew about or did not know about that they could have stumbled from.  So, prayer is a MUST!)

 

Communicating with the kids is so important to guiding them, sharing TRUTH about how to handle situations or what God would want, and disciplining immediately when necessary.  I think it is harder as a parent to have my Christian kids, who are strong in the Lord, go to public school.  I must trust the Lord for their safety and their personal walk with Him.  I am not able to shelter them as I would like – keeping them in our home, controlling who their friends are, what they hear, what they see, etc.  I must also say that Dan and I both agree that if there was even a hint that one of our kids was being drawn to the darkness, that we would pull them out of public school immediately.  And, we take each child one year at a time with the decision to keep them in public school.  Fortunately, so far, our kids have been a bright light and are influencing others, teachers and peers, for the Lord Jesus Christ.

So, that is what our family does, for now.  But, I don’t know how much longer we will be able to keep them in public school.  Our state passed a law that states teachers must teach about homosexuality as part of the curriculum starting 1/1/12.  And, there is so much other negative, sinful, darkness that is becoming more and more apparent in the public school.  (Granted, this darkness is becoming more and more prevalent where ever you go in society with the media, music, lack of parental discipline and convictions, school administrators liberalism, government, etc.)

So, whether to home school or private school… I think that needs to be an individual parents/family decision based on prayer, what God is leading the family to do, and what is available in their city.  This decision depends on what the father says is going to happen for his kids, what the mother is able to accomplish, what private school is available, what home school networking group is available.  There are plenty of pros and cons for any  aspect of these choices.  I know you will do your research.  Private Christian schools have plenty of negative/worldly influences along with the chapel and Bible teaching throughout the day.  Home school children need to have a network of friends and classes to attend outside the home when a parent is not able to teach “up to par.”  (For example, I cannot teach passed Geometry, as that is the highest level I had in High School .  Our local home school group has classes taught by a network of home school parents that can teach classes such as Trigonometry).

This is a VERY difficult decision.  I look up to Dr. James Dobson.  He has influenced me and encouraged me tremendously with my walk with the Lord and how involved I am with our community and country concerning government, media, and education.  Dr. Dobson is a strong advocate for Homeschooling your kids or sending them to a solid Christian School.  He believes all Christians need to be homeschooled or go to a Christian school because of how much indoctrination the public schools are pushing contrary to what we believe scripture says and that parents are the ones who need to be teaching their children.  This has been a difficult aspect for me but as I stated before, my kids are being the light at school.  I have a huge amount of examples to “prove” this point.  (It is sad that so many Christians have pulled their kids out of public schools because now what is left? Darkness.)

You can get a ton of information if you go to www.familytalk.org or www.focusonthefamily.org

I know this was a long answer to your question.  I pray all the time for my kids and husband.  The world is becoming more and more “dark.”  I long for our Lord’s second coming so we can be in Heaven with Him!

Thank you for thinking of me to wonder what my opinion is.  I hope my answer helps.

All for Him!

Sharon

(God commanded us to love our neighbor as ourselves.  Therefore, we are to be as concerned about our neighbor’s children as though they were our own. Our neighbor’s children need a light next to them to expose darkness.  I pray our children are that loving light. _Dan)

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Discerning Who to Vote into Leadership

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Chaplain Dan

“Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment.”
Jesus Christ in John 7:24 (NKJV)

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn. Proverbs 29:2

Dear Praying Friends,

Happy New Year, 2012! We find ourselves in a pivotal election year. Every two years we American citizens have the opportunity freely to choose our leaders. Every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives and 1/3 of the seats in the U.S. Senate are up for election. The Presidency is up for election this year, as it is every four years. Then there are thousands of state and local offices that must be filled.

Exercising our right to vote, we can elect leaders who could radically change the direction of our nation.

Choosing Civil Leaders – With the Iowa caucuses behind us, the Republican Presidential primaries beginning and a general election ahead of us I am deeply burdened that those who pray must be informed, and must in turn pray, inform and motivate others to pray aright. This will be the most important election of our lifetimes.

No set of guidelines for choosing civil leaders improves upon the simple list given by God to Moses through his father-in-law, Jethro, for the choosing the civil leaders of ancient Israel (see Ex 18:21). God gave specific directions for consecrating the Priests – the religious leaders elsewhere (e.g., Ex 28-29).

Moses was instructed to look for:

1) Ability – The KJV says “able men,” which means men who have the skills and experience and gravitas to lead and to get the job done. We cannot shoot in the dark and choose a great orator who does not have a track record of faithfulness and accomplishment.

2) The Fear of God – Nothing will substitute for the fear of God. Our entire civil government is built upon the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and the premise that our civil rights come from God and that to Him we must give an account. No one who does not recognize that we are “one nation under God” will be able to lead us and to protect our fundamental rights. The Constitution forbade religious tests for federal offices as a way of preventing the dominance of any one denomination–not as a way of excluding God from public life or denying our biblical heritage. Now, however, an army of secularists and atheizers want to steal that biblical heritage away from us. Voters have every right to act on the conviction that only men or women who fear God are fit to serve in positions of authority over others.

3) Men of Truth – This means men who love The Truth – the eternal principles of God’s law and the Ten Commandments–and men who practice truth telling. Lying politicians have become a by-word in our society today, yet we elect and reelect men who lie or twist, cover up, and distort the truth. We who believe must pray for, support and help elect men and women whom we know to a track record of honesty.

4) Men who Hate Covetousness – Candidates who have an assiduously clean record of business dealings and a public record of treating the taxpayer dollar as sacred – to be spent for constitutional purposes and not for all kinds of social programs that do not fall within the purview of the purpose of government – to provide law and order, a framework for criminal and civil justice and national security. America is bankrupt because elected officials have gone far afield from the fundamental God-given mission of civil government found in Romans 13:1 ff. Though its original author cannot be established, it is a truism that:

A democracy …can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. Great nations rise and fall. The people go from bondage to spiritual truth, to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, from dependence back again to bondage.

If our nation is to survive and thrive, it will be because we elect men and women who meet the simple requirements God gave Moses for selecting civil leaders 3500 years ago.

Americans now have an opportunity to choose our leaders again. Many believe that without a reversal of economic and moral policies established during the last few years, the United States will cease to be a free nation. We who study God’s Word know that He raises up and puts down leaders and nations, and that the prayer and obedience of God’s people are determinative of the degree to which He will bless our nation with godly leaders or otherwise. It is our duty to pray and vote for god-fearing leaders and to pray for the political defeat of those who advance unrighteousness.

  • May we consecrate ourselves and our families to pray and take action as never before, asking God to turn the tide in our nation this year! May we fast often, and use our influence to recruit everyone we know to do likewise. May we join organized prayer calls, attend prayer events and use our citizenship privileges to speak out, write letters to the editor and support god-fearing candidates (Ex 32:29-34; Neh 4:20; Eze 33:2-9; Joel 1:13; 2:12-18; Jonah 3:5-10; Mt 3:7-12; Acts 3:17-26).
  • Lord, have mercy upon us and our children. Grant wholehearted repentance to your people and mobilize us to be the spiritual army you intend us to be. Deliver us and our governments from evil. Raise God-fearing men and women to positions of public leadership and service. May pastors and churches mightily engage this year to influence the outcome of November’s elections for righteousness! May You give America cause to rejoice this year (Jdg 5:1-15a ff; Ps 75:4-10; 86:5-15; 110:3; Lam 3:22; Eze 38:5-10; Mk 10:47).
  • May God grant us discernment to elect a President and other officials whom He can bless! May we cry out to God while we can, and may He send a gracious turning in our nation – a turning back to Him! In Jesus name. Amen (Ex 18:21; Dt 17:14-20; Josh 24:15; 2 Chr 7:14; Pr 1:22-33; Joel 2:12-18; Lk 12:51-5; 6; Jn 9:4).

Sincerely,

Rev. Pierre Bynum
National Prayer Director
Email: pbynum@frc.org

Family Research Council
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: 202-393-2100
Fax: 202-393-2134
Web: www.frc.org

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She Brought Me Joy

Posted on January 3, 2012 by Chaplain Dan
God is delighted by our sincere efforts to please Him.  Just do your best with what you know and the resources He provides.

When my daughter was five years old, she wanted to make me a glass of orange juice.  I sliced the oranges, and she rubbed them on the juicer and did the rest.  After several minutes of determined effort, she was ready to present her gift.  I looked at her bright smile as she held up the glass for me to taste.  My heart burst with love as her bright eyes anticipated my first sip.  It was wonderful!  I told her how much I appreciated the delicious orange juice and gave her a big hug.

As she scampered off to play, I reflected on how God is pleased with our sincere efforts to please Him.  I looked at the counter and thought of how I could have done it with less mess.  I could have been even more efficient and selected the perfect blend of juice, sweetness and pulp from Tropicana at the store.  But, that would not have been as delightful as her desire to please me.  Her gift to me brought joy to her heart, and it brought joy to my heart.

In the same way, God has given me assignments to do as opportunities to please Him.  Can God do a better job on His own, like He did in the six days of creation? Yes!  Can He communicate His justice more effectively, like He did with the flood in the days of Noah?  Of course!  Can He communicate His power and glory more stunningly, like He does in the Revelation of Jesus Christ? Absolutely!  Can God do it with someone else that is more skilled and makes less of a mess?  Yes, but that is not what He wants.  God wants to give me the opportunity to show my love for Him.  My life is my turn to please God and encourage others to please Him.

Many people are intimidated by their lack of education and skills.  They fear making a mess or not being as good as someone else.  So, they pray and hide, hoping someone else will make disciples in their neighborhood and workplace.  We can all be intimidated by the efficiency of the angel in Revelation who shares the gospel with the whole world in their own language.

Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth–to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people– 7 saying with a loud voice, “Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water.” (Revelation 14:6-7)

But this is not the angel’s turn right now.  Millions of people will be born and die before that angel’s turn.  This is our turn to please God. This is our turn for the man dying of disease a month from now.  It is our turn for the baby born two seconds ago.    Every precious person needs to know the good news that God loves them and wants them to walk through life with God as their heavenly Father.

Don’t be intimidated or wait for the perfect opportunity to start.  Are we going to make a mess of things?  Yes.  Are we going to make mistakes?  Guaranteed.  God is big enough to help us when we are scared and clean up the mess.  God longs for us to try with the simple sincerity and determined effort that my daughter used to make orange juice.  And … she brought me joy.

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