daily devotionals for august 8th and today's scripture reading will be luke 11 verses 24
through 26. when an unclean spirit goes out of a man he goes through dry places seeking rest
and finding none he said i will return to my house from which i came
and when he comes he finds it swept and put in order then he goes and takes with
him seven other spirits more wicked than himself and they enter and dwell there
and the last date of that man is worse than the first you know it's really important
the lord is speaking here about deliverance and when somebody's
delivered from an unclean spirit or demonic spirit however you want to say it
what the lord has really emphasized to me in several years now is when when a person is born
again it's not a three-step program it's not saved and then you know a month or whatever later then
baptized and then sometime in the future filled with holy spirit he said it's a three in one deal
okay you get saved immediately get baptized and filled with the holy spirit reason being
just like the demon here somebody's delivered from a demonic spirit
and so that has gone out of the person but unless they are filled and their house their house is now
clean but then it's filled with the holy spirit that demon is going to come back it goes hey
looky here well i got a clean house let's bring some of our buddies over and have a party and
that's what they do because holy spirit if you aren't filled with the holy spirit and power you
you have that possibility and it says right here that's what the demon does he brings his friends
you then that person is then more tormented than they were before and i've seen that happen and i
questioned why why didn't we pray and get that person we got delivered but we didn't fill them
with the holy spirit we're at fault and i feel responsible for that so you know it's like the
sower of the seed it's all the same seed but think about this when when someone is born again
it's like that seed what happens you've got the seed that fell by the wayside that's fell on the
stony ground the thorns and then the good soil so the enemy comes right away to steal
what the lord has done but if you're filled with the holy spirit if you've got that good soil
you're filled with the holy spirit then when the enemy comes holy spirit inside you is going to say
no you can't come in you're not welcome here any longer so we need to keep that in mind and when
we uh when somebody's saved get them baptized immediately and filled with the holy spirit
and holy spirit begins working right then and and the person witnesses with that and moves in power
okay and i think we as the body of christ have failed to do that time after time you know i see
somebody gets saved and then it's like months down the road before they ever
get baptized and in that time the enemy comes and steals the seed okay till next time be blessed
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