How to Conquer Controlling Powers, Part 2

Praying In The Holy Ghost

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.

Praying in the Holy Ghost is praying in tongues. It builds you up on your faith for holiness.

So your faith for a life of purity is enhanced by praying in the Holy Ghost.

1 Corinthians 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:

The secrets of men are in their stories. Paul spoke in tongues more than they all, so he enjoyed purity more than they all — he so testified in 1 Thessalonians 2:10:

1 Thessalonians 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

Everytime you explode in tongues against the works of the flesh, you are confirming the judgement of the Holy Spirit against the devil.

John 16:7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away:

for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

16:8 And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin,

and of righteousness, and of judgment:

John 16:11 Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

Praying in tongues, I believe, must have played a vital role in Paul’s Christian adventure, and I think that 1 Thessalonians 2:10 is one of the effects of such.

That’s why he could say, “Be ye followers of me, as I am of Christ.”
Paul is saying in effect that you don’t need a Bible to get to heaven, just follow me.

He was too sure of his walk with God! He was living above board. He confronted sin with all forms of authority. He looked at fornication and spoke strongly against it.

1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost...

He knew what he was talking about, that when you engage the Holy Ghost on your inside, the devil can’t touch you with filthiness. No!

Romans 8:13 For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

You can put to death the works of those controls, by engaging the Spirit against every trace of such controls you notice in your life.

Look at this: when the water level is low in a hydro electricity supply dam, the power supply has to be rationed, because the rate of the turning of the turbines has gone down. So the power supply reduces.

The same way, when your water level is low, the river of God inside you is low. So the power it generates is low. What do you do?

You pray, from the depth of your heart, for an infilling — let the earth under you shake, and let your life be filled to overflowing!

Then you engage the Spirit, you burst forth in tongues praying in the Spirit, to subdue those forces and put them to death!

Everytime you are praying in the Spirit against the motions of the flesh —anger, lust, coveteousness, depression — you are commanding the judgement of the Spirit against the forces that are controlling your life remotely from the spirit realm.

Don’t let that thing stay on! Pray! Pray in the Holy Ghost!

That motion in your flesh can be consumed! That lying, that crave for adultery, drugs, beating your wife, yelling at your children, can be consumed!

All you need is, engage the Spirit. As you pray in tongues, you will devastate the works of the flesh.

Romans 8:27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

So it takes a lot of praying in the Spirit to break the spirit of bondage that brings many into captivity.

In hunting, many times you don’t see the animal, you just see the movement of the bush, and you know that an animal is there. You then go ahead and shoot. You don’t wait to find out what type of animal it is.

Likewise, the moment you notice any negative movement in your mind or your body, just burst out praying in the Spirit.

For instance, you don’t dream a bad dream and let it stay. The moment your eyes are open, open fire in tongues!

Whatever it is, you address it in the Spirit, according to the will of God; bringing judgement upon it, and establishing your liberty!

1 Corinthians 14:2 For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

When you pray in the Holy Ghost, your communication is outside the devil’s understanding. He can’t connect, so he can’t attack, because he doesn’t know what you’re talking about.

What happens is that, as you’re praying or speaking in tongues, the fire of the Holy Ghost begins to work inside your body, to burn off all the chaff, and purify you from every filthiness.

This is one of the ways to purify yourself as 1 John 3:3 says.

1 John 3:3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

Praying in the Holy Ghost will help you to mortify the deeds of the flesh anytime.
Now, celebrate your authority over those unclean spirits in tongues!

Amen

Hallelujah

Excerpts from, Conquering Controlling Powers by David Oyedepo

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