Written by Meag M.

Crossposted from her blog “Meag’s blog”

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Let me continue what happened with me. I did stop reading the books after my talk with my mother, but they stayed in my room beside my bed. Well, i continued to be tormented. After a couple more days of this, I was finally willing to do whatever it took to stop these attacks from the devil. I told my mother what was still going on and she told me that until I got rid of the thing/things in my life that were allowing the devil’s power to have a hold on me, I wouldn’t be free.

There are essentially three (basic) steps to breaking strongholds of bondage in your life through spiritual warfare. And the reason you MUST do spiritual warfare is because, “For we are not wrestling with flesh and blood, but against the despotisms, against the powers, against this master spirits who are the world rulers of this present darkness against the spirit forces of wickedness in the heavenly sphere.” Ephesians 6:12.

Step one is basically realizing who you are in Christ and the authority you have, through Him, over your own life. John 8:32 says, “And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free!” The Word of God is the only way to come against the lies of the devil.

The second step is to cut off all the areas in our lives where we have given Satan legal rights to opress us and keep us in bondage. I had to confess to God that I knew reading those books was wrong. As well as watching certain movies, and listening to certain music. I basically had to do some “house-cleaning” in my life. If I didn’t remove these things then they would continue to be open doors for evil to enter my life. It’s like I read in this excerpt:

“An unholy vow is like a spiritual signature that the enemy uses as legal right to gain access into our lives. But demonic vows can also be made unconciously just by getting curious about the occult and watching horror films or reading forbidden materials. Those kinds of things give the enemy your spiritual signature; it tells Satan, “Yes, I’m interested in your world. Tell me more.” And that gives him the legal right to enter in even though we didn’t think we were doing anything blatantly wrong.”

By reading books like Twilight about things of the occult and darkness, I had done this. So I decided to completely get rid of the books. I believe that physical objects can carry spiritual value. It says in Deuteronomy 7:26 “Nor shall you bring an abomination into your house, lest you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and abhor it, for it IS an accursed thing.”

And I believe that step three is to turn to God and no longer mess with these things. Like James 4:7 says, “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” So now, when the devil tries to tempt me, if I draw near to God, he will leave! Spiritual warfare is about guarding our minds and the pathways of our hearts for God when Satan tempts us and fighting back against him.

So, one night before I went to bed I began reading in two books, daily devotionals, to help me. I prayed for God to help me to be able to let go of these things that had such a hold on me. And then for His strength to stay away from them. I didn’t wake up one single time that night - or since then.

One song that I play over and over because the words are so powerful to me is called Shake Yourself Loose. The lyrics go like this:

“Said you been bound up, lookin for a way to break free. Devil’s had you tied up, listen to these words from me. Your situation may seem hopeless but its not the end. Though you are burdened and have shackles on your feet, I want you to know you’re about to break loose! Jesus took the keys and gave them to you. So shake loose, everything that binds you up, who told you that you can’t make it? When God says that you can shake it. - I heard that Satan had you bound, no you don’t have to stay, yes you can leave today! Just like in the Bible days, when men began to pray, those jail cells start to shaken, those chains a start to breakin! - Don’t let the enemy keep you in bondage, praise your way through, shake loose! I got the key, free at last!”

Well, before I went to sleep I set all my Twilight books outside my bedroom door and told my mother I didn’t really know how I should get rid of them but she could do whatever she wanted with them. When I got home from work the next day, she told me that she, my sister, and my father had had a book burning. Hahaha! I was kind of stunned at first, but that is actually very scriptural. See, throwing them away does get rid of them, but it doesn’t completely destroy their power. It actually instructs in the Bible TO burn objects of the occult. Deuteronomy 7:25 says, “You must burn their idols in fire, and you must not covet the sliver or gold that covers them. You must not take it or it will become a trap to you, for it is detestable to the Lord your God.” Also in Acts 19:18-19 it says, “Many also of those who were now believers came making full confession and thoroughly exposing their former deceptive and evil practices. And many of those who had practiced curious, magical arts collected their books and throwing them, book after book, on the pile burned them in the sight of everybody. When they counted the value of them, they found it amounted to 50,000 pieces of silver. (about $9,300)”

Something very interesting happened though as they burned the books. The fire blazed, and burned the pages, but the smoke smoldered a very strange color, it burned a bright yellow/dull green. Now, this may not have been anything at all, but that is quite unusual. Usually the only thing that burns this color is sulfur, which is not found in paper! But, it is found in Hell…as it says in Revelation 21:8 “But the cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, the practicers of magical arts, the idolaters, and all liars - their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

Another strange thing is that they said every now and then a smell would come from the fire that was horrible. They said it smelled exactly like something dead. Now again, I don’t know why the paper would smell that way, we just found that very interesting.

Well when I got home from work and they told me all this they took me out on our deck to where the bucket of ashes was. I bent over it and saw a tiny piece of paper laying on top of the pile, very small but not yet disintegrated into ashes like most of the rest. I picked it up and the edges turned to ash in my fingers but I could make out what the words said. The back was unreadable, and the front was only big enough for one line, four words, and it said… “I don’t want to.” How ironic! I really didn’t want to burn them! Well, my flesh didn’t. And the devil didn’t want his works to be burnt. Did you know that Satanists and members of the occult fear being burned to death the most?

My mother had saved one page for me to burn myself. She said she just ripped out and set aside the page she was at when she decided to. It ended up being the first page in the last book. All it said was, “Breaking Dawn”. I thought that was so awesome because I really feel like I have broken my dawn. It’s no longer night anymore.

Satan has created a beautiful picture, or story, to mask his evil, but it is all just a dangerous mask, a fatal lie. Please don’t believe him. Get close to God and let Him begin to expose the tricks of Satan to you. I feel like this is exactly what happens to us a lot of times, we get deceived, tricked, lied to, and blinded by the devil, I know it happened to me. Like Jesus says in John 12:40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, he has made their minds dull, to keep them from seeing with their eyes and understanding with their hearts and minds and repenting and turning to Me to heal them.”

God promises us that when we turn to Him, He will hear and answer us. Turn away from the things of this world, which won’t last and will only lead you to death, and turn to Him who gives you life, and life eternal!

Romans 16:19b– “…but I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.”

John 12:46– “I have come as a Light into the world, so that whoever believes in Me may not continue to live in darkness.”

Matthew 21:22– “And whatever you ask for in prayer, having faith and [really] believing, you shall receive.”

Luke 11:9– “So I say to you, ask and keep on asking and it shall be given you; seek and keep on seeking and you shall find; knock and keep on knocking and the door shall be opened to you.”

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