Peggy Joyce Ruth

Have you ever read a horoscope, played with a Ouija board, or gone along with Halloween "just for fun"? This teaching goes through Deuteronomy 18:10–14 and shows that every one of those practices is on God's list, and doing them out of ignorance still opens a door to the enemy. A 2,000-pound bull can be led anywhere by the ring in his nose, and a believer can be pulled where they never meant to go, much like Rachel with the idols she hid in her camel saddle. The root is rebellion (1 Samuel 15:23), and our part is to repent and renounce, get those things out of our homes, and close every door! Listen in, and let God show you anything that has given the enemy a hold, so you can say that the enemy has NOTHING in you.

Have you ever felt so tied to someone that you couldn't turn them loose, even when you knew deep down they weren't good for you? This is witchcraft working through another person, and good intentions are not enough to protect us. I've learned the lesson the hard way. One knock on a neighbor's door to witness, and it cost me eight years of torment until God delivered me, and a controlling friendship that ended in a church split. Good intentions and soulish compassion can leave us under a spell. Both lessons point to the same truth: freedom never comes through the intellect, only through the Spirit and God's Word. Psalm 91:15 promises, "He will call upon Me, and I will answer him." Our part is to repent, break every agreement we've made, renounce the person holding us, and be led by His Holy Spirit at every turn. 

Have you ever quit a sin only to find it slipping back in through another door? This study walks through three levels of repentance: being sorry because we got caught, being sorry because we hurt someone, and the God-kind of repentance that comes only when we see our sin as a sin against our Heavenly Father. That is true brokenness, and Isaiah 61:1 tells us Jesus came to heal the brokenhearted. David was restored the moment he fell on his face, while Nebuchadnezzar ate grass for seven years before he finally broke. The timetable is in our hands, but we can't stop at sorrow. We have to go on and receive the forgiveness that makes us whiter than snow (Psalm 51:7), so listen in and let this message carry you out of guilt and into full restoration!

Do the latest reports about cancer, terrorism and natural disasters send a chill of fear down your spine? This teaching goes straight through Psalm 91, God's covenant of protection for His children, and shows that the secret place is literal, but it is also conditional. Our part comes first, in verses 1 and 2: we choose to dwell in His shelter, and we say out loud, "My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust." Like baby chicks running under the mother hen's wings when the hawk's shadow passes overhead, we have to run to Him, and then the enemy would have to go through God to get to us! Listen in, and let Psalm 91 become more than a comfort to you: a covenant you can sink your teeth into.

You are what you think spiritually, emotionally, physically, and in every other way. The thoughts you hold in your mind will eventually become who you are in every area of life. That is why it is so important to watch over your thought life. The Word says to be renewed in the spirit of your mind. We cannot let our thought life run out of control and do nothing about it. We must first make a decision to seek God until we receive answers.