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At 10:23 PM 3/8/2008, you wrote:
>Big As An Elephant
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>By Phil Scovell
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>      As soon as I opened the prayer session by praying a short
>prayer, he said, without hesitation, "I'm back at that memory we
>have been to before."
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>      "Which is that?" I probed.
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>      "It's the one when I was about 3 or 4 years of age and I was
>in the house and watching my mother hanging up clothes on the
>clothes line outside."
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>      "I remember," I confirmed.
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>      "I see the places in the memory we have prayed about
>before," he continued thoughtfully," but there is something really
>different about this one and I don't understand it.  The other
>areas are stilled healed; I can tell that much."
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>      "What looks or feels different?" I asked.
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>      "There is a large, I mean really big, dark, almost black in
>color, monstrous thing in the room."
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>      "Ok," I replied, and prayed, "Lord?  Would you expand this
>memory so we could see what you see and see what you want us to
>see?"  I waited as he thought and talked about what was contained
>in this childhood memory.
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>      "It is saying that I will never get married, I'll live
>alone, and die alone and that I'm not worth being loved by
>anybody.  So," he said, "that is clearly the lie.  All the time I
>was growing up, and even as a young adult man, I used to say I
>would never marry.
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>      After one marriage gone bad, the man now saw where the lie
>had originated concerning his statement of always remaining alone.
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>      "Lord?" I asked.  "How big is this lying spirit he sees?"
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>      "It completely fills the entire room.  It's big; really big!"
>he reported.
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>      "Now, Lord Jesus," I prayed, "Let him see the lying spirit
>through your eyes."
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>      Chuckle.  "He shrank right down to a tiny thing on the
>floor.  Like a little tiny toy soldier."
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>      I prayed, "Does this lying spirit have a right to be in this
>little boys memory, Lord?"
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>      "He has no right," the man said as he Heard the voice of the
>Lord in his thoughts.
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>      I prayed the following: "In the name of the true Lord Jesus
>Christ, I call to attention this lying spirit, and all those under
>his authority, even those we don't see.  I bind their words and
>thoughts and feelings they have put on this little boy.  I bind
>all the lies together they have spoken against him and I bind them
>back to all the lying spirits who spoke them.  I command they
>suffer the torment of their own utterances against him.  I remind
>them that the blood of Jesus Christ, and the finished cross of
>the Lord Jesus Christ, stands between this man and them and I now
>command them to go to the place where the true Lord Jesus Christ
>wants them to go.
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>      Without hesitation, I then finished my prayer by saying,
>Lord?  Is there anything else you want him to see in this memory?"
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>      "Wow," he exclaimed.  "There are bunches of little tiny toy
>soldier things running out of the room and right out through the
>door.  I mean," he repeated, "there are a whole bunch of them
>running out, too."
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>      About this time, someone is saying, "Will this prayer work
>for me?"
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>      The answer is, Yes and no.  For many years, I used this
>prayer, or something quite similar, and sometimes it worked and
>more often it didn't.  I couldn't understand why.  I just figured
>I wasn't a good enough Christian and was lacking enough believing
>power in God's word.  I now clearly see two lies in the statement
>just made, of my analysis of my own spiritual relationship with
>God, which kept me believing the lies about myself instead of God
>and what His Word said.  At the time, however, I didn't recognize
>the lies I believed about myself.  In other words, if you believe
>lies about yourself, when God's Word says otherwise, you'll never
>hear the voice of the Lord in your thoughts, and the prayer you
>just read likely won't work with any consistency.  Furthermore,
>you'll likewise have trouble believing the written Word of God as
>well.
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>      Something else to note is that this man and I have agreed in
>prayer probably no fewer than 100 times over the last two years.
>When I called him to pray, the results of which you have just
>read, he said, "I was praying about things just before you
>called."  In other words, this man decided a long time ago, he
>would never believe any lies of the Enemy that were spoken
>against him.  Additionally, he dedicated his life to finding, that
>is, exercising a Search And Destroy mission, whenever things
>didn't feel right.  In short, by the time I called to pray, he was
>praying already.  The truth is, he didn't need me; he just needed
>the Lord.  I came along side him to agree with him in prayer and
>he was set free from a lie that look bigger than he could handle.
>It was our agreement in prayer, (See Matthew 18:19), that made the
>difference and brought healing.
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>      Finally, I knew where I stood personally with Christ.  I
>understand, and apply without hesitation or fear, that I am,
>"complete in Him who is the head of all principalities and
>powers," Colossians 2:10).
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>      Closely connected to this is letting Jesus do His work.  I'm
>just a witness and I have no power or authority of my own outside
>of Christ.  Demons are ready to argue and to deceive and attempt
>to control the conversation.  They are expecting a lot of yelling,
>threatening, and ritualistic anger to be expended.  In this way,
>they can keep the fear level off the gage and make everybody sweat
>as they think they are keeping up the spiritual attack and driving
>the lying spirit off.  You may choose to do that, in fact, you may
>think it is your calling, but that is way too much work for me at
>my age so I just defer everything to Jesus.  After all, He is the
>one who said, "It is finished," when He gave up His life willingly
>on the cross.  It is Jesus who said, "I am he that liveth, and was
>dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the
>keys of hell and of death," (Revelation 1:18).  So, my point is,
>if Jesus has done it all, and Jesus has all the power in Heaven
>and in earth given unto him, (Matthew 28:19), why should I do all
>the heavy lifting when He is willing, more than willing, to do it
>for me?
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>      Is there an elephant sitting in your living room bellowing,
>stomping his big feet, trumpeting his lies, and scaring the faith
>right out of you?  Maybe it is time to get in agreement with
>someone else who believes and let Jesus show you just how tiny and
>powerless he is compared to big Jesus.
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>It Sounds Like God To Me.
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