 It's vital that you receive these truths regarding the spiritual realm. Heaven is real. Hell is real. Angels and demons exist. Spiritual warfare is a daily reality that we face and we must be prepared to walk in spiritual vigilance. Not paranoia and not apathy, but vigilance balanced upon the scripture aware of the spiritual realm but not living in fear. I want to give you vital information regarding how the enemy attacks believers. And in those attacks there are vulnerabilities. There are things that we do, things that we think, things that we say, places we go that cause us to be more susceptible to demonic attacks so that the attacks of the enemy can intensify when we do these things. I'm talking to you about open doors. I want you to write in the comment section right now, write the door is closed. Make that your declaration, make that your statement of intention, that you'll live with spiritual vigilance, that you're not going to allow the enemy to gain a foothold in your life, that you're not going to allow the enemy to find areas of vulnerability in your life. The Holy Spirit will help you do it. God will guide you. The scripture is your foundation for navigating the spiritual realm but make that public declaration, the door is closed. So what is an open door? Now you won't find the term open door in scripture blatantly there for you to see. But as you study the scripture you'll see that in fact there are things that Christians do that make them more vulnerable to demonic attacks. So when I say open door what I mean is an area of vulnerability or susceptibility to demonic influence and attack. Now other definitions might be used. Someone else might use that term to mean something else but the way I mean it here for the sake of this lesson is an area of vulnerability, an area of intensified influence of the enemy. These are things that we do that make us more likely to come under a successful demonic attack. And I want to give you four open doors that the enemy works through in your life. There are four areas I'm going to share with you. I'm going to use scripture here that will reveal these areas in our lives that give the enemy what we would call a foothold. Now again I want to make sure that we avoid the extremes. We must avoid apathy which is carelessness and we must avoid paranoia which is just this obsession with the demonic realm and this constant looking over your shoulder wondering well is the enemy in this is the enemy in that neither of those are ways to live. The believer is to live focused on the things of God focused on the face of Jesus walking in spiritual stability and in order to do that we must build our lives on the foundation of the word and walk being guided by the Holy Spirit. Take a look at Matthew chapter 12 verses 43 through 45. When an evil spirit leaves a person it goes into the desert seeking rest but finding none. Then it says I will return to the person I came from so it returns and finds its former home empty swept and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before that will be the experience of this evil generation. A few things that we can deduce in regards to evil spirits. Number one we see that evil spirits are bound to this realm when they're expelled from their host they roam seeking rest but finding none and there we see another key that they grow awfully tired outside of physical bodies. If they if they cannot find a host they become tired and they go seeking for a place to rest so they're like parasites at least that's how they're being described here in Matthew chapter 12 verse 44 then it says I will return there I will it has a will it can think it can reason I will return to the person I came from so demonic attacks return to find places of vulnerability demonic beings are persistent you can be liberated set free and then that demonic power will come back around to see if there's any area of compromise now I'm going to clarify something in just a moment so let's continue so it returns and finds its home former home empty swept in an order something very important to note here it finds its former home empty this scripture Matthew chapter 12 verses 43 to 45 this scripture this portion of scripture which talks about the demonic power reentering its host does not apply to born again believers that is a forced reading upon this text it's not what it's saying at all there's nothing in this scripture that indicates that a born again believer can be repossessed by a demonic being after salvation notice again it says empty well believers aren't empty we have the Holy Spirit filling us but that doesn't mean that we can just let our guards down this doesn't mean that we can just live a life of apathy and say well I can live however I want I can walk in sin I can walk in compromise and nothing will ever happen to me well no that's foolishness and that's not true here's the reality demonic powers return to regain whatever influence is possible in the case of the unbeliever when a demonic power returns it's possible that it can re-enter when a demonic spirit returns to find a place of influence in the life of the believer it can return it can look for points of vulnerability but it cannot re-enter again to the point of demonization or possession so what can they do well they return to deceive they return to torment they return to tempt they return to harass in other words the demonic power even though it cannot repossess the Christian even it cannot even though it cannot attach itself to their being even though it cannot inhabit them again it will still look for something that it can do so when a demon returns to a born-again believer it can return to attack but never again to re-enter i'll say that again when a demonic being comes back to look for places of vulnerability in the life of the believer it can return to attack but it can never again return to re-enter and so we have to understand this in the light of the truth of the scripture now i have a teaching can christians be demon possessed that's something that's available on my channel if you want to watch that for free where i go into great detail as to why biblically speaking it's a fact that christians cannot be possessed and so again even though we look at the scripture and we can glean some truths not all of these truths have what we call universal application what we do glean from this particular portion of scripture is the fact that a demon can come back but in the life of the believer it cannot re-enter why because you and i are not empty so again we're not living a life of paranoia and often believers gather for themselves these lists of things that they ought to avoid and of course we should avoid sin but you can't systemize discernment now i'm going to show you the four open doors in just a moment but it's important that we lay a foundation before we get into that now when you go to try to systemize discernment you end up with legalism what do i mean by that well many times believers will just kind of create this long list of things you know okay when i go to the thrift store be careful of picking up clothes from people make sure you pray over the clothes when i go to the supermarket you don't know where those cereal boxes are coming from they could be shipped from anywhere i don't know who handle those boxes maybe a demonic spirit attached themselves to that box so i got to make sure i pray over that when i'm shopping online i got to make sure that the people who designed the websites didn't have demonic beings attached to them and therefore influence those websites to the point where now if i even so much as glance at the website and i'm not talking about bad websites i'm talking about just shopping and regular things that you would do on a daily basis well you know okay i got to be sure now that i'm not getting a spirit from that website even though it's not necessarily something that's sinful and so we get these long lists of things renounce it here renounce it there rebuke it here rebuke it there and that's legalism and that's trying to systemize discernment look you can carry that list around you if you want or you can just follow the functions of the Holy Spirit and if you have that list it'll be a never-ending one because no matter how long that list is there will always be things that you can add to that people ask me very specific questions quite often and i like to respond in principle not in specifics because if you can grasp the principle then you can figure for yourself what you should avoid now if you're a believer filled with the Holy Spirit the light of God resting in you and as an example you go to the thrift store and you pick up a coat that was owned by a witch or warlock you don't know this you didn't practice anything that they practiced you didn't open any doors through sin you're not going to catch a demon like you catch a disease by putting on that coat in fact the moment you put that coat on if there is a demon attached to it i promise you it's going to be so uncomfortable on that coat it's going to jump right off so we have to get this idea out of our heads that like demons are like a cold that you can catch that if i just walk into the wrong place if i shake that person's hand and i don't know what demons they have or if i walk into that restaurant and the owner is practicing witchcraft my friend yes evil is all around us in this world and i'm not saying please don't hear what i'm not saying i'm not saying that these things aren't realities nor am i saying that we ourselves should practice witchcraft or that we ourselves should engage in sin or that we should be apathetic about the spiritual realm or apathetic about demonic attack what i am saying is this notion that demons are like a cold that you can catch well being unaware because you accidentally grazed someone's shoulder who practices witchcraft my friend greater is he who's in you than he that is in the world first john four four but you belong to god my dear children your sons of god you have already won a victory over those people because the spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world so again to balance this am i saying be be apathetic by no means my saying spiritual warfare isn't real by no means am i saying demons aren't real by no means am i saying that christians can't be attacked in influence by no means in fact christians can be attacked in influence that's why you should close open doors but also avoid the other extreme which is paranoia legalism and it's basically superstitious legalism disguised as deep spirituality and it's not let me say that again it's superstitious legalism disguised as deep spirituality complexity is not depth having all these little factoids and ideas that's not depth walking in the simplicity of the spirit and faith that's true depth so avoid that too you're not going to catch a demon by going into the grocery store and touching a cereal box that came from a warehouse where man practice witchcraft it's not going to happen because the holy spirit rests in you now if you engage in witchcraft if you practice sin you're going to have areas of vulnerability and even though demons can't re-enter you or possess you again that doesn't mean we shouldn't be aware of their attacks or be dismissive about how they can wreak havoc in our lives of course you practice sin you engage in occultic things you engage in new age practices there's going to be great havoc that comes to your life those practices are very very destructive even for the believer so we're not immune to the effects of disobedience but neither are we susceptible to just kind of existing in the world where there's darkness about and so we have to make sure we're balancing this and this message is by no means being preached to inspire paranoia in you so let's take a look at these open doors with that in mind again avoid apathy the enemy can attack you remember that you shouldn't engage in sin you shouldn't engage in compromise there will be consequences to that but also avoid superstitious paranoia so number one the first open door is your connections and remember how i'm defining open doors here often when people say open doors they they think of their their body as like a house and you open the door and the demon comes into you no no when i use the term open doors i'm talking about areas of vulnerability that make you more susceptible to demonic attack what is demonic attack demonic attack is against you possession is demons in you demonic attack is against you torment is against you demons don't have to live in you to torment you um temptation accusation deception confusion division these are all exterior attacks where the enemy uses suggestion deception words lies to cause you to think and behave in certain ways and you become susceptible to those attacks through things like number one connections first Corinthians chapter 15 verse 33 says don't be fooled by those who say such things for bad company corrupts good character so indeed the scripture does warn in the new testament that believers shouldn't be associated with unbelievers to the extent that they're being influenced by those unbelievers so let's balance this mark chapter two verse 17 we see that jesus hung around sinners now jesus didn't spend time with sinners to affirm their sin or to affirm the way they were living he spent time around sinners because they were in darkness and he was the light and he wanted to influence them for the better he wanted to save them so you and i must check the balance of our relationships the people that come around you who has greater influence over who and you have to make sure that you're watching for the patterns of the way you behave and think around certain people there are certain people that the more you go around the less spiritually minded you become in fact you might even be embarrassed to speak spiritually to have conversations about the lord in front of them and so you stifle the spiritual and you exalt the flesh whenever you're around them you engage in their ungodly conversations you engage in their ungodly philosophies their behavior begins to affect your behavior the way they think begins to affect the way you think and you have to watch for that influence that's the line you're looking for if you're going around unbelievers and they're being influenced in a positive way that's very different for example i had a couple of friends growing up who were very heavy into drinking and they would often find themselves in difficult circumstances now alcohol for some reasons is never tempted me it's not a temptation to me it's not a vice that i struggle with it's not something the enemy attacks me with so i can be around drinking and have no temptation whatsoever to even have so much as a drink so there would be times when they would find themselves in difficult situations and i would be the one two o'clock in the morning to go and drive to them pick them up from the house party get them in my car and make sure they got home safely you know in the car would be ministering to them praying for them the worship music's on the atmosphere of heaven was brought to them now it would be very different if i were someone who struggled in that area because then i shouldn't be around that and in fact it would be very likely that they would begin to affect me so what you're looking for here is influence and you can sense the discomfort of the holy spirit not emotional discomfort not your own discomfort but the holy spirit checks you and say watch it you're being influenced watch it you're being transformed watch it they're beginning to get you to think like them instead of them thinking like you well we can't quarantine the gospel we can't say well leave the sick over there while we hide the cure over here leave them in darkness well we as the light go over there and hide no you have to be around the unbeliever otherwise how would they ever hear the gospel you have to be salt and light in the earth you have to engage with the unbeliever but the question is are these connections becoming points of vulnerability because here's how it might work you engage with someone who's not spiritually minded and instead of you influencing them you begin to pick up on their philosophies you begin to think like they think you begin to second guess the scripture you begin to make compromises in your own heart and in your mind now that's an area of attack that's an area of vulnerability and the enemy will watch those relationships and he'll see okay with these people he's weak with these people she's vulnerable so whenever she's around these people I can now plan my attacks I can plan my lies I can plan temptation I can plan torment I can plan confusion why because you're now vulnerable to those attacks again we're not talking about possession we're talking about open doors areas of vulnerability intensified susceptibility to the lies of the enemy and so you have to ask yourself what are the patterns that begin to develop the more I'm around these certain individuals and you will get that check from the Holy Spirit deep within and you know that you know that you know that it's him and he's protective of you he's he has a holy jealousy for you he does not want you to be influenced by darkness and this is why you must watch number one that first open door your connections number two your eyes and ears Psalm 101 verse 3 says I will refuse to look at anything vile and vulgar I hate all who deal crookedly I will have nothing to do with them and then in Job chapter 31 verse 1 I love this I made a covenant with my eyes not to look with lust at a young woman now this is in regards to more than just lust because you begin to desire what you see but also you begin to think according to what you perceive and so what you set before your mind can actually affect you for example if you're constantly looking at violent images there are some people and this isn't even talked about all that often there are some people who become obsessed with things like death and violence and they can't even figure out why they're addicted to looking at these violent images and they may not feel it immediately like they may feel balanced okay I can watch that I can handle it's no big deal but you don't realize how much that's affecting your brain your mind your emotions you don't realize how that's strengthening this in nature and in fact things like violent images can actually lead to torment and often people feel tormented this this I want you to hear this please hear this people will feel tormented they'll feel confused they feel this heaviness they feel this weight and there's just kind of this general I'll just call it torment there's this general torment hovering about them there's this general fear and they can't quite pinpoint it they don't know exactly where it's coming from and that's how this works people just don't realize how the things they see and hear are affecting them psychologically emotionally mentally it's strengthening the sin nature and this adds to things like trauma maybe you witness something as a child maybe you witness something as an adult and and these areas become points of vulnerability so your traumas can be points of vulnerability I want to be careful about how I say that because often people who have trauma they they're made to feel guilty for having gone through trauma or they're made to believe that the enemy somehow has a legal right to their life because of what they went through I could think of something I could think of nothing more religiously overbearing than that so think about someone who you know was assaulted or think about someone who saw violence in their home and they're already dealing with that now you want to tell them well because of that now the enemy has a he can he can have you now you're you're you're now more of a target for the enemy because of that now in some sense the enemy may use that trauma but talk like that causes people to identify with their trauma and to treat it like it's a part of who they are but here's the reality the way the enemy uses this is by bringing up that memory in times of vulnerability I'll read to you what I wrote here few things can affect the mind as powerfully as visuals visuals have tremendous staying power the visual experiences that we store in the mind can contribute to the power of issues like trauma lust and mental torment among other issues the images you allow before your eyes can be imprinted on your mind visualization is one of the most powerful forms of thought I don't mean that in the new age sense I just mean that when you visualize something that that vision has staying power the enemy hear this now please the enemy seeks to use these powerful thoughts against us he uses them to aid his effort to cloak our minds under the darkness of his deceptive lies the enemy takes disturbing sinful or distracting visuals and brings them to your memory when you're at a weak point and so visuals work in that way that they become tools in the enemy's tool bag that he can use on you so if for example you're given to lust and you're constantly storing memories that are lustful then just when you're doing well the enemy may take one of those from his tool bag and say oh remember this and now he has a visual to tempt you with or if you've dealt with trauma he may try to use that against you again just because you have trauma doesn't mean you're possessed you have a demon in you and I know that being told that often adds to the intensity of your struggle so you can rejoice in the truth knowing that when your spirit filled that's not your identity but it is something that the enemy can use against you if it's not recognized and so the enemy doesn't just use lustful images he uses disturbing images bad memories he uses things that are distracting even when you're praying just visions visions visions that are just distracting why because your flesh tends toward those things and that becomes an area of vulnerability and the ears are similar by the way for example now that we're talking about the ears music can be spiritual 1st Samuel 16 23 and whenever the tormenting spirit from God troubled Saul David would play the harp then Saul would feel better and the tormenting spirit would go away here we see a spiritual dynamic to music 2nd Kings 3 15 says something similar now bring me someone who can play the harp well the harp was being played the power of the Lord came upon Elisha so there we see the harp being used in conjunction with the prophetic gift because there's something dynamic about music that's spiritual and think about how words can affect you Proverbs 18 21 death and life are in the power of the tongue and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof now let me go off on a bit of a tangent here to help you understand this particular verse which has been abused over and over again often when you hear this verse being used death and life on the power of the tongue people use it in a very superstitious sense for example let's say you're getting a cold and you say oh I feel like I'm I'm I feel like I'm coming down with a sickness someone who's very superstitious will jump on that don't claim that don't speak that into existence and you're thinking well kind of already existing that's why I pointed it out or for example when I was praying in a healing prayer line over different individuals I was praying for a woman who came up and she goes David I need you to pray for my eye I said okay what's wrong with your eye she said nothing is wrong with my eye and I was like what I said okay but you want me to pray for your eyes she said yeah pray for my eye I said okay what do you want me to pray for my eye pray that God would heal it okay let's pray for your healing what's wrong with it nothing is wrong with it and I kid you not it went back and forth like this for I want to say 15 minutes or so and so finally I said lady listen I need to know what's going on with your eyes so finally she told me and she explained to me I didn't want to speak that into existence I said that's not how that works you see God is the one with creative power we have cultivating power we cannot call things into existence in the sense that we speak and something appears only God can do that and we only have that creative power when we repeat what God says in other words when we speak according to the scripture then there's real power because we're repeating what God has said now God has the power to bring things into existence thank God you and I don't think about it you're sitting in traffic everybody wants to speak their own lane into existence be chaos or you get into an argument with someone you say I wish you weren't alive anymore well suddenly they drop dead let's thank God that we don't have creative power because we would abuse that the financial system would crash because everyone will be speaking finances into their bank account and that would cause inflation worldwide the economy would crash and it would be no good so it would we don't have that kind of creative power we do have cultivating power in other words our words have the power to form what God has already created so we're shaping the world we're not starting the world and that's the power of your words and one of the ways we do this is by speaking blessing or curse and by that I don't mean like an actual hex on someone I mean you can speak positively to someone or you can speak negatively to someone and that affects them mentally and emotionally you can encourage or discourage you can lie and deceive or you can tell the truth you can speak words that are clear or you can speak words that are confusing you can speak words that unite or you can speak words that divide you can speak words that bring life to someone emotionally and spiritually and mentally or you can tear them down you can speak words that are compliments or you can speak words that are criticisms there are many different ways that we can speak and the way we speak affects the way we think and feel and therefore life and death are in the power of the tongue so that's what the scripture is talking about here but more specifically to the point when you're around people who are constantly speaking of worldly things their speech begins to program the way you think hear what I'm saying now the way they speak what they talk about what they focus on in conversation begins to program the way you think the way you program the mind is through words repetition of words and the more often you say something the more often you're speaking on something you repeat a thought again and again you start to program and form thought patterns so being around people who are speaking against the scripture and according to the world now your mind begins to form according to what they're saying and they start to program your mind because of the words they're speaking and so when it comes to the ears being a place of vulnerability it's not just music it's also conversation it's also worldly philosophy the things that we hear spoken affect us deeply life and death are in the power of the tongue not in this in the magic sense that you know we can speak to someone you know you you can't say like cancer and then someone gets can't that's not god did not give us that power thankfully now again when we pray according to his will for healing and when we exercise authority over demonic power when we pray for miracles if we're praying according to his will then there's creative power but we on our own do not have that but still those words affect us so that's why you have to be careful of what you hear so eyes and ears be careful of what you see be careful of what you hear because these things affect the mind now the next open door i'm about to share with you is probably the most often overlooked very few people i ever hear talking about the next open door i'm going to share that with you in just a moment but first i want to share with you about this book of mine holy spirit the bondage breaker experience permanent deliverance from mental emotional and demonic strongholds in this book i cover actually a lot of what i'm talking about right now the open doors but i also cover things like how to address spiritual bondage at its deceptive root you ever notice sometimes that spiritual bondage becomes kind of like this repeating cycle and no matter what you do you can't seem to get free or maybe you go free for like a week or two or a month or two but the bondage seems to return why is that i explore that using scripture and what's going on with that i'll show you how to partner with the holy spirit to experience freedom how to avoid the wrong approaches that just make the problem worse sort of like i was mentioning at the beginning of this message i talked about apathy versus superstition some believers are so worldly minded you couldn't tell them apart from a moral atheist they're just kind of good people and they never really talk about or acknowledge the spiritual realm and that's a form of apathy because they're leaving themselves wide open to demonic attack but then on the paranoid side there's some christians who just kind of keep a list that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic that's demonic and it's true those things may be demonic but unless you're engaging in those things if you're walking in the spirit i should word it this way if you're walking in the spirit those things can't affect you of course you don't want to sin or practice anything that's demonic that's a given but neither should we walk in paranoia so i talk about how to avoid the wrong approaches that just make the problem worse they just intensify the torment on the mind and keep you bound by the way i show you how to win the battle for your mind and so forth we go over things like torment addiction sinful habits confusion experience permanent deliverance from mental emotional and demonic stronghold in this book i focus on the holy spirit's power not demonic power i show you how the holy spirit's power is greater than demonic power there is no spirit more powerful than the holy spirit you can get that book at bondage breaker dot com now on to states of being which is the third open door states of being this as i mentioned a moment ago is very rarely talked about so again you have connections the connections and relationships now don't be paranoid i'm not saying isolate and don't talk to anybody ever but watch for who's influencing who then you have eyes and ears the images and the sounds the conversations all of that that you're receiving can affect your life in that it can cause you to become more susceptible to deception how because what you see and what you hear affects the way you think the way you think affects the way you feel and behave the way you feel and behave can become habitual and that habitual lifestyle is what we refer to once it becomes a cycle as demonic bondage and so that's how that works and that's how the open doors make us more vulnerable again we're not talking about a demon reentering your being like as in possession that's again something that happens to unbelievers not believers but this doesn't mean that we can just say oh yeah okay i'm i'm free i can live however i want i can live in compromise no you live in compromise you live in sin you open these doors and you're opening yourself up to what demonic attack and you make yourself more vulnerable now states of being what do i mean well there are sins of commission first chrithian six nine through eleven these are the things that you do that you shouldn't do then there are sins of omission james four seventeen these are things that you should do but you're not doing and then there are states of being that make you more vulnerable to sins of commission and omission i'll give you an example an example of this would be anger effusions four twenty six and twenty seven be angry and sin not let not the sun go down upon your wrath neither watch this now neither give place to the devil very key notice here though that the scripture makes a distinction between sin and anger in other words anger in and of itself is not a sin like for example when jesus threw out the money changers in the temple what do we as christians do we like to christianize things right we have our christianese our churchy way of talking and people will say jesus wasn't acting in anger he was acting in righteous indignation and i'm thinking it's the same thing except that it came from a proper motive it came from love it came from holiness so it's possible to be angry well not sinning i mean my goodness if somebody harms one of your loved ones intentionally that anger is not a sin now what you do in that anger can become sin especially if you choose to hold on to bitterness and unforgiveness especially if you choose to to hate that person and choose to hold on to that sin forever right so that's a very different thing but the bible does make the distinction between anger and sin so it's possible to be angry and to not sin you're not sinning just because you're angry things make you angry that happens but be careful to not sin in your state of anger so there we see a state of being i'm in a state of anger but just because i'm in a state of anger doesn't mean that i have to sin and so we have to make sure we're watching our hearts for that here's what i wrote in holy spirit the bondage breaker this is not a reference to demon possession i'm talking about Ephesians 4 26 and 27 because you see that that portion there neither give place to the devil right often we say oh there it is there's there's possession in the life of the believer this is not a reference to demon possession or demonic attachment to your being the word here isn't describing a literal physical location it's speaking of influence or as we see in the greek opportunity when we become angry we are more likely to do something regrettable it's easier to say hurtful things become violent gossip or criticize when you're angry out of anger many accuse and tear down their fellow brothers and sisters in christ bringing up past sins and mistakes in this way they do the enemy's work for him this is how anger can give place to the devil so it's when you allow that influence of the enemy in your life again not a physical space it's not talking about that it's talking about an opportunity for the enemy to get you to act according to deception so here we see that anger can cause you to do things that you normally wouldn't have done think about it you're getting an argument with someone and you say these hurtful things well okay to you it was just a moment of anger but now they're stuck with those words those words can cut deep into their hearts they can carry them for months or even years sometimes and we did that in a in a flash you can tear down in a moment what took you years to build in a single moment of anger people have destroyed their lives think about this with single acts of rage where they go their whole lives building and building and building discipline self-control and then in a single moment of rage they tear everything down that is what it means to give place to the devil so other states of being that can be open doors to demonic influence anger fear here's an important one here are two important ones nobody ever thinks of exhaustion and hunger those are two states of being that can be open doors you realize that when you're tired and you're hungry your mind can go to some dark places you can do things and say things and feel certain ways that you never would feel if you weren't hungry and exhausted so be be careful that's why when you're living a life of exhaustion you are setting yourself up for susceptibility to demonic attack so you may think well i'm superman i can do it and you work and you build and you no you you can't do it all you've got it you've got to find release somewhere to where you're not piling all these responsibilities and busy schedules and just wearing yourself down you live like that you're living in a way that makes you vulnerable to temptation when you're tired and hungry you're less likely to resist temptation when you're tired and hungry you're not resting you're less likely to to to resist the pool of anger that can cause you to do certain things and then of course there's also confusion so anger fear exhaustion sorrow hunger confusion these are just examples of states of being that can make you more vulnerable to demonic influence Ephesians 3 16 says this i pray that from his glorious unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his spirit write that in the comment section two words inner strength what is that that inner man connected to what god is doing connected to what god gives connected to who god is he that is joined to the lord is one spirit with him that place of rest and peace within not within yourself within the spirit who lives in you and so when i'm angry or tired or hungry or confused or fearful i choose to not act on the exterior i choose to not act on the outer layers of who i am you can choose instead to act upon the inner strength who you are in him and so in times of these states of being you retreat to the secret place i call it retreating to the inner place to where now i pull away from the exterior and i go to that place of fellowship within i go to that place of fellowship in my heart retreating to the inner place and i can escape from the effects of the exterior which can be those states of being so again we have our connections our eyes and ears number three our states of being number four your mouth now i want to start with this because i know this will be a question that comes up i'm talking about the things that you eat and the things that you consume believe it or not this is an open door think about it for example a demons can attack with sickness that's a that's a that's a biblical reality they can send sickness into the body now if you're overeating and you're not healthy you are making yourself more vulnerable to those demonic attacks so let's look at matthew 1511 it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you you are defiled by the words that come out of your mouth so some christians might hide behind that verse and say well it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you and talk about alcohol you talk about overeating you talk about drug use it's not what goes into your mouth that defiles you here jesus was specifically referring to the strict dietary laws upon which the religious leaders of the day insisted he didn't mean that no harm can come from what we consume or what we put into our bodies he was simply emphasizing the condition of the heart as more important than strict rituals with that in mind we must acknowledge the fact that the bible does indeed speak quite clearly on the matter of what our mouths consume for example drunkenness proverbs 23 19 to 21 my child listen and be wise keep your heart on the right course do not carouse with drunkards or feast with glutton's for they are on their way to poverty and too much sleep clothes them in rags 1 Corinthians 6 9 through 11 condemns a series of different sins and on this list we see drunkards drunkenness what we consume so alcohol gluttony substances drugs by way of principle why because that brings you under a state of you're under the influence of that substance so here we see that these are open doors to demonic attack think about it someone gets drunk oh my goodness we know what can happen there why because their judgments impaired because of what they consumed Galatians 5 22 and 23 says but the holy spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control there is no law against these things and so we shut that door by allowing the holy spirit to empower us unto self-control so your connections be careful who you allow to have influence in your life eyes and ears be careful of the information you're putting into your mind through what you see and hear states of being watch for how the attack of the enemy will come against you in your vulnerable states and finally number four at your mouth watch for what you consume because it can affect the way you think it can affect the way you feel it can affect your physical body and those effects can create vulnerabilities to demonic attack so father i pray that you would help that one receiving now to close every door to demonic attack holy spirit i pray you would help them to be vigilant and aware of the realm of the spirit reveal to them lord the ways that they are making themselves susceptible to attacks of the enemy and father help them to walk in the spirit to obey you to submit to you we close every door in the mighty name of jesus we pray hold on one second father i thank you that your healing virtue is flowing someone right now was just asking the lord for a healing lord i thank you that your healing virtue is 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