Christ destroyed the inevitability of the devilish power that delights in misrepresenting the children of God

Dr. Roberto Miranda

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Dr. Roberto Miranda

Summary: In this sermon, the speaker discusses the importance of prayer and spiritual warfare in maintaining spiritual and emotional health. He references Luke chapter 13, in which Jesus heals a woman with a spirit of infirmity, and confronts the religious leader who criticizes him for healing on the Sabbath. The speaker shares a personal story about feeling overwhelmed before a preaching trip to Spain, and realizing that the presence of evil was contributing to his anxiety. He emphasizes the need for spiritual discernment and the importance of using the power that we already have as children of God to confront the powers of darkness.

The author shares a personal experience where he was struggling to prepare a sermon and felt a spiritual blockage. He realized that there was a dimension of spiritual struggle and reprimanded the enemy, allowing him to break the closure in his mind and prepare the sermon. He then discusses the Kingdom of darkness and how it tries to prevent people from reaching their potential and achieving their dreams. He emphasizes the importance of spiritual warfare in the pursuit of success and personal development, as there are always negative energies and obstacles that need to be overcome. The author also mentions the subtle voices and ties that can hold us back, such as abusive treatment or societal expectations. He encourages readers to resist these negative energies and embrace the power and freedom offered through Christ's sacrifice on the cross.

The devil often uses negative voices to try to crush us and destroy our creativity. We must confess our sins, acknowledge our ties, renounce the power of darkness, and positively affirm the grace of God. In Ephesians 6:11-12, Paul advises us to put on the full armor of God to fight against spiritual entities and processes. The bent woman in Luke 13 represents humanity oppressed by evil. Christ wants us to look up with hope and victory. We have to denounce the true satanic origin of contrary forces and continue our efforts for liberation and self-improvement. We must not let our past, poor origins, or limitations cancel our aspirations. Christ has no limits for us, and He wants us to reach the greatest heights of our life. We must embrace the freedom that God has made possible through Christ Jesus and renounce defeatism. Those who trust in God will have new strength.

I reject negativity and defeatism and confess that I can do incredible things through Christ's power in me. God gives strength to the tired and those who trust in Him will have new strength. I pray to be cleansed and used for God's glory and to be an instrument of life and light. I receive God's blessing this morning in Jesus' name. Amen.

Let's go to chapter 13 of Lucas and this morning I want to conclude this part of the larger series on spiritual health, emotional health, and as you know we have spent many Sundays on this subject, we have approached it in different ways, focusing on its different components, the tools, the instruments that God provides us to keep us healthy and healthy in the midst of crises and struggles, and the losses of life.

In this last session like this, in the last four Sundays we have been talking about that dimension of coming before God directly, no longer using the conceptual tools that the Word of the Lord provides, of the principles of life, but already entering that dimension. to seek the energy that comes from God because there are also times when we simply need God to touch us with His Grace, to release something, to break something, to put a spark in us that allows us to get out of the quagmire in a supernatural way and instantaneous at times, but certainly like God adding a note of energy and power into our lives.

That is why we have pointed out the importance of prayer as one of those fundamental principles. If one does not pray, he will be weak, he will be deficient. We have talked about how prayer should be something that not only specifically asks the Lord for something, for a direct intervention or for something that we need, but also that prayer should be like a principle of life that accompanies all the moments of our life. life

There has to be prayer in a preventive way as well, prayer as a breath, prayer as a habit in which we get involved in every moment of our lives and in which we are always presenting to the Lord our needs, our burdens, and also When there are times when we are struggling with something specific, prayer also helps to unleash the Power and energy of God that makes a difference, that supplements our own weaknesses and that complements them with divine Power, so prayer is important.

So after that we move on to spiritual warfare, that is, what is called spiritual warfare. Rather, I could say that it is like that dimension of prayer and of the life of the spirit that takes into account that, as the apostle Paul says, "our fight is not against blood or flesh but against powers", against spirits, against hosts evil that want to do harm in our lives, that want to fill us with anxiety and self-contempt and tie us down, and take advantage of the weak moments of our circumstance to put a seed of neurosis, doubt, fear, anxiety and resentment at times, and other things, and sometimes exploit the conflicts that are already in natural life and inflame them, and ignite them more, and divide a family, divide a marriage, lead someone to kill a person or commit suicide, because they want to destroy, steal, kill, that's his job.

We have to be aware of that dimension of fighting with powers that want to destroy us, that want to make us stumble, that want to make the path of life difficult. It is not that we live obsessed with that, nor do we blame the demons for all the defects and all the problems, and all the struggles of life, but on many occasions we will have to go to that dimension because we will discern that there is a dimension, there is a spiritual component that must also be confronted and attacked with the power and authority that we have as children of God.

So there's a passage that I hope I can touch on, although the principles that are within it are definitely going to be reached, Luke chapter 13, in verse 10 this stooped woman that the Lord healed on a Sabbath day. It says in verse 10 of chapter 13 of Luke: "Jesus taught in a synagogue on the Sabbath" note that it is in a church, well, dedicated to Judaism but Jesus is there, right? and this woman is a pious woman, she is not a pagan and corrupt woman but a God-fearing woman, "and there was a woman there who for eighteen years" I imagine going to that synagogue all her life, "who for eighteen years she had a spirit of infirmity" does not say there that she was ill but that she had a spirit of infirmity; In this case, her illness was due to a demonic spirit that was lodged in her life in some way, and the way in which this illness and this demonic presence manifested itself was that she walked bent over, that is, she walked completely bent, her spine was and He made her walk totally hunched over.

"So that in no way could it be straightened", it was completely bent downwards. "And when Jesus saw her, he called her and said: Woman, you are free from your disease" that was all, five or six words, how good it is when there is power, one does not have to be: "Oh Spirit of God we invoke you , descend" no. Anointed prayers are sometimes withering and short and to the point, and boom! a fatal shot to the heart of that demon.

"Woman you are free from your disease" was not even addressed to the devil, it simply gave a statement, a Word, it is interesting. Wow, I'm already getting into trouble because that's what happens, the associations are coming.

Years ago I was talking to you about that dream I had with the lion of Judah and the fact that I saw in this shocking dream that changed my life and our ministry, I saw these immense, powerful demonic powers perched on the skyscrapers of the city. from Boston, was like a cloud of demon spirits in the form of poisonous spiders.

And let's say these are the buildings in Boston, here is that cloud of demonic spirits above, but in this part like this, looking up into the sky to the left of my perspective, there was a face of a lion with very powerful human eyes. But I was always captivated that in the dream when I looked at that scene and I saw that lion looking towards that scene of demonic infestation over the city the lion didn't say anything, it was just the face in fact, but it didn't move, it didn't he said nothing, he just looked, and I understood in the dream that just looking over that scene of demonic infestation already constituted an act of power and control. What he was telling me was: I am in control. I am observing, I am ruling over this, I have it over My gaze, but it was a gaze of authority and total power.

And that is why in the dream from where I was I said three times, going through those powers that were above the city, I said: You are the Lord, You are the Lord, You are the Lord, declaring the Lordship of Christ.

Why do I make that comparison? for here the Lord simply says: "Woman, you are free from your disease." He gave a Word, he did not bother to confront the demons, he did not say: I rebuke you, come out of her, leave the space, no, he told the woman: "You are free from your disease." The Lord does not have to make much effort, the Lord is in total control of all things, His Word has power.

That is the power that dwells in us brothers. The Bible says that the same power that raised Christ from the dead dwells in us too. And I believe that in the Christian life, regarding the demonic powers that rule and contaminate our life, the problem is not so much asking the Lord to give us power as using the power that we already have within us and believing that I have authority over any power of the devil, he does not have the final word, I have it and live in that confidence, that security, right?

"Woman, you are free from your sickness; and he laid his hands on her, and she straightened up, and glorified God." Imagine that scene, I would have liked to have the video on YouTube of that moment.

But here it comes as another part of the scene, right? says: "But the principal of the synagogue that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath said to the people:" an envious bloody fat man, right? He neither eats nor lets one eat, as we say about María Ramos's kitten, "there are six days in which one must work, in these then come and be healed and not on a day of rest. Then the Lord answered him and said: Hypocrite" filled his mouth, "hypocrite" he said, "won't each one of you untie his ox or donkey from the manger and lead it to drink? demonic contamination in the case of this woman, it was not a merely biological-physical disease, no. It was: Satan had bound eighteen years.

"Shouldn't he be unleashed from this ligature on the Sabbath? When He said these things, all His adversaries were ashamed, but all the people rejoiced at all the glorious things done by Him" how beautiful, glory to the Lord.

So we see that many times in our life there are afflictions, there are situations that seem biological, that seem circumstantial in nature but many times they have a demonic component and sometimes we do not discern it and we simply limit ourselves to seeking a solution in the psychiatric, sociological, psychological aspect. , emotional, circumstantial, medical problem, but sometimes that problem needs to be confronted from the perspective of the powers that be behind that symptom. How good when God gives us spiritual discernment to know, sometimes the presence of the devil and his intervention in the lives of God's children is very subtle.

Some time ago I shared with you a little personal story where I told you that, and this was in the context of prayer, of prayer and the importance of prayer, and of the changes that it operates in our perspective and even in our spirit, bringing our needs and situations of affliction before the Lord. I was telling them that I was going to make a preaching trip to Spain, about a year and a half ago or something like that, it was last summer, I think it was last summer in June, yes?

The fact is that the day before leaving on Saturday afternoon I was very busy trying to put together this retreat that I was going to lead there in Spain for a weekend church and other churches that were united, and I knew that this it was something of great responsibility, these people had invited me and had invested money in that invitation and all these things, and they were waiting, of course, for the Word of the Lord to do His Work, and they had asked me to speak about emotional health and healing emotional. But it was three or four in the afternoon on Saturday and I still wasn't even clear about what I was going to present there and there were going to be several interventions that I was going to do over the course of a long weekend, and neither I had prepared the Sunday sermon here that I wanted to preach and leave on Sunday night so as not to waste Sunday here, and I hadn't packed my suitcase either, and you know: anxiety began to increase and the feeling that: time is passing, and you know that when you get anxious the more anxious you get, the less things work out and the more time you waste, and the less you can reconcile ideas. The truth was there uncomfortable about all things, I got a ball there of confusion and need.

But at one point I said: you know what? wait, this is not normal because I had a lot of difficulty putting the ideas together about this and I felt something. And that is where I want to say that, when I spoke with you before, I spoke from the perspective of prayer but I did not tell you another dimension of that struggle because I wanted to leave it for this time, and it was also at that moment; I know that many times in the lives of the servants of God but in the lives of all of us, the intervention of the devil does not have to be sometimes like a demon with a trident and a little red tail that approaches you to confront you Many times the presence of evil is something general, it is something that is there because it is part of the condition of this fallen world and we also have to discern sometimes when something, a situation in our lives has a component of that sinful condition. of the world that is reported and related to the powers of the devil and darkness.

And I understood in my spirit that there was also that dimension because the enemy often wants to confuse us and he is always trying to obstruct the Work of God. And when he can cause a problem, a difficulty for a servant of God, a son, a daughter of God or simply contaminate his mind or put a pebble in his shoe, he does it; if you can't hit him with a stone on the head, he will put a pebble in his shoe, let's put it that way.

And then I discerned that this, there was a dimension as well, a spiritual component to this struggle that I was having, and I then addressed the enemy in a direct and clear way as well and rebuked Satan, and rebuked anxiety, and rebuked that torpor of what I had to do to serve the Lord, and I went directly because you can do that as part of your normal hygiene in life as I said; there are times when there is something in your life and you, it is not necessarily that there is a demon there specifically, but there is a principle of evil that obeys the power of darkness.

I don't know how the enemy manifests itself in all dimensions of life, but many times it can be in very indirect ways, so I turned to that power too and reprimanded it, and stopped it, and then I went to our bedroom. and I lay down on our bed, I prayed to the Lord, I cried out, I asked for the grace and peace of the Lord and I stayed quiet there for a while. And as I told you, brothers, when I got out of bed a little while later, I think I rested for a few minutes too, when I got up from there, I was still in bed, I already knew what I was going to preach. I went downstairs, I put together the series of teachings that I was going to give, I packed my suitcase very quickly, I prepared the sermon for the other day and that was in a matter of about an hour or an hour and a half, I already had everything ready and prepared.

Like everything changed, something broke, something broke. Not only that, but from those sermons and those ideas that were born to me at that moment, this whole series of sermons that I have been preaching in recent months on emotional and spiritual health was born. How glorious and it was all because I was able to discern that dimension of spiritual struggle and break that closure that was in my mind.

I want to read you a segment of this book that I have been writing for a long time and that I have left there but that has to do with this as well so that you have a better idea of this spiritual fight: "The Kingdom of darkness tries to explode our weaknesses and our negative experiences to fill us with bitterness, complexes and distorting circumstances, and to neutralize us as effective servants of the Kingdom of God. On the cross Christ decisively triumphed over the principalities and powers that militate against the well-being of the human race. Colossians 2:15 says that: "On the cross the Lord defeated principalities and powers, publicly exhibited them, annulled the act of decrees that was contrary to us," the accusations of the devil, no child of God has to suffer for the accusations of Satan, we are forgiven and set free by Christ Jesus."

"The Lord accomplished all this on the cross of Calvary, publicly displayed them and won a definitive victory for future generations. From that time when Christ died on the cross, the power of evil was broken like an irresistible power." Today everyone who wants to resist evil through Christ Jesus can do so because they have been set free by Christ. Those who want to remain under evil do, be it a society, be it a city, be it a family, a man, but those who want to be free can now be in Christ Jesus. Something powerful happened in the world, in the cosmos when Christ died on the cross of Calvary. The Bible says that Christ came to undo the works of the devil as well.

"Christ destroyed the inevitability of the diabolical power that delights in deforming the children of God by pretending to deform the mark of divinity and greatness that every human being bears" what Satan wants is to erase that beauty that is in us, that divine spark and fill it of deformations so that that divine touch that is in each one of us is lost.

"Through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ, all those who place themselves within the framework of the Kingdom of God and of Christ are freed from the jurisdiction of the devil and come under the administration of a new authority, a benevolent and loving government whose only desire is to restore our communication with the Creator and reestablish the divine link with that source of divine energy that ensures us a life of plenitude, creativity and power."

The Bible says that our life has been transferred from the kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light, now the one who has our record is God not Satan. If you knew what I'm saying you would be jumping there and dancing on these chairs right now, we have been transferred from the Kingdom of darkness to the Kingdom of light says the Word of the Lord through the sacrifice of Christ Jesus on the cross of Calvary .

"Christ has said in His Word: "The thief comes only to kill, steal and destroy. I have come that they may have life and have it to the full." That thief is Satan who embodies the principle of evil that opposes everything that affirms light, life and love. God's purpose in sending Jesus as His exclusive ambassador to the world is to establish a Kingdom of light and truth, a new government directed towards the restoration of life. God wants the original purposes that governed His creative Work in the act of creation back in Eden, to return to direct and govern human life.

Christ constitutes himself as a transmitter of unlimited power from the Throne of God towards His creation. That benevolent power wants to give life to nations, eradicate poverty, war and oppression. He wants to make possible all the reforms and transformations in the human sphere that the great idealists of all times have given their lives and talents to try to achieve. Christ has come so that every man and woman can reach the fullness of their potential, that we stop living broken lives full of envy for the achievements of others, allowing us to live our own heroic drama, climbing our own mountains, realizing our own great dreams.

The purpose of Satan, the great destroyer of life and potential, is that no human being comes to fully reflect the image of God in his life. The incessant activity of the powers of evil are consecrated to a single purpose: to prevent a child in a favela in Brazil or a village in Africa, nurturing dreams of greatness while caring for his hungry little brothers, from being able to educate himself or feed himself enough to develop healthily and become a successful man and a blessing to his community.

The Kingdom of darkness exists and moves as we have said, only to kill, steal and destroy. The dark powers that illegitimately rule this world identify very early each human being who has the potential to develop and bless humanity with their gifts, they do everything in their power to break their dreams, to make them stumble in their dreams of realization."

Do you know that the devil, through his millennial wisdom, identifies when a youngster, a child has potential, has talent, has the potential to bless his community and tries preventively from the very beginning of his life to hinder him, to destroy him? that's what satan always did. He tried to kill the child Jesus through Herod, the liberator Moses as well, always trying to kill the life of God in a person first, and sometimes he tries to do it by deforming us preventively from childhood using people in our lives, circumstances to kill the spark of God who is in us and we become all that God wants us to be.

"But in the new economy of Christ that He has established, God ensures that every human being has the opportunity to achieve their potential" and that includes you. "God levels the playing field and then it is up to us to freely decide whether we are going to take advantage of the resources He has made available through His Son Jesus Christ."

In a very real and deep sense, the personal path to success, and we can say there: to success, to emotional health, to a fulfilling life, to a creative life where we are always developing new skills, growing, living competently Despite life's natural struggles, that personal path to full success will always have to start with some kind of spiritual warfare, that's important. There is always a dimension of spiritual struggle in that desire of the human being, you and I, to reach our maximum potential.

"There will always be negative energies in or around us that will have to be confronted and overcome in order for us to successfully embark on the journey towards self-improvement and the realization of our aspirations. They may be destructive habits and addictions that are like chains and weaken us , and that make us stumble over and over again when we start the march towards our destiny.It could be in other occasions about complexes, wounds, dependencies and fears that hold us back and frighten us when we contemplate for the first time the vast territory of personal development that stretches out before us." Whenever you try to go to a higher level of your life you will discover that there are subtle obstacles in your way, from your past, people, voices that you have there that tell you: no, you can't do it.

Just last night I read about a classical dancer in Holland. This young woman was born in an African country and her father was assassinated by one of those military groups when she was three years old. Her mom died of starvation because they put her in a family that didn't give them anything to eat and she died of starvation, and this little girl was taken to a refugee camp. At the age of 4, he says that one day the wind blew through the wires of the refugee camp a magazine where there was a photo of a beautiful dancer with her little ballerina outfit and the beauty of a well-groomed woman, very athletic and energetic. , and when that little girl who was actually unattractive and suffered from white spots due to a disease she had suffered on her neck and hands, and who was told that she was extremely ugly and that no one was going to adopt her because she didn't They were going to love her because of how ugly she was, the fact was that a woman from here in the United States, from New Jersey, adopted her, and when she arrived in New Jersey she took out that cover of that magazine of that dancer she had, she had kept it she says in her underwear all this time, and her foster mom quickly enrolled her in a dance academy.

And this unattractive young woman became a tremendous ballerina who is now one of the principal dancers in the royal ballet in Holland, and she is a celebrity because she wrote her story in a book and today she says her problem is that she has After battling so much with all the agencies, magazines and people who call her to share her story and offer her modeling jobs and so many different things, she is living her dream.

This little girl who when she woke up to the idea that she could live a creative life had voices telling her that she couldn't, that she was ugly, her poverty, her misery, the country where she lived, an oppressive society, but by grace of the Lord she was able to free herself from all that and become the woman she is today.

But that's how we are in our lives: when we want to do something, achieve a dream, study, be better, improve on some defect we have, some affliction, the devil always begins to whisper and the circumstances of this fallen world militate against us and that's a demonic part, there's a demonic dimension to that fight, right?

"It may be the distant and severe voice of a father or a mother who marked us during childhood with negligent or abusive treatment. It may involve the environment that surrounds us undermined by subtle brakes and chains, characterized by failure and the stagnation of our schoolmates, neighbors and/or relatives It constitutes a subtle voice that announces disaster and imminent defeat if we take the sword in hand and begin to cut the weeds that drown our aspirations.

All of this, brothers, constitutes the inertia of a fallen world separated from God where human beings are frequently deformed and tied up early in life before our inherent creativity flourishes and takes hold within us. And when we wake up to our aspirations we often discover that there are subtle ties all around us. Like the Gulliver in Jonathan Swift's novel, we find that our day is limited by a multitude of circumstances and minute beings that immobilize us and whisper that we can't do it, that we are abnormal, that we are offending and destabilizing the status quo with our aspirations for fulfillment. staff."

Do you know? when many times when people around us, our loved ones or others see us trying to improve something start at once, feel threatened and start criticizing us: oh you're getting fanatic, look at you going to church every day Sundays giving your money to those corrupt there in the Church! etc No? And sometimes it's a mom, a dad, a friend, a loved one. Go to university, but you don't even know how to speak English, girl? the devil sometimes uses those negative voices to try to crush us and destroy the creativity that is trying to be born in us.

"The enemy of our souls spends a lot of time weaving a web of negativity around us, plunging us into powerlessness, making the business of self-actualization extremely difficult. Part of the battle is recognizing the true nature of that struggle" listen to that, " Part of the battle is "or depends" on recognizing the true nature of that struggle and undertaking it with the appropriate weapons. A spiritual war must be waged with spiritual weapons, with weapons of prayer and inner cleansing, personal purification, renouncing interests and domains of the forces of evil, of total surrender to a superior power capable of sponsoring, training and protecting us during the painful ascent towards personal greatness.

There have to be moments of confession, of acknowledging our own sins and ties, of renouncing the power of darkness, of positive affirmation of the Grace of God that is in us, of rejection of the devil's murmurings that tell us: you cannot , you must not, you do not have, you do not deserve, that is where the power is, that is where the capacity is, these are the weapons of faith that we use, the confession of God's truth, the faith that believes that despite of the circumstances God can do great things in us, believing God that we are forgiven and that we do not have to live under the condemnation of the devil or the sins we committed in the past, those sins are already thrown to the bottom of the sea and God He doesn't even remember them, and sometimes we are taking them out there again, going with the boat to where we dumped them, taking them out again, smelly, and putting them in our boat so that they contaminate our lives, that's what the devil wants.

God wants us to live free, to confess what He has done in our lives and to dare in Jesus' Name to undertake great things for His Name and His glory. Believe that God, the bondage and sinful gravity of this The world cannot stop you, your ship can go into space and you can undertake great things in the Name of the Lord, and that is why you must wage your war with those weapons.

In Ephesians 6:11 and 12 the apostle Paul warns us: "Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand firm against the wiles of the devil, for we do not fight against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against governors of the darkness of this century" look what more judicial and spiritual language, "against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly realms." Do not let anyone ever come to run that passage and pour water on it and dilute it with mental and intellectual claims, these are real powers, they are personal, they are evil consciences, they are beings that have intentionality and that are constituted spirits that manifest themselves at the collective level and at the individual level but those spirits will always have to obey the same initiative, that Word of Christ that says: Woman, you are healed of your disease, get up, walk with authority.

"The Bible warns us as we see that "our fight is not against flesh and blood" that is, against people and human circumstances that drown us and cause us to stumble, but "against principalities and powers", in other words, against spiritual entities and processes , against a whole system vastly superior to any other human force that exerts its harmful influence from a dimension beyond this world and that system resolutely opposes us reaching our potentiality, and entering that dimension of abundant life that Christ has declared About us.

And that is why Paul advises us to put on the full armor of God, because our enemy requires armor to protect us. To fight effectively against the evil that binds and limits us, we need the power of heaven, to live fulfilled lives we require the weapons of light. We need to mobilize in our favor a power far superior to that of darkness. Our life has to move under the banner of a Kingdom capable of neutralizing the subtle attacks of the Kingdom of darkness and death, failure and personal stagnation. We require the sponsorship of heaven so that our fragile boat sails the seas of self-improvement impelled by a gentle breeze that takes it to a safe harbor."

"Luke 13" the passage that we have just read "tells us the story of a woman who for 18 years had been afflicted with a disease that forced her to walk completely bent over. Upon seeing her, the Lord discerned that the true origin of her disease was a an evil spirit that manifested itself through a sinister deformation With a kind and powerful Word Jesus freed her from her illness and the woman was free to continue with her normal life.

The text adds that when the official of the synagogue where the woman had been healed saw the miracle, he complained bitterly that Jesus had healed her on a Sabbath day." Hey, why don't you help me there, they have a picture of the stooped woman that you can put there for? had I put it before? maybe I hadn't realized it, I was reading, there for people to be inspired and wake up a little (laughs).

No, this officer is complaining bitterly. "He indirectly accused Jesus of violating the statutes of Jewish law "on the Sabbath" and the Lord harshly rebuked him, exposing his hypocrisy and lack of mercy. This passage has always seemed extremely revealing to me in connection with what we are discussing.

The bent woman represents a whole humanity exploited and oppressed by the forces of evil" put your name there, "living a humiliating life, until the power of Christ intervened in her life, her days slipped away under the dark sign of a humiliating disease. At first the woman's predicament seemed purely physical and biological in nature. The evil that made her a painful symbol of impotence and failure seemed to belong to the merely human biological realm" but if you look closely the evil is very symbolic and very clear.

This hunched over woman always looking down, right? We human beings have been created to look up. The devil is very cynical and very subtle. I believe that he had made that woman a symbol of you must not, you cannot, you must not have aspirations, you are humiliated. That woman is a symbol of this humanity that dwells under the power of evil and sin, and in many ways we are at different levels of oppression.

Some of us are looking totally down, others a little bit we can sometimes with our eyes, look around a little bit, others maybe a little more, but all of us in one way or another are bent to a certain point, we all carry certain distorting marks in our lives. Christ wants us to walk looking up with the great hope of victory and blessing, and of life, we are beings to fly through the air, not to be there dragging ourselves like a snake all over the ground. Interesting that God condemned Satan, the serpent, to crawl and eat dust all the days of his life because that is the symbol of decay and defeat, and that's why this woman was there like that, right? and the Lord could not bear that and released her.

"Behind that medical affliction was another much more sinister element, a demonic spirit that had lodged in her spine, a sinister entity forced her to live and walk looking down at the earth instead of being free to look up at the heights as God had originally designed her.Only Jesus could diagnose the true nature of that woman's suffering, only Jesus could give the Word that set her free to continue her destiny.

The reaction of the synagogue official reminds us brothers that our battle does not end with a single fight or a single confrontation. The world is populated with numerous agents of evil who will be outraged when they see us struggling to get out of the quagmire. We will have to fight many enemies along the path of personal fulfillment." This is a life process. All your life you are going to have to fight with this deforming fallen world, all your life, with your own bondages, sins, everyone, you, me, it doesn't end when you accept Christ or when Christ frees you from disease or addiction, or from a life of physical abuse or misery, no.

All your life you are going to have to walk with your sword in hand, all your life, because you will never be able to banish evil one hundred percent in your life, this world is contaminated and always when one giant ends another and another comes , but how good it is that Christ is going to give you strength and vitality, and that you are going to experience more and more joy every day, more and more strength, more sense of sufficiency and of "I can in the Name of Jesus because I won that last battle and I am going to win the next one too, and I am going to be better every day" believe it in the Name of Jesus.

You have a glorious life ahead of you if you believe in the Lord, if you can only look away from below and say: the Lord has set me free, wait! and look up, because many of us have been freed from that bent column but we continue looking down, dare to believe the Lord and look up, and believe that God has great things for you, do not fear the world or your limitations.

There is nothing impossible for God, nothing, neither death, nor life, nor principalities, nor powers, nor angels, nor the future, nor what is to come, nothing, nor what is present can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus , "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me" says the Word of the Lord.

"We have to be prepared to discern the true nature of these contrary forces. We have to denounce their true satanic origin and continue our efforts for liberation and self-improvement, no matter what, anyway, through the understanding that comes from knowing the principles of the Spirit and the Word of God we will be prepared to interpret our daily life spiritually and we will be able to use the whole armor of God to achieve our dreams."

May the Lord bless you and may the Word of God inspire you this morning and fill you with hope and joy, and that sense that all things are possible with Christ Jesus, amen? If we only believe everything is possible brothers. If you have the Power of God in your life, if Christ has given His Word of freedom He can do anything in you, do not let your past, your poor origins, the parents who did not affirm you, your first academic steps cancel you your aspiration, you can still do great things.

You can educate yourself, there at home you can learn many things, you can get out of depression, you can free yourself from bad memories of a failed marriage or long-term illness. Brother, the limit is your ability to believe, you know? because Christ has no limits for us frankly, He wants us to reach the greatest heights of our life.

Start new things brother, dare to embark on the path of personal greatness, right? don't be limited by what happened five years or three years ago. Do not let the losses of the past limit your present or your future, the good Will of God is with you in your life, believe it.

Let's put our heads down right now, we're going to turn the music down a little bit because I want to just, okay, just go on as a background there, but I want this morning, as God has spoken to your heart, you take a little piece of that Word that has been declared.

If something has touched you, if the positive energy and the promise that we have raised this morning has reached you, receive that, grab it, this truth that God is with you and is in your favor, that He knows the good purposes He has, the thoughts of good and not evil for your life, with which He has endowed you, says "with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places", that nothing in this world can harm you, but on the contrary, you will have authority over snakes, scorpions, about the powers of the devil, about the circumstances that afflict you, about the afflictions that torment you, about the ties you have. God wants to give you freedom from all those things depending on your ability to believe the Lord.

This morning I invite you, right now, do it with me because I do it continually, and repeat there in your heart: Father, I embrace the freedom that You have made possible through Christ Jesus. I declare that Satan is defeated not only on the cross but also in my life by the victory of Christ, and he has no power to chain me, to torment me, to accuse me, to stop me, You have set me free in Christ Jesus and I can do everything in Christ who strengthens me, everything is possible in the Power of Christ in my life.

I renounce pessimism, I renounce defeatism, I renounce "I can't" and I confess that I am capable of doing incredible things by the Power of Christ in me. You give strength to the tired, You multiply the strength, Lord, to those who have none, those who trust in You will have new strength and I will have new strength.

This morning I receive Your Father Power to raise wings like eagles, to run without getting tired, to walk without getting tired, I receive a double portion of Your Grace this morning, I receive my healing, I confess that I am free by the Power of Christ in my life. I cut all relationship with Satan and the forces of evil. I renounce sin, I renounce hell, I renounce Satan and embrace the Kingdom of light. I declare myself the property of Your Kingdom Lord and I receive all the good things that You have for me, for my children, for my descendants, for my house, for my city, for my Church, for my body, for my finances, for my emotions, for my mind, I receive Your healing, Your medicine within me Lord Jesus, I am free and I embrace that freedom that You have given me Lord.

Every day cleanse me more and more and use me for Your Glory, I am an instrument in Your Hands, an instrument of life and light, and Your light will always dwell in my path and will take me to new heights. Thank you Lord, I adore you, thank you Father, I receive Your blessing this morning in Jesus' Name. And the people of God say: amen, glory to the Name of the Lord, hallelujah, we are free in Christ Jesus, we are free in Christ Jesus.