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Psalms Fifty Five through Fifty Eight nestles a background in which David was up to his neck in alligators. He was in big trouble. Friends had turned on him and his enemies were closing in on him. All he could do in this situation was cry unto God. In Psalm 57:1, David cried out and said
Ps 57:1-11
1 Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
2 I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.
3 He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.
4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
5 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; let thy glory be above all the earth.
6 They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.
7 My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise.
8 Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
9 I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.
10 For thy mercy is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds.
11 Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: let thy glory be above all the earth. (KJV)
In the above passage, David is encompassed on all sides by the enemies marshaled against him. Even in David's limited theological knowledge, he still had much power with God. But we have knowledge about the things of God that David did not have. In addition, we have Five Offensive Weapons that enable us to combat the forces of darkness that are thrown against us that David did not have. We know that we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers, against wicked spirits that inhabit the high places
Eph 6:12
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (KJV)
David could only view his enemies from the stand point of the flesh. He did not understand the spiritual forces behind the scenes that operated in the flesh. Like David, we see flesh and blood. Flesh and blood may come against us, but there is a principality, a spiritual force, (a hoard of demons) that lurk around and operate behind the human flesh that we see. They motivate the flesh (in the form of evil men) to come against us. David did not know this, but we know it.
By revelation, God showed me something that I can not prove with a specific Scripture, but I can cite the case of one man concerning it. From this man's experience, combined with my own, I believe that every child of God has a personal demon assigned to him, that tracks him constantly, whose job is to derail him, one way or the other (including sickness). In other words, I believe that the devil has given a personal assignment to one specific demon to harass and afflict each individual Christian. Paul had a personal demon. No, Paul was not demon possessed. Neither are we. That demon never possessed Paul. His mission was not to possess Paul; his mission was to kill him, to wipe him out, to buffet him with his fist until Paul lay dead with his lips silenced and his job for God cut short by this death dealing power.
The Holy Ghost revealed to me that everyone of us has a specific demonic assignment whose life long job is to derail you as a Christian. Can I produce scripture to support it?
No, but you can not produce one to contradict it. My personal experience, however, reveals that this is the case, confirming what the Holy Ghost revealed to me about this.
The demon that tracks you like a blood hound knows your every weakness. His assignment is to derail you from being and doing what God wants you to be and do. His greatest attacks upon me occur when I am the closest to the greatest spiritual breakthroughs of my life.
The closer I come to accomplishing bigger things for God and penetrating deeper into the things of the Spirit, that demon's attacks on me become unbearable and unmerciful. He does everything he can to derail my moving into a deeper understanding of the things of God. Have you ever been there?
As God began moving me deeper and more powerfully into physical healing through the use of Jesus' name, the more intense the derailing attempts of this personal demon became. He occupied my mind with other things so that I had no time to stop and think about what I saw God doing through me.
I have seen God's power operate through me when I combine His Word with Jesus' name and speak them through my lips. Moreover, the more I try to stop and meditate upon what I have seen God do, the harder the demon hits me to derail even my meditation.
My personally assigned demon got into my computer. All that is done on that computer is the LORD's work. Nothing else is ever done on it. I have no use for it apart from the LORD's work. I have a program called Stacker in that computer. This is a program in which all other programs sit. This program "doubles" the size of the space on your hard disc.
The other day a friend and I were doing some work on my computer, and all of a sudden, that Stacker program disappeared out of that computer. It was not deleted. If you delete a program, only the first letter of the program disappears; everything else remains in it. Restore that first letter and the program comes back. That Stacker program was not in there. It left. That is supposed to be impossible. The disappearance of this program produced a battle royal. It occupied my time because I had to put this and put that back into the computer. I had to relearn this and redo that. There is a personal devil that agitates me, to keep me sidetracked so that I neither do nor become what God wants me to be.
There are many women who have a desire for the things of God. The deeper that desire becomes and the more you attempt for God, the more you come under a demonic attack to derail and to sidetrack you. This derailing demon usually messes up the mind of your husband. Consequently, you wonder what is happening to you. Unless you are deep enough in the things of God, you will fail to see that this is an attack by your assigned demon, who stays with you twenty four hours a day. He was sent after you from the pits of hell, by the devil himself. He has but one motive: he aims to derail you any way he can, including sickness. Furthermore, your demon has many other demons that he can call in to help him do it.
But you fight flesh and blood. You get mad at your husband. Husbands get mad at their wives. That is silly. Your problem is not flesh and blood. The problem is a spirit problem, for there is an assignment against your husband too. Sometimes these demons will team up, but their whole mission is to derail you one way or the other and they will hit your weak spot.
I know what Paul's weak spot was. The thorn that Paul had was not a sickness, it was a personally assigned demon. Paul spells it out. He had a "messenger" of Satan.
2 Cor 12:7
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. (KJV)
The word translated "messenger" is the Greek word ANGELOS, from which comes our English word "angel." Paul's thorn was the angel of Satan. That is a demon. Paul says what it was. Furthermore, the demon was assigned to kill him. Read 2 Corinthians 11 again, in the Introduction, to see what this demon did to Paul. Keep in mind, your demon knows your weak point and he will aim at that. The weak point with some people is alcohol. With others, it is dope. That demon knows your weakness, and he will move on it. Paul's was his intellect and the volume of great revelations he received from God. He had the most brilliant mind of his day. That demons job, then, was to kill Paul.
I firmly believe that all of us have these personal demons that have been assigned to us. I can not give you book, chapter and verse where it says in Hezekiah 31:47, "Brother Jay, you have a personal demon." I can not give that verse. I can not give you one where Jill or Bill or anybody else has a personal demon. But you can't give me one that shows we don't. Paul had one and my personal experience demonstrates to me that I do also. Because there is something out there that knows too much about me. He knows what hurts. He knows what it takes to shut me down. He knows what it takes to move me off to the side. He knows what it takes to stop me. When I allow him to move me off to the side, I am empty, I am unfulfilled, I am not everything that I ought to be. I end up powerless, which is what he wanted all along.
I have become aware of the power in Jesus' name linked up with the Word and spoken through my lips. I have seen things happen that the average Christian just would not believe. The devil hates this. Therefore, he assigned a demon to me to stop it any way he can.
I saw a lady with a hand deformed with arthritis. I stood right there and watched the Holy Ghost straighten it out. God even changed the color of her skin. God changed her hand from a clinched, deformed fist into a straight, normal hand which had a glow to it.
That is the power of Jesus' name. Now the devil does not want these things to happen. You see, he wants to move me away from being able to meditate on it to get more gutsy and do it some more.
So, he steals a program completely out of my computer. It is working one minute and the next minute that program is gone. Do not think that we hit a wrong key, because the mouse and everything else went out. Everything stopped. That program was gone. It was no longer in there. You can not restore something or undelete something that is not in there. That program left. My personally assigned demon caused this.
You also have a personally assigned demon. Some people have a problem with this, that or the other. Your problem may be the desire for money, the desire for power, the desire for fame or the desire for all them. Whatever your weakness, your demon will come after you, but he can not beat you
I have described a problem. Now, let me put forth some answers. Notice Psalm 57:2. In the midst of all the trouble that this demon threw at him, (he did not understand Spiritual Warfare like we do), David battled against people. He asked God to break the teeth out of their mouths. He is dealing with people. He wants God to put a hurt on them.
We know that we must look beyond "people" to the spiritual force (demon) that caused them to attack us. Even so, we have a common denominator with David, who in verse 2 said, "I will cry unto God Most High, unto God, who performeth all things for me." Look at the expression, "who performeth all things for me.", Let that sink in. "Unto God who performeth all things for me." God can take that demonic attack and turn it around for your good. Romans 8:28 says,
Rom 8:28
28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (KJV)
Many people worry whether something is the will of God or not. I want to tell you something; you are the will of God. The Word of God says that you have been begotten by the Word of God through His own will. If you have been born again, you are the will of God. You are the express will of God sitting right where you are while reading this page. Furthermore, the Bible says that you have been called according to His purpose. Consequently, God's Spirit turns every thing around and makes it work for your good. Even these demonic attacks can be made to work for good because, through the attack, you learn more about the enemy. From his attacks, I learned how to derail him on his next pass through. I learned, also, that there will, indeed, be another pass at me. But when he comes at me again, since I learned something from his last pass at me, I will not allow him to put the same old story on me that he did the last time.
Every time he comes at me, God over rules him and teaches me something. God works it out for my good. God performs all things for me. It is as though I was the only person on this planet. God makes the stars shine for me. Are the stars things? God performs all things for me. It is as if I were the only person on the planet and a big rain came. Why did it rain? Is rain a thing? God performs all things for me. Let the attack come. I will learn from it. God will make good come of it.
Many people say, "You ought to be strong in the face of temptation." If you could be strong in the face of temptation, it would not even be a temptation. Temptation is something, from which, you do not want to walk away. Otherwise, it is not temptation. So, the devil will throw his biggest guns at your weakest point. He will find your weakness. It doesn't matter what it is. Different people have different weaknesses.
If the devil is trying to derail you, this is an indication that you have a particular weakness, even while someone else has another. His ultimate objective, concerning you both, is to derail you so that you will neither be nor do what God wants you to be and do. He will aim at your weakness to sidetrack you. Then, you are shut down as far as power and usefulness is concerned.
Some men get bent out of shape when their wives get mad at them. It just derails them. It totally punctures them and folds them up. Some women are the same way. They totally collapse when their husband gets a little bit miffed at what they have done or said. The devil knows all this.
Moreover, your personally assigned demon has studied you better than you have studied yourself. He knows more about you than anyone. He has known you from birth, since he was assigned to you, I firmly believe, from that moment.
Furthermore, I do not believe that the devil changes demons on you. I think that he is the same demon at all times and that he stays with you until you learn how to beat him. He is an assignment and he can call for other demons to help him. Through these other demons, they can marshall forces of people to bring against you.
While I was pastor of Believer's Covenant Church in Pearland, Texas, I spoke to pastors. As they heard all that had happened to that church, they said, "Brother, I have not had as much trouble in all my combined ministry as you have had in two years in that one church". You see, the devil hated that church and everything that it stood for. However, he never won a thing. We experienced total victory in that church.
David said, "God performs all thing for me." We must recognize that an assignment is against us, for we are encompassed with enemies composed of both people and demons. People become our enemies because of the demons. We must recognize that we have this demon assigned to us and his one mission is to sidetrack us. If he can sidetrack you no other way, he will kill you. To sidetrack you is his objective. It is his marching orders. This is exactly what he is after. The one job assigned to him by the master devil, Satan himself, is to derail you, get you off track and stop you as a Christian.
However, in the midst of this attack, God can make it work in our behalf. He made it work for Paul, who said in so many words, "In my weakness, I discovered that the power of God rests on me greater when I acknowledge that I am up against something that I can not handle. When my back is against the wall and I am totally out of strength, I recognize the power of God more in my life than at any other time." God overruled that demon and made the situation work to Paul's advantage. He does the same for you.
We must know that a personally assigned demon is after us. But God, who performs all things for our benefit, can overrule it. What is included in "all things that God performs" for my benefit? Everything you can name that has any good to it, God performs that. There is nothing good that happens to you by chance. God performed it for you.
When you get a handle on the great fact that God performs all things for you, you are on shouting ground! God is performing all things for me. No wonder David said in verse 7, "My heart is fixed." In other words, I am not going to be moved. I know who I am. I know who my God is. I know where my help is coming from. I know the puny condition of the demon coming against me. When God is on my side, nothing can hurt me. Therefore, "My heart is fixed," David said.
Look at verse 3 again. Not only does God perform all things for me, but He also, "shall send from Heaven and save me." God has no need to utilize any earthly thing in our behalf. He is not restricted to using earthly things to help us. The Bible says, "He will send from Heaven." God has things up there with which to help us that the mind of man has not even imagined yet. He has an arsenal in the skies that we have not tapped yet. David said, "God shall send from Heaven, and deliver His children." He has some things in Heaven He has not even sent down here yet. When we have God going for us, what demon can be against us and prevail?
Rom 8:31
31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? (KJV)
When the demons attack, the average person blames their husband or wife or somebody else. Blame a person, however, signifies a carnal Christian (one who is not walking in the Spirit). If they were walking in the Spirit, they would look beyond that which our physical eyes see and look right in the face of a demon.
I know everything about my personal demon except his name. I will not let him speak or I would know his name. It is always the same demon. I must give him credit, though. He knows what it takes to rattle my cage. He knows just when and how to jerk my chain to make me mad. I am not as fiery as I used to be. It did not take much of a jerk on my chain some few years ago to fire my temper. But you see, now, I am beating him in the Spirit.
I have learned that the only way I can battle him and win is link the Name of Jesus to the written Word of God and speak it in his face. My confession of the written Word of God linked with the Name of Jesus assures me of victory over him.
Every time I link the Name of Jesus to the written Word and say it out loud, God sends instructions from Heaven to the Holy Ghost: "Get over there and kick that demon out." Guess what the Holy Ghost does? He works that demon over in ways that I never could.
My problem is neither my wife, nor my kids, nor people who may have called me everything but a decent person. These are not my problems. My problem is that personally assigned demon who called in other demons and stirred them up. He said to these other demons, "Go get Jay. He is vulnerable to criticism."
We are all vulnerable to criticism, aren't we? I do not mind a person thinking that maybe I could have done something a little better. Maybe I could have made a different choice and the outcome could have been a little bit better. Maybe I could have done something this way, rather than that way, and maybe it would have been done better. I do not mind that. I profit from it.
It bothers me, however, for somebody to impugn my integrity and attack my character. That does several things to me. It hurts me and it makes me angry. This is one way the devil comes after me through this personal assignment. I have had to battle this all my life. It may be some other way with you, but this is how he gets to me.
When my wife refuses to walk in the Spirit, she deals with me in flesh and blood, rather than in the spirit. She becomes upset with me and deals with me as flesh and blood, rather than see the personal assignment that may be causing me to do this or causing me to do that. This bothers and derails me, as it does most married people.
You see, that personal devil knows more about you and yours than you do yourself. Consequently, he will use the things against you that bother you the most. He will catch you in a moment when you are not aware of him. Then, he will walk through the door of your weak spot. All of this is designed to derail you and make you less than what you could be and what you are.
Many times he will derail us and we don't even know it. Here is a quick test. Do you have the zeal for God that you had at any previous point in your life, or is it less? If it is less, you have been "had" by your personally assigned demon. You have bought his lie, whether or not you like it or realize it. Then you will wonder, "What is missing in my life?"
It is really simple. You are not doing for God what you should do. You have been derailed and you lack the depth in the Spirit to distinguish what has happened to you. You will think it is this or you will think it is that. You will try this or you will try that to correct it. Furthermore, this is why many people seek with counselors who take them right down the road to destruction. All the while, they have just been derailed by their personally assigned demon who knows how they function and how they react.
He knows that he can do things to them (including sickness) and they won't even know who did it. These people know something is out of pocket, but they neither know what nor why. Since they know neither what it is nor what caused it, they do not know what it takes to put it back together again. Paul experienced this.
He had a personally assigned demon. It is called, in the Bible, his "thorn in the flesh." The Scripture also spells out what it was; it was a personal demon, an angel of Satan, who stayed with him. Like a blood hound, he stayed on Paul's trail to destroy him.
I wish I had known in the early years of my ministry what I know now, not just head knowledge, but revelation from the Holy Ghost. There are many battles I lost that I would have won. But I just didn't know how. In one town where I pastored, we shut down one of the most famous streets in that state. It was famous for sin and iniquity. On that street were dope dens, beer joints and whore houses. My church was right in the middle of it. We lived next to the church. At that time, my two little girls were very small. I was fearful to let them go out in the yard and play by themselves.
My first week on the job, I walked across my yard, across the street, up the steps of the church that I pastored. At this point, I was propositioned by two prostitutes who were sitting on the front steps of my church. They did not know that I was the new preacher in town.
I declared war on this. With God's help, our church shut down every whore house, dope den and beer joint on that street. We took that mess into the state capital and fought it until they padlocked the dens of iniquity on the whole street.
I discovered that many of the people who owned much of the property, up and down that street, were big people in one of the political parties. They were the ones who were leasing space to this underworld element. We took them on. They did everything they could to destroy us. I know what it is to have that personally assigned devil come after me. He knows that criticism against my character, integrity and work bothers me. He knows this hurts me and slows me down, so that I can not function at my best.
Everyone reading this page has a personally assigned demon. But I want to tell you something. My deliverance from that thing is through the power of God because God performs all things for me. When God is performing something for me, you better line up with His will, or God may send a brick bat to fall on your head.
No wonder David said, "My heart is fixed." He was not about to be shaken by his circumstances. "My heart is fixed," he said. I am anchored to the truth. I know that God will send from Heaven. He will help me with a spiritual weapon that nobody has even seen yet. "My heart is fixed." Hallelujah! I do not have to put up with this. I do not have to put up with people. I do not have to put up with spirits because I have the victory. God will send from Heaven and help me! Glory to God! This is who we are, what we have and where we are. It is not a matter of flesh and blood, it is a matter of the spoken Word linked to the name of Jesus.
Don't get bent out of shape when your husband or wife isn't doing right. Look behind that husband or wife and look at the demon who attacked them. I am not in the mood to let any demon have one member of my family. When that demon makes them not act right, I will get right in his face because my heart is fixed. God will send from Heaven and deliver my wayward, family member. My heart is fixed. No wonder David said, "I will sing and give praise." When your heart is fixed, you can sing right in the face of adversity. You can praise God when the whole wide world is blowing up in your face. God is performing all things for me. As long as I have that, I need nothing else. God is performing all things for me. This is shouting ground.
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