Casting Out Demons on Christmas Eve
Happy New Year! May this be the year that God blesses you abundantly in every area of your life, as we consecrate ourselves completely to Him. I have some amazing events and miracles to share!
I had the privilege of being a groomsman in a wedding with the church I helped to plant. It was a wonderful wedding on Iloilo Island, and I’m expecting great things from that couple! A few days later, I traveled to Cebu Island to have Christmas with my old friends. I miss my family and friends in America very much, but it made this lonely missionary happy to be with old friends from my first missionary term.
Christmas Eve seemed pretty normal, hanging out with some old friends at YWAM. Then it all changed when I went to pray for someone with back and knee pain. He began to manifest signs of a spiritual attack. The pain would completely leave, then come right back a few minutes later.
This wasn’t the first time I’d seen pain come and go, or even move from the knee to the stomach. At one time I didn’t understand this, even after seeing thousands healed. God showed me through the Scriptures, and through great ministers who operated in many miracles before my time. A couple of years ago, He gave me the understanding that this can come from areas of our lives we haven’t yet fully consecrated to Him. To be consecrated is to be set apart for God.
As far as I know, this gentleman was delivered. He was vomiting only while we were praying for him. God does not leave us as orphans, but has given us His Holy Spirit! “Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.” John 5:14
Attacks from demons will not prevail if we trust and believe God. This isn’t something we should fear, or ignore as if it doesn’t exist. It is real, and we are on the winning side! God is stronger, and our part is easy. Trust Him with your body, family, thoughts, future and finances, just as you do with your soul! It’s easy to trust God with our soul, since we can’t see or touch it. But what about all those other things we spend so much time making plans for?
On Christmas morning, I preached two services in Cebu. All glory belongs to God as I witnessed Him heal about 30 people! Not one person walked away without being touched and healed by God! While I was at that big church, I met an old friend I had prayed for. This woman had colon cancer and wasn’t given much hope. But God healed her years ago, and now, 5 years later, she is still healed!
New Year’s Eve was much the same. I preached another sermon God gave me and witnessed another 15 people healed. Recently, three different people who had cancer got healed, but I’m still waiting to hear the doctor’s report. All I know is that the one who couldn’t walk for months is now able to walk! The others with cancer no longer have pain in their bodies. What an amazing year God has in store for them in 2017!
This is our Heavenly Father, who desires to heal us more than we desire to be healed. He wants to bless you more than you want to be blessed. I know everybody is making New Year’s resolutions, but let’s not forget God’s plans for our lives. His ways are higher than our ways. He is a good, good Father, who is holy and perfect in every way. He is not waiting for you to make a mistake so He can punish you. He is inviting you to give Him every area of your life, so He can come in and restore every area!
I believe this is your year of blessing! ‘May you prosper as your soul prospers.’ ‘You will be the head and not the tail, the lender and not the borrower.’ Those are Scriptures and promises from the Holy Bible that I pray over you, for it is a book of both blessings and cursings. God’s words don’t fail, and neither do His love and forgiveness toward us. Here’s to a New Year filled with His amazing wonder and glory! God bless you!
Because they haven’t heard,
Justin Gilpin