Spiritual Ignorance

Penetrating Enemy Lines

The only ability Satan has is the ability to attack our minds and deceive us into believing a lie. God has given us power over all the purported power, lies, deceptions, and attacks of the already-defeated enemy.

Israel’s enemies had no power at all over them. After the one defeat at Ai which resulted from sin, God’s people were totally victorious. God had promised them, “Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you…” (Joshua 1 :3). The enemy nations of Canaan had no power over God’s people. God gave them divine strategies for penetrating enemy lines and defeating their foes – and that is exactly what God wants to do for you.

Satan wants you to believe that he has power over you. He wants you to think you are his victim and that he can do whatever he wants to you. During the days ahead, we are going to strip Satan of his power. We are going to take the mask off and reveal him for what he really is -a defeated foe.

It is time for the Body of Christ to recognize that we have the entire armor of God, the spiritual forces of Heaven, and the power of Christ at our disposal. It is time to walk in the heritage of our King. It is time to enter into the cycle of Victory Miracle Living.

You may be saying, “Brother Cerullo, I just don’t know if I can do that.?” You may be a new believer or it may be that you have failed or have been knocked down so many times in the past that you find it hard to get up and fight again.

But you can do it! You will do it! And this time, you will be victorious because you are going to fight from a position of knowing. You are going to learn strategies for penetrating enemy lines – just as Israel did – and you are going to be victorious.

You may say, “But Brother Cerullo, I don’t know how to do it. I want to enter in, conquer the enemy, and live a victorious life, but I don’t know how.”

Well, then let me show you … It all starts with acting in obedience upon the first reading for this month. So turn there, and let’s begin. . .

Journey Into The Promised Land

Luke 10:17–19 (CSB)

THE RETURN OF THE SEVENTY-TWO

¹⁷The seventy-two^, returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

¹⁸He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning. ¹⁹Look, I have given you the authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy; nothing at all will harm you.

Satan’s strategy is to hold you helplessly in a state of spiritual ignorance. He will do everything possible to stop you from knowing the truth about him, and to stop you from knowing your position of power and authority over him as a child of God. This is exactly the strategy he used on the people of Israel to keep them out of the Promised Land. It is the strategy that caused their defeat at Ai and Satan still employs these same methods today.

Satan has planted fear in the hearts of many Christians causing them to think they are weak and powerless against his attacks on their bodies, their finances, and their loved ones. One of the powerful strategies Jesus used to defeat Satan and live His life in 100 percent victory was that He faced the enemy from a position of knowing! Jesus never wavered, faltered, or retreated. Jesus knew the power and arsenal of the enemy and that He had power and authority to defeat him in every circumstance: “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8).

When Jesus died on the cross, He took Satan’s authority over the earth away from him and gave us power to overcome and defeat all of his attacks:

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil. (Hebrews 2:14)

Today Satan desperately tries to keep that defeat a secret. Satan does not want the Church to know that through the death of Jesus Christ on the cross they now have the power: “Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy” (Luke 10:19).

The devil’s only hope to lure souls into his eternal hell is to keep the Church functioning in a state of perpetual spiritual ignorance and that tactic has become one of his major strategies. To implement this strategy of spiritual ignorance, one of the major lies Satan has planted in the Body of Christ is to perpetuate the false fear that many Christians have concerning the purported power of the devil. He has distorted and embellished on his horns and pitchfork image, causing many to see him as more powerful than he really is.

Much of the Body of Christ still clings to the Hollywood image of the devil as portrayed in The Exorcist. They believe he has a force so powerful that he can freely throw people around rooms, twist the innocent heads of little girls, and toss praying priests out of two-story windows. These pathetic and false depictions are all nothing more than lies.

Make this declaration:

Satan will not keep me in spiritual ignorance. The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth, lives within me.

*Adapted from MCWE email – Journey Into The Promised Land by Morris Cerullo

Spiritual Ignorance – 8/1

Penetrating Enemy Lines

Journey Into The Promised Land