12/16/2022
Having been delivered from demon possession, oppression, or vexation, do you not imagine that you can then become careless and continue to enjoy absolute freedom and protection. Receiving deliverance is not enough, unless you’re willing to follow on and continue doing the things which God has commanded you to do in order to continue in freedom. Bo***ge to demons has become so anguishing for some that they have earnestly desire to be set free. After seeking so earnestly to be empty from that demon, they are unwilling to be filled with the Holy Ghost. God has placed this solemn warning in his word that they might know their need to be filled.
Demons desire human habitation.
They find no rest in their disembodied state and wander about seeking a place, a person whom they can inhabit. Being by nature very persistent beings, they will leave their habitation only when they must and even then they are watchful for an opportunity to return. They all reluctantly to the command of this believer whose command is given with authority of the name of Jesus! Unless you make the provision to keep the demon out, he will doubtless return. And when he returns, he will find the house in so much better order and he was accustomed to not only empty but swept and garnished that he determines to have a real homecoming celebration. Your body, which God says is a temple of the Holy Ghost may be swept and garnished, but the sign on the door says, “vacancy!” To the demon, this simply means “EMPTY!” Not filled with the Holy Spirit! Demons are free to enter! But, when individuals filled with the Spirit, the sign says very clearly, “No Vacancy!”
