How’s this for a mantra:
“The Lord rebuke you, Satan.”
Over and again, if it necessitates repetition. Perhaps it shouldn’t.
This comes straight from Scripture.
Jude 9: “Michael the archangel, when he disputed with the devil and argued about the body of Moses, did not dare pronounce against him a railing judgment, but said, ‘The Lord rebuke you!'”
Four simple but obviously powerful words.
Now, we’re not the Archangel Michael! And the best way of uttering the phrase, it would seem, might be “The Lord rebuke you, Satan—in the Name of Jesus.”
The point is that we’re not helpless and that, but for severely stubborn cases, we can often deliver ourselves from affliction.
As Blake Healy, a Christian who has been seeing angels and demons since early childhood, says in a new book, Indestructible (which we highly recommend):
“Light and dark are not equal opposites. God and Satan are not in a battle of equal forces. Light does not just have an advantage over darkness. The forces of good are not just stronger, and they do not just outnumber the forces of evil.
“When I walk into my office and turn on the light, there is no struggle for the light to dispel the darkness. The darkness does not peel away in layers like a stain being scrubbed from a floor. The darkness does not slowly retreat, like a puddle blown by the wind. It is gone when light is present.
“The battle is not about whether light can defeat darkness; the battle is about whether the light is on or not.”
And so, with Jesus, we turn on the Light. Even a tiny flashlight can split the darkness of a room. Just flick on a switch.
As Healy also points out, simple commands uttered one time, uttered with faith, are often all it takes. Note how Jesus did not need to repeat Himself.
“I never felt that any demon I saw was ever more than one moment, one decision, or one word away from being displaced,” Healy says. For us to ponder.
Now, we’re certainly not Jesus either.
But with faith we have His Light, and that light brooks no darkness.
[resources: Indestructible]
