Kill Off the Devil Hiding in Your Junk Rooms

Kill Off the Devil Hiding in Your Junk Rooms
by py thomas
© November 3, 2013

 

 

Why?  Why does YAH want us to be comforted and healed by Him?

³Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master Yeshua the Messiah, the Father of compassion and Elohim of all comfort, ⁴who is comforting us in all our pressure, enabling us to comfort those who are in every pressure, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by Elohim. ⁵Because, as the sufferings of Messiah overflow in us, so our comfort also overflows through Messiah. ⁶And if we suffer pressure, it is for your comfort and deliverance, being worked out in enduring the same sufferings which we also suffer. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort and deliverance. ⁷And our expectation for you is steadfast, because we know that as you are sharing in the sufferings – so also in the comfort. (2 Corinthians 1:3-7)

When we are hurt, cheated on, lied to, despitefully used, abused, unappreciated, unjustly treated, if left unhealed and uncomforted by our God ADONAI, we leave openings and portals for the Adversary the Devil to pervert our hurt and pains.  The Devil is a blood thirsty beast, and the blood he wants is ours.  But we don’t have to give it to him.  As a matter of fact, we CAN make the confession of our mouths be the pure and shed blood of Yeshua is our covering and the power to deliver us from the bondages of sin.  For truly, greater is He (Yeshua/Jesus) that is in us, than he that is in the world (those under the influence of the Devil).

My Personal Testimony.  I am humbled by YAH’s great mercy He has given to me and others, when He sent His Spirit  to knock  on the door of my life of pains, hurts, etc., and asking if I would allow Him to show me that He is truly the God of all comforts and healing.   But before YAH could show me, I had to cry out to Him; and when He showed up, I had to get up and open up the door to my heart; and listen to what He had to say. 

Once I heard, I needed to heed what the Spirit said about my spiritual condition; and subsequently make the decision to invite Him into my room full of hurt and pain.  I refer to this room of emotional and spiritual torment as my “junk room.”  I named it that because of all the junk I had collected over the years that was cluttering up my mind, soul, body and spirit.  It was one of many areas preventing my being conformed into the image of the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus).  Unbeknownst to me, that lying deceptive Devil was constantly strategizing on how to prevert and exploit those pains in his ongoing effort to silence the work of the Holy Spirit,  and to paralyze and terrorize me.
 

The Horror & Urgency of My Need.  There was one more ugly truth I needed to face, and that was that I had "thought" I had dealt with my pains and hurts.  However,  I needed to acknowledge that I had only developed coping mechanisms, which had run their course (notice all the "I" statements...self out of control...).

You may be familiar with some of the coping mechanisms I had devised over my life such as joking (a lot), relationship hopping, sexual immoral behavior, drugs, striving for success (over achiever); and the ever so famous “do-gooder” co-dependency tendencies (on steroids) sister in Yeshua!  (Yes, I was and am a Follower of Yeshua, I just use to be a straggler, one of the sheep, Yeshua had to always go after because of my tendency to get distracted because I was coping and not allowing myself to be healed and delivered).

WHEN the “When” Shows Up.  You know, sometimes we’re embarrassed and ashamed just due to the fact that we’ve even built these “junk rooms,” and it becomes our dark secret.  On the surface we try to be everything we are not, yet desire to be.  However, this goal becomes more and more elusive the longer we pretend we’ve got things together.  But I’m thankful to ADONAI that when I was pressed to deal with the pride that had me going in the way of lying to myself, that I relinquished and invited the Holy Spirit into my “junk room.”  Whew!

The Holy Spirit who truly teaches me all things, came in shining the Light of the Word, Yeshua, on my “junk room,” and one by one, began to help me to work through the Pharaohs (abusers and oppressors) in my life, the childhood monsters that were secretly still terrifying and tormenting me, the heart hijackers who were ravenous wolves in sheep clothing; and the very elusive “pity party event planner.”

The Word of YAH says this about His many “comforts”  in the 19^th verse of the following, but well worth reading it in its entirety:

¹²Blessed is the man You discipline, O Yah,

And instruct out of Your Torah,

¹³To give him rest from the days of evil,

Until the pit is dug for the wrong.

¹⁴For Elohim does not leave His people,

Nor does He forsake His inheritance.

¹⁵For right-ruling returns man to righteousness,

And all the upright in heart follow it.

¹⁶Who would rise up for me against evil-doers?

Who would stand up for me against workers of wickedness?

 ¹⁷If ADONAI had not been my help,

My being would soon have settled in silence.

¹⁸When I said, “My foot has slipped,” Your kindness, O ADONAI, supported me.

 ¹⁹When anxiety was great within me, Your comforts delighted my being.

(Psalm 94:12-19)

 

Again we see the prophet Isaiah declare:  

¹³Sing, O heavens, rejoice, O earth!

And break out in singing, O mountains!

For Elohim shall comfort His people and have compassion on His afflicted ones. (Isaiah 49:13)

 

Self-Exposure for Help.  What are the conditions for our prayers and petitions to be heard by YAH to receive His comforts and healings?  Answer:  Something we’re all very good at, crying out.  However, our crying out needs to be to the One who hears and answers the cries of His children.  

Because our natural carnal natures have a tendency to turn us into “pity party event planners,”  we many times are crying out from a place of self-pity and not the needed brokenness that says we're weak and we need Him, that we've been prideful and ignored Him by taking matters into our own hands and trying to comfort, heal and self-medicate ourselves.  Or worst yet, turn our situations over to mere mortals for things that require His divine intervention.

We special-pick the guest list, typically comprised of “the empathizer sympathizers,” who have the same or like issues, and will share how they “cope.”    I absolutely know this is true, because it is true of me, and of others (we KNOW who we are…but don’t run away yet…YAH is sending His “Calvary” to help, and Calvary’s name is Yeshua/Jesus, who takes and follows the orders and guidelines of the Father).

 
 

 

O Adonai, how my adversaries have increased! Many rising up against me.

²Many are saying of me, “There is no deliverance for him in Elohim.” Selah.

³But You, O Adonai, are a shield for me, My esteem, and the One lifting up my head.

⁴I cried to YAH with my voice, And He heard me from His set-apart mountain. Selah.

⁵I, I laid down and slept; I awoke, for YAH sustained me. (Psalms 3:1-5)

 

Do YOU Want to be Healed?  Before we even consider spiritual warfare with  those outside of us, we must be ready to face the spiritual warfare that is going on inside of us.  More importantly, be willing to receive and apply the truth of YAH’s Word, which is our weapon of mass destruction against the blood thirsty Beast's lies and deceptions.  Once we do, YAH promises to deal with those who are in disobedience to Him.  YAH vindicates not only His name, but will vindicate us as well.

³For though we walk in the flesh, we do not fight according to the flesh. ⁴For the weapons we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for over- throwing strongholds, ⁵overthrowing reasonings and every high matter that exalts itself against the knowledge of Elohim, taking captive every thought to make it obedient to the Messiah, ⁶and being ready to punish all disobedience, when your obedience is complete. (2 Corinthians 10:3-6)

The last of verse 6 in 2 Cor. 10 is the sum total of what YAH requires in terms of our participation in the process of being comforted, healed and delivered…our obedience.  Just as we go to doctors for illnesses and injuries, they give us instructions to heal the natural man.   How much more so will our spirit man be healed if we heed and follow YAH’s instructions and guidelines for living, which encompasses our comforting, healing, forgiveness, and deliverance?  Selah – meditate on that which comes from above from the Father, ELOHIM.

You Showed Up for Help, But Will You Take the Medicine?  The only reason why we invite anyone or anything into our lives is because we initially believe that they can help our situation – no matter the motive. (whether for good or bad).  So if our motive is for comfort, healing and deliverance, we need to go to the Source that provides for our need who is Yehovah Yireh, our provider.  We need to also believe and trust that Yehovah Yireh is also Yehovah Shalom (the God who gives His peace) and Yehovah Raffa (the God who heals).

⁶But without belief it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to Elohim has to believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who earnestly seek Him. (Hebrews 11:6) 

7 Steps - To Begin & Complete.  If you’re still reading this blog, PRAISE YAH!  You’re more than halfway there to start your journey with Him for your healing, comfort and the birthing of your deliverance into freedom and the destruction of your “junk rooms.”    The following are the 7 steps that the Holy Spirit has taught me that are all based on YAH’s guidelines and instructions for our lives found in the Scriptures - get ready, set, read:

1.       Begin to pray for those who have despitefully used us and have hurt us;
 

 

2.       Pray to the point that the Spirit begins to help us to see our own responses to the hurt, and if our responses are in alignment with His Word (the fruits of the Spirit);

3.       Once we see it, align our spirits with YAH’s righteous requirements of us (being willing to suffer and be persecuted for His namesake since we are partakers of the suffering of Yeshua the Messiah – our author and finisher of our faith)  (NOTE:  Many times the trials and tests are for the benefit of others as well - are you truly available for Him to use you like you sing about?);

4.    Keep our eyes open to see how our not allowing YAH to comfort and heal us has created portals and openings for the adversary, the Devil to have access ways to exploit our heart and have us saying and doing things that are not pleasing to YAH;

5.       See YAH’s mercy He has shown to us while we were busy putting our mouths on the perpetrators to everyone but YAH in prayer, which will bring us to the needed point of seeing the horror of who we are and what’s truly in our hearts that is not like Yeshua;

6.       Surrender to YAH’s grace and divine influence that we humble ourselves and ask for His forgiveness about our initial response to the hurt, rejection and being used; and

7.       Lastly, the awesome breakthrough (if we surrender to what He is showing and teaching us) results in our being given a heart of compassion towards those who have used us, lied on us, hurt us; and rejected our kindness and love and “mistook” it for weakness.  We will then have this area of our lives transformed to the point that this becomes our personal testimony; and fulfill YAH's requirements that we can also comfort others.
 

 With sackcloth and ashes, let us humble ourselves before our ELOHIM; and in our weakness surrender to His righteous requirements of us, which includes our being comforted and healed to seal off once and for all the access ways the Devil had to our hearts, minds, bodies souls and spirits through our “junk rooms.”  Some will be surprised that a lot will hinge simply on forgiving folks, and asking for forgiveness from others.

Shalom, shalom to those near and to those far off.

Much love in the powerful and strong name Yeshua’s name, maidservant of El Elyon, ELOHIM,

py thomas