Training and Transformation | Ep 3

    Get these books:     In this episode:     The first training Keith went to to learn about spiritual warfare and healing and deliverance How Megan and I were both transformed by that prayer process.   Garbage and Rats   After being confronted by the witch doctor, which we shared in episode 2, we reached out to our missions agency for help.  Dr Charles Kraft was coming to train several of our missionaries    As Keith prepared for this training with Dr. Kraft, he read all the required readings and began to be stretched and get excited about the conference.  While Keith went to california for the training, Megan stayed behind with the kids.  In the beginning of all of this, Megan felt like this was more Keith’s journey than hers.  She wasn’t as open and had very limited understanding about all that Keith was learning.     At the training: Keith gets to the training in Pasadena with 150 other missionaries from all over the world.   Dr. Kraft began to talk about the realities of angels and demons and it being an every day part of life. Dr. Kraft shared about how he directly communicates with demons and that sounded absolutely crazy to Keith. Keith’s world view was begin confronted.   The bible did talk about signs and wonders, and the demon possessed man, but the filter on Keith’s mind was that that was what Jesus did back then, not today.     Demon’s demystified: The word demon needs to be demystified. There is a reality that demons are dark forces, filled with evil, and we live in a supernatural world.   If we are going to talk about angels, resurrection, Christmas, the virgin birth of Jesus, then we have to talk about the reality of evil and how that evil confronts us.   The word demon sounds scarier than it actually is. We have more power as children of God than any demonic force on this planet.   Garbage and Rats:    Dr. Kraft used a tangible picture to help us understand spiritual warfare. Imagine a pile of garbage and rats feasting on that garbage. The garbage represents the things that the enemy uses against us. Dr. Kraft said that if the enemy was going to torment us that he had to have some type of purpose, reason, or permission to do that (the garbage). If we left a pile of garbage on our floor, eventually rats would find it.   When a human walks in to the room the rats will scurry and run b/c they know we have more power and authority. If the garbage is left on the floor, and I leave the room, then the rats will eventually come back.   So here is how this analogy plays out in our spiritual life:  The brokenness, woundedness, and stuff that attracts the rats.  This healing prayer model that Dr. Kraft was teaching was showing us that because Christ has been there with us from the beginning, that no matter when in our life that we experienced garbage, that Jesus can come in to that place/experience in our our life and clean up that garbage. Dr. Kraft often quotes that says God knit you together in your mother’s womb and has been there since the beginning.  (10:33)   That verse teaches us that Christ is always with us so by inviting Jesus in to those broken moments, Jesus cleans up the garbage and takes the food from the rats away, and then we can tell those rats they have to get out and go straight to the cross in Jesus name. This process brings powerful healing.  Megan:  Dr Kraft taught us how to do healing and deliverance in a way that was healing and gentle and kind and not scary.  Holly wood has distorted spiritual warfare in to being something scary but if we operate under the authority we are given in Jesus name it doesn’t have to be scary.  

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