Overcoming the Religious Spirit ebook - MorningStar Ministries

maintained by what the Scriptures call
principalities. We can cast out demons, but
we must wrestle against principalities (see
Ephesians 6:12). Wrestling is the closest
form of combat, and it is one in which we
seek to displace our foe. Principalities will
not flee just because we command them to.
We must push them out by walking in the
light that exposes them. Truth, spoken by
the anointing, is the most powerful weapon
there is, and we have been entrusted with it.
Our goal for being free from the spirit
of poverty is not just to have things that we
need or want, but that we can do the will of
God without hindrance from either physical
or spiritual depravity. When the world
witnesses our freedom, it will start asking for
the answers that we have. When we are free
from the yoke of the spirit of poverty, our
freedom will be manifested in the natural as
well as the spiritual. Spiritual authority will
always have dominion in the natural realm as
well, just as the Lord’s spiritual authority was
manifested by His healing the sick, raising the
dead, and even multiplying food.
One evidence that we have been truly
freed from the yoke of the spirit of poverty
is financial independence. Financial independence
does not necessarily mean that we are
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