James 4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

How do we gain back this territory from Satan, from that which binds us?

PARDONED 63-1028 E-60 God hates a powerless religion. It's got to be power. It's a power to save a man from sin. It's a power that can do signs and wonders and miracles as Jesus Christ promised. They zeroed in on the Word of God back there and believed it, and it hit the target. You zero the same way on the Word of God, and it'll hit the target again. It's got to, because He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. God don't like a powerless religion… God wants to perform. God wants to show Hisself alive.

BEHOLD.I.STAND.AT.THE.DOOR 58-0617 E-39 So, that's the way with preaching the Gospel. If it doesn't stir up your spiritual gastronomics, it isn't doing any good. What we need today is a big dose of the Gospel poured down us. Exactly right. Might make you sick and angry for a little while but you'll pray through maybe. Oh, what a need there is this day.

It all has to be possible, because if it can once be yours, and it’s taken from you, it can be reclaimed. Samson proved that! David proved that- lost his joy and got things back again!. Job proved it! Bro. Branham himself proved that after the death of his wife and child; Standing in the Gap!

Let’s understand what the Bible means to resist evil:

MATTHEW 5:39 But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

EVIL (Gr.) full of labours, annoyances, hardships; pressed and harassed by labours bringing

toils, perils; time full of peril to Christian faith and steadfastness; causing pain and trouble.

There is a “physical or natural evil” in the world happens because the divinely appointed harmony of the earth has been “temporarily” disturbed. There is a moral evil which is direct result of the disorder in the spiritual world, and a failure of men to conform to the character and conduct laid down by God.

GOVERNMENT:

ROMANS 13:2 Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

SCRIPTURAL.SIGNS.OF.THE.TIME 64-0410 E-50 One day I was a hunting (with Burt Caul) It's all right to kill a fawn now if the government says so. I was game warden for years, and I'm still a conservationist. I believe in animals, and I believe in conservation. They're put here to eat. If you don't eat some of them out, then they'll take a disease and die out, or starve to death. But just what the law says, they know how to handle that. Let them take care of it.

THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE 65-1205 53 ... We don't want to believe that, but the Bible plainly states it, that every government, every kingdom of the earth is owned by the devil and ruled by the devil. Jesus was taken by Satan up and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world that was, would be, whatmore; and Satan claimed them his, and Jesus never argued with him, because he is the god of this world.

WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET 63-0119 E-77 Amos never blamed the government in all of his Scripture. But he blamed the people for electing such a government. …Don't blame your government. The government cannot build a house on a rock that the people votes for sand. The people wants it.

PERSONAL.EXPERIENCE.WITH.GOD 54-0724 …I have to be down to Fort Knox, Kentucky, to take some more of those shots to go overseas. I try to tell them I don't need them, but they won't listen to me. ... I don't need those things, but the law says I must have them. So the Bible said, "Give Caesar, what's Caesar's; God's what's God's." So I'll have to take the shots, and then preach the Gospel to them, won't I? So that'll be getting, God what's God's. Caesar, what's Caesar's.

I PETER 2:13 Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; 14 Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.

RISING.OF.THE.SUN 65-0418M 6-3 …I was tired, and my arm hurting me from shots that the nurse gave me for... Leave overseas now, as you know, in a few days, and I must have these shots, son and I; and with cholera, yellow fever and everything, I was pretty weary, making me sick; which Caesar requires to have these shots before you go into the other nations. And He said, "Give Caesar that which is Caesar's, but then, give God that which is God's."

ARROW.OF.GOD'S.DELIVERANCE 56-0801 E-22 You've got one of the best churches I ever walked into in my life of anywhere, on any continent. Life Tabernacle's one of my favorites. It breaks my heart to see you letting the world reach into you the way you're doing. So don't do that no more. Snap out of it. Pray out of it, and let God come back and take over. Submit yourselves to God and get the old fashion blessing back again. And Shreveport, you dear, dear southerners down here, who are the finest people I ever met... I don't say that to compromise with you; I say it because I love you. …And I tell you, don't let the world creep into you. Don't let the world get into your churches, brethren. Pray it out, fast it out until God comes down and takes a hold. That's right. Keep the joy of the Lord among the saints. Keep them prayed up. And guard every little place.

1. Make a Full Surrender

REVELATION 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

The principle of God’s correction: comes with a Message, don’t be like Esau who didn’t value what he had, never knew the value of the possession (birthright) and therefore could give it away! Only after he lost it did he realize what he had taken for granted.

HEBREWS 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; 13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed. 14 Follow peace with all [men], and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled; 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

SHALOM 64-0119 13 So we face this year just like we do all years; there is a regret of our mistakes in the past, and a looking forward for a future of the glorious Light of Christ. No doubt, if we live through this year, we'll find many mistakes that we have made, and we just expect that because it goes along the pro and con. That's the law of average that we live by here in this life. But we're so glad we have a Mediator Who sets at the right hand of God to make intercessions. When we are willing to admit our mistakes that we done wrong, then He forgives them. He's full of grace and mercy to forgive us for those mistakes.

2. Ask God for cleansing by the Blood.

I JOHN 1:7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

MODERN.EVENTS.MADE.CLEAR.BY.PROPHECY 65-1206 329 …We thank You for the Blood of Your Son, Jesus Christ. We thank You because He makes us clean this minute. We ask forgiveness of our wrongs, our stupidity, Lord, our stumbling in the dark. O God, may we rise and shine, and walk in the evening Light, and be the fruit of the Tree that's coming forth by the evening Light.

THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE 65-1205 63 This one come by sex and from the fall and must fall with the fall. No matter how much you patch the old thing up, she's going to fall anyhow. … And it (EARTH) was baptized by immersing in the days of Noah. Then it was sanctified by the Blood of the Creator dropping upon it. And now, that's the way you come: through justification to believe God. You were baptized unto repentance for the remission of your sins. You confessed your sins before God, and He forgive you for it. And you was baptized to show that you'd been forgiven, confessing to the people and showing to the world that you believe that Jesus Christ died for you, and He took your place, and now you stand in His place. He become you that you might become Him. Then the sanctifying power of God cleansed all the habits out of your life. You used to smoke, drink, do things that wasn't right, tell lies, everything. Then the sanctifying power of the Blood of Jesus Christ comes into your life; it takes all the things away from you. If you happen to say, something's got wrong, quickly you say, "Wait a minute; pardon me, I didn't mean to say it like that." See? The devil got a trap setting there, but you've got grace to come back if you're a real Christian, say, "I was wrong." Yes.

ELIJAH.AND.MEAL.OFFERING 60-0310 64 Talk about running around with the world and flirt with the world, and then expect to see Angels and have miracles done, it's out of God's program. You must live right. Clean up the house; clean up your habits; clean up the things of the world; get rid of your cards and your worldly association; get ready, and then the Angel of God can speak and say, "Fear not, it's I." Then things take place.

3. Reclaim: (to oppose)

EPHESIANS 6:13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

II TIMOTHY 3:8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

PSALMS 23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Restoreth: (to be brought back, returned)

ZECHARIAH 10:9 And I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and turn again. 10 I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and [place] shall not be found for them.

MALACHI 4:5 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD 6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

4. Build Strongholds of Truth:

JUDE 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY 63-0728 13-1 …If the brother, you think he's a little wrong, or the sister, say, "Lord, don't let me ever have the root of bitterness spring up, 'cause it'll affect him, and it'll take the Christ right out of my life." That poison acids of malice, and jealousy, and hatred, that'll just take the Holy Spirit right away from you. It'll run Him from the Tabernacle here. It'll kill the Spirit of God or drive it away from here, hurt your pastor; it'll do everything. Don't you do that.

5. Submit:

I CORINTHIANS 16:16 That ye submit yourselves unto such, and to every one that helpeth with [us], and laboureth.

IT.WASN'T.SO.FROM.THE.BEGINNING 62-0630B E-72 Forgive our many weaknesses, Lord. We don't intend to do anything wrong, Lord, but through flesh we do make mistakes daily. So in order to stay alive in Christ, we have to die to our own thoughts. So keep us dead to ourselves and alive in Him. Let our bodies be so, and our soul so submissive to Him that people will see the reflection of Christ as we go, or come, or whatever we do.

EPHESIANS 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

REV.CHAP.4.PT.3.THRONE.MERCY 61-0108 162 (Ephesians 5: Submit yourselves one to another in the fear of God.) ..." Congregation, submit yourself to your pastor. Pastor, submit yourself to your congregation. If a little clique rises up, don't be on either side; submit yourself to the whole congregation. Congregation, if you start in a clique, submit yourself to your pastor in the fear of God.

HEBREWS 13:17 Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.

DOES.GOD.CHANGE.HIS.MIND 65-0418E 96 …We must submit ourselves to His will and His Word. Don't question It, believe It. Don't try to find a way around It, just take It the way It is. So many wants to go around, get some other way. And when you do, you find yourself going on, you find God blessing you, but you're working in His permissive will and not in His perfect Divine will.

INFLUENCE 63-0803E 58 Now, we notice that this king... Uzziah, that when he was called down by the man who had the authority to take the censer in, the consecrated man for the service... When he called him down, he got angry with him. Oh, what a cursed thing that would be. When a man tries to point out to a fellow that you're in the wrong and prove it to him by the Word of God, "You're in the wrong." And then the man, because that he feels in himself he'll do what he wants to, and won't submit to the Word, then he gets angry.

I PETER 5:5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Praying Through

Fasting is a voluntary absence of particular aspects of life in order to seek deeper dimensions of fellowship and blessing from God.

Absolute Fast: Matt. 4:2; Ex. 34:28

Partial Fast: Daniel 1:8, Matt. 3:4

1. Seeking the will or wisdom of God in a matter:

     2 Sam. 12:16 (David’s child dying)

2. Seeking a spiritual breakthrough or a victory over something:

MATTHEW 17:21 Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.

3. Crying out to God in the confession of sin, as the weight of our own transgressions (and of others) becomes more apparent:

NEHEMIAH 1:3 And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire 4 And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain] days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

4. Humbling of the Soul for Answers, for Another:

PSALMS 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge [things] that I knew not. 12 They rewarded me evil for good [to] the spoiling of my soul.13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing [was] sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.14 I behaved myself as though [he had been] my friend [or] brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth [for his] mother.

COD 64-0830M 373. And will every true believer do the works that Jesus said, as stated in St. John 14:12 (Not exactly. No.): heal the sick, cast out devils, raise the dead (I don't think that's in St. John 14, but it's all right. It's Mark 16.),or is this only to be Elijah? Must the believer do all of this that really believe? And if he really is a real believer, will he raise the dead and do great miracles?

Now, that is among the believers. See? Every man doesn't have those gifts, and don't mean that just one person will do it; there'll be groups of people. Like for instance, what if we had a little girl here in the church, or a little boy, or somebody that we love real well, and life would go out of them. The whole church would get together, and they'd go to pray and fasting: "Lord, have mercy on that child." See? God could raise it up.

How many ever read the Nicene Fathers and them? You know, that's the way they did it in the early church. They'd all get together, you know, and even raise up their pastor sometime and different ones like that, if God seen fit to do it; but they did it.

CONFERENCE.WITH.GOD 59-1220M E-49 But when God calls a conference, it's fasting, cleaning up, prayer, receiving orders, and going forward. That's God's conference, not feasting, but fasting, not indulging in filth, but separating, cleansing yourself from all unrighteousness when you go before God. …Then God gives you orders; then you go forward; He goes with you.

VOICE.OF.THE.SIGN 64-0313 E-9 You're each one set in God's economy just for its place. One fasts all the time and communes with God, while another casts out devils because this one's fasting. But it's the whole body of Christ working together, the unity.

WAY.OF.A.TRUE.PROPHET 62-0513M 22-5 I do believe in a purgatory, but I believe it's right now. You purge your own soul. "Purgatory" means "to purge." When you see you've doing something wrong, get out there and clean it out of you by confession, and crying, and fasting, and praying. Someone even laughed at me when the Lord came here not long ago, give me a vision that I always wanted to see about binding that serpent. I always wondered how to--how if I should step out like that, when I--that's what I've wanted all my life. Then I begin to fast and pray. Said, "What'd you do that for?" I said, "In there He said that I was not sincere enough." Actually to come down want to purge myself, not wait till you die and let some priest try to purge you. Purge your souls.

GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY 64-0206E 27 …You know, they've never found a way better for a chicken to get born in this world than peck hisself out of his shell. They never have found a better way. The little fellow's born with a little snoot on the end of his bill. And that little bill he got to go to work, and go to scratching, scratching back and forth till he gets his head started, gets his head out, picks His way free. It's God's provided way. You pull him out of the shell, it'll kill him. He won't live if you pull him out of the shell. He has to come God's way.

That's what's the matter with Christians today. We've so soft-soaped them, and shook their hands, and brought them in by secret, and joined them into the church. What they need is an old fashion prayer altar, where they pray through until losing themselves, coming God's provided way, till they free themselves from the world. Trouble of it is today, they put their name on the book, and join church, and that's all there is to it. But God's way, provided way, is to stay there and work your way through, until God gives you the new birth. That's exactly right. Pick him out, it'll kill him.

George Washington, Mark, Daniel, Moses All Prayed Trough:

ABSOLUTE.A 63-0304 E-52 Tie to there, stay there and pray, not just get down and "God, deliver the poor little fellow and send him home." We'd all like that. But let's stay there until something happens. Oh, when something happens, then that assurance could fall amongst this little handful of people setting in this auditorium here tonight, could fall among us right here, enough faith and power of God... If we could pray through till we strike that home-line, till that Absolute comes down--that same Pillar of Fire that was taken here in Houston by Ted Kipperman's camera twelve years ago... He's here tonight, just as great as He was then, to deliver that boy if we'll just believe it, because He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. I believe it with all my heart. That's why I'm here to offer my prayer with you all that God will spare their life. Then if you could pray through until you've got a answer back, got the assurance back, like Washington had, like John Mark had, like Daniel had, like Moses had, till you've got an absolute, something that you know that you can anchor to... "Then upon this absolute I'll build My church,"... and all the courts in the land cannot resist that.

IN.HIS.PRESENCE 62-0909E 34 Now remember, if such holy men recognized themselves sinners in the Presence of God, what will the sinner and ungodly do at that day? What will people do who set in the meetings? What will the people do that seen the power of God, that's heard the countdown on the Word, that seen God manifest Himself, and (beyond a shadow of doubt) every Scripture fulfilled, and will still try to make it to heaven without being born again and receive the Holy Ghost? The Bible said, "If a righteous man be scarcely saved, where will the sinner and ungodly appear?" What kind of a place are we going to stand in if we see God unfold Hisself right before us, and see the Glory of God just the same as them men did, and that kind of men cried out, prophets and sages upon whom the Word is based upon? If they cried, and fell to their feet, and screamed, "I'm man of unholy lips, uncleanness," what will it be then for that man who won't even confess his sins? What will it be for that teenager that won't confess his or her sin? What will it be for that hardhearted man that thinks he knows more about God's creation than God does Himself? What will happen to that man that's spent all of his life trying to disprove the Bible, where will that guy appear at? Think of it.