Keeping Your Deliverence Part3

This is the third part of Keeping Your Deliverence Series . Hope it would help us all.

1. The unoccupied house

This is the portion that Jesus emphasis very clearly. This is better seen from the previous example, where David’s just had been intervened by Nathan, and the child of David and Bathsheba dies, and David is back to his feet, realizing the depth of the mistake he has been into and writes a song to the Lord. In-fact, if there is well said speech about the sin and failures; it was said by David in the passages quoted below.

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

(Psalms 51:7-10 KJV)

They say that an empty mind is devil’s workshop. I believe an empty house is the devil’s war house. Here he schemes and makes plans, here the walls are painted black again, the darkness is let to rule again if this is not occupied. Jesus says about this in the verse above that when the demon that was cast out from you has searched for a place to stay and finds none, it returns to its previous house. The one in which it was driven off. You see, like most of us, who work in cubicles at office, find it hard to occupy another cubicle even for a short while; the demon is addicted to the person as much as the person is addicted to the sin. This is a two way street. It gives and it gets. David says to God in the psalm, “Create in me a clean heart and renew your spirit in me”. He asks God to renew the Holy Spirit’s presence in his life again. 

 

Now the boundaries that you were not able to take care off will be taken care of by this new law abiding Spirit. We often invite the Holy Spirit to our lives to clean us of our sins, and then forget that from then on we have given the house a new owner, the boundaries are going to be stringent. The house is going to be cleaned more often than the previous owner and like we had made sure the previous occupants stay was comfortable till he left, we now have to care that the occupant that we have invited is also comfortable. Most often for us, we see the Holy Spirit as a “Ultra Cleaners” company, that we hire to clean the house so that this can be used for new tenants, and less to that of a warden. 

 

This is the second place we fail to keep the deliverance. Inviting and believing and functioning with God in a house so that it can be cleaned.

The following series in Keeping Your Deliverence would be posted in time . Hope it would help us all.