I have a story for you that has produced miraculous results in the lives of many who have read the story or for whom we have paraphrased it in our own words. In one case we even re-enacted the story with tangible props. The results were not only healing but hilarious. We invite you to read the story and look at all your cute puppy dogs and then ask yourself if you are cuddling a pet or a pest? The healing and liberating hand of God may also reach down from heaven into your life and do what no counselor has been able to do for you heretofore. Our prayers will join yours. You can find the story on pages 118 and 119 of Frank Hultgreen’s book, “Prophetic Insights into Spiritual Warfare.”
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Be careful of disappointment. Many of us suffer disappointment and can’t rise above it. It’s because we have given place to an enemy, a giant that wants to rob us of our anointing and fellowship with God. Disappointment is a horrible emotion that brings a spirit of hopelessness into operation. Like disappointment, self-pity is also one of the key giants. He will cause us to be ineffective and introspective. The Lord showed me something about all these spirits and the negative, destructive force of melancholy.
As I was praying and thanking the Lord for what He had done, I said, ”Lord, is there a giant that I haven’t yet defeated?” I really didn’t think there was anything still there because we had been praying for many years and felt that most of these pressures had been defeated.
Then the Lord gave me a vision. I was sitting in my prayer time and saw a large timber water barrel holding forty or fifty gallons. It was one of the old-fashioned barrels from the turn of the century and full of water. Then I saw this little dog. It had great big, mournful eyes but it was looking at me ever so cutely and I liked it. Its beautiful big eyes were saying, “Love me, hold me; you won’t hurt me, will you?” Its eyes were almost speaking to me and my heart was touched. I wanted to cuddle it because it was such a mournful, little puppy dog. Then the voice of the Lord spoke to me very clearly. “Kill it.”
I couldn’t kill it. It was so beautiful and nice and soft. Its mournful eyes were saying, “Don’t hurt me, don’t do anything to me, just love me. I want you to love me.” But the Lord said, “Kill it.” I felt He wanted me to put that cute little dog in the barrel of water and drown it. Suddenly, I had a stick in one hand and put the puppy in the water with the other.
Then the Lord said again, “Kill it.” I put the stick on the doggie’s head and pushed it down ever so slowly. The Lord was becoming a little angrier and speaking a little louder. “Kill it, kill it, kill it.” Gradually I pushed it under the water. But those eyes! But when it was gone, something left me. I came out of my vision and realized that the name of the little doggy was self-pity. The Lord had shown me how I had to deal with a spirit that had affected me adversely for many years.
This was another form of spiritual warfare, combating the enemy that comes in the form of an appealing, cuddly little dog. Nevertheless, it was a giant of self-pity sent to destroy. The giant of self-pity was another giant of Rephaim that had come to steal, kill and destroy the anointing.
I wonder what the devil has been saying to you? Has he been putting you down and talking to you about other people? What about the giant of lies? It’s incredible the number of people that come for counseling who have a poor image of themselves. Thoughts race through their minds that people don’t like them, that they are useless to their family and to the church. Because their ears are open to these thoughts, they
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bring condemnation, fear, bondage and hopelessness. They believe them and are overpowered by discouragement, even believing that God hates them. When they pray, they don’t get answers because they believe a lie.
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