Demons hate fresh water!

The title of this message is no joke - I'm not being facetious. I believe the Bible speaks very clearly on this subject of demons: They can't swim - because they hate water! Every night before I retire for the evening I fill up a big glass of water and put it beside my bed. Then when I wake up in the night I fill myself up with water. I do it in the natural and I do it in the Spirit. You cannot go swimming unless you have water. How ridiculous it would be if we went to a swimming pool party and found on arrival that there was no water in the pool. The same type of principle applies when we want to step into the Spirit only to find there is no fuel in the pool. Going to see people free, you need to have the spirit of God.

(Matthew 12:43-45). Message Bible “When a defiling evil spirit is expelled from someone, it drifts along through the desert looking for an oasis, some unsuspecting soul it can bedevil. When it doesn't find anyone, 44it says, "I'll go back to my old haunt.' On return it finds the person spotlessly clean, but vacant. 45It then runs out and rounds up seven other spirits more evil than itself and they all move in, whooping it up. That person ends up far worse off than if he'd never gotten cleaned up in the first place. " Why are these demons allowed back in? Because you are not being filled up. Acts 13:52 “ And the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit.” You may think you have cleaned out the junk from your lives and gotten ready for God, but you weren't hospitable to the kingdom message.

Throughout the Bible, Water Is a Type of the Holy Spirit.

Jesus said, (John 7:37-39). On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. 38Whoever believes in me, as[1] the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." The Holy Spirit is living water! He falls like rain (both the former and latter rains). He springs up like a well within thirsting believers. And His life is poured out as a flood upon the world - like streams in the desert!

Every demon in hell knows that water in the Bible represents God's Spirit. And they know that since Jesus is now bodily with the Father, their arch enemy is His Spirit - and wherever He abides, they must flee! They can't stand the water of the Holy Ghost - in you, in the church or in the world. Dryness represents one who is void of the Spirit of God. Dry places are a type of spiritless people - God's Spirit does not dwell in them. David said, "The rebellious dwell in a dry land" (Psalm 68:6). This is true of the believer who has neglected the Lord: he has become "dry," empty of all things of God. And dead, dry churches and Christians become the dwelling places of unclean spirits. Demons roam about them, looking for rest - because dryness opens one up to demonic harassment.

Scripture Warns That in These Last Days The Earth Will Be Invaded By a Mad Devil!

Right now, Satan and his armies of unclean spirits are pouring out their demonic fury on mankind: (Revelation 12:12) “But woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has gone down to you! He is filled with fury, because he knows that his time is short."

God Says the Troubles Just Ahead Will Be Beyond Anything the World Has Ever Seen!

Right now Canada is witnessing the entire breakdown of our way of life. Yet this kind of breakdown is not just happening here - its worldwide. Sometimes, as I see these things coming, I think to myself. "Lord, I'm tired of all this - I want to go home and be with You. I don't want to be here when all hell spills over!" But God has no intention of letting demons frighten His church! He is not about to stand by and let a mad devil take over. He has a glorious war plan - a sure-fire way to send unclean spirits into a chaotic frenzy:

God Promises to Issue Out of His House Living Waters!

God is going to send forth floods of water on dry ground, where devils work! He is going to have well-watered gardens where before there was only dryness. How? you ask. He is going to chase demons out of His house by flooding it with His Spirit! We see a picture of this in Ezekiel 47. The Lord showed Ezekiel a vision in which His Spirit overflowed and became "waters to swim in": "Now he brought me back to the entrance to the Temple. I saw water pouring out from under the Temple porch to the east (the Temple faced east). The water poured from the south side of the Temple, south of the altar. " (verse 1). Ezekiel saw water begin to trickle out from under the doorway of the Lord's house. First it came up to the prophet's ankles... then to his knees... then to his loins... until finally, he said, "He measured off another fifteen hundred feet. By now it was a river over my head, water to swim in, water no one could possibly walk through." (Ezekiel 47:5). Then the Lord said to Ezekiel: "Wherever the river flows, life will flourish--great schools of fish--because the river is turning the salt sea into fresh water. Where the river flows, life abounds. " (verse 9). In other words: "Wherever this river flows, there's going to be life. Living water will flow out from My house!"

That house signifies us! We are God's house - our bodies are temples of His Holy Spirit! And the Holy Ghost is a well that continually springs up within us: (John 4:14). Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst--not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life."

When You Get Alone With Jesus to Worship And Adore Him, Those Living Waters Begin to Flow!

No demon can hang around when the Holy Ghost's water is flowing within you. He'll flee to a dry place! God sees every heart that is thirsty - and He is going to open up rivers of His Spirit for all who cry out to Him. Isaiah prophesied: (Isaiah 41:10-18). I'm about to pour out My glory! All the dry places where seducing devils roam about will be turned into places of praise and glory to Me. The wilderness will become a lake of life!"

The Lord says, "I am the One who controls the waters. I merely speak the word, and there comes either flood or drought!" (Isaiah 35:3-7). Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. 4 Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; he will come and save you. 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. 7 And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. God says His waters will break out! (The New American Standard translates this phrase, "gush out.") To "break out" means to come with such force that it overflows all boundaries - flooding all surrounding areas!

What God Has Promised Us Through His Prophets Is Amazing and Glorious!

Ezekiel prophesied that the flood is going to flow in ever-increasing intensity. It will grow from a trickle... to a river... and finally to an ocean to swim in! Some would say, "Wonderful! We want the Holy Spirit to gush out of us. We'll just gather together to pray and believe God to open the windows of heaven and flood down upon us. We'll sit here in faith and wait for the gush to come." No - the Bible says something altogether different! The water was only a small trickle when it was in the house; it increased in intensity only when it got to the outer gate. You see, God's water flows through us - but it cannot become a sea to swim in until it flows outside His house!

If we keep this living water to ourselves, we will enjoy a measure of life. But if we want to see demons put to confusion in all of society, the water has to pour out of us! Every true believer is to be a fountain - overflowing outside the walls. We are to be wells that spring up and gush - not just in church, but in our home, on the job, on the street - everywhere we go!

As Ezekiel watched the flood turn into an ocean, the Lord told him to come up out of the water and look back over the banks that once were barren. "Swarms of living creatures will live wherever the river flows. There will be large numbers of fish, because this water flows there and makes the salt water fresh; so where the river flows everything will live. (Ezekiel 47:6-9).

All death had departed - every demon had fled! If there is a promised latter rain to come - a final, great outpouring of the Spirit - then a great harvest of souls is inevitable. Have you noticed how easy it is to get people saved now, our greatest challenge is to now plug them into the river of life. If you have His life in you, then you are spreading life because life produces life!

In Light of All These Prophecies, I Ask You: What Is Coming Out of You? Life - or Death?

(James 3:11) A spring doesn't gush fresh water one day and brackish the next, does it? I believe that many who hear this message are going to be shocked on Judgment Day. They are going to wake up to the truth that they have neglected and departed from the Lord! "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation?" (Hebrews 2:3). To neglect means to "be careless of" - to act as if something doesn't really matter.

Suppose I knocked on your door today, looked you in the eye and said: "I've been sent by the Lord to warn you of something dangerous in your spiritual life. And I have a word for you, directly from God's throne: You are not going to make it! You will not be with us in glory. You have opened yourself up to the demonic activity because your heart is dry and empty!" No doubt, you would be offended. You'd say, "That can't be! I praise and worship God with my hands upraised. I feel the Spirit move on me. How could I be a dry place where demons seek rest?"

My answer would be: "What you receive in such meetings isn't from your own well. It is the overflow of living water that God pours out upon awakened saints all around you! They walk daily in the Spirit, they commune daily with Jesus - and they have developed the up-welling of the Spirit of God. But your well is bone-dry! Ever since you've known the Lord, you've had time for everything but Him. And you have done just what He has warned against: you have neglected your great salvation! You have departed from Him in your heart!" "But," you argue, "I love people - I'll do anything for anybody. I'm not living in sin. I pray, I give. Don't tell me I don't love Jesus - you're judging me. God knows my heart!"

I would answer: "Yes, He does know your heart - and He sees every hour of your day! But you don't hunger and thirst for Him. You don't take the time to pray or dig into His word. Instead, you let it all slip by as if it really doesn't matter."

Neglect has become a way of life for you - it has turned your heart into a dry wilderness! That is why you are so harassed, depressed and bitter at times. It is why you are attacked so often in your body. If the Spirit were flowing in you daily, all unclean spirits would have fled. But instead, you have become a dry ground - open to demonic harassment!' I am not suggesting that all sickness is the result of demon activity. Nor am I saying we need to pray and read the Bible all day long. God has made time for us to rest, play and enjoy our family and the good things He provides. He is not a hard taskmaster.

But when your whole day is spent on self, family, work and play, and not one hour for the Lord - not fifteen minutes to be refreshed by fellowship with Him - that is neglect! That is acting as if it does not matter! And on Judgment Day, God will show more mercy toward the addict, the fornicator and the drunkard than He will toward you!

Soon it will be too late for you! You may think that when the world literally begins to fall apart, perhaps then you'll start to seek Him. But your heart will be so dry and empty, you'll have nothing to draw on. You won't want to pray. Instead, your condition will get worse - and you'll grow harder and colder than ever. When you come to church and see others running to God because they know the hour of judgment has come, you'll be so harassed and confused you won't know what to do! If you won't come while His mercy is available you won't come during the flood of judgments!

If All of God's People Came to His House Full of The Water of the Spirit, We Would Never Have to Bind Demon Powers or Rebellious Spirits!