A man lies in the gutter before Breakthrough, Builder, Gatherer and I.
I can see a snakelike creature writhing in the poor man’s chest and I am about to cast it out when Builder speaks.
Builder:
“Some blueprints for the righteous will include great suffering so that their healing brings glory to God. Some blueprints lead a man through almost impossible trials so that he may qualify for his destiny.
But this man has written his own blueprint and he has brought great calamity upon himself because he refuse to learn from anyone. Indeed, he ignores the blueprint that it brought to him because he refuses to recognize his own faults. In his own mind, he is never wrong.
Such pride is opposed by God so heavily that not even Gatherer may intervene.
If you will not be taught, you cannot be saved.
But if you bow your knee before God and open yourself to teaching from couriers and teachers while you yourself are diligent in studying the word, builder angels are able to deliver your blueprint to you so that Gatherer angels have the legal right to remove the chaff from your life while Breakthrough angels unlock the flow of abundance.
Those who refuse to learn are almost impossible to bless. You know them by their failing relationships first, then by their constant frustration with world around them.”
Gatherer:
“Come son of sorrow, within this man is a demon with who you need converse. It guards its host jealously and even harms him from time to time. It is best not to cast it out lest it come back with even more demons and make this man’s life a worse hell. Speak to it and learn.”
I step forward and speak to the old man in the gutter.
Me:
“What demon are you?”
Demon:
“I am no demon. I am just an old man struggling to get by. If you help me, God will bless you. God bless you! God bless you!”
Me:
“I can see you demon. Lies are pointless, I am here in spirit.”
The old man blinks a few times, looks at the three angels beside me, then at me, and sits up straight and sober as if he were a different man altogether.”
Demon:
“Courier! Please don’t cast me out, I have a right to be here. I worked to possess this one for fifty years.”
Me:
“How do you possess someone?”
Demon:
“I have a right to be here, he chose me! Please don’t cast me out!”
Gatherer:
“The Holy Spirit cannot inhabit the same space as a demonic spirit, neither can any of the seven spirits of God. To end up completely possessed is a process of intentional disconnection from all that is good about God. It starts with a seed of bitterness and then evolves into willful rebellion, a seared conscience, the rejection of the spirits of God and finally in possession. See how dangerous bitterness is son of sorrow? This is the intended end product. This man has lost himself completely. He has turned his back on love and grace to hold on to bitterness as if it were God.
Even casting out this spirit would not heal him unless he was ready to forgive.
It would take much prayer and fasting to save this man but even then he would most likely return to his bitterness like a dog to its vomit.”
Me:
“So we just leave the poor guy here in the gutter?”
Gatherer:
“This man has been set free many times. He simply returns to his bitterness each time. Now he wanders from church to church, manipulating soft hearts for money.
You could set him free but he would hate you for it.”
Breakthrough:
“We stand here, three archangels and a Courier. And still we cannot help this man because of his own choices. The demon that possesses him is of the lowest rank and casting it out would be simple for you. But this man has chosen this spirit.
It is this way with all who hold on to unforgiveness. They may not be possessed, but they choose to reject blessings when they refuse to forgive. Michael himself might be sent to bless them and he would not be able to get through.
You must walk with a clean heart so that nothing impedes your connection to wisdom, knowledge, understanding, might, council, the fear of God and the spirit of the Lord. For through that connection we are able to bring an unimpeded flow of provision to your life.
There are similar connections to demonic principalities that allow the flow of opulent resources to the lives of people. It is thus because of the laws of spiritual authority concerning release and delay.
Those who serve mammon as God must submit to mammon and serve mammon completely with seared conscience. When you waver between two Gods, you create instability.
People need to choose whom they will serve so that they either receive a reward from the kingdom of darkness or from the kingdom of light.
But know that in both the kingdom if darkness and the kingdom of light, it is legally impossible to create abundance in the life of someone who allows themselves to be subjugated by offense. You must choose abundance by faith.
Faith in darkness or faith in light.
Darkness will reward you in full in this lifetime at great eternal cost.
The kingdom of heaven will meet the needs of the righteous according to each individual role in the kingdom in proportion to the advance of the kingdom.
Those who insist on building storehouses will hamper the advance of the kingdom and eventually have to sear their conscience to cling to their wealth.
This poor man in the gutter here is no different. Instead of wealth, he has made bitterness his god.
Not even demons can provide for him. This one that possesses him is an embarrassment to its kind for a possessed man in the gutter is not a very good marketing campaign for the kingdom of darkness.
Our point is thus:
Bitterness ties the hands of the mightiest archangel and the lowliest demon. It keeps away provision even when a man is totally possessed.
For this man uses the sheer power of his free will to fuel his self justification. He desires vindication so much that he cannot see his own sin, only the sin of the world around him.
If he were to choose to forgive his business partners, he would be a millionaire again within six months. For one failure does not best a man of faith. But he insists on dwelling at one negative experience that happened when he was a young man.
He has made that negative experience his god. And bitterness is the cruelest of all spirits.”
Me:
“So poverty is a result of bitterness?”
Breakthrough:
“Poverty is a state of dishonor. A hunger for generational vindication that will never come. As with this man, those in poverty must forgive those who put them there. Even generations before must be forgiven. For when you are free from bitterness and a need to be right all the time you will be able to learn and grow.
But bitterness and a need for vindication stop the flow of abundance in both the kingdom of God and the kingdom of mammon.
Abundance occurs when the source of wisdom is honored with sacrifice.
Know this son of obedience:
It is impossible to honor anything or anyone when you hunger for vindication and insist on opening the scrolls of others to cast blame and condescension. Thus you dishonor wisdom herself and without her, you will never obtain the favor that enables you to climb out of poverty and lack.
Wisdom is the key to everything. Wisdom increases faith and deepens understanding. Wisdom unlocks spiritual and physical vaults.
But wisdom and bitterness are mortal enemies. They are opponents who cannot inhabit the same space. Wisdom creates favor with both God and man. Bitterness shuts doors, even in the kingdom of darkness.
Connect to wisdom, walk in total forgiveness, let love lead you and you shall advance the kingdom and walk in abundance.
Honor the sources of wisdom with sacrifice so that wisdom may be attracted to you, and you to her. For I, prudence, walk hand in hand with her and those who love her love me
And those whom she loves, I bless..
The kingdom is all son of obedience!”
Me:
“The kingdom is all!”
I wake up.
