We know that the soul consists of the mind, the will and the emotions and our soul is what carries the wounds. These wounds came through our past experiences and also from the effects of the sin in our life.
In Mark 5 is the story of the Gerasene demoniac man and Jesus. Let's begin with verse 2.
Verse 2: And when He (Jesus) had come out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him.
Verse 5: And constantly night and day among the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out and gashing himself with stones.
Verse 8: For He (Jesus) had been saying to him, "Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!".
Verse 9: And He (Jesus) was asking him, "What is your name?" And he said to Him, "My name is Legion; for we are many."
It says that this man lived "among the tombs." This is interesting because if we look up the word tombs this is what it says:
Tombs: The Greek word for tombs is Mnemeion and means: To remember as a memory, to recall and is a place of the past.
And a Legion is: A Roman army division that consists of 3,000 to 6,000 soldiers.
A tomb can be a monument set up in your mind that will cause a perpetual remembrance of hurts and the wounds inside your soul and can cause every part of your soul to be controlled by the horrible thing that happened years ago. It can be the source of wrong thinking and the reason you make bad decision. It can be the root for unhealthy emotions and reactions due to the wounds left from that hurt.
Spiritually speaking the man in the tombs represents a man who lives out of his wounds, the past. And the wound in his soul allowed the legion spirits to take him captive and build a strong hold to torment him and keep him in bondage.
We all have tombs in our soul and legion (spirits) are attached to those tombs (hurts). Once we get our souls healed we're going to see and have the power over demonic spirits and their legal right to be their is going to be gone. Sin forms the wound in the soul. So in order for you to have a new level of dominion over the area that caused the wound in your soul that wound must be healed.
In II Corinthians 10: 3,4 tells us what we are to do concerning strong holds.
Verse 3: For though we walk (live) in the flesh, we are not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons.
Verse 4: For the weapons of our warfare are not physical (weapons of flesh and blood), but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strong holds.
But how do we overthrow and cause the destruction of strong holds that the enemy has built in our soul? By doing what Matthew 12: 28 & 29 tells us to do.
Verse 28: But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
Verse 29: Or how can anyone enter the strong man's house and carry off his property, unless he first binds the strong man? And then he will plunder his house.
The strong man (the demonic spirits, demons) are the ones that have built the strong holds in your soul. So in order for us to remove him, we must first bind him and then we can cast him out by the power of the blood of Jesus and the authority of the Spirit of God that is within us. You see, we carry the Kingdom of God in us and therefore heaven back us up.
So when you bind the enemy what you are doing spiritually is tieing him up firmly as you would wind a cord tightly around something to hold it back or down so you could remove it from it's fixed position. And when you cast out a demon or spirit (strong man), what you are doing is ejecting it, evicting it, banishing it and expelling it from it's house (soul) where it has built it's strong hold.
Pray and ask the Lord to show you the tombs (wounds) in your soul. Let the Holy Spirit guide you to the right scriptures that will show you the area's that need to be healed in your soul. Repent of any sin that is in your life and make a willful choice to forgive those who have hurt you and release them to God. Bind the enemy by decreeing and declaring scriptures over your soul, your heart, your mind, your will and emotions. Cast him out and ask the Holy Spirit to heal every wound and fill up every area of your soul with His presence.
The heart of the Father is for His children to walk in liberty and freedom. But in order for us to do that we must learn to "Stand in the Authority and Power" He has given to us. Today more than ever we need more of Jesus in our lives. We need to be a carrier of His presence and begin to open up a realm of worship so His glory can show up in our lives. Because, when the glory shows up, salvation, healing, deliverance and restoration takes place in the soul.
If you need further prayer or council in this area, please email me @lvreachingoutmin@sbcglobal.net
Blessings,
Elma Garlock
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