POSSESSED BY THE SPIRIT

"The people who know their God shall be strong and carry out great exploits"

(Daniel 11:32)

To possess the Spirit of God is one thing but it is quite another to be possessed by the Spirit of God.

Millions around the world have received the baptism on the Holy Spirit since the great outpouring at the beginning of the twentieth  century. This is part of the preparation of the church, the bride, for the return of King of Kings.

However, the beauty and power of his life came from the fact that he went on from there to the position that he is talking about here. A further place in Spirit exists, a place of being controlled and possessed by Him. God really starts to use men and women when they become totally consumed by Him, to the fact, to the extent that their thinking, their ways of acting, their praying, their  worshipping, their all become Spirit controlled. Their lives are no longer their own but His.

Nothing less will please the Lord, only a constant, full burnt offering for God where He is in absolute and utter authority over my whole being until I am living thinking, acting  on the power of the Holy Spirit. 

We know that many people are affected by evil Spirits in our day. Now many people are "demonized," or affected by them in certain restricted areas of their lives yet they still carry on relatively normal activities, being bound just in those areas. For example they may be "demonized" by a spirit of alcoholism, spirits of anger and rage or spirit of lust, yet the evil spirit don't dominate or control their whole existence.

However, a very few people actually are possessed by a demon. Those possessed  are in an asylum strapped to a table or in a straightjacket, because they have no personal control because the demon spirit is controlling them. God is looking for those who will come to the place of absolute surrender.

In the same way, many Christian's are "Holy Spiritized," still living according to their own plans most of the time, affected by God"s Spirit in some aspects of their lives. But a few are actually possessed by the Holy Spirit. Those possessed are the ones who have given over total control to Him. "The people who know their God  shall be strong, and carry out great exploit" (Daniel 11:32).

This is the second step of the baptism in the Holy Spirit that the church needs to take hold of. The last days church, with opposition that it is up against  and the work it still has to do, must take hold of this further step of being Spirit-filled. God is looking for those who will come to the place of absolute surrender.  They will be the labourers used in the end-times harvest the last great world wide revival. They will he  God's end times army not those with great ability or gifts who have the Holy Spirit but those  who have God's  ability because the Holy Spirit  has them. If your desire is to be a member of this special "armed forces unit," it requires your absolute dedication. You need to be baptized in the Holy Spirit and received the gift of tongues  as a starting point. If you have not experienced this yet, seek the Lord for it. Then find someone who has, so that they might lay hands on you and pray for you.  Do not stop until you received it. Finally,  consecrate yourself to the surrendered life to become part of God's end times army and "a flame of fire" (Hebrew 1:7).