Jeremiah 29:12, King James Version

¹² Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.

Oh, the shit that happens when we pray! It gets DONE! Two days ago I had a pretty crazy-ass day! And when I thought about it, it was because I had ignored an answer to a prayer. Not on purpose, I was just in a hurry……….

Last week I had prayed for God to show me anything else left in my house that may be an open door for demonic activity.

Some background you must know here – almost two years ago He had told me to throw out a ton of t-shirts. And I loved these t-shirts, it was very hard to do. Lots of old collectible ones you can’t get anywhere anymore that I had paid good for, favorites like Garth Brooks, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Megadeth, Rob Zombie, Dangerous Toys, etc. You get the idea. There were multiple trash bags full of them. Some had symbols I didn’t even realize they had, others represented idolatry. It’s a personal conviction thing. (Somewhere on this blog is a story about this, but I had used cryptic wording that indicated only to the ones who know me well that it was these t-shirts and a music playlist that I was told had to go, and yes I got rid of them). I had kept some that I thought were fine, but as we grow in Christ, more and more gets revealed to us, because we are closer to the Holy Spirit.

So, a few weeks ago I went to put on a shirt that is an older one I thought was ok to keep. I’d never gotten told otherwise……….yet. It was a workout shirt by House Of Pain Workout Wear, and I had gotten rid of mostly just music-related t-shirts. That day though, I realized that around the dumbbell it said ‘self-made, iron willed’. The ‘iron-willed’ part is fine, but that first part – here’s what came to mind immediately: the Proverb where it says “Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy path”. Most people I know, (the lukewarms!) quote just the very first part of that and like to conveniently forget about the other parts. In other words, we aren’t self-made. We are God-made and (hopefully!) Spirit-filled. I wore the shirt anyway, thinking I was being ridiculous because everyone knows weight-lifting isn’t a bit sinful. (Which it’s not, that’s not my point here!) Again though at the end of the day when I put it in the laundry that bothered me.

I don’t remember at all if I had a good, bad, or in-between day the day I wore that shirt. But what I do remember, is that this past Thursday (today is Sunday) I took out another shirt that was also by House Of Pain Workout Wear. It had been just a few days since I had prayed that any open doors be revealed to me. This one I loved because it said ‘Death Before Weakness’. Which in itself there’s nothing wrong with. But the skull on it that was so big it took up the whole back of the t-shirt……….right away it reminded me of the Day Of The Dead. (In case you don’t know, that’s a demonic celebration the day after Halloween, which itself is also demonic.) I’ve seen a very similar skull on a candy display in a gas station last year that was celebrating this disgusting day. Funny I never noticed that about the shirt before. I was in a hurry though, as I always am when getting ready for work. I thought to get out another one and not wear that, but time was of the essence so I wore it. I also thought again of the other one by the same company that had bothered me for the first time a few weeks ago. Hmmm………..

Well that day was awful, a woman at the workplace with an evil eye tattooed on her back that is always trying to get everyone in trouble with the boss, backbiting, and screaming her head off at everyone for little things, decided to put eyes on my department. Nothing new there, she does shit to everyone, but this time she really went at it, even came in and started trying to help with the work just to spy. She never has good intentions. I pray Psalm 35 over her every single day. Usually when she comes around I cannot feel the evil because she isn’t able to release it like she wants to around me due to my supernatural in Jesus is so much stronger than her witchy business. This day though she had the whole department in a bad mood, and even the lukewarm Christian woman that works with me came up to me and said the atmosphere was heavy since she came over there today. Which it was. I agreed, and went back to what I was doing. I prayed hard to bind the demons working through her and send them back to the pit, and prayed Holy Ghost Fire upon the whole place. I also asked God to remove her from the area. Thankfully, He listens to his children even when we missed His voice just a few hours earlier. Not fifteen minutes later a guy from her own department went up to her and said she was needed over there. She had to go, and didn’t have time to come do her shit to us the rest of her shift.

I told the other woman I had prayed her away, and we both thanked God for it. A little while later I remembered I was wearing that shirt, and that the creepy woman I had just prayed away has a skeleton t-shirt that advertises some meditation retreat she went to and every time she wears it my witch-detector that the Holy Spirit has provided me with goes off BIG TIME. The similarities between her shirt and the fact that mine brought to mind the Day Of The Dead really hit me then. I knew for a fact that that shirt, and the one I wore a few weeks ago, were open doors that I had prayed to be revealed to me. I went home and threw the shirt away when I took it off for the day.

The next day I asked the other Christian woman I work with if she remembered the shirt I was wearing the day before. She said yes, and that she didn’t like it at all and that she was surprised I was wearing it. I’m certain I’ve worn it there before, but she hadn’t noticed the other times. She asked if I still had it, I said no worries it’s gone and told her about the other one too. We also noticed that when witchy-woman came to our area there was no atmosphere change, it was normal. I had to interact with her just yesterday, and it went just fine. I even got a sincere compliment from her.

Both t-shirts are trashed now, and been taken off my property.

The lesson here, people, is that we all have open doors in unlikely places, even if we lead good lives and are saved and delivered. And you can be the best Christian out there, but one open door is all it takes to give Satan and his demons legal rights to your life. These legal rights will have things like sickness, financial stress, and family problems knocking at your door until you figure out what they are and get rid of them for good. Yes it sucks ass getting rid of things you’ve had for a few decades, but if they gotta go they gotta go! Trust me, you won’t miss them once they’re gone……….