Free Spiritual Warfare by Joseph Prince Page B

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    In the same way, the repair of your body, which is the house of the Lord today, begins when the “door” is opened. What is the “door” of your body? It is your mouth. David said in Psalm 141:3, “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.”
    So when you open your mouth and pray in the Spirit, your body begins to be repaired from the inside out. Inside the “house”, the lamps will be lit. Within a few days, there will be life throughout the whole house. And it will reach the vestibule of the house, that is, the porch, which means the outer part of your body. When that happens, you will see visible signs of repair to your body, the manifestation of your healing!
    King Hezekiah’s men began repairing and cleansing the temple from the inside out. How do you cleanse things? You do it with water. Water is a wonderful cleanser. How do you cleanse the temple of the Holy Spirit or the house of the Lord, which is your body? You do it with the rivers of living water. The more you pray in tongues, the more you give vent to the rivers of living water on the inside of you. The more you pray in the Spirit, the more the living waters will push out all the debris, cleaning out your house.
    Now, the cleansing may not be accomplished overnight, but it will be finished if you persevere. It begins on the inside of you and extends outwards until you see visible signs of your miracle. You know, when they started cleansing the temple from the inside out, no one outside could see what was happening inside. It took a while before they could see cleansing on the outside. It took a while before the temple was cleansed both inside and outside.
    Don’t Let The Devil Shut Your Mouth
    What does this teach us about our own lives? It shows us that the first thing we are to do is open the doors of our temples. We learnt that the door is our lips or our mouth. Psalm 141:3 says, “Keep watch over the door of my lips.” In all the devil’s attacks against you, has he managed to shut your door? Is the door to your temple shut?
    You may be in a situation in which the rivers have stopped flowing in your life. This may have let the thieves in and they may be stealing from you. You may feel that you have no power to resist them. Looking back, you may remember that there was a time when you let the rivers loose inside you. You walked in power. If you were sick, you knew that you were getting better. But somewhere along the way, the devil managed to shut your mouth. He managed to shut your door.
    I don’t care what the reasons were, but your mouth was jammed. A spiritual demon called Ahaz closed the door. But like King Hezekiah, you are to open the door again! You are to flush out all the debris and thieves with the rivers of living water by praying continuously in the Spirit!
    He who speaks in tongues builds and repairs himself.
    No wonder on the day of Pentecost, the first thing God did was to open the doors. Acts 2:4 states, “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Once the Holy Spirit made them living temples, God made them houses of prayer and power. Peter preached a powerful sermon and 3,000 people were saved.
    Also, in 1 Corinthians 14:2, we see that “he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries”. No wonder the devil wants to stop you from opening your door. No wonder the devil wants to stop you from speaking in tongues. Because you are not speaking to men, you are speaking to God! Man does not understand what you are saying. You yourself, a man, do not understand either. But it is not for your intellectual stimulation. It is for God.
    Now, some of you who love to rely on your minds to make decisions and to analyse things may not see the value of praying in tongues because the language doesn’t make any sense to you. For