I was reminded of a vision I had.
The devil comes in cunning masquerade to tempt, and in this vision I had,
I saw him for what he really looks like. I saw this demon, and was
wrestling with it. I was really going for him. It looked like a
person, but the more I wrestled with him the more he became like a
small demon. It was very interesting. What I experienced while
wrestling this demon was, I was saying to this person that "you
resist the Holy Spirit, because you know that the Holy Spirit is
keeping you from sinning. And so you want to resist the Holy Spirit
and you want the Holy Spirit to actually leave you so that you can go
out and do what you want to." I wrestled him and really hit him. I
told him : "Yes, you want to push the Holy Spirit away so that you
can go and sin." And I rebuked and wrestled. When I woke up I was
tired, because I had a wrestling match. But I saw, it was like God
revealed it to me the scripture that says that our struggle is not
against flesh and blood. (Ephesians 6:12.)When that sin, that lust, comes in the form of a woman or a man,
it is not them. You cannot stand in your own strength, you have to stand
in the power of the Holy Spirit, because you overcome spiritual
things with the Spirit. Your struggle is not against flesh and blood
but evil spirits. That is how they look like. Jealousy is a spirit,
envy, competitions, they are spirits. The lust of the eyes, the things
that we see.

We were at a wedding on Friday in Neethlingshof, and I saw this
beautiful big tapestry. I remembered how I desired to have a tapestry
in my house, for years. I looked at this tapestry, not deeply and in
depth, I just looked at it and a song came up in my heart. "The
things I used to want, I want them no more." We used to sing: "The
sins I used to do, I do them no more. It was a glad day when I was
born again." But I was singing: "The things I used to want, I want
them no more. The things I used to want, I want them no more. The
things I used to want, I want them no more, it was a glad day, but I
want them no more." I was so free and I said thank you to the Lord.
He says to let patience have its perfect work in you, but you be
entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:4). The day you want nothing, you
are really free. That is freedom.

You can look at things. If you have a desire to shop, I don't
have a desire to shop, I go to the beach and pick up beautiful stones, I
don't have any desire to go to shops and buy rubbish. We waste so
much money on gadgets and unnecessary things. We don't need so much.
Solomon says that there is a time to gather stones and there is a
time to throw stones away. (Ecclesiastes 3:5) Remember in the desert,
they did not have shops or shopping malls. I am not saying that it is
wrong to buy, but sometimes people shop and buy things to satisfy a
deep hunger but only Jesus can satisfy. So I want them no more.

But that is how the enemy comes in. He comes in through cleverly devised fables,
and in cleverly devised packaged things. God has now opened our eyes. You have
to walk in the Spirit. I remember Madame Guyon, a nun came to her saying that
there is a nun who has been tempted with lust and that she had never had this problem.
Madame Guyon said to this nun that she will experience the same things this
other nun is experiencing so that she can have mercy, but this nun
replied that it will never happen to her. Madame Guyon said to her
that before tomorrow she will have had this experience. Then the
devil came and attacked this nun and she came back very humbly saying
sorry and asked for forgiveness. That is why the Bible says "he that
stands, watch that you don't fall." (1 Corinthians 10:12)

When people have fallen is because they have taken that bait.
What
does the Bible say? When you see your brother sin what must you do?
Go and talk about it? No, the Lord says to pray for him. If you see
your brother sin, pray for him, and the Lord will forgive his sins
and help him. Isn't that merciful? It goes on and says for sins that
are not committed unto death. There are sins that are unto death and
that is to blaspheme the Holy Spirit and those kinds of things. But
it says that if it is sins that are not unto death, you can ask God
that he might be forgiven. Isn't that amazing? Isn't prayer powerful?
Lord forgive them that sin. When they go to heaven, that sin is not
going to be there, because of your prayers. It is wonderful to serve
the Lord.