Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Destiny Thieves



I finished this book a couple weeks ago and forgot to do my review on this book.  For anyone that is really serious about their Christian walk and is at the point they need an arsenal of tools for spiritual warfare, this is a really good book that I highly recommend.
Sandie is a woman who totally loves the Lord and wants to empower other Christians to really embrace and take hold of their Destinies in Jesus Christ.  Often we don't know or understand the things that keep us in bondage, that hold us back. 
This is a powerful book and took me over 2 months to read because I would read some, digest and that took time.  This was not a book that was light reading and really was very profound for me spiritually.
She talks about idolatry, different people from the Old Testament, as well as new which both served God and did not.  She talks about evil spirits.  She also goes into the history of things like the Amalekite Spirit, Jezebel, Athaliah, Caleb, Joshua, Ahab, etc.  It gave me a whole different perspective.
What I really love is in some of the chapters, there are prayers of renounciation & repentence of the evil spirits, curses, bad habits/choices and prayers that have Christians take their authority in Jesus Christ.  Though I'm a prayer warrior, this is equipping me more to better know how to pray.
She talks about the various characteristics of different evil people and spirits -- basically identifying them and tells of what their consequences & behaviors are.  Wow, this was impactful as I didn't realize that for most of my life, I displayed many of Jezebel's evilness, even though I was a Christian.  One of the things that sets me apart hugely from her was that I was repentent.  A characteristic of a Jezebel spirit working in your life is that you attract an Ahab person.  Jezebel & Ahab are not indicative of gender.  An Ahab person is often controlling, immature, but very passive aggressive. 
As I reviewed my life with the men I've attracted, they have been passive aggressive men that fit an Ahab description. 
She not only talks about these "Destiny Thieves" but how to combat them.  So, we need to know first what is wrong and then know how to correct them.  She has these things in lists or bullets, which are very helpful.  To combat and defeat a Jezebel spirit, you do that with a Jehu spirit.  There are so many good things in this book that this review could be SUPER long, but I won't make it that way for now.
This will be one of my reference books to go back to to gain more insights.  Definitely as you read this book, pray and ask God to really speak to you about the areas of your life that aren't pleasing to Him, that you will be opened to learning, getting the lies exposed, and bringing Truth to your situation.  It was definitely a challenge to know that I once so greatly had the influence of the Jezebel spirit in my life, but through the course of the past 4 yrs or so, God has brought tremendous change spiritually to me through blood line cleansing, cleansing my home from spiritual darkness, changing my thoughts, actions, being in Bible & book studies where God's Truth is revealed and the lies exposed.
It has been quite painful to go through all these things, but it has been so freeing.  Still a long way to go to fulfilling my destiny in the Lord, but getting there.  I am thankful for Sandie's wisdom, experience, her desire to equip other people in spiritual warfare.  God bless her and her husband, Mickey.

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