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 3
SHIFTING SHADOWS
OF
SUPERNATURAL POWER
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SHIFTING SHADOWS
OF
SUPERNATURAL POWER
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JULIA C. LOREN
with Mahesh Chavda and Bill Johnson
 © Copyright 2006 – Julia Loren

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 Acknowledgements

To those who contributed to this manuscript by writing excerpts specifi-

cally for use in this book or by granting interviews…Thank you for giving
your time. To everyone I quoted, thank you for mentoring us through your
ministries and nudging us into greater levels of faith and understanding.
To my dear friends who survived the writing of this book—Steve and
Michele Saunders…Thank you for housing me for weeks on end when I
needed a place to write, praying for me while I wrote, having just the right
books on your shelves, and extending so much grace and love to me in the
course of our friendship over the last 15 years.
To Graham, Bill, and Mahesh…Thank you for being so openhearted and
openhanded. You are true examples of ones who not only persevere in min-
istry at great personal sacrifice, but ones who burn ever brighter—continuing
to illuminate our path and chase the shifting shadows of darkness from our
lives and from many cultures.
To Abba…Thank you for standing over my shoulder as I wrote and offer-
ing suggestions.
 Endorsements

I have known Julia Loren for 20 plus years as pastor, friend, and fellow
pilgrim. I’ve watched her grow in wisdom, understanding, and that most
useful of spiritual gifts—discernment. What she writes is always worth
reading. She will frustrate some because she asks too many questions and
provides too few answers. I guess that’s the journalist in her. But she will
make you think. She is one of those Jesus-followers who is not in lockstep
with the latest fad, but who is willing to listen for the voice of the Master
and help tune others’ ears to hear Him.
Ed Cook, Senior Pastor
Vineyard Christian Fellowship of Seattle
Seattle, Washington

In today’s spiritual climate, vast shades of gray seem to overpower the

well defined boundaries previously called black and white. The need of the
hour is for discernment. True discernment restores boundaries, dispels fear,
and creates a safe environment where authentic spiritual experiences can
flourish. Julia Loren comes to our aid in her must-read book Shifting
Shadows of Spiritual Power by re-establishing proper guidelines for those in
spiritual quest.
James W. Goll
Cofounder of Encounters Network
Author of The Seer, Dream Language and The Lost Art of Intercession
 Table of Contents

Foreword..................................................................................11
Preface ......................................................................................15

PART ONE

Chapter 1 The House of Shifting Shadows ..............................................19

Chapter 2 Shifting Shadows of Power ......................................................27
Chapter 3 Revelatory Power of Psychics and Mediums ............................47
Chapter 4 Revelatory Power of True and False Prophets ........................63
Chapter 5 Supernatural Power of Healers & Power Brokers ..................85

PART TWO

Chapter 6 Showdown With the Prophets of Baal in the Church............115

Chapter 7 Showdown With the Prophets of Baal in the World..............135
Chapter 8 The Sound of Abundant Rain ................................................155
 PART THREE
Chapter 9 You Can Access Supernatural Power ....................................175
Chapter 10 Preparing for an Increase of Power
BY BILL JOHNSON ....................................................................185

Chapter 11 Preparing for an Increase in Authority

BY MAHESH CHAVDA ..............................................................197

Bibliography ..........................................................................205
About the Author ..................................................................209
Author Contact Information ..............................................211
Coming Soon..........................................................................213
 Foreword

Real prophets are challenged by mediocrity. They have an inner compul-

sion to fight darkness. They become light. Mediocrity is the shadow land of
faith to them. In the original showdown between God and the prophets of
Baal, Elijah was not just fighting with occult powers. He was challenging the
space between dark and light; the grey areas; the shifting shadows of loyalty
which people can inhabit when they do not reside in the light, close to the
beacon of faithfulness.
Prophets live in the light, walk in the light, and bask in the light of all that
God is to His people. They live with upturned faces to a God who perpetually
lifts up the light of His countenance over His people. God smiles, and we look
to Him, and our faces are radiant.
We have a cell in our DNA that loves to worship, we exist to magnify. If
not God, it will be something or someone else, an idol of some sort.
Real prophets adore intimacy with God. They love His presence. It is their
place of refuge, a fortress, a secret place of worship and communion. They ac-
cess a place of blinding, coruscating light. From that place they embark on
their mission to magnify the Lord in the world of men. The chief role of a
prophet is to make God radiant to everyone they meet, be it friend or foe;
Christian or pre-Christian; the good and the wicked.
Prophets live in the center of light, not on the edge of darkness. Their
influence and anointing stretches out to touch the blackness and invade it,
but they themselves have their heart safely locked away in the inviolate
place of God’s affection. Everyone must come to the light and abide there.
Too many Christians live in the shadows of intimacy and are therefore not
overwhelmed by God. They are in control of their passion instead of being
abandoned to it.
Intimacy provokes confidence which releases faith to stand in God’s pres-
ence and see Him as big as he is. Prophets declare the hugeness of God in all
His attributes. God is looking for a people who will make Him bigger.
Our intimacy with God intimidates the enemy. It will also offend Chris-
tians living in a controlled, passionless relationship with the Lord. Funda-
mentalists are usually no fun and mainly mental in their approach to God.
The Father smiles, He laughs, He has a huge sense of humor. He laughs at
His enemies.
Boldness comes from the heart of God. A confidence so rich it makes any-
thing else seem like a poverty spirit. Elijah had fun on Mount Carmel.
Prophets relish the battle. Elijah ridiculed the enemy.
The Church at large has too much respect for the devil and not enough
admiration for the Lord. When we live in the radiance of God our hearts are
captivated by His brilliance. Our focus is sharp, our perceptions in high defi-
nition. We are captured by the immensity of the Father. We live in shock and
awe at what He can do, He really is far above all principalities and powers.
Shadow-land Christians seldom turn up for the fight. If they do, they look
for a lead from someone else. Confidence takes the initiative. In shadow-land
language, confidence is deemed to be triumphalism. If misery loves company,
then mediocrity fellowships with doubt. “I believe, help my unbelief” is the
cry of a man stumbling toward the light not away from it.
Elijah was not just attacking the darkness he was challenging the grey
areas in the people round about him. We must see God’s people walking in
fullness, not measure. The enemy has come to steal, to kill, and destroy. A
church living in less than what the Father has decreed is being robbed, their
initiative killed, and their capacity to overcome destroyed. Mediocrity is what
we are left with, if we do not live in the full light of His presence.
Prophets give a wake up call to the Body of Christ. Any sportsman will
tell us that it is not possible to win if we are afraid to lose. Ironically it is
Christians who live in the shadows who are most afraid of the dark.
If the power of the Cross condemns us to victory then we must produce
believers who have a passionate desire to win. The showdown on Mount
Carmel declared to God’s people, “This is who God is! Who is He for you?”
New Testament prophets do not stand between God and man, only Jesus
can do that. Rather they stand before God in the presence of man. They are
not idealists. They are realists because they live in the presence of God in such
a way that their reality is shaped by their intimacy.
The showdown was over before it began. Elijah was not fighting to get
victory. He was contending from the place of overcoming: the presence of
God. What God’s people were witnessing was the power of God being ex-
pressed through the heart of a man who knew that His anointing came from
his intimate relationship with the Lord.
Elijah couldn’t lose—that’s the significance of Mount Carmel.

Graham Cooke
Founder of Future Training Institute
Author and Church Consultant
 Preface

The shifting shadows blurring the lines between light and darkness, good
and evil, are creating a twilight zone of spiritual awareness, especially in
North America. It results in confusion and apathy on one hand, or an inordi-
nate desire for power at the other extreme. These shadows lead many to call
evil “good” and good “evil” not only in society but within the walls of many
churches. We must chase the shadows of confusion out of our minds.
Unless we purpose to dwell in the realms of God’s glory—His love and
light—we will easily be led astray into shifting shadows of loyalty and fail to
reflect His magnificent radiance. He is the light that overcomes the darkness.
In Him there is no shifting shadow, no shadow of turning. The intent of this
book is to reveal the realms of God’s glory and power increasing on the earth
today. It is an increase that heralds the end of darkness, the end of the dark
lord’s power, and the beginning of the brilliant, majestic beauty of the second
coming of Christ.
This book contains interviews and excerpts from many well-known
prophetic voices who call people to step out of the shifting shadows of loyal-
ties and into a passionate pursuit of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, His
glory, and the power inherent in His Kingdom. It is a call to take your place
in the plan unfolding…a plan that heralds the close of this age.
By the end of the book, you will discover a measure of discernment about
the origins of revelatory and supernatural spiritual power and the shadows of
deception in the world and in the Church, to equip you to receive and express
the fullness of the Kingdom of God. It is an unabashed attempt to move you
into a greater measure of faith and power so you will stand in the fullness of
awe, captivated by God’s passionate love. Then, as bearers of light, the shad-
ows will flee before you and the showdown of the clash of powers to come at
the end of the age will give way to the eternal joys of His Kingdom come.
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PART ONE
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Chapter 1
3
The House of Shifting Shadows

Four children moved with their parents into a small house in a wealthy
community near the sea. It seemed, at that stage in their lives, that the parents
were mostly absent, either working or socializing, leaving the children to ex-
plore life on their own. There was nothing remarkable about the children.
They were good looking, of average intelligence, fought one another as sib-
lings do, played well with others, received good marks in citizenship in
school, and they were active in sports. Prior to moving into their new home,
they were two boys and two girls growing up together in a happy household.
Once they moved into their new home, however, the happiness shifted and
the fissures in the family cracked wide open. Too quickly, the resident shad-
ows carried them, one by one, into great darkness.
Anyone who watches old horror movies knows that darkness often
resides in the attic. Such hiding spaces attract children; so it was no surprise
when Ann, the 13-year-old eldest daughter, crawled up into the small attic
space above the hallway to see if the previous occupants had left anything
behind. She saw only one object, a box heavy of old papers. She dragged the
box to the edge of the attic steps and enlisted the help of Rick, her younger

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brother, to steady the ladder so she could bring the box down into the light
for inspection. They opened it to find dozens of pamphlets and since the boy
had no interest in reading he scampered off to surf with his friends as she sat
down to read. Not knowing the meaning of many of the words, she pondered
the term “Theosophical Society,” then read a few pages about mysticism and
spiritism and grew bored. She stuffed the box in her closet alongside her
tennis racket.
Within a year great changes took place in every member of the household.
The parents’ stress doubled as they labored under a recessive economy result-
ing in job changes and financial duress beyond their ability to cope. So they
did what many couples in Southern California do under stress—drink and
ignore the growing cracks in their marriage. Karl, the eldest and natural born
leader, grew very popular in his high school and was elected class president.
He looked good, acted good, attracted girls, and could manipulate adults to
obtain anything he wanted or wanted to do. In secret he experimented with a
variety of drugs and gravitated toward an older group who engaged in read-
ing secret books and performing secret rituals. Little brother Rick eventually
followed his big brother’s example.
Meanwhile, Ann pulled the Theosophical Society booklets out of the
closet. Although she didn’t understand them, she read them all and devel-
oped an appetite to experience something more transcendental than drugs
could offer. She had little contact with her brothers who were gone most of
the time and had scant interest in her sister, Tami, who was five years
younger.
Although the house was small, none of the siblings had any idea what
each other was into. The parents thought the children were happily busy in
school, surfing, playing tennis, and other sports; and they approved of Karl’s
budding interest in the opposite sex and high grade point average. The chil-
dren eventually realized that they all had discovered the world of marijuana
in the same year and began to encourage each another to try mind-expanding
drugs beyond weed.
The boys attended secret parties. Their personalities changed rapidly.
Karl grew especially serious, withdrawn. Rumors at school about a satanist

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group led Ann to believe her brother was one of the key members. The dark
rituals, orgies, the satanic bible, and talk about Anton LaVey, intrigued her
but she decided she wasn’t interested in that degree of evil. In the meanwhile,
a Jesus People movement had arrived on campus and Ann gravitated toward
a lighter brand of spirituality—to a God who offered love and healing. She
could see that the dark side was clearly overtaking her brothers.
One day she came home from school to find Karl sound asleep on the
couch speaking fluent German. Another time, she heard him talking to
someone she couldn’t see in the room with him, It was an entity that only he
could see and later he told her was his “special friend.” The rumors at school
about a secret society and satanic sacrifices increased. Abruptly and unexpect-
edly, Karl graduated early and moved to Northern California. He drifted
into an even darker morass of occultism associated with Anton LaVey.
Karl became entangled in a relationship with a woman who ardently
practiced witchcraft, a woman Ann described as “radiating the presence of
evil.” Throughout the years she heard bits and pieces about her brother’s
lifestyle—rumors too evil to include in this book—things she hoped were
not true. From time to time her brother brought strange friends home and
what little he said about his life seemed to substantiate the rumors. When
confronted, though, he became defensive and denied any involvement with
the occult.
Karl’s life continued to decline until he could barely carry on a conversation
and often lapsed into brief flights of disconnected sentences, staring into space as
if watching the sentences hang in the air like butterflies. He seemed completely
possessed or completely mentally ill. In hindsight, his family came to see the
signs of mental illness had, in fact, crept into Karl throughout his school years.
Perhaps this predisposition to mental illness evolved because of the occult and
drugs. Or, perhaps, the demonic preyed upon the young boy’s mind and led him
to be overtaken by the occult. Ann never could tell the difference.
Rick flowed in the occult for awhile, eventually deciding to make a living.
He married and settled down to raise four children of his own. They live life
as best they can.

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Ann decided to give up reading Theosophy and her attraction to “white”

magic and “prophets” like Edgar Cayce and Nostradamus. She stopped
gardening for the local medium and shunned tarot card readings and
invitations to spiritualist meetings. She gravitated instead toward the
Christians and listened longingly to their talk about Jesus.
Not long after she graduated from high school, Ann left home to travel
around the world. She eventually settled in Israel where she spent the better
part of a year studying Hebrew and working on a kibbutz (a collective farm-
ing community) at the base of Mount Carmel near Haifa. One day, she
walked through the community orchards at the base of the mountain with a
fellow language student, a young Jewish woman, who pointed up the hillside
and said, “Up there is where Elijah slew the prophets of Baal.” Ann didn’t
know who Elijah was or who the prophets of Baal were, so the Jewish
woman lent her a Bible to read. She told her it provided a history of the coun-
try and she showed her in which chapter she would find the story of Elijah.
The story about the prophets of Baal caught her attention. They cut
themselves and danced madly because they were taunted by a prophet from
God who challenged them to follow Him—the most powerful God. She no-
ticed that there was a spiritual power that led to destruction and another
spiritual power that led to the true God. As she read she considered her own
experiences with spiritual power that were not of God and, though she
would not understand it for many years, she sensed that Elijah’s story was
somehow entwined with her own. Over the next few weeks further Bible
reading impacted her so much that one day she knelt on the floor of her
room and asked Jesus to come into her heart and change her life.
Ann encountered Jesus in a remarkable way at Bethel Hostel in Haifa, a
Christian mission that houses Charismatic church meetings. One Friday
night, she received the baptism in the Holy Spirit—the presence of God filled
her with the unconditional, overwhelming sense of love and joy that she had
not even been aware of searching for.
During the weeks following her experience of the Holy Spirit, she real-
ized that Heaven’s revelatory realm had opened, enabling her to occasionally
see angels and demons, receive words of knowledge about others’ lives and

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coming events, and dream prophetic dreams. After each encounter or experi-
ence she would return to her room, open her Bible and ask God, “Where’s
that in Your book?” She soon discovered that the Bible was rich in stories
about spiritual encounters and power in both the Old and New Testaments.
The supernatural power she had once sought in herself or in the occult was
dark and oppressive. This power from God is something supernaturally-nat-
ural, full of joy, light, and peace. Now she knew the difference between dark
power and God’s power.
Eventually, her letters home led her sister to accept Jesus. Her brothers
would also accept Christ, but they didn’t shift out of the darkness and into the
light as she had. Perhaps it had something to do with the depths of their involve-
ment with satanism and the entrapment of their wills. She may never know.
When she returned home to California, however, the richness of her en-
counter with God in Israel faded and she struggled greatly in her faith. The
emotional and spiritual battle raging within her caused her great distress and
she asked two elders in her church to set aside time to pray for her.
Not knowing the hold of darkness on her life and ignorant of the fact that
even those who believe in Jesus may need deliverance, they launched into
what they thought would be a short prayer session. As soon as they started
praying, Ann curled up into herself, her arms circling around her knees. She
started bouncing like a ball up against the shuttered doors of the choir robe
closet. They knew instantly that they were dealing with something demonic
and sent for the pastor. As they continued praying, she stopped bouncing and
seemed to fall into a trance.
Later, she described what she saw: A series of demonic images like scenes cut
from horror movies flashed before her eyes as if she were watching a movie
screen. Subtitles scrolled across the bottom of the screen. The words she read
were her own self-deprecating thoughts, temptations, traumatic events that im-
pacted her, guilt and shame, and accusations against her—words she heard in
her head for years…words that originated with the father of lies, satan.
As they prayed, the images slowed down. The subtitles slowed as well.
Then, as each lie scrolled across the bottom of the screen projecting in her

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mind, a Scripture flew out from the opposite direction and annihilated the
lie. The Scriptures increased. The prayers increased. Finally, Ann felt what
she described as a spirit, which had encased her entire being, lifting off of her.
She sat quietly resting with her back against a wall, and then eventually
sighed. It was over. What she thought must have been a 20 minute prayer ses-
sion at most had lasted over two hours. She thought she had perhaps rested
for a minute or two after the deliverance before opening her eyes. She had, in
fact, rested in that place of peace for almost half an hour completely oblivious
to others in the room.
In the following days, the light radiating from her face amazed everyone.
There was no question about it. She was free. The undercurrent of mental
chatter and temptation had been demolished and her mind was clear. In the
weeks that followed she felt incredible joy.
Her sister Tami followed suit. She accepted Christ and attained a great
measure of healing through both inner healing and counseling. Her early ex-
periences developing her Christian faith and walk are now a distant memory.
She is married, emotionally and financially stable, well-educated, and the
mother of two beautiful children.
Two brothers and two sisters: Two chose the God who is light and love.
Two bound themselves to the dark lord on his dark throne. Karl and Rick have
not found total release from the oppressive spirits of the occult. Although they
have backed away from overt evil, evil still controls their lives. They are shells
of the men they could have become. Their minds, souls, and spirits are whis-
pers of what they had once been. Now well into their 40s, their prognosis for
recovery, even with extensive deliverance and psychotherapy, is not good. They
have gone too far. Yet they may, one day, turn toward the Father of Light and
receive a measure of joy and peace and love that they have never known and
the quality of their lives will increase dramatically and eternally.
The shifting shadows of their childhood house by the sea brought all four
of them into contact with great evil power and devious spiritual experiences.
Had they only known that a little dabbling in the occult—reading about
spiritualism, taking mind-expanding drugs, contacting mediums and tarot
cards, flirting with the devil, playing with white magic and casting spells,

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attempting astral travel, and willingly praying for spirit guides to come in
and take them on spiritual adventures—would lead to oppression in every
area of their lives, I doubt they would have chosen that path.
Of the two girls who walked out of the dark lord’s shadow lands, Tami
stopped at the edge of intimacy with Jesus. She received a measure of the
Lord’s healing embrace but shied away from the radiance of His ongoing
presence of love and light. She built her house in a grey place, the realm that
Graham Cooke calls in the Foreword to this book, “the shifting shadows of
loyalty which people can inhabit when they do not reside in the light, close to
the beacon of faithfulness.” Ann, however, chose to live in the center of light
captivated by the radiance of God’s smile—her reality shaped by intimacy
with Christ, her life a testimony of the power of the Holy Spirit.
This story illustrates what is happening in families worldwide—light and
darkness impact us all. What we choose to attend to ultimately defines our
spiritual life and our emotional health. Yet it also illustrates the story of any
local church, a family whose individual members attend on any given day to
shadows of half-hearted devotion to the God of love, falling into the shifting
shadows of loyalty that bind them either to themselves or lead them to col-
lude with the dark lord.
There is a difference between psychic and soulish power, Christian and
demonic power, counterfeits and authentic expressions of the Spirit of God
moving through an individual. Throughout the ages, light and dark powers
have existed, warring against each other for control of individuals, communi-
ties, and nations. As a result, personalities fragment under the pressure,
neighborhoods deteriorate, and nations crumble. This book attempts to re-
veal the differences in the sources of supernatural power, the impact of ex-
pressions of revelatory and healing in the lives of others, and how you can
reach out and minister in authentic supernatural power—the power of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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Chapter 2
3
Shifting Shadows of Power

The world is rich in spiritual power. Where does it come from? Is it psychic
or latent soulish power at work? Is it God or is it satan? How can you tell the
difference? As individuals become increasingly stressed by life events and eco-
nomics, many feel powerless and out of control. As a result, some pursue
power, gravitating toward it either from a desire to be entertained or out of des-
perate need for control. For others, power meets their needs—these individuals
seem divinely appointed to wield power for the good or the ill of others.
As more people access supernatural power—both occult power and au-
thentic power—discernment will be vital in the years to come. Power flows
through an individual’s personality and character. An individual’s soul di-
rects the flow of power no matter what the source. There are Christians who
begin using the gifts of the spirit and move in authentic power only to end up
in deception. Just as there are occult practitioners who end up surrendering
their lives to Jesus then suddenly discover God’s authentic power.
In the coming days and years, how can you tell who’s got the real power?
Satan or Jesus? Psychics or prophets? Sorcerers or healing evangelists? And
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power? The marks of power that come from God and from demonic decep-
tion are as different as night and day. It is the soul of the person expressing
the power that creates the shifting shadows of confusion.

New Creation Power Brokers

Gifts of healing, miracles, visions, and seeing into the supernatural realm
seem to have been more commonplace among practitioners of the occult and the
New Age movement in past decades. Christians who talked about being over-
come by the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ, receiving visions, dreams and super-
natural healing, were often criticized, regarded as being deceived, and eyed
with suspicion—even within the Church. As a result, many believers shut
down, learning that it was best to keep their spiritual experiences a secret.
In the 1980s, however, the Charismatic Christian prophetic movement in
North America quickly normalized individuals’ spiritual experiences and re-
leased greater understanding of the richness of biblical accounts of the revela-
tory nature of God and the supernatural reality of the Kingdom of God. It is
for many a Kingdom that is not far off in Heaven, but a Kingdom rapidly
breaking into earth by releasing dreams, visions, healings, visitations from
angels, miracles, and supernatural experiences to many Christians. It is as if
the supernatural is now super-Natural.
Accessing the power of God is no longer just for the power brokers—solo
men and women with healing ministries like Aimee Simple McPherson,
Kathryn Kuhlman, and Benny Hinn—or televangelists or prophets. A new
creation reality is becoming mainstream in the Charismatic churches and many
ministers are teaching individuals how to access the power and gifts of the
Holy Spirit in new ways, using new language. Expressions of Charismatic
gifts are no longer about one person mounting a platform to release his or her
spiritual gift. The Charismatic gifts are now becoming integrated into every
believer’s life and being powerfully expressed to others in the workplace, the
mission field, and the Church.
According to Canadian evangelist and prophetic minister Patricia King,
“As a new creation in Christ we are all able to access healing, visions, and
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Second Corinthians 5:17. God wants our spiritual sensitivity awakened. In

North America, we are so academic the Lord is trying to break into that
orientation and surface the hunger.” 1
King, among other prophetic voices, believes the Church is transitioning
into a super-Naturally spiritual time. “Spirituality is one of the greatest com-
modities in this time as people look for a power that is greater than them-
selves. Yet, much of the established Western church—both Charismatic and
Evangelical—seems afraid of spiritual encounters, organizing their church
programs and liturgy to maintain an intellectual approach to faith, an ap-
proach that seemingly disregards many of the spiritual experiences contained
within the Bible,” she says.
The upcoming generation, however, having been wounded by broken
families and steeped in popular culture and media promoting the occult, is
hungry for authentic power. According to King, “People are now being
stirred for a fresh touch of God, especially the unsaved. They are not hungry
for institutionalized religion, they are hungry for encounters with God. As a
result, much of the activity of the Holy Spirit will be found outside the walls
of the church today.”
We are seeing a younger generation of Christians encountering God and
purposing to take His presence and power outside the confines of the church
and into the streets. They are embracing the true Kingdom power and re-
ceiving training in a proliferation of ministry schools held in churches and
conference settings across the nation. As a result they are fast becoming the
first generation to be equipped to release the fullness of the gifts of the Holy
Spirit wherever they go—rather than being confined to an expression of an
occasional gift of the Spirit. 2
Leaders such as John Arnott in Toronto, Canada; Mike Bickle in Kansas
City, Missouri; Mahesh Chavda in Charlotte, North Carolina; Randy Clark
in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; David Crone in Vacaville, California; Jim Goll
in Franklin, Tennessee; Rick Joyner in Charlotte, North Carolina; and Bill
Johnson, and Kris Vallotton in Redding, California host ministry schools,
conferences and mission trips that are inciting youth to rebel against secular
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also inflaming the godly jealousy of their elders who have longed to experi-
ence the ever-present, supernatural realm of the Kingdom of God through
visions, spiritual encounters, and power to heal that comes so readily to
youths. Many of these elders have participated in past Charismatic move-
ments and settled into the routines of life, losing vision in the process. They,
too, are being stirred to access the presence and power of God alongside the
youths, forming a renewed, intergenerational move of God. They are tapping
into the new creation realities and running with both the Word of God and
the Spirit of God, taking risks and acting on their faith.

Demonic Power Brokers

Psychics, sorcerers, and mediums have a lot in common with many Chris-
tians exhibiting revelatory power and the gifts of healing. They offer words
of encouragement, insight into the future, reflections of the past or present,
and they reveal secrets and predict future events. When it comes down to
promoting popular, politically-correct culture, the one with the most enter-
tainment value and who is the least offensive wins.
With demonic power, a man touches the foreheads of several people stand-
ing in line and watches briefly, as they crumble to the ground. A woman stares
over the shoulder of the one she is addressing and sees spirits of the dead talking
to her, imparting knowledge only they know. A young man stands atop a statue
in New York City for days, supernaturally unflinching, descending only to con-
tinue wowing people on the street with magic tricks never before seen.
Some people channel spirits that assume control of their bodies and speak
through their mouths in an altered voice bringing comfort, encouragement,
easing their listener’s minds from grief, or releasing direction to them. They
are all demonic power brokers—imitating the power of the Holy Spirit but
denying the deity, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. As a result of the
shifting shadows flitting across the demonic power brokers’ stage, many
viewers become entranced and fooled by the demonstrations of power un-
folding before them.
However, despite the rise in popularity of demonic power brokers, we are
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the darkness and recognize that not all power is authentic power—only the
power that is released through the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ is real.
We are also seeing people renounce their loyalty to the dark lord on his dark
throne, step out of the shadows of confusion, and become incredible new cre-
ation power brokers shortly after conversion.

From Sorcerer to Prophet

Ian Clayton, a New Zealand prophet and father of four, is a man who
found himself seemingly chosen by the demonic realm to become a great oc-
cult leader. Yet God had other plans, shifting the shadows of power aside to
reveal Himself and lead Ian into an entirely different realm of grace. His
story illustrates the powers of the occult as well as the ability of light to over-
come the darkness in an individual’s life, shifting them out of the shadows
until they enter into authentic power and supernatural experiences initiated
by the Holy Spirit. 3
Psychics claim that the ability to see and move in the supernatural is often
inherited and can trace the lineage of relatives who moved in psychic power
for generations past. In Ian’s case, the generational lines seemed to offer two
distinct destinies for Ian’s spiritual gifts. On his mother’s side of the family is
a line of Jewish and Christian believers. One great grandfather was counted
among the original Quakers in Africa. During the mid-1800s, another great
grandfather experienced the Welch revival.
His father’s side of the family was exactly the opposite. His father was the
head of the spiritualist church in Africa. His family lineage included free ma-
sons, Rosicrucian’s, and those with claims to other occult involvement.
It wasn’t long before the two warring destinies manifested in Ian’s life as
power reached out and touched him at an early age. As a child, Ian would see
visions of Jesus and angels. Eventually, his father took him to the spiritualist
church and things began to change. The dark side aggressively pursued Ian,
shifted him into the shadows, and lured him into the occult.
At age 12, his growing awareness of God led him to the Bible and he
started reading it from the beginning. Halfway through Deuteronomy he
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do with it. Just as he shut the Bible he heard a voice say, “Put your hand on
top of table and pick table up.” Ian put his hand flat on the table top and it
rose, sideways off the floor.
“It was an amazing power rush,” Ian explained. “Suddenly, I walked in
power.”
Spirits started materializing at night and taught Ian how to do things such
as astral travel and psychic healing, pendulum diagnosis, use of herbs in healing
and in gaining power, and the power of demons in the spirit world. As the les-
sons continued, people grew frightened of Ian’s power. Many would talk about
the headaches they got after being around him—headaches Ian attributes to
the demonic resonance of the spirit force around his life. Meanwhile, signs and
wonders manifested in Ian’s life much to his surprise and others’ shock.
“I would put my hand out and it would go into the wall—not up against
it,” he said. By age 17, Ian was frightened of his own power and turned into
an introvert attempting to shelter himself from others because of the phe-
nomena that would occur.
The power then transitioned him into deeper realms of a supernatural
world. “A generational sentinel appeared as a jaguar then became a man who
taught me for a year about issues of sorcery and how to make and destroy
things,” Ian said. “I thought I would use this power for the good of others
without realizing the source was evil and would actually release demons into
their lives. I didn’t know this until I was born again.”
According to Ian, the spirits taught him to become a psychic healer and he
would lay hands on a body and take out the bits that were diseased. He could
heal and he could kill with the same power that resided within him. “The
moment I touched their flesh they submitted to the demon in my life. When
I got angry at somebody I would release spirits and the people either were
killed or became sick. At one point, my father got sick and my mother ended
up in hospital because of my cursing them.”
Eventually, Ian met a woman who would become his wife, and she
gradually grew accustomed to the strange nocturnal visitations Ian received
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people. However, one of her college instructors challenged her beliefs during
an after-class discussion when he opened the Bible and read a Scripture about
consulting with demons being an abomination to God. Near the end of the
discussion, he invited them over to his house for a barbecue.
She brought the Bible home to Ian and everything inside of him reacted.
One night the sentinel appeared to him and tried to dissuade him from at-
tending the dinner. But something else, some other part of his family lineage,
drew him closer to the source of authentic power and his ultimate destiny.
They attended the dinner and adjourned to another room for worship
and Bible study. “Suddenly, this thing came through the roof and descended
into the room. It was so beyond what I had ever seen. As this cloud came
down into the room I wanted to get away and ended up on the floor. I looked
at this girl’s face of abandoned love worshiping this thing that came into the
room and realized that what I wanted all my life was to be loved, not used. As
soon as she stopped worshiping the cloud left.”
His girlfriend accepted the Lord and began weeping as she felt God heal-
ing her body and her emotions. Ian then asked Jesus into his life. The small
group of believers went to Ian’s house to pray over the rooms and cleanse it
from the demonic. They also encouraged him to throw away all his occult ob-
jects. “They said to me, ‘You’ve confessed Jesus as Savior; now you need to
confess Him as your Lord.’ The moment I did that it felt like a sword went
right into my heart and I began to see the death, destruction, chaos, and all
that what was using me; and I sat on the floor and wept.
“For me to get free I had to own what I had done. Satan knew that if I
came into my destiny as a son of God, I would become his worst nightmare.”
It took time for Ian to disentangle from demonic influences and power. His
salvation initiated a two-year process of healing and deliverance in his life. The
last thing to go was the sentinel—smaller demons were easily cast out. “I real-
ized that the sentinel was an imitation of the Holy Spirit, a trespasser who had
no right to come in and teach me and shut my life down,” Ian said.
“When I got delivered, the inside of my heart tore as I felt it claw its way
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birds singing and the sky was blue. The deliverance began a hatred of any-
thing to do with the demonic.”
Over the years, Ian grew in his faith and in the ability to discern the
shifting shadows of power that infiltrate society. His openness to the spiritual
realm enabled him to readily recognize the authentic power of the Holy
Spirit—power characterized by life rather than destruction—and experience
the supernatural Kingdom of God.
Rather than initiating astral travel as he learned to do through the help of
spirit guides, he walks with the Father of Light and His Son, Jesus Christ,
discovering new realms of Heaven and insights into the supernatural. Rather
than wallowing in depression and anger, he is a joyful person, full of light and
exuberant with life. Rather than being a servant of the demonic, he is a ser-
vant of the Lord with a growing international reputation as a prophet who
not only understands the spirit realm but teaches others how to access the
power of God and enter the revelatory realms of God’s Kingdom—rather
than access the revelation of the occult.
Ian Clayton is a man who has experienced not only the counterfeit powers
of satan, but authentic power of God. Everything he had done through occult
power he has also experienced through authentic power…and more. He
believes that when Jesus Christ told His disciples that they will accomplish
greater works and miracles than He, it should be taken literally. Christians
operating in the authentic power of the Holy Spirit, can heal the sick, raise the
dead, walk on water, dematerialize and walk through a crowd (or walls for
that matter), see into both the realm of Heaven and satan’s dominion, and take
authority over all of the enemy’s work. Having walked on both sides of the
fence, Ian believes that God’s authentic power is greater. He is a New Creation
Power Broker experiencing things most Christians cannot imagine—fourth
dimension miracles that transcend our current knowledge of the laws of
physics.

The Coming Showdown—A Clash of Supernatural Powers

As New Creation Power Brokers increase within the Church, so do the
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Since the fall of Adam and the ousting of lucifer from Heaven, lucifer has
been organizing his forces, trying to regain his seat of power and becoming the
ultimate enemy of the people of God. He set all in motion against the people of
God, trying to sway them over to his side, luring them in, seducing them with
the smooth lies of promise of a future filled with all the longings of their hearts.
The adversary made repeated attempts to destroy God’s people—the Is-
raelites—coming against her priests and prophets, stirring up deceiving spirits
trying to sway the elect into crossing over to his side. And when they continued
to worship God, his anger lashed out and a bloodbath ensued.
Then came Jesus Christ who triumphed over lucifer by becoming the ulti-
mate sacrifice for the people of God, expanding the Kingdom rule and reign
of God and inviting all who believe in Jesus as their Savior to become the chil-
dren of God. The enemy was further enraged and set into motion a counter-
attack. He continues to summon all of his might against both the Israelites,
Christians, and those who respond to the love of Christ, trying to cut them off
and keep them from knowing the fullness of Christ, His power, and the vast
resources of His Kingdom.
Hordes of demonic spirits have been let loose in every culture. They
counterfeit the power of God in hopes of luring unsuspecting people into a
head nest of lies and deception. They are the gods of this age and come in the
guise of occult power. Children’s games, videos, and computer programs are
rife with occult images. Adult television, movies, and Internet preoccupa-
tions also reveal a technological twist on an ancient game, as the adversary
seeks to lure our culture into deeper encounters with the archetypal gods of
Baal and Asthoreh—gods that lead to varying degrees of occult practices
and sexual deviation.
Throughout history, God has always revealed His power during soci-
ety’s darkest hours. There have been repeated showdowns against the gods
of the ages, the prophets of the Baals, the enemies of the Church and the en-
emies of Israel. As a result of revelations of the authentic power of God,
many people given over to occult practices either walk away from their
practices, die, or seek to purchase the power of God so that they can use it
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The Bible contains several stories about people in the occult suddenly
recognizing that their power pales in comparison to the power of God.
Some decided to stop competing or imitating the authentic power of God
and walked away, realizing that they could go no further. Others were over-
come by fear when they realized that they went beyond the limits of their
own power and God showed up (much to their surprise). Still others sought
to obtain the pure undefiled power resident in God’s prophets and believers
and purchase it, if they could, in hopes of making a profit on that power.
These prophets, mediums, and sorcerers released demonic signs and won-
ders that looked so much like what God could do that many people opted to
follow them rather than God.

Historic Showdowns
Moses tossed his staff a few feet away from his feet, watching as it twisted
in mid air, became fluid, and fell to the floor no longer a rigid length of wood
but a writhing snake. Alchemy. A mere magician’s trick—changing one
form of matter into another. Several sorcerers stood by confident that they too
possessed the power to throw down their staffs and create a nest of snakes.
One by one they tossed their staffs to the ground until the floor was awash in
snakes. Suddenly, one snake drew back into a coil, raised its head high and
struck at the snake closest by, devouring it quickly before winding its way to
the next snake. By the end of the hour, Moses’ snake had consumed the sor-
cerers’ snakes. Its belly full, it stretched out full length on the floor and
shapeshifted back into the form of a staff. 4
The sorcerers imitated almost every trick Moses had up his sleeve. Moses
launched a plague and the sorcerers, attempting to one up Moses, ironically
added their power to the purpose of God and extended the plague, duplicat-
ing it in other regions of Egypt. In the end, however, they admitted that they
could go no further. They had come to the end of their ability to imitate God’s
power and turned and walked away.
Saul, devastated in heart and spirit, longed for a word from the prophet
Samuel who had anointed him king in the first place. The problem: Samuel
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other prophets nearby held any words of comfort for Saul. He felt alone,
abandoned, afraid of the days to come. In the absence of any other prophets in
the area, he sought out a medium, hoping she would channel the spirit of
Samuel. She dwelt in a cave, hiding her profession because Saul had con-
demned mediums and spiritists to death. So, she was dubious at first to grant
Saul an audience; but she went ahead because she did not recognize that it
was Saul who stood before her.
She sat back, closed her eyes, spoke a few unintelligible words of incanta-
tion, calling out to the spirit of Samuel, hoping that his familiar spirit would
show up, a spirit that could, at best, imitate Samuel’s voice and knew intimate
details of Samuel’s life. Suddenly, she felt the presence of another in the cave.
Out of the darkness, a figure emerged. She gasped and cried out in shock. It
wasn’t the familiar spirit of Samuel. It was Samuel himself, raised from the
dead. Then she realized Saul was her client and she became very afraid. 5
Elijah felt like the time was right. The land and the people had suffered
enough from drought and famine. It was time to release the sound of the
coming of rain. But first, he had to recapture the hearts of the people of God
and make them realize that God was alive and powerful, more powerful than
the false prophets who bowed the knee to the Baals. The Baals had already
failed to provide rain, failed to prosper the land and make it fertile. No mat-
ter how much they sacrificed, danced, prayed, and gave themselves over to
increasing debauchery, the Baals failed to come through for the people. It was
time to reveal the power of God. Perhaps the people would listen now that
they were getting desperate. 6
Elijah called for a showdown on Mount Carmel. One prophet of God
against hundreds of prophets of Baal. The showdown would prove who’s got
the power—God or the false gods.
He prepared an altar and poured water over the sticks until they were sat-
urated. There would be no lighter fluid, nothing to jump-start the fire or
even light it by using natural means. Who would light the fire—God or
Baal? The prophets of Baal did everything they could to get the fire going.
They danced, called out to their gods, and slashed themselves until their
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to come through and show his power. Elijah patiently waited. Every once in
awhile he taunted them just as they had taunted him in the past, mocking the
true prophets of God. Slowly, the people warmed to Elijah, their hearts turn-
ing toward all that he stood for. Elijah seemed so confident that the people’s
faith increased as their fears that God had abandoned them abated.
“If God is God, then follow Him!” Elijah pleaded with the people—not
the people given over to the world system of Baal in that day, but his own
people, the children of God, God’s chosen, the church of that day. “But if Baal
be god then follow him. Choose you this day whom you will serve.”
Elijah lifted his eyes to Heaven and the prophets of Baal dropped to the
ground exhausted from their efforts to entreat their gods. The fire of God
crackled from Heaven to earth, consuming not only the sacrifice that lay on
the altar but burning so hot that it consumed the altar itself—a nuclear blast
from Heaven. And the people grew very afraid. They realized that God is
alive and present, that God is the God of authentic power. Great anger rose
up in them as they also realized how deceived and frightened they had be-
come during the years of Jezebel’s reign of terror, under the misguidance of
prophets who offered only self-abuse and destruction, false hopes, and unre-
ality. And in that anger, boldness arose. They sided with Elijah, rose up as a
people, and destroyed the false prophets.
One of the most interesting encounters between a prophet/apostle and a
sorcerer happened in the New Testament Book of Acts. A sorcerer drew the
attention of the people with his magic tricks, his predictions, the way he
touched people, and their shrieks of delight when they realized that they
were healed. The people loved him. But then another came their way, an
apostle who had been with Jesus. He too touched the people and they were
healed. And yet he offered the people something more, some power that
caused them to speak in other languages, and become overwhelmed as they
felt the love and power of God moving in their lives. Even the sorcerer tasted
of that power and knew it was good; so good that it intoxicated him. And he
wanted more. He wanted it so badly that he went up to the apostle and asked
how much it would cost him to purchase that anointing of power. He knew
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The apostle set him straight. God’s power was not for sale. It was (and still
is) a gift from God to those who inherited salvation and a Kingdom that was
not of this world. God, it seemed, was no longer in the Old Testament mode
of slaying the prophets of Baal, sorcerers, mediums, spiritists, alchemists, and
diviners. Instead, God wanted to release His authentic power to seek and
save all of the lost—including those who had become entranced by occult
power and lured into the kingdom of darkness. Whereas the showdowns of
the Old Testament often turned into bloodbaths, the showdowns of the New
are revelations of the power of God’s love.
We may be entering a time in history when another showdown with the
prophets of Baal is imminent. What will this encounter look like? Will the
showdown occur inside the Church or out in the world, on the streets com-
plete with miraculous displays of power? Today’s prophets have much to say
on the topic. And they all seem to agree on one thing—the showdown is al-
ready happening in our midst and it’s going to get weirder than anything
we’ve seen or read. But first of all, a showdown must occur within ourselves
as we step out of the shifting shadows of confusion regarding the source of
supernatural power operating in individual lives and step into our callings as
Christians to release the presence and power of God wherever we go.

Discerning the Source of Supernatural Power

Discerning the source, or origin, of supernatural displays of power is not
difficult. Anyone moving in revelatory, supernatural power will become like
the one they behold. The more surrendered a person becomes to the source of
the power, the more purely it reveals itself. Testimonies included later in this
book reveal that one given over to the demonic will receive and express in-
creasingly destructive power resulting in personalities that fragment under
the weight of oppression. One given over to the Holy Spirit will receive and
express increasingly authentic power resulting in a personality and life charac-
terized by love, peace, and joy. Soulish power is merely a mixture of shadows
originating in a person’s mind.
There are specific marks that characterize the origins or source of super-
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marks of God’s authentic power in his book The Challenge of the Disciplined
Life. They include: love, humility, restraint, joy, vulnerability, submission,
and freedom from control. 8
If that is to be our guide for discerning the source of God’s power, then the
marks of power that proceed from the occult and demonic realm would in-
volve the exact opposite characteristics. They would include: hate, pride, un-
bridled displays of power, depression, jealousy, inability to relate to others or
allow others to speak into their lives, and a desire to control others.
Soulish power—that which originates from a person’s state of mind and
heart—expresses itself with a variety of mixed markers. Unhealed, unaffirmed
people tend to exercise their soulish power to manipulate people and events to
compensate for an overwhelming sense of their own powerlessness. Because
they have no strong sense of identity or core self rooted in relationship with
Jesus Christ, they attempt to acquire an external derivation of significance. As a
result, when they express the spiritual gifts, the recipients may feel tainted by
the residue of soulish imprints. One receiving a prophetic word originating in
another’s soul power may feel more like the word is mere manipulation or
flattery, a put down or a power trip. The laying on of hands for healing may
also feel like a power trip drawing attention not to the healing power and
presence of Jesus Christ and His atonement, but to the presence of the one
praying.
For some, expressing soulish power is part of the process of normal spiritual
growth and personal healing. A healthy process leads them to become secure in
setting boundaries with others rather than attempting to control others and
involves repeated encounters with the healing presence of Jesus Christ. An
unhealthy process drives them into the occult realm and their minds become
playgrounds for the antics of the demonic.
Attempts to harness and express power that originate in the soul are but
one extreme. The other extreme involves those who seek power based on nar-
cissistic desire. To obtain spiritual power for the glorification of self is to align
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The marks of power that come from God are the marks of a healthy
personality as well as a mature Christian who is secure in God’s love. When
authentic power works deeply in the lives of individuals releasing healing
into their wounds, they can release it more purely to others through words of
knowledge, prophesies, miracles, and healings that relate the heart of a loving
God. Since most of us need progressive healing and sanctification and are not
free from expressions of hate, pride, jealousy, and depression how can we
determine the origins of power that flow through mere humans?
First, we need to recognize that soul power is not entirely bad. Our life ex-
periences (good and bad), personalities, and giftedness are given to us for a
reason—to co-labor with God as we enter into our destinies. God gives us a
vision but we have a role to play in working that out. Soul power rooted in
God’s love and understanding of the particular destiny and vision given to
each individual tempers our human nature on any given bad day. Soul power,
working under submission to God’s power, also gets the work done. We re-
lease the power of God through our soul, or mindful action, and the marks of
power will correspondingly bear the marks of our personality. God, having
given you a unique personality, loves the way you express Him.
Second, no matter what our state of heart and mind, our level of maturity
or brokenness, the imprint of soulish origins fades when overshadowed by
the anointing of the Holy Spirit. God’s loving presence can move through the
youngest child or most immature and unhealed adult to accomplish His will.
His power is made perfect in our weakness.

Releasing God’s Authentic Power

Our challenge and responsibility is not to move in power but to move in the
presence of God…to walk in intimate relationship with the one who releases
His anointing through us. We become like the one we behold and worship. By
seeking to draw closer to the God of power we become increasingly more like
Him. The marks of power that come from God are also reflections of His na-
ture. The more we seek the God of authentic power, the purer His anointing
will flow through us. The more we seek the god of self and occult power, the
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Those who desire to move in God’s authentic anointing, releasing the

power of God to seek and save the lost, demonstrate that the Kingdom of
God is near. They invite others to glimpse a testimony of Jesus—who is the
same yesterday, today and forever—and they exhibit certain characteristics.
Those characteristics mark the power broker as one who walks intimately
with Jesus, beholding His presence, accepting His nature. The marks of au-
thentic power, according to Richard Foster, are best defined as:

Love
Love uses power for the good of others rather than to advance one’s own reputa-
tion. It calls attention to the lover of our souls, the God of love, and gives Christ all the
praise and glory.

Humility
Humility recognizes that God’s power is a gift to be used under control, submit-
ted to the will of God rather than the will of self, and submitted to others who can
teach us how to wield the power of God appropriately.

Restraint
Restraint refuses to use power to validate one’s reputation, conform to the desires of
others, dispel unbelief, or release others into their gifts and callings before God’s or-
dained time. Jesus moved in power, healing and delivering everyone in some settings.
Yet He restrained Himself from healing, raising the dead, or speaking prophetically
during other times.

Joy
Joy gives evidence to the nearness of God’s presence for in His presence is
fullness of joy—despite the surrounding darkness. The one who releases power
from a joyful heart is truly aware that Christ’s blood triumphs over every work
of the enemy.

Vulnerability
Vulnerability realizes that power does not give one the right to dominate others
or to control them. Nor is a display of power evidence of the strength of the power
broker—for God’s authentic power is made perfect in our weakness.

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Submission
Submission accepts the leadership of Christ and cooperation with the authority
of others who offer access to wisdom, guidance and encouragement in the develop-
ment of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that comes forth with power.

Freedom
Freedom never uses power to control or exploit people in extreme situations.
Jesus freely healed and delivered and fed the masses who, in gratitude, would have
done whatever He wished—including storming the Jewish and Roman authorities
to make Christ an earthly king. He strove not to manipulate or control them, or co-
erce them into following Him, but empowered them to become themselves.

Habitations of the Spirit

We all run the risk of self-delusion and self-destruction. In the following
chapters, you will notice that failure to receive God’s love and enter into deep
relationship with the person of Jesus Christ, the source of authentic power,
will ultimately result in tainted displays of power that may lead to either
delusion or self-destruction. Failure to embrace the person and the authentic
power of the Holy Spirit may also result in self-delusion.
Mahesh Chavda, internationally known minister and forerunner of
today’s Charismatic healing movement, warns in his book, The Hidden Power
of the Blood of Jesus: “God intends for us to be habitations for His Spirit. If we
reject the Holy Spirit, nothing is left except the spirit of the enemy.” 9
The Second Great Awakening, led by Charles Finney, opened a dimen-
sional gateway of the spirit realm that led many into great encounters with
the Holy Spirit and salvation. Out of the revival emerged new ways of
preaching, a breaking of religious structures of thought and liturgy, and a re-
lease of social justice and the beginnings of racial and gender equality. It
paved the way for our modern Charismatic and Pentecostal movement.
However, the Second Great Awakening also paved the way for counter-
feit manifestations of the spirit world that led many into a growing interest in
spiritualism. Into the spiritual void left by the waning revival, the modern
spiritualist and occult revival was born. Those who rejected the Holy Spirit

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eventually gave themselves over to either intellectualism, ardent Calvinism,

apathy, or demonic spirits enticing them into the shadows of spiritualism.
History reveals that those who press into the realm of the Kingdom of
God dare not stop but continue to go from glory to glory, expressing the au-
thentic power of the Holy Spirit until the end of this age…an age that will
eventually culminate in a great clash of powers. Christians must choose
whom they will serve, take their place in the plan of God for this present day,
and release Heaven on earth—or nothing will be left but one vast habitation
of the enemy.

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Endnotes

1. Quotes and information about Patricia King cited in this chapter are
derived from a telephone interview. King is noted for her ministry of
“prophetic evangelism” and has written several books on the topic.
Originally based in Kelowna, Canada, her ministry base has moved
to Arizona. For more information see her Website at www.extreme-
prophetic.com.
2. The varieties of the gifts of the Holy Spirit are found in First
Corinthians, chapter 12. Although in our generation John Wimber
popularized the teachings that all the gifts of the Spirit can be ex-
pressed through one person according to the will of the Lord and the
need at hand, many churches and ministries have still emphasized
the dominance of one or another gifting being activated in a person’s
life for purposes of ministering to others. Current ministry schools
seem to be focusing on activation of all the gifts of the Holy Spirit
moving through an individual.
3. Quotes and information about Ian Clayton cited in this chapter are
derived from a telephone interview. Clayton may be contacted
through Steve Trullinger’s ministry. For more information see
Trullinger’s Website at www.fatherstouch.org.
4. Exodus, chapters 7-10.

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5. 1 Samuel 2.
6. 1 Kings 18.
7. Acts 8:9-25.
8. Richard J. Foster, The Challenge of the Disciplined Life. (New York:
HarperCollins Publishers, 1985), 201-207.
9. Mahesh Chavda, The Hidden Power of the Blood of Jesus. (Shippens-
burg, PA: Destiny Image Publishers, 2004), 105. Mahesh and Bonnie
Chavda are prolific authors and power brokers of the Holy Spirit. For
more information see their Website at: www.maheshchavda.com.

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