Faith Bible Study Guide
I like the way one retired missionary prayed for folks. I asked him once to help me in my prayer line to pray for the sick. The first person he prayed for was a woman.
He said, “Father, this woman is Your child. She belongs to you. It is not right that the devil should dominate her through sickness and disease. So we thank You, Father, because You have made provision for her deliverance. You laid her sickness and her diseases on Jesus, for it is written, `… Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses”‘ (Matt. 8:17).
Then this retired missionary talked to the devil. No, he wasn’t praying to the devil, he was talking to the devil; he was exercising his authority over the devil based on the Word of God. He said, “Now, Satan, you’re going to have to take your hands off this woman’s body because this body is a temple of the Holy Ghost. It belongs to God and you’ve got no right to trespass on God’s property. Now we demand that you remove yourself from God’s property.”
Then the retired missionary talked to the woman. He didn’t pray to the woman, but he talked to her. He said, “Now, Sister, Satan has oppressed your body with sickness, but God has made provision for your deliverance. Your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, and you are commanded to glorify God in your body and in your spirit. Can God be
glorified in your body by the devil dominating it? No, therefore, you stand against this sickness with me, and together we will demand that Satan stop trespassing on God’s property.”
One time I saw a sign on a lawn which read, “Gentlemen will not, and others must not trespass on this property.” So I put up a sign on my body, so to speak, in the spiritual realm. You cannot see it because it is in the spirit, but the devil can, and it says, “NO TRESPASSING! Devil, this means you!” I did that by faith. You can’t see the sign because I did it in the spirit. And I’ve had that sign up for years, so Satan doesn’t trespass on my body, which is God’s property. You see, you are the custodian of your own body. You are to glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are the Lord’s.