Out of the torn heavens comes the “Spirit descending on him like a dove.” This is of huge significance when you remember the historic acts of God in the Old Testament. The Spirit of God was first seen at the beginning of creation. “Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering

During my years in the church, one of the persistent impressions I picked up was that the narrative content of the Gospels should never be used for theology.

Jesus’ view of “kingdoms” is most important—both His view on the Satanic kingdom as well as the Kingdom He now brings, which not only causes the clash but also begins the gradual replacement of one kingdom for another.

“Within his own mysterious being God is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The designations are just ways in which God is God. Within the Godhead there are three ‘persons’ who are neither three Gods nor three parts of God, but co-equally and co-eternally God.”[317]

He used common experiences and traditions to build amazing lessons that could entertain the crowds while deeply touching His targets.

The other verses where Jesus told demons not to speak (Luke 4:1-13; Matt 4:1-11) are provided not to discourage that act, but to prevent them from revealing who He was for a time and thus showing again that He (and we) are in control in dealing with the demonic.[308] Kraft gives four reasons why he uses this act. First, he has found that

Dear heavenly Father, I come to You in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by virtue of His shed blood. I acknowledge Your presence in this room and in our lives. I declare my absolute dependence on You, for apart from Christ I can do nothing. I take my position with Christ, seated with Him in the heavenlies. Because all authority in heaven and

Kraft freely admits he himself does not have the gift of discernment but over the years, through experience, he has learned to see patterns and manifestations that reveal the presence of the demonic.

Then we discovered a generational curse. Four generations ago, a shaman in Mexico City had been hired to curse the firstborn daughters of her family line. We knew there was a lot of sickness and death in her extended family, but had never connected the dots. We immediately did the genogram math and realized, every single firstborn daughter for four