God's Finger--and Armors and Plunders

This continues my previous discussion of Jesus' use of God's finger. Jesus drove out a mute demon and some smart Alecks attributed the power to some devil. These smart Alecks had a lot to say about what they didn't understand even if they had never driven out a demon in their lives. But Jesus did, just like that, like a simple snap of his fingers. So he likened it to God's finger. They were amazed at his power to command demons, and yet that was just God's finger he demonstrated.

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What about if he used God's whole body? I mean the body of Christ.

But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. [Luke 11.20]

The main thing here is, make sure it's really God in you doing the ministry, not you, not your own efforts or understanding, not your knowhow from bible school or seminary, especially not your human theology or denominational doctrine. Make sure it's Christ in you doing everything. CHRIST in you the hope of glory. And if it's God doing everything (and you're just resting in Him), then simply using His finger would solve everything.

Just His finger will release God's tremendous supernatural power.

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Problem is, church doesn't use even God's finger for ministry today, so on-the-spot supernatural signs and wonders are nowhere in church. It uses what it understands through human theology. So it doesn't know anything about God's finger or His supernatural power. Jesus' critics then thought it was demonic. The same with church today--anything it does not understand or doesn't agree with its denominational doctrine is demonic, or at least it keeps a safe distance from.

The Lord's Hand and Arm

In the Old Testament, we see passages referring to God's use of his hand and arm that worked supernatural things. Often we just read past them and take for granted. But they're powerful Kingdom concepts. We should look at them closer.

Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm and by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

[Deuteronomy 4.34]

 A mighty and hand and outstretched arm. Why did the bible describe what God did this way? Why did Jesus have to mention about the finger of God? These were all for a vital reason. God does not just say things out of whim or fancy. Every word of God from his mouth teaches a powerful Kingdom principle. It's "bread" meant for us to live on.

When God did signs and wonders to redeem a nation within another nation, fought wars and used great terrors, he did it himself, but he also used his servants. Often, he refers to this as the work of his hands and outstretched arms. For instance, he split the Red Sea himself, but used Moses with his raised hand holding his wooden staff, the "staff of God." 

Specifically, the bible says:

21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, 22 and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left. [Exodus 15]

You see how it works?

When you understand and take faith in how it is God who does everything but he does it in you and through you, you become part of God, being his finger or arm. More so in Christ because we are in him. Thus, Jesus often says "Your faith has healed you." It means you believed the supernatural faith process. You ate it and swallowed it. God did a mighty work, and it was through you. 

Often, our attitude is to pray and see what happens--if something happens. If nothing happens, we say it's not God's will, to save face. Jesus never said that. He never prayed and said "it's not God's will." Everything in Jesus is a YES [2 Corinthians 1.20]. He often said "Your faith has healed you," emphasizing that, yes it's God who does it but it's also you how does it--especially now that you are in Christ.

You have to believe you are that finger or arm, or at least believe you're using God's finger or arm. And God's finger or hand or arm cannot fail! It cannot come up with a NO answer from God. Jesus always got a YES. He believed he was using God's finger to work a miracle. Jesus did that to teach and show us how to operate in the supernatural and the miraculous. Any believer in Christ (a radical believer) can be God's finger or arm (or use God's finger and arm) to perform signs and wonders and display God's power and splendor.

How much more if all believers do this as one body? If the hand or arm can defeat devils, how much more the entire body? That is, if the body unites as one in believing they can do supernatural things I Jesus did them.

Take Away the Enemy's Armor

This is exactly how we take away or confiscate the enemy's armor. The enemy has an armor or defense or protection he trusts in, just like we have God's spiritual armor. When the Israelites were afraid to attack Canaan, Joshua and Caleb revealed how the enemy had lost his "protection" and this made him vulnerable to Israel's attack. 

"Their protection is gone, but the Lord is with us. Do not be afraid of them.” [Numbers 14]

Israel had a physical enemy then, but this shows us what happens during spiritual warfare in our time. The things in the Old Testament (OT) are shadows of the realities in Christ (Colossians 2.17]. Things in the OT teach us principles about spiritual warfare, among other things. They're not just stories and history. We can extract powerful Kingdom principles from them that serve relevantly today.

Before you attempt to plunge headlong into rebuking devils or doing signs and wonders, understand the spiritual workings of using God's finger and arm. Then you confiscate the enemy's armor and take plunder from him.

Taking Plunder from the Enemy

What's the enemy's plunder? These are spiritual things that should be yours but which the devil stole from you. He plundered you when you were in sin. It doesn't matter if you're active in church, support it and participate in all the ministries (or worship with tears, say Amen as loud as you can, or post nothing on your FB wall but bible verses). The enemy can still plunder you if you refuse to believe and surrender to everything God says in His Word. I mean EVERYTHING. This is the reason why Christians pray or claim bible promises but have nothing happen. The devil has plundered them and taken the armor they trust in.

You have to take them all back. It's yours. You have to plunder the enemy. You cannot plunder the enemy of anything else except what he stole from you, because the devil owns nothing but what he steals. And you cannot plunder him except with the finger of God (or his hand or arm), NOT your human theology or title or degree. They are garbage in the spiritual realms.

And anything you plunder from the enemy, the Lord will double. The Lord will multiply it by two. That's powerful!

Instead of your shame (when you lived in sin)
you will receive a double portion,
and instead of disgrace
you will rejoice in your inheritance.
And so you will inherit a double portion in your land,
and everlasting joy will be yours. [Isaiah 61.7]

Taking plunder is often spiritual, though it can be physical, material or financial because nothing is impossible with God. It can mean physical healing or financial blessings but often it's added revelation of God's Word because knowing God and his Word more deeply means access to His spiritual riches that mightily sustain you even in your spiritual wilderness and give you abundant spiritual supplies in dry and barren places--in "wastelands." It means more spiritual power that nonbelievers and the enemy have not yet seen or known.

“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” — the things God has prepared for those who love him—" [1 Corinthians 2.9]

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland. [Isaiah 43.19]

But everything starts with total surrender to Jesus. 

Surrendering to Jesus 

Ask forgiveness and repent of your sins. Believe God's forgiveness. It is promised in the bible. Receive Jesus Christ into your heart as your sole Savior and Lord. Then be assured of heaven, not because of anything you have or do (not your good deeds or religion or church), but because of God's grace and mercy through Jesus Christ. 

In Jesus alone is salvation. Jesus is:

“‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” [Acts 4] 

Surrender to Him by intently studying the bible daily (ask guidance from the Holy Spirit) and applying in life everything you learn. And then pray that God lead you to the right person who'd disciple you, one who is totally surrendered to Jesus and living His words in the bible.

HE Used the Finger of God

As I've said in a previous article, Jesus didn't say or do anything that was optional for his followers. Everything he said and did must be taken seriously--and applied in real life and ministry. Like his use of God's finger in ministry. According to him, it's one proof that you are a genuine Kingdom person and what you bring people is God's Kingdom, not man's. 

So, if you're in ministry, are you using "the finger of God"?

But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. [Luke 11.20]

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Proof of Kingdom Citizenship

One proof that someone is really from God's Kingdom is his use of God's finger in ministry. That's clear in the passage above. You may try to hide or deny the fact with your theological manipulation, but if you're honest you'd easily see it. Because Jesus drove out demons by God's finger, "then the Kingdom of God has come..." he concluded. Unless ministries use God's finger, it cannot represent God's true kingdom. Man's "Christian" empire probably, but not God's kingdom.  

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The Pharisees and their followers could not drive out demons. They didn't know how. They could not represent God's kingdom and yet had the temerity to say that Jesus (because he drove out demons) was using Satan's power in ministry. A true ministry from God knows the difference between God's finger and Satan's tricks. Most churches today cannot discern what is of the kingdom. Anything they cannot understand or does not agree with their doctrines they label as demonic. 

Proof of Authenticity

A lot of religions and churches preach the Gospel, but is it the genuine Gospel of the Kingdom? Or is it bible passages filtered to the designs of their denominations? There's one proof that it's the true (unadulterated) Kingdom of God that has been brought to people--if it's through the finger of God. If it's through God's supernatural move.

Traits of God's Finger

How do you use God's finger in ministry? First, know how to identify it and it's solely through the Word and revelation of the Holy Spirit. If you do not have the spiritual gift of discernment to differentiate what is and what's not of God, you cannot use God's finger in ministry. 

The apostle Paul was highly commended as a servant "of the most high God!" by a slave girl in Acts 16 but he wasn't flattered one bit. Paul knew it was the demon in the girl giving the commendation. He rebuked the demon using the finger of God. Then the Kingdom of God came in the midst of the jail where he and Silas were thrown.

The slave girls' praise seemed okay. It appreciated the evangelism efforts of Paul and company. We often get commendations like that and we think that as long as it's about God's work we're being appreciated, it's good. Anything that sounds spiritual and tickles the flesh is good to us. If so, you cannot use the finger of God because you lack discernment. 

Even Jesus turned away from the crowd when people appreciated his ministry and "believed" in him. Physically, having crowds join you looks good. But Jesus had spiritual discernment. And this enabled him to use God's finger when needed. 

24But Jesus did not entrust Himself to them, for He knew them all. 25 He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man. [John 2]

Genuine spiritual discernment is a requisite to using the finger of God in ministry, as reflected from the context of Luke 11. Remember, the Pharisees and their followers could not drive out demons (the finger of God alone can) because they could not discern what spiritual power Jesus was operating in.

Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges.

In other words, if the Pharisees claimed they derived power from God when driving out demons (but they couldn't), are they saying that Satan's power was better, since Jesus was able to drive out demons and they say he was using Satan's power? You see how lost the Pharisees were? 

Second is seeing Satan defeated. People see with their very eyes how the kingdom of darkness is defeated. It's not just a hyped claim of a bible verse or whatnot, but supernatural things happen right before their eyes. 

"I drive out demons by the finger of God," said Jesus.

It's not just "I teach you how demons are shooed off by the finger of God." An actual demo happens. Church today has had too much of seminars and lectures on philosophies, formulas, strategies and theologies but no demonstration of supernatural power.

4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power. [1 Corinthians 2]

When God's supernatural power is displayed, it means his finger is at work, and his Kingdom is brought in people's midst, It's not the presence of a denominational church with its nice programs that is brought to the people but God's Kingdom with supernatural power. Satan is defeated.

17 The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”

18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” [Luke 10]

Surrendering to Jesus 

Ask forgiveness and repent of your sins. Believe God's forgiveness. It is promised in the bible. Receive Jesus Christ into your heart as your sole Savior and Lord. Then be assured of heaven, not because of anything you have or do (not your good deeds or religion or church), but because of God's grace and mercy through Jesus Christ. In Jesus alone is salvation. 

Jesus is: “‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” [Acts 4] 

Surrender to Him by intently studying the bible daily (ask guidance from the Holy Spirit) and applying in life everything you learn. And then pray that God lead you to the right person who'd disciple you, one who is totally surrendered to Jesus and living His words in the bible.

He Didn't Invite People to His Bible Studies

No one outside the discipleship was invited. 
Outsiders had to make effort to pursue him.

His Sermon on the Mount was well attended by "multitudes," says the KJV, numbering some 5,000 men, probably 20K if we include the women and children. Yet none of them were invited to this famous "bible study." These multitudes went after Jesus on their own. The Beatitudes and his other "bible studies" were intended only for his disciples.

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That element of pursuit is vital in a real Jesus ministry. People should pursue Jesus and His Word, not be invited to bible studies, especially if they're obviously reluctant. You never see Jesus doing that--asking or inviting people to attend his "church" or come back next Sunday. Why? It will break a Kingdom principle:

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them. [John 6.44]

Drawn Not Invited

Here's the principle: people should be drawn to you by the Father. The words "no one can come to me," means it will not work any other way. The Father should draw people to you. It's useless to think of clever things to lure or encourage people to attend your church or bible study because in the passage, Jesus said the LIFE will be given only to those the Father Himself draws. 

“No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up (give them life) at the last day. "

Yes, you can do gimmicks and nice programs to fill up your church and up your membership, but they will all be carnal church attenders if they're not the people the Father is drawing to you. They'll never really grow and mature spiritually because only those with life can grow. They may become so active in ministry, "faithful" tithers and supporters, doing grand works for the Lord, saying nice testimonies and all, but still immature in the spiritual realms. 

They remain carnal, not understanding the things of the Holy Spirit.

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Zacchaeus was Invited to Dinner

When Jesus fed the 5,000 and the 4,000, Jesus did not invite anybody to them. The disciples didn't need invitation because they were personally chosen by Jesus to follow him and they desperately pursued him everyday. The rest were just curious audience. Everybody was welcome but they were mere attenders. There were no "members" in Jesus' ministry. To be inside the Jesus discipleship circle, they had to radically give up all and follow him. 

Many are called but few are chosen.

When Jesus healed the paralytic lowered from the roof, there were no ads or promotions or door-to-door invitations for people to come. A big crowd gathered the moment they heard that Jesus was around. No gimmicks, lures, giveaways, dole outs, or free this and that just to make people come. People were excited to go and see. Here's what happened.

A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2 They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. [Mark 2]

One day, while passing by Jericho, Jesus invited himself to Zacchaeus' house, not for bible study, but for a place to stay. That is clear in Scriptures. And I can imagine how Jesus and Zacchaeus and company were in the house talking lightly and informally (not really a bible study) with Jesus inserting the Gospel casually now and then. That's when the topic on giving up possessions to follow Jesus came up, and Zacchaeus did not just say Amen. He was radically transformed. Why? Because he was drawn to Jesus by the Father. Here's the hint:

He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him.

Can you imagine a rich guy climbing up a tree just to see Jesus? And then giving up half of his possessions and paying back 4 times what he owed anyone? That cannot happen unless the guy was touched by the Father and drawn to Jesus. What we see in church today are active members, most of whom want to be seen performing on stage and being applauded.

But no radical transformation and giving up possessions. If ever they give money, they expect something in return--like influence over the pastor or expecting the pastor to fulfill their expectations. Why? Because they were lured to the church as members. The Father never drew them there. This is why a lot of churches are carnal.

Rat Race

Nobody will follow Jesus' example today because of the rat race the church is in. The mad scramble to get as many people in. They invite, visit and follow up--things Jesus never did. Neither did the apostles. Because truth is, even ministry should be done by faith, not by works. We should believe what Jesus taught about doing ministry. Otherwise, we will be growing plants the Father has not planted.

“Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots." [Matthew 15.13]

Surrendering to Jesus 

Ask forgiveness and repent of your sins. Believe God's forgiveness. It is promised in the bible. Receive Jesus Christ into your heart as your sole Savior and Lord. Then be assured of heaven, not because of anything you have or do (not your good deeds or religion or church), but because of God's grace and mercy through Jesus Christ. In Jesus alone is salvation. 

Jesus is: 

“‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” [Acts 4]

Surrender to Him by intently studying the bible daily (ask guidance from the Holy Spirit) and applying in life everything you learn. And then pray that God lead you to the right person who'd disciple you, one who is totally surrendered to Jesus and living His words in the bible.

He Wasn't Happy with Mere Amen

 Amen is good but HE wants obedience.

Amen is how we get our agreement to a prayer counted or validated or transmitted to the heavenly realms, because it's also one of Jesus' other names [Rev.3.14]. Jesus alone, the Amen, is the Way to the Father, so we say "Amen" to a prayer we make or agree with. 

But to Jesus, that's not enough.

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Because a lot of people can easily agree on anything spiritual or biblical that sounds good to their ears. We agree on prayers that ask for more blessings or on bible passages that promise solutions to our problems, and that's really good. Question is, are we willing to have a radically changed life? Because "Amen" means total submission to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

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Jesus' Truth Expects Radical Transformation

Can we give up totally our man-made religions and man-invented "biblical" doctrines and be radically transformed by His Word? Nope we don't. We just say amen to everything nice but stick to our man-authored religious beliefs right after. This can't work with Jesus. Watch this passage.

27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”

28 He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.” [Luke 11]

In effect, the woman was saying "Amen!" to all that Jesus was teaching. The context shows he was teaching the crowd about the Kingdom, demon possession, impure spirits and Satan. But his intent was to show people the difference between him and their religious leaders--because their leaders accused him of performing miracles with demonic power.

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And he wanted them to decide radically, not just watch and be blessed and say Amen. Would they continue following their leaders or would they go all out for him?

“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters."

In effect, Jesus was telling them: 

Your religious leaders think they know better, but look at how they are lost in their understanding about the spiritual realms. All they know are their rotten human theology and philosophies but know nothing about what's really happening spiritually. 

But look. I drive out demons with God's finger! Can they do that? And why am I able to do that? Because God's Kingdom is backing me up. Exactly why God's Kingdom has come upon you.

At least that's how I read what he said.

Jesus further explained that spiritual power is all that mattered in his ministry. It's useless to be doing a lot of "effective" and popular ministries if you cannot defeat the strong man Satan and confiscate his armor. And how on earth do you confiscate the devil's armor? Human theology can't teach you that. Systematic theology can't give you that. It's through the "finger of God" alone. Obviously, only the Holy Spirit can teach you that supernaturally.

Now, how many in church knows the Kingdom principles on using "the finger of God" to drive out demons? Why aren't they teaching this to believers in church? They just say "amen" to sermons about this passage, but forget all about it right after. It's like the woman mentioned above saying, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you.”

But Jesus wants total obedience.

“When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. 22 But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder."

Divides Up the Plunder 

What did Jesus mean by "divides up his plunder"? First, you confiscate the demon's armor (demons have so much confidence on their armors) and then you divide up the plunder. How do you do this? Are Christians familiar with this Kingdom warfare principle? Jesus won't be talking about this if this was optional or unimportant or if it doesn't concern us much. No Word of Jesus is optional. It's not something we can do without.

Problem is, we're introduced to church ministry without understanding that everything is spiritual and we need to understand the spirit world and our spiritual weapons. They just make us teach kids' Sunday school or join the choir and worship team or lead bible studies or join outreach ministries. Or have fellowship. We don't understand that there's an invisible enemy out there who aims to overpower us and take our armor away.

So we end up like the 7 sons of Sceva, though we never see this due to spiritual blindness. What we appreciate are the "achievements" in the physical realms.

Spiritual Armors

Taking away the enemy's armor was what Caleb mentioned about to convince the Israelites to attack Canaan. He knew that the enemy had protection, but that protection (shield, defense or armor) was now gone due solely to God's go signal. When you operate in the NOW WORD of God (you have God's go signal), you have protection and God (Jesus in you) confiscates the armor of the enemy, leaving him vulnerable. Once God says "go" it means the enemy's protection is gone.

But the Israelites belittled this spiritual knowledge. They stuck to their own understanding and refused to enter Canaan. So God punished those who didn't believe with a plague. But early the next morning, the Israelites decided to enter Canaan because the way they saw it, it was what God wanted. It was. Yesterday, yes, but today was different. God's Word this day was "don't go." God's decision didn't change though. He still wanted Canaan conquered, but not at that time when doubt was still fresh in their hearts and their minds understood nothing about what was happening. But they went anyway, and this was what Moses said.

41 But Moses said, “Why are you disobeying the Lord’s command? This will not succeed! 42 Do not go up, because the Lord is not with you. You will be defeated by your enemies, 43 for the Amalekites and the Canaanites will face you there. Because you have turned away from the Lord, he will not be with you and you will fall by the sword.”

44 Nevertheless, in their presumption they went up toward the highest point in the hill country, though neither Moses nor the ark of the Lord’s covenant moved from the camp. 45 Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down and attacked them and beat them down all the way to Hormah. [Numbers 14]

We plunge headlong to ministry often out of "presumption" not realizing we have no protection. If the Lord's not with us (though we're doing his will, but at the wrong time and with the wrong heart), we lose our spiritual protection. The strong man has become the devil and he takes away the armor in which we trusted and divides up the plunder he took from us.

How do we turn the table against the enemy? How do we keep our armors secure and confiscate that of the enemy's? Moses said obedience was the answer in verse 41. Jesus said it's being solidly all out for him, a radical decision 100 percent for Christ. 

It's useless to agree or say Amen without a changed life, a radical transformation following it, a radical decision to leave the rotting Pharisaical religion and its doctrines and join Jesus all the way, embracing only his radical teachings in the bible as his Holy Spirit reveals them to you. This was how Jesus put it:

43 “When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. 44 Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. 45 Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.” [Matthew 12]

Simply put, he said that being swept clean and in order is nothing if you remain empty or unoccupied. You have zero gains even if you've been blessed by a sermon, felt good and inspired and said "Amen" a lot of times, if you just go back to your old religion afterwards and never leave man's religion and radically change. You can be fully agreeing with what Jesus says and still be fully against him, too.

“Whoever is not with me is against me."

Dividing the Plunder

Then we divide the plunder we get from the enemy. Yup, there's such thing as spiritual plunder, and we have to know how to get it. Remember David when God enabled him to recover everything the Amalekites stole--his wives, the women and children, and huge plunder? It happened after God told him the NOW WORD: 

7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the ephod.” So Abiathar brought the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue after this band? Shall I overtake them?” GOD answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.” [1 Samuel 30]

Plundering the enemy starts with desperately seeking the Word from God. A wholehearted quiet time with HIM seeking for a sign or go signal. 

David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until they had no more strength to weep.

When God reveals the go signal, we have to apply whatever he says to us. Here is where binding and releasing comes. What we bind or release on earth will be so in heaven. We got heaven's backing. But many do not believe this. They say it's out of context to see the passage this way. So no plundering the enemy happens. But the bible says:

3 God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he'll have compassion on you; he'll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered.
4 No matter how far away you end up, God, your God, will get you out of there
5 and bring you back to the land your ancestors once possessed. It will be yours again. He will give you a good life and make you more numerous than your ancestors.

6 God, your God, will cut away the thick calluses on your heart and your children's hearts, freeing you to love God, your God, with your whole heart and soul and live, really live. [Deuteronomy 30]

If you want to be with Jesus 100 percent and be radically changed into his image, the first step is to surrender your life to Jesus Christ right now. 

Surrendering to Jesus 

Ask forgiveness and repent of your sins. Believe God's forgiveness. It is promised in the bible. Receive Jesus Christ into your heart as your sole Savior and Lord. Then be assured of heaven, not because of anything you have or do (not your good deeds or religion or church), but because of God's grace and mercy through Jesus Christ. 

In Jesus alone is salvation. Jesus is: 

“‘the stone you builders rejected, which has become the cornerstone.’ 12 Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other Name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved.” [Acts 4] 

Surrender to Him by intently studying the bible daily (ask guidance from the Holy Spirit) and applying in life everything you learn. And then pray that God lead you to the right person who'd disciple you, one who is totally surrendered to Jesus and living His words in the bible.