Now the language of that tells me you've immediately come under the law. You've used the word shouldn't. In other words, you've already judged it as wrong, and judged yourself as failing, and you've put yourself under the law, see? Now there's no power to be free - so I've got to stop thinking about that. So notice you're now trying to overcome a spirit thing in the flesh. There's no way you can ever deal with it that way. I haven't got time to deal with the discoveries. There's been a huge number of developments and discoveries of the way the brain works, but if I just put it in a simple form, that your brain, the memories actually occupy a physical space. They are formed of synapses that are joined together, and it's like a tree, so when memories in your mind are recorded as a tree, neuron trees in your brain, and if they're negative experiences, or negative patterns, they're thorny trees. If they're wholesome, then they're a different kind of tree, so it's embedded physically in you - let alone the demonic spirit elements that go with it. So the power of the blood - so most people try to just overcome it by saying: I shouldn't. What's better to do, is to say: oh, I see, I had that negative thought there. Well I hold the blood of Jesus Christ, and just see the thought, and begin to paint it out with the blood of Jesus Christ - just apply, with your imagination, the blood of Jesus Christ to it. You'll be amazed how negative images in your mind can just literally disappear and vanish as you apply the power of the Spirit. [Applause]
So soul ties. Another way that people cope with pain, is by making a death wish. A death wish is - it can be twofold. It can be against yourself, or against another person, but a death wish, let's talk about one thats against yourself. A person goes through a period of pain, this tremendous pain, with the conclusion they can't handle the pain anymore. They often come up with a statement in their mind like this; I just wish I were dead. I wish I could die. So when people start to say I wish I could die, they are coming into agreement. What they're saying really is: I don't believe God is able to help me in this. What I really believe is that I should die - so they come into agreement with the spirit of death, and when a person makes a death wish, they're making an invitation to the spirit of death to come into them. It's very, very common when people have been sexually abused; I feel so ashamed I just want to die. I wish I could die - and so, when people have been sexually abused, physically abused, verbally abused, emotionally abused, or if there's been some painful season in their life, people just feel: I just wish I were dead. I'd be better off dead.
When doing that they open their heart, they make a death wish, and come into agreement then with the spirit of death, and that stays alive until you actually renounce it - I choose life. I renounce it, I choose life. I break my agreement with death and choose life. So spirits always are ready to come in when we give them an opportunity, okay. Another area or way that people cope with pain is by making an inner vow. A vow is a solemn commitment. It's a commitment to do something, so an inner vow is a vow you speak into yourself. The Bible warns us against making foolish vows, because the spirit world is watching. Now remember, when you speak, you are created as an ambassador of heaven on the earth, and are called to speak God's word into the earth, so when we make foolish statements and make declarations or vows, the spirit world can use it against us.