SPIRIT HOUSES!   22/2/83  DFO1409
--How to Handle'm!--Exorcising Houses!--& Good & Bad Birds!

         1. IN MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD WHERE HEATHEN RELIGIONS ARE PRACTICED, THE PEOPLE SET UP STATUES OR IDOLS IN THEIR HOMES OR OUTSIDE THEM to worship & pacify the spirits, sometimes with a complete house or temple! Many have a small "spirit house" on the property with a statue in it that is supposed to be the representation of that landlord's particular deity. Even the Catholics in many places seem to think they need a little shrine inside or outside their house for protection.
         2. I SUGGEST THAT INSTEAD OF INSULTING & OFFENDING THE LANDLORD BY REMOVING THIS HOUSE, you could exorcise the spirit house & put a statue or picture of Jesus in there instead. It would be a testimony, a witness, & yet show them that you realise that some kind of spirit needs to hover over the house. Well, we have our Spirits, Jesus & the Holy Spirit & the angels!
         3. IF YOU TAKE AWAY THE SPIRIT HOUSE, THAT IS LIKE AN AFFRONT TO THEIR RELIGION, but if you would transform the spirit house into a little shrine of Jesus instead, why should they complain about your particular preference of spirits? Most of them worship a whole different pantheon of idols & spirits in all those heathen religions, & nearly everybody in every household has got their patron spirit, or actually patron devil! Why shouldn't you have your favourite good Spirit? It's like becoming one, conforming to a custom, & if your preference happens to be a Christian saint or Jesus instead, well, you know, that's personal preference.
         4. IT WOULD BE SOMETHING WORTH INVESTIGATING TO FIND OUT WHAT'S THE CUSTOM OF OTHER CHRISTIANS, WHAT DO THEY DO? Try to fit in as much as you can & conform & become-one as far as you can go without compromising your convictions & religion, & that way actually it becomes a testimony.
         5. A MADONNA CAN REPRESENT THE HOLY SPIRIT if you just consecrate it & pray over it & dedicate it & declare that that's a statue of the Holy Spirit! That's one possibility, if Catholicism is a fairly accepted or tolerated religion in that country. So without even taking down the spirit house & going to all the trouble, you could just take a little statue of the Madonna & stick it in there instead of the Buddha or whatever it is.
         6. NOT ALL TALISMANS ARE EVIL! THERE ARE GOOD TALISMANS which could be representative of good things, such as Madonnas & statues of Christ, etc. You could put in a little statue of Jesus, or you could take a picture & paste it on the inside wall where it can be seen. If you don't have any pictures of Jesus in that country, well, you can cut one out of the Magazine, colour it & stick it on!
         7. (MARIA: DO YOU THINK THAT NOT GETTING RID OF THE SPIRIT HOUSE WOULD MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT TO GET RID OF THE SPIRIT THAT LIVED THERE?) I don't think any evil spirit is going to want to live in a spirit house with a statue of Jesus or the Madonna! And, they've got to leave anyhow if you have an exorcism & command the evil spirit to leave, cast it out of the house & off the property! (Maria: And don't come back!) Yes, they've got to go!
         8. IT WOULD BE WELL TO KNOW THE NAME OF THAT PARTICULAR DEITY OR GOD that is supposed to be inhabiting that idol or image. If it's a Buddha or whatever it is, just call it by name & cast it out! If the owner of the property doesn't object, at least persuade him that you have your own patron Spirit you'd like to put in there instead.
         9. SO "JESUS HOUSES" WOULD CERTAINLY BE A NEW TWIST! I never heard of anybody else doing it, so we could be unique! It would be a lot less trouble to the property owner, the landlord & probably not offend him as much or worry him as much that you were completely breaking the tradition, & taking away the protection of the property, but that you were simply changing spirits & retaining the little spirit house, which probably would be a problem to remove, etc. After all, we're almost always only temporary renters. Just ask the landlord to remove it himself if he doesn't want heathen hands to touch his idol or image & desecrate his shrine.--And pray the evil spirit goes with it!
         10. AT THE SAME TIME YOU COULD MAKE IT A TESTIMONY & A WITNESS! "Oh, what spirit do you honour, what spirit do you worship?"--"Well, we worship the Spirit of Love or Jesus or the Holy Spirit." And if you have a nice little statue of Mary she could represent the Holy Spirit, or a statue of Jesus.

         11. WHEN YOU'RE MOVING INTO A NEW HOUSE, YOU NEED TO EXORCISE BOTH THE GROUNDS & LIVING QUARTERS! With my Mother, it was our common custom. We usually went from room-to-room inside first, & then we would march around the whole house in the yard, completely circle the house like the Walls of Jericho, & sing hymns & pray & cleanse the property of evil spirits. If you think that would attract too much attention, you could just walk around & whisper prayers silently, & then you could do the same thing with the spirit house. You could even stand around in a circle & hold hands around the spirit house & exorcise the demon, cast it out completely & command it by name to leave the property.
         12. AND THEN HAVE A CEREMONY OF DEDICATING & CONSECRATING THE HOUSE TO THE LORD, as well as the little figurine of Jesus or the Holy Spirit in the spirit house. You can have a quiet little definite ceremony & you should, always! We used to do it, & I think in moving into new quarters, new or old, new to you, you should exorcise the house, every room, & then walk around the house & exorcise the property, & by all means exorcise the spirit house!

         13. YOU NEED TO TAKE DEFINITE STANDS, BE SPECIFIC NOW IN THESE HEATHEN COUNTRIES ABOUT EVIL SPIRITS & DEMON-GODS, ETC. Even when you go into these temporary properties like NAFs, GAFs, etc., the first thing you ought to do is exorcise the buildings & the property. Have an exorcism ceremony to drive out the demons & the devils & the heathen gods & deities & ghosts & evil spirits every time! It's certainly more necessary than ever in these heathen countries that are rife with superstitious religions, like the Orient, & even Latin American countries.
         14. I THINK THAT'S VERY NEEDED & PERHAPS WE SHOULD MAKE IT A MORE RECOGNISED RITE OF THE FAMILY. We don't necessarily have to call it exorcism, I think the Catholics call it Dedication or Consecration of a new house. That's really how the American & English "Housewarming" originated. It was supposed to be a dedication, consecration, sort of a positive exorcism of those houses. Many of these demons & ghosts are actually bound & confined to certain places, & properties, unless you come in & exorcise & release them!
         15. IT REALLY PAYS TO PRAY & I THINK YOU SHOULD EVEN HAVE A TEAM GO IN ADVANCE TO GET THE PLACE READY BEFORE THE FAMILY ARRIVES, to perform exorcism rites over the whole property, over the buildings, in the buildings, in each room, kitchen, meeting hall, & march around the outside of the property, swimming pool, everything! Since you're doing the commanding, you have the authority. Be specific & call them by name & tell them to leave & where to go, so you'll be sure they don't go someplace that's going to cause you trouble next door! They have to obey because we have that authority over them!
         16. AS SOON AS YOU GET THE KEY, GO THERE & CLEANSE THE HOUSE, not only clean it up & cleanse it of the rats & mice & roaches & varmints, the Devil's physical pests, but clean it up from his spiritual pests as well!--And let the landlord himself remove the idol, if you don't want to cause the landlord too much trouble or offence.
         17. THE LORD IS LEADING US ALONG THESE LINES NOW, IN THESE EVIL DEMON-INFESTED COUNTRIES where worship of the Devil & his demons is rampant. We need to get more militant, more aggressive, more specific & go on the attack, take the offensive & hit the thing head on immediately!
         18. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WOULD I MOVE IN WITHOUT HAVING SPECIAL PRAYER! Have prayer that the whole property be cleansed & dedicated to the Lord, consecrated for His use, sanctified, purified & holy, set apart for the Lord & His children & His guardian angels & good spirits, etc.--Amen?

         19. AND I ALWAYS LOVE TO SEE THE GARDEN FILLED WITH BIRDS! It's almost like a sign from the Lord that they're His little guardian angels, His little protecting spirits, & at least they're a sign that the place is safe! If it's safe for the good birds, it's safe for you! Who knows but what maybe they are good spirits & inhabited by angelic guardian angels who are flying around our garden!
         20. THE SPARROW SEEMS TO BE ONE OF GOD'S FAVOURITES!--EVEN JESUS MENTIONS THE SPARROWS! He says that not even one of them falls to the ground but what your Heavenly Father knoweth it! (Mt.10:29) So He must have a special love & care for the sparrows, a type of you & me! We're just little people, not very important to the World. The sparrow is the commonest bird in the World, it just seems to be everywhere & inhabits every country & place we've ever been in.
         21. IT'S ALMOST AS THOUGH THE BIRDS REPRESENT THE EVIL SPIRITS OR THE GOOD SPIRITS. Certain birds either represent evil spirits or they are possessed with evil spirits. The evil bird-heads & faces that I saw in "The Crash" (No.284) looked like hawks & eagles & birds of prey. They were evil spirits, but they were represented by birds, bird heads!
         22. SO ANY PLACE THAT HAS NO BIRDS I'M A LITTLE LEERY OF, ESPECIALLY GOOD BIRDS! I don't like the bad birds, so even our garden here has been cleansed & freed, & all these good-spirited little birds have come in to inhabit it, & I love to hear them, all day long they're chattering away out there flying around, it's really wonderful! I love it! Thank God for the good spirits & the good-spirited birds!

         23. SO THOSE WOULD BE MY SUGGESTIONS REGARDING ANY NEW PROPERTY YOU MOVE INTO, NEW OR OLD. (Maria: If the landlord's not around to take the idol away, you could just store the idol somewhere out of sight after you exorcise the spirit from it.) Amen. Yes, I'd sure put it away some place far removed from the house & make sure you prayed the spirit out of it & commanded it not to come back or any others to enter it, either. But it's better to get rid of the idol completely.
         24. (MARIA: IS IT MORE IMPORTANT TO GET RID OF THE IDOL ITSELF THAN ITS HOUSE?) Yes, of course! The spirit house is nothing but a symbol of their care & provision for the idol, a home for their spirit god. So if you cleanse & replace it with your own, like you're replacing the last people in the big house with yourselves, after definite exorcism prayer & cleansing, it should be just as safe for its new figure as the big house is for you!--Amen?--So GBAKY from the evil spirits of the Enemy! We're here to cast'm out & fill the place with the new loving Spirit of God & His love!--Amen? That's our job! Do it!


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