The Veil: An Invitation to the Unseen Realm

by Blake K. Healy

You affect the world around you, for better or worse. My worry about money has created an access point for the enemy to influence me. It’s like carving a groove for water to flow.

If I didn’t change my thought patterns, my worries would continually dig at that hole, making it bigger. I’ve seen access points in people’s homes that are coated in wax like a beehive or held open by black timbers like a mine shaft. This happens when demonic lies start mixing with worries or fears. It reinforces the enemy’s access.

So I pray a simple prayer: “I command that access point to be closed up. I cover it with the blood of Jesus, and I repent for not trusting God to be my provider.”

It’s more important to change the way you think than to perform the correct ritual.

I have been stressing about money, and that stress created an access point in my room. I have God-given authority I can use to shut any demonic door and chase any demon out of my house, but they can come right back in and build a new door if I don’t change the habits and mind-sets that let them enter in the first place.

And you give power to the things you fear because fear is a kind of faith.

Fear is the expectation of attack or pain, meaning you believe whatever you are afraid of has the capacity to do you harm. That belief is faith that darkness has power over you. It is a disservice to the authority God has given to you to be afraid of anything demonic.

The point is that you need the voice of the Holy Spirit in your life for everything. Without it anything can be twisted, but with it anything can be redeemed.

Art carries the same spiritual complexity as its creators.

I believe it is spiritually immature to say any creative work that doesn’t perfectly comply with our belief system should be rejected or avoided. It would be equally immature to ignore our own personal convictions and just absorb everything.

Yet still God’s love was being drawn to the heart behind the music, much as Jesus was drawn to the tax collectors and prostitutes.

When it comes to the things that enter through our eyes and ears, I believe that real maturity happens when we can learn to eat the meat and spit out the bones.

This gave me the distinct impression that the only reason he had bothered to get up was to make me feel better.

This is just one example, but the older I get, the more I realize that worrying about anything that doesn’t worry God is a waste of time.

Demons, in most of my experience, are opportunists. They look for the cracks in our self-perception, attitude, and beliefs, then nuzzle into those cracks to try to make them worse. This is true on a personal level, but it is also true on a cultural level. I don’t necessarily think that principalities inherently carry one particular bad trait; I think they look for what is wrong and try to make it worse.

A principality, noticing an opportunity, could begin whispering lies into the ears of those who experienced loss because of those events. He would point to this situation and that situation, using evidence to slowly melt away people’s hope. Soon people could begin to accept that “This is just how it is.” Thus, that principality has helped perpetuate a culture where poverty is normal.

Because if he had to sneak in and slowly gain influence and authority, that means he didn’t start with any; he had to steal it. And who do you think he stole it from?

Then I heard God say, “You don’t know the authority you have.”

By this time I had concluded that for the most part, it is a waste of time trying to figure out demons. Their tactics and words are laced with layers of deception so thick that pondering them is usually as pleasant and profitable as untangling knotted barbed wire.

It always boils down to the same thing anyway: steal, kill, and destroy.

When I hear God speak, I rarely hear words. Raw blocks of information land in my mind—sometimes feelings or entire lifetimes of thought—and my brain slowly unpacks them. This is how the angel spoke to me.

The facts come through, but the weight of meaning in the original revelation is only partially retained.

Principalities are, in my experience, violently territorial and aggressive toward those who challenge them.

Principalities, being demonic rulers over specific geographic regions, leave an open throne when they are brought down, and it seems to me that you shouldn’t go tearing things off thrones that you aren’t prepared to fill.

Please don’t think that I’m telling you to let these things just walk all over you or that I’m suggesting that you shouldn’t pray. I’m simply asking you to think about what you pray.