Defeat the Devil Quotes

“WITCHCRAFT IN THE CHURCH There are many examples of manipulation in the church. Let’s take a typical Pentecostal congregation, for instance. A young pastor in his first pastorate has about a hundred people in the congregation. He is a little bit nervous and timid. In his congregation, there are two very spiritual sisters. Not just spiritual, but super-spiritual, and they know how the church ought to be run. Rather than sitting down prayerfully and talking it over with the pastor, one of them gets a “message in tongues,” and the other comes up with the “interpretation.” Between them, through this method, they end up telling the pastor what to do. What is that? Manipulation.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“It is interesting that, in Revelation 2, Jezebel is referred to as being inside the church. The New Testament warns us that witchcraft is going to infiltrate the church, and, in many instances, we can see it already.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“Witchcraft can be found in mothers and fathers too. The most common way for witchcraft to operate in a woman is manipulation. In a man, it is intimidation. But each of them has the same aim: to control the other.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“THREE EXPRESSIONS OF WITCHCRAFT The operation of witchcraft involves three key components. When these three activities are happening, whether you realize it or not, it is an encounter with witchcraft. The three key words are domination, manipulation, and intimidation. The end purpose is control—the need to dominate. To achieve this domination, depending on the situation, a person will either use manipulation or intimidation.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“As king of Israel, Saul had actually banished all the witches from Israel. (See 1 Samuel 28:3.) But just before his death—when he could not hear from God—he himself sought a witch out of desperation. (See verse 7.) This was not an accident; it was a matter of cause and effect.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“But almost without exception, those who went into rebellion also went into the occult, the satanic supernatural, and witchcraft. This is the logic of spiritual experience. It is almost impossible to be deeply involved in rebellion without sooner or later coming under the power of witchcraft. CAUSE”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“Rebellion rejects God’s legitimate authority, just as King Saul rejected the authority of God’s Word. (See 1 Samuel 15:23.) We cannot exist for long in life without authority. So, if we don’t have legitimate authority, illegitimate authority will fill the void.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“A STUBBORN PROBLEM First, let us consider stubbornness. The verse says stubbornness is a form of idolatry. How does that occur? The stubborn person makes idols out of his own opinions. In that light, it is very interesting to consider various attitudes in the church today. Generally, we will not accept drunkards or openly immoral people. But how many stubborn people do we have in church? In God’s eyes, they are idolaters.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“In the weapon of prayer, there are three main components to do the job: the Word of God (the logos); the name of Jesus; and the blood of Jesus.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“distinctions between logos and rhema—logos being the eternal counsel of God and rhema being the Word of God spoken. This citation in Ephesians 6 tells us that the sword of the Spirit is the rhema of God. In other words, it is not the Bible on your bedside table; it is the Word of God operating when you speak it with your mouth.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“Biblical faith is in the realm of the heart: “With the heart one believes…” (Romans 10:10). But hope is in the realm of the mind. The writer of Hebrews says, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for” (Hebrews 11:1). So, on the basis of faith in the heart, we may have hope in the mind. And hope safeguards our minds.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“In 1 Thessalonians, we find a very useful cross-reference: “And as a helmet the hope of salvation” (1 Thessalonians 5:8). It helped me greatly to discover that the nature of the helmet is hope. Just as faith protects our hearts, hope protects our minds against depression and discouragement.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“Satan builds many different fortresses in people’s minds. But if I were to choose one word to sum them all up, it would be the word prejudice. Prejudice means having your mind made up before you know the facts. The typical statement of the prejudiced person is, “My mind is made up; don’t confuse me with the facts!” In its variety of forms, prejudice is one of the most powerful strongholds of Satan. He builds prejudice as a fortress in people’s minds to prevent the truth of the gospel from entering and doing its work. We”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“Where the New King James Version says “arguments,” other versions say “reasonings” (YLT) or “speculations” (NASB95). We also find the words “knowledge” and “thought” used in this verse. If we examine those five words—arguments, reasonings, speculations, knowledge, and thought—we recognize they all belong to the same realm: the mind. This is a vital fact. The battlefield is the mind. That is where the battle is fought. Anyone who has tried to live the Christian life has discovered this, I am sure. We may not always recognize it as a theological fact, but the truth of the matter is clear: most of our battles are in our minds.”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life

“There are two mistakes we must be careful not to make. The first is thinking that we have to win the victory. We don’t have to because Jesus has won the victory. The second mistake is thinking there is nothing left for us to do. That is not true either. We have to take steps to apply the victory that Jesus has won. The”
― Derek Prince, Defeat the Devil: Dismantling the Enemy's Plan to Destroy Your Life