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77 ministers, saying, "Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, CAST OUT DEMONS: freely ye have received, freely give" (Matt.10:8). And, He declared, "And these signs shall follow them that believe; JV MY NAME they shall cast out demons" (Mark 16:17). Not all, of course, would have this "authority" or "power." It is a gift of God. "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit" (I Cor.12:4). "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same spirit; to another the GIFTS OF HEALING by the same Spirit . . ." (I Cor.12:8-9). As a minister of God, and His Servant, in these last days, I believe in God's power, and His might, and His authority, and His love and compassion and caring. I know He cares for every living human being, and wants to see everyone free of demon influence, demon possession, and completely healed. I believe in His promises. I believe in His healing power. I also know that His To have demons removed from the premises, or cast out, we must believe, and we must EXERCISE our faith. We must BELIEVE, as a matter of fact, and we must PERSEVERE and PERSIST and tenaciously HANG ON to God's Promises, and our faith -- ENDURING, fighting, never giving up, using our mind to FOCUS on what God is doing and is going to do for us. Jesus Christ declared in plain words, "Have faith in God [marginal reading, "have the faith of God" -- God's very own faith]" (Mark 11:22). In other words, we need the very faith of God, which is His Gift, one of the very attributes of God's own Holy Spirit (Gal.5:22-23). That faith is the very faith of Christ Jesus Himself abiding within us. As the apostle Paul himself said, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live i in the flesh I live BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD who loved me, and This faith, Paul said, comes from Christ Himself. Paul wrote, "Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is of the law [and like filthy rags by comparison -- see Isaiah 1:18; 64:6], but that which is THROUGH THE FAITH OF CHRIST, the righteousness which is of God by faith” (Philippians 3:8-9). The power of this faith CONQUERS Satan the devil and ALL his host of demonic angels, evil spirits, and their obsessive influences! Jesus goes on in Mark's account, describing this miracle-working FAITH! He declared, "For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say unto you, What promises are conditional, based on FAITH. As Jesus said, "According to your faith be it unto wen Nae 0.9 you" (Matt.9:29). Faith and Believing Prayer gave himself for me" (Gal.2:20).