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80 THE FATHER, CREATOR AND RULER OF THE UNIVERSE! With us, fighting on our side, is the LORD God of Hosts, the Ruler of the entire far-flung Universe, and Jesus Christ, the Captain of our salvation, who rose from the dead, who now sits at the right hand of the Father, as our High Priest in heaven, who Himself on the battlefield of the wilderness of Judea, after forty days of fasting and praying, DEFEATED Satan the devil in pitched spiritual battle 2,000 years ago! (Matt.4:1-11; Luke 4:1-13). Jesus Christ totally vanquished Satan, the prince of demons, and qualified to replace him as ruler of the world, when He gave His life for us, at the cross, giving His life and shedding His blood to pay for and cover our sins. And Jesus promised: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these, shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ASK IN MY NAME, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in MY NAME, I will DO it. If ye LOVE me, keep my commandments" (John 14:12- 15). intervention, on our behalf, in fighting demons or any other adversary, then we must get on our knees before Him, and claim His promises, with our hands raised to heaven, and implore Him to rebuke the evil, and ask Him to completely remove the evil from our life, and then KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, completely and fully, all of them, and He will receive us, and bless us, and give complete and total healing. It is, bottom line, a matter of our faith and dependence on God. Like Abraham, our forefather, we must live by and exercise faith. "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was STRONG IN FAITH, giving glory to God; and being FULLY PERSUADED that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform" (Rom.4:19-21). Faith is the "bottom line." Crying out to God, even with the "faith born of desperation," can work miracles. I have seen it. I know it is true. It is, however, between each one of us and God. When a father brought a young demoniac to Christ, he said to him, in sheer desperation, "Master, I have brought unto thee my son, which hath a dumb spirit; and wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not." So NOW HE RULES SUPREME, with the Father! "According to Your Faith..." These are God's Words -- His instructions. If we seek His help, deliverance, and "Help Thou My Unbelief!"