Chuck D. Pierce - Protecting Your Home from Spiritual Darkness

P R A I S E F O R

PROTECTING YOUR HOME FROM SPIRITUAL DARKNESS

This book is practical and powerful advice in a world where the enemy is making an all-out, last-ditch attempt to destroy Gods plan for marriage and family. Chuck Pierces knowledge of Scripture, his keen prophetic insights and personal transparency have produced a primer in spiritual warfare that will help equip you for success and victory.

JIMMY EVANS

SENIOR ELDER, TRINITY FELLOWSHIP CHURCH AMARILLO, TEXAS
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, FAMILY AND MARRIAGE TODAY

This much-needed book will help you discern what you have in your possession that would give legal right for evil spirits to indwell, harass and create spiritual hindrances. Most everyone needs to do some spiritual housecleaning. Here is help for knowing where to begin and how to go about it.

FRANK D. HAMMOND

AUTHOR, PIGS IN THE PARLOR AND A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DELIVERANCE

Scripture says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hos. 4:6, NIV). The enemy of our souls is working overtime to pollute the very fabric of our culture. Many Christians are being swept away, unaware of Satans devices to rob them of their peace and joy and the well-being of their homes. Like a hidden iceberg that tears a hole in a ship below the waterline, these pollutants can tear gaping holes in homes that will threaten to sink them. In this knowledgeable and biblical presentation, Chuck Pierce and Rebecca Sytsema skillfully instruct us in how we can have homes that are filled with Gods presence and that are free from the sometimes subtle ways they can become polluted.

CHRIS HAYWARD

PRESIDENT, CLEANSING STREAM MINISTRIES

Protecting Your Home from Spiritual Darkness is a must-read for sincere Christians. Chuck Pierce demystifies a topic that is often viewed as superstitious or imbalanced. Regardless of whether you are well versed in the concept of spiritual warfare or just beginning to understand it, this book lays a clear foundation that will help you win the important battles in your life. For me, the acid test of this books value is that its principles helped me during a cycle of sickness and depression that had attacked my family for years. Now it is your turn. Dare to believe that you can break through into realms of victory.

HARRY R. JACKSON, JR.

COAUTHOR, HIGH-IMPACT AFRICAN-AMERICAN CHURCHES SENIOR PASTOR, HOPE CHRISTIAN CHURCH WASHINGTON, D.C.

What is a spiritual housecleaning? Chuck Pierce tells us why and how to cleanse our homes in ways that some of us may never have considered before. I recommend Protecting Your Home from Spiritual Darkness as a must-read, must-do book.

QUIN SHERRER

COAUTHOR, A WOMANS GUIDE TO SPIRITUAL WARFARE

The devil is crafty and he will blindside you with his evil plans as much as he can. This book shows you how to unmask his footholds in your home and break their power once and for all.

C. PETER WAGNER

AUTHOR, CHANGING CHURCH AND WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT SPIRITUAL WARFARE CHANCELLOR, WAGNER LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE

2000, 2004 by Chuck D. Pierce and Rebecca Wagner Sytsema

Published by Chosen Books
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Chosen edition published 2014

ISBN 978-1-4412-6856-3

Revised edition. Originally published as Ridding Your Home of Spiritual Darkness by Wagner Publications in 2000. Published under the present title by Regal Books in 2004.

Ebook edition originally created 2013

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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Other version used is:
NIVScripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Names of certain people referred to in illustrations have been changed, but the stories are factual.

The loud crash of thunder jerked Cathy from her troubled thoughts. Pulling the curtain aside, she peered out at the ominous clouds that had suddenly filled the Texas sky. The turbulent weather only served as a dark reminder of Cathys own life as a fresh wave of the all-too-familiar depression seemed to overcome her once again. She could barely move under the weight of her own cloud that had nothing to do with the summer thunderstorm.

Cathy often suffered from bouts of deep, overwhelming depression. Despite counseling and prayer, we could not seem to discover the source of her constant gloom. As I was visiting with her one day, she asked me about a Greek statue that had been given to her by her former husband. She wondered if perhaps that statue had something to do with her depression. I agreed that the statue had to go, but I knew deep within my spirit that it was not linked to her suffering. Even so, I knew that something in her house was not right. I knew that some thing was connected to the dark shadow that hung over her emotions. I began walking through the house praying, Lord, show me anything in this home that is representing Cathys depression.

We looked at many antiques she had collected throughout the years. While antiques are often laden with demonic oppression, I knew that none of these objects was the problem. Then the Lord led me over to a glass bookcase. I knew in my spirit that there was something inside that needed to go. I reached up to the top shelf and pulled out a copy of the handbook for thirty-second-degree Masons. Cathy had no idea where the book had come from or that it was in her home. I knew that the book had to be destroyed, so we built a fire and burned it. That act was a turning point in Cathys life. It set in motion a chain of events that led to the breaking of a Masonic curse in her bloodline. As the curse was broken, the gripping, overwhelming depression that had been Cathys constant companion completely let go of her mind, and she has walked in freedom ever since. Finding that book was a key to exposing Satans stronghold over her emotions. Destroying that book was an act of obedience that led to the eventual dismantling of that stronghold and to the liberty that Cathy enjoys today.

What happened to Cathy? How did I know what object needed to go? Were any demonic forces attached to the book? What did Cathys bloodline have to do with her suffering? We seek to answer these and many other questions concerning how demonic forces work within our own homes. It is our prayer that this book will help you determine any spiritual housecleaning you may need to do in order to protect your home from spiritual darkness.