Cleanse Your Home From Curses — Jim Logan

Spiritual Authority Over the Home

Your legal right over your home is whether you rent live in an apartment or whatever and You know you can cancel any claims that may have been made. Work. We deal with a lot of missionaries that are calling us from all over the world.

I Just sent a letter to there's a guy in Japan. That's just dying and Probably will come and see me another guy down in Mexico. We've had people fly from Europe. Just fly over. Missionaries fly over for a week.

Missionaries Unprepared for Spiritual Warfare

They're constantly gonna airplane fly back to Europe. God has really honored us and helping these people in the situation. But many of them were not prepared for spiritual warfare. The college they went to the seminaries did not prepare them.

In fact we had a mission where all of the missionaries from that field flew into Sioux City all of them and All of them to be in that mission had to be a graduate of a seminary with a graduate degree.

You couldn't even be Accepted in that mission and they were being wiped out by demonic spirits back the whole field of a whole country. Because they never understood spiritual warfare and all of a sudden it makes sense.

We're just teaching spiritual warfare and the lights are coming on and like one of the missionaries turned another one said when you go down to our seminary where we Have where we're training African men to be pastors.

You get creepy feelings. All these families got creepy feelings. No one ever talked about it. They said why do you suppose I don't know I've never been there. I don't know where it is. Why are they all getting creepy feelings going to the seminary?

Well, they built the seminary along the river. It's very beautiful, but Africans used to offer live sacrifices to water spirits right there. That's no wonder they're having creed. No one ever dedicated the land to the Lord.

No one ever prayed away that the demonic spirits in here. This was a heavy place of worship, but they put a seminary and all the missionaries are getting creepy feelings, but no one's talking about stuff like that, it's amazing and now cleansing the home.

Cleansing Homes Without Spiritual Extremism

Because if there's something going on in the home, what's the first question you should ask? Especially if it hasn't gone on before have we brought something in our home? That's causing some problems here.

This is really hard. This is this guy's question. It was a good question about you know. Can you get carried away in cleansing home? And I would say absolutely. Yes, you can get way carried away. You know, I'm not wearing that coat That I wore yesterday because I looked and it was made in Taiwan and it was probably made by somebody that worship spirits.

So I don't want to wear the coat probably got demons in it. Do you hear what I'm saying? You know or this China where it came from Japan and how do I know, you know? Maybe we better not eat off the dishes or whatever.

I I Love having fun. Well, you know, I've got a sort of a strange sense of humor. So I was Pastoring a church and we had a bunch of hog Confinement razors and We just happened to get to the Gatorine and so I get up with a very very straight face that prayer meeting.

It was quite large church, and I said, you know I've been quite Concerned it's obvious from this passage of scripture that hogs are susceptible to demon possession and so some of the hog farmers are going.

And I said my real struggle is if you would eat bacon from a demonized hog. You know what would happen to you and some of the old ladies go. Yeah. These hog conformers is just about to pull out their support and leave the church and go somewhere else.

But you see how ridiculous you can get with all of this kind of stuff and yet There's reality there when you know when there's extremism one way, there's truth another way. Obviously when an item comes into your home and you have a question about it and the item may have some real value would may have been a Something that was given to the family.

It may have been a part of a state or something, but you're wondering about it. We encourage families. First of all, if you get it and nothing happens. That's a real key that probably there isn't any problem number two.

You can always dedicate it and command anything Associated to leave but if you do that, there still seems to be something going on and you think it's possibly death. Take it and put it in the garage. Take it out before you destroy it.

Take it out of the home stick it in the garage and ask God to not allow if there's something there to harass the family and if the nightmares stop or you know, those things stop that whatever kind of a You know thing that's going on stop.

There's a good idea of a good probably connection that the thing that you put in the garage Really had an effect when it came in through the hall that it brought with it. This is kind of problem. Then I would get rid of it.

Cultural Objects and Christian Witness

Another thing is I would not have a cult objects, even if they are not demonized. That would cause someone coming into my home to have wrong concepts of Christianity. My mom died and she had a kitchen witch.

And they were real popular little witch on a broomstick and you hang it in your kitchen. You remember those? And my sister said do you want it? Well I wasn't afraid to take this little kitchen witch that they sold at every Walmart and Take it home and put it in the kitchen for fear.

We get demons. But what would people think coming into her home seeing a witch floating around in the kitchen? Is that really you know, is that really the kind of a message and testimony? I want in my own so there may be nothing really wrong with the object as far as.

But it's representation would that be something that I feel there ought to be in a home of a dedicated Christian. So it's you know, it's not just a demonic part the thing represents something. You know, and it may be very representative to someone from that culture because all the people in my office have all these Indian things on the wall behind my desk and Every one of them is from a different Indian group that I've worked with.

The one thing that bothers ATI kids is a stick. It's about this long. Has antlers coming out of it here the antlers are painted white. It has feathers hanging down here. It has red and fur on it. And then it has Rawhide cords coming down this end with beads in it and it's on top and it pulls in all of these things together.

It's a true Indian speaking stick. And I tell the kids because I see them looking up at it and looking up at it looking up at it and I figured well. They're bothered by it. And I said, well, it's a Sioux Indian speaking stick.

And if this Stick starts talking. I'm out of here first. The rest of the family whoever can get out the door get out, but it's not that the stick speaks. But the Sioux Indian speaking stick is what they use if you wanted to speak in the tribal meeting they pass it to you.

There's nothing demonic About it. See just because something is Indian or something is of a different culture doesn't mean it's demonic. We got to realize that yeah, you don't throw away stuff just because it's cultural but it's the cultural significant.

That's significant with the demonic world and spirit world. Even though it doesn't have any demons and if someone of that culture would come in. What are the message you're giving to them? And so, you know any Indian coming into my office and looking at the stuff on the wall.

Even though it's not of their tribe. There's nothing on there that has any significance to the spirit world. It's just culture beadwork different things like that that's on there. I think I don't have to give you any horror stories.

Occult Artifacts and Demonic Manifestations

People well, I'll give you one horror story. People I had things and this this is where where you have a check in your spirit. You don't deal with it. I got a telephone call from Hawaii and The person said, you know, I'm wondering mr. Logan.

I get your prayer letter. I've never I Met these people. I don't think until just a couple years ago. Or maybe I didn't meet him then but I was on the phone with him on and off. But the this home was the the most expensive home on that particular Hawaiian Island very gorgeous, very very beautiful very wealthy family born-again believers and They were having you know, I don't know what KR survival studies or Bible study fellowship, you know Campus crusade different groups of user homes is so gorgeous in the view and the windows and this place is just phenomenal and.

But they collected kachina dolls now kachina dolls if you go if you're from Arizona, you know exactly what I'm talking about there. They're hand-carved wooden dolls that the Indians use in spirit worship.

They represent demons these dolls and people collect them. They're very expensive. You get a real kachina doll. It's very expensive and they collect them. They're very well done. Very pretty and all that kind of stuff.

Well, they collected those dolls plus because they had money they had a Mayan and Aztec Ritual knives bowls that blood was caught in and all those kind of stuff, you know. They that they had all this stuff in their home and she said should you have that stuff in your home?

And I said no, I mean, there's no doubt about that. You know something was used to catch a human blood to give a sacrifice to somebody. It's not something I want in my house. I don't care how much it's worth.

Are those dolls that the Indians they have spirits with? So I said no that you shouldn't have what she told her girlfriend that they shouldn't do this this Christian girlfriend that they shouldn't have this in their house and what happened was the One day the husband came home and stabbed his wife to death stabbed her seven times and killed her and then committed suicide.

There is no reason that family cannot figure out why they were born again walking with the Lord no financial problems. No immoral problems. Nobody was going to die, you know. Wasn't a Jack Kevorkian Kevorkian type of thing out of the blue this murder and suicide.

Took place in that home and she called me. Do you think there could be a connection? I said, yes, I'm afraid I think there could be a connection some type of demonic spirit connected with this thing. Well, she told the kids about it.

She said, you know, your kids need to think about this. This is not good her own. Those people's kids they were older and about the stuff the parents have and I made a suggestion. Why don't you give it to museum and let the museum have the demons this stuff ought to be in a museum.

Anyway, you know why have it in a home? These are expensive things just give it to a museum and let them Show that stuff because they do that give it to the Indian Museum and the other well, they didn't do that.

They wanted this woman to use the house for Bible study. She said I can't go in at number one every time I went in the house I always got this oppressive feeling but it's like how could I be oppressed in such a beautiful home?

It's just so gorgeous. It didn't make sense. And how would you get the feeling in a home? This is absolutely beautiful. And she said when I think of my like my best friend laying in the bed being stabbed to death by her husband I just can't do Bible studies there.

Well, they rented out the top part of the house add to three girls and These girls would hear. Well before that a girl would get up and say now, why did you move the toaster? And they said I'm in the toaster.

Did you move the toaster? No. Well, it's not there and I know I had the toaster over here. Well, maybe I did. You know, why is a coffee pot on the table when I had it on there to plug in in the morning?

So things are moving. That's not unusual when there's demonic activity house that things move around. I was in the home of the assistant chaplain to the chaplain of the United States Army that you can't get any higher.

The chaplain is a Washington see the assistant chaplain is at Leavenworth, Kansas where they train guys to be generals and They live in a three-story house and stuff like that was happening a house all the time.

Thanks on the third floor be on the first floor. Thanks in the first floor be on the third floor all the time. But no one moving. You know my wife and I move. Could you send some them to our house? The truck, you know, I'm an old man.

But you know, it's spooky when and all of a sudden you realize that something's going on in this house then what would happen is. They started here people walking up the stairs. But there was nobody there the lights would go on and off.

All by themselves and they got an electrician. I mean, here's a multi-million dollar home and nothing on electricity. Nobody walking up the stairs things moving. They would get someone from the church to pray through and they come and pray through and cast all the demons out.

And everything be okay for a while. And then there'd be the stairs and things are moving and find the girls are going to move. They said we don't want to live in this house. This is just a creepy house.

And so this lady found out about it. She didn't know that all this was going on in the house after this woman had died and She said Now what's happening to all those the thing that's most frightening is the people walking up the stairs and no one is there.

You could just hear them as clear as any almost like stamping up the stairs, but nobody's ever there. So she called the Sun and said, you know when you were cleaning out the kachina dolls and all of this aspect in Mayan artifacts.

Where'd you put him? He said in the closet under the stairs and She said you realize what's going on. These girls are being attacked by demons associated with that stuff. You need to get rid of it the guy and I got that it was that testimony went out my product and that guy went out and they burned the kachina dolls and they broke all the stuff and he was.

There was just a release coming to him and they prayed to the house and you know. What no more lights on and off no more things moving and nobody walking up the stairs. And I could tell you at all and we get this stuff all the time.

I mean, it's maybe new to you guys, but it's not new to us. We hear it all the time. We get you know, thousands of phone calls and people are calling us because things are not normal. That's why they're calling us.

It's not a normal kind of thing. They're faced with so. Often a wife is sensitive or if you're asked to go in someone's home pray before you go in this thing. There's something strange going on in this place.

Just pray say Oh God. Give me sensitivity here as we walk through this home. If there's something that shouldn't be here, you know, there's something that isn't right. Just let me know and women. I am NOT very sensitive to spirit stuff.

A Family’s House Cleansed Through Prayer and Authority

Well, let me give you one more because this was Really significant. I was I was speaking at the Tel City Baptist Church. At the very first ATI conference I ever spoke at and while I was speaking I was still at that time.

Connected with the mission and Bill had me come down because Bill and I've been friends from the 60s. Had me come down and to share there. Well, my wife was in Warrington and in the middle of night. She gets a phone call from one of the vice presidents of the missions in another guy.

That was a Leadership that there was demonic manifestations in a house of this Family where the kids were going to Bob Jones if you know what kind of you know, we're in pocket. I'm talking about a wild family.

I'm gonna very conservative family and there was demonic things and they weren't sure what to do. But they knew my wife could tell him what to do. So my wife told him what to do and they went and did it.

Well, they didn't realize it worked, but it did work. And so when I came back because I was down at Tel City when I came back and I meet with his family well we met with his family and began to hear the story and I brought each kid individually like six or seven kids and Every kid told me a different aspect of this Terrible demonic harassment that was going on in their house.

It was a brand new home. They moved in this brand new house. The first thing was the 21 year old boy in his bedroom. He had a water bed and his bed was downstairs in the basement. They didn't have a window in it and so he had a big fish tank that always had a light in it and.

And he was in bed he was reading. I don't think what he read Had significance but it was by token the rings the three rings or whatever. He was reading. That's what he was reading and all of a sudden this thing popped up at the end of the bed between him and the doorway.

And it was black. It was shapeless. It had his football jacket on where the sleeves pushed up and had a chain with the symbol around his neck. And it was between him and escape. Well, this kid played football and he wasn't about to be in the room with this thing that he didn't bite in there.

So he jumps up. He runs across his water breath. He's gonna smash it and get out the door. And when he goes to smash it it disappeared and the jacket fell to the floor and he runs up. And In my bedroom black and I'll go tell the kids you'll scare and your brothers and sisters.

You probably were sleeping. I wasn't sleeping mom. I was wide awake. I was reading a book and this thing popped up and No, no, I'm sure you were sleeping was nightmare well. One day his brother was playing their fastball his bedroom door because I was there at the house his bedroom door and the door that Came from the kitchen downstairs in the basement were side-by-side and on the kitchen door.

They had a little nerf Thing, you know the kids playing their basketball in the basement. Well his door when it opens squeaks. I've heard it I opened the door. So this door is squeaking open and Out comes this black figure.

With this chain and the symbol around his neck and his kids playing there I thought was his brother and he saw this thing. I mean he almost didn't open the door to get upstairs. I mean he opened the door.

He put on there's something downstairs in the basement all black and described it. Well, this thing is making walking through the house at night. Walking down the hallway opening and closing doors and all this kind of stuff.

There's kids in here I won't tell you what prompted I mean this is going on and they're not doing anything. But what the thing did is so terrible. I want to tell these kids. I don't but anyway. That's what prompted them to go and see me.

It was so bad. To call the mission to see obviously a mission ought to be able to something about demons, you know. And they don't know what to do. And so we went to the house. We walked to the house and this was a very conservative house.

The only wicked thing in that whole house was a TV. Was only wicked thing they have in the house, I mean you want to go it's wicked, you know. What could possibly be there was nothing? I mean this house was clean.

There was no pornography. There was No questionable anything nothing In this house and yet all of them all of these kids were terrorized. All of them saw them Many many times and were terrorized by this thing.

But they would say You know from 21 down to 6 and they're all telling me the same story not together. I didn't want them together. You know, I wanted to hear them all do it separately. Well With that it just doesn't it didn't make sense that this was going on.

So what we did is we We prayed through the house Number one and we'll pray through every room. I'll walk through every and you know, God gave me a rhema for every room. It was so wonderful I walk in room and God just would put a verse on my heart and I'd pray that to God and ask God to cleanse this Room and dedicate this room to him and go into another room.

God. Give me another rain man. I've never had that happen but room after room for this whole house and they're all different. God just puts scriptures in my mind would pray the truth of those scriptures to the room.

Then we dedicated the ground. But the house was built on this is a brand new house. No one had done any evil. It wasn't any strange deaths or murders taking place in this guy with a haunted house. There were two or three murders or strange deaths in that house or something before they moved in that pastor in that house I mean the history of that thing was something else, you know people were killed strangely.

And we dedicated the ground and asked God to put a hedge of angels on the property line and not to allow anything. To come into that property that was on the enemy and that God would protect that family and that did it.

Nothing anymore nothing ever happened. But let me give you this. This is the neat part. I Was asked to there's some Speaking warfare in Africa and so I went to Ghana Africa and then from Ghana I went to Nigeria and in Nigeria I was in Kaduna and Kaduna is in the middle of Nigeria and then for Kaduna we went up to and I can't remember the places where Sudanitary mission first Started in Africa.

Spiritual Oppression and Religious Violence in Africa

I went up there but that's a creepy place is where Lawrence Arabia was and I'll have us really creepy and we went up there and I just have Oppressive feelings and I don't get them. I mean, I'm the last to get an oppressive feeling.

So if I get one, it's got to be oppressive because I'm just not that sensitive in my spirit. I'm not sensitive with my eyes to demonize people but not in my spirit I see it not feel it that I was feeling all kinds of oppressiveness there and so on at.

At this place and so we went to the old city, which was even worse. And then I found out that's where the Muslims were persecuting the Christians because the church I spoke in. They had burnt it one time and killed a deacon after I was there they burnt it again killed the pastor who was getting a doctorate from fuller seminary and Killed a number of people.

I think ten people were murdered in Muslim cleansing so on taking place there in Nigeria well. We went to the dye pits in the old city in there and I could think of Lydia. Here are these wells in the ground holes in the ground.

But purple in this one and blue in this one and that and these pits have been there for hundreds and hundreds of years. Where people died cloth and they you know, they knock them and tie them I don't know how they do it.

So they get you know different colors and I have a beautiful African shirt that was Dyed like that, you know different designs to the dye and so the this cloth of course, he's pulling up is all wet. Well, you don't want to buy a wet cloth and put in your suitcase to fly home but he had materials that he had died at his house that was Dry, and so we went to his house and we're walking up the street.

Any wider than this with a ditch in the middle of it that was open sewer to his house. And you're just walking on the edge and the houses were all made out of red. Sand kind of thing, you know hardened sand walked into his house one little room then in the back.

Which was a little small room with a wall around it. With open that he had this material some Apple boxes and the material there and I didn't want to buy any material because I knew that. We've never used it.

And so they were looking at this but he had nailed on this wall all African Jewelry. And I'm going through the jewelry just looking at the necklaces and all of a sudden there is the necklace that these kids every one of them described to me that was around the neck of that demon and I took it off and I said how old is this and the guy said well, I think at least 300 400 years and I thought I want to buy this.

That's my first thought and take it back to see because the kids described this this triangle I mean they described it I mean because that's the one thing that stood out was this this necklace that this thing work.

But isn't it interesting that here's a necklace that kids in Warrington, Missouri by st. Louis described all the intricacies of that necklace exactly like the one I saw in the heart of Africa. I Didn't buy it.

I'm not a good idea. Okay, I think I'll buy this take it home. You know the plane crashes and Logan's holding on to the necklace. Find his body. Not a good idea okay, and Then delegated authority. This is number 11.

Delegated Authority in the Family

Authority can be delegated to someone else. This is a dad. Now remember this whole thing was the authority of a father all the different areas. There's 11 at least specific different areas. We've talked about where a dad has authority.

See it can be done anytime and when you leave the home and go to work. You know and you can stay to the spirit world. My wife now is in full authority while I'm gone and the kids need to know that. Your mom's in full authority while I'm gone and we'll talk a little bit about when kids.

When does a mom ever say wait your dad comes home? And there's a time to say that. And the kids are praying for a wreck or something. They don't want dad to come home because he's probably not fit for human consumption when he walks in the door, you know.

But there is a time. I mean some mothers use that all the time. So my mom used that all the time. We just hated to see my dad come home. Well, you don't want that, you know that you just read your dad coming in the house.

The Armor of God and Spiritual Readiness

Is there any questions about this kind of thing that we talked about we have five minutes. If I was going to shoot for my head, I know what I would tell you. In the past, but I just got to give you a scripture and you make the application.

Go to Ephesians. Because I'm not a warfare person, that's not my background. I'm not that flavor in the body of Christ. I'm I'm in the same ministerial group with John MacArthur if that gives you some idea where I'm coming from.

I mean, I am so squeaky that I make noises when I walk and. So this warfare thing is just to me. It was storefront, you know passed me a rattlesnake kind of person and I wasn't into rattlesnakes and You know reptiles is not my thing.

And so I just never. I mean if you did know me when I was teaching in Bible colleges that I'd ever be doing what? I'm doing. I'd say you guys are crazy. I'm not one of those kind of people. I'm not an oral Roberts.

I'm just you know, that's not Logan at all. I'm the opposite. I'm real. I'm the other way. But when a missionary had voices speaking out of him and I was in charge of all the missionaries and their wealth.

Well being and spiritual walk and all of that. I Didn't know what to do. But all of a sudden I knew that what was happening was not right. I mean, I knew no one had to tell me. I didn't go to deep. I didn't take and I took demonology one-on-one in Bible school a hundred years before that.

But no one has to tell you and you meet someone that's really manifesting demons. You don't no one has to draw you a picture your spirit the hair in the back of your neck. It's one thing just go by the hair in the back of your neck.

Why is it standing up? Or sticking out. He's just dead see what happened. I've seen so many demonized people my hair just Stood up and walked away. Logan you got the smarts to get out of here. I am. What I did is I didn't want to become weird.

I was really fearful of being weird and I didn't want to go overboard, you know to get way off on the deep end. So what I did is I went to the New Testament. Read every passage that had to do with the spirit world and mark it in yellow and I have yellow lines.

Then I went back to that which I wasn't sure was obvious and did Greek word studies on those verses I wanted to know from a biblical perspective. Now I told you I have almost a table. I have almost 600 books on spiritual warfare written by some really solid people and some not so solid.

And so, you know, I've done my homework. I've done my studying but I looked up a word. This is I'm not, you know wandering here I'm leading you to the point is that I there are scriptures you don't look up and I should I mean, it's just I knew I mean, obviously he wouldn't know what this word means.

I mean, you don't have to be real brilliant and it had to do with the armor of God and It says in verse 11 Okay, the kid with the striped shirt on you haven't read it yet. Have you you get you get chance stand up and read loudly.

These are six verse 11 the armor of the armor portion, okay. Now so somehow the whole armor of God is to protect me against Satan scheme, right? I mean, how do we know because he just said so. Now the word put on would you look that up in the Greek does that look like something you'd need to have some Greek real Greek understanding of.

No, I mean who doesn't know what put on means right you guys all put on this morning. No one showed up not put on right. We don't have any streakers in here. But I thought put on and so people would ask me the very same question you asked me.

What about the armor of God am I supposed to pray an armor for every day? You know, it's just it and and I would I would tell no. Because I would have been a really good Catholic or Episcopal or something, you know.

Tell me the prayers to pray and the beads to turn and I'll do it and fine. You know, I mean just get me my little box and I'll do my thing and that's good. I know that that's a danger in me. And so I thought you know, I don't people that we have armor prayers.

We give out we get three different armor prayers one by Warren Risby one by Charles Stanley. Charles Stanley says he puts on the armor every day over his pajamas before he gets out of bed and. And then the big armor prayer that's been around for a long time.

I give all three of those out. And so I and I and I say no because it says okay stand up and read another verse. Read Verse 13 but yeah, what's the very next word in the next verse? Yeah, see after you've done everything to stand keep on standing now.

The key here is again He says put on the full armor of God that you may be able to stand in the evil day having done all to stand. Also, I read that wrong. I mean I read it with the with a Western view and we approach an Eastern Scripture with a Western mindset.

We got to realize we miss a lot because it's not our culture and this was written to people in the Middle East. They have a better grip of some of the stuff that said then we do because we take a Western thing and try to make It Western and it wasn't written Western.

It was written to people in the Middle East. Put on the armor because of the evil day. It's I read that because we're living in evil times. That's not what he's saying. There's a definite article the in the Greek the evil day and That is the day of violent temptations and attacks whenever they come to you with Extraordinary strength and the desire to yield is strong.

That is an evil day. We're going to see as we begin our study that when Satan left Jesus in Luke chapter 4 It said Satan left Jesus until the opportune time. You the King James says for a season, but just go in the back check out season.

You can see it's opportune time and Satan's opportune time is my worst. When I don't need the enemy to show up. Guess what guess who's at your house for dinner? Right, and when you've had an evil day often your wife does now.

My wife's evil days are Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays and my evil days are Tuesdays Thursdays Saturday. But often when you have a bad is that have you ever seen that dad you come home. You're not there for human consumption.

The kids have been demon-possessed all day and your wife is ready to resign. And you're not ready to deal with this, you know, I mean you're just ready to climb all over these kids. And then they're not focusing on behavior.

They're focusing on why is dad always mad? No, dad, take it easy dad. Like that little kid. Good. So the armor that put on is put on every day or put on as you do clothes. I never would have checked that out in the Greek.

So I was telling people wrong. I say put on the armor when you have an evil day I need to put on the armor because I may have an evil day. You see the difference between what I was teaching because I didn't want to get into some kind of a ritual thing.

And yet he said put on armor put on put on the armor of God every day. Now how you put it on you may want to bury the prayers and so on but you need to put the armor on. That's what God says. It may be an evil day.

You don't know what today's gonna be but you need to be prepared for the day. So I think it's the same thing if your kids need a reminder. Number one that mom's in charge here and I'm gonna check with her tonight how you responded to her authority.

They need it may need to be reminded little kids more often, but I would remind the spirit. Well, maybe as you put on the armor, you know as I go today my wife's in charge here. But if you want to attack this family you come find me.