Sickness Is A Spirit.

And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the Sabbath.And, behold, there was a woman which had
a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.
Luke 13:10-11

From the original Greek text, Astheneia is the name from where the word "infirmity" came. The word
Astheneia is the common Greek word for sickness. For eighteen years that spirit of sickness was
oppressing the woman! So, sickness is a spirit.This means that there is a spirit of deformity, a spirit of
fever, a spirit of cancer, a spirit of migraine, a spirit of kidney failure, a spirit of fibroid, a spirit of blood
disease, a spirit of lameness, etc. Infirmity means sickness.

So when they say someone has a spirit of infirmity, it means he has a spirit of sickness. We see also in
Mark 9:25: When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto
him, Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him.

When God made you, you were perfect. You were very good. Then Satan came and sowed his evil seed,
and the good creation of God became evil. Until Jesus came, and then the tables turned!

Satan Lost His Throne!

He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of
God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1 John 3:8

Every sickness is a work of the devil. Every deformity is a work of the devil. Every blindness is a work of
the devil. Every lameness, every disease, is a work of the devil. But praise God, Jesus came, that He might
destroy the works of the devil.

Listen to this:

And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, Saying, Let us alone;
what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou
art, the Holy One of God.And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.And when
 the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
Mark 1:23-26

It is an unclean spirit that makes a man feel good when he is dirty; that makes a man misbehave in public.
That is the spirit of madness! A foul spirit that makes a man behave foul!

Look at this for instance:

And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean
spirit,Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains: Because
that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and
the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. And always, night and day, he was in the
mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Mark 5:2-5

But then, he came in contact with the One that has the power to destroy every spirit of sickness.

For he said unto him, Come out of the man, thou unclean spirit.
Mark 5:8

And the man was set free. By the time the people who used to know him as a mad man saw him again, he
was "sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind ..." (Mark 5:15). Friends, in our generation, every spirit of
sickness shall be destroyed! God's creation shall be redeemed from corruption, by the power of God. We
are going to push the devil out of business!

In 1983, one of my cousins was struck with the spirit of madness. When I arrived home to see him, as I
entered the room, he stood up and prostrated to greet me (in his madness)! Before then he had not been
able to recognise nor speak to anyone, not even his mother. But he welcomed me! They asked him if he
knew who I was and he said, "That's my brother." All I did was enter the room! I hadn't even prayed or laid
hands on him. You know why? A General doesn't need to be in uniform before you know he's a General.
Whether in his sportswear or his pyjamas, a General is still a General.

Friends, all you need to floor the devil, is a consciousness that you are greater, that you are stronger. A
superiority complex, that puts him where he belongs. You need a knowledge of your redemptive position in
Christ, that will give you your place. Now, by the time I was leaving, I told them to put the young man in
my car, and let me see the devil that will dare follow him into my car! Friends, that was the end of the
madness! The young man has now graduated from the university, born again, and full of the Holy Spirit,
serving God with excitement! The unclean spirit left him fast, at the instance of my appearance and my
command.

Listen to me, by virtue of your redemption in Christ, Satan has no final say in your life any more. The
choice is yours. Jesus came to destroy all the works of the devil! All his works!

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up
the ghost.
John 19:30

After taking that bitter drink, He said, "It is finished"- finished with anything that is making life bitter for
you, finished with sorrows, with pains and He bowed His head and gave up the ghost.

That may sound like defeat, but in Hebrews 2:14-15, the Bible says:

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the
same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver
them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

When Jesus gave up the ghost, death was overthrown! The one who had the power of death (Satan) was
destroyed, and man's liberty from every of his oppressions was sealed. Friends, when Jesus gave up the
ghost, Satan lost his throne! When Jesus descended into hell, Satan's throne was destroyed and man's
liberty was established!

"It is finished"! No force in hell can change that! The dominion of Satan over your life and destiny came to
an end! The dominion of the wicked over your body came to an end! Know this then, Satan is too weak to
make you sick! Power was taken from him when Jesus went down to the grave, and the scriptures cannot
be broken. If Jesus hadn't destroyed Satan, He couldn't have been Lord over your life. Satan lost his throne!
Oh, yes he did!

Matthew 15:13 says:

But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up.
That sickness in your body is a planting of the devil. But everything he has ever placed in your body, Jesus
has come to root it out. That's the reason He came. So, the only sickness that won't leave you alone, must
be one that is stronger than God. And of course, there's no such sickness! If God says "Yes!", the enemy
cannot say, "No!" God has already said "Yes!" concerning your healing.

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the
dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Romans 8:11

There's something in you that guarantees health. It is the Spirit of Him that raised Jesus up from the dead,
the same Person we call the Holy Spirit. He has a mission to supply the virtue for divine health to your
body. So your body is quickened by Him. He is the same Spirit in the Healing Balm. Get set for an
encounter with Him, that will end all your aches and pains forever!