Take Back Your Life, Part II: Battling the Waster Spirit

Scriptures:

"See, it is I who created the blacksmith who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its work. And it is I who have created the waster to wreak havoc (Isaiah 54:16)

The LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines (Nahum 2:2).

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life even when faced with death. 12 For this reason, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time (Revelation 12:11-12).

Ever been in a situation that left you stunned? Dazed? Completely at a loss?

All you could do, when it was all said and done, was scratch your head, just sit back and wonder, “What in the world happened?”

Picture this: everything was perfect.  You’ve been working on that project at work for the last year.     

You’ve dotted every single “I” and crossed all of your “T”s.  You’ve stroked every single ego, of every single person, with letters behind their name (CEO, CFO, COO, etc.).  You’ve gotten so much positive feedback, you began to think of the project as your firstborn son.  Your peers envied your success.  Even the heads of other departments started using you, as an example, for others on their teams to follow.  Wow, things were going so well!  It’s a good thing, too, since one of the partners just announced their retirement.  Thank You, Jesus!  You’re just in time to slide right in, as the youngest employee to have made partner, in your marketing and public relations firm.  Jesus Himself personally gave you a vision of it in a dream once—you were going to run that firm one day and you would do it for Christ.   No longer would the marketing, public relations, and/or advertising industries sell raunchy filth to make a buck.  Oh, no!  Jesus was going to be at the Head of your new company!  Truth be told, after all that struggle, you’d had some trouble believing, after a while, that you did receive those promises from God, but finally, it was all beginning to manifest.   You were not bonkers, after all.  God gave you that dream, and you finally knew the truth.  It was a prophetic dream that was sent to confirm the promises and purposes of God for your life. 

In fact, you’ve just had lunch with Marketing Director a few days ago, and he was not only hinting that you were soon to join their little clique of successful people, but that everyone  was actually interested in what you had to say about the future of the company.  You knew the promotion was in the bag because in the last year alone, you personally brought in over ten million dollars of revenue, through elite clientele that you secured--from the Christian community, no less!  You were able to generate business and God used you to bring glory to His Name, while helping others in His Kingdom!  Yes, you were sure to get that promotion to partner.  The Lord’s favor was surely upon you! In fact, everyone was sure you would be promoted.  Months have passed by, and no one else seemed be a true contender.  Yeah, there is that guy Jack, whose last major account brought in only about one million dollars—but that was two years prior.  You figured they added Jack in the running to avoid gossip about you being a shoe-in.  After all, Jack was the only other man with your level of seniority.  Otherwise, he couldn’t possibly have been added as a consideration.  

Everyone knew the job was yours!

Only thing though….hmmm….what was happening?  You've been pretty much promised a promotion but...hmmmm...where was it?  All of a sudden, there seem to be whispers around you when you walk into the office.  No more word from the partners.  Have they even made a decision?  You thought you would have heard something by now, considering the other partner's last day was at the end of the week.

But then, you walked in to work one day, just to discover that the job, in fact, was not yours!  

Jack…jack?  Jack got the promotion!  What?  Jack?  No! Impossible!

Your eyes filled with tears.  You stormed into a meeting between the bigwigs and asked for your director.  He explained that the team gave it some careful consideration, but decided to go with Jack.

“But why?” you barked. 

And to this day, no one can guess “but why” Jack.

And people are still talking about it--especially since Jack is doing a half-behind job!

"But why Jack???"

Sound familiar?  Ever just had something snatched right out of your hand that you—and everyone else—knew was right for you? Or belonged to you? Or had been justly earned by you? 

People often say, “Well, if it did not happen, it was not meant to be.”  Or my personal favorite response, "You heard wrong in your spirit.  It must not have been God's will!"

Sadly, my friends, that is not always true.  I dare say that most times it was meant to be. God said that when we ask for bread, He will never give us a stone (Matthew 7:9). When you belong to God, the Holy Spirit is reshaping our desires daily anyway.  The Spirit leads us to pray for what we need, even makes intercession for us (Romans 8:26).  If He does not fulfill our desire--it is only because He will do exceedingly and abundantly above what we think to ask for" (Ephesians 3:20).  He will never, ever do less--either that thing we prayed for or better! Is is God's will to be glorified in answered prayers, because Jesus said, "Whatsoever you ask in My Name, that I will do, because it will bring glory to the Father's Name in the Son" (John 14:13).  Jesus said, "whatsoever" we ask, "that" will He do!"  So it was God's will!!!   Besides, you made sure to ask, if it is not His will to remove the desire in the first place.  If you still desired it, God wanted it for you too!  But there is a devil, who is a thief.  He walks around, like a roaring lion.  His mission?  To steal, kill, and destroy.  How do I know that?

Cause the Bible says so in John 10:10!

Not only does Satan, and his cohorts, steal, kill, and destroy.  Isaiah 54:16 says that he does something else—he wastes the blessings, provisions, and opportunities God prepares for us.  He does it so much so that he can even waste an entire destiny if we are not sober-minded and alert, remaining hip to his schemes!

What in the World is the Waster Spirit?

It wasn’t until I began to examine my own life and certain things God was leading me to pray against that I realized that something was off.  After a series of events in 2014, the Lord led me to begin praying on restoration on all that had been stolen, devoured, or wasted in my life.  He led me one day to Proverbs 6:31 and impressed upon me to speak this scripture against the enemy’s attacks on my “goods.”  The scripture says, “But if he is caught, he must pay back seven times what he stole, even if he has to sell everything in his house.” 

Wow.  First of all, if “who” is caught?  And who is going to pay back what he stole sevenfold? 

When I came to the Lord about it, that is when the Lord began to reveal some secret and hidden things (Jeremiah 33:3) about the spiritual battles I was engaged within over my life.  He began to teach me to fight against a demonic force called the Waster.

I won’t get too deep into how this force came to settle into my life.  Just know I am from the Caribbean.  My mother’s side is Haitian, my father is Indian and Guyanese.  Yes, they considered themselves Christians.  But God considered a lot of their cultural practices witchcraft.  Not only that, but I did my own share of rebelling against the Lord, which did not do anything to add to, or protect, my God-given resources, blessings, opportunities, or my destiny.  Once you, or your ancestors before you, open the demonic doors—especially with lifestyles of sin such as witchcraft, or fornication, or adultery, or even abortion (shedding of innocent blood), a waster demon has full access to your life!  It is not until you are covered by the Blood of Jesus, after confessing Him your Savior, after repenting for your sins, that the Lord can begin to manifest the promises of Proverbs 6:31 and rebuke the waster described in Isaiah 54:16.  That is when the Lord will begin to "rebuke the devourer for your sakes" (Malachi 3:11).

First let us learn about what this waster is.  That is the first step.

Ways “the waster “wastes:

It is written that God Himself created this “waster” as an instrument to destroy—to waste anything that was not pleasing to God, or under God’s protection—such as a life in rebellion to His Word.  Such demons were created to waste—lives, talents, gifts, relationships, destinies.  Even entire people have been wasted.  How many people have died due to their foolish choices and our first response is to shake our head and say, “Man, what a waste.”  Well, that is the phrase the “waster” lives for.

How does the waster do it?

1)   Desperation of man:  We all know what happens when man is backed into a corner.  He is liable to make desperate choices that lead to destruction.  Even the devil acts out of desperation as his time wreaking havoc on the earth draws to a close—Revelation 12:12. 

2)   If you allow yourself to engage in long-term sins: Fornication, theft, adultery, etc, you are allowing God’s perfect will to be wasted.  Of course, the waster will do it.

3)   Agents of darkness that live among us to destroy us:  False prophets, witches/warlocks, satanists, and preachers who don’t preach against spiritual warfare/deliverance are human agents of Satan designed to lead us astray and waste our Christian lives and Holy Spirit-power promised to us.

4)   Retaliation: When you are pursuing God’s will, and your destiny from God, the enemy will send retaliation against you to “waste” your blessings, potential, opportunities, resources, helpers, promotions, or anything that had been designed to be a stepping stool towards your destiny.  It is often through witchcraft, demonic oppression, and demonic distractions—see previous blog entry on the Spirits of Distraction: Sanballat, Tobiah, and Gesham.

Why is This “Waster” Issue Worse Than Most?

1)   Waste is easier than loss.  Loss means it is gone, often beyond your control.  It cannot return, but most times, it was not your fault.  Waste means it was "spent foolishly," implying that it was preventable.  "Waste" tends to continue tormenting you because you always have a sense that you are not living your own life—you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the wrong things, with the wrong people.  You are in the wrong career, or even worst of all—married to the wrong person, bearing the “wrong” children who have turned against you.  On top of all of that, you have to live with the mistakes you made!  It can be unbearable--leading to other wastes, like suicide.

2)   The purpose of a “wasted life” is to torment you—to bring you, and your destiny, to desolate places.  It is the goal of Satan to turn you away from God, and faith in His Son, due to the torment that comes from a wasted life.

3)   To make something profitless –such as a hard-earned college degree that does not assist you in getting a good job.  Wasters work to make the profitable into something worthless; to make the wondrous thing/person useless.  Its goal is to render a blessing into something squandered, or damaged senselessly.  It wants to turn your best into refuse, it wants to consume God’s blessings to you thoughtlessly—again making a wonderful thing squandered and rendered useless—like that talent for dance that cannot be used now in your late forties--after the devil kept you too distracted to pursue dance for the last twenty-five years.

4)   “Good fools waste money, but the greatest fool wastes time.”  Wasting time is one of the best tools of Satan—procrastination, distraction, idleness, laziness, tardiness, and foolishness.  Best waster of life and potential is anything that causes you to forfeit useful time on uselessness. 

5)   Major purpose:  Satan knows that if you waste your life and destiny it would have been better if you had not been born.  God warns us against not fulfilling our destiny.  In Psalm 138: (ESV), it says, “The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.”  It also says, "And I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns" (Phillipians 1:6).  Even God will not abandon His own plans for you.  How much more does He expect His child to continue their work for Him--the Most High God!  Yes, all who are saved will get to Heaven, but Satan longs to prevent you from hearing “Well done, My good and faithful servant” (Matthew 25:23) from our Lord and Savior, who died just so we can fulfill our destiny!  It says in Phillipians 3:12, "I don't mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me."  This indicates that God saves us each for a purpose and we must possess that which He died to give us.

Satan wants to rob us of our heavenly rewards there, just as badly as he wants to destroy our lives here on earth.

Five Major Wasters:

1)   You can waste your life: You pursue the things you know are bad for you—smoking, bad relationships, gluttony, and each causes you to waste yourself and your life by causing unnecessary health issues and premature death.

If someone has a powerful destiny, to be a blessing to the Kingdom of God, the enemy marks them—to derail their destiny.  He will work to get you into the wrong career, or to join the wrong relationships, or to have the wrong habits that lead to more wrong decisions, that lead to desperation…which causes desperate decisions to derail your life.

2)   The enemy can waste you: People will be on assignment to speak a curse upon you before you can even get started.  Your own parent, mate, or boss can speak a curse.  The enemy will cause your own tongue to speak curses upon your own life, destiny, or blessings.   Witches, Satanists, and Psychics seek after those to curse for power—they are on assignment from Satan.  Be careful what you say, what you let others say, and what you share with others.  Sometimes you need to keep your plans to yourself and ask the Lord who you can share your plans with before doing so.  

Also, be careful about asking God who to pray with about things--if the Spirit puts that in your heart.  We need to see that the person you've asked to pray for you will actually pray for you.  Sometimes you ask for someone to agree in prayer and they are not agreeing, either in their hearts or in their verbal prayer. Instead they will ask, on your behalf, for the very thing you don't need, then say the Spirit "led" them to pray that for you.  Unless that person is an appointed Prophet, who has received a Word from the Lord that you ought to go the other way, there is no reason for them to refuse to pray for your request--for marriage, a certain job.  If God's answer is no, fine.  But it is not for them to determine what you should pray to your God about.  That is also a waster at work--wasting an opportunity for two Christians to see the power of God manifest into a testimony when two have agreed on something in the prayer realm!  And be careful you are not doing the same to the breathen as well.  If someone asks for prayer for marriage--then pray for marriage!  Again, God will never give a "stone" or "less"  He is going to give us all either bread, or better bread then we can ask for.  He will either do "that" thing, or "add" to that thing--so you may find yourself praying for your friend to be married--and have beautiful, Godly children.  If it is less than the request, that is not of God.  If the prayer becomes a power struggle between the prayer partners--that is NOT of God!

3)   Your own friends/family can waste you: Any friend that doesn’t add to your life—just subtracts from your life—leave them.  Move on or love them from a distance.  Anyone who does not contribute to your relationship with them, leave them behind, or if impossible, love them from a distance.  Especially friends—since they are not your blood family, they are often used by the enemy because their loyalty is easier to sever without the blood bond being there.  Of course, the blood bond is getting weaker in these End Times, but theoretically, your blood sister should be less willing to kill you than your sorority sister in college.
 

4)   The devil himself can waste you:  1 Peter 5:8.  The devil must seek whom he can devour.  He knows he cannot devour everyone, but there are those who are already predisposed to be devoured—due to family occult history (like me), generational curses, lifelong sin lifestyles (ex: living with your lover for thirty years and never married), etc.  Repeated sin lifestyle or cycles— those in unbelief or rebellion; those not covered by the Blood of Jesus—those not saved.  For the saved, those people who have not yet been delivered from demonic oppression, even though they are saved, because they have not been taught, or refuse to believe, they need to engage in spiritual warfare and deliverance—which is another waste from the enemy!!!  Tons of stubborn Christians are saved, but remain in bondage, because they refuse to believe the Bible’s words and trust that deliverance and spiritual warfare and supernatural/revelatory gifts of the Holy Spirit are not only still in operation today, but are necessary to survive, especially in these End Times! 

5)   God can waste you:  God is merciful but He is just.  If you have been anointed or called for a seasonal (temporary) task, or a life-long work of destiny, and choose to disobey—refusing to fulfill the requirements of your God-chosen calling—God will waste you. Sodom and Gomorrah, along with any civilization that became a liability to God’s Kingdom, has been wasted.  King Saul was wasted when he disobeyed God (1 Samuel 15).  We know that in the Book of Jonah, the Prophet Jonah was nearly wasted, but God was merciful with him.  If Jonah had not repented, and been forced to engage in a dry fast inside the fish, he could have been wasted by the Lord.

Warnings from God of Waster Spirits in Our Lives
(From Dr. D. K. Olukoya , from MFM Ministries)

1)   Eating in a dream.  If you are eating, or worse, eating poisonous food.  This is a sign of spiritual and/or physical weaknesses being created within you.  If the food is poisonous in the dream, that is far worse—usually meaning that what were once blessings are being turned to curses that you are forced to eat.

2)   Being filled with overwhelming lust:  I don’t mean you’ve been hanging in there, celibate for 10 years, and waiting on the Lord for a wife/husband and struggle with your libido.  I am talking rebellious sexual sin.  Many of us have done it and know the effects.  Sexual sin, primarily fornication and adultery, are direct sins against God’s temple…God considers that a sin against Himself, and His dwelling place, so He will see to our demise Himself.  Only complete repentance can save you.  At least when demons trouble your life, deliverance can be done through the casting out of that demonic force in the Name of Jesus.  When Jesus troubles you, however, with His judgment?  Humph! There is no escape.

3)   Any form of addiction: Even what people consider harmless like tobacco—because it is not mentioned in the Word of God as a sin—will first waste money and then health.  I know.  Nicotine addiction has been a life-long stronghold in my life, even after I came to Christ.  It's been quite the battle for me and for many.

4)   Unexplainable hatred from others/lack of favor/ rejection:  It comes from all sorts of people—even family, even parents.  It happens all the time, even when you haven’t done a thing to deserve it.  That is usually a waster forcing you to live an isolated, lonely life to destroy your trust in God.

5)   Your prayer life is unfulfilling and inconsistent:  Your prayer life is getting worse—you are beginning to pray less and less, and you get frustrated when others pray for longer periods of time than you have been praying (lately).  That is a waster spirit sent to waste your communication with God—or keep your from benefiting from others’ communication with God on your behalf in intercession.  You are so busy waiting for your friend’s prayer to end, that you get frustrated and distracted, and don’t agree in the prayer.  The prayer ends up losing its effectiveness, and you miss a breakthrough that could have come from two or more agreeing on something you needed in the first place.

6)   Suicidal thoughts: Especially as a Christian, that is the waster at work.

7)   Your body is out of order:  If you find that you, or your body, are conducting yourself in a way that does not make sense for your age—or manifesting symptoms of old age, for example, the waster spirit is wasting your youth.  Sometimes that can come from a curse.  For example, I used to enjoy telling people that I’m getting old.  One day, after a series of brutal pains in my neck, back, and legs, I heard a warning from the Spirit to stop joking about getting old.  Apparently I was cursing myself because the Bible tells us that God wants to renew our youth like the eagles (Isaiah 40:31 and Psalm 103:5).  It was against the Word of God to proclaim getting old!  I allowed wastage of my youth, and it kept manifesting until I repented and began to experience healing little by little, and had to reverse every curse I’ve spoken against my youth.  I am only 36 for crying out loud! How am I getting old? The devil is a liar!

8)   Supernatural Occurrences in the Physical Realm: You find movements within/on your body that are unexplainable—stomach fluttering at odd times, especially during prayer; feeling of bugs crawling on you, etc.  You are not schizophrenic (necessarily)…this could be a physical manifestation of the waster spirit troubling you and your atmosphere to torment and waste your peace of mind.

9)   Demonic attacks during sleep: Such manifestations such as being choked, or pressed, or suffocated.  Your only hope in the dream state is to call on Jesus and wake up out of that state.  It is possible a waster has been sent to kill you in the spirit realm, in order to cause your death to manifest here in the natural realm.  It used to happen to me when I served in prayer ministry at Times Square Church.  I would lead someone to Christ, and then dream someone choking me, until I was able to say the Name of Jesus and be literally yanked from that dream.  

10) Constant, Unexplainable Struggle: When you find yourself having to struggle and scale mountains, or fight and bleed, for every single accomplishment for yourself.  For some reason, it is so much more effortless for others.  That is not of God.  That is usually a waster throwing roadblocks in your direction to derail your faith and your efforts. It is designed to get you discouraged.  I am not speaking about random things, with random obstacles, that happen to all people on this earth.  I am talking drama at every single job, every time you enroll in school for your education and degree, every time you tried something nice for your marriage or family.  With every single good plan, that you've brought to Lord in prayer, and feel confident about, you find there is something that ruins it—the type of issue that doesn’t make sense because it is something that should be effortless for you.

Other Signs of Waster Spirits:

11) Swimming in a dream

12) Having sex in dreams with incubus and succubus demons—horrible wasters at work—spirit husbands/wives that delay or destroy marriages, wasting your destiny to have marriage and family as God ordained, or to experience a good marriage with the spouse you have.

13) Being pursued in a dream.

14) Seeing dead relatives in dreams, especially as a Christian.  This may also be a sign of family history of occult practices.

15) You get sick or feel unwell whenever there are big life experiences—not the random once-in-a-while-can’t-help-life issues,  but each time you have something important or valuable to do, you are incapacitated in some way.

16) Accidents always happening.  Big accidents over time, or day-by-day so-called “clumsiness” that is above-average are the signs of waster spirits in your atmosphere.

17) Always being accused wrongly—no matter where you go or what you do.

18) All of your hard work fails to get you to success.

19) You are always losing money—even when God does answer prayers.  You get a lump sum of money, but suddenly the car breaks down, then your boiler in the house, then your mom gets sick!  The money you prayed and fasted three months for is now gone, but that was the money to finally  get you into school!

20) **Being out of the perfect will and/or timing of God** This means that you are doing the wrong thing at the right time (for you to get into trouble) or the right thing at the wrong time (for you to get into trouble).  Obviously, God’s will is perfect and we need to be doing the right thing at the right time.

It is time to ask yourself serious questions to avoid continued wastage:

1)   Do I know my destiny?  If your life is an experiment, after a certain age, and you have been to school three times, and you’re still trying to find out what you were born to do at 45, then your life is a product of the waster.  

2)   If God has confirmed a vision and…nothing! Time and again, God has actually confirmed His best plan for your life, and you are not operating there, or at least on your way there—your life is wasting.

3)  You are losing or squandering available opportunities, privileges, resources, provisions, and help that you keep getting?  Self-explanatory.

4)   If you are blinded:  Frankly, you know what to do, but cannot get an edge on how to do it—you are kept from a plan of success for your life, ministry, business, calling, goals, etc—your destiny is being wasted.

5)   If you are dying before your time due to sickness, illness, injury, an accident, or some other type of issue such as crime, your life has been attacked by a waster: I am not talking when it is the time that God calls you home, but when it was before your time—usually contributed to by life choices, mistakes, missteps, failure to heed internal warnings/ instincts/ promptings from the Holy Spirit.  Example: you’ve lived outside of the will of God by engaging in immoral relationships which leads to chlamydia then cervical cancer, then death.  You are hanging out with people who drink, knowing you do not belong at that event.  Instead of leaving when God tells you too, and taking a cab home, you wait for your ride, and end up in an accident three hours later that has left you paralyzed.  Heed the warnings of the Lord!!!!

6)   If you fail to follow what God puts into your heart to do: “Large” or “small”  you just fail to do your assignment from God and allow your assignment to be transferred (see the story of King Saul in 1 Samuel 15); your destiny has been wasted.  If you feel called to something, simply ask God to confirm if you are unsure.  Someone will speak to you about it, or you will hear a message, or find a Scripture.  God DOES speak.  And when He does--GO!  Don't wait, just GO! Ever have an idea or vision for five years, failing to use it, then one day you forget about it--that is until you see someone else doing it?  How did that feel? Horrible?  Yes.   I have personally learned that God will simply fulfill His will through someone else.   God is no respecter of persons.  He will wait for you for a while, it seems, as we saw Him wait on Moses a few years.  However, if Moses had not stepped up to the plate in the Book of Exodus, you think God would have continued to leave the Jews in bondage?  Nope.  Maybe Jethro would have been parting the Red Sea and being talked about for thousands of years by people all around the world.  How would Moses have felt for the remainder of his life?

7)   If you allow your bread to become stones: Time and again, your blessings are turning into curses because those blessings have been wasted.

8)   When you are pursuing the wrong profession or ministry calling:  You are in the wrong career (like I’ve been), even though you know it is not for you.  You keep going around in circles whenever you try to transition into what God has for you--that is the work of the waster spirit.

9)   If your mind is bombarded by evil thoughts:  You cannot stop being bitter in your thoughts about people, especially with unforgiveness.  Unfortunately, a waster spirit is at play.

10) Occult practices in your background or life:  If your ancestors, especially your parents, are involved in the occult—or have placed you in occult—unknowingly or knowingly; i.e. your parents doing “spiritual baths” for protection when you are a child—you become sucked into the free-for-all of a wasted life.   

11)  A Christian Not Bearing Fruit:  If you can look at your life and see that you have not done anything lasting for the Kingdom of God or the Glory of Jesus Christ, such as lead at least one person to their salvation, served in a ministry, or even prayed for someone else, then a waster is destroying God's plans to use you in His Kingdom.  Why does it matter, you are saved after all, right?  I will tell you why.  Satan knows that it is written, "So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire" (Matthew 7:19).  

How to Get Delivered and Overcome the Waster Spirit:

1)   That is why Jesus came to die—for the salvation we need from our sins, but also so we would live more abundantly—to the fullness of the destiny the Lord has for us.  He came so we would not be wasted!

First, you must give your entire life to God through His Son, Jesus Christ.  You must confess that you are a sinner who needs a Savior.  Then confess Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior; confess that He died on the Cross for our sins and rose on the third day.  Pray the sinner’s prayer to get saved—you can try something like this or whatever comes to your heart along these lines:

   
“God, I confess that I am a sinner.  Please forgive me for the sins I have committed.  I repent of all my sins.  I believe that Your Son, Jesus Christ, died on the Cross for my sins and rose on the third day.  I ask Jesus now to be my Lord and Savior.  Please come into my heart, Jesus, and take control of my life.  Please fill me and baptize me with Your Holy Spirit.  In Your Name, I pray, Amen."

You are now saved and a child of God in Jesus.  You are now covered by the Blood and have eternal life (John 3:16; John 14:6).  But we do not stop there.  He promises abundant life too (John 10:10). 

2)   Ask the Holy Spirit to examine and search your heart.  Then repent specifically for whatever sins come to your mind—whatever stands between you and God—that thing you did in third grade that got your parents in trouble?  That time you lied about your grandfather dying to get out of work, knowing he was alive and well down south?  Whatever God brings to your heart.  Repent and ask God to cleanse you of all unrighteousness—the sins you remember and the ones you can’t remember.  Repent for the sins you wanted to commit, even the ones you didn’t—like that time you lusted after your boss that you knew was married?  In God’s eyes, you already committed it.  Repent for the sins that cause curses—disobedience to parents, for example, is an open door for your life to be wasted.  Not doing so can cause life to be quite painful and shortened (Exodus 20:12; Ephesians 6:2).

3)   Wage war against the wasters!!  

Spiritual warfare—prayers to attack and defeat, to take authority from God over these demonic forces.  Start with these prayers, but ask the Holy Spirit to lead you in the battle.  First, put on the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18) and then let the Lord lead.  Afraid of spiritual warfare?  Well, the Lord says to pray “… in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord's people (Ephesians 6:18).   Don’t know how to engage in prayer battle?  Meditate on these verses: “Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you” (Luke 10:19); “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds” (2 Corinthians 10:4);  “Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Matthew 18:18);  “No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn” (Isaiah 54:17). 

Once you learn that you are ordered by the Lord to fight, ask Him to teach you how.  Boldly decree the following Scriptures to aid in the battle:

Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle (Psalm 144:1);

He makes my feet like hinds' feet, And sets me upon my high places. 34He trains my hands for battle, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze. 35You have also given me the shield of Your salvation, And Your right hand upholds me; And Your gentleness makes me great.… (Psalm 18:33-35).

Use the prayers below to help you in the battle for your life!

Spiritual warfare prayers against the waster spirits:

Scripture Reading - Exodus 12

Confession - Isaiah 54:16-17

From “Dismantling the Works of the Waster Spirits” by Apostle Paul A. Williams

(Apostolic Revival Church).

1.   Power to fight and win, fall upon my life right now, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

2.   I arrest every instrument of wasters fashioned against my life and command it to perish by fire, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

3.   Thunder fire of God, arise and scatter every power on assignment to waste my life and destiny, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

4.   Power of darkness operating to convert my destiny into rages, you are a liar, perish by fire!!! Die in the Name of Jesus Christ!

5.   Fire of God, pass through my spirit, soul, and body and burn to ashes every instrument of the wasters at work in my life, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

6.   I Command the household wasters – Enemies from my own house – by the power in the Blood of Jesus, I terminate all your contracts in my life, in Jesus’ Name! Beginning today, you shall bear your own waste, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

7.   Blood of Jesus arise and dismantle every curse, spell, declaration, and incantations of the wasters over my life, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

8.   Evil covenants made on my behalf, you are cancelled by the Blood of Jesus, in the Name of Jesus Christ! By the Divine Hammer I dismantle every satanic altar speaking over my life, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

9.   Foundational wasters and spirits operating in my life and family, what are you waiting for??? Fall and die, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

10.        By the Blood of Jesus, I erase every evil mark of the wasters made upon my life, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

11.        Fire of God, arise and burn to ashes every cover of darkness assigned to block my rain of blessings, in Jesus’s Name!!

12.        By the thunder fire of God, I dismantle every satanic assignment to waste my portions and virtues, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

13.        I command every door the wasters have been using to access my life to be slammed shut by the angels of God, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

14.        I command all the good of my life that was scattered by the wasters to begin to gather and be restored into my life, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

15.        I decree it: I recover every ground in my life that was lost to the wasters, seven-fold, in the Name of Jesus Christ!

16.        I decree it: from today, there will be no more waste manifested in my life, in the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen!!

Prayers against wasters of prosperity, abundance, and success:

(From “Battling the Wasters,” Published by Dr. D.K. Olukoya, Mountain Fire Ministries)

1. I refuse to be wasted, in the Name of Jesus. 
2. Every waster of my prosperity, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.
3. Every aggression against my prosperity, be paralysed, in the name of Jesus.
4. My blessings shall not be stagnate, in the name of Jesus. 
5. I reject weak financial breakthrough. I claim big financial breakthrough, in Jesus’ name. 
6. Every hidden devourer, be bound, in the name of Jesus.
7. I release myself from every evil family pattern of poverty, in the name of Jesus.
8. All my prosperity on every evil altar, I withdraw you now, in the name of Jesus.
9. Every spirit of leaking pockets, come out with all your roots by fire, in Jesus’ name.
10. Every prosperity paralysis from household wickedness, come out with all your roots by fire, in Jesus’ name.
11. Every clever devourer, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.
12. Every spirit of fragmented life, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.
13. Every spirit of debt, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.
14. Every handshake of poverty, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.
15. Every financial paralysis by witchcraft, come out with all your roots, in Jesus’ name.
16. Begin to tell the Lord the type of prosperity that you want and He will give it to you, in Jesus' name.
17. Every satanic insect prepared against me, be dissolved by fire, in the name of Jesus.

From Pastor Mike’s Blog

"Warefare Prayers Against the Wasters"

http://pastormike-spirituallift.blogspot.com/2012/02/warfare-prayers-i-waste-every-waster-of.html

1. The law behind stubborn walls in my life, be broken, in the name of Jesus.

2. Every law ordinance that is tormenting me, I command you to fail, in the name of Jesus.

3. Every law contrary to the word of God, I command you to break, in the name of Jesus.

4. You tormentor, be dismantled from my life, in the name of Jesus.

5. Every Senacherib against me, fall by your sword, in the name of Jesus.

6. Let the fire of God answer the fire of the enemy and let the God that answers by fire be God, in the name of Jesus.

7. Let my enemies be electrocuted, in the name of Jesus.

8. O Lord, let Your hunters deal with witchcraft in my foundation, in the name of Jesus.

9. O Lord, let Your wasters waste my enemies, in the name of Jesus.

10. O Lord, let Your wasters fight my devourers, in the name of Jesus.

11. O Lord, release Your fire to go before me and burn the challenger of my soul, in the name of Jesus.

12. I will become God’s promotion, in the name of Jesus.

13. Let every principle of heaven for my life take root, in the name of Jesus.

14. O Lord, protect my portions, in the name of Jesus.

15. I will prevail in the days of testing, in the name of Jesus.

16. Any evil conjured against me, vanish, in the name of Jesus.

17. O Lord, let Your glory speak for me today, in the name of Jesus.

18. I oppress the wicked by fire, in the name of Jesus.

19. O Lord, let my divine destiny appear; let perverted destiny disappear, in the name of Jesus.

20. I reject every satanic rearrangement of my destiny, in the name of Jesus.

21. I refuse to live below my divine standard, in the name of Jesus.

22. Let the handwriting of household wickedness be rubbed off, in the name of Jesus.

23. Every evil power with awareness of my destiny, be impotent, in the name of Jesus.

24. I paralyze every destiny pollutant, in the name of Jesus.

25. O Lord, send divine plagues upon my Pharaoh, in the name of Jesus.

26. O Lord, let not my name disappear from Your book of remembrance, in the name of Jesus.

27. Every power trying to remove my name from the mind of my helpers, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

28. I crush every satanic lion rising against my success, in the name of Jesus.

29. Any power planning to re-build my Jericho, fall down and die, in the name of Jesus.

30. O Lord, let Your mighty voice thunder against my enemies and throw them into confusion, in the name of Jesus.

31. Let every satanic ambush be frustrated, in the name of Jesus.

I pray this helped you all.  Stay tuned for the third blog entry of the “Take Back Your Life” Series—“Receiving Your Seven-Fold Restoration.”

May God bless you and keep you all in Christ Jesus.  Please email me or IM on Facebook with any prayer requests or questions.  You can also post questions, comments, and prayer requests on the blog site.