A DEMON CALLED FORGETFULNESS

They call it a "dark night of the soul." This wouldn’t be my first, but it was perhaps the most real and sobering experience of my life. It was August, and I was crying out to God for sight, vision, all I could see was black. Death was waiting at the door, looking for even the slightest gap in my armor to pierce me with its poisonous dart. Faces of evil surrounded me. The voice of the accuser was loud in my mind, feeding me lie after lie, and I was eating out of his hand. He was slowly convincing me that death would be a comfortable escape. The road had been long, promises still seemingly out of reach, maybe succumbing to victimhood would provide relief. I was overcome with this feeling of wanting to give up, lay down and let the devouring forces of intimidation, hopelessness, and heaviness have their way with me. It didn’t matter what anyone said, my husband, family or friends, I was lost in a dark maze.

With resignation in my voice, I whispered to the Lord, “I can’t find my way. If there is any future left for me, You need to come find me and pull me out.”

And the very next night, I was taken into a dream.

I was in a house, sitting in a circle with several others along with my pastor and friend. There was a large man clearly in charge holding a manual, and on the front cover was the title “RESTORING THE FOUNDATIONS." One by one he was welcoming individuals in the circle to receive ministry. I was one of the last to go, and with a smile on my face I said "I don’t know what may be in there, but if there’s more healing and freedom, I want it."

I had been walking with God long enough to know that my perspective of the condition of my heart was inferior to His, and there’s always more from His view.
Things are not as they seem.
I positioned myself in a posture of receiving as he began to pray for me. His voice gentle, but firm, his hand heavy on my back, I began shaking.

"I think there’s something in there."
"What is its name?" he asked.
"Forgetfulness."
And with all authority he absorbed every bit of attention in the room with His Presence as he forcefully commanded this demon to come out of me. I coughed and spit and coughed some more as I was liberated and felt this pressure from the inside of my head lift off out the top.
Gone.
I woke up from the encounter with the same sensation of pressure in my head dissipating.

I knew in that moment God heard my plea, and as I slept He delivered me. I felt an immediate clarity in my mind, love and acceptance washing over my heart.

I recorded the dream and then did my research. I thought to myself, “surely there isn’t actually a demonic entity called ‘Forgetfulness.” I only share what I found next because I believe it will bring revelation, divine insight and breakthrough to many who have been in a similar battle with this hidden foe.

There is a demonic force that has plagued the people of God and I believe specifically targeted this generation, and one of its names is Lethe, a greek Queen of Heaven type whose name literally means forgetfulness or oblivion. This demon is charged with governance over a river called by its same name, and whomever she makes to drink from this river would experience complete forgetfulness of their lives and memories.

It is a river of death to identity.
And all it takes is one sip of agreement to lose yourself.

See, this is an inside job. The accuser slips notes of subtle deceptions through the crack in the door to your mind, waiting for you to read it, believe it and receive his invitation into deeper bondage where it becomes an open door policy. He seeks to keep you a victim instead of a victor so you never realize the fullness of Christ’s power in you.

“Who do you think you are?”
”You have no purpose.”
”No one understands.”
”It’s too late for you.”
”Your voice doesn’t matter.”
”You don’t belong here.”

The enemy wants to trap you inside the pain of your lived experience and trials. His aim is to destroy you by keeping you heart sick with hopelessness and unbelief. He deceives you into believing that the war on your life is coming at you from all around you, just not inside you. Meanwhile he’s getting more and more comfortable using your soul as his hiding place. He wants you isolated from the very ones who will remind you who you are and the Truth that will set you free. He tricks you into forfeiting your position of heavenly authority to operate in fleshly strength and negotiate for power that is already yours by Blood. But you can’t overcome an enemy who’s very power you are sourcing.

Because whatever you give your power to is what leads you.

Ask yourself, “What am I drinking? Am I drinking from the River of Life or the River of Lethe?”

It is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. Give strong drink to the one who is perishing and wine to those in bitter distress; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. Proverbs 31:4-7

I know that for me, this was a generational curse that had plagued many in my bloodline before me and because it had gone unidentified and not confronted and cast out, it was simply waiting for me to give it permission to stay.

If you do well, will you not be accepted (will there not be a lifting up of your face)? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, and you must rule over it.” Genesis 4:7

You have an enemy, and you have an advocate.
Both stand at the door to your soul and knock.
One slips ideas under the crack to try and gain access.
The other waits patiently, knows your true name and lovingly calls you to let Him in and imprint you with His Nature.

So, today, I stand as a living witness, a delivered daughter from the fog of forgetfulness.

I expose every enemy in hell that seeks to rob you of who you are in Christ.

I prophesy that you shall live and not die.
You will remember, and not forget.
You will see the goodness of God and you will testify of His faithfulness.
Your true nature will be restored to you by His delivering finger.
Receive it today as I pray over you. Place your hands on your heart and head.

I SPEAK TO AND COMMAND EVERY DEMON ASSIGNED BY HELL TO PLAGUE THE PEOPLE OF GOD WITH FORGETFULNESS AND ROB THEM OF IDENTITY IN CHRIST TO BE EXPOSED NOW AND COME OUT OF HIDING. IN THE AUTHORITY OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, REMOVE YOUR CLAIM FROM THEM AND WITHDRAW ALL ASSIGNMENTS ON THEIR LIVES AND THEIR FAMILIES LIVES. GET OFF, GET OUT, AND NEVER RETURN.

I LOOSE THE SPIRIT OF ADOPTION TO FILL THE ONE READING THIS, AND EVERY EMPTY SPACE IN THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS BE TOUCHED BY THE TRUTH OF SONSHIP. I LOOSE IN THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS WORDS, DREAMS AND VISIONS OF IDENTITY AND HEAVENLY DNA OVER EVERY ONE UNDER THE SOUND OF MY VOICE.

I CALL FORTH REMEMBRANCE OF PROMISES, PROPHECIES AND DESTINIES SPOKEN INTO YOU TO FILL YOU AND BE FULFILLED THROUGH YOU IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS.

Now write what He shows you, and recalls to your memory. Fill your mind with the Word of Truth and speak it over yourself every day. Meditate on His Word.

His Mercy really is new every morning.

"You stepped into my Egypt, 
You took me by the hand,
You marched me out in freedom,
into the promised land.
Now I will not forget You, 
I’ll sing of all You’ve done.
Death is swallowed up forever 
by the fury of Your love."

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."- George Eliot