My girls and I have been taking turns at dinner reading passages from scripture and then discussing the passages as we eat. Yesterday at dinner my oldest picked a passage where Jesus casted a demon out of a person. This opened the conversation about angels and demons. We also found ourselves in a conversation about spiritual doorways, and how one opens up doors in their lives for demons to come in and mess with them. The conversation then went into using your spiritual authority that Jesus gave us, and that Jesus was stronger than any of this. As I was explaining all of this to my youngest I felt the Holy Spirit prompt me to explain to her that if she ever opens a doorway by committing a sin, then all she needs to do is repent and ask Jesus to shut it. She thought very silently for a moment and then piqued up, “Then Jesus puts caution tape over the door and nothing can come into it?” I had to laugh at her for a moment, but she was right. “Yes, in a...
