| While Oprah and Eckhart Tolle reviewed chapter 5 of | | | | As I've said before, a thought like a bird can fly |
| the book A New Earth, the two discussed "the pain | | | | overhead, but you don't have to allow it to nest in you. |
| body" as Eckhart calls it. | | | | Just let it go by, recognize it for what it is, and reject it. |
| Tolle: "But don't underestimate the pain-body's ability to | | | | If a thought or spirit with a message (a "messenger of |
| draw out some, to make you unconscious again, to | | | | Satan") persists troubling you, rebuke it in the Name of |
| push some kind of button, and you will find yourself | | | | Jesus and command it to go. All demon spirits are |
| reacting again. Because pain-bodies are very cunning, | | | | subject to the name of Jesus and the Word of God. |
| very clever. And they know exactly what will make | | | | Seventy disciples in a particular city discovered the |
| you unconscious and what will make you react." | | | | mighty power of the Name of Jesus, when they were |
| Oprah: "You speak of it like it's a creature that's like an | | | | able to overcome demon spirits by speaking the Lord's |
| alien force inside of us. Yeah" | | | | Name. "And the seventy returned again with joy, |
| Tolle: "Yes, that's how I see it." | | | | saying, 'Lord, even the devils are subject unto us |
| Here both Eckhart and Oprah identify the demonic | | | | through Your Name.'" (Luke 10:17) |
| activity that seeks to tempt and torment us all, which | | | | Jesus replied, "Behold, I give unto you power to tread |
| ultimately causes torment and brings havoc into our | | | | on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of |
| lives. | | | | the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. |
| The war that goes on in every one of us rages and | | | | Notwithstanding in this do not rejoice that the spirits are |
| must be fought skillfully so we can gain dominion | | | | subject to you; but rather rejoice, because your names |
| inwardly. "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not | | | | are written in heaven" (Luke 10:19-20). |
| war after the flesh: for the weapons of our warfare | | | | Jesus firmly and wholeheartedly acknowledged that |
| are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling | | | | as long as we abide in Him, upon using His Name we |
| down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and | | | | shall be immediately victorious over every evil spirit. |
| every high thing that exalts itself against the | | | | Nevertheless to prevent pride and spiritual boasting, |
| knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every | | | | Jesus immediately pulled the perspective back within |
| thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a | | | | stating that our focus should be on our eternal |
| readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your | | | | relationship with God rather than the power He gives |
| obedience is fulfilled" (2 Corinthians 10:3-6). | | | | us on earth to fulfill His purposes. |
| Thoughts and images are what we battle with most. | | | | |