[SkyPilot]

Uh... wrestling with our own sin nature and the lies of our culture or the lies of the enemy IN OUR MINDS is not the same as praying down principalities. You are stepping into a huge pile of apostasy that you don’t want to go down...

Oh please.

I see two things at work here.

1. You

2. Your ego

[TwoLegsGood]

Do some research on C Peter Wagner's NAR New Order of the Latter Rain etc., teachings.

Wagner decreed that we evangelize through binding demons (never practiced) and dealing with demons rather than preaching the Word as Jesus taught.

This led to the current Apostasy of the charismatic church, leading up to Lou Engle’s nightmare of fake intercession for The Call. They believe that they can repent for other people's sins, like unsaved people's sins. They believe that demons reside in the soil, in trees, and in the land. They confuse a “stronghold” that Paul discusses with a random gathering of demons over a city. (A stronghold is a mindset of an individual that is not of Christ.) This teaching is NUTS.

Call it my ego if you like, I call it being a Berean. Pastor Bill Randles has written about this for years as well as many other charismatics like myself.