People are the carriers of spirits. The question is what spirit do you carry? When you enter a house, a building, a car, a restaurant, people in that place carry spirits that create the atmosphere for that space.

We know what Paul says in Ephesians 6 that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but the truth is flesh and blood people are the carriers of spirits that we are battling.

Jesus said it this way, “When an unclean spirit comes out of a man, it passes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ / On its return, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. / Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and dwell there. And the final plight of that man is worse than the first.” (Luke 11)

Evil or unclean, impure spirits can also be called negative spirits. Anger, jealousy, envy, sorrow, fear, anxiety, lust, rage, intimidation, hopelessness, bitterness, these are all spirits people carry. They are from unmet expectations, wounds, memories we carry around inside of us. They are thoughts we meditate on that become spirits we carry.

We carry the spirit in us to the places we go into. Have you ever felt the room shift when someone walks into it? That is the spirit they carry. People walk into churches, homes, stores, workplaces, neighborhoods carrying their spirit. We can feel it, sense it, discern it, perceive it. Some can’t put their finger on it, but they know something is off.

The question we must ask ourselves is, what spirit are we of? What spirit am I carrying into a room? Warfare is predominantly inside of us or inside of someone else.

In Luke 9 Jesus said, “When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.”

Jesus is rebuking us and we are resisting it, because the spirit we carry is for self-protection, so we resist the invitation to forgive, and we resist the rebuke of God in order to be right.

Pride comes before a fall, but humility still brings honor. There is a whole lot of falling and honoring happening right now and we need to know, what spirit are we of? We are spirit beings who carry the Holy Spirit and all other spirits must go for us to grow. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org