Satan Submits

June 1, 2004

Personal Narrations

Joel Akin

Calgary, Alberta

To put it into perspective in the dream of the shoes Satan had to submit or God would send me to the church. So God and I set a time when he would submit and that date came on May 30th...and that date went with no change. My natural man said nothing happened, I had heard a lie. When I had calmed down enough to listen God seemed to come clear. That this had been his plan all along but He could not tell me. God had to let me believe one direction so Satan would chose the opposite. To be it seems deceitful but as God puts it you don't tell your enemy all your plans. And He knows me. The minute He tells me something I have to write and tell everyone. So God didn't tell me the whole story and helped me 'see' things the way they really were.

In the dream of the 7 legions and the crane the man who represented the last legion of spirits sent to attack me smashed his bat against the steel exterior of the crane. As I had interpreted it this meant all 7 legions had submitted.(I also believe the 7th man represents Satan. In the dream he was short, the smallest of the lot, but the one who wanted to prove himself more then the others.) But God helped me see the last legion in a new light. That the 7th had not submitted at all but had tried to negate the vision God had given me. I had not seen that at all.

So as God explained I saw. But then I asked God why He had spent so many months emphasizing I not be talked into full time ministry. How it would destroy me if I went into ministry before taking my time of rest. He said all of that was true but notice the emphasis on 'full time'. God had never indicated I would not have a short term ministry.

So for whatever reason God knew this was coming, that Satan wanted to save face and not submit but prevented me from seeing it so Satan would think one thing and God planned another.

So what God seems to be saying is He had planned all along to send me to the church but to gain that authority had to side-track Satan into thinking something else. As God put it to me into following his own nature. In other words this was about pride. If Satan was the last that had to submit then that was the emphasis God made of forcing Satan into the picture. And Satan would not submit thus making him, at least to me, a person without authority.

After God explained it everything made sense. But it also makes me wonder what in the world God is going to do next. Most of the changes and wars are invisible so in a way its like a continuing story without an audience.

Update Afternoon

Wanted to add a few things to the earlier article. First I did not mean to come across that God deceived me. As God put it He just didn't fill in all the blanks for me.

Lets go through what's been happening as I feel its probably one of the most unusual lessons I've had so far.

God had been telling me so much about authority and the levels that I was overcoming. Then He showed me that I had to overcome Satan and Satan had to submit. But what really confused me is that God has told me more then a dozen times over the last few months that it is extremely unlikely that Satan will fight me directly. Frankly I thought I had heard wrong when God told me that Satan was standing there and appeared to be submitting. How could Satan not fight and yet appear to be submitting. So far every spirit God has helped me overcome came because they fought me and then they submitted when we overcame them.

What I did not understand, and God did not make clear at the time, is that there was a third option. But apparently this third option is one which only Satan himself could take advantage of. As God explained it Satan is still ruler of this world. When he speaks the other spirits have to go out to battle and fight and when they lose they submit. Satan would never fight directly against one who has overcome through Christ so what God did is He forced the situation by setting forth a deadline which was May 30th. By midnight Satan had to submit himself to the authority God had granted me or face the penalty of God sending me out to the church.

What I did not know and God did not make clear to me, at least at this stage, was that He knew the nature of Satan. God knew that if Satan has one major weakness it is pride. Pride destroyed him and caused him to lose his original position with God and pride continues in his heart to this day. So when faced with facing me directly and submitting in person God knew he wouldn't do it. As God put it Satan could not continue to rule this world and face the additional humiliation of submitting before all of his subjects. So by missing that deadline Satan submitted himself but indirectly. In other words the threat of sending me to the church was not as great a threat as being humiliated. So the word of God came true when God told me I would not have to fight him directly yet Satan still would submit. Satan submitted by forfeiting. So just as their are rules for me so their are rules for Satan.

What I still don't understand is what God intends for me to do with the church. I can think of a 1,000 things that could happen but I am now in a critical juncture in my walk where the spiritual has to start being revealed in the natural realm. Especially if I am to be sent out to the church for a season. And I do not know the size of this 'going forth' whether it will be to the church just in Calgary or to the world or North America. I cannot see God exaggerating when He tells Satan I will be sent out to wake up the church. Yet at the same time I don't know how that will happen. It is beyond my present understanding.

But one thing I can say is Gods word continues to come true when He told me I would start delving into the deeper things. Now I'm starting to feel like this is no longer a dream but now I'm playing? in the big leagues. God help me because these things are beyond my own understanding. I just walk day by day praying for additional wisdom and strength to stand strong and not bring shame on my Lord and Savior.