When The Son Of God died on the cross, the great veil separating the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies was rent from top to bottom. Nothing that physically happened that day has more meaning than this awesome fact. “Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent” (Matthew 27:50-51). The veil protected the place of intimacy with God Himself. It was the place where God’s Shekinah descended and men could literally commune with God in person.

In the Book of Acts, the New Testament Church understood what had happened and lived in this new glory of praying within the veil that Jesus Christ had established. The priests in the temple were out of business, but a new ecclesia had been birthed by a new covenant. At Pentecost they were endued with power not only to pray within the veil but to minister in power to convict and convert. A saint of God that learns the authority of prayer that Christ has provided will become an intercessor to move God and man.

Let’s try to grasp this incredible truth. Apostle Paul spoke of this in his letter to the Hebrews, “Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh” (Hebrews 10:19-20). There are two words that you must understand. One is the word “Holiest,” which is the same word as “Holy of Holies” or the sacred place behind the veil where only the High Priest could go once each year. The other word is “veil,” which was the great curtain that separated the Holy of Holies from all other sacred ministry. The picture is of the very presence of God that we can enter only by the veil, which is the exalted person Jesus Christ.

Where is this new “Holy of Holies?” It is the great temple in Heaven of which Solomon’s temple was built after the same pattern. This is where the Son of God is seated, except when He stands to intercede to His Father. “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man” (Hebrews 8:1-2). If you can grasp it, we are invited through Jesus Christ, the veil, to sit together in this holiest of all places to commune and fellowship with God.

The Scripture plainly teaches that this new Holy of Holies took the place of the Old Testament temple, “The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing” (Hebrews 9:8). This is fellowship and prayer that will prepare men and women to truly represent the Kingdom of God in this world.

The Ephesians were told, “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus” (Ephesians 2:4-6). The saints of old called this kind of praying and interceding “praying through!” I spent my first years in a Classical Pentecostal church, where the Pastor would regularly ask, “Have you prayed through today?”

I remember coming to the church as a teenager looking for a place to pray. The building was locked, so, I went down to the furnace room that was entered only by an outside door (1953 or 1954). I was so low in spirit that I could not reach up and touch the bottom, but I fell on my knees and prayed. After a good amount of time, my soul was lifted in spirit to a sacred realm and refreshed. When I left that old cold stoker furnace room, I could not reach the top from above. I had prayed through. I learned as a boy never to quit praying, if possible, until you prayed through.

It is Christ that literally sits in this Heavenly place and we, as His body, are invited by the Holy Spirit to enter into this “holiest” of places with Him. We have no need to go there in the flesh as the priest did under the old covenant. Jesus Christ, our Head, is there and we simply rest in Him and go there only in spirit and faith. We are invited, “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering” (Hebrews 10:22-23).

This kind of prayer life demands a walk of Holiness. “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” (Hebrews 9:14). The soul of each of us must be purified and then we are ready to serve the living Christ in power. This life is a divine life that floods the heart and mind with hope. “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the VEIL; Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec” (Hebrews 6:19-20).

There is no joy to match a prayer life that consumes your soul. The power of such a prayer life is the call of every saint as we watch our world on a downward spiral. I challenge you to join together with all the praying family of God.

The greatest hindrance to the Word of God is unbelief. Most people do not call their unbelief by its proper name. The Biblical idea of unbelief is someone that does not act upon the plain sense of Holy Scripture. Unbelief does not mean that you reject the Word; it means that you do not obey the Word and live by its principles. Such a person is one who hears the Word, knows it is God’s Word, but keeps living like they have never heard what was preached. It is the sad state of most of the church world.

This is exactly what happened to the Children of Israel as they marched out of Egypt towards the Promise Land. Read as Apostle Paul describes this hardness of heart that kept these Egyptian escapees in a wilderness forty years, even until they all died. “While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief” (Hebrews 3:15-19).

This great company, representing God’s chosen people, could not enjoy the great promises by God because they would not live out the faith that He had given them. Their clothes and shoes did not show wear, they ate Heavenly manna, they drank supernaturally supplied water, and even saw the glory of God in the mountain. Yet, they acted like Egyptians serving Horus or another strange god. God’s laws were plain and full of divine life, but they loved their own will better. Because of this, they totally missed the Promise Land flowing with milk and honey.

Today, it’s happening all over the church world. The church is full of Egyptian “Christians.” You can change that in your life. Here is God’s invitation, “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it. For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world” (Hebrews 4:1-3).

This “rest” is a breathtaking word. It means that you have heard what God said, you fully accept the finished work in His every Word, and are surrendered to do the whole truth. Every word of the Bible is “For ever, … settled in heaven” (Psalms 119:89). The Word of God is a finished system of truth. It is as though what God has said is already done, so you can start living in the finality of faith. Your whole life has settled into surrender and trust because “God said it and that settles it.”

The Holy Scripture is the finished work of Christ in final written form. It is His living words just like He is the Incarnate Word. The Bible and Jesus Christ are one and the same. One is written for us to follow and the other is seated at the Father’s right hand to see that it can never fail. If you trust and obey the Word of God, your life will be a picture of the Book of Acts. Please notice that there is no closure of the “Acts of the Apostles;” because it is only finished when He says, “Come up hither.”

Scholars — so-called — have tampered with the Bible until the argument is over which one to read. The one I read happens to be the exact rendering of the authorized manuscripts, so I treat it like an Infallible Bible. For fifty-seven years it has worked perfectly for me. I’m not going to spend my time arguing, but I can promise that my heart and mind is full of this great truth and it keeps me on a straight path.

Here are words in the same chapter that tell us of the supernatural power in God’s perfect truth. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do” (Hebrews 4:12-13).

With such a Heavenly Bible, I treat it like a paper pope. I can quote it to my heart and peace floods my soul like a river. I use it as a sword when Satan’s imps show up, and they run for cover. When there are needs in my life, I find what has been settled in Heaven by His words and wait for the promise. It is not a life for immature doubters, but a life for the young and old that can obey simple instruction, “And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein” (Isaiah 35:8).

There is a curse that is progressively embracing the whole world. This curse has a single root with six thousand years of history. Zechariah prophesied of the final day when this curse would cover the face of the Earth. The Spirit said, “This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole earth” (Zechariah 5:3b). The root is always sin and the fruit is brokenness, destroyed homes, debilitated bodies, and every kind of confusion. Our entire world is on the skids to hell and is gaining speed. The curse of sin is setting records for wrecking lives.

A curse is a stronghold that a spirit or spirits have erected in or against your life. Apostle Paul described this “stronghold” or curse in his letter to Corinth, “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” (II Corinthians 10:3-5). A curse can be the result of your disobedience or the breaking of God’s commandments. Someone angry with you or holding a vendetta against you can erect a curse against you if you have let down your guard of protection. Children or young people can suffer fro m a curse in the family if immorality, addictive drugs, filthy books, or unbridled television or internet is allowed in the home. Any activity of Satan has the potential of leaving a curse on those affected. If failing to tithe our finances brings a curse, just think what kind of a curse homosexuality or other immorality will leave.

Someone that has been abused sexually is very likely living with a curse. An abusive parent often causes the child victim to be bound with a stronghold. Divorce in a marriage most often leaves children bound and troubled with a curse. Anyone that has a strong relationship with someone that has a dark obsession of evil will very often be bound to that curse. When you understand that Satan’s curse is gripping this world in preparation for the “Great Tribulation,” you must wake up and prepare yourself.

But there is supernatural Hope. There is an absolute and perfect victory against every curse by the powers of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, The Only Begotten Son Of God, came to destroy every work and action of Satan. Read this truth carefully as we see that God the Heavenly Father has given us perfect victory in His Son. “Thou hast put all things in subjection under His feet. For in that He put all in subjection under Him, He left nothing that is not put under Him. But now we see not yet all things put under Him. But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man” (Hebrews 2:8-9).

It is sad that multitudes of church people are living every day with satanic curses and have no hope of victory. Probably 60% of all sickness is the work of a curse and would disappear immediately if that dear soul would pray through and rest it all in Christ. Fears, doubts, nervous disorders, anger, jealousy, and dark forebodings are mainly the troubled action of curses rooted in the heart. Jesus said, “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10).

Living for an extended time with a curse will cause the body to fall apart. Satan loves to attack a Bible-believing person and destroy their victory. He will set a snare or a trap to create confusion or anger and leave you with a root of bitterness. He will burden you until prayer becomes a chore and is powerless. Apostle Paul warned us, “In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will” (II Timothy 2:25-26).

There are three Divine sources in the Christian walk as well as a host of angels to encamp about us. First, let’s refresh ourselves to these Divine sources. “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the Water, and the Blood: and these three agree in one” (I John 5:7-8). The Spirit (the Holy Spirit), the Blood (of Jesus Christ), and the Water (the Word of God) are Divine powers that unite on earth to be a total victory in every saint. Psychological ideas are raw humanism and they are helpless to deliver the goods — no more than a bandage!

We are dealing with the spirit of Antichrist that the Bible calls, “a curse that would cover the face of the whole earth.” Apostle Paul warned, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12). The curse in the world of politics, religion, and the elite of every major profession is beyond our reach to stop. That’s where the One World Order will rule, but the true church and the saints of God have an absolute source of victory.

Today, start living in this world of triumph. Refuse to allow curses or strongholds to control your world. The Bible is Supernatural Truth that will feed your soul with perfect instruction. The Blood of Jesus has broken and defeated every design that Satan has against you. The Devil has been whipped and is helpless when you live under the sacrifice of Christ’s Blood. The Holy Ghost will back up everything in the Word and every victory of the Blood. Live in these truths, pray earnestly until you pray through into His presence, and trust our Heavenly Father every step of the way.