You need powerful spiritual weapons. In order to see your family free, you need powerful spiritual armor. The spiritual arm that God is giving you is the Holy Spirit with all His gifts.

To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit is given for some benefit. To one is given through the Spirit the expression of wisdom; to another the expression of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit; to another mighty deeds; to another prophecy; to another discernment of spirits; to another varieties of tongues; to another interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit produces all of these, distributing them individually to each person as he wishes. As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ.For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.(I Cor 12,7-10.12-13).

When a child is born, the first thing that one wants to know is if she is perfect. The fathers of the child want the perfect: that she is not missing one of his organs. It is painful when the child is born without an organ.
God does not want the body that is His Church with deficiencies: on the contrary, He wants to she has perfect members. It is not enough to have ears, it is necessary to hear. It is not enough to have eyes, it is necessary to see. It is not enough to have a mouth, it is necessary to speak. It is not necessary to have feet, it is necessary to walk. It is not necessary to have hands, it is necessary to move them.
The Almighty does not want an atrophied church. If we suffer so much it is because the enemy of God has bound, blinded, deafened, gagged and held our hands and our feet not to walk or act: it has prevented us from using the gifts. Already we are impeded too much! God does not want this anymore. He wants that the gifts of the Holy Spirit may be in His body which is the Church.
God Bless You!

Monsignor Jonas Abib
Founder of the Canção Nova Community

Translated from Portuguese

Taken from “O Espírito sopra onde quer” (The Spirit Blows Where He Wills) by Monsignor Jonas Abib