Where's Your Personal Power

I just happened to stumble upon someone today on the radio talking about the usual pentecostal "binding Satan" banter.
Now, before I get any further, I must tell you where I'm coming from. I come from a free lutheran background, which is the hymns, liturgy, no smiling, no clapping, no movement of any kind in church, kind of church.
Not that there's anything wrong with lutherans, gotta love em, but for me that was pure spiritual bondage, so I left that church in college to attend a pentecostal inner-city church (while attending a free lutheran bible college I might add - yeah I know - weird). From there I was delivered from a lot of spiritual bondage and oppression and eventually ended up in a Mississippi Church of God when I transferred to a Memphis inner-city college, which I eventually ended up graduating from.
Now, after even more changes in our faith, we no longer celebrate Christian holidays but instead celebrate the feasts of the Bible. Yet we're not Messianic Jewish because we do not live by the law since Yahushua abolished the law, so we are now Jewish Feast-celebrating pentecostals who attend a Church of God in the midwest after being transplanted out of the south.
So, now that we have that straight, I can move on.
I don't know if any of you have any experience with the pentecostal church, but it's a good place to get free from a lot of junk in your life in a loving and nurturing environment. But you may hear a lot of, "You know, I'm blessed today but satan is trying to do this and he's trying to do that, and boy, he's really coming after me this week. It's been a trying week." I eventually came to the conclusion that a vast majority of people, whether they're Christian, not Christian, pentecostal, you name it, seem to give satan a lot of credit.
Half of the stuff we give satan credit for is either simply the consequences of our actions or a situation Yah is using to perfect us, mature us or to really break us so that we fall before His feet in a full surrender and freedom from all the junk we've been carrying around with us.

But I do get so sick of Christians, these people who have the power of Yah pumping and flowing through their veins like a whitewater raft, waking up and letting the devil defeat them every single day. I think it's the saddest thing in the world for those filled with Holy Spirit power to roll out of bed everyday just to "white knuckle it" through the day.
And you know, I used to wake up just trying to run from the devil everyday, trying not to fall into the same old same old emotional and spiritual traps. Everyday scared me to death.
But now, I know that when I wake up, the devil is scared to death. There comes a point when instead of running from your demons you simply turn around and face em.

I just had it pointed out to me the other day, but if you look in Ephesians 6:11, where you'll find the armor of God that we are to put on everyday, you'll find a belt of truth, shield of faith, and a sword of the Spirit, among many others, but you'll never find something for your backside. That's because Yah never meant for us to be running from the devil, he meant for us to stomp on the devil - head on. It's funny how when we do this the devil rolls over for dead.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Ephesians 6:12-13

So what is it that you are carrying around with you, is is doubt, fear, depression, anger, resentment, jealousy, hurt, pain...and will you confront those demons head on?