We make a massive mistake when we try to clean up our lives, but fail to fill our lives with Jesus. If all you ever do is remove the bad from your life and never refill it with the good, your empty spaces will eventually be refilled with even worse. Every single space of your life needs Jesus … without him, you are not only vulnerable, you are in danger.



Luke 11: 24-26, Jesus says, “When an evil spirit leaves a person, it goes into the desert, searching for rest. But when it finds none, it says, ‘I will return to the person I came from. So it returns and finds that its former home is all swept and in order. Then the spirit finds seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they all enter the person and live there. And so that person is worse off than before.”



I promise you this, I have NEVER touched this scripture before. I feel absolutely unqualified for this one. My flesh screams out, “Not it”. But there’s a calling within me that I cannot deny. A calling that I must obey. And that calling tells me to dig deep, seek wisdom, and teach this to God’s girls so we’re not blindly caught in a battle we don’t know how to fight.



You can’t play pretend with nothing but positive thoughts and Pollyana prayers. We’re in a battle, every single one of us. Your family is in a battle, every single one of them. Ephesians 6:12, “For we are not fighting against flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against mighty power in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the heavenly places.”



That’s the truth. That’s the struggle. We’re all fighting against evil. There are literally evil spirits in heavenly places battling you. What are those evil spirits in heavenly places doing to battle you? Revelations 12:10 tells us about the evil one who accuses us day and night before God. Oh yes, my sister, it’s happening. And what does he have to accuse you about? Your sin. Your disobedience. Your guilt.



Your sin is a legal issue. Imagine Heaven is a court and the evil powers of this world have a case against YOU. They have evidence of your failure, proof of your shortcoming, eye witnesses to your sin. And it’s all on display in the courts of Heaven because the enemy of your soul simply will not drop it.



This sin in your life has created a dark place for evil to hide. And where evil hides, it creates absolute destruction. Maybe you’ve seen it in your own life or your own family. It spread like a wildfire and left areas that looked like war zones. Yeah, because it was a war zone, my friend. There was a war going on. A war between Heaven and Hell. A war between good and evil.



What is the answer for this? The dark place created by sin must be brought to the light. Truth must be told. Help must be sought. All evil must be evicted. Ways must be changed.



But that’s not enough. It’s not enough to just clean up your life. It’s not enough to come clean, end the affair, stop lying, get sober, and say you’re sorry. You can do all of this and still be in danger. In fact, even more danger than ever before.



What more could you possibly do? You must fill that once dark space with Jesus. If you don’t, that evil will return and it will return worse than ever.



That’s what Jesus was teaching in Luke 11. He says the evil spirit left this man, and then that spirit went to the desert searching for rest. Do you know what a desert is? A desert is a dry place without water. Jesus tells the sinful woman at the well in John 4: 14, “Those who dink the water I give will never be thirsty again.