Our God is the God who heals all our sickness and diseases. Asclepius, the Greek god of healing is no match for God. No gods or man-made gods shall ever be like our Almighty God. Man has limitations, but God has unlimited wisdom and power. Nothing is impossible with God.
What do you expect when you sit down with a group of people and have devotion? It was a surprise to me recently when I started reading a passage, Isaiah 55 to a group, and the demonic spirits manifested? As the Scripture was read, I noticed someone who was sitting on the far right of the room started to manifest evil manifestations. Fear gripped someone sitting nearby him. She stood up and left. The rest of the group sat still.
I finished the reading of the Scripture, walked over to him, prayed a simple prayer binding the spirits in him and commanded them to leave him and never to enter him again. I was calm and focused on the task at hand. There was another lady who tried to interfere and started talking to the demons.
Demons can sense divided authority and therefore can resist from coming out of the person. I signaled someone to help take care of that lady so that the group could stay still or pray silently while I continued to help the person in need.
After some time, more prayers binding and commanding the spirits to leave the man, God healed the man. He regains his sound mind, composure; he got up a new man; he is thankful afterward to God who heals and delivers him from the tormented spirits. He has been fighting these spirits for a while; many people have prayed for him for deliverance, but things seem to get worse, until we met in a group setting like this, and God delivered him. Thanks be to God. Hallelujah.
What do you do when you see someone suffer oppression of the mind, threaten, taunt, laugh and then suddenly slither on the floor hissing like a snake; the body is contorted? What do you do when you encounter someone who is arrogant, act like a child and manifest something evil? There could be legion of demons or spirits in the person. You’ve got to be ready, protected by the blood of the Lamb, anointed by the power of the Holy Spirit to do what must be done now.
Will you then go pray in the closet for God to send someone to come and help that tormented person, or will you stand up and stand firm on the Word with boldness from the Holy Spirit and drive the spirits out with a word or two. Will you tolerate the tormented and oppressing spirits acting out like that, or will you fear and do not know what to do? It was tense, a very intense situation in the public eye.
However, you don’t need to draw attention. Some demons when they come out, they can come out quietly or with screaming noises, howling, wailing so loudly. There can be things squirming in the head or in the body, pain running up and down or moving around.
When you have someone tell you that he has some spirits in them, ask them what he wants to be free from? What does he want God or Jesus to do for him? Does he want the demons to come out? A person in the past may have disobeyed God and become rebellious, dealt with sin, got depressed, full of hatred, fear, anxiety and worry, involved with witchcraft, sorcery, idolatry, evil spirits, demonic activities or Satan worship.
There may be something, sin that the person has tried hard to get rid of. He may be in bondage without knowing it. Satan is a liar who steals, kills and destroys. Tolerate him no more. Resist the devil, and he shall flee from you.
Always with care, sensitivity and discernment depend on the Holy Spirit and His guidance; help the person give his life to Jesus today. Help the person close all the doors. Confess all sin to God; cut all ties; rebuke the devil, renounce all evil forces and demonic power of darkness.
After all the doors are closed, bind the spirits. With Jesus’ authority given you, cast them out and command them never to enter the person again in the Name of Jesus. The spirits will obey in the name of Jesus and come out. If they do not, go back and see if there are hidden sins, open doors remained.
When the spirits come out, a person will witness God’s tangible presence and power. Sanity of mind, love, peace, joy, strength will come over that freed person. He doesn’t have to live with demonic oppression any more.
What about you? “Are you willing to pick a fight with evil?” Kenny Luck asks in his book. Are you open and willing to do what Jesus has commanded you to do?
Will you give testimony to the power of God and speak up or speak out against demonic activities?
Pastor Linh
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