Featured Any pastors/Missionaries experience demonic first hand?

For Jesus and Paul, it seemed to happen quickly. In my experience, it happens very quickly, although there is often a bit of resistance.

 

think that there are indeed legit vases of mental illnesses, can't help but think some might be demonic, especially those heavily into drug/alcohol abusing, as that lowers threaseholds to satan!

Yeshua1, I'm of the opinion that Satan can only attack through the mind/brain and of course, alcohol, drugs, etc., open ones mind to said attack.

Then, there are certainly some people with chemical imbalances that often can be treated with medication.

 

Thank you for the response. That is good practical knowledge I had never heard before.

 

Yes!

It was during an alter call, maybe 17 years ago! There were about 40 people, and I prayed for each of them one-on-one! Of course I had the church pastor, my wife, a member of our music ministry and several prayer warriors from the church. We would all surround and lay hands on the people!

The last guy was middle aged, dressed in dirty army fatigues, and stunk to high heavens with BO!

When we gathered around him, everyone seemed nervouse, and I knew why, the man was spewing evil!

As we worked don the line, each person wuld take the lead and pray, but when we got to this man, NNE wanted to pray! So it came to me!

As they laid hands on him, I prayed, and he began cussing, and getting agitated. The entire congregation seemed to stand up, and lift hands in our direction, and I simply rebuked the spirit, and called for it to leave the man!

No wrestling, no long, drawn out prayer needed. I just said, "In Jesus name, I command you to let go of this man, and to leave this place immediately!" Well, to all of our surprise, the man began to spout off more anger, and I could see that he had more than one spirit hanging on!

I raised my voice, and once again, commanded that any and all spirits of the world, flesh and Satan, leave immiadtely, in Jesus name!"

The man calmed down, and let us all pray for him, and everyone in the group took turns praying! There was a real peace, and the pastor called me later that week to tell me that the man, a street transient, had returned to the Wednesday night service, clean, bathed, shaven, and carrying the Bible we gave him Sunday night!

Pastor went on to tell me that the man was a totally different man from the one that had come to several past services, and on that evening!

About a year later, we ministered again at the church, and the same guy, hardly recognizable to me, came up and thanked me for praying with him, leading him to Jesus, and told me he was now head usher for the church!

Yes, I've seen demon oppressed and possessed people. I've prayed for them, and I've seen them delivered! This was one of maybe twenty that I can clearly remember being set free and given new life in Jesus!

I've also witnessed some long drawn out, prayers for people with demon spirit symptoms, and they were fiascos, and poorly done! Jesus set the example, and He and his followers never di much more than command the spirits leave in the name of Jesus! No reason for a floor show to entertain the congregation!

I hope this answers your questions! God bless!

 

I didn't know....

....that Bob Larson was still around! He was once pretty sensible and level headed, but went way overboard, more show than ministry!

He jumped on the Mike Warnke bandwagon, and made a living out of demon possessions! I felt sad to see the direction he went off to!

There are not demons in everyone, or everything! And unlike Fip Wilson, the devil didn't, or doesn't, always make you do it! :wavey:

 

I know nothing about exorcisms except this. They do exist, and we as children of God have the ability to get rid of the demons. From the way Paul, John, Peter and Christ Himself answered the problem, I can see no need for the elaborate ceremony of the RCC, but I do see a need for a basic understanding of the problem and the ability to rid the person of the demon through the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Maybe the best answer is that the Holy Spirit would guide one at the time. There is no excuse for being unprepared for the situation, especially if one is in a leadership position that might come across the situation.