My
Story
I was born and raised in a Christian home.
We were faithful church people, and I accepted
Jesus as my Savior and was baptized in water at age
nine. That’s
what we were taught. This church was conservative in
that we didn’t believe that the baptism in (or with
or by) the Holy Spirit is for today, or
tongues, hearing God’s voice, or any of
the other things that go with that.
In my thirties, I went to a Baptist women’s
Bible study and as a result, asked Jesus into my heart
to be my Lord and Master, and soon after that, my
husband and I started attending a Pentecostal church.
I went to a women’s retreat of that church, and one
morning at the retreat, a dear girlfriend who spoke in
tongues and heard God’s voice, came and sat
cross-legged on my bed facing me.
She said, “Honey, God showed me that you have
a religious spirit on you, and I can get it off of you
if you want. I
agreed, and she simply prayed and then commanded it
off in the name of Jesus.
In retrospect, I see what that spirit did to
me. I had
been like the Pharisees in the Bible, very opinionated
and argumentative.
Still at that church, I attended the women’s
group that was held every Thursday morning.
They sang happy praise songs, but I was
miserable and I had no idea why.
The leader one day said she’d made an
appointment with me to see a group that could pray for
me and set me free.
Someone from that group gave me a Xeroxed copy
of a magazine article about a deacon’s wife who had
a demon and it caused a problem she couldn’t conquer
by herself. This
article was supposed to get me ready to accept the
fact that I might have a demon.
So I met with them in several sessions, and
they set me free from a spirit of depression and
suicide. That made sense because ever since I could
remember, I’d get depressed, and then it would lead
to thoughts of suicide. What gave Satan access is no
doubt that my parents had their palms read, read the
horoscopes for the fun of it, and we owned a ouigi
board. The religious spirit was probably from the
church in which I grew up.
Demons
from people
For the next several years I sought the baptism
in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in
tongues. I was prayed for by so many people, but
nothing ever happened.
Then one day, an in-law who had the gift wanted
to pray for me. She did, and I got a wonderful baptism
with the exciting sensations of electricity all over
me. But still no tongues. I was mad. I was angry at
everything and everybody, and even God for the next
few years.
My husband and I went to visit friends of his
that were filled with the Spirit. They prayed for me,
and the wife said I had a demon of anger.
She prayed and got it off me.
(I think I got it from that person who prayed
for me, who had an anger problem! So, needless to say,
I won’t let just anybody pray for me!)
A
Movie
When our youngest boy was eight years old, we
had a neighbor’s eight-year- old during his mom’s
working hours. They were Christians. One day this
boy’s dad explained to me that he’d been waking in
the night, frightened that they (his parents) might
die, and also anyone else he cared about.
They had taken him to the school psychiatrist,
and told me just to be very sensitive with him right
now.
After our morning Bible reading time, I asked
this boy if something recently had frightened him
badly. He
said that yes, he’d come into the living room after
he was supposed to be in bed and found his parents
watching a horrible movie. I knew then that he’d
received a spirit of fear from that movie. So I
prayed, covering ourselves with the blood of Jesus,
and then I commanded that spirit to leave in the name
of Jesus, and asked for the Holy Spirit to give him
peace. The
dad told me the next day that he was suddenly fine! I
just smiled.
From
Other People
In the space of two years, I had confrontations
with three angry people and got demons on me with each
one. One
was a lady in a Bible study class I was teaching, one
was a Pastor, and one is my son. I did not argue or
fight back; I remained quiet in each case. But after each, I came away with a
tenseness inside me that made me a nervous wreck.
It felt like I had a knot inside my chest.
I resisted Satan with many verses of authority,
I used the name of Jesus, I pleaded the blood of Jesus
over me, I listened to praise tapes, I spent time
praising God, and I read in the Word for hours. These
are things that I have always used with success
before, but not now!
In each case, I asked my family to pray for me
and find out what was wrong.
I was in tears by then!
My husband suspected a demon.
He commanded it off of me with
the name of Jesus
and a verse.
What
gave them access
After the third experience, I desperately
sought God for an answer.
I realized I was getting a demon every time
someone was angry with me!
I was maintaining a pure heart to the best of
my knowledge, but what door was left open?
In one prayer time in the night, God answered
me. He
said, “You have always been afraid of angry people,
and you cannot stand someone yelling at you. You need
to begin confessing daily, ‘I have no fear or
anxiety, even if someone is angry at me.’ This will
enable me to work it in you.”
Possible
access:
Eph. 4:27 says, “Give no place to the
devil.“ The amplified version says, “Give no room
or foothold for the devil; give no opportunity to
him.“
Here are ways we can give access to a demon, or
things we do that may let one in.
1. Repeatedly resisting the Holy Spirit. (Refusing to
obey over the same issue will invite a demon of the
same nature.) A Joy Dawson tape teaches this.
2. Purposely sinning.
(Doing something you know is wrong by the Bible or by
the Holy Spirit’s leading. Includes losing your
temper, failing to walk in love.)
3. Exposing yourself to evil.
(Some people, movies, books, magazines, video games,
music…)
4. Allowing a strong emotion. (Fear, worry, anger,
resentment, pride…) To control your thoughts or
emotions, get my brochure called, How to use your
sword and shield.
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