Last week Ray Gano wrote an
article that gained a lot of attention.
The
article’s title was “Demon Possession.. NO Demon Infestation? … Yes”
If
you have not read it, you can read it here.
I have gotten emails from so many
people asking about battling demons, are they possessed, how to stand up to
this evil and many other questions.
It is weird; I have not felt what I am
feeling since the time that The Lord asked us to return to the US.
What am I talking about is battling the
demonic.
See, I have never had the desire to go
into deliverance ministry. Yes, I know a lot about it and have studied it in
the past at length. One does not do what I do and not have a strong grasp of
this area.
But I am finding myself being pulled
into this area more and more, much like when God pulled us back into the US.
This is an area where I do not feel
fully suited and at times I think about “what might happen” and I have to say
at times it scares the tar out of me.
But if God is calling me towards this
area of the ministry, then I am submitting to Him. Just know that I am not
jumping for joy, if you want to call it that. Deliverance and spiritual battle
is hard core because you are on the front lines and you can literally have the
pulp beaten out of you.
It is only through Jesus Christ and His
protection that one is able to operate in this area.
Walking a balanced Christian walk and
being mature is what is needed.
To be honest, I feel like Gideon in
this calling. I want to stay in my comfy bible prophecy, world events and
preparedness arena, not get my hands dirty and not put myself in harm’s way.
But when I get an email from someone
and they describe what is going on, things just pop into my head and I reach out
and try to help as best I am able.
Great thing is that 98% of the cases I
have worked with have seen success or on the path to success.
Demons
Are Winning & We Don’t Even Realize It
I look all over and I see so many
people who know that something is wrong, but they cannot put their finger on
it, they just know that “thinks are not right.”
Others know but they seem to be afraid
or to embarrassed to reach out.
What am I talking about?
People are being plagued with the
demonic, “demonized” or better yet, “infested” or having an infestation of
demons.
This is why I say that demons are
winning and people don’t even realize it.
This is also where I feel convicted and
I need to right a possible wrong where I might have misled some of you.
In earlier articles I have said that a
born again Christian cannot be “possessed.”
This is correct and I still stand by
this. The thing is that the English language is very limiting. The word
“possessed” seems to be a catch all phrase when it comes to the demonic.
I know that this seems to be splitting
hairs, but I feel that it must be explained so that people, who are in fact
demonically oppressed, infested, demonized, depressed & influenced do not
just walk off and think everything is honky-dory.
Things are not honky-dory and this is
why I want to try to clarify.
Here is a quick word study… Possession
Matthew 4:24 And his fame went
throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken
with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils (G1139), and those
which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
STRONGS # G1139
δαιμονίζομαι
daimonizomai
dahee-mon-id’-zom-ahee
Middle voice from G1142;
to be exercised by a daemon: – have a (be vexed with, be
possessed with) devil (-s).
Others know but they seem to be afraid
or to embarrassed to reach out.
What am I talking about?
People are being plagued with the
demonic, “demonized” or better yet, “infested” or having an infestation of
demons.
This is why I say that demons are
winning and people don’t even realize it.
This is also where I feel convicted and
I need to right a possible wrong where I might have misled some of you.
In earlier articles I have said that a
born again Christian cannot be “possessed.”
This is correct and I still stand by
this. The thing is that the English language is very limiting. The word
“possessed” seems to be a catch all phrase when it comes to the demonic.
I know that this seems to be splitting
hairs, but I feel that it must be explained so that people, who are in fact
demonically oppressed, infested, demonized, depressed & influenced do not
just walk off and think everything is honky-dory.
Things are not honky-dory and this is
why I want to try to clarify.
Here is a quick word study… Possession
Matthew 4:24 And his fame went
throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken
with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils (G1139), and those
which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Because our English language is so
limiting, we tend to instantly jump to the conclusion of “being possessed” as
something out of the movie “The Exorsist” and we should be levitating, heads
spinning and spitting up green pea soup.
BUT… since this is NOT happening to us,
we say “Oh, I guess I am not possessed then” and we go along our merry way.
To be “possessed” by a demon, one
literally has to open ones inner soul and spirit up to said demon and basically
submit their lives to the demon; much like when one becomes born-again.
The reality is that one becomes
“demonized” not possessed. As stated before a more descriptive word is
“Infested” or having an “Infestation” of demons.
But Ray, you keep saying that we as
Christians can’t be possessed, so what are you saying?
ANALOGY
– Our Holy of Holies Where The Holy Spirit Resides Within – Possesses Us
1 Corinthians 6:19 What? know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in
you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
In reading this, it dawned on me and it
became crystal clear how I can explain how Christians are affected by demons.
The Jewish temple is a holy place, much
like we are holy when we become born again.
So the questions is this, how can the
demonic have influence on us, invade us, infest us and still demonize us when
we are holy?
This is where the Jewish temple can
help with an analogy. The Temple had three main areas, The Outer Courtyard, the
Inner Court yard and the Holy of Holies.
The manifest presence of God was only
in the Holy of Holies, not in the Outer Court or the Inner Court.
In the same way with all of us, the
Outer Court of the Temple represents our physical bodies, the Inner Court represents
our soul, and the Holy of Holies represents our spirits.
Just as the manifest presence of God
was only residing in the Holy of Holies, in the same way the Holy Spirit is
only residing in our human spirits. Our holy of holies which is the innermost
part of our beings is a ken to the Holy of Holies that was the innermost part
of the Jewish Temple.
In using this Jewish Temple analogy, we
can grasp the human-spiritual makeup with the Lord.
Just as Paul told us in 1 Corinthians
6:19 , we can see that our physical bodies are now His temple.
It is our physical bodies that now
actually “house” our human spirits where the Holy Spirit now lives within.
The Jewish Outer Court was where just
about anyone and everyone were allowed in to, men, women, gentiles, etc.
We know that the entire Temple compound
was considered holy. But as one progressed further into the temple it became
increasingly more holy.
King Herod had enclosed the “outer
court” with colonnades and it was referred to as the Court of the Gentiles because
the “gentiles” (non-Jews) were permitted to enter the Temple area.
This is the same area where Christ
cleansed the temple from all the money changes. He created a “cat of
nine-tails” and literally beat the money changers out of the holy temple, out of
the “Outer Court.”
Like the money changers who “infested”
the Outer Court area (which is considered holy), demons are able to “infest our
bodies, our “Outer Court.”
Do the money changers “own / possess”
the Outer Court?
No, they inhabited it, but did not “own
or possess” the Outer Court. That is why Christ was able to drive out the
infestation of money changers (demons).
Why?
Because HE (Jesus Christ) is the owner
of the Holy Temple. He was the only one that had the true authority to cleanse
the area. The money changers listened and obeyed Christ and left the Outer
Court area.
Again, this is an analogy to help
explain how Demons can in fact “demonize” us / Infest / oppress / influence /
depress us and I felt that it was necessary to explain this.
I don’t want people to think that just
because they are a Christian that demons will not attack them.
Wrong, if anything Christians are being
hammered by the demonic and many of us battle our demons daily.
How
Do We As Christians Become “Demonized / Infested” By The Demonic?
This is the question that is at the top
of many people’s list in all the emails that I have gotten.
How do we become “demonized /
infested”?
Simple, in many cases we allow it. We
give up our “legal rights” and allow the demon in.
To expand a bit further we give the
demon “legal rights” to come in and demonize and infest us, our lives and our
family’s lives.
At least that is how the demons see it,
and they are very legalistic lot as well.
What are these so called “legal
rights”?
1. The Occult
2. Direct Willful Sin
3. Inheritance – Generational
4. Fears and Phobias
5. Unforgiveness
6. Trauma
7. Abuse
8. Ungodly Soul Ties
9. Curses
10.
Addictions
11.
False Religions
12.
Cursed Objects
13.
Cursed Buildings
Before Christ died on the cross, demons
did have limited “legal rights.” We learn of this by reading Job. But because
Christ died, was buried and rose on the third day, those limited rights that
demons once had are now gone. Christ took those keys away and now demons no
longer have any legal rights and they know it too.
But because they are very
legalistically minded, cunning and are liars, they like to play that “legal”
game with people and because many people lack of knowledge and freedom in
Christ, we let them.
Outside
Our Control
I know that some of you are saying that
some of these areas are outside our personal control and you are correct. But
the demon does not see it that way.
For example, a cursed / haunted
building. It may be cursed / haunted due to a prior owner.
In my DVD “Demons – Days of Noah and
The Demonic Wars” Christina Peck tells her story about her demonically haunted
home which the demons would actually manifest themselves before her and Josh.
It is a pretty amazing story.
If you do not have my DVD, contact me
and I can provide you details on how to get it.
Now in this case, the demon did not
care about Josh & Christina, in the demon’s mind they had a “legal right”
to the home based on the prior owner, not Josh and Christina. It was the demon’s
home and Josh and Christina were there just so that they could torment them.
This is how demons think. They have
taken up shop / “infested” an area, object or family lineage and they then
believe they have legal rights to that person, place or thing.
But the hard facts are that demons do
NOT have “legal rights” they just take them because we gladly give them over
out of our own lack of knowledge.
In the case of Josh and Christina, they
did not know what to do because they were still fairly new Christians, at least
Josh was, and this was something that they were not fully taught in church.
Their best solution was to move out and
that thank God that worked. Interestingly enough, the current owners contacted
them and they have the same demonic problems.
Conclusion
Can born-again Christians be possessed?
No, but they can be oppressed / depressed / influenced / infested and
demonized.
The reason that they cannot be
“possessed” is that the Holy Spirit resides inside each and every one of our
own personal “holy of holies.”
BUT… demons can try to gain access to
our “Outer Court” areas in our lives and they believe that they can do that via
their “legal rights” to enter and conduct their form of business, much like the
money lenders did in the outer courts of the temple.
It is Jesus Christ who is the only
authority that these demons have over them. They MUST submit to the name of
Jesus Christ. It is His shed blood that set us free from these false “legal
rights” and the demons know this and must submit to this.
It is our lack of knowledge in this
area due to the days we are living in and the lack of proper teaching from
pastors, preachers and teachers out there. This is a topic that 20% (and
growing) of the church does not believe in. Many believe that Satan and his minions
are all just fairy tales.
When we have a demonic infestation
taking place in our lives we need to stop and realize what is truly going on.
It isn’t a stroke of bad luck or God
being mad at us, it is demons taking a false “legal right” that they “think”
they have based on the things we have done in our lives, opening up doors for
them to come in and demonize and torment us.
What the church strongly needs is
deliverance from this evil. But to do that, we need to admit that there truly
is an evil and that we need delivering.
I find it interesting that God is
pulling me in this direction on top of the other areas I preach and teach on. I
find it also interesting that I have taught on “The Servant Warrior” for the
past several years. Much of that teaching can be applied in the physical, but
amazingly enough, it can also be applied in the spiritual and our battle
against the demonic.
We are living in the last days and I totally believe that God is raising up spiritual warriors. They
are greatly needed because so many people are being afflicted by the enemy and
they don’t realize what is happening or why. Those who do, they know that they
need help, but they do not know where to turn.
Because
of this article he has been getting a lot of emails from everyday people who
are waking up to the realization that they have clear demonic activity in their
lives and they did not even realize it.
Friends,
we are entering the last days. We know that during these times that demonic
activity will be extremely high.
But
the sad thing is that pastors, preachers and teachers are not taking this very
much needed topic on.
Why?
Pastor
Roger Barrier who writes a weekly column on Crosswalk.com stated the following,
WHICH hit the nail square on the head.
Here
is what he said…
“Let me be frank and share with you
just a few reasons why most churches, teachers and preachers seldom, if ever,
deal with the issue of the reality and work of demonic spirits today.
·
Satan has hidden
himself well (2 Corinthians 11:14).
·
Many are ignorant
(unaware) of what Satan’s schemes and tactics look like (2 Corinthians 2:11).
·
Many are afraid of
what the people might think (John 12:42-43).They are spiritual children and
thus ill-equipped for spiritual battle. Overcoming the Devil is a “must-learn”
skill in the process of spiritual growth (1 John 2:12-14).
·
Most fail to
recognize the John 10:10 Enemy.
·
Many have been
trapped by Satan into doing his will (2 Corinthians 11:3-4; and 2 Timothy
2:24-26).
·
They are careless (2
Corinthians 11:2).
·
They are trapped in
perpetual sin (Ephesians 4:27).
·
Most don’t know what
to do or how to help those who are experiencing a Satanic attack (Matthew
17:15; and James 4:7).
·
They do not believe
that demons exist or that they were a first century problem and not an issue
for today (1 Peter 5:8).”
Do you know that over 20% of pastors
standing on the pulpits today do not believe that demons, Satan, or devils
exist?
Yes… over 20%.
What they think is that Satan and his
minions are all fairy tales made up in the minds of lesser educated backwards
people who lean on myths and stories. These are the same men that God used to
bring about the Inspired Word of God, The Bible.
People are in full attack from the
enemy attack. In today’s fast paced world people rarely consider that their
depression, despair, envy, anger, bitterness, jealousy, lust, deceit or pride
may have a spiritual warfare component to it.
They do not realize that they are
Demonized and quite possibly have a demonic infestation problem.
To them it is just a day to day
struggle that life is dishing out to them by the spoonful, and for some it is
by the shovel load.
God’s Word constantly warns us to
beware of Satanic attack.
For example…
2 Corinthians 11:13 -15 – 13 For such
[are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
apostles of Christ.
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is
transformed into an angel of light.
15 Therefore [it is] no great thing if
his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end
shall be according to their works.
2 Thessalonians 2:9 – 12 – 9 [Even
him], whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and
lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of
unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the
truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send
them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who
believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
1 Peter 5:8 Be sober, be vigilant;
because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking
whom he may devour:
But here is a great promise from our
Lord..
1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little
children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he
that is in the world.
This past weekend I received about
40-50 emails from people telling me about their demon issue and a sizable
number of them seeking help in deliverance. What was amazing also were a
few of them also included people who were in the deliverance arena and were
reaching out and thanking me for the valuable information I have been writing
about.
Do you think you have a demonic issue?
Listen, Demons do not walk to up to a
person and say, “Hey! Do you want to be fully and completely demon possessed?”
No – what they do in fact is leverage a
weakness or an open door to the soul via the sub-conscious. They are allowed
this access usually through the following.
Have you been involved with any of the
following?
·
Mind Altering Drugs /
Alcohol Addiction
·
Putting one’s self
into an altered state of consciousness
·
Sexual deviation /
hedonism, etc
·
Greed – the love of
money
·
The quest for power
·
Witchcraft &
opening ones self-up to occult practices
·
New age, paganism,
pantheistic religions
It is through these avenues that demon
find a weakness / door and this is how the infestation / demonization starts to
take place.
Now this does not happen all at once.
I have described it in the past akin to
a camel slowly sticking his nose in the tent. It starts out with just a nose.
After a while it is his head, then head and neck, then head – neck and front
legs, Then, the next thing you know, the whole camel is in the middle of the
tent. All the camel needed was an open door and it slowly crawled in and took
up residency.
That is how demons work as well.
We need freedom from the enemy, we need
deliverance from evil.
The churches have dropped the ball big
time and pastors refuse to teach and preach on this topic.
What is interesting is that it is the
lay person that seems to be picking up the ball and running with it. People are
reaching out to other people helping them get free. I want to put my name into
that hat as well and tell people that I am here to help where ever I possibly
can.
I believe with all my heart that we
will see the demonic forces grow bigger and bigger as well as stronger and
stronger as more and more people choose to serve the enemy instead of
submitting their lives to Christ.
We are literally witnessing the
spiritual start to seep over and merge with the physical.
No matter how bad it is, we have read
the book, we know the ending and folks, we win.
Here is a verse of hope…
Romans 16:20 And the God of peace shall
crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with
you. Amen.
If you are someone who has questions or
thinks they need help, contact Mr. Gano or Your Watchman. We have been helping people
through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and through His authority we are seeing
success in helping people be delivered of these demonic infestations.
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