Why We Fight Demons
Do you believe that God is real and that the Bible is true? If so, then you cannot deny the existence of spirit beings: angels and demons. Now the Bible constantly speaks of angels and evil spirits; how the former do the Will of God with the latter opposing His Will. Yet so many Christians are denying the Word of God and its power concerning these things with their religious beliefs and practices.
Why? Because in this modern world of science, psychology, and philosophy, it is unacceptable to go around talking about “spirits” (good or evil). Right now in the west the world extends a little tolerance to churches so long as they outwardly appear to be people who are gathering around philosophy and politics and attaching some concept of “God” to it. But the instant you start talking about the power of God, the spirit of God, the moving of God, etc. the world gets highly offended.
So to please the worldliness of its members, the church modifies its outward stands, its doctrinal statements and such, in order to avoid offending and being thereby marginalized by the world. The result of this is that terms like “religious extremist”, “fundamentalist”, “dangerous views” are now no longer even applied to those who believe in faith healing, miracles, prophesying, etc. but rather those who make any attempt to apply Biblical concepts to our human issues, especially when it comes to sexuality and law.
I am here to tell you that while it may make you feel all righteous and holy to get up, thump your Bible, and proclaim “the Bible calls sin sin” and “freedom of religion doesn’t mean freedom FROM religion” and “Jesus Christ is the only way to heaven!”, but what you don’t realize is that if you just go to the edge and then stop or pull back, what you are doing is making the Bible nothing more than a political, legal, ethical,or philosophical document. If that is all there is to your private and PUBLIC religion, then you are possessing a form of godliness while denying the power thereof, which is SPIRITUAL power. God is a SPIRIT, not laws, regulations, doctrines, ethics, morals, values, cultures, or traditions.
Do not get me wrong, I am not against those things, they are useful in certain contexts. But if any of those things are used apart from the spiritual nature and truth of God and the Bible, they actually do more harm than good, not only to the world but ESPECIALLY to Christians. If you think that you can just keep a bunch of rituals and profess a bunch of words all your life while doing good works while waiting around for judgment day … well hey I am not going to say that God isn’t going to save you, but rather I am only saying that what a waste of a Christian existence it would be to go through life being called by God’s Name without ever trying to feel or experience His Power and using it to do His Will.After all, why do you even pray if you do not believe - or practive a belief - that God can and will answer you with spiritual power that will effect the natural realm?
So, our purpose here is to confront people - those who are Christians and those that are not - with the reality of God’s power and the cost to those who seek it. The reality: miracles, fulfilled prophecies, and spiritual warfare. Yes, spiritual warfare includes casting out evil spirits, but that is only a part of it, and it isn’t even the part that is most powerful and vital. The truth is, the most powerful, necessary, and basic form of spiritual warfare is regularly studying your Bible, believe that you are reading, doing what your reading tells you to do through faith, and praying to God for guidance and revelation on what you are studying and doing. If you do those things, you will see, feel, and experience the power of God’s spirit on a regular basis.
The cost? Persecution. Ostracism. Rejection. A Christian is to give up everything for God. I am not talking about a “God - centered life.” I am talking about God being your life, your purpose, your motivation, your joy, your strength. For that reason, this site will regularly feature the price that non - western Christians have to pay for the faith so that Christians will stop thinking that their religion is about going to church on Sunday and the voting booth. No, I am not against church or politics, but a true personal relationship with God is so much more than that. The person who seeks the true personal relationship with God will gain a powerful awareness of and ability to discern between good and evil. Such a person will love good and do all that they can to promote it, and hate evil and do all they can to oppose it, and not only in themselves and their circle of family, friends, and church members, but also the outside world.
Christians were “thinking locally, acting globally” and “living in the global village” long before those became fashionable political slogans, because Christians should be aware that they are members of a global body of believers, and therefore what happens to Christians in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Bolivia, etc. effects all of us, and that there are people in Madagascar, Tanzania, Tunisia, and right in our very neighborhoods who need food, clothing, shelter, counseling, and the gospel. But to do these things effectively, one must acknowledge the spiritual reality of God, and submit himself to that reality daily. healtheland@lpemail.com
April 10, 2007 at 6:24 am
Hi,
I just came across your blog via technorati. While you make some interesting points, I would be more interested to hear how you see yourself “healing the land” when everything you do is lashing out wildly at everybody in sight. Healing, IMHO, has to do with spreading a positive message that actually mends wounds, instead of continually inflicting new ones. On the other hand, you did say “warfare”, which is a rather obvious element to your writings.
So, maybe you should either a) forget about the healing or b) forget about the warfare. Start praying for your brothers and sisters, misled as some of them may be. Become productive yourself in bringing people to Christ instead of crizicizing others. As for the non-Christians you write about, stop bothering about them and use your time for “healing the land” instead.
Your brother,
Christoph
April 10, 2007 at 1:17 pm
Christoph:
“Healing, IMHO, has to do with spreading a positive message that actually mends wounds, instead of continually inflicting new ones.”
Are you familiar with the verse from where the phrase “heal the land” comes from? “2 Chronicles 7:14 - If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” So according to scripture - which is true - the people need to humble themselves, pray, seek God’s face, and turn from their wicked ways before God will heal the land. I didn’t see anything about “spreading a positive message that mends wounds” in that scripture. Of course, there is a time and a place for that, but only when people are wanting and willing to make a change. But before that can happen, the people need to know that they need to make a change, and they need to know why. If they are doing wrong, they need to know it. If they are being taught lies in church, they need to know it. And if people like me are not going to do it, who is? Perhaps you have a better, more effective way. If so, show me. Provide to me the URL of your website so that I can learn from someone who is more effective at warning people so that they can turn aside from evil and prevent being destroyed. When demonstrated to be wrong, I will gladly follow after your method. Until then, I have no options other than to continue on in the only way that I know how, which is to emulate not the people in the self - help field or the televangelists, but rather the people that I read about in the Bible, including Jesus Christ.
April 12, 2007 at 2:53 am
The last days have begun their downward spiril. Many will begin to see this end coming like a flood. The earth is in great turmoil within itself now due to mankinds path of destruction.
Jesus Himself said, “That if God did not cut short those days for the sake of the elect, mankind would have destroyed himself ”
God is with His children, and Chirst through the Holy Spirit is within us.
A famous line said by Yule Brenner, portraying Pharaoh in the Ten Commandments which was quite fitting in the closing of this historic exodus. The Writers of the script of this movie were inspired by God to write this line… When Pharaoh had returned , having lost all his army in the Red Sea. Sitting in anguish and defeat on his throne he makes this famous closing remark..” His God …..Is God ”
Just remember folks…Jesus Christ is God and He is God.
In Christ to all..
Love one another.
April 12, 2007 at 6:55 am
Will:
Yes, I am trying my best to love my neighbor. I am just praying that God will show me the way.
April 16, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Amen Healtheland.
April 18, 2007 at 3:08 pm
I had a lapse in judgment and deleted a post from a Mormon I will put it back and reply to it:
“Steve St.Clair (stclairst@ca.rr.com)
Some of your viewers may be interested in my recently-implemented blog at http://changingfocuslds.townhall.com where I focus on things the Latter-day Saints are doing to get closer to Orthodox Christianity. I am trying to help that happen because of my respect for and closeness to such scholars as Richard Meow, Craig Blomberg, and Craig Hazen at Biola. As a Latter-day Saint, I recognize them as true followers of Jesus Christ, and accomplishing God’s purposes. Evidently, you think of all of them as deluded sell-outs, as well.
If all Christians were like you and your associates, believe me that I would be pushing for my church to become the next major world religion, rather than becoming closer to Christianity. Thankfully, everyone knows that you are the lunatic fringe.”
Steve StC
Well Mr. Clair, I only had to scan that document to see that it quotes Nelphi, which is in the Book of Mormon. Look, you cannot reconcile Mormonism with Christianity, because darkness and light cannot mix. Truth and lies cannot mix. You cannot combine the Holy inspired eternal Word of God with what some demon whispered into the mind of a 14 year old kid named Joseph Smith, who then went out and secretly married other men’s wives. Either Yeshua HaMashiach was created or He wasn’t (John 1:1 clearly says that He wasn’t). Either God exists eternally in Tri - Unity or He doesn’t (Elohim, the first Name used for God in the Bible, is plural). This is simply another attempt among many attempts of this cult to try to remake itself in a way that allows it to trick more spiritually weak Christians. When the government wasn’t going to let Utah become a state, then Joey Smith’s teachings on polygamy had to go. And when the government was going to hammer Mormon institutions with civil rights laws, Joey Smith’s teachings on blacks had to go. What next?
And it is not what I regard them as. Who cares about my opinions? It is God’s Truth and God’s Standards that count, and those are clearly written in the Bible. It is all about whether you want to believe God’s Truth, or whether you want to believe in demonic lies. And if people know that I am on the lunatic fringe, then it means that I am doing my job. The very words of Jesus Christ which you reject told me that the world, meaning people like you who love and live a lie, would reject me because of Him. If you cared about truth, you would separate yourself from the lies. But you do not. All you are doing is trying to find a way to repackage your lies to make them more palatable to the gullible. That is exactly what Satan did when he deceived Eve with “you will not surely die.” Satan was a liar and a murderer from the beginning, and it certainly looks as if Smith followed after his path. You have a link? Well I have one too. What do you say about this (http://mormontruth.blogspot.com/2005/08/when-will-church-abide-by-their-simon.html)? Oh, but I am a fanatic? You are the one following a monster who had sex with 30 women, most of them married, and not one of them his wife, because he claimed that it would bring him to godhood! How can you have “respect” for “such scholars as Richard Meow, Craig Blomberg, and Craig Hazen”? If they were real scholars, they would be telling the truth about Joseph Smith and DEMANDING that people leave this dangerous cult and that their LIES not be tolerated but rather opposed. But they are not scholars, they are liars trying to deceive and spiritually destroy people, and so are you. I welcome you, Steve (if that is indeed your name) to come back and tell me how “Orthodox Christianity” can be reconciled with a guy who was accused of murder, attempted murder, financial misdeeds, and pervasive sexual perversions.
May 1, 2007 at 11:51 am
Dear Bill Keller Paster,
I believe that prayer and faith and reling on our father and being in close comunication spending time with him he will show us how we are to serve him.I have tried conntacting you by phone but I can`t seem to get though but I`ll keep trying. I`m a born again christian who has been saved with out our saviour I`m nothing. I`m against abortion,and these senseless killings,like the Virginia Tech. massacar it was a horible incident that could have been prevented and I pray will be prevented in the future.
Respectfully yours, Thomas Ciccone
May 1, 2007 at 12:25 pm
Thomas Ciccone:
You may reach Bill Keller at bkeller@liveprayer.com. Thank you.
August 11, 2007 at 3:20 am
thank you thank you i fear that they make me say and do the things that you say one day i’ll forget about your worries, don’t look know because you can get two for the price of one.
August 23, 2007 at 1:04 pm
You will not find one place in scriptures afterchrist has beenrisen from the dead and the new Covenant begins where a born again Christian is prayed over to be delivered of demons. Do demons exist? Of course. But they have no authority over born again believers.
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Satan had lost all his power. He once had power, but he has lost it. His power, it was in the Law of God, for he could always point to the law and say, you have not kept it. And it made you his prey, and you cringed before that law of God and you knew you had not kept it.
The Bible says in I Cor 15 that the strength of sin is the law. I think some of you who have not fully seen the finished work of Jesus might even cringe before the law yet.
You look at that law and you say ‘I am unworthy, unworthy, unworthy’ And the Devil says, you should belong to me, and you say, Right.
The strength of sin is the law, but now he is cast down, and so the Scripture says that they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the Word of their testimony and they did not love their life until the death.
They overcame the Devil. How did they do it? By the blood of the Lamb. What does that mean? It means that I look back to the Blood of the Lamb. Back to the great victory that has, past tense, been accomplished, and I rest upon that once for all shed Blood of the Lamb.
Whenever you meet anything that is Satanic – we do not initiate a battle, we recognize a battle which has been won. They overcame him, not by a fight but by the Blood of the Lamb, which has been fought. We are not fighting, we are recognizing it has been fought
~Malcolm Smith~
August 23, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Dennis Thompson: “But they have no authority over born again believers.” If what you were saying is true, then born again believers should never sin or die, because sin and death have no more authority over born again believers. Correct? Yet born again Christians certainly sin, and though we will live forever with God after we are resurrected, all but the very few to whom Paul’s “we shall all not sleep” comment applies to will die.
So then, is the Bible a liar? God forbid. What is the case, then, is that we are failing to distinguish between the flesh and the spirit. Though the born - again believer may fall and sin, God is just to forgive that Christian’s sin. Why? Because that sin was in his flesh. And though the born again believer will die, he will never truly die and live forever with God. Why? Because it is only the flesh of that person - the same that was born in sin and committed sin even after that person’s regeneration - will die. We shall receive new incorruptible bodies that will never be defiled by sin, and therefore will never die. And by that same token, though the spirit of man that will one day INHABIT these new perfect bodies that we will receive from God is clean and totally owned by God, those new clean God - owned spirits are still enclosed by corrupted fallen flesh that is doomed to die and return to dust; the same which shall be destroyed by fire along with the old heaven and earth before it is replaced with the new heaven and the new earth. So, as long as we live this life in these bodies, the sin NOT IN OUR SPIRITS but in our flesh must still be dealt with. Therefore, though evil spirits cannot own someone that is owned by God, such a spirit can very much influence, afflict, vex, and yes enter into and dwell in a person’s flesh. That is why the correct terminology is not “to be possessed by demons” but rather “to be demonized”, which merely indicates the influence and presence of them. Christians that reject the influence and presence of evil spirits only do themselves, the Body of Christ, and the job that God called us to do a grave disservice, for we thereby reject the direct spiritual warfare that God in the incarnated Person of Jesus Christ told us to wage in the gospels, and God in the Person of the Holy Spirit inspired Paul to write the spiritual warfare verses in Ephesians and similar for passive indirect warfare. That is indeed what Satan wants, and can you blame him?
Look, there is no lack of Christians experiencing real problems in their lives. Some take the tactic of claiming that such people are not truly regenerated. If that is your position, there is no need to have this discussion. Otherwise, acknowledge that Christian pastors and theologians are running away from spiritual explanations for things like addiction, mental illness, marital problems, etc. that so many Christians are experiencing in favor of a Christianized version of secular psychology and psychiatry! Which do you prefer to deal with the real problems that are afflicting so many Christians and are getting worse as evil is ever increasing as we approach the last days: the teachings of the Bible, or the teachings of Alfred Kinsey and Sigmund Freud?
August 23, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Dennis Thompson: God’s people perish for lack of knowlege-for that reason-your foolish reasoning, the Kingdom of God continues to suffer violence-Christians can be so naive to believe this that they cannot even operate in the power of Jesus’s redeeming blood. How can they opperate-read again…and these signes shall follow them that believe-in my name (IN THE NAME OF JESUS)they shall…This applies to those that believe that these things are real…not to those who like you do not beieve in anything but Jesus and his blood-I can just hear you-for everything you scream “the bood of Jesus!” Many of us born again folkes lives under the spirit of witchcraft and exhibit illness, povertiy and misfortune and instead of finding the root and getting delivered we tell ourself and friends that as long as you are born again you are cured-Jesus wants us all delived and living well. If we continue to believe that the satanic kingdom cannot affect the saved we will continue to be foolish.
My mission is via knowlege, God use me to set the captive free and silence those that spew out this foolishness-satan is using them to brain wash your people so he can continue to put them under attack and when they lack the knowledge of deliverance they reamin in bondage!
August 28, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Amen brother!!!
September 9, 2007 at 9:20 am
LOLhow an you derive if I say satan has no authority over us that YOU imply that we should never sin? Thats a stretch and putting wordsin a persons mouth. You really have a messed up way of thinking.
Iused to pray deliverance for years. Then I read the word. I found the New Covenant.The new ovenant is a completed work. I have nothing to add to that.
Discrepencies are often found in what people wish to believe.people are primed to believe their issues they struggle with are demonic. We are trained what to look for. How they mightcome out. We tell the people we pray for what may happen. It is all a priming and soulish.
Everything in the bible is not just meant for believers. 1 John 1:9 is a prime example. He spends time writing to the fellowship,and in that fellowship were Gnostics. Before Christ, all Gentiles had was humanism.
Well he share with them in 1 John 1 how he wishes to really fellowship with them. Then in verse 9 he tells the unbelievers how to be saved. Christians think this is about them, it isnt.Its about the church there and getting Gnostics saved.
Show me one ripture after Jesus Christ has risen from the dead where one person that has received Christ is prayed over for deliverance! Just one. There is notany. The Holy Spirit resides in each born again believer. You think something ofsatan can reside in the same place? Absolutely not and you can not find one place where it indicated it did.
There were no Christians before Christ was glorified because there was no atonement made for mankind. The veil had not been broken either.
Once you understand who you are in Christ you will realize you identify with him. He meets all of your needs. Nothing an come between you and God. The battle is already won. You are playing little god if you think you have a battle, when it says the war is won. By Jesus. So go ahead, after Christ arose try and prove in scripure where a believer is delivered.
The Prophetess was not a believer but a paganistic medium. Simon the Sorcerer was not a believer. The things he saw was when the people he knew were being saved, demons came outof them at salvation, thats what amazed him and he asked to be able to do that. I studied this not to be pessemistic, but to prove if it were real in the New covenant and it is not.
October 23, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Jude 1:8-10
8In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings. 9But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” 10Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals—these are the very things that destroy them.
January 29, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Hi people,
I was much blessed by the articles about expelling demons. I came to the Lord because of sexual demons : my world collapsed one day when I saw myself in a vision being sodomized by a friend of mine while smoking marijuana . I later understood that it happened because in order to seduce women I wanted to have the spirit and sensuality of a woman in me. that spirit opened the door to a more powerful one which literally paralysed and “raped” me. From that day on I started to be sexually attracted to men too and It felt terrible and I knew it wasn’t me. I decide to look for God’s help, because my mother had taken me to church at a younger age. He sew the seed of faith in me and I got born again. It happened while reading the purple color : the hero’s sister who had become a missionary wrote a letter to her saying she got aware of God’s presence during the trip. I felt the presence of God that day. After many prayer nights during which I kept asking God to forgive my thoughts I felt the presence of GOd more powerfully. But the problem persisted even after being filled by the Holy Spirit. I even preached words with much anointing. But now I was someone who could walk with God for two weeks and sleep with any girl I meet or even prostitutes because of the pressure of battle or simply because I didn’t want to keep my heart.Now I feel I was very close to victory : I could experience longer times in the presence of God only.
At the beginning of my walk with the Lord, I thought someday He would send a minister to lay hands on me so the demons would come out. Then I realized He wanted me to get deliverance by other means which I tried with my whole heart but not for long. After years of backsliding in pornography and fornication I have married with a Christian and am really decided to overcome with the help of God not only to be able to honor my marriage but also because sex has ruined 10 years of my life. I want God to make my sexual life straight and to answer His high call with an honest and sincere heart. What is discouraging is how the Lord fills me with the Spirit at church during praise and worship or when I cry out to Him or meditate the word and how my mind can be totally under the control of sodomy thoughts in which I am the victim. I can see things around me penetrating me through my anus. (Sorry to share such ugly details but It feels good to do it) But I don’t want to give up since as I read on this website it’s a process. I know i have a responsibility to keep my heart pure so they won’t feed on me. I won’t stop now because the Lord tells people who give Him their back that they had not realized He was healing them. I am committed to hold His hand get closer to Him and let Him speak to me . I have a hope He’ll lead me into full victory because He awaits a clean church which I want to be part of.
What I think today is that because I decided to eat what I once had vomited, I opened the door to even stronger demons. And I am dealing with them now. I know if cry out to Him with a sincere heart and persevere to do that, He’ll give me full victory. He’s healing me. Thanks for sharing you’re experiences and your knowledge in the matter of demons . I was encouraged by the physical description you make of demon possessed people because it looks like me when I am defeated in my thoughts. It shows me I am the devil’s when he’s got my thoughts.
I am learning to expel them into the abyss and binding them to come back. This is something based on the word.
LIFE LESSON from my experience : You won’t mock God, what you’ll sow you’ll reap . A perverse, unstable and compromising heart will do you no good.
Peace
January 29, 2008 at 7:38 pm
somebody said on this website that the Lord told Him it was important to expel demons in the abyss. I think it’s right because based on the Word. In Jude it says that demons are chained in darkness. so when we cast them there and bind them, we only do what the Word says is done.
January 29, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Irmeyahu part of me did could not believe what you were writing, that you were serious, then I saw it. I wish I could underscore to indicate exactly what I mean, since I cannot, please read what you said today ,then, followed by what you will say each succeeding day:
“and am really decided to overcome with the help of God not only to be able to honor my marriage but also because sex has ruined 10 years of my life.”
“and am really, really decided to overcome”
“and am really really, really decided to overcome”
“”and am really really, really,really really decided to overcome”
Make God and God alone your priority! You have 100 priorities, you have no priorities. Get it?
Charles
January 30, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Charles
Thnaks for answering. I knew it would be difficult for someone to believe it. how can a man be so double-minded and without the fear of the Lord when The Lord has already met hIm? I thank God for His patience with me. I can honestly say that serving the Lord is my priority today. I want Him to devour me. Today I still have an opportunity to work out my salvation and make my calling and election sure. Believe it or not I am stronger each day. Anyway thanks for the exhortation, I can understand that after so many years of wandering it’s difficult to believe I am really going to abide in Him now. But I am sure of it.
I felt depressed when reading testimonies of church goers unable to get deliverance from demons above all if they have forsaken every sin which wasn’t my case . But today I understood that if that Word of God who is Jesus is alive in me demons can’t stay because the Word bound them in darkness. And In the Word there is the life of God which demons can’t stand. I am determined to pray, read the bible and praise the Lord regularly. I trust God that if I seek Him with all my heart, He will teach me to put my trust in Him more and more, and will enable me to control my spirit and reject any thought contrary to His reign in me
irmeyahu
February 1, 2008 at 4:05 pm
We are indeed, living in trying and troubled times. While scientific knowledge has increased (manifold in 100,50,10 years)those that have recieved so much, have yet so little, and visa versa.
You, my brothers and sisters in Christ, when have you last helped a stranger? When have you last done what Christ would have done for the least?
Christians saints, Christ is coming quickly.
Why are we american’s, so interested in what kitchen we may have remodeled, o